- I wouldn’t be opposed to remaking Sword Wave altogether and making it a single hit, normal melee arc skill that reliably gave a condition though (like cripple! :O ).
I support this. As we are forced into melee (we all know that our ranged options suck) we should have ways to make sure to stay in melee range. Yet we are the only profession without cripple.
(Underwater downstate and Tome of Wrath don’t count)
I mean MS keep showing their lack of tatics, Who else would lose their entire Bl to hold SM, sm is 35 points. 3 keeps 3×25, 4 towers 4×10, supply 6×5. 35 Points for losing 145.
This is exactly why i absolutely hate SM. It takes so many people to defend it and even if it’s not yours it’s capable of trebbing a huge amount of targets. It’s the reason why i don’t like to play on eternal….oh and i’m constantly getting lost there (not SM, well not always, but the map).
Haven’t been really playing for the last few days (only doing my Daily) but that change/bug would really weaken the guardian and the “Defender’s Flame” trait i am currently using.
Had some nice fights so far against Xaoc and some other guilds as well as two nice 1on1s against a FSP shatter mesmer (forgot the guild tag…). Too bad we couldn’t finish either of them. The first i was too tired of trying to catch you so i just walked away (:D) and the second got interrupted by GH’s zerg. I tried to save you (must have looked really strange to the zerg…) but failed hard and barely managed to escape for myself ^^
Well, due to my bachelor thesis i will likely not be able to spend much time in WvW for the current matchup, but i wish all 3 servers much fun and good fights.
Quite depressing to see Aurora Glades famous guilds relying on superior numbers during night times to win their fights
You also seem to got quite a bunch of cowards on your server. If they are fighting (and losing) 3on1 against me they shouldn’t have to kite me into 3 other guys…oh i hate guardians lack of proper CC…
/edit: But i have to say: During primetime we almost always got the highest ticks. In my opinion, that makes us this matchups best server
//edit: Just at this moment, an AG d/d ele hacked/exploited into our garrison on homelands and started destroying our siege. He wasn’t from KISS or FURY but it’s sad to see this poor sportsmanship even when you are outnumbering us 5:1.
1on1 thiefs i normally don’t have that much of a problem with, other than not being able to keep them at melee range when they decide to just reset the fight.
But most thiefs are cowards who like to hide until they find me fighting 1 or 2 other guys and burst me to death. Same with killshot warriors (yeah 10k killshot with me having 3k armor, totally okay…).
Combined with our Vigor uptime and Energy Sigils i can get an amazing amount of dodges (and heals with Selfless Daring). The Might on dodge also adds some needed damage.
Only a Guardian would pick up every single Fiery Greatsword or Ice Bow summoned by an ele to be able to actually attack at range.
Only a Guardian knows the true value of rabbits that can be used to escape with Flashing Blade or Judge’s Intervention.
Only a Guardian would laugh at Orb of Lights 3 sec cooldown because it gets stuck every single time while trying to attack that cannon and has to be detonated.
Another ridiculous change: only can res people when you are out of combat.
o.O That will absolutely kill small teams.
The mindless zerg doesn’t bother about ressing as long as they have more people than the enemy. But for the coordinated team, every member is valuable and not being able to ress him/her is a huge hit.
Keep it up, FoW! Transfers ruin many matchups and servers but only in hard times, you get a chance to prove fighting spirit and endurance. I hereby dedicate this video to your server. It has served Miller’s Sound (lost about half our WvW population, causing us to drop 3 tiers) and will serve you and strengthen your will to endure this situation:
I’m using this build while playing in zerg or guild raid. I’m changing the following things:
- (Weapons) Sword/Focus for Mace/Shield
- (Heal) Shelter for Healing Breeze
- (Elite) Renewed Justice for Tome of Courage
- (Trait) Defender’s Flame for Strength in Numbers
Maybe should also swap in Elite Focus but i’m doing really good so far. The heal and protection provided by mace/focus with 80% boon duration (using Chocolate Omnomberry Cream) and > 1000 Healing Power is awesome.
Quips effect actually seem to grow larger in WvW for whatever reason (number of killed enemies?) One of our EB commanders is also using it on his P/P asura thief and especially Unload i think is good to see.
New rule guild must be greater then 10 (Unless you got video proof of your 5-10 man wiping a 50-60 man zerg and yes I have seen it on da youtubes :p
Guildsize oder raidsize? Because, for example, my guild consists of about 50 players (some being honorary members or multiaccounts so let’s assume we are about 40). But of those, sometimes not even 10 are online during raidtime.
As someone whose server experienced nearly the whole range of EU brackets (bottom up to T3), i’d say that fights are generally a lot more tactical in lower tiers where less zergs are running rampant.
There is a cap on the number of people that can portal
Use multiple portals and let mesmers 2-x use the first portal, opening their own afterwards. The nerf didn’t really change anything.
