Guild Wars 2

GameRex.8735:

Stealth is a broken mechanism.
Arena Net give nothing against it, it is a HUGE mistake. Thief and Menser can’t lose a one vs one, if they are losing -> Stealth -> They are no more losing.

^ Stealth is a great idea, but it is far too overpowered. There are too many ways to stealth. You don’t get revealed if hit while in stealth.
This is BS.
Half the amount of stealths, and make it you pop out if hit.

Waffler.1257:

Arganthium.5638:

Waffler.1257:

Kurojin.3495:

Stealth does barely anything

If you really believed this then you wouldn’t be posting on the forums to complain about it getting nerfed.

What he’s saying is that it’s ridiculous to nerf an already weak mechanic.

If you think stealth is a weak mechanic then you have no idea how to use it properly.

This true, stealth comes second best after invulnerability. It is great for an escape, eg; stealth then blink/shadowstep.

Stealth is also used to attack the enemy by complete suprise, where they won’t see them coming.

@OP, thieves are not weak. They have over 8 different ways to stealth. They have instant burst: Steal
and spammable burst: heartseeker, C&D.
they have the ultimately broken healing skill that removes conditions, heals, grants regen, and stealth.
and the shadow refuge is the most rediculous thing ever. only have to stay in it for 4s, you get 12s of stealth. And don’t say LTP, i know that I can knock them back or out of it, but those skills normally get blown during the fight.
OP, YOU are the one who needs to LTP an overpowered class.

That sword-torch staff build rocks, I took on an ele alone, a cond ranger alone, another mesmer alone, and i almost beat an ele and necro together, tho I just needed more skill with the build.
My advice: You need some kind of condition removal, I unequipped decoy for Null Field, where I can also use leap finishers in to gain Chaos Armor.
Also, you don’t need ascended trinkets, go the temple of balthazar merchant see what hes selling at the bottum. I want all knights gear, and put crest of the soldier in only my trinkets, including my back armor.
I used runes of earth on my armor for more defense and toughness, and I just need to have a focus in my inventory to equip for swiftness and then put the torch back on.

Otherwise, fantastic build, really good for kiting and stacking up confusion

If you are new, play the most easiest to use but exciting weapons: Sword, Torch, Staff.

SpitFire.4690:

Henrik.7560:

SpitFire.4690:

Heinel.6548:

What is the purpose of this thread? The only CDers are the people currently playing on CD. Period.

The point of this thread is.. I missed the old server where my guild grew onto.. I will never forget where I started WvWing.

You should go back, they need you!

Hehehe, RISE will never transfer anymore :P if the server goes up, we go up, if it goes down, we go down.. What server are you now?

Haha Im on blackgate with 2 of my favourite rise members, Recon and Clive :P we make a big difference in morale and scores in wvw but its a bit hard since SoR got 10000+ transfers :/

I have two armor sets.
1. Power, toughness, vitality, with 100% boon duration (monk, water, water runes 2x, 30 pts chaos, choc omnom cream food, and signet of midnight.) staff – sword/focus.

2. Power pecision crit dmg, with ruby orbs and ruby jewels

Berker and boony bunker.

Yeah, but I think centaur runes aren’t worth it. Takes up all your armor slots just to perma swiftness. Better of using a focus and going 100% boon duration so you can perma swiftness, and all your other skills are much better.
100% boon duration =
10% signet of midnight
+15% 2x S. rune of the monk
+15% 2x S. rune of water
+10% 2x M. rune of water
+30% 30 trait points into chaos
+20% chocolate omnomberry cream (Nourishment: 40% Magic Find while under the effects of a boon, +20% Boon duration)

That’s how I do it, and for some reason the focus gives me 24s of swiftness :P

SpitFire.4690:

Heinel.6548:

What is the purpose of this thread? The only CDers are the people currently playing on CD. Period.

The point of this thread is.. I missed the old server where my guild grew onto.. I will never forget where I started WvWing.

You should go back, they need you!

Adun.3254:

Whoa whoa, we didnt lose all our WvWers? We just just got a minor set back. Our NA may be “Lacking”, but that doesn’t mean we are not doing our job. We still make do with what we have, cheers to our dedicated NA commanders.
Also, <3 [Awe].

