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“WvW updates will not introduce new skills. Will bring passive abilities aimed towards group play eg. Extra supply #foodwars”

:/ Hmmm

Ironvos.9014:

I really don’t see the point of these stat stack sigils in wvw.
The stack is removed when you get downed, which probably happens quite often.
A 5% damage sigil would be much more reliable.
Unless you are willing to kill 25 pve mobs everytime to charge up the sigils.
Or am i missing something here ?

When you add oil /stones and food with the various type of stacks, having a 10 stack and not even the 25max stack makes a significant difference. WvW is about using any gain, no matter how minor to your advantage save to exploits which i personally frown appoint.

kefro.9312:

Still waiting for a response anet …

Any news of ESO?

ESO release date is January 2014 with public beta starting some time in third quater of this year.

Arrow carts were already nerfed after Beta. Perhaps its time for Anet to re-look at seige damage and mechanics.

sostronk.8167:

JQ NA sounds like a completely different experience from JQ Oceanic lol.

lol yeah. I want to know whats it like but if i take medical leave this weak again for dropping from a ladder i think the company might get suspicious.

Also can we add ear piercings as well ?

Mohmohchan.4120:

I think most people are missing out of the awesomeness of what gw2 brings to us. Its not about pve. GW2 is about WvW.

Tier 1. Week 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ292qhmXuw
Tier 1. Week 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7H8S0MW7p0

SOR is being downgraded from Tier1 to tier 2. You may need to rename those vids soon.

Anet has repeatedly said they support zerg warfare in wvw over other forms.

Ele was good before the heal limit nerfs. now we are just combo and siege protection kittens.

I say the guard is still prob the best

zastari.1730:

I bet this poll will have no sampling bias

LOL. Exactly.

To be honest, during my stint as playing SnF + SnD ele for 3 months, the dragon tooth was so unreliable in wvw that i didnt even bother with it.

Hoots.9564:

Kreen.3925:

I was playing in JQ BL last night. Given the numbers you stated, we had quite a bit less than that. The bulk of the pugs you referred to were actually in community TS. In that respect there is very little difference between them and your single guild force apart from the the guild tag above their head. Maybe your single guild might be a bit more proficient with combo field tactics etc due to more practice but alot of those JQ small guilds know that stuff as well. They don’t need the same guild tag above their head to perform it. What you see is a mixed group of guild tags and assume its a bunch of “pugs”., however you want to define that term.

We had folks on scouting and defence and camp flipping/yak running and a mixed strike force running around harassing bay and hills to keep you tied down. We even flipped hills at one point with 10. All organised by TS and chat.

The force you faced on JQ BL was actually quite organised which is why they were doing ok against you despite their limited numbers and keeping you from making alot of progress but because you didn’t see a single guild blob then you assumed it was a bunch of randoms. Don’t worry, all other servers appear to make this mistake.

You are right though, the strategy we were following last night make sense for us. Your home borderland is always predominantly a defensive map.

I have kept away from these boards this match up until now as I could guess exactly what a certain small section of the SoR players would be saying given how T1 match ups play out over a few weeks. Pleased to see that they have not dissapointed me.

Enjoyed fighting Choo in the last 2 weeks. You run a solid show for sure.

I actually agree 100% with your statements about JQ pugs, in most cases I’d take them over any of the organized guilds on JQ. When we were on JQ the pugs were a force to be reckoned with, used to roll all the “big name” guilds regardless of tier or skill. Its unfortunate that you guys don’t take as big a role anymore, as all I hear about now is the best guilds you guys have, but JQ pugs at the start were not something you mess with. Mad props to JQ pugs <3 Actually you guys probably hate being called “Pugs” so I’ll call you Quarrians?

JQ’s community TS ftw

Envi.2460:

its not even morale for me, i played for weeks when blackgate just dominated us. the whole aspect of wvw is just boring. theres no… payoff, no reward, its not even fun for me, because i found fun in building things up and defending etc but theres really no point, was just a giant time sink. Wvw, just isnt fun for me, and judging by lots of posts all over these forums its getting the same way for a lot of people.

I call shotgun on your account when you quit

55 pts? oh well

Edit:Added pic

Kumu Honua.2751:

Anet doesn’t say anything….

We have had creepy silence for some time now.
Perhaps they are down with the Harlem shakes.

I cant phantom the reason for xp/karma buff for an outmanned situation. A simple flat 7% buff to all stats will suffice anyday over xp/karma

Winds.3087:

Are you joking? Greatsword features tons of damage that deals tons of damage while dealing tons of damage!
Find something with fat hp, knockback it to the wall, then beat the hell out of it with your fiery whirl. Warrior’s choice of the week!

