Guild Wars 2

ShredsAndPatches.3417:

I play wvw a lot. I also play the rest of the game, but wvw is probably the thing I’ve been most excited about for a while now. So since I can’t claim to be a noob anymore, but I’m still pretty confused, I guess that means I’m just… a bad.

what server?

tornado eles on downstated enemies, guardians with light fields on gates that have have ac fire on u…what else…oh

somethineg like

rangers
less bad engis (more because of people don’t know how to play this class in zerg)

JonPeters.5630:

Engineer:

• Explosives V – Incendiary Powder. Moved to Master tier.
  ok
• Explosives VI – Exploit Weakness. Increased the health threshold from 25% to 50%
  very good, tbh. No it’s really more usefull trait. thanks

• Explosives IX – Accelerant packed turrets. Moved to Adept tier.
  ok

• Firearms XI – Modified Ammunition. This trait now works regardless of equipped weapon.
  ok
• Inventions V – Energized Armor. Increased conversion from 5% to 7%.
  good
• Inventions X – Autotool Installation. Increased healing percent from 1% to 5%. * Decreased interval from 10s to 3s.
  GOOD
• Inventions XI – Elixir Infused bombs. Increased healing scaling by 50%.
  BESTkittenupdate!!! Thank u very much for this one, cause before healing power was almost uselless with this trait and took too much, now engis can become good healing battery
• Alchemy V – Blood Injection. Increased conversion from 5% to 7%.
  good
• Alchemy 15 – Transmute. Increased % chance from 8% to 100%. This effect can now only trigger once every 15 seconds.
  thanks for that, good change, now we at least will be able to see it actually
• Tools VI – Speedy Kits. Increased Swiftness duration to 10s. This effect can now only trigger once every 10 seconds.
  it’s ok, little nerf that i don’t mind of
• Tools XI – Armor Mods. Changed this to now trigger on struck instead of on critical hit incoming. Reduced the cooldown from 25 seconds to 15 seconds.
  not the best choice i think…grandmaster trait with so low effect..

1 more suggestion from me.

Increase please healing power scale of trait from
Alchemy IX – Backpack Regenerator, from 5% to 20-25%, it’s a little buff but it will make this trait more usefull. Cause almost any class got some good passive healing accept us. And this little buff will make backpack regen actually not bad passive healling, quit balanced.

good luck everyone in the match-up)

Marty McFly.9084:

What is the best profession to lead as a commander?
I have Warrior, Guardian, and Engineer as the three I can’t decide between. They all offer something to the party, so I was wondering if I had missed something that would make one preferred to the other.

Commanding on my engi) Would not recomend only because class is complexive and people ussualy making useless builds for it, and being just useless unit as player or even rallybots. I’m 60% pvt, 40 bers..something like this, and i’m not rallyboting) 1 good point in that is that u have your own 2 waterfields then u only need to call blasts on u, not waiting for non-ts eles.

Warrior or Guardian is best choice. Warrior good HP pull, surviveability and support.

Guardian awesome aswell for commanding. U can have alot of survivability +great support for your zerg with leas and buffs.

Necro can be good if good build.

Other classes…i don’t think so, but u can always test and ask another commanders who uses that classes, but if u enjoy playing warrior/guardian – go for it as a commander, it will be the best choice.

If u just starting don’t go on RANGED classes, because i see this problem even on guardians commanders that equiping stuff pressing 1 1 1 1 11, and they think thir zerg hitting same targets but they got no idea what this idiot with blue marks means.

If it’s pug raid u better show them by your position where your zerg’s dmg spot must be, cause standing on 600 range and saying “drop it here” will be disaster.

Actually i like this match-up. Both our opponents got their good parts like ER running more divided on guilds (we ussually can’t do same last time….queues here are ridiculous) and Kodash got awesome roamers.

GL everyone on match-up. Wish we will have good fights!

And as i remember Kodash had alot of good small-scale groups (1-3guys). Slackers punishers)

Congratulations for Vizuna and Piken and gl in next match-ups)

Vizuna – gg. See u all week 7)

chriskin.3298:

I really liked how people from SFR spammed /bow (one even pressed /cry) after they killed our greatly outnumbered group outside bay’s doors today (around an hour before this post, if I recall correctly) and I’d like to say “thank you”. It was a rather pleasant surprise.

y, u where low on numbers there)

Illogical.6218:

Fact is that all the SFR ppl are claiming their loss on some sort of conspiracy theory in which piken and vizunah have an alliance double teaming sfr
Fact is also that SFR is an easy target this match-up, which is why they get targeted most

false.

read – elixir H…and move out from thread.