You shouldn’t be allowed to post about your own guild ^^
Name: Menelya [Mya]
Raid Size: < 10
Specialty: Skirmishing
Server: Miller’s Sound [DE]
Reason: We often raid with them and they feature well built chars, awareness of their surroundings, good leaders and – even if not relevant on the field – they are friendly ^^
I would go for bank space. I’m currently at 7 (of 8 i believe) bank tabs unlocked and it’s still quite stuffed. Once you got multiple equips for your chars and don’t want to carry them always with you, space is going to be a problem.
You could abuse twinks as bank space, but i’m a lazy guy and don’t want to switch chars every now and then only to gain access to my items ^^
I’m making somewhere between 3-5 gold every day in WvW. If you play in an organized team, there will be more than enough loot bags for you and while the drops in WvW are horribly bad, you can still make some gold.
Other players i know play the TP in between playing sessions but i seem too dumb to do this…
/edit: I buy my siege weapons with gold and buff food for about 5-10g per week.
According to my experience all shouts remove conditions on you and the ally.
In my guild i am taking the role of a shout support guardian with Pure of Voice. It often happens that i activate Hold the Line! and it doesn’t remove that single condition on me or my comrades.
I seem unable to share any arrows or fireballs on my guardian but i could serve sharing some slices of my greatsword if wished for. Unfortunately, Xaoc seems to play in the early morning so once our servers will meet it will be highly unlikely for us to ever cross swords or staves.
We also had enemy merchants spawning in Hills at one point. Really sucked because the enemy guild banker kept killing our allied banker so we end up not having a bank at all in that place o.O
Umm, sorry to interrupt your flaming here, but i just saw that picture showing the WdL guy on top of a roof. I stopped reading there, so i may just repeat something already mentioned.
If i remember correctly, WdL was playing on Abaddon during our matchup and hacking/exploiting, too. We went to their WvW orga and they showed their disrespect for everything related to hacking and exploiting. But no one out of WdL wanted to talk with them or state their opinion about hacking or exploiting.
So for me it seems that WdL transfered to Dzagonur after losing all respect on their old server and continue hacking/exploiting into towers.
It certainly doesn’t do much besides granting long-time swiftness. I mostly use it while moving in a group or to speed up dolyaks.
My Retreat currently grants 36 secs of swiftness. If Retreat would be on 45 secs cooldown that would mean 36 secs cd if traited and permanent swiftness using one skill (+ one trait and your whole equipment, traits and bufffood dedicated to boon duration). However, Engineers are able to gain perma-swiftness using a single trait, a kit and no boon duration at all if i remember correctly.
Pure of Voice is, in theory, better than 6 soldier runes as it converts conditions and not just cleanses them. It is horribly bugged though and only reliably works on 2/4 shouts.
I’m currently at ~1100 Healing Power, combined with about 2900 Attack and 3000 Armor (without food). Also 15k-16k HP, should be enough.
Granted, my Crit% is at 4% base so i likely never crit but still often enough to proc Vigorous Precision (now i somehow like the recent nerf ^^).
But when using AH, you certainly need more Precision. Maybe try Magi Armor with Healing Power/Precision/Vit Stats (bought with AC tokens) combined with Knight’s.
It does have to be auto-run either. A lot of times, just holding down a movement key while trying to pick up an item causes your character to keep running and it takes a few seconds before you regain control to stop it.
I had this a lot during Toypocalypse. I grabbed the hammer and started running around, smashing things. But i almost never managed to stop exactly to pick up the snow/other stuff to build siege.
A swiftness for active would be totally okay (for me), but i think the passive has to be worked on.
Here are some ideas:
- Let it only work in combat and proccing swiftness every 30 sec for 5 secs and be activated for 10 sec swiftness for my team (random numbers). Would fix the “always be faster” issue.
- Change the passive to +10% boon duration. We are the “boon class” after all. I would most likely never activate this virtue though…
But i would prefer to see an actual +25% movement signet. I wouldn’t miss Signet of Wrath’s current passive ^^ Would also fit the theme very nicely now that i think about it…passive speed boost to catch your opponent and the active immobilize to ensure he stays close to you.
Quickness is way too overpowered. Having a virtue granting it (not even blocking a utility slot) would need to come with a huge drawback.
I wouldn’t want any class to be faster than all the others without having to do anything for it, not even my own. That said, we could need some options to be actually faster without needing to go gs + sword for leap + teleport.
/edit: Regarding the sword teleport: I would like to be teleported a fixed 600 range forward when not having targeted anything. There’s not always a bunny/mosquito nearby…
Power/damage is not everything. And while we have the option to spec for passive condition removal via Signet of Resolve and Purity, it’s always better to have on-demand-removal. I am currently the (bugged…) Pure of Voice trait, but otherwise my only condition removal comes in the form of the Absolute Resolution trait.
