Guild Wars 2

JP’s are awesome, I’m a commander and I say everyone should be doing JP’s, Whenever someone says they don’t know about JP’s I teach them. Go JP’s!

Yes join us, we will wreak havoc in the upper tier ;p

Balidore.2790:

Ilesyt.7084:

Balidore.2790:

With d/d eles, people used to have to aim their charge attacks to do that insane dmg, then mix it with all the combo fields wherever they landed. Now they just auto go to the target, then combo in that spot. Makes a huge difference when you can let a noob do massive dmg and easy combo fields in a zerg.

Obviously you’ve never played ele.

Just because they fixed rtl doesn’t mean we’ve become so much stronger. in fact the nerf on Evasive arcana is bigger. We lose a lot more dps.

PS: We(d/d) only got 1 (and a half) combo fields, the half being the one with burning speed for a very small duration in a limited amount of space.

Also, an ele with auto-target off is stronger than one who has it one.

You’re obviously missing what I’m saying… Completely… lol. And yes, I know all that, I’ve played one plenty.

If you read, all I said, is that the changes made it so noobs can now play the class effectively.
I did not say… “anyone who plays one is the best they can be, and is amazing”

Again, no they can’t, they can’t just dish out combo’s and stuff because they don’t know, I have plenty of people in my guild who started playing ele but just can’t get it to work. The only reason you see more ‘skillfull" ele’s is because they’ve been playing it long enough to get it to work good enough at least.

Balidore.2790:

With d/d eles, people used to have to aim their charge attacks to do that insane dmg, then mix it with all the combo fields wherever they landed. Now they just auto go to the target, then combo in that spot. Makes a huge difference when you can let a noob do massive dmg and easy combo fields in a zerg.

Obviously you’ve never played ele.

Just because they fixed rtl doesn’t mean we’ve become so much stronger. in fact the nerf on Evasive arcana is bigger. We lose a lot more dps.

PS: We(d/d) only got 1 (and a half) combo fields, the half being the one with burning speed for a very small duration in a limited amount of space.

Also, an ele with auto-target off is stronger than one who has it one.

Ruins of Surmia probably has the lowest night time activity of all EU servers only vabbi has less. Even FoW has more than us.

I won’t tell you the number we have but to be able to hold ourselves during the night in the next tier we will need help.
Therefor we are looking for 30-40 people who can be online from 3 AM to 1 PM CET (that is GMT +1) ofcourse they will not need to be online at the same time, but spread out of that timeframe.
We’re not looking to become a nightcapping server but we DO need help defending what we have if we have it.

It doesn’t matter where you’re from, America, Asia, Europe,… You’re all welcome, we’re an english community with people from all over and looking to strengthen ourselves.

So join us! The next tier awaits us!

Could some of you update this please ?
http://mos.millenium.org/matchups

Oh and could one of you drop down already ?
Thank you very much.

~RoS

naphack.9346:

Pikajew.8301:

I’m probably going to be making both anyway, but I’m going to start with an ele. Also, wasn’t there an ele nerf recently?

You mean this?

