Guild Wars 2

Khal Drogo.9631:

No. Unless you want KD spam on every mob and ghostbuster type consumable type gimmicks on every boss instead of straight up combat.

And no to anti skipping. Mobs were leashed in Guild Wars 1 so why should they be unleashed in GW2.

And no to bosses who are invulnerable to everything but some stupid gimmick.

I cannot +1 you often enough.

Parthis.2091:

All servers have that big guild. Gandara’s average guild size however must be around 15.

We actually don’t have that big guild. Our biggest guild can probably field 20 players at any one time. Our commanders lead our PuG players so the guilds can concentrate on small unit tactics or scouting, upgrading and defending.

Against similar sized servers we’re quite competitive with our setup, as we saw last week against Surmia. We were in the lead several times last week and picked up some server score at the end, while Surmia lost almost 70 points because they focused solely on us.

Enjoy Ascalonian Catacombs.

Crucible of Eternity actually. I’m making The Crossing for my Necro. If the “unconfirmed” changes are even close to what we’re actually getting the Necro is going to be a new addition to the WvW meta.

Listening to you guys talk about who is blobbing and what a blob looks like is really poor form, at least from the RoF point of view. You guys have guild blobs that are bigger than any zerg we can put together.

I play on a lower tier server for a reason. I like to be able to roam and I basically can’t move now. I got tired of getting run over by your blobs just one hour after the reset last night.

Oh well, back to the dungeons.

Nope. Thief. It’s that simple.

It’s almost painful to watch what has happened after a great match up last week, but Surmia brought it on themselves. The almost -70 points in server score that you lost was magnified by that random factor that calculates your next match up. That’s why you’ve been throw down the stairs to fight Vabbi and FoW.

Maybe next time you meet RoF you’ll fight both servers in the match up.

They’re going for the easy points which might last another hour or two, then they’ll be fighting each other. I guess that’s one way for Anet to set up 2-way fights between servers.

I don’t see a lot of thieves changing build for this new condition. Some will try it of course. It could be quite good for dungeons and stuff. Tank up and torment mobs. Why not?

As for mesmer, I wouldn’t worry about that either. Torment will be on weapon skill that almost nobody ever uses, the off-hand sword. On the other hand my main is a mesmer and I’m wondering how the hell I’m supposed dodge-roll my clones out while under Torment, never mind get away from a thief/necro team.

Which brings me to… Necro is clearly the winner here. The new DS skill and traits are going to have a lot of people crying if a necro is traited to auto-build DS. I dare say that necro/guardian will be tower door defense team while necro/thief will be the new roamers.

RoterFuchs.9216:

Domestic authority?

No matter what the CC said, this is the actual answer. You can speak freely, but not in my house, where I rule. The same situation occurs on a website or forum where the host has “domestic authority”. This is well tested, at least in US courts.

If you want to “speak freely”, you are free to go anywhere else and speak your mind, so long as the host permits. You could also become your own host and run your own website or forum.

Good luck gaining an audience.

I didn’t even know that ninja cap on RoF Bay was going on… …and that’s not quite normal.

Obviously no golems were involved.

Well done RoF commanders, that was one of the longest keep fight I’ve ever seen, and we got it. Let’s take this spirit over to next week and defend our borderland right from the start.

There is a cutscene from the personal story that would be nice to re-play, just for the screen shot. It doesn’t seem to be a priority.

Just a reminder to all of you wannabe duelists…

The generally accepted place for that is at the windmill south of the most southern supply camp. I think most of us will accept that you just want to fight each other.

It’s pretty cheesy for a bunker ele to take over a supply camp and use the guards as henchmen when he wants to “duel”.

Cloak and Daggers against walls is one of the more annoying things in WvW these days.

Nobody should be able to perma-stealth.

The distinct lack of Ascended Back Pieces in WvW.

Sceinna.3561:

Excuse me?
I was that thief and I got in legitimately, I’ve waited for over 40 minutes for your people to leave the keep after you took it from us.

I just spoke to you in game and if you say it’s so, fine. Thank you for contacting me.

