Guild Wars 2

Bump because it’s still not fixed.

Bump because it’s still not fixed.

rmprodigy.4679:

The dd ele that beat the theif four times? Complaining about a necro…your a mesmer fighting a warrior amd a dd ele in spvp for gods sake get serious guy.

Your like a body building trying to have a bench press contest against a 16 year old fightin a warrior on a mesmer and thinking your good LOL.

1v1 put us in our place? Lmao you are a strange strange little man.

You might want to learn your class if you think a warrior can’t beat a mesmer in sPvP. But more importantly, I really want your opinion on the video! The self-defecating jokes you made about you being in a trash can we’re great!

rmprodigy.4679:

Was it not you who said you will trash us all? All we dis was invite a ebay player we felt was deprived of his duel by said two players of DIE a chance to go and duel to make it up to him. Not to mention I have heard you pm mang ebay playeds everytime u win a fight and belittle them. What did u expect a warm greeting. You got the hello u earned. You got what u deserved from the spvp to the OS that followed. Those who oppress chest thump and act as fools well be treated as such. Nobodh cares about what others think of us. We play to have fun and do our best. We know that nobody admits to groups that do well or ever have anything good to say. So we embrace Iit and live for the amount of mad we can harvest from e bullies.

I was deprived of my 2v2 vs BTSY, not you. I would never waste my time 2v2’ing DIE (signet D/D ele? LOL!). I agreed to 1v1 in sPvP to make sure you knew your place. And can we please stop pretending there were “wins and losses on both sides”? Your guild lost every single duel against me, won once against the other mesmer with a MM necro (LOL!), and beat a bunker speced guardian like twice? My 45 minutes of footage recorded a whole lot more than 3 battles. Speaking of which, do you think I should upload that video? Some of your jokes about you playing with poop were pretty funny!

And can you please download Firefox? Your spelling is atrocious.

rmprodigy.4679:

busy , wiping u guys at os. wait up

Lost a 15v15 GvG in a 5-0 shutout to a PuG guild, check.

Failed to gank a 2v2 with 3 people, check.

Lost every 1v1 against me, check.

Has a driver who activates healing signet when he’s low, check.

Driver raged the entire time, check.

Tried to kiss my kitten after getting dumpstered, check.

Brought 30 people to rage-mode the 5 people who dumpstered them, check.

Logged out when 20 people BP showed up to fight, check.

Has the worst trolls on Ehmry, check.

Could DIE be the worst guild NA? I would love to see a checklist for a worse guild, because this one’s hard to beat! Can you guys PLEASE upload you perspective of the BB vs DIE GvG (with voice chat!)? I really want to hear the disappointment creep into everyones voice after that ridiculous RP walk intro!

RazGerb.6173:

Kill count while on BP BL with my ranger repping Borlis Bag Killers [BP]
72 BP dead, Multiple 1vXs, Zerged multiple times just because they need to send a zerg to finish me off.
Priceless.

Raz you didn’t win any 1vX unless we’re counting uplevels or ambient creatures. Don’t make me find the clip of me 1v6’ing you and your zerg.

LOL at the failed ganks by [DIE] in the OS. Three people try jumping 2 of us in the middle of a 2v2 and get TRASHED. Two or three wipes later and you at least had the sense to come back with fake guild names so when I started recording your wipes you wouldn’t make your guild look bad!

Two necros and a D/D ele? Might be time to reroll thieves so you can at least run away when you lose LOL! Shoulda just taken the 5-0 shutout with a smile, but now you just look like sore losers.

Once you get out of combat change the mantra for a different skill then put it back.

The most recent change to Perplexity runes made it so the 6th piece bonus will only apply to the first target you interrupt every 8 seconds. This ruins any utility they had in group fights, since you can only apply confusion to a single target. This is a shame since they made Glamour Mesmers ALMOST viable in groups again.

The ICD should be bound to the person who the confusion was applied to, not the person using the runes. They should function the same way Frost Armor works, in that it will apply chill to anyone who hits you, but will not more than once per second for any given person.

It’s unlikely that taking damage from the first attack is intentional. The tool tip would be worded something like “copy the next projectile attack to be redirected at a foe” instead of “absorb a projectile attack”. Absorbing it implies the attack should be neutralized.

Logi.5612:

Not too sure myself as it is abit unclear, but it looks looks like instant cast fears cannot be dodged. Dont remember being able to dodge throug reapers mark once without getting feared…

Nope dodged through hundreds of Reapers Marks without activating the fear. It’s just blurred frenzy.

