Guild Wars 2

I’m currently using Chocolate Omnomberry Cream which gives +20% boon duration, putting me at 80% overall. Additionally, i’m using Superior Sharpening Stones for a bit more damage.

That sword would need to be really good…focus is an awesome weapon and it will be hard to give up on it for something other ^^

One should not be able to go full DPS while still maintaining some silly innate safety cushion

You mean like Endure Pain?

Thief teleport is fine as it can not use portals. I’d just change portals to be unusable while using a downed skill.

Please take your PvE out of my monthly achievement.

Or, on a more serious note: Create a new “WvW monthly”, like you did with PvP.

I completed my set for this build yesterday and doing quite good after needing some time of getting used to it (no more “passive” heals as with AH and movement skills on #3 for GS and #2 for Sword is a bit irritating at the start).

However, i would like to somehow get 5 points in Radiance into this build as i really learned to love the blind on F1. Whether i need to deny a big hit or to protect a stomp, i always had a blind on a short cd i could rely on.

/edit: I’m also getting some swap weapons for my second set as sword is not very usable for our group raids (we usually charge into the enemy and stop on the other side) due to the selfroot on #3. I think i will go with mace for raids and scepter for sieges.

I’d rather have an elemental by my side than a little better Endure Pain

Seriously You just basically copied same thread from Spvp forums about how broken are all weapons. Every single ranged weapon if your enemy moves like this acts the same. You won’t hit him at all.

Not tested but i would guess that thiefs SB doesn’t bug out like that as it pretty much always hits moving targets.

As for the rest i notices that my staff #2 leads my target and tries to guess where he will be based on the direction he is moving and his speed. So if you are moving in zig-zag very fast, this mechanism fails.

As mentioned aboved, i don’t know if thiefs SB behaves the same way as it seems to instantly change direction according to enemy movements.

You could try to fire the scepter without selecting a target at all but that would require to place the camera exactly behind your char which is a very bad position.

I’d just like to have my 250 use salvage kits back…need way too much inventory space / restocking time to use the normal 25 kits…

guardians […] too big health?

Umm…what game are you playing?

If your whole zerg is killed by a single guardian, your zerg is most certainly doing something wrong ^^

The problem with staff is the very limited range on the auto-attack. As much as i love hitting enemies through doors and certain walls, i’d like to effectively damage that cannon up there.

/edit: Cannon is a bad example as it’s static and will be hit by the scepter.

The #2 bugs out a lot, at least for me, and i have to detonate the orb.
The #3 is indeed a great skill, can hit some siege if traited for bigger symbols and provides swiftness while moving around.
The #5 can be nice to stop a fleeing opponent. And nothing is more fun than putting a wall in front of the enemy portal and watch them faceplant while they try to flee inside.

While not being ranged, #4 is quite nice to prepare for an attack while waiting around the corner/inside a tower/on top of a portal. And it heals a ton with AH if the enemy won’t intervene (he will).

My Mesmer would kill to have the Guardian’s scepter

Not because of the auto-attack, i guess ^^ Smite and Chains of Light are indeed great skills (although smite could deserve symbol status).

Ok so tell me what a thief can do to help oh so much in WvW? It’s widly known & accepted that they don’t play much of a role other than killing stragglers/noobs…

1. Dagger Storm
2. Unlimited blast finishers with SB, if build for it.
3. SB #3 to weaken enemy healing.
4. Kill dolyaks no matter how many people are guarding it.
5. Sneak into open towers and solo them after your enemy think it’s save (you can stay invisible infinitely while using CnD on the gate or any NPC).
6. Stealth your group for sneak actions.

All that mes can do is portal and time warp… those are only really useful with golems. That’s pretty niche use. I guess they are nice for the jumping puzzle though(?)

1. Help getting supply in attacked towers/keeps.
2. AoE confusion destroys zergs.
3. Feedback.
4. Pull enemies away from siege or off walls.
5. AoE regeneration for your team, if traited.
6. Veil!

1. Jump down behind the house.
2. Turn around.
3. Throw the treb at the ledge of the cliff you just jumped down.

The treb will be placed in the spawn area so the player using it will be invulnerable. The location also makes the treb very hard to hit using siege placed in/on the tower.

You might see a blue icon on your minimap. That is a commander and he usually carries the mainzerg ( = many players) of this map with him. Most likely there also will be some kind of voice chat for your server like TS3, so you could just ask in mapchat for it. Once you move with the zerg you start organizing in groups, do supply camps and other stuff.

WvW is much fun and kills are easy to do if you are moving in an organized group. You can’t do that much on your own though. Things you can so solo are:
- Capture Sentries
- Kill/Guard Dolyaks
- Capture Supplycamps (learn to use line of sight as those veteran scouts will most likely permablind you otherwise)
- Scout (no kills but something that has to be done to prevent golem-rushes)

An easy way to get your monthly kills is to find a great battle (orange swords) at one of your servers towers/keeps, build an arrow cart and keep firing in the mob. After a while you will see lootbags everywhere around you.

