Guild Wars 2

I got an exotic through the EB jumping puzzle chest. Unfortunately it was level 77. ^^

Contract Asuran Outsourcing?

When is it efficient to build/use Contract Asuran Outsourcing?

Here’s how it’s going to work out.

The blowout matchs will be the new tier 1 for a week. Probably EBay, Sorrow’s Furnace and Darkhaven. The even matches will be tier 4/5.

In general:
The first place servers will end up Tiers 1 to 3.
Second place servers Tiers 3 to 6.
Third place servers 6 to 8.

Indo.8629:

No, the matchups coming are staying the same. i.e JQ, SoR, SoS/BG

The rating behind the movement is what changes. So it won’t be a SoR(which has lost 11 times to BG, won 4 times to SBI, won 6 times to TC, etc) that is there, it will be an SoR(with a no record) in T1. Everyone’s history is gone.

Next week SoR will still be in T1.

SoR will be in a Tier 1 matchup. But every server’s rating will be reset to 1500 so they probably won’t be staying Tier 1 because Tier 1 is usually a close match.

Next week, the servers that achieve blowouts will become the new tier 1.

This could cause some of the lower tier servers to be ranked as the top tier for one week or two because some of the lower tiers are currently blowouts.

It could be Ehmry Bay, Darkhaven, or Sorrow’s Furnace that’s ranked 1. LOL.

This Friday’s Tier 1 through 3 matches will probably be close so it’s more likely they’ll become mid-tier at first.

If you want to transfer to Crystal Desert, the time to do so is right now. The server status is very high population but has room!

Crystal Desert is the best server. And it wants more Tough players and guilds to join our mighty server.

Crystal Desert is looking for players that are strong. Players that kill other players and enjoy crushing their enemies. Crystal Desert wants players that are smart, bold, and quick to outwit their foes.

Crystal Desert wants hardy, well-seasoned players and guilds that constantly improve their knowledge of the battlefield, of all eight professions, and of all five races.

So again, Crystal Desert welcomes all strong men and women from all timezones to join our strong server.

You must be strong to join Crystal Desert! Strong enough to suppress big zergs then surge forward to Victory!

Tough players and guilds join Crystal Desert today!

Also visit http://www.crystaldesert.com or log in on Teamspeak ts.cdesert.com

Play Mesmer or elementalist.

Haldunius.7864:

fragmented.9854:

Looks like RISE is another guild leaving CD.

That’s unfortunate. Where’d they move to?

Kaineng.

Update.

Evil Angels has 450+ members and is still recruiting. We welcome new players and old to join us.

We want to be one of the most active guilds on Crystal Desert and we’re going to be loyal to this server.

We currently use a shared teamspeak 3 server that the Crystal Desert World vs World players hang out at ts.cdesert.com.

Send me a whisper in game if you are interested in joining. Thanks!

You’ll want to play Mesmer.

There is a French community on Crystal Desert. Speak with player Titan War for details.

Waffler you rank Stormbluff Isle way too high. Also Maguuma and Kaineng are too high as well. I predict IoJ will drop all the way to the bottom.

Tier 1: SoS-SoR-JQ
Tier 2: TC-FA-BG
Tier 3: CD-DB-Mag
Tier 4: SI-Kaineng-YB
Tier 5: BP-AR-EB
Tier 6: HoD-DR-NS
Tier 7: DH-GoM-ET
Tier 8: SF-FG-IoJ

Hi Xilu. I think you will find that Crystal Desert will meet your needs. We are in a very competitive bracket Tier 3 and we welcome you and your guild to join us. Thanks!

Oops, I checked wiki and it didn’t say that gifts of exploration were account bound but I suppose they are.

Anyway, legendary weapon prices will skyrocket then ^^.

We still have one more match reset before the 28th. I think it’s really funny people are already transferring when there’s still plenty of time to make a decision on a permanent home world. Next Friday/Saturday/Sunday, that’s the time you should be transferring if you want to transfer. Not now.

The news on the Mesmer forums is that ArenaNet is planning to give other professions a portal-like skill.

I think it’s kind of unfair Mesmers get robbed of their uniqueness. But whatever.

If they go ahead with the change, you’re probably going to see even more screwed up battles.

Be on the lookout for X hiding over there!