5K every 5sec with 2k to 4k per swing. Add immobilize from utility and attunement swaps to water and its pretty darn op.

International.7980:

Cogadh.1845:

the vast majority of eles i come across are D/D. Sometimes see staff, hardly ever scepter focus. They need to make more builds interesting/viable, and yes, they need to address D/D. When nearly every player uses it, its a good sign it just might be too good.

Or everything else is just bad…seriously, daggers are only useful because they are the only ele weapon capable of doing serious damage without the opponent standing like a complete goof for 3 seconds. The only other options the ele has are conjures which take up skill slots (and only ice bow and greatsword are effective here).

I believe for that reason is why Anet are so careful with the DnD ele.

International.7980:

lightning hammer which gives me an aoe perma blind for 30 seconds and does dmg to boot.

Lightning Hammer vs Fiery Greatsword

What are your views?

I to see nothing wrong, considering we are Asuran and armour,weapon fitment was the last thing that Anet was actually thinking of.

Raven Paradox.1860:

I’m kind of getting sick of fighting JQ. They have queues 24/7. It’s annoying having the PPT lead by a large margin and the next time we log on we’re down 20k pts.

I play GMT +8 Asia , and i can almost guarantee the ques are , during that period , none to 5 minutes.

JQ has the highest percentage of veteran daoc,war,wow,uo mmporg players because VN(now ign owned with most of the pop running to postcount) and their forum members decided to choose JQ. With other top guilds , i.e. PRX joining JQ, the JQ world is a powerhouse of veterans.

Why not just play the CHar and write down their lines?

OP is right. Other games , even intensive dx11 crysis 2 runs smoothly vs gw2

Vizier.3164:

Hi there,

Since I am quite sick of getting 10~15fps in WvW and about 30fps in PVE, I am willing to change my current PC to Intel.

Let me start of on what I am looking to buy:

MB: ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-3770K
Ram: Corsair 16 GB DDR3-1600 Quad-Kit, Vengeance LP, XMP

And maybe: XFX HD7970 Double Dissipation GHz Ed. (FX-797G-TDFC)

And this is my current system:

MB: MSI 890FXA-GD65 890FX
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T 3300 AM3
GPU: XFX 2GB D5 X HD6950
Ram: Corsair D3 8GB 1333-999 XMS

Win7
PSU: XFX PRO650W Core Edition
Boot disk: Corsair SSD 64GB 130/215 Nova
Storage: Western Digital 1TB WD1002FAEX Black
Gaming: Corsair SSD 180GB 515/550 Force3 25nm SA3

Il be using the current psu and ssd/hdd’s in the new system.

The moral problem I am having is that my current system is only 1,5years old. And I want to make sure that my new setup will give me a decent performance boost in WvW to justify its cost.

I am pretty sure that changing cpu/mb will do just that, if I am wrong, please do tell me before i buy. :P

What i am having doubts about tho is the GPU. Currently it really doesn’t matter if i run with high or low gw2 settings, the fps is the same (bf3 runs good on max settings in current pc)
So my question is: Would my current GPU be powerful enough in the new pc to run gw2 max settings?

Also, if you see anything wrong, have tips on better parts in the same price range, please do tell.
I am asking this here since I am not really uptodate about the latest and greatest, and what works best for gw2, I think some/allot of you are, or at least more informed then me.
Never hurts to ask right? :-)

Wait for NVIDIA titan(aka 7XX series). You can thank me later.

i7 is a must. Extreme if $$ is there.

I have done everything. It still crashes anywhere from 1 hour of use to 5 hours. I get the blue screen or graphic driver(updated and tried old ones) crashes.

WTB update. Currently at work.

Tornado has been nerfed twice. To the extent that no reasonable sane ele would use it.

Elementals are a huge joke as well. Heal what? It is completly broken in WvW.

This leaves us with one real option, the almighty craptastic fiery greatsword.

If only every week i got $10 per post complaining about the ele being under or overpowered, i could retire today

What about a new Legendary Orange Pin crafted using these mats :-

3x Commander Pins
1,000,000 Karma
2000 Badges
200 Laurels
XXX amount of Guild influence

Basically, make it incredibly hard to get and base it on WvW

Ariel Cor Leonis Inferi.2894:

Anet said that they have a WvW team. Maybe we could ask them for a status update?

I found an old picture of one the WvW team members

Peetee.9406:

kuora.5402:

2 more days T-T

Some people know what I’m talking about -3-

Usually I drop flame ram blueprints on the corpses of vanquished foes, for you my beloved friend I will spare a catapult.

Why did i hear that in Count Drakula’s voice?

