Guild Wars 2

Brave marching warrior
Crippled burned and stabbed
Vengeance and death

Nice!

Emberassing for Anet tho.

Gandara tends to lack coverage as well. It’s fine during primetime tho. Honestly, the day Anet adds awesome looking exclusive rewards in WvW, is the day Gandara will reign supreme. So much PvE players will flock towards it :p

Pathetic update warnings…

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

SM should be ours… :/ And FURY.. Please run without pugs xD This is no fun.

sPvP truly is dead at the moment. I’m ranked 201 but rarely play sPvP. That said, the leaderboards might spark some new competition.

Hopefully you guys add a search function to the leaderboards. I do really like it so far tho! Good job.

What a Bs question lol! xD

Hammer is the best warrior build for guild groups. We run 4+ hammer wars every time with a guild event. Heck, i’m even experimenting with hammer in sPvP since they nerfed Quickness.

There are many viable builds. I run with 2.1k toughness tho so i’m pretty tanky. My damage ain’t that low tho. Some prefer hammer/GS but most would take sword/X
With X being a warhorn, shield or axe.

Gandara is a community. [XxX] is part of our community so if people start talking BS about them or keep tauning them, you also mess with the other Gandara guilds. I understand that the respect has to come from both sides so i would like to ask both parties to calm down.

Agreed! /signed! +1 etc..

Dranul, i wish it was the case. It’s actually a new guild/alliance. So far i have only seen them zerg and talk crap in teamchat. This sucks as much for us as it does for you.

Despite our use of the words yolo and swag for mad giggles, this new guild is in no way linked to the Gandarans who hate the blob mentality.

See you on the battlefield guys. Had some fun and awesome fights today!

It’s exactly the same as the BLK farm imo. So if that’s allowed, i assume this is allowed as well?

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This is all pretty good, but anyone have any images where the underdogs flatten the high-rankers?

Ranks are overrated.

3. Add more cannon locations

We all know that weird spot in the Laketower. There is this destroyable bridge leading to a little platform with nothing there. So please, add a cannon buildsite on that platform. Allow single players to shoot cannons on the bridge heading to lake. Allow such defensive actions and increase the use for a cannon upgrade. A similar cannon could be added in Briartower on top of the wooden structure, behind the lord room.

4. The dukes of [insert server name]

You know why people like reset night? It’s not only because there are new enemies, it’s also because it’s a one-time event and everyone wants to give their all. It’s crazy and exciting! We need more events that make people excited.

The idea is to let 2 dukes spawn at the old orb location at a random time (if the garisson is owned by the borderland server). The dukes are champions and have 2 veterans guard with them. One moves left, via Sunnyhill to garisson and the other goes via Cragtop to garisson. They pay a visit to the garisson but need to be protected of course! When they spawn, a server message pops up and the map defenders want to make sure that they reach the garisson because they recieve 500 pts per duke for that. The attacking servers on the map can try to kill the duke and will recieve 500 pts per kill. The defenders have a slight advantage here but in the end, defending a NPC in open field can be quite hard. It also gives people more reason to have those tower captured in the north.

5. Increase guard health

As many have said before, it’s a flipfest currently. Especially during the night. Taking a tower can take 2 minutes and it doesn’t feel epic unless there was a huge siege for over 2 hours but that doesn’t really happen that often if it’s not primetime. This might hurt REALLY small groups a bit but i think that the gate guards and lord should have A LOT more HP and scale with the amount of players. Kiilling a tower/keep lord with a blob currently takes 10 seconds because it scales so badly. Imo, every guard should take atleast a minute, no matter the group size. This is a small change but will makes it easyer to defend, creates less flipping during the odd hours and makes tower/keep captures slightly more meaningfull.

Now, i have a few more ideas like making more use of the east/west north parts of the map and creating a new siege weapon (Pressure Trap) that springs when more than 40 players are in the radius to discourage zerging but i haven’t thought those ideas through yet and the anti-zerg trap idea is not even my own idea so.

Thoughts?

Hello everyone,

I have thought about some things that could improve the WvW format without adding new maps or other big things. With these ideas i try to discourage zerging and improve the borderland maps so it’s more exciting, less stale and less “arcade like”.

1. Revamp the middle area into a king of the hill area!

Currently, the quaggan and krait stuff is a funny addition but it’s waste of space if you ask me. The whole lake area should be improved. What i would do is increase the size of the island in the middle drastically. Still allow water arround it but instead of a lake it becomes more like a river, that surrounds the big (is)land. The quaggan/krait stuff will be placed UNDER the huge island, all underwater. In the middle, on top of the island will be a new game objective. It’s a mountain with a little capture area on top of it. No walls, gates etc. Just a lord guard in a small chapel (or something) with a capture circle. King of the hill baby!

Now you probably wonder.. what would a zerg stop from quickly taking it while they are on the way to a keep or tower etc.? It’s simple, the longer you hold this chapel or whatever, the better. You recieve 100 server pts for every 5 minutes you hold it for example. A zerg can’t waste their entire 40 man to defend this chapel so it will be a nice hotspot for more organised and smaller guild groups and such to fight arround. To make it easyer to defend, krait reinforcements could help out every 15 minutes that you hold it.

