Yes, I don’t like doing guild missions, the treks are stupid and the bounties are fun the first time, after that it is just more pve repetitive nonsense. So I’ve stopped doing them.
So is support buying them with badges. But it will never happen. I mean, just look how long it’s taking to add ascended gear to WvW vendors.
Ranger, but that’s because that’s one of the classes I play and I don’t have an engineer. I will tell you that engineers are typically more useful in the Zerg.
However, Rangers might be getting a buff to their currently useless spirits (basically the only way we can buff allies. And even if they don’t buff these spirits, you can still plant one next to a siege engine to make it deal more damage!
Meh, engineers already have decent group support. Why not give it to a class that lacks group support, like rangers? You can call it in animal trail, or gopher tunnel!!!
Terrible sportsmanship by BP from Dragonbrand in the GvG today.
Attacking before the start time (twice) and using more people than agreed upon (25v25).
The only “skill” shown was the haphazard zerging and utter illiteracy. Glad you got your huehuehue’s off and hope you didn’t shake too many Cheeto crumbs off your beards .
Hello. I am Kaga, one of the leads of the guild [iLL]usion on maguuma.
Arrangements were made to have 25v25 GvG between our guild and the [bp] guild tonight. Sadly, the players of [bp] did not follow the rules they had agreed upon beforehand for the match. By not following the rules they had themselves agreed upon, [bp] showed a real lack of character, and rendered any results from tonight’s exercise effectively null & void.
Personally I’m disapointed. I had been looking forward to some good competitive GvG action all week long, and then you get :
- Opposing team rolling in with more people than they were supposed to (twice)
- Attacking before the agreed upon servertime (twice)
- Roflestomping your team and removing stacks/buffs prematch and other signs of juvenile lack of respect.
You know, I see people from dragonbrand complain all the time about maguuma & yaks’ claims of db being a low-quality/zerg server. I was looking forward to have a match where we at [iLL]usion could have a direct sample of actual DB fighting power, and see how our merry band of PvX guys would fare in such a matchup. Sadly all [bp] proved today is that they can’t even abide by conditions they agreed themselves, and that they DO need more guys to do anything.
How that paints the DB server as a whole is another subject matter, but I dont think it looks good at all. Keep acting like punks [bp]. I just think it’s sad that your behavior is confirming everything we’ve been saying about DB for 2-3 weeks.
If you want respectable guild from DB, it’s TG all the way. They are also rather skilled.
I typically leave people in downed state and walk away. I get enough badges when fighting with my guild group. And I don’t care about WXP. Only time I stake is when people try to 2v1 or higher. And even then, if one is an upleveled I’ll sometimes leave him in downed.
and i still got over 30 ascended rings after i cleaned inventory once
for real there are 5 months since november.
1 fractal /week you could had enough rings for 3 toons
amulets is daily /monthly – 20 days for 1 amulet
earings – few guild events
If i can farm over 300 badges /day and i need 20 days to farm 1 amulet with daily system , would you pay 5000 badges for it ?
Why would it cost 5000 badges? At most I would see it being 500. Which yes, I would pay that because I loathe dungeons. Booooooooring, not gonna do them if at all possible.
What I don’t get, is if ranger is a Jack of all trades. Why doesn’t it get access to all of the games mechanics, albeit at a decreased level of effectiveness? Aegis, stealth, all the weapons, confusion (can be achieved with a pet) portals /shrug.
I guess it sucks to know that when DB guilds NA and SEA put their game face on…you guys can’t compete in any timezone, including reset or N/A primetime..but seriously great job this weekend..
Lolwut, reset was back and forth. YB had the lead 1 hour in and we had it again 5 hours in. There was no clear leader throughout.
DB NA gets the table set for them every morning, full upgrades and paper on opponents BL and still usually lose NA.
A few big DB NA guilds don’t play on reset. Also, we took the lead about 2hours in on reset night and have been pulling ahead ever since.
Don’t really understand how people can say the DB NA is lackluster when we’ve held our towers and keeps better than both Yak’s and Mag on NA prime time.
I mean, if Mag and Yaks have a bigger, better, badder NA, then why are we constantly taking their stuff towers, beating their zergs and preventing them from taking our towers every evening when the Oceanic guilds aren’t on..hmm
Excuses.
Technically, Mag is the only server with extreme NA prime population on this matchup, since a considerable amount of WvW players at YB are South Americans and they go to sleep several hours before NA, even on reset. In fact, guilds like [CL] can only play reset for 3 hours or so before their oficial raids ends, after that, their numbers drops and they just become pugs.
