Guild Wars 2

Fuzzion.2504:

CAn we have a SEA time YAK party??? Pleaseee….

What server time is the SEA timeframe?

It should take at the very most 3 weeks to get all Vista and POI in WvW now. Just find a blue dorito and follow it for a while..you might even start to like WvW

Weekly Tarnished Coast Dolyak Parade
Yes that time of the week is very near! That glorious time when players of all races come to celebrate the dolyaks and their selfless sacrifices for us! This week will be interesting with the new borderlands look! I know both JQ and BG LOVE us TC dolyaks, so I have high hopes that there will be so many dolyaks in the Borderlands we cause a dolyocalypse!

For those who do not know, the Dolyak parade is a time where we get together and just have fun, and of course, parade around as dolyaks around the borderlands! Of course, you do not have to be a dolyak if you do not wish to be. In the past, everything from griffons to snowmen to elementals have flocked to our parade. So come out and celebrate the dolyaks, who sacrifice much for our endless war!

Information

• Where: WvW borderlands. The exact one will be chosen ~1 hr beforehand
• When: Thursday (9/27) at 7 PM Server Time
• Who: Anyone is willing to participate! If you come and need a tonic, just ask a friendly DOLY representative and we can give you some to join in!
• How: If you choose to become a dolyak, there are 2 ways: a Ruminant Tonic, and a Dolyak Tincture (feel free to wiki these). Of course any other kind of tonic is welcome, or even none at all if you just want to run along!

If anyone has any questions, comments, concerns, or good dolyak jokes, feel free to send me a message!

PS: Any guild leaders/commanders that are going to have GvG’s on that day and around that time, let me know! I try to plan the parade around GvG’s as best as possible, to avoid meeting up at the same place, or the parade running through a GvG on accident. (I won’t divulge when/where the GvGs are to anyone else, I just want to try to make sure there are no cross-event mishaps!)

Kiff.8157:

This is not a troll. Looking for confirmation, did RISE and MEOW move from FA to JQ as well?

I’m pretty sure its a different RISE

Titan.3472:

TC you little sneaky opportunists, gj ! XD

what are you talking about? o.O

I’m a pretty nooby engineer (admittingly) and I run normally either an HGH/FT build or an interupt/perp build and I rarely have problems with thieves. Engi’s have plenty of survivability. You don’t necessarily need mobility to beat a thief (maybe to catch if you’re dead set on chasing one), but you need a bit of survivability. A well built engi shouldn’t really have a problem with a thief…

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

KOK.2650:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

I know i am not the best, but when the fight is won thanks to the first attack doing 16,000 damage then it doesnt really take much. I can hold my own against all other classes but no counter when you are seen first to a thief.

I have killed plenty of them – its the ones that spam the same attack over and over, jump into stealth gaining all them benefits and then them either running away or just repeating the same thing over after they have reset the fight and you are left with loads of cool downs while they have none (on weapons)

All these “expert” and those shown in video has one things in common that you don’t have.
1)They see the thief and strike before the thief can react
Most of the thief when moving around do not have the skill as those who attack.
One of them in video above use a shortbow.
2)the thief stay and fight to the death. Some thieves prefer to fight and die rather than running away. Not saying good or bad,it just a choice
3)Thieves are impatient and jump into a trap.
Due to server lag, in WvW you can’t avoid the steal, C&D, BS attack. (due to less lag/smaller map in spvp , it is possible to avoid that )

How do i see a Thief while they are IN stealth?
No trouble when you BOTH see each other, it becomes VERY one sided when 1 can see the other and walk up behind them and deal silly amount of damage instantly.

Thieves hold most of their steath for combat, or about to go into combat. They cannot sit around for minutes at a time in the open field in stealth. If you are looking around when roaming, you can almost always spot the thief coming at you. You might not know he’s a thief, but you’ll get a clue when he disappears right before he gets to you.

As for your seeming lack of understanding about blink and mesmer mobility…mesmers have OUTSTANDING mobility in combat (not out). What build for mesmer are you running? I’m currently running a stealth+interupt build, using s/p+GS and blink+decoy+arcane thiever+MI. With a combination of those I can survive many thief attacks, though there are a few skilled ones who still smoke me. I’ve also had no problems with thieves with reflect builds, or glamour builds (when they were still run). You can even do really well against thieves with phantasms, since they (especially duelist) tend to follow the thief in combat and will fire the moment it pops out of stealth.

