Guild Wars 2

I beg to differ on the “It’s ok to AFK” arguement, try that in any other competetive arena such as league of legends for example and you’re likely to get your account suspended and maybe even banned, it goes double for greifing/assisting enemy team. Would be nice to see a stronger report system for these competetive games in Gw2, especially tPvP where i encounter one AFK guy every 4 games and costs me the game, why should he not be punished for queueing and leaving before it starts. If you know you don’t have the time then don’t do it.

I count the dodges and then go in but recognising these combos is extremely difficult, as soon as i see them pull out pistol dagger or dagger pistol it’s pretty much game over if as i get tormented and perma kitted with poison being applied over and over by attacks that dart in and out so fast i can’t do crap.

They are completely nad utterly sucking the fun out of this game for me, there is nothing even remotely fun about playing Vs them, if i do beat one it’s a hollow victory because they are most likely extremly aweful or new to the class.

Over and over and over I’m being beating by thieves no matter what my approach is, when I block, when I dodge after they stealth etc. I’d love to apply stun from bull rush or shield bash but they seem to break it immediately, regen most of thier HP back while i’m stuck with poison and torment which shake it off preffers not to clear over other conditions i can live which in turn makes my dolyak signet and other heals useless while getting bummed to death by ranged and bleed etc etc etc.

It’s driving me god kitten nuts and the only way I can counter them is by hoping I’m within range of a tower or keep I can run to or just waypoint/run before the fight even starts.

I can beat most classes 50% of the time but thieves ALWAYS kill me no matter what in the hell I do. I am aware of the counter moves you should such as counting for 3/4 seconds after they stealth and using shield stance/endure pain but they just wait until it’s gone and then face roll me.

please someone for the love of god help me with this, it’s making me want to quit the game. I just don’t understand the thinking behind the classes design when it seems it’s sole purpose is to completely suck the fun out of the game in every way concievable.

L2P and get better comments are not welcome.

Personally don’t see any toxicity in what either of you said (yes we have to see it from his viewpoint to). This here is the biggest problem in gaming today, it’s not the toxicity, it’s not the flame wars etc etc.

It is in fact a whole generation of gamers being so overly sensitive that if you look at them the wrong way they immediately report you, god forbid you critise them OH MY GOD be ready for a wave of flame (which i personally enjoy coz i love a good arguement) coming your way. Seriously what in the heck happened to everyone’s balls in the past 5 years, they drop off and roll acros the floor to be eaten by overly feminine little dog.

If you or anyone else in this game is that sensitive go play League of Legends for a weekend, that’ll toughen you up.

Nice guide and much appreciated, can you expand on the condition clearing be it through abilities or blasting etc.

I’m not a great player and L2P comments are not welcome.

I have a big problem with full evade thieves and condi burst thieves.

Any help would be appreciated, please dumb your answers down as I’m not that great at the game.

I tend to run Greatsword/Hammer with leg specialist or Greatsword/Rifle.

Apart from a few minor spelling mistakes this is an awesome guide. I hope to see a guide for us new commanders soon.

If i ever kill you in a small scale fight and i have the chance, i will always bow. It’s how i like to say GG WP. even if you suck it’s just good manners.

That and the numerous other faults with clones, illusionary leap being the biggest problem.

All i get is constant packet loss.

Bump….Would appreciate a response on this.

Yup i’m getting massive packet loss as soon as the data enters the Plaync network and they have the balls to blame my internet, I run tracerts and pingplotters to numerous places and all come back fine except for the guild wars 2 eu server.

Sick of being told it’s not their fault when it clearly is as all the data disappears within their network.

Here is a link to my previous post which has ignored.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Skill-lag-and-stutter/first#post4071753

Experiencing skill lag and stutter in PvE, sPvP and WvW.

Delay in Whirlwind activating
Whirl wind will not travel full distance
Whirlwind stutters (stops/starts mid travel)

This problem occurs across all similar skills on various classes, haven’t been able to play/enjoy the game for just over a week. Contacted my ISP (Virginmedia) who ran several tests and said everything was fine within their coverage.

120mb down/12mb up
i5-3570k
8Gb
GTX 770
Windows 8.1

Windows and all drivers are up to date.

The problem occurs AFTER it’s left my ISP’s coverage and enters tinet.net and then completely dies once it’s in the plaync.com area.

