Guild Wars 2

2+ weeks and counting now.

If we hit the 3 week mark, we make a hat-trick.

EDIT: That is an awesome pic, makes me think we should create a meme for the infiltration bug.

Chuck Norris.4519:

gay wings

The wings made you happy?

Personally I think BECAUSE its one of the better head pieces in game is the reason it never came back.

Price wise it was about 200gems (Check?), my memory was the same price as the reading glasses.

Therefore, why provide an item that most people would want/use for 200gems that would stop a certain % of people buying from the gemstore because they had that ONE item.

Why bring it back when ppl will buy half measures to compensate.

EDIT: Reading glasses are 150gems.

mike.5682:

I’m an airplane now but I still can’t find the challenge mote for this achievement

That’s disappointing, I would think an aerial would’ve made it easier to find. Did you think about making ‘VROOOM’ sounds like you were taking off. Maybe it will help, I’m gonna go in game and check it now.

Sabin.3527:

interesting picture opportunities

OMG Titanic!

Raptorcheese.7053:

I am a sad panda…only need the wynes locket to finish the entire set and this bug is preventing progression. I guess I will do some chemistry in the mean time!

Let’s play a game. It’s called ‘Spot the player caught out by the bug’.

:-)

Jack Kerouac.8974:

So, about that challenge mote…

You mean the mote that’s a challenge?

Behellagh.1468:

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Wow. You like to start useless arguments.

As it transitions into an ‘overflow’ area.

Niceeeeeeeeeee.

choucs.4507:

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2 days worth of posts and some copy and paste.

Skill lag is back with a Vengeance.

Dean Calaway.9718:

As for ruins and bloodlust, they came along when a significant number of players kept demanding something for a small group to do that would give a real map wide impact.

I’m sorry but that’s entirely subjective, and loosely associated, your reading way to much into it. At this time your simply arguing “because I say so”.

Once again I can only really recommend you watch the NDA leak.

Idc care that they gave mesmers a shield so much as I hope they just make it viable.

Shield is not used by any profession to a significant degree in PvE/WvW and only bunkers run it in PvP.

Let’s hope that shield doesn’t get relegated to only being used to show off your Grinning Shield on your mes while afk.

Dean Calaway.9718:

Sure, just have to wait for my turn in a 50 people queue to get in.

Guilds typically wouldn’t GvG on a full map. They would do it at a quieter time, usually towards the end of the week. GvG impact on queues/ppt were blown out of proportion by ANet and people bought into it.

Sacrx’ NDA leaked highlighted ANET’s stance and how bloodlust was introduced to unbalance WvW even more and push people towards PvP for more balanced fighting.

For the longest time anything WvW had to go through the PvP team first. PvP e-sports has always been ANET’s focus over WvW, let alone GvG.

Many of the GvG successes were in spite of ANET and the ignorance of some players.

coglin.1867:

Covis.6037:

coglin.1867:

Other then the same 100 posters cross posting complaints on this topic, do any of you have any actual facts to support the idea that there are a few thousand players interested in GvG?

By all means, I am not against the idea at all, but I have seen little, to no evidence that there is a large enough player base interested, to justify devoting the manpower to it.

nah GvG is really small now since its been completely ignored for 3 years. When GvG was in its prime i could say it was 3x-4x more popular then spvp for example (on wvw scale)

So I guess my question then, is do you have any evidence of that? Personally, my experience suggest it never even remotely came close to that of sPvP. I also feel comments made in various dev post support that.

You must be new to make a statement like that.

Feel free to google. Look at the numbers for higher profile GvGs back in the day, they far exceeded anything coming out of the PvP scene. Impromptu GvG always competed with any ‘official’ PvP. Why do you think a senior Anet Dev trolled a GvG? Because GvG was out playing his game mode. On that note, take a trip down memory lane and look up Sacrx’ NDA leak for why ‘devs posts support that’.

As others have said, GvG is languishing to PvP now because its an unsupported game mode.

As a veteran player I’ve tried to empower people in terms of ‘give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime’.

That is go into detail to explain something and inform them of resources such as wiki.

Only to be told “Yea i know i just cba looking it up/minimising my game”

This has happened on more than one occasion.

Mesmers are poor:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Mesmer-the-least-played-profession

The Gates Assassin.9827:

PvP Specialist here

Few questions about this:

1. How often do you swap from your main class to the class daily to get the AP?
2. Do you enjoy the encouragement to try another class?
3. If you were to change this daily, what would you want it to be changed to instead?

