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9/6 SoR/TC/SoS

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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….

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siege as collectibles?

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but a counterargument is invisible bag too, im just saying, i personally would like a collectible spot for em. they just kind of take up my bank space, i do use em from time to time, but i mostly roam. They don’t bother me that much, but im just wondering if there should be a spot for em or not.

However, a lot of us who don’t roam don’t wanna accidentally bank most of our siege in a borderland where there is no bank. If they’re taking up bank space, put them in a guild bank or something. But, even if you keep all types of siege, it only takes up what…6 spots or so? You can make it to the vendor to empty your bags more often than that :P Why inconvenience a lot of the non-roamers (and having them buy invis bags just to store siege isn’t very cool…especially since high storage room invis bags start to get costly!) just because you want more inventory slots?

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WvW Roamers

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So after all nerfhammers that struck Ele’s I feel slighty underpowered as a WvW Roamer besides playing it for a year now getting kinda tired of them. Sooo, I need a new effective class to Roam around with fighting 1v1 / 1v2’s.

Which classes are good besides the obvious “Thieves best roamer stealth gggg” because I think Thieves are lame. (’;

On my mesmer I run a chaotic interruption+stealth build using perp runes, and it’s very fun roaming! The combination of stealths plus interrupts makes the mesmer very effective roaming (or doing small group, and of course, in a big zerg, you just gotta spam 1!)

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Did they consider the new players?

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This is especially a problem in WvW. Newer players will take far longer to get geared up to max stats than they did previously (when max stats were exotics).

This puts them at a disadvantage and probably discourages many from even trying WvW. (Imagine a fully geared Ascended glass cannon thief with permastealth and Guard Leech ganking a new player with two hits immediately upon arrival in WvW — is that new player going to ever return to WvW?)

This isn’t as big of a problem in WvW when levelling. An upleveled player in WvW shouldn’t be focusing on any one stat set, but just getting good gear altogether. WvW will give upleveled players decent amount of drops, and the upscaling is actually pretty decent. I went in on my level 25 ranger and I left with a bag full of mostly blue and green items.

Your comparison of a full exotic person ganking an upleveled player isn’t valid here. This is the case now, and it was the case since GW2 came out. That argument isn’t very useful here, at all. Upleveled players in WvW shouldn’t be roaming, and doing so is at their own risk If they join a large-scale war and get ganked doing small group stuff…well…I feel no pity! The upscaling is actually very strong in WvW (I got over 2000 vit on my engi once wearing only greens at level 15), so the gear isn’t AS big of an issue (Though it can be). It’s mostly just experience (I’ve seen upleveled alts taking on lvl 80 players successfully)

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SAB is now Officialy Pay2Win

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1) you can still buy the coin with gold (~25-30g)
2) After getting used to trib mode, I did all of w1 trib today using only 4 (FOUR) continuations
3) SAB is around for a month. Each time you finish 1 ZONE of trib you get ~250 baubles (so thats a lot of lives!)

The coin is not needed. It makes it so doing trib mode is much more relaxed though, that’s about it. A guild mate of mine today bought 140+ continuing coins today just from baubles gotten from w1 farming on normal modes (thats over 1400 lives). There are even guides now to help you through, AND they nerfed it! (I did it before the nerf and before good guides)

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Fighting King Toad repeatedly intended?

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I have no problem going straight into W2. When you kill the King Toad, are you waiting for the timer to run out, and then doing the bonus level? Or are you killing him, grabbing your loot and immediately going to hub? I have a feeling you have to stick around for the bonus round…

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9/6 SoR/TC/SoS

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Stop with the drama, no need for it, apart from the bit of emote spamming it’s been decent in-game.

TC at least can put the numbers up at times to get a zerg going, they just need a lot more training and better organisation to fight against a well battle oiled SoR.
You could do with more better WvW geared/traited players too and a LOT more situational awareness – don’t just stand there and let us cream right through or into you, it feels so bad
Hopefully you’ve some decent commanders willing to step up and if you do, listen to them and follow them.

Loving the opportunities for some smaller fights and 1v1’s. You’ve a lot of roamers running around on their own on TC O.o

I dunno why SoS were thrown in with us though, it seems very unfair on them. Not taking anything away from their players by saying that, it’s just fairly clear they don’t have enough interested WvW players on their server.