Here’s a few more tracert

Yeah this kind of sucks, I was hoping it would be the old crown pavilion, to be honest I am ok with a loot drop nerf because the drops were insane last time but zero XP means it’s back to Edge of the Mists to level up a character and no reason to even look at crown pavilion again, seen some of the drops and quite frankly they are of no use and too few, plus the meta rewards most of us already have from last time around.

Definitely considering transferring to Desolation when the spring tournament is up. Hope the transfer cost doesn’t go up after that.

I’d like to transfer to Deso from my current server because my server insists on purposely throwing match ups to stay in low silver (I’ve heard them say this) and if we get stomped on the first day no one shows up for the rest of the week, plus our commanders seem more interested in camp/tower flipping for karma than actually holding/securing/upgrading objectives except for one or two who do an amazing job leading the randoms, and I give those 3 guys the utmost respect/kudos/props and internet hugs, they genuinely do a fantastic job but a lot are simply ruining what WvW should be. It’s becoming more apparent that WvW on my server is treated more like PvE.

I’d like to know if Deso is more WvW than it is PvE because I plan on staying with my guild but transferring servers and guesting for guild missions, hide and seek events and other silliness my current guild offers on my home server.

A constant reminder that if you are not in GvG you are looked down upon.

A constant reminder my server has no pride or wish to progress in rankings.

A constant reminder my server gives up day one when we don’t get an easy match up.

A constant reminder that my server will actively throw a match up to avoid a better rankings which causes longer queue times, because god forbid we encourage more people to play and fun instead and wait a few minutes in a queue.

A constant reminder that transferring servers is most likely beneficial to my gaming experience.

Great builds as always Osicat.

I really need some help playing Mesmer, I replicate the build and combo’s Vs X class and my damage doesn’t even seem to get them below 80% if I’m lucky, even Vs zerker builds and it’s really god kitten frustrating.

It’s like I apply zero damage and my clones never seem t connect with the target, like they are way to slow.

Elementalists burst me down in less than 3 seconds.
Thief’s I can’t damage for some reason and they out DPS me.
Warrior’s are 50/50.
Ranger’s just run.
Engineers I don’t have a problem with so they usually run.
Guardians are too tanky.
Necro’s I can cook most of the time.
Mesmer’s 50/50 and usually ends in a kill or mutual retreat.

Would be great if a high level Mesmer from AG could help because this is getting beyond a god kitten joke and it’s depressing to say the least. I’m not going back to PvE because it’s boring.

I’d love to post this in my own thread but as per usual I’m not allowed to make posts…………

Is there a PvE version of this build so i can get familiar with it outside of WvW which gets a bit hectic.

This, this and this

This could be funny watch, post a youtube of it when it becomes live.

P.S do it to a thief first please, it’s okay they aren’t real people.

Far Shiverpeaks are starting to get long queues due to a few guilds from AG joining them, not a Far Shiverpeaks man myself but I wish them best and hope their queues are always active (no more than 10 minutes).

Skill lag but no rubber banding, i do see one or two ther people rubber band in a group.

I’m on EU Aurora Glade.

Me and several friends experience this skill lag at more or less the time, some are in a party others are not.

Can’t say if one party is the only one experiencing this.

It happens usually at peak times.

Can happen in a zerg or when roaming in a small group.

We bugged it, just killed the wolves on the bridge and dragged him on to it and fanned out, he does’nt move past the mid point of the bridge.

Yup party just wiped for the 7th time in a row because of that troll.

Cheers Anet and thanks for patching it……….

Just so you guys know Aurora Glade has just lost 8+ WvW guilds. That equates to roughly 50-75 active WvW players per guild, so for arguments sake we lost about 400 active WvW players. Our numbers have taken such a hit that we stand no chance of bouncing back from this for some time, i fear that because we took such a hit that this will put even more people off for the new season and we may not even recover. Unfortunately we are in that bracket where a slow and lumbering ranking system is only going to kill our WvW. that being said our PvE is very strong and we ned the guilds to come up with guild missions in WvW. for example the person with the most zerg kills gets 10g, 2nd gets 5g and 3rd get 2g. I’m sure there are more ways to get PvE players into WvW but the guild leaders need to look at Aurora Glade as whole and not just PvE or WvW only.

