Guild Wars 2

Theftwind.8976:

Waffler.1257:

Believing statements by random people without question is the leading cause of stupidity.

Then pardon me if I do not believe you.

Awww, I wanted to say that! +1 anyway

Sin.4130:

Germans play fairly as always, RoF seems to be focused only on DZ, that’s pretty sad to see

Actually the Blacktides finally woke up to the fact that it was the Dzag constantly going for their borderland, while we RoF players have (mostly) been leaving them alone. Blacktide turned on you tonight, instead of being opportunistic against RoF.

It was a nice change, and look at the score now. I like it.

We were going from to side to side in our corner of EB tonight but I really don’t think they have a coordinated effort against, it’s just that they’re both a bit opportunistic.

Still, the Dzags have a history of not playing as much when they have to work in the morning. We should be able to widen our lead starting tomorrow night.

Slow start for RoF, but we’ve taken it back.

If the other 2 servers want to play Blob style, we pretty much don’t have any other choice but to play that way as well, and we need responsible commanders who understand how to respond to scout reports, and play defense.

I only played on EB tonight, and it was a sad start. Cap took charge and a small group of defense players took over the towers. Together we got it done. We need to practice this, because the rest of the League play isn’t going to get easier.

Yamagawa.5941:

I think the new recipes from the Toxic Alliance release have reduced this cost sharply.

Only if you already own a rather large number of pristine spores.

Risen + Hylek = Hopping mad froggies with insane poisonous CC skills.

Mango Pies, but sometimes a tray of Super Rare Veggie Pizza for fun.

Everyone likes pizza.

I’m guessing we will need 5 charged quartz per celestial armor item, based on the formula for making celestial ascended weapons. That isn’t bad if you’ve been making one per day since the Bazaar event.

The only armor craft that is going to get screwed is Tailoring, because Armorsmith is likely to use Deldrimor ingots and Leatherworker is likely to use Elonian leather, and we can already make those items daily. Tailors will have to start from scratch making the daily Damask item.

Brindled.2179:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

jazzllanna.1278:

There really should be something..just think a few days from now when most people have all their achieves how hard it will be to get through that final event.

Karka Queen event and Tequatl, all over again.

Hmm, I haven’t even played it yet, but with that quick synopsis I probably won’t even try. Thanks (seriously)

Don’t let me put you off the event. The instances are a bit of fun with guildies, and the last instance is great, but the path to get to those places is nothing but zerg.

Just sayin’…

jazzllanna.1278:

There really should be something..just think a few days from now when most people have all their achieves how hard it will be to get through that final event.

Karka Queen event and Tequatl, all over again.

Contiguous.1345:

I should imagine they’ll decide to make an alternative way to gain these titles – maybe something involving a jumping puzzle?

That wouldn’t surprise me

Acotje.5689:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

I’ll congratulate Vabbi for both their willingness and ability in playing defense. Ring of Fire players could learn a lot from you guys. Seriously, it took us until almost 3am to kick you guys out of EB, then you came straight back in.

Well done.

Vabbi is a perfect example that WvW is all about Quantity and not Quality of players :p
Thats nothing new tho

Well then let me also add, your yak ganking roamers have a finely tuned sense that trouble is coming, and wow they run fast!

OchrisO.8450:

why are rof people even speaking in the match up?

We’re all enjoying a glass of Surmian Whine. That bit about the spies and how it’s all not fair is a particularly good vintage.

The Blob vintage is also quite good, but we were expecting that from Drakkar, after all, RoF played them a few times recently.

OchrisO.8450:

it is nice to see that DL run the same numbers as silver german server ^^

So does Surmia, but you built those numbers with a band wagon. The Draks have been relatively stable for months.

I’ll congratulate Vabbi for both their willingness and ability in playing defense. Ring of Fire players could learn a lot from you guys. Seriously, it took us until almost 3am to kick you guys out of EB, then you came straight back in.

Well done.

Just for interests sake, a reddit user stitched together the maps from the developer stream. It looks like an interesting place to fight, with a LOT of bottlenecks.

http://i.imgur.com/UqrwUkI.jpg

Mattargul.9235:

The Golem Mk II and Fire Elemental bosses regularly kill people, though that mechanic is mostly a “don’t stand in the fire” type deal.

Yeah but it’s a LOT of fire, with one dodge in the wrong direction you’re dead. At the golem, if your computer is even just a bit slow to render the electricity effect, you’re dead.

Those fights are more interesting than the dragons, but one-shot kill mechanics should not be a thing.

juno.1840:

lol Penguin… I say 365 charged quartz… make it a full year!