GL in your tests m8

Hule.8794:

Maybe just maybe some of those PvE players will start playing WvW regulary. But they will need help of WvW players not hate.

Yes m8, some of them definetly will. I’m bymyself was and working on teaching newcomers that overflowed our server before league.

But Anet’s step was awkward. If he wanted to make league a good competition and something really exciting he better not motivate players who are not interested in wvw at all to go on wvw maps.

If Anet implemented some EPIC farming PVE event or Tequal right on league it would be awesome, so people would be divided on those who whants to do pve and those who whant’s to do wvw. Make it longer so those who whant to do both will do that. But no.

Andrew Clear.1750:

Hvaran.6327:

I agrre with TS. And i hate when people write walls of text, so sorry from the brginning for that. First time i got kitten ed of totally by Devs choice.

Anet u screwed totally, with match-ups andkittenACHIVMENTS…i don’t have an idea how u can fix it.

But the problem is not only on my server, it’s eveywhere. Wins those server who can bring more wvw players on borderlands or battlegrounds but not that is really better.

I whant to play with and against expirienced wvw players on WVW. If it was like 70% of regular wvw players and 30% those kittenheads it would be OK, but they just enetring it first time and staying there for hours without any understanding of how wvw works.

If u will have 2/5 players in your party in hard dungeon without expirience u will suffer from it by making it longer or totally failing. For wvw it doesn’t make it longer it makes it first: less fun second: u loose faster.

I know that each server it’s not only regular wvw players, but why the kitten u needed to add those kitteny achivments on start of the league and hardest match-ups in EU? Or u don’t know that at least 70% of players it’s brainless achivment hunters that don’t whanna have fun, they whant that kittening achiment points, that means totally NOTHING! That means they playing games for those numbers in the list but not to have a good time.

Make another achivment – “I was a kitten for my server on WVW” – 5000 AP, maybe that way they can succed faster in AP hunting and go away from the gameplay type that they don’t like.

Could u implement it 2 months earlier? So people could actually learn how to play it and if they liked it they stayed and started to cooperate wisely, but no u need causal players to try FIRST TIME WvW ON THEkittenleague.

Please put more recoures in WvW then u have now, cause this gameplay type got HUGE potential.

I bet if the ideas that you just presented, were in effect when you started playing WvW, you would’ve came straight to the forums and posted how much you hated them.

Everyone starts as a newb in WvW. Everyone has the right to play WvW. You are from a t1 server, so I can see why you are complaining, but, as I have stated in other posts, the VAST MAJORITY of people who play WvW are not on a t1 server.

So, why should anet please the minority of players on t1 at the expanse of the majority on all the other tiers? Sounds like a bad business decision. You can’t please everyone, so the best course of action is to please the maximum amount of people that you can.

so u saying that lower tiers don’t have don’t problems too? Maybe u don’t have that ques, but u definetly have the same situation on map with more people that are not enjoying playing wvw but just gettingkittenACHIVMENT POINTS.

In pvp we have spvp and tpvp. I’m going to spvp if i feel not so good myself in proper competition, when my skill rises i go tpvp.

In wvw it doesn’t exist.

AP in wvw brought those people on WVW who are not interested in having fun from it at all. They would never learn 1 year before or month before. Because they are not interested in that.

They made achivments on wvw from the beginning insanly hard to get, that shown that u need to spend alot of time there, to much efforts for casual players that not having fun playing wvw. And they avoided it.

I agrre with TS. And i hate when people write walls of text, so sorry from the brginning for that. First time i got kitten ed of totally by Devs choice.

Anet u screwed totally, with match-ups andkittenACHIVMENTS…i don’t have an idea how u can fix it.

But the problem is not only on my server, it’s eveywhere. Wins those server who can bring more wvw players on borderlands or battlegrounds but not that is really better.

I whant to play with and against expirienced wvw players on WVW. If it was like 70% of regular wvw players and 30% those kittenheads it would be OK, but they just enetring it first time and staying there for hours without any understanding of how wvw works.