The question is not if DB’s NA is lackluster or not, the question is why Mag can’t just paint the whole maps of their color since they have twice the numbers of YB and DB after 3 or 4 hours of the reset and during the whole week.
Why did it take DB several hours to take YBBL Hills last night when they outnumbered PYRO and company 3:1? Why is there only one word that rhymes with orange? Why does DB grandstand and ask stupid questions? If a clerk at a butcher’s shop stands at 5 ft. 11 in. and wears size 12 sneakers. What does he weigh!?!?!?
Who knows, who cares? I guess I’ll assume it’s because they’re terrible.
Oh, and on a more serious note. The 3 people that posted from DB that weren’t boasting and denying the coverage imbalance, cheers! You seem like scholars and gentlemen!
he wieghs meat
EDIT: ANET is also crazy, for poppykitten is not a bad word. Stupid auto censor.
The problem, is that there isn’t any downside to zerging. Zergs can move so fast that they can get across the map before another Zerg takes their tower. (As long as you have 1giy in the tower giving out information quickly and a commander willing to interrupt the Zerg train.
Now, it would be better and more efficient to have two 40 man zergs than one 80 man, but people don’t really coordinate that well, especially when most of them are pubs.
I believe there should be a disincentive to zerging, but at the same time, why should people be punished for playing the way they want?
I like the knock back idea, but don’t find the symbol very inspiring. Perhaps every 4th or 5th auto attack(depending on how fast those are) you create a symbol of fury at your feet. And replace the symbol skill with something like Line/Ring of Warding.
Also, the healing arrows sound cool, but should also either A. Give a buff B. do a small amount of damage or C. Create either a fire, light, orrrr static field.
These changes might make me switch my hammer or staff for a longbow, otherwise it would just be a slightly improved scepter.
I know we’re apparently the troll server (no idea how THAT happened)
How big was the one that got away?
It took 7 days to accrue 5 pages when it was DB/YB/SoS. Three pages and counting, 40 hrs later, with Mag in the mix. Really wish this would stop. So many useless posts to sift through.
Blah, I enjoy reading the posts when I’m between classes. Or when I’m out and about in the world and a break in the activities occur.
So here’s some more drivel for you to sift through.
So Mag is ready to get ROLFStomped on Friday? Enjoy!
It’s okay, we have a contingency plan to all log off when things get hard. We call it the CDNA.
Ironically, that is exactly what you will do In fact, you guys will complain about the exact same things; while whoever has a bigger presence will tell you stories about how epic they are and how much of fodder yall have always been.
Pretty much, but those of us that like t3 will be there, alwways fighting and dominating where we can.
Reflect skills will now reflect siege!
Siege will have X longer range!
Fire over the dam ledges of walls when you’re pressed against it!
Hire a personal bodyguard! (Long cool down)
Yes, they are. Other skills, such as reflects, were intended to but had the unexpected consequence of actually sending the siege shots back where they came from. Sadly, that effect was removed.
I think reflect skills should be able to reflect siege shots back to where they came from personally. Imagine the ping pong matches with trebs and guardians on both sides…
This would make a great WXP bonus. Put X amount of points into a new trait line, and your reflect skills will now reflect siege!!! Would make people that aren’t ele’s useful, AND it would be fun.
Other things in this line could be: A portal skill, something to increase range on siege, … Can’t think of anything else.
Retaliation is a zergs counter for massive AoE damage like yours. Personally, I don’t like it, but they (ANET) favor the zerg.
I would rather have people HAVE to spread out to avoid your damage. But it just doesn’t work, because they would have to change a boatload of things to make it balanced.
IMO (kittenes aside) it comes down to communication. I’ve taught lots of people how to skip trash in TA. And it does go faster. (Helps that I can give people stability and shout away the fear/immobilize.)
But if you just have a group that wants to speed run but half of them don’t know how and don’t ask what to do, you’re going to have a rough time.
MF doesnt affect the bags you’ve dropped but does effect the quality of the loot you get from the bags.
Without MF gear you kill 25 players and get 20 bags full of white/green/blue stuff.
With MF gear you kill 25 players and get 20 bags full of more white/more green/more blue and possibly rare/exotic stuff….
…. yet,the chance is slightly increased to get rarer loot and might only be noticable in the long run.
Personally tested MF in WvW as this was my first exotic set and yes,you get alot more loot in general,cant say if it’s better/rarer loot for sure.