This post is exemplary of why SoR is known for being condescending.

Hate to break it to you but TC does it to other servers as well so you’re not really in a position to complain about it.

Not to the degree SoR does; don’t kid yourself.

This should be…interesting…

As for SoS…well..see attached pic

To this degree?

Hey now…at least I included the Doctor Who reference! I like SoS…they come to my yak parades!

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9/6 SoR/TC/SoS

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The golem god is surely with us. All of the servers in this match up have ranks that are power of 2, easily represented in binary:

SoR: 10 (1*2^1 + 0*2^0)
TC: 100 (1*2^2 + 0*2^1 + 0*2^0)
SoS: 1000

So, I think when reporting scores, we should do it in binary this week!!

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9/6 SoR/TC/SoS

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This should be…interesting…

As for SoS…well..see attached pic

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8/30 Tarnished Coast/Maguuma/Fort Aspenwood

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My favorite part of the night: Turning the corner during the parade to see YAK stacked up. Then running like hell, and dying..then looking and seeing YAK being the one getting hunted down by Agg! Then, Agg ran past all the dolyaks…though they didn’t eat all the cookies I laid out for them…

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8/30 Tarnished Coast/Maguuma/Fort Aspenwood

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PSA: The Dolyak parade will be on TCBL shortly!

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8/30 Tarnished Coast/Maguuma/Fort Aspenwood

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PSA The dolyak parade will be at 7 PM ST!

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8/30 Tarnished Coast/Maguuma/Fort Aspenwood

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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

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 (9/6) 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!

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SAB needs to go, now!

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Handin.4032

I’ll just say this:
If you don’t like it, then don’t play it. Ignore it ever existed, and avoid Rata Sum.

You people can be so idiotic sometimes.

We all paid money for this game. That entitles us to complain about anything we don’t like that is developed. If this game cost absolutely no money to play, then we would have no right to complain.

Your statement is invalid.

Not everyone is going to like every piece of content. By your logic, nothing would ever get updated because someone would come on and demand it not be included and complain. If you don’t like something in the game, don’t play it. I don’t like sPvp, but I don’t go on the forums demanding it gets removed since i didn’t pay my money to spvp, I just avoid it. If you don’t like SAB, don’t avoid it. There is absolutely no reason you HAVE to do it.

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Double health, Quintuple cost

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So I went and bought the double health refill from W2 Z3. I used them up on the rapids so I went to restock.

And behold, each health refill has now quintupled in cost from 5 to 25, meaning it was FAR more efficient to just leave my health bottle unupgraded.

You know what’s cheaper? Lives! And they only cost 20 baubles apiece for 4 hearts! Seriously Anet, if you’re going to screw me over for buying an upgrade (that everyone has to get for an achievement) you could at least WARN people beforehand. (I’m betting lives will increase in cost the moment I get that 5th heart too.)

They put the cost and the explaination in the description of the item….

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No Money, No Tribulation Mode

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Tribulation mode is not for everybody!!! Please get it, geeeeet it thanks.

Agreeing with this.

While I’ll talk about scaling “normal” for a casual player, I’m not going to suggest ’dumbing down" the mode created for the hardcores.

Who is talking about dumbing down ? The problem is you need the infinite coin to play normally. Rich =/= skill.

Nothing stops people from using gold → gems to get the coin. If you don’t have the gold, well…I don’t have the gold for a legendary, but I’m not on the forums saying only rich people can get it. I ran like 2 invasions and got enough gold to buy an infinite coin. Anet isn’t going to give everything to every player…you gotta farm/do content to get other content sometimes. If you want nice DYES, you gotta get the gold (think: an infinite coin costs around (if not less) than an ABYSS dye!) And theres plenty of people with an Abyss dye :P

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8/30 Tarnished Coast/Maguuma/Fort Aspenwood

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gahhhh delune. i wanted my screenshot to go up. mine had comments in team chat about TC by Pix. They were funny.

I do love how TC brings 80 people to a 30 person fight.

Why do people love the number 80? Like, its always the enemy has 10 people, or 80, and their server never has more than 30.