I still want to know how the kittening kitten a thief can stay perma stealthed for 40 minutes.

That’s just plain wrong.

Two and a half hours into the match and we have already seen a RoS thief hacking into the RoF Bay keep. How pleasant.

Could you imagine being the guy who designed these beautiful Jade weapons?

That guy had to sit back and watch someone else apply RNG and a pathetic in game drop rate to make certain that almost nobody will ever get one of these weapons. What is the point of the design work if players can’t get the items?

That would drive me nuts.

Norn female Mesmer. Love it all over the game, slow as kitten though.
Norn male Necro. Not a bad tanky/healer build, good for dungeon support.
Charr male Warrior. Almost never play it, but looks great.
Human female Ele. This is my level 80 cook. Looks great, never play it.
Asuran male Engi. Flea bitten pirate. Looks awful, plays awful. Do the daily with this character to get the level/skill points and use them to make Mystic Clovers.

Sylvari is the missing race. They are not interesting. To be honest they all sound like gay guys, even the females. You roll how you want, it’s no skin off my nose but Sylvari is not my style.

I don’t have a Ranger and probably wont. I didn’t like minions on my Necro and from what I hear the Ranger minions suck too.

I don’t have a thief and probably never will. I detest stealth classes and this is the worst I’ve seen in many years of gaming. Just say NO!

I haven’t tried Guardian yet and I would probably love it. Playable Kodan please.

Your mileage will probably vary.

Wall of text and no TL;DR.

Gave up.

Aeonblade.8709:

There is no reason some dude playing 1 hour a day 5 days a week should end with more laurels than me playing 5 hours one day on the weekend.

Exactly. No single players time or effort should be worth more or less than any other player. That is almost word for word from the so called Manifesto that this game was sold on.

“Play the game the way you want to play…” and all that yadda yadda.

ghost.3208:

(why is everyone so upset about dailies??).

It’s about the laurel that’s tied to it. It’s an artificial time gate to obtain some fairly nice stuff, and players hate that sort of thing. In my case it means that there is no chance ever that I’ll buy an expansion of this game.

The top tier language servers have better worldwide coverage, with German being the exception. The French have Quebecois players while Baruch Bay has a lot of Spanish speakers both in Europe and in North/South America.

Not many people speak German outside of Europe but it is the most common first language for Europeans.

I wouldn’t want to fight Anya (Pejot) 1v1.

And where is the credit for Warp in that Garrison takedown last night? We were first to the gates and still standing in the circle when it ended!

The fight for Bay was fun too. Who knew that Cap hates doors so much that he will PvDoor from the inside!

I must be the only one who simply cannot be bothered with the mystic toilet, except to make items where I know the recipe works 100% of the time, like superior siege items for WvW.

There is a definition for insanity. You guys should look it up.

agnofinitra.6791:

I hoped for an epic underwater fight in UW’s Bay tonight, but i got dissapointed in you guys

Yeah, UW just refused to come out and meet us underwater.

I was disappointed too.

Atherakhia.4086:

The back piece you can craft…

At what crafting station can you “craft” an Ascended Back Piece in WvW?

Liquid.9672:

Players have been expecting Anet to add them at some point but so far, nada.

I’m expecting Ascended Back Pieces too, but nada. I would like to be able to buy the accessories for badge too, but nada.

“Play the game they way you want to…”

We would like to play these things as a guild event, 5v5. At the moment we never play the Keg Brawl for the same reason. We want to play as a grourp.

This mini game is just the same stupid situation as the tower defense game at Wintersday. It would have been a ton of with friends. With a PuG? No thanks.

marnick.4305:

Dante.1508:

marnick.4305:

Loot isn’t nerfed into the ground. Your statement is false.

Try getting some in open world then you might see…

Did several temples yesterday, got plenty of drops. Went into FotM20 and got plenty of drops. There’s nothing wrong with the loot.

Did Dwayna and Lyssa yesterday. Got 2 yellows. For the time spent? Not doing it today.

Just curious and I need 15 letters here.

