Guild Wars 2

I’ve been WvWing on my Ele as of late, and two days ago, I decided to get back to the ol’ Guardian. Guardian was always my main, just not in WvW.

It took a bit of work to get the rust off, but I move perfectly fine. I go in with GS and Sword/offhand. If I need to escape, all I do is target a distant mob with JI and flashing blade, and use the GS leap as necessary.

The point that there is not always a mob available has been made several times, but it is a moot point. A point made moot by a little planning ahead. During my engagement with whoever I now need to flee from, I position myself so that there is a mob at about 3k range, in the preferred direction of retreat. Just in case. It hasn’t failed me yet. The instant 1800 range from teleports followed by a GS and Swiftness leaves both Eles and Thieves behind.

By the time by pursuers catch up to me, which they likely will in any prolonged chase, I’ll be where I want to be. Ready to collect my kills.

I’d also like to make a note that there is almost always a mob available, mostly little critters like hawks and rabbits. With a keen eye, you can teleport pretty much in any direction you desire. I use these lil guys to not only stay up with my zerg, but to skip ahead of whoever I may be pursuing. Much more effective than teleporting to them, just to be an inch out of melee, swinging desperately at air, waiting for the next cooldown to finish.

This is not a ideal situation to be honest, but it is sufficient. The Guardian makes up for it and then some in other areas.

And as an extra note, edited in, and as others have said, watching the tide of battle is crucial. If one ends up in the middle of the enemy zerg, then that is there own fault. If the battle isn’t looking well, don’t full on retreat, but position yourself defensively, rather than offensively. When the retreating snowball effect begins, don’t allow the enemy’s forward rush to swarm you.

This boss is easy enough. In my guild, a few of us actually run down there and fight it. I die maybe 1 out of 10 attempts.

I enjoy the overall complexity and challenge running down there involves. Have to pay attention to several things at once, and dying is such an easy thing to do.

If a few people can’t handle it, then Explorable is actually living up to the rep it had pre-launch. I hope to see more bosses able to make people whine like this. From the description that Explorable has, it isn’t suppose to be so farmable and easy to beat.

So I ask Anet, make more encounters like this. I want a challenge, and I don’t mean just adding more health and attack to monsters.

Just finished Path 1 as well. Defeated the boss and nothing happened afterwards. No tokens. No money. No Exp.

We ran the path exactly as we usually do it everyday.

I never said fantasy ONLY fan, just fantasy fan. Being a fan of fantasy does not exclude one from being a fan of Sci-fi.

My point is that Planetside cannot replace WvW. They are too different. Anyone who likes WvW, or wants to like it, will come back to see if their expectations have been fulfilled. Especially without a sub as a barrier.

I switch out my Ascended ring for my Exotic ring while in WvW. I run with a few hardcore WvWers, though not one myself, and they have absolutely zero interest in Fractals, or the Ascended ring/backbrace.

At the moment, it is not a problem. Anet will be putting Ascended thoughout the whole game soon enough.

And your vertical progression point is just there to get people excited. Anet has very blatantly said that there will be no more tiers added. Ascended is there to fill the gap between Exotics and Legendary, and was intended before launch.

DaYeL.1495:

1) You call that kitten an update? Lulz we have differents view about upfate bro

2) Is not true Planeside is behind the turn, and a lot of guilds had already moved up. You can see it in the queue times in the most populated server in WvW.

Anet must be fast if they dont want remain only with PvE population so this game can become an official WvW Clone #054.

1) I’m thinking you missed the point of my holiday point.

2) And yeah, fans of fantasy RvR are just raring to play Planetside.

I give a B+ on the pic. I enjoyed it.

I also enjoy the use of bullets in the 2nd and 3rd posts.

And as an on-topic note, I have never really noticed kill shot in game, though I do see that much damage as being a problem.

I spent maybe a week playing WvW hardcore sometime in October. Due to some lag that I just can’t shake off, I only dive in occasionally now. I’m at almost 600 badges.

If I had played hardcore since launch, I’m sure I’d have at least 5k badges by now, if not much more. A day is WvW tends to yield be about 30-50 badges, depending on luck.

This thread was hard to read, yet I always come back to this forum.

The patch notes tell nothing, except that WvW came with far less bugs than any other part of the game. All of September was bug fixing. October was bug fixing and Holloween. November was a large content patch. December will once again be a holiday.

I fail to see how WvW is getting left out. It is simply the timing of things. WvW had Holloween decorations, which is about all you can do for it on a holiday.