Running atm (past 4 months) with 0 MF and yes,the loot in general is less and the rares /exotic outcome in the end of the week in close to zero. Yet,I ran without MF gear when they said they’ve actually increased the loot rates. If you are raiding in WvW using non-MF gear actually gives you higher chance to kill more people due to the better stats you can get and thus more bags/loot BUT how can we be sure we wont get same/better/rarer loot if we run with full MF at the same time and actually kill less people due to the lack of specific stats…. that’s what I’ve always questioned myself about MF vs non-MF gear in WvW and in general….
Overall,MF is a waste in WvW as it gives useless stats for PvP scale.
Indeed , but with the new*ish* tagging system, it takes much less damage to score a loot bag. So maybe MF gear is useful now?
I would like to know, what the purpose of wooden chest loot “bags” are. Lat five that I’ve opened have contained barbs.
More on the point, it should work on other players. But then again, people always tell me that they don’t see an increase in drop value when wearing it in pve. But who knows….
Sure, I support that. Make it like world bonus stuff: own X orb, get 30% magic find in and out of WvW. Own Y orb get 30% gold find. Own Z orb, get free pie.
Ya know, something that isn’t useless so people actually make an effort to get them.
What you’re complaining about happens maybe 1 in 10 times, probably not even that. If you have at least 10 people and they still manage to get through a wall or door, that’s your fault.
Is it still their fault if the have 10 and the people trying to get in have 50? Cause that was one if his points.
I can’t change the colors on my shoulders!? Whenever I try to change them, it shows that it changes, and then when I exit the character screen it doesn’t take on the character. And it resets because when I open it up again it’s the same as before I changed it.
So I tried to take them off and put them back on.
BUT!! The game crashes when I do that! Odd.
Note: These have been transmuted with Ascalonian Soldiers Stats and Cultural Tier 3 Norn.
Anyways, super annoying since the color doesn’t go with the color scheme I wanted for my armor. And I apparently just wasted 20g on the shoulders and 4g for the transmutation stones. (Might not be a lot for some people, but I’m poor.)
Submitted a game bug report, but I don’t know if that’s good enough.
Did what we could today in EB. Obviously lack the numbers to hold anything, so if we can settle in here and someone with a tad bit more numbers then us but less then Mag settles in at green could be real competitive. With the weekend gone its probably gonna look like a total landslide but think we had a pretty decent showing this weekend. Good job today SBI.
I think yaks bend has fewer people than us by a slight margin. So if they come back down and we move up, it would probably be what you’re looking for. But they’re feeding off of SoS’s high ranking at the moment, so it might take a week or two.
Important Note: I don’t consider myself a PRO player.
IMO: Full PVT gear is overkill. I didn’t really pay much attention to the people who said so when I first became 80. Plus PVT gear is so easy to get I had myself almost fully geared in exotics the day I hit 80.
And if you’re running with a zerg in WvW, you will not notice that you’re lacking damage. (And I do feel like PVT gear shines here) I find myself teleporting into the enemy Zer with judges intervention, and either creating a lovely distraction while my Zerg runs through them. OR I’ll semi casually make my way back to my Zerg spamming staff auto to distract them. And while survivability is great, you don’t do much damage.
If you want to do significant damage, you need something to complement tha PVT gear.
I’m going to go craft some knights gear when I get done with all these mid terms and integrate a few pieces into my armor.
But there are other popular options out there, such as clerics gear.
I don’t have a problem with the amount of maps. If you can’t control all 4 then that’s just part of the game.
My problem, is the redundancy of the three borderlands. Take two out and replace them with different maps! Perhaps design one that’s easy to defend and give it to red team, and give one that’s harder to defend and give it to the green team. Blue team keeps the old map layout.
Heya TC dood from yer guild [REST] … good job on shoing your maturity doing the stompy stomp dance on a downded DB player, DB BL S.Hills :P
Sorry you had to see that. It’s embarrassing to see someone representing your server making us look bad like that. Just wanted you to know that most of us aren’t fans of that that kind of chest thumping. Hopefully, someone from REST will take care of it.
I’ve seen a lot of TC doing it to be honest this match up mostly on people they killed with higher numbers, heck I saw 15 TC’s “Jumping dance” on top of one guy outside Maguuma Garrison on Saturday.
I know it is probably just PUG’s but they really do kind of make you all look bad in those circumstances.
This. My fellow maguumians and I frequently stay to defend an objective. And when the three of us get slaughtered by their 30, I am always jumped on by no less than 3 people.
When roaming, I try to show them the error of their ways by taking them to downed state, then leaving. I don’t think it’s working.
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In fact, you guys will complain about the exact same things; while whoever has a bigger presence will tell you stories about how epic they are and how much of fodder yall have always been.