I’m sure one of the devs just read that, rubbed his hands together and said, “Exceeeellleeent….”.

Please don’t give them ideas.

Stooperdale.3560:

up to 425 is refining and inscriptions
425-450 exotic research
450-470 refining stuff with new recipes (very, very slow)
470-500 exotic research

I raised my Huntsman craft to 500 last night and this is basically how I did it. Total cost was 70g but I was short on Ori, Ancient wood and Ectos. With a little more patience and planning I could have easily gotten that cost down to 40 to 50g.

A supply camp that is not upgraded has x/100 supply. Fully upgraded it will have x/250 supply. You can’t determine if an enemy camp has the +5 buff, but your camps will show a cog like boon in your boon bar.

Mercenaries (dredge, froggies, ogres) will display the color of the allies in their lattice thing on your map. When that lattice is white that camp can be flipped to your side and you’ll have mercenary guards in your nearest supply camp.

The middle objectives? Ruins maybe? If your server owns and holds at least 3 of them at the same time, for 2 minutes all players on your server receive a bonus stats.

Where to drop siege is a long complicated topic because every tower and keep is different.

I’m not holding my breath for anything great. Devon Carver told us in another thread on this exact topic that the chests from the various WvW achievements should address the lack of drops of dragonite in WvW, but that certainly hasn’t been the case for me.

I finished 15/15 last night, the last one being the yaks. That chest took me 2.5 weeks and gave me 50 dragonite. I can get that amount from one round of Shatterer, Claw and the Golem, which might take as much as 2.5 hours.

It’s the good old Anet time/reward problem and they really don’t like to provide comparable rewards to WvW players.

We’ve been asking for this since day one. I mean literally, day one of the beta tests.

Putting living story mobs in WvW is obviously far more important than providing players with things they actually want.

lordkrall.7241:

I like it, even though my server will finish last in our league.
Simply due to the fact that it brings loads of new people into WvW, and that is always a good thing in my eyes.

It isn’t the league play bringing people to WvW, it’s the new achievement points. Once those boxes have been ticked the AP locusts will move on to the next great temporary thing.

Ruins of Surmia pay to win band wagoners.

Yes I Cap.5389:

Spying in the bronze league? O.o

You’re not actually surprised, right?

I mean, that’s pretty mild compared a lot of the stuff we’ve seen this week.

It’s a lot more useful if you can combine it with another weapon skill that already provides torment, like mesmer scepter 2. I have a sigil of malice on my off hand weapon and use condition dmg artificer potions.

It does nice dmg against AoE zerg attacks.

The Huntsman Toxic Maintenance Oil recipe can only be read at level 450 of that craft.

The winners have been decided and anyone who can do a bit of arithmetic will figure it out.

Drakkar Lake and Ruins of (pay to win Bandwangoners) Surmia will tie for first place. Dzagonur, the 2nd half of the German national alliance will take 3rd place. The rest, also ran.

Madthunder.6581:

It was to be expected dailys aient affected by dst so why would reset?

Daily achievement reset time was affected by DST. That is now reset exactly one hour earlier than during DST.

I only play Mesmer in WvW, and mostly for what little else I do.

I have no complaints about these changes. If anything they give me some advantages, and take nothing away, but I see no reason here to change my play style.

I have equipped a Necro with good gear, but let me take this moment to again complain about how hard it is in this game to gear up an alt. This is the most alt-unfriendly game I’ve ever played.

However, this discussion is based on these trait changes and I don’t see anything here to be upset about. The changes you’re planning for necro will not affect my play style for this character.

smiley.1438:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

…

Ahh, so it wasn’t Anet’s fault to reschedule the match start time, but the players fault to not get ready an hour earlier as usual. Clever. Not.

Certainly not clever of the players who came late to the party, fashionable, or not.

Anet had nothing to do with it. This is how the real world works.

L Step.8659:

Any person with common sense would figure reset would move with DST since oh idk, they changed it to start at primetime? It was a kittened thing for anet to do to leave time alone, cause people’s schedule’s do change with DST.

Noooo….., actually the internet runs on GMT or UTC, Universal Time Code. Servers are synched to that and can display “server time” or your local time of day, or daylight savings time, whatever the case may be. No matter what the time displayed on your end, GMT never changes. Your time zone changes because politicians decided so. You’ll just have to adjust things for yourself twice per year when your personal timezone changes. Poor you.

You guys like to tell me that you’re all experienced MMO gamers, and you’ve never dealt with DST changes before?

Abstraction.3019:

Only a WvW player stands in LA for atleast an hour waiting for a queue on reset night without doing anything else that the game offers.

Only a WvW player is surprised and annoyed to see that the rest of the game has come to him, even though he’s been avoiding it for so long.