I think youre biggest problem is your builds. What are they for mesmer and engi? WvW is something where you really have to put care into your build. For many classes, 1 build won’t be good for everything.

Most thieves should not be an issue for a mesmer with a good roaming build. If you’re going to roam, you have to TRAIT. You cannot just pick a pure dps build and expect to roam..you’ll most likely get smoked by any class that can kite or manuever you. Mesmers especially have some great mechanics built into them for dealing with people like this. With the interupts, phantasms, blinds, mobility you should be able to deal with them. However, if you’re a pure dps shatter build (just an example), a thief will probably kill you. Mesmers are squishy, so you HAVE to have that toughness and vit (I run rabid armor right now with Sentinel stat accessories). Make sure too your armor build is appropriate for your trait build. WvW is a lot more sensitive to builds than PvE (I’d even argue sPvp..).

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Corvindi.5734:

Last time I was in WvW (admittedly awhile back) Mesmers scared me far more than thieves and they have some stealth and mobility, too.

Mesmer is quite slow really, in combat you can easily out run them. Focus being the main swiftness skill. They have blinks and such but they arent that great.

I actually like Mesmer stealth – its not to much and its not to little. Even better its more of a “use at right time” type of stealth rather then spamming it.

The moment you said blinks arent great, I just stopped reading, since it was very laughable.

On an engi, there is A LOT you can do against thieves. And as an ele well…you have PLENTY of survival abilities…great mobility and heals in combat! Thief stealth, while annoying, isn’t OP. It’s just a pain in the butt. However, most thieves Ive faced run off the moment you hit them hard a few times.

Have a fun match all! See y’all on the borderlands!

It’s nice to see BG and JQ again!

Note: For your own planning, the dolyak parade will most likely be on Thursday at 7 PM Server Time

If you get the buff, and they decay to neutral, you still keep the buff until someone else comes and takes 3 of them on that borderland. You don’t have to really actively hold all 3 at once.

Otaur.9268:

TERraTRIIx.3194:

Well as the title suggests I just want to see if my feelings are correct, but to me Necro’s condi just seems to high.. Please tell me what you think?
I feel especially sorry for the thieves that can’t do anything but as an ele I struggle in those 1v1’s.

Just a question open for answers.

No they aren’t, I have 1700 Condition damage on my necro 1900 with corruption stacks.

Versus a mesmer / engi with perplex runes, this Condition dmg is USELESS….

They stack 25 condition stacks in a matter of seconds, repeatedly.

You really can’t compare a class, versus a class WITH a sigil WITH a build

That being said, Necros, while really annoying, aren’t OP. A very good necro can be very difficult, however, from my experience, there aren’t many of those around. They’re fairly balanced…the reason they seem so OP is that you basically need condi removal to be in a decent 1v1 with one since 1) they stack lots of conditions and 2) they’re painful conditions that you must cleanse.

OptimistPrime.9283:

I like going out on a Friday night and coming back to WvW trashed.

Nothing screams “fun” like a Norn engineer chucking grenades while inebriated

Or drunk mesmers who blink into zergs?

After the mass mayhem that happened in WvW servers with free trials…I’m inclined to say no.

Free trials produce lots of certain things:
1) Gold seller spam
2) Scammers
3) General chat spam
4) Un-enforcable trolling, griefing, exploiting, glitching, etc

The problem with free trials is that if they ban that account, the person can just get another. These were problems that I saw when lotro and SW:ToR went f2p. If they were to do this, I’d only support it if they put them in their own little server so they cant drastically affect the people who paid money to get the game.

Great thread!

Also, if they seem kitten ed…it might be because everytime they wake up they start having people attack them. You’d be pretty annoyed if you woke up and people started poking you with toothpicks.

gotem.5284:

You could coordinate your guilds and guest a low pop server. I know a blackgate guild did that with ET and they easily killed it.

This can be a good solution. However, I am definitely against entire server forces swapping to lower teir servers because of overflows, since all it does is fill up their servers, with mostly people from other servers.

if its just 1 or 2 guilds, I see no problem. However, if 80-100 people guest over to a “low” pop server, it’s kind of making the problem you had theirs.

WyldKat.4712:

ThaOwner.7560:

motku.2354:

To [EP] I wish I knew if you actually all wore purple to battle. That kinda makes me <3 you.

