Guild Wars 2

And this is why i rolled guardian as front line attacker.
Being support was just so empty, nobody seen it and I just feel useless.

I have only one problem with thieves. They are annoying.
Almost every day I found at least one perma stealth thief trying to kill me. He fail. But he just keeps following me for several minutes doing kitten damage but slowing me down.
Annoying, that is what thieves are.

In meadieval wars there was no meteor shower on walls. Also it was not easy to kill burning oil upon the gate so these siege towers made sense. And dont forget of army waiting at walls until mesmer in siege tower will port them inside.

Guild mission is awful idea.
Look this week rank 21 face rank 16. They have 4x numbers that we do. So it is nearly imposible to capture anything in prime time. And yes, my guild mates are online mainly during prime time.
Also defend anything if 50 man zerg is knocking on your door is imposible. Many times they just pvd, they dont use any siege.
It would make sense only if the tower/keep would be automatically T3 with full upgrades. But that will never happen.

I love that song.

Yes, Ring of Fire will probably win bronze league. While we have 6 weeks of really teribble matchups and people just stopped play to win, because we cannot against +5ranks, we still hold pretty good.
While bigger guilds are distracting enemies, our smaller guilds are trying to take towers, distrupt enemy supplies and other.
So yes, we dont have any 100 man wvw guild, but still manage to give really good fights and hopefully with incomming leagues there will be more small scale fights of 10 vs 10.

Well there will be no WvW updates for 3 months. So You just need to learn 2 play.
And I mean, forget defending, forget upgrading. There is no point to do that. Just let enemy take everything, and then take it back. You will get nice rewards for doing that.

Good luck at new server. We will miss You, but hopefully one day we will fight against you.

Jamais Vu: What happened? Transfers?

Because they have big numbers during weekend, but their activity is lower during week. And also nightcrew is lower i think.

Depends, I know that many people welcome Friday resets, because at Saturday we work at home and Sunday is day off. So many people will go out at Saturday. Because they sometimes are useless after going out.
For me, Friday is perfect.

6 weeks of kitten matchups. New world record made by Ring of Fire. Will we make 7 weeks? Lets find out next friday.
Timpsu: starting October, most of RoF wvw population will stop playing or transfer.
So we will be forced to build community again from the scratches. We will be vulnerable for first 2 weeks of League. Then maybe we will have people back agains in WvW.

2 weeks guys, just 2 weeks of total kitten matchups. Then I hope we wont meet rank 15 or 16 for a loooong time.

No problem with necros on m d/d ele.
I got problems with other classes

Enemy warrior, i create clones, shatter them, 1 go to warrior, 2 go to chicken(north camp in wvw)
This happens almost every time. If my enemy is in distance but still reachable to create clones, and there are some mobs near me, clones will focus those mobs not my target to which they were created.
Same happened in CoF part 1. Last boss, created clones, shattered, they exploded at crystals around me not at the boss.
And yes I have my target and create clones with my target.

And my point: same is with engis turrets. And in patch October 15th Preview there is a line with engis turrets. So I wanted to post suggestion also to look at mesmer clones too.

Toxikthrash.2704:

That would be me ( The Thief )
I am awfully sorry but you know.. if you wanted a 1v1 i suggest you take it somewhere more quiet than the busiest place on the map

-Distrap

No problem, just i seen one guy who came to us, and step away to watch us. Then in few moments thief encountered and chased me. It was not duel, I was capping the point and that ele come to stop me. We were fighting over 10 minutes unable to kill each other.
In the end, i was only curious who would win :-D

Cradorell.3941: OMFG I cant stop joking.

Count me in if you got a place. I got engi/ele/mesmer/guard/thief most of them with pvt or at least some variant of it like Knights + pvt trinkets.
All 80s with exotic.

Is it supposed to give buff to NPC’s?

Thx to all those DL and GH guys fighting at new capture points.
I love you guys. Some really good fights.
But I am sad that I could not finish fight agains GH elementalist(i think he was from GH). His friend come and step away to watch us, but some nasty thief appeared and ruined that pretty fight.
Thx.

I got some really nice fights on those capture points today. Thx Anet for them.

Dear Anet,
you showed some possible changes to update 15th October.
I have one proposal for that. Can You make mesmer clones and phantasm run to players target when shattering?
Because most of the time, they will blow at near creature. Rabbit, cat, rat, Moa.Everything but not at the target.