So what is good about this idea?

- Adds more objectives to split players (quaggan/krait stays underwater while the land above will have a new objective).
- Adds a new and interesting mechanic to the map
- Gives people more reason to go to the middle of the map and spread out
- Gives smaller groups a nice location to fight over because zerging the area is counter productive. As the zerg is not defending/attacking keeps/tower and such. And they can’t waste a lot of time on holding the place for long periods of time. They can quickly capture it tho, if they want.

2. Remove some of the waypoints

This is a smaller idea but still very important. I suggest fully removing the waypoints in Hills and Bay. They only add a snowball effect where the players can easily keep the pressure up. It also allows zergs to travel across the map which makes the map feel even smaller. I know that some players want more waypoints but it only makes GW2 more and more like an arcade flipfest. One could see GW2 as Call of Duty with quick respawns, meaningless deaths while DaOC (i think) is more like Battlefield, a series that had bigger maps, more meaningful encounters and a less arcade playstyle.

People crying about queues are making me sick. Choose a different server!! My guild picked a nice and stable t3/4/5 server and we never have long queues. And is the quality of play less in non t1/2 servers? Nope! It’s even more fun according to some.

I would defy prefer it to be account bound. Enough ranks to last a life time anyways. I remember how alt-friendly this game was but not anymore imo.

Btw, that dev never praised the highest lvl dude but just confirmed that he was the highest ranked player atm. Nothing wrong with that.

Honestly, the patch was more the day that small skirmishes died even more. Blobs/zergs everywhere and it’s getting boring real fast.

Straegen.2938:

IDarko.4709:

I guess that is the result of playing the best “tag class” (thief)

Actually the thief is one of the poorer tag classes with limited AoE.

I mained a thief and let me tell you, it’s the easyest class to tag with because of shortbow auto-attack. Cluster bomb spam is also handy. Dagger Storm says hi as well!

Maybe staff guardian is even easyer tho.

I guess that is the result of playing the best “tag class” (thief), being a commander and leading blobs for 24/7. Or am i mistaken? O.o Coz i don’t how else you got to r30 this fast haha!

Enlighten us!

Hey, that is funny! I have seen that exact picture but with Fsp tags instead. ;D

I can’t speak for Aurora Glade but Gandara doesn’t have any NA WvW guilds. Heck, we don’t even have morning guilds and such. We do have a lot of good primetime WvW guilds tho. There is also a healthy PvE population on Gandara (if you care about that).

If you come over, you won’t have any queues and might be able to secure us a position in T3, depending on your guild size and such!

Well, having only faced Aurora Glade and Far shiverpeaks after the patch, the biggest blobs i have seen were from Far Shiverpeaks tho. That said, Aurora Glade knows how to do it as well (and Gandara as well i assume)! Here is a funny screenshot. Check chat! We must have been worth a lot of WXP coz u all chased us like mad men! ;-D

Gandara T3 server? Whaha! Thanks for the compliments! We have always been a T4/5 server and yes, we did alot of hard work to become a stable T4 server (haven’t been in T5 in a long time now) without any big guild transfers to us. Getting to T3 had more to do with the drop of Blacktide, Baruch Bay, Arborstone and some crazy dedication of our night crew. But t4 is where we belong so yeah, you can be proud that you did well against us but it shouldn’t be a surprise because we are the same tier.

All servers fought really well and the match was really balanced. The patch gave every server a population boost in WvW which caused some weird playstyles and interesting fights. It almost feels like a new game to me. Good luck in the next matchup and till we meet again.

Gandara wins again.

I think game emotes/commands would be extremely usefull in sPvP AND WvW. Maybe different systems for the different formats. Quick example:

X = open command panel. (press X or ESC to close for example).
- 1. Offense
- 2. Defensive
- 3. Other

Depending on what you choose, new options appear (maybe different per map). If you take offense for example.
- 1. Capture Bear!
- 2. Capture Wolf!
- 3. Capture Raven!
- 4. Go for the orb!

I have seen it work in other games. Counter Strike for example! I think it could work for a MMO as well. (Especially for WvW commanders tbh).

Add voice-acting for it as well and it would be AMAZING!

Hope they fix it.

New skill seems bugged. It’s that i want the +25% extra damage but the Spread Shot doesn’t seem to be working properly.

You have to have a target but it doesn’t actually aim at it. The shots just go in a straight line and dissapear in thin air. I have tried it numerous times with different ballistas on different enemies with different distances. I only had a hit once and that was on a target standing VERY close to the ballista. But the animation is pretty slow so i doubt the skill is designed just for super close gameplay. Looking forward to the FAQ btw!

Thank you Fsp! Leg specialist + Arrow Cart + enemy blob =

http://i.imgur.com/WKI7qUA.jpg

Btw, shout out to TUP for a few nice fights. (i know we had a few more but still)

lindstroem.3601:

Pictures say everything…

http://imgur.com/sg0kPiA

After killing straglers and small groups on the wall for a while, we decided to do a suicidal push for the catapult. but guess what? Squishie as paper! Phat lewt!