Mystic.5934:

I’ve activated blurred frenzy, then swap, and it’ll continue to do blurred frenzy at the new location.
decoy will not interrupt blurred frenzy.
maybe I’m not clear on what skills are channeling.

Nope decoy and swap will both interrupt blurred frenzy.

Logi.5612:

Not sure how to interpret your post, you say that those skills cannot be casted when channeling, but then you say it interrupts the channel.

In any case im pretty sure stealth skills interrupt channeling skills by nature to ensure you stay stealthed. As for illu leap, idk.

Edited for clarity. And healing/channeling mantras/stomping will be interrupted as well, so if it’s likely not intended to keep the player stealthed.

New post for word count.

The rest of these proposals are more for buffing lesser-chosen and weaker traits/utilities, not necessarily for group play.

Restorative Illusions Scaling

• Restorative Illusions (Inspiration XII) scaling is too low to be a viable alternative to Shattered Conditions (Inspiration XI). If it was 800 health per clone instead of 800 health for 1 clone and 200 more for each subsequent clone, it would be an interesting decision between the two traits. Removing just one stack of bleed lasting 8 seconds ticking for 100 per second would save you 800 HP, removing a stack of burning as well that would last for just 2 seconds ticking for 400 would save you another 800 HP. Remove poison ticking for 200 that would last 4 seconds saves you another 800 HP. Even with these very conservative durations and damage ticks, it’s easy to see that the health you save from Shattered Conditions far outshines Restorative Illusions. Not to mention the fact that Shattered Conditions remove conditions from allies as well.

Blurred Inscriptions Buff

• Blurred Inscriptions (Duelling VIII) is a very unattractive trait in general, especially at master tier in Duelling. One second of invulnerability on (at minimum) a 24 second traited cooldown with Signet of Midnight at the cost of Deceptive Evasion (Dueling X) is not worth the trait. The invulnerability should be increased to 2 or 3 seconds or changed entirely, or at least be moved to adept tier.

Cleansing Inscriptions Buff

• Cleansing Inscriptions (Chaos IX) is a very unattractive trait as well. Removing only one condition on (at minimum) a 24 second traited cooldown with Signet of Midnight is not worth wasting a trait on. The condition removal should at least be improved to match the 2 conditions removed on heal with Mender’s Purity (Inspiration IV) and moved to adept tier. In my opinion, it should be buffed to remove all conditions on signet use instead. Giving up the passive effect of your signet, combined with fairly long cooldowns make it seemingly fair trade off. It would help with Mesmers fairly poor condition removal and increase use of the underused signets in general.

Signet of Midnight Boon Duration Buff/Change

• The passive buff duration increase of 10% is low and is usually not worth taking over the better and more popular utilities such as decoy or blink. Buffing it to at least 20% would have good synergy with Signet of Inspiration, and combined with the other proposed signet changes could make boon duration signet support Mesmers a viable spec. Or changing the boon duration entirely to 20% +/- condition duration would make it an attractive option.

Over 3,000 hours on my Mesmer, 95% of which is from WvW. Mesmer’s are a pretty weak class in groups, so here’s a few changes I think would benefit the class in group play.

Mind Stab Blast Finisher

• Mind Stab (Greatsword 3) should be a blast finisher. Mesmers right now have only one blast finisher (Torch 4) and it’s unreliable because of the 3 second delay from stealth. Mind Stab being a blast finisher would give Mesmers the ability to contribute to groups by blasting static/fire/water/etc fields.

Unblockable Null Field

• Null Field (Utility) should be unblockable. Not sure if this is a bug or intended, but right now classes can walk right through null field as long as they have a block (warrior shield, guardian heal, etc) and have none of their boons stripped. It can also be evaded/dodge rolled through. Necro wells are unblockable, so why not Null Field?

Imbued Diversion to Master Tier

• Imbued Diversion should not be a Grandmaster trait. There’s no reason why a Mesmer should ever waste 30 trait points for a 5 target daze on a 31 second cooldown, especially with something as strong as Illusionary Persona as an alternative. Counter Blade (Sword 4) is a 5 target daze on a 15s (untraited) cooldown, Into the Void (Focus 4) is a 5 target interrupt on a 25s (untraited) cooldown, and Illusionary Wave (Greatsword 5) is a 5 target interrupt on a 30s cooldown. Moving it down to Master tier would make it a desirable option for a Glamour build.

Retaliatory Demise and Chaotic Revival

• Retaliatory Demise (Chaos VI) and Chaotic Revival (Chaos I) are two traits that I imagine have never been used by anyone and should probably be replaced entirely. There’s not much point in traiting in anticipation of yourself going down, and especially with such lackluster effects.