Thanks

1 good thing: you got 5 new places on each borderland where to go
1 bad thing to that: you wont get any reward,any lot, and if you dont have the biggest numbers its pointless to go there

Is that all players on map need to cooperate.
And we know in game there are few of those who like to ruin game for others.
And getting all people to actually cooperate withou any “group” options other that blue dorito? Not a good idea.

even very organized group of Anet staff and alpha testers did not kill him. And that organized group did not even take him to half of his health.
So how players that dont know themselves, that have limited party options and how to organize themselves can kill Tequatl?

Anet You posted this video on Massive page on Your twitter .

Same here on RoF just now.

Are You on RoF? Because the same happened to us.

2) Tell me about it. RoF is the only server who have stronger enemies 5 weeks in a row.
So we are stomped by huge numbers for 5 weeks now. How fun. I miss matches against Dzagonur and I will never ever say Dzagonur blobs.
3) WvW ranks should be a part of a title. So You can choose if you are Master Crafter,Golden or Bronze Invader.

Elementalist:
Increase animation speed of skill 1 in every attunement with staff.
Those skills are to slow in animation. No other proffesion have so slow animation like elementalist. Almost everybody can hit two times while ele can hit once.

3 leagues of 9

And this is why I wanted ANet to start new matchup system without actual starting of the Leagues.
2 resets left until League will start and they need to have some idea how to change matchups. So why dont they start now and make some “test matchups” ?

KeBo.4567:

Marty I am pretty sure that is not the point Hule was making. He is saying that in our current position there is almost a 200k difference between us and the servers below. This divide means that we have a unique position when it comes to the matchups. As a result we are always faced with servers above us and not one above and one below. So yeah I don’t think anyone is “crying.”

Actually that is just near to my point.

While DL have some great matchups, they also got some servers that are “similiar” to them.
But we rarelly are matched against Dzags or FSR.Actually we fought FSR only once.
This is what I mean. I want some even matches. Yes fighting DL is fun and I would like to fight them but not with GH. Those are too way out of our league.
Give us FSR vs DL vs RoF and I will be happy. But we will probably face Gandara and AG again next week.

Dear Anet.

In less then a month there will be start of new WvW – Leagues. I seen somewhere that matchups in League will be not rng, but manually adjusted.
Can You try to manually adjust them before league will start?
Because there may be some serious stomps and blowouts when servers will not fight 10 ranks higher, but will fight against similiar opponents.

For example last 4 weeks RoF take barelly any points, we lost more than we win agains fighting servers 5 ranks higher and in now it is 5 weeks we fight higher servers.
And we are not last server in EU bracket. We have 6 servers behind.
If I count corectly, there will be EU Bronze league starting with rank 19 and end with server rank 27.
This week and in last 4 weeks we fought only once and only one server from our “predicted” bracket.
Our strength is only calculated of fights against rank 5 higher servers. Not actually against servers we will potentially meet.
Lets say You will try zero week of league. You should have some sort of mathematics how You will select matchups. You can do it now.
Just look on those matchups in last weeks.How do You like rank 1 vs rank 13?

And for those who will try to offend me that RoF and bla bla bla.
RoF is the only server in EU who have not fight lower rank enemy for 4 weeks and we are continuing with this “luck”. While it may be a change to get better, everybody know that coverage determines ranks. Not skill.

Sorry it was FoW and Arborstone. Those last 6 servers dont have any serious population, so every server higher 22 will stomp them. My bad. But the point is the same. You stomped very hard FoW and Arb.

Sorry but RoF is the only server in whole EU bracket with the biggest disadvantage. THE ONLY ONE that has almost 200 points gap to lower rank server. With this RNG matchups it is a great disadvantage. With + or – rng, that is some serious server killer disadvantage.
And sory we fight too, we fight every matchup, but it is somehow getting boring to be stomped week after week.
And while you have similiar numbers to BB, and they only win by PPT. We dont have numbers to fight higher ranks. Maybe Dzags, and FSR, but not DL or GH or AG or Gandara or any server higher 18 rank.

Lets play some game:
Go to Mos and write lowest rank from every matchup. Now delete those who are not in every week. You will get only RoF and Vabbi. Vabbi dont have lower rank enemies. RoF have 6 of them and in last 4 weeks was not matched against any of them. AS THE ONLY SERVER IN EU. So yes, we are some kind of special server and I am surprised we still have spirit to fight.(and while I am writing this i know that tommorow i will log on again and fight you).
Only Gandara have last 3 weeks bad rng too. But while this week they fight FR (lower server) we continue with your bad luck off 5 week stomped line.

