Guild Wars 2

Had an awesome duel on my ele against one from Ebay, we fought for like 15minutes straight until my opponents power went out.

/salute Hai Im Belle

on a side note got absolutely crushed on my Ranger by some warrior, granted I didn’t get the oh so important mauls off, but /salute to you too man, you know who you are you are a boss.

So.. can we just face E Bay for like..idk the rest of our lives?

Well, we here at TG and DB had the grandest time in EBay BL tonight!

We made an alliance, had hugz not war and event went SoS hunting!

<3 to all the Ebay guilds who put down their weapons and had some fun :P
pk, GF, GH, and a few others I cant remember its late idk if that’s even accurate.

Shoutout to everyone at the SE tower who let the dancing naked/towns clothes be and even participated.

Ehmry Bay…Sea of Sorrows, do you take us DB, as your lawfully wedded husband?

Marry us!

I enjoy fighting Ebay a lot, you guys can field way more people than I expected.

Reset when Pk poured into hills we were like omg theres a lot of them, they are still coming into hills! lol anyways good fights all around guys.

I can only hope you are correct that they are not real patch notes.

Alright, so if the “leaked” class changed are indeed true we are going to be losing a fair chunk of damage out of beast master builds.

So, now we have a few options you can stay as a BM and fall asleep before someone finally gets killed.
Or…you could go condition ranger.

I however chose to maybe try and conjure up a “power ranger” I based this build off of being my own damage instead of my pet, while still sustaining some pet dmg which after the patch will be less useful than it is now bear in mind.

Weapon Set
-Great sword- Superior Sigil of Flame
-Whatever you like in the main hand but war horn offhand is a must. I myself chose Axe/Warhorn

Gear
Our gear is going to be zerkers with a mix of PVT gear instead of runes.
All rings earrings etc should be zerkers. If you want more toughness or w/e Instead of spike power I suppose you could use a bit of PVT jewels.

At this point you should be in the ball park of
2300 Armor
51% Crit Chance
91%crit damage
etc..etc..

Pets
Our pets are going to be Juvenile Jungle Stalker (This is a must but we will get to that shortly)
And…really anything on the swap I would suggest a Reef Drake for the blast finisher and confusion, but its up to you.

Traits
30: I, IX, XI
25: I, VI Less pet oriented go ( II, and IX/IV depending on main hand )
5: N/A
10: V
0:

Note: you could allocate the 5 in Wilderness survival wherever else but I chose to go for a bit extra toughness and endurance regen.

Slots
Healing Spring: I feel it is our best healing utility skill, and if you are lucky Juvenile Reef Drake will blast finish it for you.

Signet of the Hunt: For the Active effect.

Signet of the wild: Active effect

Signet of Stone: Active effect.

Rampage As One: For boons pretty much. If you are in a group situation Entangle works just as well.

Basically, this build is going to centre around the Greatswords no.2 skill “maul”

Before entering combat use jungle stalkers f2 which will grant you might, be patient its a long animation, sometimes it wont even activate but such is the situation with pet AI etc. Tl:DR this will give you might

Once you have selected your target use war horn 5, hit Rampage as one, then signet of the wild, signet of the hunt, then maul on the great sword. You should be seeing some nasty numbers fly off your target.

I believe at this point in time my highest has been 15k But usually its around a 7k-9k maul depending on how tanky your target is and whether or not you hit them from a flank. The last thing you have to do is finish off your target through whatever means possible, warhorn 4 is always some nice to deal additional dmg and annoy the hell out of someone. If you get in trouble use signet of stone for a 6s invuln and your healing spring.

In the end you can do some killer damage, but will be fairly susceptible to conditions so you really need to check yourself before you wreck yourself with this build and be on your toes!

Foods: I use sharpening stones personally I like the extra power and I use either Bowl of Butternut Squash soup, OR mango pie for some health regen. Again this is a decision based upon more survivability or dmg and can be situational.

I don’t know what else to tell you guys other than this has been working for me fairly well this past week both in Spvp ( which uses scholar runes if you want to try it) and WvW small group/ roaming

It may not be perfect and can be considered rather a “glass cannon” build but it sure can be punishing to HP pools if you play it correctly. So take this as you will it is FAR from being a build that I have 100% refined and is definitely still in a testing phase. I like many others are just thinking of alternative builds to Bunkering with your pet.

FA, are you enjoying all the siege inside SMC lords?

I am, and you’re welcome.

