Guild Wars 2

Its the same as throwing static fields or others stuff into organized groups while your mele train is running into them. If caught people dont use their cooldowns they will be hit by you while the rest of their group is already a few steps ahead.

But just watch one of the old weekly “gvg showdown” vids to understand it better. You ll have to live with the fact there though that no guild used one their spots for a ranger

I’d say every class will give a good roamer if you know how to play. The D/D ele build you have seems like the one that was used months ago and isnt really working anymore though as it cant kill anything.
But if you want to run in a zerg too, without retraiting, my choice would be a condition mesmer as you ll only have to change utilities

I dont know if it is that boring for Piken in non primetime hours but the times i got wiped out by ps zergs (that were cleary no guild groups) while camp flipping alone is fascinating.

Stacking on purpose is different from being lucky enough that the oldest field you hit is a light field once the fight started and you have tons of fields under yourself

Skill wise there is only two relyable AoE sources of retaliation and only one skill that gives more than 5 seconds. Also i have yet to witness a tpvp where my enemy bothered to stack retaliation via combos.
So the only thing i m reading here is that there is people that don’t even bother to see what their enemy does, they just want to keep spamming attacks till the fights won.

What i want to say is: If you keep spamming AoE while retaliation is applied on your enemies its your own mistake

I don’t know why they had to change the casting time on this skill… was it really the instant stamina gain that was imbalanced?
If it was for me they could have changed the toolbelt skill but like this they just made the elixir useless for me (and i see quite some people) which is pretty annyoing as there is no other resonable stunbreaker for my power build now that has no extrem cooldown…

Well MY build is dead now. Maybe i should just run with Teldos kit build. It didn’t get touched more or less and i heard there is barely people coping it so it would be good for build variety!

Fror.2163:

This week isn’t fun. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because everytime I went in EB I saw GH spawn-camping. Maybe it’s because everytime I went to the borders, GH was there with 2 times our numbers. Maybe it’s because we didn’t even had time to cap another tower that the previous one was already recapped or being recapped.

It’s the first time ever that I came to WvW with huge lead feet and that I actually preferred playing PvE for nearly the whole week.

So GH, please stop playing wvw as from today so we can have a little fun with Blacktide the rest of the week. I usually like playing against you. Just not this week. :-(

I was running in eb today and i must tell you even i on gh find the spawn camping annoying as it keeps us from doing other stuff. You might not believe it but if we have 10 people spawn camping you at around 12 that is like one third of our total numbers…

People stopped doing the jp because its a waste of time like all other jps in the game. Badges, siege and two items thats not even worth 2 minutes

And for the ones crying for a system that only matches servers with equal wvw population: If that happened servers with only few but good players would be extremly penalized ( for example Piken Square that seems to be doing quite good though).

I don’t want to destroy your illusion but only because there is much more people complaining it doesn’t mean that this is the common opinion throughout the whole gw2 population. Its just normal that less people will show up to say something like “well, the new system is pretty decent”. As it is for me i even like the new match up system even if it still balancing. It gave our server awsome fights and great fun and you might be able to have some fun too if you changed your attitude.

I’ve been playing on Gunnars Hold since ever, so instead of most of you guys complaining here our server knows the feeling of defeat and the lack of people. But we tried to get people out of pve and into pvp. Our guilds tried to get better too, but in the end we still couldn’t ever get above of tier 7 and were bound to face wsr, rof and dz forever. Even Ruins of Surmia who got an insane income of guilds of tier 1 wasn’t able to get into tier 6 after weeks of facing us and winning permanently.