I personally change my colors too much to just stay on purple but no we dont all wear purple. That was more of a thing when the guild was started at release

Ah, one of The Not So Ancient Questions: does the carpet match the drapes.

I personally vote all the EP should dye their hair purple, and all the norns should get those massive purple norn mustaches!

PSA The weekly dolyak parade will be in 40 minutes, meeting in TCBL by the south camp!

You only need 100g to buy a commander tome. I have actually seen quite a few people who come into WvW, having hardly ever played WvW, who come in with a tag and demand to command since they have it. I remember one that didn’t even know what an Arrow Cart was or how to place one…

So, this would be a VERY bad idea. Though there are many GREAT commanders, there are also many BAD commanders…

Weekly Tarnished Coast Dolyak Parade
Yes that time of the week is very near! That glorious time when players of all races come to celebrate the dolyaks and their selfless sacrifices for us! This week will be interesting with the new borderlands look!

For those who do not know, the Dolyak parade is a time where we get together and just have fun, and of course, parade around as dolyaks around the borderlands! Of course, you do not have to be a dolyak if you do not wish to be. In the past, everything from griffons to snowmen to elementals have flocked to our parade. So come out and celebrate the dolyaks, who sacrifice much for our endless war!

Information

• Where: WvW borderlands. The exact one will be chosen ~1 hr beforehand
• When: Thursday (9/19) at 7 PM Server Time
• Who: Anyone is willing to participate! If you come and need a tonic, just ask a friendly DOLY representative and we can give you some to join in!
• How: If you choose to become a dolyak, there are 2 ways: a Ruminant Tonic, and a Dolyak Tincture (feel free to wiki these). Of course any other kind of tonic is welcome, or even none at all if you just want to run along!

If anyone has any questions, comments, concerns, or good dolyak jokes, feel free to send me a message!

PS: Any guild leaders/commanders that are going to have GvG’s on that day and around that time, let me know! I try to plan the parade around GvG’s as best as possible, to avoid meeting up at the same place, or the parade running through a GvG on accident. (I won’t divulge when/where the GvGs are to anyone else, I just want to try to make sure there are no cross-event mishaps!)

hmsgoddess.3869:

Arkard.3970:

So in light of the Bloodlust rage, has anyone else noticed that you can’t treb bay from garrison anymore thanks to the randomly placed make shift cliff there?

Yes I did test this last night, and in the correct spot you can hit both bay and the sw tower, making it possible to take 2 places at once.
In addition you can also treb garrison watergate from the ruin near garrison on east side.
Also a well placed garrison treb can hit both the east and west ruin areas near garrison.

Yeah there are some great new treb spots, but they’re all open field. So they can be taken out. The problem with the ones on top of garrison was there was really only 1 way to take them out without taking the keep, and it was easily stopped by 1 cata placement.

Sovereign.1093:

Not bad. FA gets it.

It’s flipping the opposite now. I think all servers are a bit bloodlust obsessed now and the others take advantage of it.

From what I’ve heard, if you just used the code once, you didn’t get banned. Only people who did it repeatedly, and it seems like the more you used it the longer the ban.

Josh Davis.6015:

We are working on a fix for this.

Stay tuned.

Can you guys do a rollback on WvW? several servers hav ebeen abusing this apparently to get keeps (crashing the maps when people defend, then logging back in and getting tthe keeps before the server gets consolidated agaon)

WyldKat.4712:

Tristam Green.9178:

That FA’s a Spy!

BLU Spy: He could be in this very room! He could be you! He could be me! He could even b– [his head is blown off by BLU Soldier’s shotgun]
BLU Soldier: What? It was obvious! [He pumps his shotgun, ejecting the spent shell] He’s the RED Spy! Watch, he’ll turn red any second now. [taps the BLU Spy’s foot with the barrel of his gun] Any second now… See? Red! Oh wait, that’s blood.

My favorite tf2 video!

linfurong.9032:

Shrouded.6450:

Super Kruegs.8967:

Whatever it takes to enlighten the masses.

You gotta quote mahn, or it might look you’re talking to Escobert.

escobert.9024:

Handin.4032:

eithinan.9841:

Lenador.1436:

Handin.4032:

FA talks all this smack about how bad every TC player is…but every time I’ve been roaming solo or in small groups (as I prefer, with like 2-5), every FA group has ran.