Profession Skills
Elementalist
Ride the Lightning: This skill should now track moving enemies more reliably.
Magnetic Grasp: This skill should now track moving enemies more reliably and end correctly when you reach your target.
Evasive Arcana: This trait no longer creates unintended blast finishers.
Ether Renewal: This skill’s cast time has been reduced from 4.75 to 3.5 seconds. There is no change to the total amount of healing.
Healing Rain: This skill’s tooltip now states the correct duration of 6 seconds.
Armor of Earth: This skill’s tooltip now states the correct duration of 6 seconds.
Churning Earth: This skill’s description no longer references “hold and release.”
Signets of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: These skills should now have a cast animation while wielding a Fiery Greatsword.
Ring of Fire: This skill on Conjure Flame now lists itself as a Fire combo field.
Dragon’s Tooth: The blast finisher for this skill now triggers at the spell location rather than the character’s location.
Magnetic Wave: This skill’s missile-reflect portion now has an accompanying icon.
Phoenix: This skill’s tooltip now states the correct duration of 5 seconds of vigor that this skill applies.
Blasting Staff and Geomancer’s Alacrity: These traits now work together for the Eruption skill.
Mist Form: This skill now works with the Water Magic trait Cantrip Mastery.
Soothing Wave: This skill now properly applies regeneration to the elementalist when using Conjure Frost rather than only when the bow is picked up.
Healing Ripple: This skill’s scaling with healing power has been reduced by 50% in PvP only, as it had scaling that’s normally reserved for main healing skills. The maximum number of targets has also been reduced from infinite to 5.
Obsidian Focus: This Earth Magic trait now grants toughness when channeling the Stone Shards skill.
Ice Spike: This skill’s tooltip now states the correct amount of vulnerability when traited.
Conjure Frost Bow’s Deep Freeze: This skill now applies 1 second of chill per pulse, preventing extreme stacking of chill on a target.
Conjure Frost Bow’s Ice Storm: This skill now applies 5 seconds of bleeding per hit instead of confusion.
Tidal Wave: This skill’s responsiveness has been improved.
Tornado: Leaving this elite skill now removes the stability it grants in order to make it consistent with other elite transformation abilities.
Vapor Form: Fixed a bug that allowed this skill to contest a capture point.
Flame Axe: This weapon now grants the wielder power and condition damage.
Frost Bow: This weapon now grants the wielder increased condition duration and increased healing power.
Fiery Greatsword: This weapon now grants the wielder power and condition damage.
Magnetic Shield: This weapon now grants the wielder vitality and toughness.
Lightning Hammer: This weapon now grants the wielder increased precision and critical damage.

nerf much?
I only count 1 real nerf there, maybe 2. I markked the changes which actually did something beyond fixing tooltips.

Lot’s of them are actually bug fixes, and an improvement on the conjure weapons since they were so freaking weak.

The nerf is the Evasive arcana which will give us a lot less damage output (less might stacking) and healing ripple. On another note you could just tornado and out and still receive instability, since that was unintended they removed, but it still counts as a nerf.

Balidore.2790:

Eles ‘were’ skill based, and you only had to worry when you saw a good one. Now they made em easy to play, and kept their full faceroll effectiveness. So now anyone can do it. Which is why the insane dmg issue, those attacks used to be tough to pull off. Now you can do it all with a simple autotarget and a rotation.

Or maybe it’s because those ele’s have gotten better ? I don’t know what you’ve been watching but ele’s have had a constant train of nerfs, especially on the damage department. They USED to be easy and do plenty of damage where noobs could play them easily. Not anymore since a long time ago. And if you’re referring to the Conjure weapon buffs, those were never a viable option because they were just way too weak.

veni vidi vici, bb upgrades on garrison (fully) and hills (half of the upgrades).
Nice try trying to defend garrison :p

Lol you’d have to do about 200 fractal runs for 250 shards xD

RoS. We must have lowest night activity of all EU servers besides Vabbi.
There’s enough FoW to kill. During the night the solo/duo groups matter a lot when you need to cover a big with only a few and defend it against many. You will also find that you will have some nice solo/duo batttles at night. No more huge Zerg vs Zerg. You might get to fight 2 vs 10 or so occasionly.

Nice try going for SM when I told you I went for fractals, but I finished in time!

Froggie.3758:

Ilesyt.7084:

Why can’t you let us ( Ros) have our full pie

Signed
~Commander of said zerg

You are not allowed pie! and if RoS actually manage to move up the ladder (which you surely will next week) you’re in for a bad time. chances are you’ll be back down here with us in no time and will have lost a good amount of your player base (Example: Vabbi)

Signed
~Ranger who threw you off the cliff by woodhaven

Ah you’re that ranger, that was well done i must say :p

But 1) at this rate it seems we won’t be going up a tier next week yet, Dzagonur don’t seem to want to drop down lol. The week after probably.
2) We want to play the under dog rather than this.
right after you threw me off the cliff i went to do fractals cause it was too boring :p

http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/7

Been here since day 1, we lost ALL our players, even the PvE we got left with bots.
But we didn’t give up EVER. Sure we might have lost badly a lot of times, but I can say we never ever gave up.

Because of that we have a chance to go up a tier now.

There are several exits to a spawn point, with so many objectives, you can’t guard them all so They have it easy to be able to ninja something, yet, they have to will. It is pathetic I must say, they should learn something from the last tiers.
Soon they will find themselves in the last tier only because they wanted it to be so, had they put in some effort, they could’ve gotten their own morale up enough to atleast stay in a higher tier.