Caffynated.5713:

Arpheus.6918:

Their answer would be no. With rush they would have alot less survivability. Armor is worth like nothing. Escapes are worth alot more and RTL is the best escape in the game after stealth.
It also has nothing to do with speed. Ranger Swoop has exactly the same speed as RTL but still RTL goes for 1500 range while Swoop goes for 1100 range.
1500 is ridiculous really and an escape win button.

291 armor is almost 14% damage mitigation. That’t a lot better than “like nothing.”

Aye

teg.1340:

I’ve tested yesterday:

Warriors Rush needs 2.3 seconds to finish whereas Eles RTL needs just 2.0 seconds. And yep, its true that RTLs traveling distance is much larger + has a shorter cooldown.

So at the end RTL in each way is far superior to Rush.

You do realise using War Rush to justify a change in Ele RtL is not very useful.

Ask any ele, “would they swap light for heavy armour and in return give up RtL for Rush”?

Their answer would be yes.

WvWvW welcomes you with open arms

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muekung.2518:

Fuzzion.2504:

Seren.6850:

spike fruit and gear tossers make my quaggan backpack sad

is the [FIRE] is sos the same guild as the [FIRE] in JQ ?

Also what happened to the guild [Thai] ? Didnt see that many during my asian timezone

It’s different [FIRE]
[Thai] is BG’s southeast asia guild

Interesting. I wonder if there is an emp in sos or sor

Thai were a pain cause they hammered us during the Asia based timezone.

Also expect more asia coverage with chinese new year reaching its end of celebrations.

Dingle.2743:

As a possibility – for the Elementalist, have them work like the Engineer’s kits (infinite carry time/uses), but keep the additional summoned weapon limited – this would need to act like a chain skill. First use activates the “summon a weapon from the sky” version of the skill, then it reverts to a simple kit swap for [cooldown time] seconds.

At the very least, make the autoattacks not use charges. We’re stuck between “do nothing while waiting on skill cooldowns” and “do something very weak while waiting on skill cooldowns, but also reduce the amount of times you can use them”.

I use the fiery sword for 3 major tactics
—> to clear camps,
—>when faced with another DnD ele
—>and on keep doors.

It may be a bit OP if we followed the autoattack suggestion. Although it would be nice to have a bar indicating its ‘use left’ factor.

ItsFumbles.4319:

Okay, thanks for the help.

Np. Welcome to the class known as the elementalist; Easy to learn, Harder to master and deadly when mastered.

Staff needs more lovin. Thats for sure, esp when DnD ele can eat a staff ele for breakfast. Hell, even an engie could kill a staff ele with little effort

It is clear Anet wanted to create support based ele. Now if they were serious they should give them might stack casts as well.

ItsFumbles.4319:

does it matter which element i choose at the beginning of making my elementalist? will it make that certain element stronger than the others and i have to use that one always in order to do high damage? or is there a way to make them all equal? if not, then what element is the best?

No. Makes no difference.

Seren.6850:

spike fruit and gear tossers make my quaggan backpack sad

is the [FIRE] is sos the same guild as the [FIRE] in JQ ?

Also what happened to the guild [Thai] ? Didnt see that many during my asian timezone

Coldviper.6794:

How about some props to the opponent in this 3 way? Give some of your enemies some credit? Who has been some of your top opponents that gave you some of those crazy fun fights?!

1. Best open field fights – Votf good fights, impressive how well you stick together.

2. Toughest defenders – EMP, just wish you guys would stick around longer after we finally penetrate the defense.

4. Most unique strategies – I’m blank here honestly, everyone seems to do the same thing in T1. Maybe votf again just because they seem to do it the best.

5. Biggest zerg – Either EMP or Tsym it seems… sooooo many.

Anyone else?

Number 3 was missing so let me help

3. Most Awesome Ele – Fuzzion

:)

Interesting idea regarding attunement matching relevant conjured weapons

Razor.6392:

Fuzzion.2504:

Razor.6392:

Ele NEEDS RtL to survive.

Glass ele needs rtl. We have 10-11k base hp for crying out loud.

First, you dont have to go pure bunker or pure glass.Go Hybrid like me

I have ~20k hp with 37%crit and 47%crit damage after food,sigil boost and oil.

Regarding RTL, it was already nerfed. RTL to escape and RTL to catch are very important. I highly doubt they will touch RTL to be honest.

that doesn’t apply to spvp tho.

Ah, yes. I assumed wvwvw since no one i know plays pvp much these days.

NevirSayDie.6235:

I see way more engineers in PvP than I did a couple months ago. .

Op was referring to engies in WvWvW

And I agree with the OP, engies are rarer than seeing a player with an LGM.