Nice start, because RoF guilds can’t figure out daylight savings time and they’re all off doing they’re own thing with no commander tags, as usual.

Elitist guild groups are getting us nowhere.

Edit Test: to see if I can add a sig to this post.

I’m not expecting much but howls of frustration from the PvE achievement point hunters. Something like, “all that time for this…”.

When Living World events start showing up

Anyone want to bet that we’ll be able to farm a toxic spore in the home instance?

Of course, we’ll have to kill 10 rats to get that node.

And this is a reason to kill 10 rats run around the maps looking for 24 hidden things?

Anet has some strange ideas about “fun” and “rewarding”.

Anet wants to sell finishers, so they push content that more or less requires it.

Move along people, nothing to see here….

Sola.7250:

It says: It can be used to obtain a skill point and to charge Quartz Crystals once per day.

That imply’s you can mine Skill Points of 1 per day!!

Wishful thinking. This is Anet!!!

Insert Sparta.gif here.

We didn’t ask for the events.

hooma.9642:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Sorry, I forgot. sPvP players don’t know how to check trading post prices, because they never need to buy or sell anything. I’ll go look for you, wait right here please…

sorry im at work..

Amaterasu.6280:

limited to 5 boxes per account a day. Sells for about 80 silver for 20 of them.

thx

now let us see how much the price falls during the days

… and I live in Europe, it’s late here. Price should fall some over the next few days, that’s why I posted. I’m certain this is the first time I’ve seen a chance to turn glory points into gold.

sPvP player should take advantage of this.

Sorry, I forgot. sPvP players don’t know how to check trading post prices, because they never need to buy or sell anything. I’ll go look for you, wait right here please…

You can turn glory points into gold because the pristine spores are sellable on the trading post.

sminkiottone.6972:

People like you are the reason WvW is going to S**t

Reading at your reply makes me a sad panda, pls go back to farm in PvE.

Poor you, but WvW is about all I do these days.

sminkiottone.6972:

Imo they should delete the following achievements :

- Mists Merc Camp Vanquisher
- Master of Ruins
- Demolition Expert
- Seasonal Mists Defense Restorer
- Sentry Capturer Extraordinaire

Why? The only one in your list that is remotely difficult is the mercenary camps, and only because there are only 3 of them, all in EB. Plenty of regular WvW players don’t like to play in EB because of the lag and now the Q times.

Master of Ruins? Stupidly easy and accomplished nothing but I did it in a couple of hours with friends and beat up a few visitors too. That part was fun and added to my kills number.

Demolition Expert? Set your own siege and get your friends to build it. Take turns, and ignore the guys yammering on about ram mastery.

Seasonal Mists Defense Restorer? Nobody is ever going to complain about this one so long as you’re not using tower/keep supply to repair during a treb storm.

Sentry Capturer (sic) Extraordinaire? Yeah, that one is a bit high, along with yak-killer, but they’re doable. Just go roaming to take out the guards, yaks and camps. Hell, that’s what our guild does in this game.

What’s missing are the Defense Achievements.

Defend Stonemist Castle 10 times! Hell yeah, you had to capture it 5 times, why not defend it? We had to capture 10 keeps? Let’s defend them 20 times. Camps too! We had to capture 100? Why not defend at least 100 times as well.

That would break up the zerging karma choo-choo train!

Now about those jumping puzzles….

Waffler.1257:

Players like character progression, WvW numbers are up!

The sad part is, Anet really does look at things in these terms. WvW numbers are up because achievement point hunters have arrived. They must absolutely love character progression too, or they wouldn’t be there! Right?

I’m certain the only blob we (RoF) had last night was the one in EB. I should know, I led it several times. It’s fact, we had tons of randoms playing last night and I had to talk them through fields, and finishers. I had to call for static, and blasts in /t chat. The guild groups don’t have to use /t to get their useful fields.

The guild groups probably don’t need teamspeak to call for static or fire fields either but they’ve gotten a bit elitist on us and they prefer to not run with the randoms. That probably sounds like sour grapes from me, but at the same time our elite guild groups aren’t big enough to be accused of blobbing.

You want to see a real blob? Wait until you play against Drakkar. Those pricks don’t even move in groups of less then 50.

I will plead guilty to leading a blob in EB last night. I even mined some mithril so the tail could catch up. I know, I’m bad…

BT and WSR? Please come back and flip the mercenary camps. We all need that achievement. How about, we let you keep your Keeps, so you can do the jumping puzzle too?

Hey, that’s better than the deal RoF got from the Germans last week!

Please be the highest player approved post of all time. Well done.