All I have to say is that HoD and ET are weak-willed and kinda pathetic.
I’m not referring to the people who DO come to WvW everyday though, kudos to them.

Why can’t you let us ( Ros) have our full pie

Signed
~Commander of said zerg

PS: We’ve been waiting ages to tier up, but somehow we just don’t get enough points to tier up! Oh and it’s not quite true that we have more people. Maybe slightly. But we had a 40 people zerg against a 30 people zerg of FoW in your BL and you had upgraded all your keeps xD

Also FoW has a lot more people online at night than RoS. Every night and early morning you have a zerg of 30-40 men.

If we had as many people as you tell us we have, we wouldn’t have had that much problems with Whiteside Ridge lol.
We haven’t hit a queue in our maps in 3 weeks, and even then only a 2m loong queue for 1 bl while the other were kinda empty.

This http://i48.tinypic.com/2sbohad.jpg
and this http://i48.tinypic.com/2mceo0i.jpg
Don’t exactly help either :p

A few days ago someone posted a devious plan of luring people to your server through capturing Balthazar.
We’re not really actively capturing balthazar all the time but someone just mentioned me that we captured balthazar about 8 minutes ago.

So if you require Balthazar, come to Ruins of Surmia! For the next hour, Balthazar will be available for all your Shards needs! Oh and do feel free to drop by our WvW

Sorry abour rhis :p
The last tier is in a similar situation xD
We’re waiting a third week to go a tier up, but it looks like we’ll have to wait another fourth week

sorry scrap this, my bad :p

Just happened

ineedfifteencharacters

This has caused one of the guilds to transfer off RoS, As if we don’t have a shortage on people already…

Another one of our Commanders is being hacked this SAME MOMENT!
His name is freyn, hacker is logged in, You can catch him if you hurry!

There is no longer DOUBT it is a personal security breach!
This is something on your side!

Do something about it!

Another one of our commanders is being hacked at this SAME moment!

The hacker is still logged in, the name is Freyn, you can catch him if you hurry!

No, not all of them are there, only a few.

Like 3 of the 10+ I am sure use the community forum.

QQ’ing is all you have left after being hacked lol.

Oh and people like me who like to QQ together with the victims :p

Lol Karpuz, people on the forum don’t know me as Elnor :p

There ARE some back ups on the accounts.
What if something were to happen on the server the database is saved on ? Even just 1 back up server is too little, you would need more backup servers.
Also there are other logs such as the one with the selling history on BLTP. Sure they can’t turn it back, but they could reduplicate items for the players. It’s not a big deal and it won’t impact the economy in anyway on such low scale, not all items can be recovered anyway.

And there should be a way to check up on the mails.
I know there isn’t one at the moment BUT.
The character will have sent mail to another person and that person should have received mails and there should be a backup for that. There has to be a way where they can Query the mails where the sender is the victim and has sent mail in the past 2-3 days or so. There might still be a chance where they haven’t deleted the mails yet.

There have been 10+ reports of account hackings on RoS so far…

Would just like to know Are you from RoS ?

I posted this a couple of days ago, but I haven’t received any feedback, could someone tell me what I am doing wrong ?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ar3M4xnJRQqNdGc0ZTN5UjMwVzRWR2lzYXUtRnZqNFE#gid=0

Considering all this, I can only think that someone is trying to destroy our WvW community…

Meanwhile another person has been hacked…

Karast.1927:

If you have a community site it might have been breached.

A lot of people will use the same email / password for a lot of different sites. So if someone gained access to a community site your commanders use they might have used the info to computerize the accounts.

I would suggest that if it is the case you have a community site all the commanders were a part of that you immediately have everyone registered change their passwords, and have a system administrator do a careful review of the site.

Sadly a lot of community sites are fairly relaxed with security, so if you use the same password / email for them as the game, which a lot of people get into the bad habit of doing, it can lead to breaches like this.

I’ve seen things like this happen in other games, through server / guild sites that go breached.

We do have a community site, but not all of the commanders registered there, so far I can only confirm 1 registered there.

There have now been 5 seperate cases of account hackings, this time no commanders…

This is getting out of hand.