They will be doing things for WvW next Quarter. Until then, nothing will change. Any fan of RvR can’t leave for good, since WvW is the only game they can play. As soon as an update happens, they’ll be back to try it out.

And everyone should go ahead and accept the fact that WvW will never receive as many as updates as PvE. It isn’t because Anet doesn’t care about it, which is ignorance talking. It is simply because WvW has very very little room upon which to expand. Anet can take PvE in a million different directions, but WvW will always be WvW.

The issue is with LA it seems. All my characters not in LA can log in just fine, those in LA, cannot. As a test, I took my Ele, who was not in LA and playable, to LA and now he is unplayable.

And to those of you hating on the game because of bugs, perhaps MMOs is not the right genre for you. Try an FPS, or checkers.

There is no ETA that I know of, but they have said that they are working on it. The community has made it plenty clear that this is a big problem. I personally expect a fix soon-ish.

Mist form causes an Ele to lose whatever they are holding.

As for swamp, it is amazingly fun. I enjoy it thoroughly. The spawning walls can ruin many runs, but there are many places where you can actually jump over the walls.

Yah. This is on of the more enjoyable fights imo.

If I leap in place, it works about 7 out of 10 times for me. If I back up and actually leap, then it never fails to combo.

Yeah, SF won’t be doing much this Weekend, and because of the new dungeon, there will be fewer players than normal for the rest of the week. Perhaps toward the later half of the week, we’ll put up fights, but for the time being, I’m hanging out in the new content. WvW will be there Monday.

Eles suck in dungeons? That’s news to me. I’ll go back to running point in my group and absorbing half the damage.

mak.9027:

Gisei.5749:

Because according to popular opinion, investing two seconds of one’s time in opening your bags is an unacceptable hassle that should be removed as soon as possible.

Please, accept the fact people may have a different opinion than you, and that both opinions have the same weight. Nobody is asking to prioritize this fix, just that it would make lot of sense and what we have makes no sense at all.

There are various issues due to missing out-of-combar swap:
- is annoying, as any other bad UI
- forces you to keep weapons at specified locations in safe bags (hard to figure for newcomers)
- is unsafe, risk to sell your own weapons
- steals space in the inventory

Stopping here cause this is going OT.

Please, gather more info before jumping to conclusions. It’s unsightly.

Perhaps if you read my posts, you would understand that I actually support the addition of out of combat weapon swap.

And no, not all opinions have the same weight.

In almost every game, people tend to go for what ever can kill another fastest, regardless of own survivability. It’s instant gratification. You cannot blame GW2 for what the masses prefer to do.

And balancing classes is something that happens over time. It’s not something that can be done overnight. Never underestimate the playerbase’s ability to break things. If it is breakable, it’ll be broke. If it isn’t, it’ll still be broke. As time passes, the classes will become more balanced. In the meantime, there will be highs and lows for each class. Either re-roll for the moment or wait it out.

Not just balance between profession, but balance within professions.

@Parthis

Thanks for clearing that up, though you could afford to be less derogatory in your posts, intentional or not.

@Parthis

Then why does the players in my guild with higher end computers experience the problem -significantly- less than those who are using sub-par computers? We’re all on vent when we run WvW, so there is no mis-communication. I’m talking to them as the report only seeing 5-10 people where I can see 40+, and we’ve discussed our rigs.

And as another example, I was running the game on a laptop in early september, and the culling issue was a common problem of mine. It occurred whenever 30 or so people gathered together. It even happened in Orr. The game’s performance on my laptop was about 30fps on the lowest settings, in regular PvE. After I built my new rig, the culling issue has disappeared almost entirely, except in the largest of battles. I now run the game at 50+ fps with everything but shadows maxed.

So are you saying that all of this is insane coincidence? Or is there a correlation between good rigs and liars? The problem does not exist for -everyone-, just the vast majority. I’m not saying it is entirely a personal computer problem, but it does mitigate the problem.

It is pretty annoying to have just started something and can’t finish. And Mif, you need more cookies.

I do think holding the northern portion of Eternal is slightly disadvantageous though. From what I can see, Anz and Spel is always getting hit, and so is Pang, but from the few times I’m been to the south central area, there’s just not as much action.

It’s either because I’m not paying enough attention, or the scenery sucks.

Gelltor.3015:

I’ve stopped using lower health pets in wvw as people kept rallying off them ><

I’ve never rallied off a ranger’s pets, nor has anyone rallied from mine. That I’ve noticed.

Acension.9270:

Gisei.5749:

If they add in-combat weapon swapping, that would double the number of skills we can use, which is idiotic in every sense. I wouldn’t mind out of combat switches, but other classes would also need access to a similar feature for a 3rd or 4th weapon set.

