Guild Wars 2

Banzie.5248:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Banzie.5248:

They do.. Its what people call bags in wvw, You know those things people talk about in your match up threads, How much bags they get.. At level 80 all bags will have a chance to drop T5, T6 (And nowT 7 I guess) Crafting materials.

T7 mats will be “created” from lower level mats. Do you really have enough?

Anet is talking about putting “special” mats at the end of jumping puzzles. Real WvW players don’t do jumping puzzles except to gank players from the other servers. Are you really going to get “enough” of these special mats from WvW?

Well, Considering I get ~250 bags a day in wvw, Im good on mats lol, Sure T6 dont drop much from the heavy bags, But its better then roaming the world. Not to mention with the update on dungeons I can get 10g in no time within 45min, No exotics included. Could always just buy the needed mats. HOWEVER Im not disagreeing that WvW is still the bottom of the tier in how much Anet cares. Yet, I see them improving it slowly but surely, It may not be as fast or amazing as people expect, But people forget Gw2 is suppose to not have any expansions, its all live updates to the one current game youhave. The game will be around for years. Just because the first year was kittenty, doesnt mean the next 5 will be

I get plenty of bags, but if you need a bunch (stacks) of T6 mats to make T7 mats for the stuff, then the bags are fairly worthless. I get lots of T5 mats, but rarely get T6 mats.

if you get them from salvaging lvl 80 armor/weapons, then PvE is still king. You can fill a bag of lvl 80 items in just a few minutes. If they take rares, then we’re still screwed. Out of a full night of WvW’ing, I might only get 2-3 rares, at MOST.

However, they could do something useful and have us be able to trade in BoH for bags of a few t7 mats.

There are some valid points, such as:
1) if a ANYONE is targeted and stealths, when he re-appears, he should have the target back on him. Imagine if every time when a mesmer did a clone-dodge, the target reticule came off? It’d be quite annoying!
2) if ANYONE is in stealth and it attacks, it should remove stealth no matter what. Hit, miss, block, evade, etc.
3) If they are hit in stealth, then at least something (even a noise) should be made to indicate that you at least HIT the thief, without going to the combat log. Maybe not knock them out of stealth, but at least let you know you hit (blood drip, etc)

I play with stealth on my mesmer all the time, and it is probably the most powerful form on stealth in any MMO I’ve played (lotro and sw:tor before this), mostly because the stealth is entirely incombat, can be spammed constantly, and what is mentioned above. However, stealth is OP, by any means. It’s annoying, and slightly inbalanced, regardless of the class with stealth.

I went to bed last night thinking “wow, 2 days and only 3 pages worth of forum? Whats going on?! We should get these forums more active!”..I guess I shoulda been more specific, eh? :P

scootshoot.6583:

If Anet was really concerned about the impact of throwaway level 1 trolls on their 2nd account or trial period all they need to do is up the level requirement required to zone into WvW.

I don’t think this would be very good, because then there will be a huge debate about what level it should be, etc…I know several people who leveled entire characters from 5-80 using only WvW.

Another option would be for them to have a couple of employees (or even player-employee’s like there are in some game) who would act as GMs. Whenever there is multiple reports of certain people grieving on a map, they could pop in, see whats going on. Most of the time it only takes a few minutes to see what’s happening. This would result in fairly quick action.

WyldKat.4712:

We’ll forgive a lot for Waffles.

Idk..Im a pancake person…

I never even used the communication device…

TC right now has had 4 grievers going around the borderlands. They come in, suicide golems, give false information, and build loads of rams to drain the supply. All are upleveled players with mostly bad/obvious troll names.

Honestly, if anet is going to keep doing fre trials, they have to find a way to actual stop grievers in WvW. Free players grieving paying players is never a good model, especially if it is never stopped.

Reporting the account seems to do NOTHING. I remember in the past people would report the troll, and yet days later the person is still there, after lots of people report, with pictures, etc. Anet rarely seems to ever enforce anything in WvW.

So, if its only periodic for a couple days every few months, wtv…but if its a stepping stone to them offering long term free periods (like free to a max level of 20, etc), then they’ll have to start to actually enforce grieving in WvW.