Phantasm Invulnerability

• Power Mesmers are fairly useless in group battles because most of their damage comes from Phantasms. An interesting suggestion I heard was giving Phantasms invulnerability for long enough for them to do one attack. This would allow a Mesmer to summon a Phantasmal Berserker in a group of enemies without it instantly dying to AoE. This would do comparable damage to a power-wells necro to a group of enemies on a similar cooldown, as the phantasm will likely die as soon as its invulnerability drops.

Mantra AoE Increase

• The AoE effects from Mantras (Stability and condition cleanse) needs to affect a larger area to be of any use in a group battle. Mesmers should typically be near the back of an engagement, and the 240 range is not enough to affect your allies in most situations. I think it should be increased to 600 like Shattered Conditions.

Blinding Befuddlement ICD

• The ICD on Blinding Befuddlement (Illusions IX) should be removed. Mesmers have no spammable blind now that Chaos Armor can only activate once per second. It was only powerful pre-confusion nerf because a Mesmer could keep very high Chaos Armor uptime, and an enemy had a 2/3 chance of applying confusion to himself on EVERY hit. It’s unnecessary now that confusion does half the damage it used to and Chaos Armor has a 1s ICD. All the cooldown does is hurt Glamour Mesmers, who can only apply AoE Blind once every 32 seconds anyway.

Blurred Frenzy (Sword 2) can be interrupted by fears despite being an evade, and the patch notes mentioned it was only changed so it could be affected by retaliation. Reapers Mark and certain Ranger pets are two fears that I’m pretty sure interrupt it. Doom (Necro 3 while in death shroud) definitely hits through blurred frenzy.

Magic Bullet (Pistol 5) will go on its full-cool down if the target walks to the side or behind the player casting Magic Bullet a few milliseconds before the bullet actually shoots. No bullet will be fired, but the sound of the gun will go off and the skill will go on its full cool-down.

1. Mimic only lasts for ~1.5s under water instead of the 4.5 seconds it does on land.

2. Mimic does not “absorb” the first attack that hits it, but instead the player is hit by the attack. This stops you from being able to absorb skills like Magic Bullet at all because it will interrupt Mimic’s cast.

Swap (Sword 3), The Prestige (Torch 4), and Decoy are all instant cast skills but cannot be cast while another skill or action is channeling, or else the channeled skill/action will be interrupted. Decoy and Swap will interrupt the current cast while The Prestige will not activate at all.

Mesmer Bug

Chaos Armor (Staff 4) tool tip says it gives 6.5s of protection but only gives 4 seconds (left over from when Chaos Armor used to give protection on cast).

The six piece bonus for perplexity runes will apply 5 stacks of confusion to the user of the runes if they are interrupted by a thief using basilisk venom.

Pretty sure however you do it, it’s being patched right now. Trying to put away your siege blueprints now says “this content has been temporarily disabled”. About time.

#FIVEGAUGE #MLG #GF

Wen Jie.8920:

Surely the EB forum coverage team could go out and hold ONE supply camp instead…

I’m particularly impressed by the one hero who has 15% of the posts in this entire thread

This website might interest you. Check out our matchups score history: http://gw2tracker.net/wvw/stats/live

Do you notice any trends? Is it still cool to brag about night capping NA servers?

Hexxed.8023:

Fox.3562:

GvG Results: 1-0 GF. vH never came back for round 2.

This will be the only post regarding this issue.

Hey guys, remember this post?

Hexxed.8023:

Guild leader of [GH] messaging me that using Spectators and Non-Guildies in a GvG isn’t a violation of GvG. Lmfao……

Whoops I figured you’d try some kitten like this (again). Good thing I saved some screenshots.

Edit: added a 2nd screenshot for even more context!

2nd Edit: f*** it! let’s just upload our entire conversation so everyone can see the kind of quality leadership in vH!

Hexxed.8023:

Video of exactly what happened during this ‘GvG’ as you can see everyone from Ebay’s Spectator hill rushed into vH and an ensuing clusterkitten followed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nMwBhGvURw

Perfectly shows how you tried, and failed, to gank 12 people who were AFK. Do you think GF would just stand there and let you charge them if you actually set up a fight?

You knew you would lose a 15v15, made up a story about it being a 20v20, said you were going to “walk” from a scheduled GvG, then thought you would get a video of GF getting wiped as a consolation prize.

Learn to read or forfeit. GF 1-0.