Oh and as said before, we have plenty of a WvW community, maybe not nearly as many as the other servers but it’s quite fun. Although since vabbi lost a lot of people, it hasn’t been as much fun because we’re just steamrolling and we prefer being the underdogs so we’re trying to get into the next tier as soon as we can so we can get steamrolled by the higher pop servers :p

In Ruins of Surmia 4 commanders have been hacked in 2 days, one even finally had the sword eternity and all his characters were deleted.
This is some disturbing news since only commanders have been targeted.
I’m a commander myself and I’d like to know what could be done to stop this.
I’ve already changed my password to a really long one and which i have not used before EVER.

Has this also happened in other servers ?

Will ANET do something about this ? Will they roll back their characters ?

Are you running Superior rune of Dolyak or divinity ?

Katiechops.6807:

Prime time to me is 7pm to 11pm for where ever you live. I am UK so GMT so the Euros Prime time for me would be 6pm to 10pm for them as they are 1 hour ahead of me.

I tend to take a screenshot of themap we are in and score each night at 9pm-10pm and look at it and go that is how well we did and the server as whole did against those server when everyone is on.

What happens outwith these hours, meh not really relevent to us we are old, work, wife kids, so not really bothered what happens when we are not there and certainly not going to kill ourselves or end up divorced over it, just let WvW rankings match us up with a similair populated server and enjoy.

Tsk tsk katie, you left your math skills at RoS :p

CET or GMT +1 is 1 hour ahead okitten, so when it’s 7pm there, it’s 8 pm here (here being CET).

That being said our primetime lasts around 21:00 till 02:00 CET
(RoS)

That being said, There are servers at the bottom of the list who could use your help and have no queues at all.
RoS, FoW and Vabbi could use your help.

RoS is looking for some extra hands to finally break back into the upper tier.

If he’s fast enough he will respawn while downed.

I personally have never alt+F4’d, but it has happened to me twice that I dc’d while in combat, once I was even down. When logged back in, I saw I was down.

I agree that Mist form feels a bit OP on ele but you should considder this:
If you’re a bunker ele then you won’t be dealing much dmg to the enemy so they should fear your charges anyway.
If you are glass cannon, then well, have fun dying the moment you get outside.
if you’re somewhere in between (like me) You have SOME defense but you can get bursted down really quickly when they just stun you or something similar.

For those moments there’s mist form, but there are certain conditions to considder:
Every time you down, you get a downed penalty.
Getting OUT of mist form, you down once more, that adds another penalty.
As far as I know you can only down 4 times, after that it’s instant deaths.

So if an ele downs and he goes back to get revived then goes back outside immediately and he gets downed again, if he mist forms inside, he will be dead, needing people to res him. If he’s lucky then he might had enough time to get rid of 1 of the downed penalties to not die.
Considering all this, there is some delay before an ele can go back outside, because if he goes outside again, he’ll die outside.
Many of you don’t notice it because you’re not that prone to actually ever getting the red downed penalty (instant death on next down).

You should remember that ele has the worst base health and def (health same as thiefs but armor worse than thiefs)

We also don’t have anything that interrupts the enemy.

Considering all this, it is only fair that the ele gets some advantage during the down state.

Ele’s will die a lot more than most of you people and will have higher repair costs.
I’m a D/D ele, I like to charge and fight odds where I’m in a disadvantage. I have almost 2.8k deaths.
I come from a server that was (until 1 week ago) always outnumbered (Ruins of Surmia), and it still happens a lot when I’m fighting zergs with more people than me and I find that the downed state is something to stay. When someone downs, ppl wil try to ress him, that gives me the opportunity to do damage on them and if I time it right, I can down the ressurected player again and maybe even one of the ressers.

It all depends on how you make use of the downed state.
To all you QQ’rs, L2P.

http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#EU

Look at the last tier. Believe it or not, we’re bored and we prefer being the underdog, so one of you guys drop down some more already, or we’ll be having another 2 weeks of this >_>

Sooo, you want more PvE in WvW.

RoS here, could you kindly drop Dzagonur to the last tier ^^
Much obliged :p

I am an ele and I’ve bought all the jewels + 3 equips (was before I knew the karma set had the same stats) I’m still lacking the legs then i’ll have it all, I’m not going for the Weapons though.

Dat Crash you mean ?

Bdsteelers.2567:

Ever think a mesmer ported them in they cant waypoint in combat they prob got ported in or ran from another ent

Mesmer portal people into your own Garrison, GENIUS!

Xandax.1753:

On some servers – if you want to WvW and not just be zerged down or nightcapped into oblivion …. changing servers is all the choice you get.