Hm…seems like EB’s got some spies on the TC side… (I’m not gonna put the names of the players here, or accuse a server since it could just be trolls….), but, here’s a pic.

It appears either a server, or some trolls, are really taken advantage of the free weekend. Very saddening.

DevonCarver.5370:

Fixes for these are being worked on. As well as changes to the WvW achievements to make them more in line with all the other achievements in the game. And to reward a suitable amount of achievement points. However, making changes to achievements that are already live is far more complicated than it would seem and we have focused on other areas so far. This is on our list to fix by the end of the year, however.

Will the be emphasis to try to make them as retro-active as possible, so that someone who has played WvW for a year, or more by that time, will have the AP’s to show that? We have a situation where doing a JP (which takes a few minutes) is worth the same number of AP’s as, for instance, capping 2,500 supply camps. Before achievement points gave rewards, it wasn’t a big deal, but since you can now get a decent amount of gold, and new skins, badges, etc from AP’s, I think this is again a very critical issue that shows the imbalance between rewards for PvE and WvW (especially with the new farm-based LS events).

A problem is that even after, for instance, the pirate morale has been depleted, there is still a lot of pirates around. Ive seen several times people still run around to the pirates or MA after they no longer count to farm the champs.

kRAVen.4195:

Handin.4032:

To the CD warrior from GDAM, I’d like to say it was great fun running around trying to get you I’ve never seen a warrior just run around in a keep for fun haha! Very good fun trying to chase ya down!

Thank you. Could have gone on much longer if not for that clever dolyak trap. I though y’all were playing friendly so i kitten potioned up only to be attacked 4v1 then moa’ed. Then came the expected ceremonial dance/laugh/potion on my body (calling you out NOPE).

Oh I wasn’t laughing on your body or potioning on your body to look down on you I didn’t see you potion if I did I wouldn’t have attacked! As for me tonic’ing, I run around the BL’s alot when not in combat as a dolyak I had lots of fun chasing you around, and I think it was you who later found me hiding in your NE tower?

To the CD warrior from GDAM, I’d like to say it was great fun running around trying to get you I’ve never seen a warrior just run around in a keep for fun haha! Very good fun trying to chase ya down!

Have a fantastic match y’all! Look forward to the fights!

It’s nice to see CD again, and oddly, its actually great to see kittenain!

NOTE If anyone wants to put any sort of announcements up here, such as events, or GvG results (with both parties consenting), let me know and I can add them here!

For your enjoyment, the golden dolyak watching the garrison gate seemingly endlessly exploding.

lioka qiao.8734:

They got sPvP chocolate in my WvW Peanut Butter!

Depends on what the bloodlust buff does whether I like what this is. If those capture points add 5 points per tick they’ll be fought over for sure.

I doubt they’ll be that much, probably just some extra buff. But whats wrong with adding more capping points, away from keeps? I like it, it’ll make people less likely to get their keeps/towers upgraded and just turtle them, which gets boring real fast…

Ayusaki.6739:

Saw this on reddit, took me a moment to realize this changed too.

Wow! It looks like they redid the maps quite a bit…that looks so cool! I hope they added more terrain, more chokes, more fun! I’ve always felt the terrain was a bit flat (in texture, not in up and down hills)..though now I might not be able to blink places hehe :P

PSA: The TC Dolyak parade will be in 1 HOUR on TCBL!! We meet up around south camp! Come have some fun!

I was extremely disappointed with this “infinite” tonic. I have several of them that I’ve worked to get (I like to collect tonics), and after working a lot ot get this one, I was really disappointed when it only lasted 5 minutes, and then it had a 25 minute CD! For the only major reward for the LS, besides just endlessly farming champions in a ‘spam 1’ type of event, it’s really quite the let down.

Does anyone know if the zones happen in a specific order? Or if they’re purely random?

PSA The Dolyak parade will be TODAY at 7 PM Server Time!

Once again sorry for the late notice…work interefered with Dolyak’ing!

Weekly Tarnished Coast Dolyak Parade
Once again this week there will be another dolyak parade!

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 (8/22) at 7 PM ST (yes 1 hour later)
• 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! I apologize profusely for being late with the announcement, I’ve been SWAMPED with work!