If u will have 2/5 players in your party in hard dungeon without expirience u will suffer from it by making it longer or totally failing. For wvw it doesn’t make it longer it makes it first: less fun second: u loose faster.

I know that each server it’s not only regular wvw players, but why the kitten u needed to add those kitteny achivments on start of the league and hardest match-ups in EU? Or u don’t know that at least 70% of players it’s brainless achivment hunters that don’t whanna have fun, they whant that kittening achiment points, that means totally NOTHING! That means they playing games for those numbers in the list but not to have a good time.

Make another achivment – “I was a kitten for my server on WVW” – 5000 AP, maybe that way they can succed faster in AP hunting and go away from the gameplay type that they don’t like.

Could u implement it 2 months earlier? So people could actually learn how to play it and if they liked it they stayed and started to cooperate wisely, but no u need causal players to try FIRST TIME WvW ON THEkittenleague.

Please put more recoures in WvW then u have now, cause this gameplay type got HUGE potential.

GSTim.8094:

PS: It’s really.. ummmm… stupid to hate a server cuz of forum warriors. Most of them dont play WvW and just «lfg fotm 10» in LA every day. just saying.

+1

I liked alot this match-up. Thanks to JS and RS for good fights! And gl all in League)

Joxer.4807:

Bomb Kit is amazing in WvW big fights. It’s absolutely a must have. I use it in combo with the Toss Elixir B stability and Rifle jump to be immediately in the middle of the enemy zerg.

Before the radius was only 120 (and the area 1/4 of what we have now) and was really difficult to hit someone.

same thing m8)))

i think this combination can become some kind of stable zerg engi build….i’m gonna make videos of zerg v zerg fights with that build and with ranged-nades build aswell…

Wolfheart.1938:

Pheppo.9286:

And a good roamer will not “finish” his opponent at the end of a hard fight instead you ./bow.

I kill them and /bow after. Am I a good roamer?

ofc u not. U must bow and drop 1 omJega golem or 250 balistas to him or some fluffy rabit.

And that posts about blobs….

bombs, elixirs B and S, Riffle.
Drink B, toss B. Riffle for leap on enemy or even behind, if on enemy skill 3 riffle or bombs 1/4/5 depends on situation, if behind enemy then maybe Big Oil Bomb.

Nice dmg, nice range, nice surviveability.

(95% jf time i’m playing wvw, mostly zerg fights)

Jada Sea u really need to use those bugs to save hills on our map? Pls, fair fights.

Nice fight for bay on SFr map RS) We enjoyed it alot)

Nice one Anet! U saving this game with it) it still good but gvg map would be awesome addition!

U will see that after implementing and u will not regret because of big effort to apply this.

Rozbuska.5263:

I never took bombs into zerg fights because of little too small range but with that boost in next patch its starts interesting to give it a another shot:-)

next patch is a nice buff for engis) escapcially for wvw stability, bombs etc…gonna read it again, maybe i missed that other classes will become even better)

oh my guard………

tattoohead.3217:

I comand with a FT build, people complane about the retaliation being an issue but overall I don’t use flame jet that often.

I can’t link my build atm because I’m on my phone but it’s 20/20/0/30/0 when I want to go for damage, and 0/20/20/30/0 when I’m running full defense.

I run full PVT gear with 3x altruism and 2x fire and a sigil of battle on my weapon. It’s not perfect t but I don’t feel like I’m squishy at all and I have no problem maintaining 25 stacks of might.

forget about mightstacking in zergs) u will have them from FT passive trait and zerg)

full pvt…looks too tanky) what did u choose in alchemy thread?

Rozbuska.5263:

Hvaran.6327:

Rozbuska.5263:

I not commanding but I have build maked for maximal survability I can dive into zerg like a boss and almost never die. I used it over 4 months and I cant simply find better:-)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqel0pyaH5y3F17IxIFde0hUUY7L6h+tsjB-jQyAofhQiBI5Agggk9KiGbZsIasKbM1LRUtNvIa1yAwMGA-e

- With rank buffs and food you have almost 31k HP (or more depend on current WvW HP bonus.
- Due to Melandru runes, trait and food you are pretty much immune (97% reduction) to chill, cripple and immobilize and rest condis are also greatly reduced. Also stun duration is reduced.
- If enemy zerg is realy big switch food into omnombery compot for better heal
- For every kill you got about 1k HP from sigil (another 2k from omnombery) and your endurance is fully refiled from other sigil. Just tag everything with FT and you are immortal as long as your zerg kills:-P

i couldn’t not comment this.