And Elites, I pray for an elite I can use. As it is now, I don’t actually ever use my elites, ever, at all, not even occasionally.

we already have out of combat weapon swapping, we just go into our bag and change our weapon lol. So why would they need to add out of combat weapon swapping?

Because according to popular opinion, investing two seconds of one’s time in opening your bags is an unacceptable hassle that should be removed as soon as possible.

TWMagimay.9057:

Gisei.5749:

This essentially means L2P, as in, L2P Elementalist. I actually find that your post supports Calle, rather than the opposite. Though you believe each person has a specific playstyle and can’t surpass good outside of it, I, on the other hand, believe that players can adapt to any class, if they take the time to understand it.

Adapting to smth and being natural are 2 different things. If you don’t have a talent to draw, working hard might improve your skill enough for you to be able to study architecture. But you’ll never be an artist. Unlike that guy(and we all know one) who can just take a pencil and draw a masterpiece in 5 mins without even thinking about it. I can put as much effort and time as I want in a dps class, but I will always be a better healer. Because that’s what I’m good at.And if you put the effort into smth you already have a talent for, you’ll become exceptional at it. If you focus your effort on smth you suck at to begin with, you’ll be decent at best.

Fair enough, but unlike Art, which is boundless, a Video Game has boundaries. Learning these, combined with practice, can allow anyone to excel at any profession in any area of the game. Art, on the other hand, will always leave room to expand, giving someone with talent a head start that someone without talent may never catch up to. Assuming they both work equally hard at it, the one without talent can reach the level that the one with was at, but the one with talent will have long left that level. In more time, he could again reach the level of the one with talent, but the one with talent has once again gone farther.

I don’t believe that one can be naturally superior at one profession than another. He may go into one with a mindset that is more applicable within that profession’s utilities, giving what could appear as natural talent, but learning another profession’s strengths and adjusting one’s mindset to compliment it, will allow success at another. He could potentially reach the skill cap for multiple professions.

Perhaps I’m just being biased though, personally being able to pick any role of any game, and with time, excelling within it.

I run with 2 Superior Monk, 2 Superior Water, and 2 Major Water. Alongside 30pts in Arcana, 4 or 5 of the boons are permanently applied in a fight and the others are semi-permanent.

If they add in-combat weapon swapping, that would double the number of skills we can use, which is idiotic in every sense. I wouldn’t mind out of combat switches, but other classes would also need access to a similar feature for a 3rd or 4th weapon set.

And Elites, I pray for an elite I can use. As it is now, I don’t actually ever use my elites, ever, at all, not even occasionally.

You can’t rally off critters like rabbits, frogs, hawks and other mobs that die in one hit. Only deer or rams and the sort that actually become aggressive and fight back.

I wish SF could get some night coverage. Some nights, we’ll literately have less than 10 players on in a zone. Then only 3 will show up to defend our wonderful fully upgraded keep as it is torn down. It demoralizes our day crew when they log on and find their money and effort has gone to waste.

Not to mention I play mostly at night…

I thought they had a “fix” for this coming tomorrow? That’s what I heard, or read.

I have a pretty good computer. Culling only happens in SM for me. I’ve waded into a 40+ zerg on numerous occasions there with less than 5 actually visible.

Though I have friends with lack luster computers who experience it in the BLs. I’ve seen my friends charge into a 30+ zerg and I’m like “what the hell” and they’re like, “What killed me?”

The battle in SM was fun yesterday, and I can see how it looked like they teamed up against us. After we got through inner, we were fighting DB in the Lord’s Room, and NS decided to use our hole to also join in. We got trapped between the two servers and snuffed out.

Knock your own hole in SM inner.

Fix the bugs, and I’ll be happy. I would be OP if I do any more damage =/

Really the same number of key-binds any any other profession. Binding your 5 fire skills also binds the 5 skills of every other attunement. So, 5 key binds in all…

The Ele involves a lot of stance dancing and heavy skill usage. Mastering these makes it one of the best, if not best, profession in just about any situation.

Well, if you don’t wanna be a slave when the New World Order comes to be, then Asura it is.

Yeah, sixpax. By your definition of “Cheap Tactic”, using a tree or a hill to block ranged attacks is also cheap. =/

WvW is PvP inside PvE. Doesn’t matter what anyone believes it is. It is what it is. This encompasses all aspects of both. If a player can juggle a mob’s health with his own as well as fight an opponent, timing it so he can rally to defeat his opponent, then the one who lost just got outplayed. He should accept that.