Razor.6392:

Ele NEEDS RtL to survive.

Glass ele needs rtl. We have 10-11k base hp for crying out loud.

First, you dont have to go pure bunker or pure glass.Go Hybrid like me

I have ~20k hp with 37%crit and 47%crit damage after food,sigil boost and oil.

Regarding RTL, it was already nerfed. RTL to escape and RTL to catch are very important. I highly doubt they will touch RTL to be honest.

Dear Viperwire, We here at the-onion division of Anet wish to answer your questions

Culling

—>Working on it. May require another another 6 months to recode

WvW reward

—> Server pride including tier ranking pride
—> Drop rates increased
—> Daily events
—> Badges
—> Gold

Badges of honor reward

—> Gear including PVT light gear
—> Buy Siege
—> Sorry we gave you laurels for ascended gear. No BOH here
—> Adding new features including upgrades

Dynamic event credit reward

—> You currently get Karma
—> You currently get Gold
—> Possible addition of tittle system in the future

Dolyak guard npcs not efficient/effective

—> Dolyak guards are as per designed; Dumb, stupid and low ranking guardsmen
—> We are thinking of adding rocket missiles to Dolyaks. Pew Pew

Siege blueprints being soulbound but still able to transfer between characters (seems like 2 people in the same department disagreed on this solution which is why we can trade the blueprints by dropping them but yet they are “soulbound”)

—> Sorry this is a bug and we will fix this soon

Bigger or new map(s)

—> You pay zero subscriptions so please do not complain.
—> Dx11.1 based graphics including a brand new Map is in the pipeline

Rework npcs such as Grub/Champion Tree/Mosquito event/Quaggan/Temple

—> Working as intended

The water in the Borderlands that every single person hates

—> How dare you tell us to remove a feature we spent half our time on?!

Is the “glitch” where the waypoint is available for 1-3 seconds after Repel Enemies event going to be “resolved” with this patch or is that still a method we can use to reinforce falling Keeps

—> Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We will be making changes and will keep you posted soon!

Is Outmanned buff going to receive an update? We all know how pointless that buff is and HAVE known since release of this game 5months+ ago

—> We Want to discourage WvW, and instead recomend you try s/tPvP so that we can become the e-sports of the decade.

Will Orbs come back? If not what are we doing to replace them? WvW has become even more stale since the removal

—> We will introduce orbs again after further testing of current geometrical updates of maps

ADD THE OPTION IN REPORT FOR HACKING/EXPLOITING PLEASE

—> This feature already exist.

Resolve current queue issues that have recently been reported but have not been addressed recently

—> one of our employees missed out a zero on the population cap of total players.
—> We will give a public explanation soon.

Current WvW titles are far out of the limit of many if not everyone who plays GW2, all kittentalk aside nobody can rack up one of those titles in 6 months – 1 year unless 24/7 focused on that single title

—> We are reworking tittles. We will keep you posted !

Guild claiming currently has no purpose unless to activate guild buffs when under attack, why can we not see who claimed the location and or have additional options upon claiming a Keep/Tower/Camp

—> We are working on this.

Additional rewarded loot for killing enemy commanders (and/or higher loot table)

—>To obtain additional reward, stand on said kill and type laugh to receive an extra 100 Badges

Invulnerable zones/anti camping zones that reach into supply camps in the Borderlands (These are not a big issue by any means, but lots of people are ….. and believe this is hacking/exploiting and I’m sure that’s racking up the bug reports/paperwork, would be efficient to remove so that frees up time for whomever has to read all those support tickets)

—> We consider that exploiting. Please report so that we may investigate.

Address siege locations that “cannot be countered”, remove or maybe even add more

—> This is a bug. Please report it so that we can fix it soon!

More high ground/cliffs everywhere, Borderlands and Eternal

—> Sorry, but this is not called Parachute wars. Our hills are already quite high.

Incentives for WvW both for guilds and for players (The virtual score that may or may not get reset has no bearing on if my guild is in WvW, rather if we feel like doing pvp together we go into WvW, which is always . But we are not an entire server and at many times servers lose even when there is enough active population, but not enough actually in WvW due to score and/or seeing a map 100% another color or the fact that there have been literally no incentives to WvW (other than PvE world bonus maybe? I personally don’t believe anyone has seriously considered those that valuable enough for PvE players to get into WvW.

—> That was one motherload of a question. Could you break them up ?

Thanks,
The-onion division at Anet

14.6239782016 kph

I call shotgun on the OP’s gear and gold

Im just curious. Perhaps Anet could give us an official count?

IMO it seems that there are more WvWvW players than there are s/tPvP players.