I saw you got some good pve maybe even spvp builds…but this one…U mixed very good ideas into pure kitten build. No damage, no support. If u are making movie from the 100vs100 fights yeah it fits.

This build is for zergs for badgefarming. For solo/small scale its useless:-) Support engi in WvW? Well.. Lol:-D

even for zerg badge etc…u can’t cap enough people with that dmg…and ofc smallscale it’s useless we are not talking about smallscale right now, i think u know smallscale builds good for engi.

Who said about full support? U runningkittenelixir not healing turret with 2 water fields. It’s much more better in zerg. And if u are commander u can call blasts and heal your zerg more efficiently.

Rozbuska.5263:

I not commanding but I have build maked for maximal survability I can dive into zerg like a boss and almost never die. I used it over 4 months and I cant simply find better:-)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqel0pyaH5y3F17IxIFde0hUUY7L6h+tsjB-jQyAofhQiBI5Agggk9KiGbZsIasKbM1LRUtNvIa1yAwMGA-e

- With rank buffs and food you have almost 31k HP (or more depend on current WvW HP bonus.
- Due to Melandru runes, trait and food you are pretty much immune (97% reduction) to chill, cripple and immobilize and rest condis are also greatly reduced. Also stun duration is reduced.
- If enemy zerg is realy big switch food into omnombery compot for better heal
- For every kill you got about 1k HP from sigil (another 2k from omnombery) and your endurance is fully refiled from other sigil. Just tag everything with FT and you are immortal as long as your zerg kills:-P

i couldn’t not comment this.

I saw you got some good pve maybe even spvp builds…but this one…U mixed very good ideas into pure kitten build. No damage, no support. If u are making movie from the 100vs100 fights yeah it fits.

What server?

Link me build.

Squishy engi?) Naaah)

hate kodash roamers)

but to be honest, good job on that….sometimes nice to meet people that not only able to press 1111 but 11112))

from hobo-sack with love)

Penguin.5197:

Hvaran.6327:

IMAGINE THAT KIT with boon removels+knobacks and prexepility runes.
10 engis dropping down zergs on wvw like nubs. NO WAY.

What?? Getting ten engies at one time to drop mines all over the place? Pleaaase! Theres not enough around! :S

rangers will reroll at last to engis) OP classes are more playble, u know that)

yes, i got one from Hengis – u’re epic slacker!

IMAGINE THAT KIT with boon removels+knobacks and prexepility runes.
10 engis dropping down zergs on wvw like nubs. NO WAY.

ooh nice.

will aply today, thanks)

Troma.3250:

Hello,

first fights of GCK for this matchup, sadly too much numbers at the moment. We did all we could, but with 20-25 people, it was almost impossible versus all thoses big army !

No problem btw, in the GCK codex all fight is taken and fleeing is forbidden. Good fights with SCND too ! even if it’s very hard because we are not a guild and only war/gards =)

In the linked image, we charged this mass without fear !

why u on vzuna though?

nice to see that kind of guilds on vizu who can make no-lag fights. REspect.

Alteony.3168:

I can’t express how frustrated I am about this, and I can’t believe there would be no warning message about this.

I purchased 2 of the same Ascended rings last night only to find out I can’t equip both of them. This story sound familiar?

Same sh i have done)

No warning about that anywhere…that’s bad..I had to sell my ascended ring to an traider for 3s….When i asked people they said like:“U didn’t know that?”

i will like this week) more pressure after rest week)

GOOd SLACK ALL!!

drama, romantic, triller…what else can we have here?)

Backpack regenerator and healing bombs scaling very low with Healing power…i was about to make full healing engi with that skills and some other…but after about 500 Healing Power bombs heal for 250 and backpack regenerator for about 200..it’s nothing in compare to other classes and even some sigils…I’ll try to make a screenshot or video today to show it.

u choosing between georgeous huge cats and plants? REally?)))