Last night me and a guardian in my guild came upon 2 thieves…I hit them with a Magic Bullet once and they started to run…we had to chase those guys down. I’m not saying all FA people run, but at least the ones I’ve seen roaming around TCBL were last night. FA, every match you make excuses and talk smack about TC…yet so far I have seen you guys zerg ball just as much as run from silly situations (such as the guild group from FA (I’m not going to call out the guild) who ran to one of our keep gates, got hit by 2 arrow carts and high tailed it back…then came back like 4 times only to run from 6 people, with 2 ACs).

And yes, I play for ppt, but also for kills. I prefer to not have wooden keeps, and make sure enemies get as few WP’s as possible That way, I can KILL more! And they can’t jut easily WP away from me

Im slightly confused they were suppose to tank two ac’s while killing you while your inside your keep? or is this just a declaration of how well you defended your keep then thats just swell….

I think he’s bragging about hiding behind arrowcart fire.

It was 6v20 or so, and we had a wooden keep. If you cant take out 2 ACs that are sitting on top of a wall…something is wrong. I was basically just saying that you guys act all tough, but you ran from a wooden keep being defended by 2 pieces of (admittingly) poorly placed siege…I didn’t even get focus pulled off the cart Though a few necros did try to put some marks on the walls…

If you were referring to [HAMR] (as we did do this a few times last night) it would be because, we all run hammers. Can’t do much against ACs with hammers. We’re a guild made of several FA guilds meant to be fun, buold the community and hammer smash everything in our way. So come down from the towers and get plowed by our giant hammers plz thx.

Ya know what I wanna see? A mesmer zerg.

Have you met [AVTR] yet?

Does AVTR run around as big mesmer blobs still? I haven’t seen them out is as big numbers since anet kicked our glamour fields in the nuts…

escobert.9024:

Handin.4032:

eithinan.9841:

Lenador.1436:

Handin.4032:

FA talks all this smack about how bad every TC player is…but every time I’ve been roaming solo or in small groups (as I prefer, with like 2-5), every FA group has ran.

Last night me and a guardian in my guild came upon 2 thieves…I hit them with a Magic Bullet once and they started to run…we had to chase those guys down. I’m not saying all FA people run, but at least the ones I’ve seen roaming around TCBL were last night. FA, every match you make excuses and talk smack about TC…yet so far I have seen you guys zerg ball just as much as run from silly situations (such as the guild group from FA (I’m not going to call out the guild) who ran to one of our keep gates, got hit by 2 arrow carts and high tailed it back…then came back like 4 times only to run from 6 people, with 2 ACs).

And yes, I play for ppt, but also for kills. I prefer to not have wooden keeps, and make sure enemies get as few WP’s as possible That way, I can KILL more! And they can’t jut easily WP away from me

Im slightly confused they were suppose to tank two ac’s while killing you while your inside your keep? or is this just a declaration of how well you defended your keep then thats just swell….

I think he’s bragging about hiding behind arrowcart fire.

It was 6v20 or so, and we had a wooden keep. If you cant take out 2 ACs that are sitting on top of a wall…something is wrong. I was basically just saying that you guys act all tough, but you ran from a wooden keep being defended by 2 pieces of (admittingly) poorly placed siege…I didn’t even get focus pulled off the cart Though a few necros did try to put some marks on the walls…

If you were referring to [HAMR] (as we did do this a few times last night) it would be because, we all run hammers. Can’t do much against ACs with hammers. We’re a guild made of several FA guilds meant to be fun, buold the community and hammer smash everything in our way. So come down from the towers and get plowed by our giant hammers plz thx.

No no it wasn’t HAMR. And really? You guys have a guild fully of hammer people? That’d actually be pretty fun to fight against. Please tell me you have a character in there named Thor!

eithinan.9841:

Lenador.1436:

Handin.4032:

FA talks all this smack about how bad every TC player is…but every time I’ve been roaming solo or in small groups (as I prefer, with like 2-5), every FA group has ran.

Last night me and a guardian in my guild came upon 2 thieves…I hit them with a Magic Bullet once and they started to run…we had to chase those guys down. I’m not saying all FA people run, but at least the ones I’ve seen roaming around TCBL were last night. FA, every match you make excuses and talk smack about TC…yet so far I have seen you guys zerg ball just as much as run from silly situations (such as the guild group from FA (I’m not going to call out the guild) who ran to one of our keep gates, got hit by 2 arrow carts and high tailed it back…then came back like 4 times only to run from 6 people, with 2 ACs).