Not ALL the WvW’ers, but CD is no longer famous for its superior NA anymore…

SpitFire.4690:

KH, LW, LaZy, GoF, LOM, KO, KoMe, NAGA, QCS, Lime, SoH, Orb, PA, DC, VaL, EsF, and a lot more i that I have forgotten please lists your guild tags..

How have you guys been? Where are you guys now? How’s your server? And how’s everything else?

It’s been a while now, RISE is pretty great in kaineng.. I miss the actions we had in CD back then and the community we all built together.. I hope you guys doing ok and keeping it fun like we always had been except with the trolls lol.. But yeah keep in touch!

-Prince Jarvan

Agreed, my funnest time of guild wars were hanging out with RISE in WvW, I was with them every day defeating IoJ and FA :P (but they were still good opponents to fight), and the games were close. It sucked that CD lost all their ppl and rating, which caused all the NA to x-fer.
I still guest on CD and PvE with them alot

A wise plan would be for SBI and CD to keep their BL their own color and not invade each others, and put full pressure on each side of Mag’s BL. Maguuma’s zerg is powerful, but it cannot take on 2 combined forces hitting from 2 areas. All CD and SBI need to do is hold the keep, tower and camp near their border waypoint, and push onto different sides of garrison, splitting and reducing Maguuma’s zerg.
Unfortunately, it is too late as of the reset is in 9 hours from now, but give SoS something to think about next week.
CD and SBI need to have an alliance if they are to win.

Go to Blackgate, they have good NA/SEA presence, but could use more.

Whine whine whine! nothing more coming from the WAY overpowered classes? None of us can stealth from our own combo fields, and from 3 utilities and a weapon skill.
And that rediculous shadow refuge, I wish the cooldown was doubled, and the stealthed half, they just use that and run around in it getting 10s of stealth, and boom they are gone.

If you think mesmers are more OP, lets see. Our burst is 7k at the most from phantasm berserker, movement WAY slower, (5k more health) and our healing skill doesnt stealth, apply regeneration, or remove conditions like your OP one does. and there is only 4 possible ways to stealth.

Rediculous. I thought it would be nerfed or changed. 6k+ instant range attack for just 10 trait points is crazy. Half the damage, or make it a 30 point trait.

Flamenco.3894:

As a warrior I love it

Do you feel it was deserved?

Yep, but they need more.

Greetings, I am transferring to Crystal Desert very soon (once i get some last busyness done), and I am going to need a good guild, to command in and wvw with. I play around the timezones of late NA, and early Oceanic, seeking ocasional dungeon runs, good chit chats, and a lot of fun. I have 300 ballistas and carts and rams, 200 cats, 80 trebs and 40 golems so I’d be a great use in WvW.

What guilds are out there for early oceanic and late NA for me? Post please if I could join you!

Pinko.2076:

Tamaki Revolution.3548:

Pinko.2076:

What’s wrong with the old thread? L

Having to scroll through the last few pages of 18+.

Are the forums broken for you? They take you to the last read post.

Its just that its a 2 week+ old thread and its about time we started a new one.

Pinko.2076:

Krash.9486:

Vi Au.8341:

Digikid.7230:

I hate to be the one to mention this- but there are a group of CD who are using exploits, I just had a CD mesmer wave at me, jump THROUGH the gate at mendons, then proceed to portal his team inside.
I know CD are a good server, with good people, but stuff like this really reflects badly on a server.

wrong place to post this. ss and send it to support tyvm

I would say this is exactly the right place. You should call out the guild name too. Anet isn’t going to do anything. But respectable guilds and servers can. If the exploiters get gkicked and called out enough they will stop or leave the server.

I have glitched through a gate a couple of times by accident. I am not sure what I did to do it. But I jumped right back out.

NW tower gate is very easy to get through. More than once someone has gone through it, died, then partied and said they didn’t mean to.

^ exactly
Its not hacking or using exploits, I have gone through it several times myselff by acident just using phase retreat near the door. Its just a bug., and CD and much of a hacker server anyway.

kfarb.6732:

Henrik.7560:

Post scores plz someone

250k
180k
150k

the scores right now you see when you press B -_-"

Commisar.8695:

You made them sad by double teaming them with CD and letting CD keep their bl! Jerks!

Poor SBI, I thought it was SBI & CD vs mag….