1) Regularly
2) Initially I enjoyed (when the daily first changed) but now it feels boring because I have a build that works and I just do it for dailies.
3) GREATER FLEXIBILITY. I’ve read some good suggestions here, perhaps a daily that lets u play your main while encouraging u to use other professions.
- Get a victory/3 games with one profession
- Get a victory/3 games with a different profession

I like the idea of playing 3 games that u lose but still get daily. It encourages u to play well while not punishing u excessively for having a bad day.

Lockdown is a lot of fun in PvP.

I tend to run something similar to this:
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Mesmer_-_Lockdown

A few points:

In my experience people aren’t used to fighting a lockdown mesmer, at least in your average sPvP game which immediately gives you an advantage.

After some practice you tend to get a ‘feel’ about what professions will cast when and time your skills accordingly. It’s a process, when your first starting out it can feel like you waste a lot of your interrupts.

Stability is your single worst enemy when engaging an enemy when you use a lockdown build. Always check for it, first and foremost.

If stability is up or your skills are on C/D, don’t be afraid to throw out some phantasms and break LoS/pull back and wait. Placing small pressure on them may still make them use skills and wear them down if they cant handle phantasms well.

It’s important to remember while you may not have the ‘spike’ as some people pointed out, the main point of your build is to shut someone down. If your playing your build well they won’t be healing and casting either and go down to attrition.

GL HF out there.

Lets hope that a shield mesmer is actually useful.

Angry Joe reiterated many of the same concerns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG5oUKqbIVM

A better question to focus on for those answering would be when the OP played. He’s talking about playing at release. So in that sense the whole structure of WvW is much more organised by those that participate it compared to release. Which may explain his disassociation.

In addition to answer your points about smc. Objectively its hard to hold smc while holding onto objectives closer to home for the returns that it gives you. Most people try to hold onto it but not at the expense of other objectives (usually). As such people usually use it as a supply resource.

From what I understand its better to save and buy the precursor you want than to gamble with the mystic forge.

OP is new to game?

‘2 blues and a green’

Azrael.4960:

Has everyone forgotten?

Nope, cause someone already mentioned it -.-

“We’re gonna need a bigger bow”
Just as you kick off the Veteran Oak event in Queensdale.

Nice movie tie in for those that know it and if you’ve seen it, you’d know that the timing ingame for it is perfect.

Focus on their off peak times, so for example stay away from NA timezone because you will NEVER get in at that time.

It’s awhile ago since I was involved in a transfer process to a full server, but try the refresh option (which should work) but I wouldn’t be surprised if exiting the client works better.

gl

coglin.1867:

but that is just my opinion.

Like your whole post but it’s the case for everyone. Yet you still felt the need for “Because I say so”.

Rangelost.4857:

Gotta love it when you’re downed and an enemy slowly fires projectiles at you, and your teammates standing next to you don’t even bother trying to revive you.

This happened to me yesterday. I was literally at mid on Battle of Kyhlo out on the ledge with a team mate in the adjacent window RIGHT next to me,

That player finished with 0.

Blade.3456:

you will mostly be facing doors outside of T1

Or if you join [DAWN]?

It’s not like you guys are well known for being a good fighting guild.

Andred.1087:

why do you even deserve to be impressed?

Whose talking about what’s ‘deserved’ here? My opening paragraph was to compensate for any people mislead by ‘entitlement’, such as yourself it would seem.

Andred.1087:

immediately looking for all the bits you don’t like.

Immediately? Now your just being argumentative. If you actually read the OP you’d know it was a build up over time that lead to the post.

Andred.1087:

Maybe you should relax and just try to enjoy things
I think you’ll find yourself much happier in life.

I really think you need to take your own advice. Your response was FAR to emotionally invested, arguing extremes that weren’t even present.

I’m not trying to make this a negative post, but honestly I’m just starting to find myself being less impressed. Does anyone else feel this?

For example:

Were not getting new weapons and it looks like no new race either, both of which I assumed would be in an expansion.

While I’m glad were getting things like Guild Halls, imho I felt its something that should have been there a long time ago.

The other day I watched the poi and thought it looks similar to stuff were doing in game now but with some gliding thrown in and gliding won’t be present on the older maps we’ve been told.

Does anyone else feel unimpressed?

I’d like to hope that the devs at least post SOME kind of feedback on what the specialist has done.

Is that what I’m seeing?

What I find ironic is that in the past ANet has banned people for ‘exploiting’ events.

If you fail a particular event deliberately because you want to repeat it or don’t progress it because your farming it.