And yes, I play for ppt, but also for kills. I prefer to not have wooden keeps, and make sure enemies get as few WP’s as possible That way, I can KILL more! And they can’t jut easily WP away from me

Im slightly confused they were suppose to tank two ac’s while killing you while your inside your keep? or is this just a declaration of how well you defended your keep then thats just swell….

I think he’s bragging about hiding behind arrowcart fire.

It was 6v20 or so, and we had a wooden keep. If you cant take out 2 ACs that are sitting on top of a wall…something is wrong. I was basically just saying that you guys act all tough, but you ran from a wooden keep being defended by 2 pieces of (admittingly) poorly placed siege…I didn’t even get focus pulled off the cart Though a few necros did try to put some marks on the walls…

They really should start to make it so all skins you unlock with achievements…are aquireable in the achievement frame. They made this, what I think, is a very cool achievement panel, where you can get the zenith skins, etc. Why haven’t they extended this to ALL achievement items? (yes! Even mini’s, so that way you could have one out on every character). Instead, they give you ONE of them, and then, since they’re obsessed with back items, they give you a BUNCH of that type.

Anet, use the achievement panel you guys were so proud of and showed off. It’d be pretty sad if you wasted all that development just for the achievement chests…

FA talks all this smack about how bad every TC player is…but every time I’ve been roaming solo or in small groups (as I prefer, with like 2-5), every FA group has ran.

Last night me and a guardian in my guild came upon 2 thieves…I hit them with a Magic Bullet once and they started to run…we had to chase those guys down. I’m not saying all FA people run, but at least the ones I’ve seen roaming around TCBL were last night. FA, every match you make excuses and talk smack about TC…yet so far I have seen you guys zerg ball just as much as run from silly situations (such as the guild group from FA (I’m not going to call out the guild) who ran to one of our keep gates, got hit by 2 arrow carts and high tailed it back…then came back like 4 times only to run from 6 people, with 2 ACs).

And yes, I play for ppt, but also for kills. I prefer to not have wooden keeps, and make sure enemies get as few WP’s as possible That way, I can KILL more! And they can’t jut easily WP away from me

Have a fun match! Nice to see y’all again!

feeling of Deja vu

I’m getting really disappointed in how anet treats mesmers.

The 1 year stuff showed that mesmer was the least played class, 10%. Maybe its time anet asks, “why?”

I’ve played mesmer since the beginning, mostly in WvW. However, many of our classes utilities are all but useless, in both WvW and PvE. Confusion is all but useless in PvE, it doesn’t stack very long and mobs rarely attack enough to make it worthwhile. So, what can mesmers do in PvE? From my experience, there is but one answer: zerker phantasm build. Confusions, and even glamour fields, even lost much of their usefulness in WvW ever since they were nerfed into obvlivion. Most condition mesmer builds are now the 20/20/30/0/0 line, NOT confusion or glamours.

The statement: “To stay in line with the support theme, we wanted to find ways the Mesmer could support allies” just baffles me. I’ve never felt like mesmer is meant to be purely support, though we do have it. And our support is still pretty good! I’ve never heard anyone tell me that mesmer support was totally worthless or bad or broken. What’s broken is most of our damaging builds in cases like WvW. We’ve been forced to become more and more constrained because of nerf after nerf after nerf with no alternatives. In WvW, clones are all but useless, especially with their health being so low.

What mesmer needs isn’t an extra cool thing on a mantra, we need the things that have been totally nerfed to be reworked. Rework our last 2 lines, which are either buggy (I’m looking at you focus reflect!), or lost much of their use (glamour fields in that line).

I think many mesmers would even be happy if you fixed some of the bugs that STILL exist. I still summon phantasms that attack once, then just sit there doing nothing. I still suddenly lose LOS the moment a slight ledge is in the way, and I’ve still been staff teleported into walls! Focus reflects with focus #4 rarely work if you’re on a slight incline, for instance.

I feel like patch after patch mesmers are being tossed around with no one at anet really knowing where they want the class to go. They nerf random things, refuse to fix bugs, and give buffs to some random skills.

It’s time anet asks why so little of the population is playing mesmer (I’ve even noticed a vast shortage of them in WvW, where sometimes I’m the only one in a 40 man group!).