ANet made the game to apparently rely on transfers. My guess it is to make people used to relying on them before starting to charge for it.

Those are (as I say it) Excuses of the weak. They don’t even bother to give WvW a decent chance (and I don’t mean just dropping in once to check it out).

I play in RoS, in the past we’ve been zerged into oblivion plenty of times, and I tell you , I’m having lot’s of fun. Right now , vabbi lost the russian zerg and they dropped down and we’re kicking kitten but it’s just not that fun.

King Jon.3128:

Mages underwater is quite powerful already.
Ranger’s underwater is probably the weakest in the whole game by 10 folds.

But yeah, easily able to put into the game. Just enable it.

Are you serious, there’s almost no way to mitigate your damage when underwater vs several foes. Even 1 vs 1 is hard, everyone else has either more base def and vit.
You just can’t compare ele under water with them.

Also, I downed ranger and he got downed when he jumped in water, I was full health and all that remained was just killing him right ?

Guess what, I got owned hard, not only was killing him practically impossible because of the low damage underwater, his pet healed him much more than i could do damage, meanwhile he kept doing kittenloads of damage to me. And then I got downed and killed.

Though I’m talking about a downed ranger being op especially in water, I’m pretty sure they’re not that weak against an ele underwater, especially with that kittening pet of theirs.

Kumu Honua.2751:

Raffie.7865:

So if your on the loosing server best thing to do is attack them, when they attack you do ALT+F4… it saves tons of coins on the repair bill..

This needs to be addressed.

Alt + F4 should keep you logged in, and sitting in place. Costing the player both the repair, and giving the rewards that they should have given in the first place.

Someone with a bad connection or just bad luck? Yeah, it’s bad luck, but the abuse is just too much.

Some Idiot SD ele (I’m an DD ele) attacked my while I was at 50% health because I was being attacked by 4 npc’s, I manage to down him and then he just logs off.
By now I’m used to people logging out on me so I don’t rage at them, I just laugh at their lameness.

People who are prepared to kill but not bear the consequences if they die are really the lowest pvp scum in my eyes, even if I can’t see who they are, I can still laugh at them.
Yes, you SD ele from vabbi who attacked me yesterday night, if you’re reading this, me and my whole guild had a good laugh at your expense.

I’m trying to make heads of tails ( or whatever the saying is) from this formula, but I just can’t understand what the meaning is of:
the { and } in the glicko 2 formula to find out v and Delta.
Could you explain what they mean ? are they just normal ( and ) ?

EDIT: I tried using them as regular ( and ) but it didn’t work out :/

Uploaded it on a spreadshet, this is what I have right now:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ar3M4xnJRQqNdGc0ZTN5UjMwVzRWR2lzYXUtRnZqNFE

Then you must have a lot of PvE population because you hit the “High server” mark quite a while a go.

Look at the lowest tier of The European rankings:
http://mos.millenium.org/matchups

Now look at this, just a week before:
http://mos.millenium.org/matchups/history/7

Being from RoS, I must say I had a lot more fun last week than I’m having now.
The only time I’m actually having fun is when FoW upgrades all 3 of their keeps so we can start bashing our heads at those upgraded keeps to break them down.

There are 2 days left including today and I’m gonna go collect 100% map completion now.
Mind you that it’s the first time i’m gonna be away from WvW since I hit lvl 80 on my ele. I have leveled over 400 times in WvW on that ele (not a lie because yesterday I had about 456 SP, AFTER having bought all the Elite’s and other skills on my ele, and I’m a norn, now I have 260 because I bought that thing for the legendary weapons that costs 200SP).
I’ve decided to try for a legendary dagger because WvW bores the kitten out of me right now.

People who think you can only have when winning are quite narrow minded. Ofcourse when It’s ballanced the fight will probably be quite a lot of fun. I dare say that the side that wins by that many points has the least amount of fun.

We love destroying zergs that outnumber us, that gives us a sense of accomplishment and epicness. It’s just not the same when you kill a group when you have a few more people except when can’t even count how many people are in each group LOL.

Vabbi has lost it’s russian guilds who have transfered over to Piken Square.
So now we will be stuck in the last tier for about another 2 weeks before we can hopefully advance to the next one to get the kitten kicked out of us, and we are looking forward to that!