Guild Wars 2

sminkiottone.6972:

Heizero.9183:

WvW is the only game mode with a direct counter to stealth in tactically necessary situations, so this whole thread is busted. Stealth traps people. If thieves are ruining your sieges learn to drop them and problem solved. If this is an issue with personal 1v1 battles against thieves though, this is the wrong place, and frankly it is more of a personal L2P issue at that point.

This is from a skilled thief XD.. yes I’m sure, only pro player run thief

When did i say anything like that? do you even read?

WvW is the only game mode with a direct counter to stealth in tactically necessary situations, so this whole thread is busted. Stealth traps people. If thieves are ruining your sieges learn to drop them and problem solved. If this is an issue with personal 1v1 battles against thieves though, this is the wrong place, and frankly it is more of a personal L2P issue at that point.

A few members of my guild and I are looking to relocate from our current server to one that feels much more active in WvW. My guildmates and I specialize in small team fights and are all extremely skilled at our roles, and working for objectives as a small team. It is not uncommon for us to be on the winning end of 4 vs 10+ scenarios, us being the 4. We are looking for a server with an active WvW community that feels like less of a struggle than our current home.

The reason i post this is because GoM has been my only server since launch and i really don’t know anything about other servers except for the ones we have fought (talking recently of course).

So far i have looked into T1 servers but i think i have swayed away from that out of fear for skill lag, ankitten ow focusing mostly on DB, FA, SoS, or SBI.

If anybody could give me any valuable information on these servers and which could be the better choice, and why, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

jweez.7214:

BlueStoat.9157:

please post you system specs if you’re having issues. I build my PC 4 yeasrs ago and other than upgrading the GPU 2 years ago and dropping in an SSD last year, I haven’t upgraded anything since Ibuilt it. I’m running great except the super zergs where I drop to about 25 fps on high settings. Once we figure out where your system is lacking you’ll know where to spend your money to get it running smoothly. If all else fails drop your graphcs settings for the zerg events and pop ’em back up after.

I would post my specs but this isn’t really supposed to be a “help me improve my performance post”. Sorry sometimes I do write unclear. I appreciate your willingness to help though! What I wanted this thread to be about was a discussion on the-what I believe to be-disconnect between what they are putting out as content (large zerg raids), and the performance of the average gw2 players pc. What are your thoughts? Do you think there is a disconnect? If so do you think it we should just come to expect that as mmorpg players? Do you think that most people can run these events even on low settings and get a decent experience? I want to know what you guys think.

There is no disconnect. i have a mid-range rig and run perfectly. Games progress and so does technology. Upgrade a part once a year and you are fine. you can’t expect to enjoy everything to the fullest with an 8 year old rig, THAT is the disconnect to reality people have.

I play on a lower tier server so i don’t really experience this, is there just a massive amount of skill lag all the time? or is it just primetime when the 3 servers smash into each other?

TyPin.9860:

following this link exotic items stats are 165% of basic item stats. The ascended stats are at 175%. So that makes ascended 6,06% better than exotic items. Also your can put extra infusions on ascended stuff. Making ascended items additionally better.

Ascended infusions are crap doe. Anyways i have Incinerator, and all my accessory slots ascended. tbh i don’t notice that much of a difference at all. Maybe an extra 500 damage on my backstab is about the most, IF that. My guard still only has exotic, and he hits like a truck regardless. i have never felt handicapped in anyway for not having ascended, it’s just unrealistic.

I play on GoM, and skill lag is usually pretty rare save for the times we have huge 3 zerg clashes on reset night. So i was wondering if servers higher up the pole (Tier 1, Tier 2) experience skill lag on maps like EB regularly?

Yes i played GW1 for years, and yes i really love the new ascended gear. Come at me.

Nikkinella.8254:

Fishbait.6723:

JonathanSharp.7094:

I think Mes and Ele are probably ok for the most part, as long as we tone down the conditions output from some classes, and bring the S/D Thief in line.

Wow, just wow….

I know. I threw up a little in my mouth reading that. S/D thief isn’t a problem anyway. Its the only type of thief that actually is fun to fight against for me since it actually requires some semblance of intelligence to use unlike the brainless 5,2,1 spam D/P , troll stealth spam build. THAT is what needs to be brought in line. Not S/D. Are we even playing the same game here Jonathan?

Right…because 2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,33,3,3,2 isn’t “brainless”. Either way there are only 5 weapon skills and there are only so many ways they can be used.

Chrispy.5641:

Andele.1306:

Scoobaniec.9561:

Lol guys.. 2h weapons actually can have a bit highter base dmg, but its doesnt mean they do highter dps than 1h.

For warrior highter dps combo is axe+mace.