(btw, that screenshot above is funny…talking about TC using more people to kill them when they’re sitting in an upgraded tower)

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8/30 Tarnished Coast/Maguuma/Fort Aspenwood

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Well all, after a long day hiding in keeps (mostly on MagBL), I must sleep! So far this match I’ve had a really fun time with some great fights! Any forum drama aside, this is proving to be a very fun match!

~The TC mesmer with the bright pink fro!

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I am against new colors of Meteorologicus

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Handin.4032

Hi,

I planed carefuly my colors and style. In my case is white+light blue (NOT VIOLET)
I am owner of Meteorologicus that now perfectly fits my style (My zephyrite cap has same light blue effect).

Changing colors to violet/purple will ruin everything!
Do not do it!

/more animations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTn6RlNLbJQ

OMG, that’s the most hideous charr I’ve ever seen, if they force you to change those colors, they will be doing you a favor!

Blah blah blah blah.
Say that to your mirror.

I am famous and loved on my server, your char is realy nothing worth mention.

Are you famous because any time you run by someone has a seizure? o.O it’s very…white and a funny looking charr (but I don’t prefer charr, so I’ probably say that for any charr! LOL).

That being said, is it that hard to get new dyes? o.O I too carefully dye my armor for my weapons, etc…but if I have to get a new weapon (for a new build in case of a nerf, etc), I just re-dye. It’s not like dyes are that hard to get…(I own them all on 1 character, and like 1/2 on another)

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14 Queen Jennahs - really ANET?

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Handin.4032

- Don’t get free gift: anet doesn’t care about their consumers since they get nothing for making a character a year ago (even if they spent no gems since then)
- Get free gift: Anet doesn’t care about their consumers because I didn’t get a totally rad gift that I definitely wanted. (And if I spent gems, then its never worth the amount of money I spent!)

Honestly, if I was anet seeing complaint posts about getting the free gift, I’d just no longer give them 2nd year+. Why should they if people are just going to come and make huge complaints about it? It’d be like if you got a present from a friend, and said “Really? I didn’t want THIS. You must HATE me!”

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Which new Crazy Achievements they should put?

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Handin.4032

The Many Dyed – Collect all dyes
Mad Hops – Complete all JPs

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Final solution for league and transfers

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Oh it’s gets better, so this “league” is actually a glorified achievement. I can’t wait to see what lovely objectives there will be on the checklist. Kill the grub 100 times, kill the centaurs 100 times etc etc.

We’ve actually just recently added the tech to add an achievement for complaining on the forums.

This comment almost made me spit out spaghetti….

On another note, if you look at the top 3 servers compared to those below, there is such a large population/coverage different between even rank 3 and 4. How will the leagues be formed such that one server doesn’t get massively stacked and reap all the great rewards, leaving the lower ranked servers in that league basically unable to do much? Since much of winning in WvW is population coverage, if you give people rewards for being on the top server and getting in a blob, is there anything being done to make it so that the same server continuously gets all the rewards mainly because they stacked population?

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Handin.4032

ROCKS

because

ROCKS

All of the SMC gates were doing that for a while…it was very trippy…

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Stop with ascended stuff

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I’ve looked at the way they’re introducing ascended weapons, and it seems like they’re doing it in the RIGHT way. There is really no grind or gate, and people from any playstyle can get them. They said it takes ~2 weeks to make, and with champion bags, etc, people from PvE or WvW can get them. They even made it so we get the mats from taking camps, towers or keeps!

So, you can really take your time to make it, without grinding. Dulfy’s site has a great post about the crafting mats, and its not like you need 250 of a bunch of random crafting supplies. You should be able to get all the mats you want by just playing the game normally. The only “grind” is getting your crafting to 500.

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8/30 Tarnished Coast/Maguuma/Fort Aspenwood

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Handin.4032

which thread is the official one? o.o

Well this was the first one made. Then the other one started to get filled with mostly the same people just spamming the thread insulting TC, calling TC guilds out saying they stink, and in general just overall flaming and troll baiting. So, you can pick which thread you want to stay alive for the one. The one which has been filled with 30+ posts of Mag people insulting TC people..or this one (Where I will try to give announcements for events, etc in the topic and try to make the thread actually useful!)

But the choice is yours, and eventually a moderator will close one of them (I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet).

On another note, I had some great fun in MagBL defending our hills and laying random supply traps all over the place! Best use of badges ever!