1. Twilight // Mostly 100B Burst Warriors, i made it my personal goal to hunt them.
2. Sunrise
3. Dreamer / edit: forgot Bifrost
4. Incinerator / Quip
5. Frostfang / Juggernaut / Kudzu

Stop using scepters in pvp. Or move into melee range.

Sure, just ignore the broken weapon and move on <.< Some of us would like to be able to actually do anything useful at range.

The mesmer scepter got homing projectiles, i’d say our scepter deserves the same.

Currently we got a 20k+ pointlead that will most likely stay until reset. This is a situation where i go roaming looking for a duel and would like to be undisturbed. If the match is close, however, it would be better to help your server. Who knows, you might get a 1on1 every once in a while ^^

That ele description practically tells: “Eles should be the best at everything, deal with it.”

To be honest, i met exactly 1 engineer so far that actually defeated me in 1on1 (in WvW). He was some kind of pistol/condition-build. Other than that i have faced a growing amount of tankengineers lately. They do almost no damage but are a real pain to deal with (i usually ignore them…).

I’m currently playing a hammer/staff AH build (0/5/30/30/5) in WvW.

I’d suggest you to try out Judge’s Intervention as one of your utility skills. It combos just perfect with most of the hammer skills (anyone who ever used Banish+JI to instakick someone off a cliff, keep or tower knows what i mean ^^).

I’m usually doing okay in most 1on1s and some 1on2s. I’m also using these weapons in group raids (other traits though) and feel mainly responsible for providing CC and Area Control. Nothing compares to just place a line/ring of warding in front of the enemy spawn and watch them faceplant while trying to flee inside ^^

The only real problem with hammer/staff is it’s mobility which is…not really existant. Sure i can buff myself with swiftness using shouts + the staff symbol and try to put my line in front of the fleeing enemy but the combo lacks skills like the 1h-sword teleport or leap of faith. Took my about 10 tries until i finally catched this d/d ele the other day <.<

But like you i’m also going to try the Healway build. Already got clerics weapons, armor and the runes + sigils. Some trinkets and i can start training. I really seem to be unable to fight with a GS after all this hammering time…oh and i would like to change the order of my skills ^^ Having #2 as big hit and #3 as mobility skill on GS and #2 as mobility and #3 as big hit on 1H-sword takes a bit of practice for me.

Well, he is right, but only if:
- You got 4 or more allies beside you.
- You hit no more than once per second.
- You only hit one enemy at a time.

If any of those points changes, VP gets better while EM loses value.

/edit: typo.

However there is a spot in the bay keeps on the border maps where someone could hide which is probably an exploit (which I will not go into detail about here, but I am happy to discuss it with Anet) – but I always check it when mesmer sweeping myself.

If you are talking about the texture at the southern rock wall, that’s already known. I know another, very good spot to hide but it’s noch reachable for mesmers as you need a 600 range jump skill to get there.

Search for and read the medicat guide. I recently fought some of those against Abaddon’s Mouth…they are not dealing that much damage but are extremely hard to kill and – i guess – fun to play.

(I solved my “problem” with good old banish, knocking him off a cliff ^^)

Or said player might have multiple accounts and is exploiting with one of them so he wants to transfer the gold to his main account.

If i would implement a “repair this” option, i would put some limitations on it:
- needs supply (equal to the amount of damage dealt, rounded up).
- golems and trebs can’t be repaired.
- siege hasn’t been in use or under attack for at least 10 mins.

Well, that last point would need some finetuning about the actual timespan, but it should only be possible between battles not during those.

Portalling through walls is not bannable but also not intented (or at least i believe to have read something in this way somewhere in these forums).

I personally would handle leaving a dead mesmer on the inside of a keep door to rez through said door as exploiting. We lost SN more than once due to this because there is just nothing you can do about it.

Bugging into tower/keeps is exploiting too, but everyone should know this.

3. Remove 10% off siege weapon “life” ever 30min and add so Engineers can repiar siege weapons.

That would make engineers the far superior class for WvW and totally destroy the balance.

4. Change so you need to be out off combat to go in to Stealth.

Stealth (without culling) is fine, learn to play against.

5. Add a 100% Resist to getting polled for 10sec after you get polled, as it is now your character can be bounched around like crazy when 10 difrent players use Poll.

Learn to use stability/dodge or don’t try to fight 10 players at once o.O

Haven’t read all the posts to there might be duplicates…but anyway:

- Fix “bug dead mesmer in keep and ress on other side of the door”-exploit. And all those other exploits/hacks…
- display the name/tag of claiming guilds.
- make dolyaks invulnerable as long as the guards are alive.

- fix Pure of Voice trait.
- fix Culling (i can still hope for it…).
- fix WvW glitches/hacks/exploits.
- remove breakout events.
- other ways to get Ascended gear (i hate fractals).
- more options to spend my Badges of Honor (see above).
- new weapon and armor skins.
- recipes that don’t require 250 ectos and loads of (charged) lodestones.
- no max level increase.
- no mounts.

oh, and TP preview mode…

You can’t stun break a knockdown

Sure can.