5 invasions: I made 30g. 5 hours of WvW: I can make ~2-3g (unless I get a lucky drop).

invasions: spam 1 WPing around. WvW: sometimes spam 1, have to try to survive.

So, if you want money, its always faster and easier to do PvE, especially since the LS stuff is basically just a champion farm.

Is this a delayed thread about the runes of perplexity?

If so, then the argument of stabilty to confusion is somewhat valid since it wouldn’t apply the confusion to you if you have stability.

That being said, confusion is easily avoided, especially if you actually have condition clears and heals, etc that an ele has. Since the new runes come out, I haven’t had a single issue with lots of stacks of confusion from interupts, and I’m a mesmer that runs NO stability OR condition removal. What seems to happen a lot on the forums is someone doesn’t have a good fight, gets 15-20 stacks of confusion on them and then dies from not pulling back for a short time, then they come and say how OP it is (not just tlaking about confusion, but many many many things). The rune’s really aren’t all that bad, especially since the person basically has to focus on interupts..so if you notice they’re using the runes, take advantage of that

It was stated somewhere in one of the dev responses recently that armor skins take quite abit of development time so they aren’t focusing of that.

Whether or not that’s true, I’m not sure..(you figure they could at least make 1 armor set in 1 year….), but that was their response. I’d look for the response, but I’m at work haha

Have a great match everyone! Nice to see you all again!

The guantlet is permanent. It will be like the other minigames, so they should nerf the farming sooner rather than later. Or else there will be weeks when the minigame is picked that people will just farm it for massive amounts of money.

If the content was entirely temporary, it wouldn’t be as big of an issue.

PSA: The Dolyak parade will be happening in ~1 hr in TCBL, gathering near the south camp!

PSA: Dolyak parade will be TONIGHT at 7 PM ST

In general, when you have PERMANENT content, the last thing you want is a sure way for people to exploit the mechanics of that content (it’s not AN exploit, but its taking advantage of a certain mechanic) to get lots of money very fast. This can play havoc on the markets very fast if people can start to farm up to 100g+ very fast.

Even as a mesmer, half trying, I can do a 4 gambit run in ~45 seconds, and not even in zerker gear. And a 4 gambit runs costs 5 tickets, and will give me ~10-15 sprockets back, and ~50-60s. Even if you had to rebuy all your tickets and sprockets you’re doing especially a 30s+ profit every 45 seconds. It’s very easy to see how this could quickily mess with the economy, and also make it so that people who play certain classes that can do this easily get a lot more money than others.

With thieves right now it’s very easy because they can chain blind them (same with glamour mesmers who trait for blinds btw).

I think this would work ONLY if the cap acted in the same way as level cap. So you’d hit rank 250, no longer get “ranks”, but keep getting WXp points.

If yup cap the amount of WXp points you can have, it drastically limits what people can do with the WXp limits (some take 200!), especially if there is no way to reset them like skill points. IF there was a cheap-ish way to reset, then people could do different WXp “specs”. Offensive specs, defensive specs, etc. Right now, since there is no reste method, you need as many points as you can get so you can have all those benefits.

Weekly Tarnished Coast Dolyak Parade
Once again this week there will be another dolyak parade!

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 (8/15) at 7 PM ST (yes 1 hour later)
• 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!

Sorry for doing this bump, but I had a friend from my server who saw this and noticed it wasn’t up to par (with some of the resent changes). The original build was still in the post and I’ve greatly modified it from being a confusion build to a reflection build!

I’ve had lots of success with this, and lots of fun! (Running into a zerg, popping distortion and laughing while they try to kill me..then blinking to safety!)

I also didn’t want to make a new thread for basically the same build, with just different trait focuses.

Mesmers can still do this fairly easily with 3-4 gambits

Rimu.7105:

Some people provide tips or advice on getting it done Bovinity, I already got the answer to the question I needed though, its just the only mini I will be missing, doesnt seem like theres a way around it so … -shrugs-

You obviously didn’t do a search of this forum before posted. There are several threads where people are giving out LOADS of information. There’s even a thread called like Liadri club or something like that where people are posting THEIR BUILDS and skills and techniques they used!