I was really glad for you, that you were able to wipe us at garrison with superior numbers and support of a lot of siege weapon stuff after we wiped you all over the map all evening long. Hope this made up the repair bill you guys got.

Good one!

[Dius] had an awesome night with tons of badges as we ignored most of your blob (entire Fsp population) unless it was really needed to help our commander out, who had A LOT less than you guys btw. We fought Aurora Glade 99% of the time. Our only real loss that night was Bay and we were under heavy attack by both you and Aurora Glade. If anything, you guys could have been a lot more effective by splitting up.

Also, thanks for balling up in that corner twice in a row! =]

Keep up the fighting spirit tho!

10% boon duration alrdy makes it one of the best banners imo! Heck, that banner even got an awesome regen skill. So it makes sense to me personally.

I have 2.3k. I’m not playing shouts atm. but i am a hammer warrior that can do everything quite well. High CC, crit damage, boon duration and even condi removal because of utilities. Only HP is a bit low. 22.5k (with food). I like playing hybrid but toughness is defy my highest stat (without food buffs, might etc.)

Yup very lame. And afaik, it was a one-time only thing because of the patch timing. But still, 10 (or 11 for some) laurels = 1/3 of an ascended piece basically. FOR FREE.. Ugh

Whoah.. Ballista mastery ftw!

Pictures say everything…

http://imgur.com/sg0kPiA

After killing straglers and small groups on the wall for a while, we decided to do a suicidal push for the catapult. but guess what? Squishie as paper! Phat lewt!

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

Big thanks to WvW and a few of the other AG guilds for playing with less and giving us a fun and challenging time without skill lag! <3

DYE blob? Just call it a Gandara blob then.. They took garisson in a ninja attack by themselves while we kept ya busy at our spawn tower. Only after that, randoms joined and turned it into a blob.

But why does it still matter? Every servers seems to be blobbing like crazy. Far Shiverpeak are the biggest offenders.

From few hours ago:

http://i45.tinypic.com/2egcz2r.jpg

Yesterday, those that only did one of the dailies (pve or pvp) were able to get a free laurel by doing the other daily before the reset. I was able to live with that.

but now it turns out that one can also do the pvp or pve monthly for 10 EXTRA laurels. So those like me who already did the monthlies miss out on 11 laurels.

It might not seem like much but 11 laurels = 11 days! There is no way to catch up and it’s basically 1/3 of an ascended piece.

Is there a way for us to recieve the extra laurels as well because i find this a bit unfair tbh.

How is that good? Boons can be stripped and a lot of warriors alrdy get 25 might stacks in no time. Yeah, i’m talking PvE/WvW groups here but we gotta think about the balance as a whole as well.

Is it a nice skill or should i wait before getting it?

+1 for

Increase damage by 12%/9%/3% as adrenaline fills (promotes adrenaline use) -Ottohi

Added some myself. Hope they are saved,

Lucky you.

Or are you sarcastic? Because for me, culling is gone (good job Anet!) but the skill lag is still there.

It’s 300 levels but yeah, it will take a while. I’m personally planning to get +2 supply first and then decide what to do further. Go for different skills or rank up alts.

Ethose is spittin’ da truth.

Warrior is bad against condis. Add a trait that makes the war deal more damage for every condi on him. It gives the enemy a choice. Put condis on war and make him stronger? Of course this is just one trait idea out of many. I expected way more skills/traits that counter condis by now.

Yeah it’s amazing that they managed to nerf the worst spvp class even further. A lot of good things in this patch but the balance and spvp part is really meh imo.

Transfer during the night and almost any server is medium lol.

So vacation in Scandinavian countries is the reason i heard! Explains the sudden spike in population and performance. You guys might actually beat us this week if you keep scoring during the day. We’ll see…

WHAT DA kitten?

I thought a month for 200 gems, 1 week if Anet felt greedy. But 1 day is BS!! Super expensive! Guess the only time to rent servers is when you organise championships or something.

Xaoc joining Fsp might actually be a gamechanger depending on the numbers. They tend to play really early in the morning.

We told ya that we are weak during the weekend. Let the slaughtering begin.

Yolobus swagtrain Dius had some fun in EB tonight and later with YaK in Far shiverpeak Bl, taking Garisson and farming badges for a while!

This matchup is really fun so far. Keep it up!

Dius has been running with ~10 members lately but we expect 15+ again when the patch hits. Get ready! ^^

I don’t think we recorded it but from what i can remember, we went through your first push, healed/buffed up really quickly and pushed back again. Because we did our second push so fast, we kinda had the advantage and kept pushing you in the back as you guys were running away from us. This downed a few of yours and caused a snowball effect and made us win the fight.

Supply is a must-have, the other ones can be picked based on playstyle. For my skirmisher thief i’ll go with less and more damage vs guards and supply first but on my tanky CC warrior that runs in organised groups, i want less damage from siege and the extra supply.

I’m not sure what i would take after that but we’ll see.

I feel that we played bad but that’s no excuse. You guys are really good and deserved the win! When the update hits i expect Dius to be a lot more active again and get back into shape! Till we meet again!