I’m still on the brink about the anonymity of WvW, but I really don’t want to deal with the MMO kittens that plague every game. As for now, I think I like it anonymous. Fix this oversight.

When the general playerbase has matured enough to handle it, then perhaps remove anonymity.

Hhmm, looks like there is more action in the BLs than Eternal. What you see is not a case of “No orbs”, but of roflstompin’.

Coming from SF, a T6 server, there is plenty of fighting in BLs, when we have the man power to afford it.

I never look at any dyes in WvW. Not enemies, nor allies. All I look for is a large red name. When distinguishing enemy servers, I again look at the name, not the color.

So I don’t really care if armor dyes show up or not. It is pointless without a name anyways.

The negative feedback in this thread should be proof enough that we don’t have all the information. I can’t fathom a developer overlooking such a thing.

I’m still looking forward to the update, with no fear of what’s to come.

As pointless as every game in existence.

I’m personally a fan of Pow/Tough/HP

You can also obtain Pow/Vit/Tough from AC and SE.

You can exchange runes just by double clicking the rune you want and clicking the armor piece.

RTL sends you at your target. Un-target and turn off auto target.

And that stutter at the end is really annoying, though I’ve gotten good of letting go of W during the ride, and pressing at the instant it stops so I’m still running instead of just standing holding W.

Kyus.3812:

just on your edit, the ascended item is +2-5 points better across the stats in comparison to exotic with an orb already slotted. so it will be 2-5 ish points/% better but as you say allow for the pve infusion slot.

I’m honestly not fussed but lets get the numbers right before people get misled.

Ah yeah, I reconsidered that edit. Currently, after obtaining Exotics, we are left with the decision to get Orbs or Runes. After the update, the decision will only slightly change. Orbs + 5ish points, or Runes.

So does anything change?

I’ll stick to the assumption I made at the beginning of the thread. This armor will only be useful in the specific dungeon it has been tailored to. With the exception of the infusion slot, Exotic vs Ascended will be mostly indistinguishable stat wise, offering literately 0 benefit 1v1 or 50v50. This new slot will offer Agony resistance, and nothing more.

If people honestly believe that getting this new gear could potentially increase stats to a point where a 1v1 fight could have a different outcome, then you’re simply kidding yourself. From what I can tell, the difference between Exotics and Ascended is smaller than Exotics and Rares, which is negligible. Anet would not be so ignorant as to drop a ball that big.

As of the 15th, only the ring and the back piece will be available. When they release the “next tier”, it’ll be another piece of the Ascended tier, but an earring, or a glove, or a chest piece, or some combination of pieces.

It’s a slow, negligible creep. Anet has always liked the PvP, and they will not screw it over.

Edit:

Re-Edit:

Even if Ascended has base stats equal to Exotic plus Gem, it still brings us to the same decision we have now. Do we want orbs + 5 or so points, or do we want runes?

I agree with TWMagimay. Let’s delete all professions and just create one profession that can do anything. Gawd, the choices would be endless.

I hear other people all the time. My guild always jabs at me when my Asura says something stupid.

Dacromir.6207:

Might I respectfully submit that both of you are wrong?

I think it’s just a matter of playstyle. Each of the 8 classes has a certain playstyle that’s distinct from the others. Likewise, each player has a different playstyle. It could just be that Calle’s playstyle meshes really well with Elementalist, but Aedil’s playstyle doesn’t? Maybe Aedil is a better match for Guardian.

This essentially means L2P, as in, L2P Elementalist. I actually find that your post supports Calle, rather than the opposite. Though you believe each person has a specific playstyle and can’t surpass good outside of it, I, on the other hand, believe that players can adapt to any class, if they take the time to understand it.

A new WvW map wouldn’t work out. Many servers do not have enough people to fill up the current 4. Now a rework/redesign of the current maps would be phenomenal.

Running time is important to the balance of the war. When a player is killed, he needs to be ousted for a few minutes, or actually gaining ground would be impossible.

If you wanna go faster, spec for more speed.

No life-ing any game will cause burn out, and WvW encourages a good bit of it. You can’t expect to stay interested in one section of a large game forever. If you start to get bored, coming to the forums isn’t going to accomplish anything. Keep a GW2 News Feed close by and move on to another game. When something interesting happens, come back.

I’ve played more than 700hrs and still going strong. The majority of that has been PvE. I"m just getting heavily into WvW, which will keep me going for many months more. I haven’t touched sPvP yet, and PvP is my bread and butter.