And yet here we are with ANet forcing people into similar situations to achieve this collection.

papryk.6273:

good luck trying to see anything with the particles effects fest on your screen with 30 ppl spamming skills

You know you have an options screen right?

So much ignorance to GvG in WvW

silvermember.8941:

There is no GvG aka no noob zerging other noobs.

You never GvG in WvW did you?

Anyways its something similar to gw1 GvG but not really.

The fact that its still 5v5 is hardly akin to one guild vs another unless its a really small guild. But still….

As a veteran player I’ve come to hate the NPE.

I bought an alt acct. with the recent $10 sale and its been incredibly painful leveling. In fact the project I had in mind, I’ve given up on. I just use the account to mine my mains home instance.

Additionally, and more importantly, buying additional slots doesn’t let you escape the road blocks for your main account. If you have a bunch of level 80’s I think it’s safe to say you ‘get’ GW2. Why I have to do a heap of PvE or spend lots of gold for what I was previously able to do with ease. My recent experiences getting a toon to level 80 left me with one overall feeling: NPE = toe cutters.

Literally I was just crippled trying to get my level 80 toon set up. I didn’t enjoy the new experience at all.

I read it as wvw getting demoted, even more. Even the devs don’t have time for us anymore, they want volunteers to come ‘handle’ us.
The way i see it, devs were told to engage us, devs don’t want to engage us, so came up with an ‘initiative’.

Zackie.8923:

Marmatt = frodo

He’s short and fat?

I held back somewhat to cut the new guy a break.
Having said that, assuming he is actually any good at his role. Did u see how the CDI were handled for www in the past?
Assume anet is listening to him, assume it’s not just lipservice assume they’ll act on information provided. Suddenly you realise your assuming a lot.

I don’t expect much to come from this.

Read this for a laugh at just how bad shield currently is in gw2:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Shield-is-still-bad

So my guild is organising an inter 3v3 PvP competition. Mostly for fun but its always important to try your best.

Teams consist of a variety of professions, but only 1 of any type. We are aware of what professions other teams will have in advance.

Specifically my team consists of ele, guard and mes.

Guard is running:
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Guardian_-_Meditation_DPS_Variant

Now in a couple of practice runs we’ve had I’ve really felt a few things missing in our team composition, namely stability.

My question is is how important is Contemplation of Purity to the build? Can it be swapped out for “Stand Your Ground!” or will it fundamentally break the Meditation build?

As a side point I’m curious about people’s response to wall of reflection over CoP when fighting Longbow rangers.

Thanks for your feedback.

I’m perhaps less pessimistic than Fay but I’m right in line with what was said.

That is I’m not really expecting much until I see it in action.

As it stands:
The majority of people don’t use a shield in WvW.
The majority of people don’t use a shield in PvE.
Even in PvP I wouldn’t say it’s used is extensively, just bunker builds and a select few others.

Honestly, I just hope it becomes viable.

With most things being zerker meta how often to you see a shield being used on other professions? Not so often.

If it happens I just want to make sure its actually useful. Not something someone equips because they want to show off their Ghastly Grinning shield.

Its overdue. End.

What Silvia said pretty much. Server doesn’t matter for PvE, PvP, it’s only WvW where selection is important.

Jade Quarry is tier one and has good all round coverage so you can find fights any time of day.

FA and YB are tier 2 servers, they are well populated and also have good fights but less coverage than JQ. So its worth investigating if they are quiet at the times you are looking to log on.

I believe the answer is no, unless you buy at extractor from the TP which absolutely is NOT worth it. You can place them in the mystic forge I believe???

Otherwise you have to throw them out.

FYI similar issue when using Badges of Honor to buy things, they cant be salvaged either.

My personal opinion:

- I understand your feeling about guardians to any extent, however there may be ways to change your feeling. Have a look at:

http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki

There are some awesome builds here that are exciting to use (PvE, PvP, WvW).

- You used an ele in EotM are u planning to get into WvW more? Staff Ele’s can use water = heal, Fire = might, earth = protection. So many ways to support your team, but it requires coordination with ur team to use effectively.

- Cant offer you better advice on your engineer as i tend to feel the same way about them. Use the above website to research them more perhaps.

Hope some of this helps.

It’s a valid tactic but the more respected commanders discourage it.

Largely commanders dislike it because it slows fights down. Once a commander knows they are being pin sniped they spend a lot of time running back and forth waiting for veil, mass invisi etc to be up, before they push into a fight.

The only time its encourage is more towards the joking side things when both sides are aware of whats happening and just looking for lol’s.