Why should you get something that others had to work hard to get in the game? The fight isn’t impossible…it really isn’t. People of all classes have been able to beat her. You have to learn, and adapt. Not every build will be useful against her, so you have to change what you do. IF you go in there doing the same thing with the same build 40 times, you will fail. Dulfy’s site has a GREAT write up on the patterns for the one shot AoE’s. This forum has lot sof advice on how to deal with the weakness, etc.

So stop asking for stuff you’d want, but you can’t do the achievement. I’d LOVE to have the radiant helm, but I accept that it’ll require 9,000 achievement points and I wouldn’t ask for an alternative, probably EASIER way to get it. I’d love all the exotic mini’s, but I don’t wanna spend the gems or hundreds of gold, or have to the time to farm all of it, but I wouldn’t ask for an alternative way to get them. (Plus, why would it make sense to get the Liadri mini by doing something totally unrelated to her? )

There’s plenty of advice. Learn, adapt. It took me ~30 tries, and I tried 2 different builds which didn’t help. I got advice, swapped to a build and it made it REALLY easy (and I’m a squishy mesmer!)

I’ve found if you go to the same arena it seems like the orbs always spawn in the same place.

Once I learned the fight, the only thing that seemed random was sometimes I had a clone spawn like right on me, but there could be a pattern to where her clones spawn that I was just too busy to notice.

There is some RNG: sometimes you get hit with more cripples than other times, however if you plan for the worst, it shouldn’t bad. You don’t even need zerkers gear to beat it, I did it in PTV

I’m a mesmer and I didn’t even use centaur runes and I beat her. Once I switched to a phantasm build, and learned the pattern, it was relatively easy. Just keep running during p2 as a mesmer..if you get crippled use focus #4 and then just keep spawning a bunch of phantasms. In the end the phantasms do all the work and you just rely on condition removal and focus #4 to keep kiting.

Once you learn the patter and get a feel for the fight, using a phantasm mesmer with even a tiny bit of condition removal, it’s really quite simple (especially if you trait such that you can spawn phantasms at a really fast rate). Using the centaur runes just made it easier…but the liadri fight was almost built for mesmers to use phantasms (anyone notice she’s kind of a phantasm + focus pull mesmer herself? :P Her phantasms are very powerful, they just have to hit you!)

At least after this they cant do anymore siege masteries, besides Golem…

I’m predicting next update:
Trap master:
1) Traps have 25% higher range
2) Laying down traps takes 25% less time
3) Traps ping map when set off
4) Supply trap removes all supply
5) Stealth trap applies cripple

Just sayin….My prediction.

Chris.3290:

Can we all take a moment to breathe a sigh of relief that an actual change to the map is in the works…I mean an actual change in topography!

Yeah, a bonus mechanic for more powerful servers is not necessarily a good thing; but if the orbquest if fun and innovative, I can forgive it.

Plus do not miss the fact that if they are changing the terrain in the BL’s, that new maps are probably not much further behind. The lake is already ~1/5 of the map, and the conceptual work on a new map is not hard. The grueling parts is balancing what they want to do with what they can do; and trying to keep some semblance of balance.

After the lake, I hope we see changes to the Skritt and Centaur areas as well. As someone suggested last week, they should at least make them mercenaries.

All of the dev’s promises is starting to remind me of lotro’s PvMP. There the devs kept saying “Ah yes _ is in development”, “We’re making you a new map!”, etc…year and year. Then instead of doing all of that they made the game f2p and allowed people to buy the skills you’d have to get by ranking up your character. Just sayin’. Ive played MMO’s long enough to see a dev’s forum promises with a very small grain of hope

Honestly people, even when I was in large 40v40 fights, I was NEVER getting more than 4-5 stacks of confusion.