DevonCarver.5370:

They are not high enough currently, agreed and we will be making changes to the rank-up chests to make them significantly more rewarding.

I’ve gotten now 100 rank chests and gotten 1 rare.

There is a reason WvW people get upset about the loot. Anet is introducing more and more items, such as ascended weapons, which require MORE gold to get to get them in a reasonably timed way. People on forums say that in WvW you don’t “need” gold, but you also don’t “need” gold in PvE once you have your armor sets. Some of us who do WvW want shinies, but feel that we CANNOT get them by doing WvW. I myself have stopped playing exclusively WvW because I couldn’t get anything new. NO new skins, new dyes or new anything for the players comes out for doing WvW. There is a MASSIVE imbalance between the rewards for PvE and WvW for the same time, with drastically different levels of play. If I run around spamming ‘1’ in PvE, I can get a lot of drops and fill my bags really fast. In WvW, if I run small groups, take camps, take towers, etc…well…I get some silver for doing the event? Maybe some loot?

The problem is much deeper than the WXP chests. Devs have stated for a while that they know of the problem, but we have yet to see any appreciable change towards fixing it, or any mention of things that are even in the works. The only way to really get appreciable rewards in WvW is to get into a massive zerg ball, run around and spam ‘1’. So….is anet trying to tell us that the way to get loot is to not do anything except run around spamming ‘1’…or ‘F’?

Brutus.5732:

Asudementio.8526:

The WvW regulars have a much worse time fighting outmatched opponents than we do someone like SoR, but we expect SoR to perform and a lot of us were expecting so much more than SoR has delivered.

You were expecting more? Seriously?

TC came within 30k of JQ. You could have 2v1’d us. I thought a 2v1 could win it for TC.

Outside of GvGs you gave SOR a boring week, if anyone has a case to be disappointed it is us.

We were able to 2v1 SOR this week? o.O As much as a really enjoy facing SOS, and think they have a fantastic group of people, it was mostly TC v SoR, at least for the times I was online. Roaming around, I only saw an SoS group like…3 times this week…

I still don’t understand why retal affects reflection attacks…it seems silly to me.

Dont worry all! The parade is over yet!

PSA: So sorry, the parade has been changed to SoRBL (I’m trying to beat queues here lol)

PSA The Dolyak parade will start in 15 minutes in SORBL

NOTE I did change the location!

PSA The dolyak parade will be in 2.5 hours!

ketorin.5923:

TC BL farmville

that was the most fun i’ve had in a long long time

FEAR on the lord room, TW on the portal

we setup trading post and vendor in the back of the lord room and fought that zerg for almost 30 straight minutes

selling and salvaging in turns lol

people’s hands were cramping.. it was AWESOME

http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/658/s75d.jpg – vendors setup

amazing fights all night in TC BL, bay, hills, north camp etc..

So you’re bragging about keeping a blob in a spawn tower to farm a group with quite a bit lower numbers? You’re too pro for me I might as well uninstall….

The reason why respeccing at will without timers is because it would make the VERY powerful. Oh, you have 100 points? Well, instead of spreading that around to be good at all situations you could reset it at will constantly. Going to take a keep with trebs? Switch to all trebs? Oh, done and now defending, go and swap to all AC mastery.

Not being able to reset at will makes people choose how to be the most optimal. The points aren’t capped, so they aren’t focing you into a “build”, but they are making you choose how you want to balance your bonuses.

Meglobob.8620:

GW2 = zerker or nothing.

Toughness, healing are by and large worthless stats.

Vitality useful upto a point.

Have you ever seen the devs play GW2? They die once every 2-3 mins, that’s how your mean’t to play apparently, death doesn’t matter, therefore defense doesn’t matter.

Oo I love when I come across 1v1 a person in all zerkers gear..they melt like butter in a phoenix sun So yes, please, run zerker, free badges! The only except MAY be thiefs since they can escape.

The best bet is to balance both. Right now on my mesmer I run prec/tough/cond armor with sentinel accessories. This gives me ~21k health, but I still sit around ~30% crit chance, with decent toughness. If you stack all in one skill (ESPECIALLY toughness) that will happen. If you’re going to stack something to be “tanky”, stack vit. It’s much more helpful than toughness, especially since conditions seem to be the new meta.

Dugald.4095:

Yes, thank you EP for being so good to other servers and so toxic for TC. EP is the prime example of a trend that is ruining the TC community.