Many skills on 1h actually does highter damage than 2h.

No actually every single two handed weapon has higher total damage than any one handed…

Which explains why Sword on Ranger does more damage than the greatsword or Longbow, right?

LB is ranged, all ranged weapons deal significantly lower damage than melee weapons. And greatswords autoattack does strike harder than the 1h sword. check gw2 wiki for the damage coefficients and you can see:http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Greatsword
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sword

Josh Foreman.6542:

The Tribulation Mode skins are color-shifted variants of the regular set. Each World has a color. Blue is the general SAB color (so not gained through Tribulation Mode), Green is World 1, Yellow World 2, Red World 3 and Purple World 4. This follows the Bauble value color scale. But don’t get your hopes up for getting the Tribulation color variants. Tribulation Mode is ridiculously difficult and time consuming. I don’t expect to see many green or yellow super skins out there. TM is there for a very small group of people who are into that sort of thing.

YEEESSSSS!!! PURPLE! YOU SAID THE MAGIC WORD! PURPLE DAGGER SKIN!!! i must have it…. i have been waiting for an awesome glowy purple dagger skin to match my whisperblade and ilya forever. oh yes. there is hope for daggers after all….

I like having it in qeue. It’s nearly a free win for me. =D

People still argue about down state…? Huh, guess i don’t think much of it since I’m a thief anyways.

In queen’s gauntlet players were making 100g+ a day EASY. Now that new sales are up in gem store, they are USING that gold to convert to gems, therefore causing the xchange rate to rise. It is basic economics. The more gold that enters the market, the less it is worth. How do people not understand this?

pinkglow.3429:

Heizero.9183:

What games are you playing…? In tournament games? you only see 1 thief on each team at the most. and they are usually S/D… Heartseeker spam is easily countered and a horrendous waste of initiative on the thieves part making them an extremely easy target afterwards…

In solo queues. Well they zerg and stealth all together, the 2-3 of them each team each game. Sure, it’s better than the backstab-oneshot combo that lasted way long. But still, the class is never balanced right, it’s always too much damage and too much escape. Stealth is an issue, I would like to have it removed from game, would probably make my mesmer a bit more interesting as well.

You must be low rating or something, because i can assure you higher up the tier, or even mid-tier you hardly see them. stealthing hurts the team considering it can’t contest a node, which is why 80% of thieves these days just run S/D evade builds.

Lol… too many people taking this thread seriously…learn to smell the troll unguent guys….

Engineers use this rune much better. i have watched them easily get up to 25 stacks witht he use of their own MANY confuse applying class skills, along with the abundance of CC they have. I think the Thief forums is the wrong place to bring it up tbh…

Working as intended. CnD stealths when it strikes a target. Any class can strike those walls, so any similiar “on-hit” effects for any class also work. For example:warriors building up adrenaline strikes.

What games are you playing…? In tournament games? you only see 1 thief on each team at the most. and they are usually S/D… Heartseeker spam is easily countered and a horrendous waste of initiative on the thieves part making them an extremely easy target afterwards…

Seriously. Just had a match where the enemy team had a leaver, and we SEEMED to have 5. We had a r2 free trial player which hardly counts… and then a r30+ guardian just sitting in spawn afk. he came back from afk 5 mins into the game just so he could type “kitten this back to youtube.” If this guy doesn’t deserve to be reported idk who does… comon Anet. just a simple report AFK feature would be much appreciated….

pinkglow.3429:

I came back to check out solo queue. Thieves everywhere heartseeker spamming, still viable since day 1 launch. And rest ranger/necro. Not fun, not balanced. Game is back on shelf again for me. Playing dota 2 instead, will probably log back after 3-4 months and check how things are again… maybe something happen. However, they really seem to have a hard time balancing those thieves, I think it’s mission impossible, if not done in a year… will it be easier in 2?

Heartseeker spamming…viable? Either troll or really awful.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Trading_Post

^It is inflation. the more players that spend gold for gems, the more it rises. the more that buy gems with money, the more the exchange rate drops…simple.

Fortus.6175:

Been playing since release, only gotten a few good drops, that is, exotics, at most 8, all worth less than 2 gold mind you, 3 of them were FoTM exotics which I couldnt sell of course.
As for precursor, I have given up on it, not an aqutic one dropped, not one. Thrown countless rares and exotics into the mystic toilet and pearl stuff is the only thing I ever get. Good luck my friend, because we definitely lack it.

edit I dont like to get into “conspiracies”, but my cousin who has less than 400 hours and plays every2 months already got a precursor, sold it for profits and has logged in 1 months, im expecting that once he logs in he gets another one. Maybe Anet rewards people who sta long time som good stuff so they feel an incentive to stay, and those who log every day or almost everyday get a DR since they are already “hooked” and dont need anything else…..I hope not and just that the RNG god just hates me…

I don’t think it’s the case. i had a hiatus of 2-3 months and when i came back i still had bad luck.