All of these people saying warriors CAN get 25 stacks need to go out and see how often it ACTUALLY happens in WvW…I didn’t experience any of the doomsday scenarios people are talk about even when in very large fights…

In theory, mesmers can still stack 25 stacks of confusion. Heck, I used to be able to do that when I ran a full confusion build. But how often did it actually happen? Rarely. If the person did 1 dodge at the right time, it was back to 0, etc…

During the entire reset night, I didn’t hear anyone on my server saying they were insta-dying from 25 stacks of confusion that were continually on them, etc…I think this is just like the old glamour mesmer threads: all doomsday, very little evidence that the doomsday stuff happens on a semi-frequent basis, and even more doomsday. The runes need some tweaking, but they’re new, therefore people PANIC! But remember, DON’T PANIC, and ADJUST

Profanity.8016:

DevonCarver.5370:

Let’s just say you should get your krait killing in now.

Oh god…. I’ve seen that wink before… Don’t fall for it guys…

The Karka are coming to WvW!!!!!!!!

The champions in all the keeps/towers will become champion karka :P

Playing during reset tonight, I was never in the situation where I was getting loads of confusion…or even a little. These runes are useable by only very specific builds in which they start to focus that (warrior interupts, mesmer confusion, engi interupts), and there are always hard counters. Confusion is a condition, it can be removed like any other condition. The best part about it is that unlike any other condition, if you move away and not attack while removing it, it does NO damage! If you have bleeds, then even if you stop attacking and try to remove it, you’ll still take damage!

All these threads just remind me of the old glamour threads…
The runes need some tweaking, sure…but are they massively OP? Definitely not. It basically just needs a CD on the confusion on interupt (say ~10-15 seconds).

Condition duration is fairly useless in WvW with the large amount of condition removal. The only change the rune needs is an ICD for the interrupt confusion (if it has one, it should be longer).

But giving an extra +15% confusion duration will be fairly useless in WvW in the end.

Have a fantastic match all! Keep the match clean!

It’s very nice to see DB and MagSwag again!

The confusion proccing has a CD of 15 seconds, though I’m not sure what the CD is for the confusion on interruption that you seen to be able to get as well

I’ve noticed if you click on the ringmaster, he appears to have a “buff” on him which tells you how long the queue is.

BrunoBRS.5178:

beating liadri should give you a “gauntlet’s champion” title, for bragging rights. the mini is cool, but until ANet makes minis an equippable item instead of a collectible, they won’t catch on.

I agree with this! You don’t actually need to defeat liadri for the 2 gold, you just need a lot of the entrance tickets for gambits

However, for Liadri, instead of a mini, I would have either loved:
1) A title
2) A set of achievement armor skins (yes! Not those cheap 1 time use ones, but ones you can keep spawning) so you can get armor skins with the shadow look
or 3) a dye which is unlocked for your entire account which gives you a shadow look (which could lead into exotic dyes which give cool unique effects similar to legendary weapons)

seandkiller.8471:

Handin.4032:

They didn’t fix the bugs with Adnul after people asked for the entire event, so I doubt very much that they’ll fix these bugs.

What ever dev thought it was a good idea to put the gauntlet in an area that encourages massive zerging and farming below is a genius. Pure genius! It’s great that someone who has to turn down their graphics every time a legendary spawns just to see the red-on-grey AoE circles

If I remember right, didn’t they address a bug that caused him to use his special more than he should?

He was riddled with them, but that was probably the worst..and they still never fixed it. They never had a dev address the bugs on the forums, so I doubt very much that any of these will be addressed, I mean, they gotta work over time on the next 2-4 week living story event where they get people in a zone, throw a bunch of mobs, point and say “farm”

They didn’t fix the bugs with Adnul after people asked for the entire event, so I doubt very much that they’ll fix these bugs.

What ever dev thought it was a good idea to put the gauntlet in an area that encourages massive zerging and farming below is a genius. Pure genius! It’s great that someone who has to turn down their graphics every time a legendary spawns just to see the red-on-grey AoE circles

To the IRON who are killing people for the dolyak parade: are you guys that desparate to get kills you have to kill people who are not attacking back? Seriously…its really kinda sad. Yes, we’re in a pvp zone, that doesn’t make it any less sad…

PSA: The Dolyak parade will begin at 7 PM ST, in BGBL at the SOUTH camp

PSA: TC Dolyak Parade will be happening in 2 hours!

(Can any guild who has a GvG at 7 PM ST please send me a tell? Where GvG’s are happening helps a lot into deciding where the parade will be!)