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8/30 Tarnished Coast/Maguuma/Fort Aspenwood

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Handin.4032

Nerds

Does your character actually have flashy/shiny pants? Cause that’d be AWESOME!

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8/30 Tarnished Coast/Maguuma/Fort Aspenwood

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Handin.4032

sista is the greatest.

Eh? o.O What do you mean? haha

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8/30 Tarnished Coast/Maguuma/Fort Aspenwood

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Thanks tc for another week of boring wvwvw…..

Hopefully it’s not boring Mix things up, hold some silly events, whatever!

Plus, in the middle of the week SAB and crafting 500 is coming out…so…lots of us will probably get busy in SAB-land!!

I look forward to see what FA has planned this week for that

Well, FA never does event’s like that. Honestly, the only event i’ve seen on FA is when YOU guys were doing the yak thing. That was the most people we’ve had on a bl that wasn’t a reset night.

And the middle of the week will be the worst… TC will still have more people.

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Thanks tc for another week of boring wvwvw…..

Hopefully it’s not boring Mix things up, hold some silly events, whatever!

Plus, in the middle of the week SAB and crafting 500 is coming out…so…lots of us will probably get busy in SAB-land!!

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BTW FA: You better start stock piling those golems :P We expect an army of them at the dolyak parade!

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Handin.4032

Official, you say

To be fair, you got the last thread :P and mine was up first hahaha

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Handin.4032

woo no more cd tc forum QQ

everyone GLHF this week

What is GLHF? o.O

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Handin.4032

Have a great match up! Try to keep the forums clean!

Nice to see kittenain (I expect you all to bring it Thursday!)

And its great to see #MagSwag again! Have a fantastic week!

NOTE If you want me to post any announcements, lemme know!

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8/23: TC/CD/FA

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Its not a proper Dolyak parade unless we are there to attack you.

At this point its tradition and will forever tie our servers together.

The occasional tears we still get are a bonus, but a bit surprising…figuring you know this is going to happen.

Most people who get upset are new to the parades so they didn’t know we were expecting it..but we were

The BEST part of the parade for me was when I was told by the parades advance scouts that you guys had 70+ at our north camp waiting with 7 ballista. I started laughing so hard just because we didn’t expect it!

HOWEVER FA, this means next time you’ll have to STEP IT UP! We will expect an FA army of alpha and omega golems.

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8/23: TC/CD/FA

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Pics of the parade!

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8/23: TC/CD/FA

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This Dolyak parade is as much a TC tradition as it is an FA one.

Animal control [YAK] is always on duty! /salute to the fine protectors of Fort Aspenwood.

Honestly, it actually makes me happy that FA made YAK A guild that is guaranteed to wiping the parade…an RP….guild So all of those FA can’t bash TC for RPing, you guys do it! But honestly, I have fun regardless!

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8/23: TC/CD/FA

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if just one person rages over what just happened then my life is complete

A lot of us who have been here for a while just have fun with it and expect it However, not all TCers have been around for a while so aren’t used to it, or didn’t know that we knew you guys would do it. I mean, FA is just RP’ing with us! You even have an RP guild for it

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8/23: TC/CD/FA

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PSA: The dolyak parade will start to gather in 50 minutes (7 PM server time) at TCBL, south of the south camp!

was my first parade, pretty cool…question though was the parade getting slaughtered by a FA zerg part of the plan?

Basically. About 6 hours before hand I started contact a bunch of guilds here to get bodyguards, scouts, etc. We knew full well what was going to happen However, we were NOT expect the 70+ Animal Control BLOB that FA spawned from the pit of Yak hell! hahaa! I’ll upload pics later! Great fun!

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8/23: TC/CD/FA

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PSA: The dolyak parade will start to gather in 50 minutes (7 PM server time) at TCBL, south of the south camp!

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8/23: TC/CD/FA

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PSA: The Dolyak parade will be TODAY at 7 PM Server Time (10 PM EST)

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Perplexity needs to be changed.

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This rune is a serious problem in WvW at the moment. I’ve played several hours of wvw roaming in the last 2 days and it seems like 50% of my opponents (especially warriors, thiefes and ingis) are using this new rune.