Well, Idk about you guys but I just got my first ascended from a world xp box

Rank 19 ftw

My engineer, follows the same armor skins I use on all my medium armor toons.

Every single matchup the discussion is the same.

Hurr-Durr DragonWagon Hurr durr, numbers hurr durr l2p DragonWagon.

Its really getting annoying. You win some you lose some, deal with it.

Well, I for one am glad this matchup is over.

Hope to not see any of you for a long time.

I think what did it was when I actually had someone from BG jump off the cliff and kill himself instead of trying to fight me 1v1… pretty much set the tone for the tier.

The fights are kind of fun in T1..kinda.

But the forum wars make me lose brain cells with every post I read.

FrankieBonez.8361:

As always – EA doesn’t care about the drama. We’re taking this time to study and learn everything we can from our T1 adversaries and fine tune our group comps so we will be more effective overall in the long run. It is obvious that coverage wins, and sadly DB is outmanned – but never outgunned. The guilds you see in WvW this week, no matter how large the score gap, are the guilds and people that brought Dragonbrand back up.

@ I Bounty Hunter I — Fort EATG did not survive the night i’m afraid. After ninjaing it back and repelling wave after wave of BG/JQ from SE camp and Hills, the night caught up with most of us and reinforcements came too late. Was a hell of a fight though. Shouts to all on BGBL on reset night – definitely the more fun BL of the four imo. Bring on the fights!!

Darn, I had a lot of fun roughly 2 in the morning, when we alamoe’d like 50+ BG with just the few we had on hills lords room choke.

Always a pleasure working with you guys from EA on the same map

This is rather pathetic coming onto the forums for a GAME, and having people get mad at an entire population for the actions of a few. It’s RE you want JQ not the whole community.

Either way, I’m looking forward to some more fun fights. How is fort EATG? Did it survive the night?

What..?

Addmoarletterz

Good job to EA, TB, TG, and for awhile Agg on BG Bl. We held the most stuff so far tonight so far as DB guilds go. We have had some crazy fights at hills. We lost hills a few times but gained it back again. Some epic scale fights at SE camp as well.

Mad shout outs to BT, Aco, CA, and the other assorted BG and JQ guilds you have given us some amazing fights.

I sure hope you guys had as much fun tonight as we here did.

Please JQ and BG don’t let the DB chest thumpers represent the attitude of the entire server.

Well, this sucks.

How my battles have gone, the play by play in terms of skill usage: 1..1…1…wait..1…1..1.1.1……..1

Just a bland old score update :P

Shoutout to the D/ ERP Thief in EBG who I helped kill that SBI warrior, then we proceeded to jump and dance with eachother and go our separate ways.

-Brofist.

We are connected now BFF

Maguumbags. Yum <3

Moriquendi.4209:

Nice job on DB’s EB keep Mag!

Yeah, that was an impressive amount of people and Golems.

DB native here, not liking the DB 2.0…

We need to learn to communicate better, EBG was a mess tonight.

GF’s tonight SBI and Maguuma.

I too think throwing yourselves at us face first was effective my pockets thank you.

:P
In all seriousness though, I truly feel bad for you SBI, its not your fault you got in such a bad matchup.

WvW these past couple weeks hasn’t been very appealing after reset.

Im going to be honest here, this week is like the first week I really cant get into WvW.

It has been almost non stop zergs roughly the population of a small island and arrowcarts practically cross mapping me.

Some good times up at N.Camp in FA BL.. well maybe not for you guys but we had fun.

I definitely want to try this build.

Oh good, just what we needed…
Don’t get me wrong yay more people but I really don’t want to be T1

Anet swings the Nerf bat more than a group of players trying to down a thief in shadow refuge.

So at some times it could take up a potential 20seconds to wipe the conditions from me… by then I will be dead I don’t need these removed later I need them removed now, otherwise I wouldnt be using the skills now would I?

First off I apologize guys I take full responsibility for this nerf, about a week after I get my new toon to 80 Anet decides to nerf it into the ground. For example I started this game with the Ranger class..-_- Then I switched to Thief…nerfed 1 week after I hit 80 on it. After which I just got my fresh Ele to 80 and have never been having more fun playing bunker D/D Ele.

Anyways, I watched the state of the game, and was horrified when they reached bunker Ele. Is the whole point of said build survivability. If you build your class for survivability why should you not have surviving ability. Basically the build kills by out living other players, the damage on it is laughable. So that K.O.’s that build because survivability is lost and it already had a lot less damage. AWESOME!

One might say you could try a power build, to which my reply is: It seems that player “broke wind” and now I appear to be on my back even with tank gear.