I’ve been TC since the beginning…and whats wrong with EP? They’re a bunch of nice guys, and they’ve always been friendly (at least to me!) Don’t bash other guilds which are full of nice people who try VERY hard to help this server win!

BTW SoR: My goal this week is for you to see a pink fro in a keep of yours and get worried you have a mesmer lurking about hehe. It’s been much more fun in enemy keeps this week since SoR sweeps! And then I have to run..and then it’s fun!

Icebot.6103:

Handin.4032:

Weekly Tarnished Coast Dolyak Parade
Yes that time of the week is very near! That glorious time when players of all races come to celebrate the dolyaks and their selfless sacrifices for us! I know in the past both SoS and SoR have come out to join in large numbers, so I hope to see MANY people here this week!

For those who do not know, the Dolyak parade is a time where we get together and just have fun, and of course, parade around as dolyaks around the borderlands! Of course, you do not have to be a dolyak if you do not wish to be. In the past, everything from griffons to snowmen to elementals have flocked to our parade. So come out and celebrate the dolyaks, who sacrifice much for our endless war!

Information

• Where: WvW borderlands. The exact one will be chosen ~1 hr beforehand
• When: Thursday (9/12) at 7 PM Server Time
• Who: Anyone is willing to participate! If you come and need a tonic, just ask a friendly DOLY representative and we can give you some to join in!
• How: If you choose to become a dolyak, there are 2 ways: a Ruminant Tonic, and a Dolyak Tincture (feel free to wiki these). Of course any other kind of tonic is welcome, or even none at all if you just want to run along!

If anyone has any questions, comments, concerns, or good dolyak jokes, feel free to send me a message!

PS: Any guild leaders/commanders that are going to have GvG’s on that day and around that time, let me know! I try to plan the parade around GvG’s as best as possible, to avoid meeting up at the same place, or the parade running through a GvG on accident. (I won’t divulge when/where the GvGs are to anyone else, I just want to try to make sure there are no cross-event mishaps!)

I leave you all with this wonderful movie made by DOLY’s amazing leader Ellie, the Holiday Yak: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChG0_ThxdJc

Will there be a TS channel we can all join so we can bro it up together?

Well TC has a mumble…but I’ve never considered trying to find a public TS for multiple servers to join in…hmmmm….

I think one of the biggest things which made golems VERY cheap for a short time (and its still coming from that) is when a bunch of people got a lot of BoH from the retroactive achievement chests. I got way more than you’d even need for a Gift of Battle, so I saw people burning them on golems and selling as a way to make some $$ off their excess badges (especially if they didn’t WvW).

All in all though, Ive found golem rushes are negated almost entirely by one thing: scouts. And I just don’t mean sentries at keeps, I mean scouts that roam the BL’s (sniping yaks, harassing etc). Golems cant be immediately moved anywhere. Even if they portal train a good group of scouts should be able to spot that.

The price is mainly cheap for alphas, which aren’t as big of an issue. However, if your enemy rushes you, even with 20 omegas, it can be stopped (I’ve seen it done numerous times).

Weekly Tarnished Coast Dolyak Parade
Yes that time of the week is very near! That glorious time when players of all races come to celebrate the dolyaks and their selfless sacrifices for us! I know in the past both SoS and SoR have come out to join in large numbers, so I hope to see MANY people here this week!

For those who do not know, the Dolyak parade is a time where we get together and just have fun, and of course, parade around as dolyaks around the borderlands! Of course, you do not have to be a dolyak if you do not wish to be. In the past, everything from griffons to snowmen to elementals have flocked to our parade. So come out and celebrate the dolyaks, who sacrifice much for our endless war!

Information

• Where: WvW borderlands. The exact one will be chosen ~1 hr beforehand
• When: Thursday (9/12) at 7 PM Server Time
• Who: Anyone is willing to participate! If you come and need a tonic, just ask a friendly DOLY representative and we can give you some to join in!
• How: If you choose to become a dolyak, there are 2 ways: a Ruminant Tonic, and a Dolyak Tincture (feel free to wiki these). Of course any other kind of tonic is welcome, or even none at all if you just want to run along!

If anyone has any questions, comments, concerns, or good dolyak jokes, feel free to send me a message!