I’ve never had problems with 1v1 fights in the past but with this rune most fights are a joke and I have zero chance to win against opponents with this rune. Combat usually starts with some interrupts for 10+ confusion. A good player can often interrupt my heal skill or condi remove for even more confusion and if i happen to successfully cast a condi remove I usually get 10 new stacks immediately.

This is obviously completely overpowered.

If you look at other confusion sources in the game this is even more obvious: Mesmer confusion usually lasts for 3-5s and only one single skill (scepter 3) can apply 5 stacks of confusion.

Please, dear developers nerf this rune in the next patch! It completely ruins small scale combat at the moment. A internal cooldown and reduced duration to 3-5 s would be very nice.

50%? o.O Is your opponent only running condition classes? o.O.

Last night on TCBL, there was a very large 3 way fight between CD, FA and CD (over 20 people each server, in open field, VERY fun!). I never had more than 10 stacks of confusion on me, and I don’t run a condition clear. And with those 10 stacks, I pulled back for a second.

In a 1v1, they CAN be strong, however, your opponent has to focus on doing damage with confusion and doing interupts.

Yes, these runes are powerful and need to be tweaked (I think a 5-10 second ICD wouldn’t be so bad). However, are the coming of the WvW apocalypse that people here have been proclaiming? No. This is the SAME kind of speach used against glamour mesmers, or ANYTHING to do with confusion, EVER. The moment people start using confusion, the forums go ABLAZE! However, you rarely see threads like “I was chain feared, then loaded with a 4 conditions instantly”…or “one _ stacked 25 _ (bleeds), and I died. It’s OP”, or “I got chain stunned and couldn’t do anything, nerf stuns!”. There’s just something about confusion which makes people go mad…it doesn’t even do guaranteed damage!

When I used to run a shatter/glamour confusion build a long time ago, I could stack 22+ confusion on a target. The smart ones would run back and wait, then strike me. The not-so smart ones would hitting “1” and die in 4 seconds.

tl;dr: Yes, the runes are powerful and need some tweaking. Just be calm and wait, it’ll come. Most of the fuss is just because it’s confusion, and people get all crazy the moment they see confusion on their bar and seem to have a mini-stroke. People have a problem with confusion, not really this rune. If this rune instead did a bleed on interupt, no one WOULD SAY ANYTHING.

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Commander UI and Sub-commanders

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Posted by: Handin.4032

Handin.4032

I’d be worried about 1 commander per map. How would that be decided, if for instance, 3 people are on the map with the same commander requirements? First come, first serve? And what would the requirements be to make it so that the people who are the “omni”-commanders are actually people interested/experienced in commanding?

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7 red topic in WvW forum?

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Handin.4032

What’s happening? They realized WvW is part of the game ?

Good one!

I think you just did this to add another red topic to the front page….

I see through you.

I’m going to assume that is a comment on my skin pigment and that is offensive!

OO! Content idea: translucent skin color!

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Would be great if Arenanet...

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Handin.4032

Honestly, I don’t stay at 25 stacks for long. Do you know what we say in mumble when we see someone with 25 stacks? “Get him! +60 WXP!”. 25 stacks is just a big beacon about how much juicy WXp you’re worth!

Plus, I find more utility in the “on dodge” or “on kill” skills, like more endurance, or a heal with every kill, etc…The premise of this that people stay at 25 stacks from the moment they enter WvW to when they leave..which they rarely do

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8/23: TC/CD/FA

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Handin.4032

I think TC’s reputation as recruiting to push into T1 is totally uncalled for. TC’s recruiting push to me was more about never losing. Yes, those type of people/guilds transfered to TC. People that want to win but rarely have to matchup with somebody higher ranked with themselves. Those looking for an easier wvw experience.

The tears coming from this type of post used to be delicious awhile ago – now they are just stale…

If I wanted to bite, I would say that whatever server your kind self is from is certainly giving us an “easier” wvw experience… but that would be too easy, eh.

Every server below you gives you an easier wvw experience. That’s what the recruiting was for. When matched up with servers closer to your population and coverage (T1 servers are closer than T2 servers) those T1 servers get an easier wvw as well.