Post scores plz someone

score update pls, with ppts too.

kfarb.6732:

I’m confused. Are you on SoS but you made the T4 matchup thread?

Im interested in t4 matchup because we will be facing them next week, and i made the topic because a lot of people wanted a new one.

^ probably true, but we never know the future if we haven’t seen it.

how close are cd to maguuma now?

Strippling.3524:

Henrik.7560:

just a thing, if you cd think you can take on yb with your new population, you won’t be able to because a whole bunch of dragonbrand went to yaks so they can finish off us (SoS) from t3, but you might have a chance against us next week we lost a lot of ppl. it will be a good match, i look forward to fighting my old server (:

I’m curious as to where you got this info? I’m from YB and so far as I know there hasn’t been “a whole bunch” of dragonbrand transferred to YB. If there has been any it’s definitely not many, no significant guilds consisting of 5 or more players have come over. All of DB’s major guilds are still on DB.

The reason why you feel like they have transferred over is because Yaks Bend is finally recovering from a lot of drama that occured within the server. Many guilds were not happy with each other and refused to work with each other, or to even go on wvw all together. But things are finally sorted out and the YB alliance has been reformed and as a result we are more effective in wvw now. Hence why YB has performed a lot better over the last week.

p.s Can’t wait for Mag to come up to t3 already!!! DB/YB/Mag matchup will be fun for sure!!! Oh and Mag… last time we fought u versed a demoralised YB server that didn’t really care about wvw. Don’t think it’ll be the same when you see us in t3. Look forward to seeing you on the battlefield

Hmm interesting. Must be some people who are sore losers or something because I heard it through guild chat.
Good luck to yaks bend with your civil ‘peace’ that has begun :P

SuiRyuJin.4615:

meh, we got a lackluster reset start, i am kinda dreading the score when i wake up tmw where it just might be cd in the lead. also assuming the current trend keeps going SoS is going to plummet and will be here nxt week in place of whoever is highest score

Hmm, nah, Mag will still go up because their rating is way more than CDs, and SoS is going to drop so much that they still fall under maguuma even if mag dont win.
CD vs SoS will be VERY interesting, I finally get to play against my x-server!

just a thing, if you cd think you can take on yb with your new population, you won’t be able to because a whole bunch of dragonbrand went to yaks so they can finish off us (SoS) from t3, but you might have a chance against us next week we lost a lot of ppl. it will be a good match, i look forward to fighting my old server (:

its normally mag who does extra good on reset then loses some of the lead but still wins…

interesting, CD’s NA presence has re-awoken! hope their oceanic has a population boost as well which will cause them to take the lead!

Tetris with Fists.4615:

Henrik.7560:

whats the ppts?

The what?
Sorry, relatively new to the game, don’t know acronyms very well..

no worries, ppts = potential points, whats the pie chart look like?

Tetris with Fists.4615:

Mag 12,675
CD 10,361
SBI 5,485

Ty, looks like cd on the role whats the ppts?

score update plz? just press B and type in what you see.

then enemies could launch you off your siege and steal it for themselves….

Preferably, pick humble, non zergy servers with needs of help.
Crystal desert, ehmry bay, northern shiverpeaks, ferguson’s crossing, eredon terrace.

^ https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/CD-SBI-Mag/first#post1684302

Heres the new thread. Keep it clean. Good luck to all.

Sovereign.1093:

This is the remnants of CD. Being the color red must have boosted our morale. The changes is nice.

Ah i see. Good luck to crystal desert, i was fighting for you guys a couple months back! (:
hopefully we can see you next week (i’m on SoS)

what happened to CD? says on the score they aren’t last for once. Did they get more people, more skill, or did pve’ers decide to help?
GL to all.

if you are roaming, burst. you can absolutely destroy someone in 1 vs 1. use sword, pistol, greatsword, and mirror images, stun signet, and blink for utilities, 30/30/0/0/10 for traits and all berker gear. as ur running up to them summon duelist then use 3# the sword along with soon as u swap places use mirror images then F1, and finish them with blurred frenzy. Depending on your opponents armor, (3k armor you will deal 15k, 900-1100 toughness will hit them for 20k). If that doesnt kill them (often bunker ele’s or guardians) they will be completely suprised with the amount of damage u dealt, and retreat of with using their healing skill, switch to your greatsword and use #3 to remove a boon (most likely regen which they just used), then use #5 to interrupt their healing, then get your berserker up and spam #1.
There are also other sequences to dealing loads of burst damage, but this is the best and quickest.