O m8, go charr and forget about that mushroomheaded race)

Miyu.8137:

3 whinning ppl don’t represent the whole server. We never gave up fights vs SFR, we actually managed to keep up with SFR in points during our prime time or even dominated them. 99% of Piken was satisfied in the match with SFR and rather talked about SFR with respect instead of complaining. And if you realy care about the fun and equal and challenging fights instead of domination, then you can always change server, or try to convince your server to stop recruiting americans and stop new guilds from transfering to SFR. Funny you encourage other servers to change instead of trying to change your own server to have more equal and challenging match ups. Cheers

wtf….i liked match-up that we had before. I really enjoyed sfr vs piken vs ER alot. Lots of good fights.

Even if people where lower on numbers they always jumped out from seige and towers to wipe their enemies not with AC fire. And that described all 3 servers of last week for me.

On this week….HER TAM. Have got only 1-2 good fights, not zone blobs and not pvp.

even french drama included, nice.

Popcorn – 50 gems
Hotdog – 100 gems

Movie already started. Hurry up. Take your seats.

i will just leave it here to not loose this thread)

no. They will not do this. Why?

Because even if devs will buff other staff in engis, they will never do them siplier to play. Cause that’s what engis about.

But good try m8.

are u all blind?

read this Features:
Added new condition damage floaters: An option to use the more iconic damage floaters.
New Fact System: Added trait facts. Showing linked skills in traits. Traits and skills update facts when affects by other traits.
General:
Aoe spells with that have a maximum number of targets will now count combatants that block or evade the attack towards that maximum (actually this must be nerf for all aoe)
Fixed a bug where some 0 damage spells (Tainted shackles among others) did not place their casters in combat.
Fixed a bug that disabled utility skill swapping while transformed
Stun breakers now break blowouts and launch as well
Tab targeting now prioritizes players over npcs (including minions)(mesmer clones are an exception)
Made adjustments to click targeting to make it more precise
Fixed a bug that caused extra “Miss” floaters to display whenever an attack was dodged, evaded, or missed due to blind
Fixed a bug that made F1-F4 skills display the wrong amount of damage (too little if your weapon was better than common rarity)
Weapon skills that hide your weapon no longer hide your back item
Engineer turrets will now target whatever enemy was last hit by their owner whenever possible
Runes of lyssa now work properly on all elites
Fixed a bug where stuns would always round up their duration to the nearest second if you had extra stun duration from items or trait
All duration stacking boons(Aegis, Fury, protection, Regeneration, Retaliation, Swiftness, and Vigor) and conditions(Blind, Burning, Chilled, Cripple, immobilze(now stacks duration), and Poison) now stack to a maximum of 5 times.
All player controlled minions. excluding Mesmer phantasm and clones because they were already increased in a previous patch, now have 71.43% more hit points in a PvE map.
Dark Projectile Combo: The damage portion of the life siphon bolt now slightly scales off power.
Dark Whirl Combo: The damage portion of the life siphon bolt now slightly scales off power.
Made it a bit easier to retarget channeled skills (now if you try to recast them on a separate target, it will cancel your current instance of the skill and start casting it again on the other target)
Made it harder to accidentally waste your downed 2 skill when you get downed while trying to use your weapon 2 skill
Skills that buff allies in an aoe now prioritize party members

we are getting buffed! Celebrate!

chainsaw kit
Heavy 220 range damage with bleeding

lash kit
aoe daze and good targeting available 300 range

sniper kit
2k range with heavy damage)

traits for bombs on shots with riffle/pistol

traits for stability

fixing mortar would be nice, but better replacing all elites and making new.

that Piken zone blokitten lands…oooh…was blobest blob ever)

Actually, i like this match-up.

Only that blob was ridiculous)

already love this thread)got 1200 hours on engi and tons of experiments with z v z

always trying to sort out something new and better.

For the beggining.

The main problem of the class is that is complicated. And what goes out of it is that more then 50% of engis don’t know how to play their class at all. When half of the nation are fools – they are nation of fools.

(who thekittenmakes might stacking build in z v z?! Are u kidding me?)

surama.5167 – 73%, i know that number too) All engineers must know it aswell)

It’s like can’t avoind some confrontation?! Take it like a man and say “Come on me Bro” to CC.

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

PVE CAptains!!))))) haha

Jayne.9251:

Hope SFR and Viz enjoyed Piken’s “bring a pet to work day” today on EB.

Was hilarious and a lot of fun, especially taking SM with a million little critters to help!

Cheers!

HAHAAAAAA nicely done…what a regret i wasn’t there))