Actually, when we started facing T1 servers and losing, a lot of the people active were transfer guilds…they didn’t just disappear.
We recruit for the same reason every server recruits…we want to have more people! It’s not about winning, or losing. Some of the people who have transferred have become some of the people I play in game with most!!
Maybe, instead of a saying we recruiting a bunch of people who just want an easy win, you should ask why they didn’t go to your server? TC has never, as far as I’ve known (and I’ve been around TC for a long long time), BOUGHT guilds, nor have we ever offered gold for them to come. Frankly, we wouldn’t really like those people. What happens? Well, people guest to TC to see how it is, and is faced with a really fun, totally diverse population. There’s something for everyone here, with very little judging. We’re a friendly server, and we love to have fun! At least, those are the biggest reasons I’ve heard from people who have transfered here. If they wanted to stack a server to win in T2, they could have gone to any of the T2 servers, but they came to TC, without bribes…well, except bribes of yummy noms!

I for one am so glad TC has gotten all the transfers. There are many fantastic people I have gotten to know from them transfering! Win or lose, it doesn’t matter. However, we have so much fun regardless! (Even during T1 when we were outmatched we were still doing the fun silly stuff!)

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8/23: TC/CD/FA

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Handin.4032

I’ve been having lots of fun so far tonight in CDBL! You guys really fought to get all of your stuff back And it was very fun to be chased around you bay for a long time..I finally got nailed when I swapped to my trident on accident and lost my in-water mobility

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8/23: TC/CD/FA

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Handin.4032

I have to give lots of props to the thief from UP. When we were “ninja” cata’ing your hills with 4 of us, he kept HS’ing around inner and spam repaired! Then when we pushed into the LR, he didn’t run, but went with us and tried his best to delay us! I commend you for not just giving up and running off, but staying to fight until you died!

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What the point in ascended?

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Posted by: Handin.4032

Handin.4032

casual players always make this mistake.

ascended is for fractals. thats why agony infusions was the FIRST infusions to be added.

we need ascended gear to do higher lvl fractals.

they just made new non agony resistance based infusions for the ppl who complained us skilled players had shiny things and they dont have shiny things.

same thing happend with liadri.

so TLDR

ascended for fractal runners for agony resistance

Did you just equate fractal farming with being more skillful? o.O (Just something I noticed that I hoped was joking/sarcasm lol)

Anyways, besides that comment, people here are right. Ascended is for fractals. If ascended weapons don’t have sigils, then they’d be much less powerful than exotics with sigils in pvp/WvW and PvE (though honestly in PvE for dungeons stuff like sigils rarely matter as long as you have a decent group…). Ascended gear was made basically for the people who came from the more “traditional” MMO’s that really like having a vertical grind, so they made fractals and ascended gear to let those players farm a small set of content for their vertical grind. If you’re not interested in farming fractals, theres very little benefit to getting ascended gear.

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Celestial gear is ruined

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Posted by: Handin.4032

Handin.4032

They announced this change quite some time ago. So, anyone who invested in celestial/MF gear for PvE farming after that really has nothing to say. They gave players AMPLE warning about this. It’s not like they said:
“Oh, tomorrow all your MF still will be gone. Sorry”

This has been known about for quite some time (around early July-ish?).

So, if you invested a LOT of gold into making full celestial, JUST FOR THE MF, well….that’s on you. I don’t feel sorry for anyone that focuses their gear on MF…at all.

Plus, wouldn’t you MF guys be happy? Now you can find PERMANENT MF boosters and temporary ones as random drops, etc…so you don’t HAVE to have it as the armor. So, yeah, your stats on celestial gear for MF will be gone, but why add buffs? If they buffed the defensive/offensive stats by “10%” they would be quite unbalanced. You could add 10-20% MF on any piece of armor and the combat balance wouldn’t change. Adding combat boosts to compensate for removing a small non-combat boost would be ridiculous. If they add a boost, it should be non-combat. Maybe a boost that every time you get hit you have a 10% chance of spawning a little baby quaggan that says “You’re my hero!”…idk..or maybe add a small bonus for out of combat run speed, or +karma.

TL;DR: Adding combat stat advantages which were balanced initially to compensate for removing non-combat stats would just be insane, and most likely unbalance that armor in combat (where you know..the balance matters. If you have +50% MF on your gear, it won’t give you any advantage in combat)

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8/23: TC/CD/FA

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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 CD has came out in good numbers, and even FA has started to RP with us TC’ers, so lets make this week a great one!

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 (8/29) 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!

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