Honestly if you are so terrible at this game you can’t kill a D/D Ele I weep for you and your band of merry scrubs. I managed to kill D/D ELes on my Ranger what’s your excuse?

I guess maybe I should finish levelling my Mesmer…oh wait.

TL:DR
I am sick of all these Nerfs on this game.

/end rant

Long time needed nerf.

I like this so far being in T2( Asides from skill lag and low fps)

But I must say its nice to be in a tier where your enemies aren’t kittening about X guild/player doing X thing to X person, and having a flame and chest thump war break loose.

Lol drop that GvG thing. So they brought maybe a handful more than you, if they are as bad as you say they are a few extra “scrubs” to mow down shouldn’t have been a problem?

Also this is a game, not some fight to the death the only thing that got damaged here seemed to be egos. It’s a GAME we play it for FUN.

Oh GOD Maguuma and Yaks don’t stop and SM right now. I cant even HOLD ALL THESE LOTBAGS.

Seriously, please keep getting obliterated in there thanks in advance.

Lol, I don’t think that huge mix of Me and YB Pug’s seem to remember right after the camp in the tower where we wiped them with even numbers on reset.

Bottom line so far any engagement we have had with them their nameplates have blocked out the sun, and my frames instantly nosedive. As our 20 or so people try our hardest to fend off 50+ people only to be engulfed by the sea of red. It literally reminds me of when the army of the undead in the LOTR swarms the orc army and engulfs them.

Is it odd when reading through this thread all I hear in my head is a hyper sarcastic play through of can you feel the love tonight?

I see Maguuma and Yaks rolled glass tonight, very nice my backstabs are loving it.

I keep having NPC’s and Allies In WvW appearing in this form.

Is this my GPU going? I certainly hope not since I just got this laptop around Christmas.

Running low graphics, team colors enabled for enemy only.

Speaking of hacking how about the 10 or so YB from ct that glitched back into their keep after we took it.

Yeah that was nifty..

P/P Thief isn’t as bad as everyone thinks it is.

I use a GC p/p with limited stealth

Thieves Guild, Shadowstep in, active signet, haste, spam unload, shadow return.

That usually puts people down before they know what hit them exception being bunker eles and guardians.

It may not have great survivability, but if you are aware and have good timing pretty easy to use definitely really cool aesthetically.

I would never really get much done with this build though the way I play, but it seems well thought out.

Idk, I think a nameplate on literally EVERYTHING was a little bit overboard.

I do not care about scales, or guards.

Needs to show more skin, keep the cutscenes interesting.

Almost feel bad for SoS..almost.

Interesting I am using the exact same card.

I just updated mine today, and after this recent patch it seems I have gotten some FPS drop.

I get like 40 FPS in the biggest W3 zergs, but after this patch and update I can dip to 28. I don’t know if this is from the massive influx of people playing WvW right now, but I get like 68-90 FPS in LA still.

When you installed did you hit quick install so you couldn’t mess anything up.
Should be noted that on max settings I will get like 40 FPS maximum, but well that’s max settings I doubt people really get much higher especially in W3.

I usually run on low settings anyways, because performance and play over pretty shiny things.

I have a fairly good computer set up.

Before I would maximum dip max about 38FPS in the BIGGEST of zerg battles. But tonight for the first time since I didn’t upgrade my graphics card I hit 12 FPS.
There are so many PvE players cluttering up my screen catching arrows in their mouths its unbelievable.
I had to force my computer down to low settings and its still hurting. Guess I will have to roam for the rest of my life so I can get my frames back to 100+

Not only that but it seems the latency has spiked like no tomorrow as I d/c in an army of Maw grinders.

WvW is now Maw T_T

Culling was not that bad. Its basically like when you get killed in Call of Duty or Halo and blame it on the controller and or lag. Now everyone avoids everyone and its just one giant blob of lettering on my screen.

No I am still having this issue, my MS spikes over 3k once after being way below 100. Then goes back to normal

Darcwolf, I did as you requested, my mean ms would of been roughly 40ms.

The highest it hit being 69ms.

So my answer does not lie there.

Edit: Okay I see here Darcwolf, it runs at roughly 40ms, but on one reply it will spike to over 500, and that’s where I will disconnect. Just once then its restored.

Any idea here mate?

@loseridoit
That’s not the case it was working fine for months up until last Friday.

ill post again just for the sake of it.

Still having this issue almost 1 week later.

I agree

SO much disappointment in the air.