Ronah.2869:

If you have deleted the characters then the 1 year timer was re-seted

It doesn’t reset, it is only based on the age of the character.

Make sure you are logged onto the oldest CHARACTER. the anniversary is per character, not per account.

If you are playing a necro, you will probably have fun considering they are on the stronger side of things right now and have a hand in shifting the meta to the condi festival it currently is.

Yup. Pretty much.

Ok I Did It.2854:

There is a massive I mean MASSIVE difference between WvW and PvE for culling, you turn if on in WvW you are dead before you even see what hit you, in PvE you turn it off and you lag out so badly some people crash,

I have a fairly decent system, i7 3770k, 16Gb ram, SSD, 680GTX, and I still get lag issues with full culling turned off, I would really really love to know what super computer the Anet team have for testing with, its got to be something that could power a small city.

Weird. you have slightly better specs than me and i run everything on ultra completely without culling and have literally zero fps issues.

I just grabbed a full group on my server ran in, and 1 shotted all of those achieves without even trying to get them. The dungeon is kitten easy as a 5 man… why even bother trying to solo the achieves?

i5 3570k 4.1GHz and a GTX 650 ti. <— that is the hardware i run. not really high end stuff. basically mid-range, and i run everything ultra, with SMAA injectors, and the culling and character textures set to high. I play fine. better than ever. the cities feel alive, and i love it. If you have fps issues, just turn the settings down. not everybody is having those problems, and you either need to upgrade, or just learn that not everything can be sparkly on a lower tier system.

Nageth.5648:

I like the character but her debut wasn’t exactly handled well (oddly, this is the same problem Trahearne had…he is much better when you get the sylvari personal story with the rest of it). She just sort of pops out of no where and we’re told she is this super smart person that has never ever been mentioned in the game before today. Then there is the problem with her character seemingly contradicting the master mind that has been behind the living story to date. We didn’t have any indication that the person apparently leading all these different groups is so manic. So she comes across a bit like a joker-clone because don’t know anything about her other than her being a big bad and manic. I do hope they back fill some of the story in the coming updates and I hope they do it in such a way that isn’t so “here is a character, ta da”.

She has actually been mentioned subtly throughout the living story since Flame and Frost.

I really enjoy her as well. Her dialogue is a lot of fun, and really entertaining to play against imo.

I really like Scarlet’s character… i feel like she’s alot of fun. she was supposed to come off as a lunatic with cheesy 1 liners, which i think is kind of refreshing and fun to play against…

I disagree with nerfing this in anyway. It feels really awesome to have the Liadri mini, and nerfing this would minimize that feeling of accomplishment.

Korval.3751:

Sanctus.8350:

Korval.3751:

Not everyone can multitask. Not everyone can handle chaotic environments Not everyone can handle both.

Not everyone is entitled to the achievement, just because it exists.

Achievement
1. The act of accomplishing or finishing.
2. Something accomplished successfully, especially by means of exertion, skill, practice, or perseverance

I think it’s disingenuous and dishonest to release content in such a way that many feel is doable but in fact is intended to only be completed by a small 5% of the community.

Anet should add [ELITE] badges on Achievements to show from the beginning the level of difficult. This way players know they will probably not complete it. At least this would acceptable.

P.S. If there were no repair costs, WP costs, etc. associated with the event I would not have a problem, but you have players spending dozens, even hundreds of gold for this one event alone. I don’t think that’s fair.

Where are you getting this crap statistic from? I have completed every achieve for this event, and the majority of people on my server and others i see in the gauntlet have either beaten liadri or are at least up to ladri. 5% is a SERIOUS miscalculation.

As the title suggests, there is no incentive for me to use direct damage as my primary damage source in tournaments…. i mean seriously. Aside from having to constantly be striking to deal damage, there are SO MANY counters to direct damage as opposed to the one counter to condition damage, that being condition removal, which isn’t even that big of a deal considering the availability of the conditions you can apply.

I feel like it’s comparing a fire and forget heat seeking missile to some barbarian with an axe. Obviously the missile is the finer, and more reliable piece of weaponry.

To be honest i think Conditions need more drawbacks. and by that i mean make it so that the caster is losing out on something significant for choosing the path of a condition nuker. For starters, possibly make it so that they are more vulnerable to direct damage. Necros in gw1 for instance used to sacrifice health through some of their blood magic rituals, why not have many of the condi spells cause vulnerability to the necro?