Hexxed.8023:

Fox.3562:

GvG Results: 1-0 GF. vH never came back for round 2.

This will be the only post regarding this issue. It was agreed upon last Monday with [GF] for a rated 20v20 GvG. This was even verified by myself an hour beforehand to one of the [GF] guild leaders. On the field 1 minute before the match is supposed to start. I was pm’ed from 3 different [GF]‘s on how they were unable to field 20 against us. So [GF] wanted an unrated 15v15 GvG. We accepted, when the 15v15 GvG started; [GF].[pk], and several other guilds hit us off their spectator hill. Around 34 people hit 15 vH’s during the GvG and claimed it was a victory.

If you need to call other guilds, and all your spectators off your hill to hit us to win an unrated GvG you wanted, so be it. We take it as a compliment you guys need to outnumber us more than 2:1 to win in GvG.

This entire event was recorded as well. With all other guilds and spectators helping them.

Have a good evening.

Learn to read the website. Fight or forfeit.

Fight or forefit.

GvG Results: 1-0 GF. vH never came back for round 2.

Can everyone please stop crying about “spies”? We had an idiot walk at least 6 golems into an enemy supply camp where an SoS COMMANDER was waiting with a ballista to kill them, yet you didn’t hear any crying about that here. There’s a free trial weekend, stupid people are going to do stupid things with that opportunity.

Chris.3290:

Fox.3562:

Hey Sea of Sorrows, you Missed a Spot, twice!

Take it up with your folks on your own borderlands who left our ninja catas intact after we took NW Tower so we could cap it again 15 min later.

Basically I think all three servers are embarrassing themselves, SoS and EBay with these karma trains (EB even left a karma banner inside SoS Bay this morning) and Kaineng by only fighting 6pm to 9pm both nights.

I don’t know who felt the pain more today, SoS for almost blowing their lead or EBay realizing they ran rampant all day but still couldn’t close the gap.

The one thing I’m pleased about, is that Ebay can field guilds and put up a great fight with even numbers. That’s something we haven’t seen consistently from any of the servers we have faced lately.

SoS fairweathers are getting a wake-up call and hopefully will start investing in some WvW gear and builds.

I didn’t ask you all that.

Hey Sea of Sorrows, you Missed a Spot, twice!

Handin.4032:

Fox.3562:

Hey Tarnished Coast, You Missed a Spot.

As a fellow mesmer (even though I’m TC) I congratulate you! Lucky I wasn’t on, I always check those spots That can be a tough tower to hide in since people can check the spot so easily, so congrats and well done!

To be honest, it seems like most servers in the higher tiers don’t bother sweeping most things they capture (maybe because there’s more people everyone assumes someone else will do it?). I would never be able to hide as an unstealthed mesmer in a tower like that against AR/BP, but it’s worked every time I’ve tried this matchup.

Not trying to sound kitteny, just making an observation.

Hey Tarnished Coast, You Missed a Spot.

steve.5693:

mid week 8;30 pm in Oz , looks like EB have given up

It’s 7 AM EST. We’re a NA server. You’re T2. We have 0 oceanic WvW guilds. Of course you have all of our keeps.

That’s like 4 posts in one day on the forums. What am I doing?

Deyja.6745:

If this is the best EB has to offer in terms of individual ability you guys are going to suffer in the 1 v 1 tournament.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqFQEthYAh-3dHR4amVQdDJ1V0FfMnlUemRWWlBMdWc#gid=0

Whoops.

Hickeroar.9734:

Fox.3562:

Nice GvG between GF and RE. Too bad Tarnished Coast has so many pugs who want to grief. Must come with being a large server though.

/facepalm

You realize there were ~20 EBay guys camping between TC spawn and the GvG spot ganking any players coming to watch….right? You also realize that EBayers kept coming over to our spectator stack in groups of 3-5 and attacking random people, right?

Who’s griefing again?

The Ehmry were stopping a handful of TC griefers from getting back to the duelling area. Your commander said he told you. You must not have been paying attention.

Nice GvG between GF and RE. Too bad Tarnished Coast has so many pugs who want to grief. Must come with being a large server though.

Looking to start a fight club behind south camp in Kaineng borderlands. Ebay has people who want to duel if anyone from Kaineng/Yaks are interested.

Zoel.9154:

For clarification, “King” Z The Bored is not myself, God emperor of Fort Aspenwood. Currently, there is the possibility of a civil war. (Naturally, I’m with myself.)

I thought Tarnished Coast was the role playing server?