But after one week with the new matchup with indeed some mismatches you can still see that some rankings which had been completly solidified have been wrong:
Last week the first three matchups were uninteresting but above that it was sometimes pretty surprising
-between Piken, Riverside and Gunnars (place 8,10,20 not 1,4,7 were most our NA friends are crying in this thread!) Gunnars was able to get 125k points which is more than half of what Piken made
-the matchup Underworld, Fort Ranik and Ruins of Surmia (17,18,19), a matchup that was impossible before the change, was extremly tight and was decided at friday
- for Millers Sound, Aurora Glade and Drakkar Lake (12,14,16) we had a match between two german servers that played against each other for some time and AG which were at least 1 sometimes 2 tiers above the other two for weeks and yet they still ended 3rd placed
- for Gandara, Far Shiverpeaks and Arborstone (13,15,25!): for some reason FS got heavily smacked in that week but the more interesting thing is AS. They only know extrems either they stomped Vabbi and Fissure of Woe or they got dominated in tier 8 yet two servers that are ranked soooo much higher and must be sooo much better couldn’t stomp them down (not even under 100k points). This means that in prime time when AS had the same amount people Gandara and FS weren’t that much better than them o.O
-the last two matches were pretty lame again as we had them many times before and they always ended more or less like that

This weeks matchup is still pretty new and things still can change but even here we have some unexpected developments ( i ll start from the back this time)
- you can forget Arborstone, Fissure of Woe and Vabbi
- but Underworld, Ring of Fire and Blacktide (17,22,25) doesn’t seem to be such an unbalanced match. Sure Underworld is stronger but the other two seem to be able to fight back
- Fort Ranik, Dzagonur and Withesideridge (18,21,24) should be an even closer match yet FR destroyes them completly till now which makes me at least wonder what either RoF and BT have compared to Dz and WSR or what Underworld lacks compared to FR as considering the old rankings they should all be more or less the same
- now to Millers Sound, Ruins of Surmia and Gunnars Hold (13,19,20): again an extremly unbalanced matchup if you look at the old rankings. The gap of mere 23k points between 1st and 3rd place could tell you though that Millers doesn’t seem to be that much better than those former tier 8 servers. You also could take in account that the german servers like Millers normally don’t get much better during the week but RoS will most likely get stronger.
- the matchup between Abbadons Mouth, Gandara and Far Shiverpeaks (11,12,16) is one that i can’t actually understand well myself as Gandara and FS get stomped way too hard for what i expected but maybe there is some player movement or i just don’t know of their normal weekend weakness
- Riverside, Aurora Glade and Drakar Lake (8,14,15): Riverside has a far bigger wvw population than the other two servers and so they can queue all their maps much easier i believe but i already said the system is still balancing and hopefully matches like that will stop after some time
- Jade Sea, Augury Rock and Piken Square (3,9,10) on the other hand is pure gold in my argumentation. Its a match that wouldn’t have been here without the new system as JS was way out range for AR and Piken and yet it seems not to be boring on their maps
-The upper two matchups aren’t that much again as on the one hand Vizunah and Elona truly aren’t ranked on first and second for show but on the other hand at least Seafarer lost some people since their tier 1 time and Desolation lost loads

I don’t know if you could say anything similar about the NA servers as i don’t know how it looks at your side of the world but in my opinion this system isn’t bad for EU. I also know that i can’t convince the stubborn ones but who cares.

I don’t know on which tiers you guys that say its not getting better play but from what i expirienced its much better than in the past (i am tier 4 right now). If i distinguish between normal lag caused by my hardware setup and actual skill lag (the incapability to use any skills) it is nothing like it was a few months ago.

Turx.6987:

Fast Asleep.8475:

I wanted to see all our fights there as i was commanding the first time yesterday and i hoped be able to evaluate my movement but it seems like half of our fights were cut out…

Btw i have great fun this week. Others can tell whatever they want but imo this is million times better then playing in tier 7

Obviously we’re not going to release videos of us getting wiped, that completely defeats the purpose of shameless self promotion! :P

We occasionally stream when we remember and/or have someone with a machine capable of such a feat – did a little last night, so some of what you’re looking for may be viewable here:

http://www.twitch.tv/hob_eu/videos?kind=past_broadcasts

Should be a couple of hours footage there, victories and defeats and everything in between.

Oh, thx a lot for that
Gonna look through it at some point

aern.5023:

Few moments from yesterday – RS bordeland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXNJbijeMt8

Watch in hd
hope we will see more nice fights this week (and more ppl instead of arrowcarts xD)
Thanks for great fights

I wanted to see all our fights there as i was commanding the first time yesterday and i hoped be able to evaluate my movement but it seems like half of our fights were cut out…

Btw i have great fun this week. Others can tell whatever they want but imo this is million times better then playing in tier 7