Nothing can survive the brute force of a berserker mesmer who can use his DPS skills.

I must say mesmers struggle with speed, but if your a zergling in wvw mode alot, just go 30 in chaos, use signet of midghtnit, superior rune of water and monk, and major rune of water, and use chocolate omnomberry creams, thats a lot of work, but for some reason it gives ur 10 second swiftness 23 + 1/2 seconds lol on the focus, and not just swiftness, every boon.
but come on, if you aren’t giving us 25% speed signet, at least improve signet of midnight to +20% or +25%

Wish our matchup was as close as this, not very fun knowing theres no chance of winning.
BTW, be careful HoD, SF is slowly creeping up to take over.

SoS oceanic vs Yak’s Bend, some major ownage going on.
+650 SoS 22k
+45 DB 11k
+0 YB 13k

Yak’s made a nice last stand at cliffside and garrison inner, /salute to you guys, but its all over now.

Yak’s defenseless fleet getting blasted by SoS flames.

Anet spend too much time on PvE and fractals rather than::
Making exciting or bigger sPvP maps
Nerfing thieves
Improving culling
Making exciting borderlands which aren’t copied and pasted
Making commander icons to be able to be bought with badges
Improving WvW rewards
Having a “dueling” area in sPvP for 1 on 1 only, instead of having to join a game with 0/16 and leaving since some nub comes and interrupts the duel.

The people who tell us to shut up are the PvE’ers. We can complain if we want since we are WvW’ers.

@OP – I totally agree. Mesmer stealth ain’t a problem. they can’t get anywhere near permostealth, and have decent cooldowms.
The stealth finishers are bull crap, a finisher is meant to be a way to finish someone off from being downed instead of slashing them for ages, and also giving the downed person a chance to interrupt or escape it once, but stealth finishers can’t be avoided unless you’re a mesmer guardian or thief.

Remove stealth finishers please its annoying.

Everyone has their strengths:
Guardian: High Armor/Healing, wears down players that don’t use conditions slowly.
Mesmer: Survival, good for escaping, and DPS ones are very nasty.
Thieves: Wins all times with their overpowered DPS except against Mesmers who can stealth and run away. Weak health and Disables hurt.
Ranger: Conditions and dancing around crippling your foe and rangering them with the bow, no huge burst DPS.
Elementallist: Can keep healing and healing while DPS’ing, but suffers badly from conditions.
Engineer: Good toughness and healing, moderate DPS, but burst damage badly kills them.
Warrior: Insane burst damage and heaps of disables, and good health, but not much healing nor condition resistance, and can be burned down by bunkers.
Necromancer: Extreme conditions and life stealing, and huge heallth, but not much burst or toughness.

Back on topic, as said above, Rangers have powerful cripple and conditions and kiting capabillities.

Guardian or Mesmer commanders are best

fix the distortion bug too where it does nothing sometimes >:
anet have the time to make all these stupid fractals and dragons but not to nerf thieves or fix mesmers’ bugs… zomg

Go bunker/pure illusion mesmer.
Too much health, too many illusions, they get too confused and give up.
Make sure your using chaos armor if not with staff at least with leaps in etheral fields

Pistol MH is a awesome idea! Hope its in the expansion or something
Lets get some ideas for the abilities peeps!

1. Shoot your foe causing 5 seconds of vulnerabillity
2. Shoot your foe 3 times causing 3 stacks of bleeding and creating a clone to attack your foe
3. Fire a precise shot at your foe dazing them for 2 seconds

Just some rough mesmerish ideas

Arcane Thievery kills boony booners. Its a utillity skill that steals up to 3 boons and gives em 3 of your conditions
Null Field AoE boon removal is a option too

If your Utillities are full consider #3 on Greatsword, or auto-attack on main-hand sword.
Mesmers are champions at destroying boons

Good luck,
-Pyraeuz the Mesmer

Bad luck, isn’t thieves multiple castable backstab as powerful?
Stealth backstab every 3 seconds they can do that…
GC thieves kill anything with
Steal, stealth, backstab, C&D, Hskr Hskr Hskr.