TUP
NR
DAWN
VcY
SW
IcU
DOA
DOOM

I am from Aurora Glade EU (Stop laughing) and was wondering why we are being matched against a giant like Vizunah Square [FR], is this a glitch in the system or an intentional if rather cruel joke on the part of Anet. Could someone explain to me why this one sided match up occurred?.

Aurora Glade = 13th – 42,000 points @ time of posting
Far Shiverpeaks = 12th – 55,000 points @ time of posting
Vizunah Square [FR] = 3rd – 121,000 points @ time of posting

Quote from Wiki

“Worlds in WvW are matched up based on their ranking using a modified Glicko rating,⁴ so that high-ranked worlds will battle other high-ranked worlds, and low-ranked worlds will battle other low-ranked worlds. This attempts to ensure that every world has a fair chance of winning matches despite differing levels of player participation or skill.”

At medium to higher levels you may have a point but I am no where near these levels the mechanics will work completely differently as a result.

Necro’s do get multiple HP bars when they turn into that god Death Shroud and just steal tonnes of HP back.

And yes i do expect to get better in WvW through sPvP, not in the grand scheme of positioning a huge zerg, prioritizing objectives but the actual trade craft of fighting, if you can’t beat someone 1v1 and understand your class how can you expect to beat multiple enemies as part of a large group.

How is a low level/new to PvP solo queue team comprised ehem “randomly” of warriors, gaurdians and mesmers supposed to beat a 3 stack of necro’s and two thieves when all our boons are turned on us in a split second, they dump wells on the cap point and we are killed before we can even see them them/not be feared. It’s not solo necro’s I have a problem with or even thieves (Even though thieves aren’t real people), My problem is the complete imbalance of classes when teams are formed, my worst experience was a full 5 stack of necro’s who quite frankly were just as bad as us but we had zero chance of winning even when they are weak to CC, you CC them they just get back on the point or drive you off with wells, not forgetting the three effective HP bars they have.

This Isn’t a rage thread but a frustrated cry for help, I want to get good at PvP so I can play more WvW without being told by elitists guilds that we aren’t welcome and should join the pug zerg that unfortunately on my server doesn’t exist coz the guilds are leaving for sad and pathetic reasons such as account hacks accusations, racism and us not being a 100% WvW server so they all jump ship to better ranked server hoping for easy wins on the backs of hard working guilds.

Sup guys I was wondering if you guys have some “noob” friendly warrior builds for WvWvW including specific traits, weapons, armour, gear, sigils and runes.

I’m looking for mostly off tank builds or full tank builds that are hammer, greatsword and axe/warhorn based. I’ve been advised to just go full soldier on pretty much everything and run with groups of 15 or more and just go balls deep with zero cares and then work on the finer points at a later date.

I’m mostly interested in what runes and sigils I should use and why.

On a level 24 Engineer and I’m tagging 90% of the mobs with my flame thrower but receiving ZERO XP. Seriously what on earth is going on and what am I missing.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Because I can foresee this becoming a way for the LFG system to get ruined, “Must post DPS meter screen shot”. Zerkers only will love this.

Rangers are handy when fitted properly, only thing that annoys me is the inevitable troll knock back as I start 100 blades but that is 2 rangers in particular and you know who you are…..

Commanders are to Guild Wars 2 players as laser pens are to cats.

Only time I want to see a commander is in WvW not PvE because more often than not they are an idiot and attract too many people to their location ensuring all other events in the area fail due to lack of participants.

I play on EU, been playing a bit more mesmer and I’m having a blast in PvE but like I said, I want to get into PvP whether it be sPvP which is probably the sensible option to start with and then roaming solo or in party in WvW but zerging/blue dot chasing doesn’t appeal to me.

Would like several contrasting build suggestions with good guides and explanations in lamen terms, I’m not up on all the terminology in mmo’s so an idiots guide would be great.

I hear a lot about this PU build and i love the look of Osicat’s stuff.

I’m guessing he kicks people out of his party under 8k AP a lot and can’t advertise the party fast enough to repeat it again.

Increase the number of living world events at any one time, spread them out and reduce the size of them. there you now have a lot more people spread out doing different things all day and investigating new areas outside of bloody Queensdale. Also increase the number of Scarlet invasions in the lower level areas, seriously champ farming is the worst thing you can let the new guys do when starting.

90% of people will probably not even notice and the other 10% will most likely only see that difference in PvP.

So I find it kind of annoying to have to remember 3/4 trait set ups and manually switch all my armour and gear.