KillEveryoneElse.3940:

UW only has a lot of people join if were winning, if you got double our score after first two days, we would have been outmanned all week :p

RoF has a similar problem and with the Dragon Bash content just released I’m sure you’ll own even more of our borderland. Sad really, when it simply comes down to population and coverage.

So quit buying the frigging things. How hard is that?

I would love to have that staff for my Ele, along with the wings but RNG is just NO!

…and apparently we need 100k Zhaitaffy for wings? I’ll go back to yakslapping thanks.

skullmount.1758:

I think he might be talking about the holoprojectors.

Well that’s still a bit bothersome. Even the chaos bits in the Thaumanova reactor are instance nodes. I wonder why they would give up on that idea.

Pinatas are not an instance node?

The patch is huge and it’s slow. I"m getting an avg of 20kb/sec here.

I had the monthly done on June 2nd. Where’s the problem?

I understand these new traits and I have 2/5 on AC’s. I tried to reproduce this today with a guild mate. Can’t do it. We had two ballistas at the highest point on Cliffside, across the bridge from the Lord Room and 1 AC on top of the supply hut. That stuff all went down in seconds.

I’ve claimed and upgraded every singe tower/keep and castle in the game and there is a reason why Cliffside is one of my favorites.

I think this match up for RoF is a whole lot more fun than FoW/Vabbi, but the double teaming is getting a bit hard to take. I really don’t think there is any alliance against us, it’s just UW bringing some huge numbers and BT being a bit opportunistic about it.

Blacktide must have played against the Dzags recently, and learned something.

RoF players in our Garrison last night were thinking seriously to bunker up in the inner keep and let you guys fight each other in the outer keep area. That didn’t work out very well but we got a lot of badges from you guys.

One serious question though for UW. How in the hell are you hitting siege on the top of our Cliffside tower? A zoomhack I presume. How classy of you.

This was our own borderland, so it wasn’t from the spawn spot

More charm from Underworld I guess.

Since when can anything hit siege up there?

RoF really needs an overnight team ><.

That and we got spoiled a bit for the last few weeks, and forgot how many people we need on our own border in order to defend it properly.

Dayra.7405:

“Walking loot bags” is likely an adequate name for that guild

I came here to say that.

Leave on a high note.

Players will remember your failures forever, so leave them with a good situation. I don’t often commander up, usually only when there is a bad situation on our borderland and no other commander is around. Think “early morning hours”.

If I can rally our team to get our points back and turn our map back to our color I very happily step down and go back to my usual routine.

Only a WvW player has 4 stacks of Badges, and nothing to spend them on.

It felt like a tough start for RoF. It took me hours to get some reliable supply into Garrison and get the waypoint done. Still, it’s way more fun than Vabbi and FoW.

Ranger pets are a nightmare in WvW, particularly for a stealth mesmer. If I’m targeted by 3 or 4 ranger pets I have to get into tower or keep because they just keep coming back after every stealth move.

The pets may have been given this ability to counter a thief, which is fair enough, but I want the same target following skill for my clones.

Shiren.9532:

We need the ability to veto a guild claim.

There is a troll out there rubbing his hands together saying, “excellllleeeeeennnnnt!”

hplee.2839:

nothing significant to see in the blog post actually, more like a series of hollow soundbites " we want to improve the game, we will like to add more things in the future.."

That was exactly my impression. Where are the things we’ve already been promised, such as the rest of the Ascended Back Piece and Accessories, purchased with Badges of Honor?

Aeolus.3615:

WvW ascended, collect them all!

We can’t get accessories or back pieces with badges of honor, and even the stuff we can get is limited by the laurels. I have ZERO reason to play my alt-chars these days.

And I wonder what the hell I’m supposed to do with all the badges I already have, never mind that I get even more just from playing and level WxP rank.

Just another example. Throwing karka eggs back at the karka queen? Why?

My weapon set just isn’t good enough?

If anyone would like to see the extent of player disappointment in the content today, you only have to go to gw2spidey.com and check the price on karka shells for the past week.

The numbers speak for themselves.