Solstice.1097:

that lip is very important to protect you from getting pulled off the wall. if you hop up on it you can get pulled down.

example in Briar tower if you have ACs and a catapult in the courtyard and a treb up near the ramp just out of AoE range, 5 people can hold that tower for a really long time against 20-30 enemies.

Bullkitten.
1) we are using 2 mesmers to grad people down even off the lip. First one will drag you to the lip and you will be blocked, but second TC will drag You down off the lip.
It is not barricade, it is programed only to “stun” you for second so that bounce will stop at lip. But second use of TC will get You down.

You cannot hold any tower with 5 people against 20-30 for more than 15 minutes.
First they try rams- destroyed
resupply and they try catas – destroyed
resupply, aoe for kill siege and then catas.
You are locked inside tower and you cannot go for resupply bur attackers can.

But that would mean that WvW play more people than Gw2 sPvP.
If you go that not everyone played GW1 PvP, but you count everybody to GW1 peak time.

Please look at EU.
We will be happy to have Leagues, because then 1 wont fight 10, 8 wont fight 16, 15 wont fight 21,11 wont fight 20 and 14 wont fight 19.

Jamais vu.5284:

Hule.8794:

I am focusing on PvE until league will start. Then we will have some even matches. Not this 6 ranks difference.

We had two matchups against Baruch in the last three four weeks.
They are 10+ ranks above us.

BB is 8 ranks higher from You.

We had 5 weeks of fighting 5 ranks difference. Not 2 from 4 weeks. But last 5 matchups we fight at least one 5 ranks higher server. You had that stomp FoW and Vabbi week, but we did not. We are loosing week after week because of these random matchups. And people dont want to login again.

But them main question is: How did you like being stomped by Baruch Bay. Then stomp poor FoW and Vabbi. Fight agains endless numbers from FR and being stomped by BB again? Was it fun?

And I forgot: thanks for fun night, to bad smaller scale of 10 has no place here. Well maybe in 2014

I have seen what you did to poor Zeerit. Make him a bait? Did he agreed to such humiliation? :-D
Number 3 have same exceptions, but look on what we got this week. And those are servers only 6 ranks higher.
And face the truth, if UW wont get very better than they are now, they will fight only higher rank servers. And maybe FSR. And this may hurt UW a lot, because when League will start, people may think about moving from UW, not to UW.

Just wait 3 matchups and then League Season 1 will start. And League Season 1 will have at least for EU max difference 8 ranks. And they said matchups wont be random, but they will manually prepare them.

I am focusing on PvE until league will start. Then we will have some even matches. Not this 6 ranks difference.

1)if League will be set by rating, RoF will fight against only 2 stronger servers: Dzag and FSP. Any of tis servers dont have numbers like Gandara or AG. And that will be good for bronze league. Because bronze league will be “small scale” league and there will be a ton of fun here.
2)transfering higher, you need to transfer to T1 or T4 servers.
3)those servers have big numbers and what we on RoF seen, there is no place for small scale fights. Join blob or die.
4)going to other servers than T1 and T4 is pointless because those will be stomped by T1 and T4. Look how Underwold is holding against Baruch Bay.
5) we will miss you on RoF if you guys transfer (but if we ever see you on the other side, we will hunt you to death/joke)

Be in the circle will give you only WXP and stuff. You need to tag Lord to have T7 material. So everybody now ruch to LR and try to tag lord.

Problem with Bloodlust I see now, and will be worse when League will start(people will transfer)
You have server A stomping server B and C (EU fight tier 1,3,5 this week, check score on mos from last week EU)

Server A will stomp other servers with their numbers and servers B and C will have a problem to even get the closest tower for a while.
Server B will make havoc squard of 5 people and go to other bl for bloodlust buff.
Server A will be noticed about loosing buff, so they will send 10 people to defend it.

While server B send half of his army(on lower servers, dont count pugs,because hey they follow only dorito and no dorito with common sense will show in this situation) and will be even more disadvantaged on home borderland. They send that havoc squad to only one objective because they dont have people to capture and hold 3 buffs, not even 2 buffs. And hardly 1 buff.

Server A will send half on his army too, but that will be 30 people in total, distributed to each on the borderlands to protect buffs.