PS: Any guild leaders/commanders that are going to have GvG’s on that day and around that time, let me know! I try to plan the parade around GvG’s as best as possible, to avoid meeting up at the same place, or the parade running through a GvG on accident. (I won’t divulge when/where the GvGs are to anyone else, I just want to try to make sure there are no cross-event mishaps!)

I leave you all with this wonderful movie made by DOLY’s amazing leader Ellie, the Holiday Yak: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChG0_ThxdJc

TheUsualCulprit.3187:

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TheUsualCulprit.3187:

Nice Bit of Eyefinity From Tc we have here :O

Oh I’ve seen that! It’s not Eyefinity. There is one spot you can place the AC where you can look through the gap between the gate and wall, and if someone has higher range on the AC, they can hit the treb. It doesn’t involve Eyefinity, just knowing where to place the AC and using the camera (not in a weird window mode or anything) to look between the gate and wall.

A TC person claimed something similar in garrison one time was Eyefininty, and then I showed them the AC position and where to look.

(Though I wasn’t there…stuck at work…but just looking from your pics thats what it looks like since they’re hitting the front side of the supply depot)

Wow must look into that, sorry for initial blame then
at first look it looked very fishy :P

:D The best thing to do to see whats going on is to place one yourself and just check your cameras. Since AC’s don’t require LOS to hit places, there are lots of places you put them and angle the camera to hit places you think you couldn’t (without using more monitors, windowed mode or Eyefinity)

TheUsualCulprit.3187:

Nice Bit of Eyefinity From Tc we have here :O

Oh I’ve seen that! It’s not Eyefinity. There is one spot you can place the AC where you can look through the gap between the gate and wall, and if someone has higher range on the AC, they can hit the treb. It doesn’t involve Eyefinity, just knowing where to place the AC and using the camera (not in a weird window mode or anything) to look between the gate and wall.

A TC person claimed something similar in garrison one time was Eyefininty, and then I showed them the AC position and where to look.

(Though I wasn’t there…stuck at work…but just looking from your pics thats what it looks like since they’re hitting the front side of the supply depot)

It’s kinda cruel, but I used to sit on top of a vantage point in the BL JP with my mesmer focus and pull people off into the water. It wouldn’t kill them…just yank them. Why would I want my enemy to get free siege?

It’s always amazed me, that, irregardless of the server, that people always complain about blobbing and zerging…yet then they hop in the next blob or zerg they see.

I’ve seen very few roamers, on any server. While in TCBL last night, I only really saw 1 roaming group that was a party of 4 that keep Shadow Refuging and running back the moment they saw someone.

No server HAS to blob, or HAS to zerg. That is something that servers have chosen to do because its easy, doesn’t require a lot of thought on behalf of the zerglings, and gets them lots of loot. It’s not like if you play with 10 people an anet dev team swoops in and strikes your group down with lightning…When TC is fighting lower teired server, there is A LOT more small group stuff going (though admittingly there is still some zerging). However, when facing SoR recently, its hard to do small group roaming when you run around kitten people, and come face to face with 50 people smashing into you fairly often. That kind of stuff turned the fights into blob on blobs fights. But, no one should be naive to think that the blob v blob fights are being forced. It’s a mentality which people have slipped inot because it’s “favored” and therefore EASIER.

When I ran with [KH] on TC, who are some of the most skilled small group players I know, they made decisions to NOT run with any zerg that is around. Instead, they chose to look for fights as a small group, even if against a larger force, and it was REALLY fun!

I hope, very much so, that with the new BL maps they’re putting out all the zerging and blobs will go away, especially when they get rid of WP’s which only encourages zerging. Add in the smaller capture points, more terrain, etc I hope that smaller tactical groups (5-15) become favored.

Anyways, tl;dr: Everyone should stop whining about blobs. Most servers do it. It’s a choice made up in the match up, most of the time by the highest ranked server. If you don’t want to zerg, don’t. (TC guilds found it very useful to run tagless so they could run in their groups without attractive militia zergs). Bottom line: don’t whine about blbos, then blob. Don’t say you don’t blob, then blob.

xaiMera.3809:

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SoR: Who do I sent the rent bill for being hidden in your TCBL Bay for over an hour and a half? I feel like I owe you guys some rent for staying there so long….

No need to pay rent coz you just spent 1 1/2 hours staring at your toon, must’ve been boring lol.

Nah I had some reading my grad advisor wanted me to do so I just sat there and read several papers haha. It’s the best way to hide in a keep! Make sure you have something else to do!