Karmik.2641:

We have declared war… And now we punish you for your insolence. I CLAIM YOUR LAND IN THE NAME OF Z

http://i.imgur.com/guAjFK1.jpg

All it took was 80 people and 8 golems at 3 in the morning? Is FA accepting transfers? Cause that was impressive.

Kodiack.2783:

So now you guys admit that numbers matter. For 13 weeks it was all bout skill.

see my sig.

-K

There’s a difference between the numbers gap between Ebay and BP and the numbers gap between Ebay and FA. Both Ebay and BP are “high” server population servers, but we had more organized WvW guilds than you and (maybe?) had a slightly higher WvW population. The numbers gap wasn’t as big as you’d like to claim it was, and both of the servers were at least mostly NA.

FA on the other hand has multiple qued borderlands around the clock. They have no down time at all. BP loved to complain about Ehmry groups of 40, but you have no idea what a real zerg looks like. The entire population of FA will mass together in one spot on whatever BL they’re on. We’re talking groups of 80 people in one huge, (mostly) mindless, zerg. It doesn’t matter how many times you wipe them because there’s more people waiting in que to take their spot to continue the zerg.

I’m no exaggerating when I say I can’t recognize a single FA guild. Any time you see them, it’s just one homogeneous group of red.

And yet, I’m totally OK with this. I don’t think anyone on Ehmry has ANY desire to be able to compete with a T2 server. Running around as one mindless ball of people seems extremely boring. It’s extremely fun figuring out ways to beat them though. Rekz is feasting on loot bags, HAX has almost nobody to worry about when keeps flip because their mega-zergs assume somebody else is doing the sweeping, and everyone’s enjoying not curb-stomping servers for a change.

Man for man, we have no problem hanging with T2 though. Look at the picture I attached. We had every BL qued on reset and we were winning 2 hours into it. We owned every keep on Maguuma’s BL at one point (the borderland GH and FTF ended up on). Compare this to the blowouts that EB/BP/AR resets were.

TL;DR: EB/BP had similar populations but EB was better organized so we stomped you. FA has numbers on a whole different level that nobody short of a T1/T2 zerg server can compete with.

Karmik.2641:

On behalf of our merciful King Z the Bored, of APS. We shall initiate mass golem rushes of the REKZ homeland. This is a declaration of open war against REKZ and any allies you may find aiding you in defense of your homeland. This decree will hereby become active once thy weak selves fall asleep. We shall ravage your homeland and make you regret your open mockery of our server.

lol

Benjamin.6235:

I must say that I did not miss ebay’s constant attempts at second place. Haven’t run into a server that’s plays anywhere near as bad in that respect.

I must not be understanding what you’re trying to say. You don’t like it when servers play WvW? What?

Anyone above T5. Mag/CD/SBI/Yaks/SoS/Kaineng would all be great. Just no…more…BP and AR…please…no more.

Dovgan.8605:

Ehmry Bay, you guys are in an odd spot this week. Constant pressure on AR in both Eternal and ARBL and AR’s rating is going up. You guys still haven’t quite figured out the odd Glicko implementation ANet is using. AR won’t give you any points as long as it does as well as it was predicted to, but keep pressing down that road so we can be together forever. Sadly if you pressed harder on BP, it wouldn’t help you’re ranking any more(only shuffle ranking from BP to AR). Coolest part is, you guys are the ones that created this black hole for your server the last 2 weeks.(Should have kept the match close for a week or two then had a blow out match, would have allowed you ranking points off both servers.)

We did everything we could to escape T5. We had the points to move up just as the new randomized rating system was put in place, we got a bad dice roll, and here we are again.

As far as I can tell, the points and tiers barely matter anymore (I can’t imagine SBI is actually gaining 40 points for getting demolished in T3), so now we just have to hope that we don’t continue with out bad luck on the RNG. They did say that they would manually change the tiers to make sure that server matchups aren’t horribly lopsided, so hopefully they’ll do the same to make sure we don’t get paired up again. At least I hope they do. If we get the same matchup again this week, the rage on these forums will be biblical.

Reposted it cause Cake couldn’t figure out how to work thumbnails.

I know you didn’t care about losing Hills. That’s why I took it from you. And I also understand that your typical zergling doesn’t care about sweeping. That’s why what we do works, not because stealth is broken. Cake didn’t get a chance to record the first part where your 30+ man zerg ran right past me while I sat in a corner unstealthed for a minute and a half. I mean, do you even mark?

And I’m sorry it wasn’t surprising enough for you. Maybe next video I’ll pop out and say “Boo!”

How did this work?

Fight club’s still going on. BP BL south camp.