Traits.
I suggest we are given 3/4 saved trait pages that can only be changed at a trainer to avoid out in the field switching in WvWvW for example for 60-75% of the cost of a full retrait as it now or X number of free page switches per day until some kind of cost is incurred.

Gear. Same concept but can be switched on the fly, max number of gear pages would be 2 and can only be swapped when out of combat for 60-120 seconds to avoid abuse in WvWvW.

If any of you have played League of Legends then this will sound familiar, I got the idea from the mastery pages in your profile page. I thought of this because I find myself switching between two or three builds on my characters depending on on what’s going on and more often than not I forget what the hell I put in the trait section, the gear pages would be more convenient than required but the trait pages in my honest opinion would greatly enhance the game with minor tweaks here there to ensure balance through out PvE and PvP.

Maybe even put extra trait pages beyond your second page for 150 gems in the store for example.

Tell em what you think of the idea and if this is the wrong section for this then by all means move it to the correct section mods.

!!SCRALET DID IT!!

But yeah I got hit with this 3 times in a row, given up on dungeons for the day, will wait until tomorrow to get my pistol instead.

I plan on going into sPvP/WvW at some point but would like to use PvE as a kind of training ground to get used to how the mesmer feels.

So I’m about to do a condition build for a mesmer and i’m wondering why precision and condition damage are always together on armor.

1- How does precision affect condition damage?.
2- What would be best for armor, Carrion, Knight’s, Rampager or a mix. say 2 of each one for example.

Anything else i should know that would shed light on condition based mesmers.

Hi guys new Mesmer noob here, I leveled a Mesmer to 80 by doing crafting as I thought I might as well kill two birds with one stone and get most of my crafting up to 400.

I suck at PvP so I focus on PvE, I main a Warrior and as strong as they are at smashing through everything while taking a colossal beating I feel myself getting a bit bored so I did a Mesmer.

I’m currently running a full zerker lazy Kai build with the exception of the runes which i swapped out for ruby orbs and it’s running great and forcing me to learn how to dodge, avoid and manage illusions.

I would like to learn how to build my Mesmer for condition and phantasm use, some squishy with tones of damage with the use of nimble fingers and an unkillable build that makes me think hard about what to use next in a long fight and why.

The Mesmer is very daunting for someone like me who has always been a brute force kind of gamer so any help on how to learn finesse and patience with a Mesmer will be greatly appreciated.

As much as I hate people who wish a terminal illness befall their least favorite person I too am inclined to hope the kitten Trolling get some form of terminal illness related to their genitals, preferably slow and very painful running over the course of several years.

I’ll have to retry this under water then. I’m only one away from completing the hints i hope unkless it’s gone even more wonkey.

Not sure what the score is with trial accounts or how they work buti just recieved a mail from a gold seller with a pretty obscure and obviously randomly generated name.

My questions

Can trial accounts send mail
Can trial accounts whisper

If yes to either i suggest both be disabled for trial accounts as i can foresee a huge gold selling spam fest coming.

Since the culling thing came in about the same time this clockwork chaos event started the game has been in a terrible state.

Map load times increased
Maps don’t fully load
Performance decreased
NPC names will not turn off even if the option is turned off/toggled
Constant crashing on visual option change
Extreme input lag within Zergs when before there was none

I hope you guys can roll it back to or get into a similar working state as before the clockwork chaos event started, the games feels like a low budget mmo still in beta. Love this game but it is getting hard to play now.

I’m also looking for sPvP guides rather than WvW as i need to nail my small group gameplay down before moving onto the bigger stuff.

Those guides are somewhat advanced Osicat, kitten good but would probably make my brain ooze out of my ears.

Keep the vids/guides coming for us PvP noobs.

Thanks guys.

Thanks a lot I appreciate the response. As this my first MMO where I hit 80 and actually plucked up the courage to try PvP I found it extremely daunting. frustrating and very off putting because of the lack of any kind of league system that matched me with similarly skilled players, the learning curve is so steep I find myself running into a wall most of the time. Now I have found myself walking out of a few PvP instances with a look of complete and utter disgust because of the people who play it being considerably better/experienced than me.

I am hoping to find a guide that talks about basic combo’s, what to do in certain situations, how to recognise enemy spell charging, how to better approach an enemy and the mentality you need. Would also like to see some analysis/commentary of PvP as well.