Aside from that theory, i think the best thing to do would be to add a DIRECT COUNTER to condi damage. atm there is no counter to a condi spammer. zero. We need to be able to choose a “condi killer” sppec. a spec that we can trait and build for that we will just say " hey this build is going to be designed specifically for shutting down condition specs".

This can be achieved in many ways, but i think the safest would be to add a new stat that allows all classes to have some degree of increased defense against conditions. With all of the anti-direct damage (Weakness/blind/evade/toughness/vitality/confusion/positioning/CC) i think adding SOME type of direct counter to conditions other than TRYING to use condi removal is just NECESSARY at this point in time.

I can go on much longer, but this post needs to come to an end.

Thoughts, Suggestions, Concerns?

Thanks.

I haven’t used SB much at all after i stated REALLY learning how to create new builds around different weapon sets. Atm, i use d/p with either d/d off set for wvw, or s/d offset for tpvp. works really well and i prefer both options over SB after mastering them.

I beat her with an acro build using Valk gear with SB and P/P

Everyone qualifies. it doesn’t have to be ONLY for older accounts. if you just started today, you will receive a gift a year from now.

mXz.4512:

So is it 1 year to the date of each individual character initially created?

Because I’m sure there’s people who’s bought/played the game from day 1 and since then deleted/remade characters over the course of the year, myself included. And assuming with the 1 year character detail, even though I’ve played the game from day 1
(even pre-ordered), I guess I won’t qualify for any “gift” huh?

Pretty disappointing if so..

1 year from the creation of each character. If you made a character on October 12th 2012, that character will receive a birthday gift on October 12th 2013. This happens for each character, it has nothing to do with the account.

Sandman.7019:

the reward system for the birthday gifts is kind of….well, REALLY stupid. I’ve been here since the early release in August, but I sure as hell don’t have any characters that survived that long (especially with my constant remaking with no makeover kits or name changes back then). So I do hope they will somehow make it when the account was “born” rather than a character that comes and goes.

It will work just like gw1. Whenever one of your characters turns a year old(er) you will get a reward on that character.

SpeedFiend.4521:

Staves? Daggers? I wish you had to walk a mile in… shoes made entirely of pistols. Have you seen all the cool new pistol skins? Yeah, neither has anyobody else for some reason.

Ilya is really nice. i use it as my pistol skin. If dagger had even 1 decent mystic forge skin i would be happy. but it doesn’t. =/

I think a simple fix would be on pistol range. It is not working as intended, and broken. I run Arah as well adn with normal groups where we stack at 900 range for phase 1, the pistol DOES NOT reach. the tooltip says 900 range and my range indicator shows that i am within 900 range, but my shots still say “out of range” this is a pretty serious problem taht i think needs to be fixed….

I think dagger skins need love imo. The only good one imo is still Corrupted Shard. The new ones are just way too plain. =/

Nope, that shouldn’t happen, you should keep leaping back and forth over yout target with Death Blossom without having to re-target at all. the only reason you would break target is if your target goes stealth.

Also, not explained in the video, the only reason i pull him into BP first and summon TG AFTER that is because, sometimes he has a chance of landing a massive strike on you mid pistol whip, before the evade procs, dropping more than half your health. so to completely avoid this i pull him into the BP and then summon TG to buy some time for init recovery, giving me a safe time gap to start my pistol whip.

Arganthium.5638:

Why take Scorpion Wire for start when you could just use infi strike -> black powder? Your init regeneration should be enough to compensate.

Either way, Deadeye doesn’t really need to be blinded. Even with full zerker, he’s only really going to kill you if you get hit by killshot or run over a mine. Especially with Thieve’s Guild/Ambush (which you could take instead of Scorp Wire).

Looks good to me though.

I take scorpion wire to pull him to me for the initiation. it can also serve as a backup interrupt when your initiative is too low for anything else. Also if you watched the video, you would notice i am running 5 gambits, which makes it impossible to dodge his killshot and 100% necessary to stay on top of him to interrupt. Infil strike does not have the range to reach him after he teleports, which is why i trait for 1500 range steal. I mean if you can manage to make your infil strike reach 1200 range and keep your init high enough to spam both BP AND pistol whip through some type of wizardry, be my guest.

Thief, like 40 or so tries using 0/30/0/30/10 Shortbow and Pistol/Pistol

Zanshin.5379:

Fine.
You completed in 2 days something that only 5 people out of 100 can complete.
You’re the boss.
What else do you want?

You all are taking this completely the wrong way. And i find that statistic hard to believe. I really thought there would be more people who felt like i am. After 3 days i now feel like i have nothing to do but wait until the next living story. THAT is the problem.

Glad to be of service!