I am currently playing with 3 stunbreaks (JI, SY, SYG), Invul Elite and Shelter when running solo and dueling. I haven’t finished my sword/focus set so there are still more blocks to come. Add to this my Aegis on F3 and my Blind on F1 and i can block, avoid or break virtually any stun/knockback/knockdown you try to apply on me if i manage to see the animation and react fast enough.

I also got near perma-vigor to dodge some of those attacks.

And AH was nerfed pretty hard due to the Vigorous Precision nerf.

However, I think Guardian’s skills are a bit more useful underwater than some others.

<- Able to destroy a quaggan node while being attacked by 2 (ignored) enemy players only using trident autoattack. Granted, they weren’t that great, but i really like my trident underwater.

Mjolnir, if it wouldn’t need 350 charged lodestones…

Desolation. Had some awesome fights with IRON, FG, GoD and the like during our matchup. Many great guilds and fighting spirit.

We also had this problem a while ago. Built 3+ golems in an attempt to sneak cap Sunnyhill. Well…couldn’t damage the door even a bit and had to retreat when the enemy zerg arrived.

Nemesys.7251:

Iavra.8510:

the worst zerg i have never seen

So, you mean…the best zerg you have ever seen?

u say to me if the best or the worst:/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU6IebzfaZg

Finally watched your video. While laughing at your opponent is not what i would call good manner you put some very nice fights in this vid. I saw a lot of upleveled chars in our zerg and they seemed quite static. I’d say every server has to fight these problems. After all it comes down on the leading commander and the zergs will to follow his orders.

Was a fun week after all. We had some very nice fights against RS guilds with losses and wins on both sides. Sadly we couldn’t spot XxX or another organised Gandara guild while raiding, seems like you were busy on another map. Miller’s Sound will most likely drop some brackets due to the recent transfers of several active WvW guilds but i would like to meet Gandara again in (maybe not so far) future.

All what’s left for me now is to wish you all a nice holiday and a happy new year

/btw: I always wanted to play a warrior as i really like guardian’s hammer and warrior seems to be even better. Maybe will start leveling a warr after finishing my thief ^^

you cant use a waypoint during battle.

Sure can, every 3 minutes for ~1 sec.

Just change mist vapor form to be unable to use portals and everything will be fine.

Try deleting some of your mails if you haven’t already. Helped me last time.

Didn’t happen to me until now…i’m normally doing the JP once per day for free karma and booster.

I’d like to see stability on the tomes again. If you take a look at the “transform” elites the other professions got:

- Warrior: Rampage
- Ranger: Rampage As One
- Thief: Dagger Storm
- Elementalist: Tornado
- Necro: Lich Form, Plague
- Engineer: Elixir X, Mortar
- Mesmer: well…they don’t have a self-transform elite to begin with

Not going to debate about the usefulness of said skills but in my opinion the tomes should give 20 sec (or 30 sec with Elite focus) stability just like Rampage and the other skills do. Our long-time casting skills like Tome of Courage #5 are way too easy to disrupt atm.

I like the first portal in this video, done by one of our mesmers. It certainly had the potential to do much more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edB02JE_EzA

/edit: Btw, the second portal in the video was like: “This buffed supervisor is beating us to shreds with IRON coming at us. But i have a portal entry somewhere in this camp, just can’t remember exactly where”. Should help understand why we were a bit disoriented for a moment after using it ^^

Is this part of a special WvW event you guys are having? Enormous numbers :o

At least 2 big active guilds (ECL and SK) left MS and transfered to Dzagonur leaving the sinking ship after some…questionable actions.

about 350k karma after buying a whole set of karma gear, 4 T3 cultural weapons and some smaller things.

/edit: Also have about 200k karma in items (jugs etc) stored in my bank.

Isn’t this what got a bunch of people banned right after launch?

As far as i know, there was some kind of bug that made certain items cost far less karma than they should cost. Making money due to this is exploiting.

Made golem, princess and bought griffon hoping to make an endless tonic with my griffon frame. 10g later i’m not so sure anymore…

I even spent a gold to get an extra 5 tries at it.

1g? Cute…i spent about 10-12g so far and still got not even 1 endless tonic…guess i should stop trying before i am broke -.-

But hey, at least i got enough griffon tonics for about 1 year i guess…

30 people camping the JP = 30 people less you got to worry about on the battlefield.

Wave them thanks and take their forts and towers.

There is no one time reward this time. You’ll have the entire remaining time of the wintersday event to get your reward.

Aaaaah, again blocked…GEMA is really a wonderful thing to have -.-

Doesn’t sound like very many of you have actually used Renewed Focus

You can move while casting Renewed Focus, and it cannot be interrupted, unless you die from condition damage

You know that this thread is about 2 months old? Renewed Focus was stationary back then.