Final situation:
Server B have now only 5 people and still no buff. Server A have 30 people and 3 buffs.

How can this help to improve fights?
And because of League Season 1, people are changing servers, so coverage will be even bigger difference.

tmakinen.1048:

As for the actual topic, everyone I know just calls her Teq.

It is a girl? I thought it is a boy.

In our guild we just call those 3 dragons: shaq, frog, ice
I dont know why Tequilla is frog, but somehow it sound just right for us. And those are translations, in czech it sounds more different

Dear Devon,
I know why this topic started. Yes there will be a problem with ascended for WvW players.
-In new update Tequatl will have small chance to drop Ascended weapon.
-PvE events are much easier than WvW events(or You think Aurora Glade have some chance against Viz?) and mostly because not balanced matchups so at least 1 server is stomped and cannot capture keep every 30 minutes. They do it hopefully once a day but what the rest of players who join for hours or two?
-Crafting Ascended is too expensive for WvW player, because there is no loot worth it. As a defender you get nothing. You wil lstand on wall for 1 hour. Then you will see 50 enemies so you will call for help. You will man the AC there. But cannot kill anyone because they will just dodge from the aoe.Your group of 50 players will come. You will join them and together you will destroy enemy zerg. Luckilly you will have 10 loot bags containing blue, if not so lucky you will get Queen Commendations.
-On the other side your zerg will come to map and start attacking. You will se on ly 10 defenders and with golem rush you are happy you tagged at least 3. 3 loot bags, but at least you got some loot from NPCs and Champion bag, which will give you some ore. But wait, how many ores I can get every day? And why are not defenders trying to get keep back while we sit in there? Oh yeah, outnumbered.

While I understand this topic, I dont agree with it. We need better rewards in WvW. Prices on Tp have increased in crazy way, but loot in WvW decreased. And mayn events like defending will give you no loot with exotic chance for rare item.

Dear FSR,
why did you bring that zerg to Cragtop? Nextime we will use more catas to take the wall down faster.
We hoped you are busy at gari so You will ignore Crag for a while.

Just reset WXP points everytime you add new mastery. Thats it. no more needed.

Thats right. I remember with guardian with staff, enemies were at hills south outer gate.
I get there and used skill 1 on staff on gate to know if enemies are there or not.
It almost killed me even the staff makes so kitten damage.

I play as engineer
1)engies have no boon stripping
2)grenades are probably the best weapon vs zergs
3)you throw 3 grenades each can hit 5 targets(or 3 i cant remember)
4)i cannot stop grenades when they are in air
5) my options are fight and die due to retaliation or do nothing and die due doing nothing, is this how this game is meant to play? do nithing just stand there?

6)in zergs there are probably more than one guardian,in fact most guild groups play only with guard/warr/ele

7)difference confusion vs retal
- you can see retaliation all the time because it is condition on you
-you cannot se retaliation if you fight group because you dont know which 5 man from zerg your grenades will hit
-confusion proc on ability, while using skill it will hit you one time only(tried it with grenades)
- retaliation proc on hit, so channeled skills are disadvantaged
-confusion is based on condition damage
-retaliation is based on power

Chris.3290:

I have a proposal.

We will cease complaining about leagues: if, and only if, Devon Carver agrees to do a weekly video announcing the results.

We further stipulate that he must act and sound genuinely surprised when a higher ranked server beats a lower ranked one. He should also give a list of reasons why the matches the proceeding week are interesting and the outcome is in doubt.

I want him to go on record, explaining how Crystal Desert vs Fort Aspenwood vs Jade Quarry is a competitive match and how it is anyone’s game.

If he is willing to do this, aka do to himself what he’s doing to us (insulting intelligence); then we can admit that we are all in this together and will cease pestering them on these boards.

Everyone please +1 to give this visibility.

+1

1x Bloodlust = 100% magic find, 100% gold find
3x Bloodlust = 300% magic find, 300% gold find
Outnumbered – 100Vitality,100toughness, 100 power, +5 supply

This would have 2 effects – Bloodlust would be demanded to have. And it will reduce loot problems in WvW. And it will give outnumbered servers a chance.

I makes you think only in small scale fights. And be honest, WvW is mostly about zergs.
You cannot check everyone in zerg if he has retaliation and there is no other icon than small next to his portrait when you target enemy.
Retaliation =/= makes you think
retaliation = kills you if you use aoe (5man cap) on zerg, where aoe was meant to deal dmg to zergs