Guardian is definitely the easiest.

Crystal Desert is looking for Tough players and guilds to join our mighty server.

We are looking for players that are strong. Players that kill other players and enjoy crushing their enemies. Crystal Desert wants players that are smart, bold, and quick to outwit their foes.

We at Crystal Desert will use our numbers to our advantage whether large or small.

Crystal Desert wants hardy, well-seasoned players and guilds that constantly improve their knowledge of the battlefield, of all eight professions, and of all five races.

So again, Crystal Desert welcomes all strong men and women from all timezones to join our strong server.

You must be strong to join Crystal Desert! strong enough to endure freezing ice crystals and the blistering heat of the desert! Strong enough to kill pesky roamers and to suppress big zergs. Strong enough to quickly recover from a loss and then surge forward to Victory!

Tough players and guilds join Crystal Desert today!

Paying transfers will end some problems and create new problems.

For PVE the change is good because there will be the guesting system.

For WvW, it will probably make the tiers more inflexible AFTER the free transfers have ended.

Necro is ok in WvW. They have very good mobility. Also, as another player mentioned, they are underplayed in WvW which means not everyone knows how to deal with them or counter them properly.

Ok mt bad :p From which server is GoF?

GoF was from Darkhaven.

Thief with shortbow is the fastest.

Thief Mesmer and Elementalist are all very good classes for WvW.

JoshuaLim.5197:

I can’t speak for the whole server but I personally like having IoJ as an opponent. It’d just be a shame to lose you guys

Unfortunately it looks like Isle of Janthir is intentionally losing rating points in order to have an easier matchup in tier 4.

Have fun vs. Yak’s Bend and Maguuma IOJ I’m sure they’ll give you a very warm welcome.

The system works fine as is EXCEPT for the highest and the lowest tiers because they keep accumulating the best ratings and the worst ratings respectively. So as time goes by you’ll hardly ever see top tier servers drop down and bottom tier servers move up.

No it’s not Europe vs American. It happens to any player I try to whisper.

I am having an issue whispering other players. I get 5 to 30 minute delays on the whispers. Basically the whispers are all queued up and sent later. And sometimes by the time its ready to be sent, the player I tried to whisper is already offline. Other times, the whispers are sent instantly but it’s about 90% delayed whispers and the other 10% of the time my whispers actually are sent instantly.

Also, this only happens when I try to send messages to other players. Players that send me messages have no problem and I have no problems sending reply whispers only new whispers to players are affected.

I reported this bug 1 month ago in another thread

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/1-to-10-minute-Delays-whispering-a-player/first#post1196734

This issue happens everyday.

Most of the time when I try to whisper another player I get one to ten minute delays from the time I hit Enter to send the message.

The message is not echoed on the screen and received by the other player 1 to 10 minutes later.

Team Chat, Map Chat, Party Chat, and Guild chat are all echoed and seen by the other players immediately.

But whispers are almost always delayed. Sometimes it works perfectly but most of the time the whispers are delayed by minutes.

Yay someone else has the bug. Come on get this bug fixed already!

I’m surprised no one here has mentioned thief. They are good at ranged and close combat.

Guardians are the best class for you. Try one.

After leveling 8 characters to 80, it seems my worst characters are the ones for which I neglected to boost the power and toughness stats.

I’m looking to redo my traits for most of my chars and so far I’m thinking power and toughness … and third stat would either be precision or vitality.

Now I checked the list of exotic gear and there doesn’t seem to be any with primary stat power and secondary stats toughness and precision. (There is one with primary stat toughness and secondary stats power and precision though).

I’m thinking ArenaNet left out this armor combination (main stat power, secondary toughness and precision) intentionally because it would be overpowered or they are saving it for a future release.

It suggests that power, toughness, and precision is the way to go… any thoughts agree or disagree?

Anyone have any data on how often 4 rares get promoted into an exotic? Or how often 4 masterworks turn into a rare?

I just tried the 4 rare promotion thing today and I got 1 exotic out of it. But I’m guessing this doesn’t always happen. ^^

Um I just tossed in 4 heavy armor rares ranging from 53 to 67 and I got an EXOTIC armor medium at level 70. Is this how it’s supposed to work? If so great! Trade rares for exotics I’m happy! ^^

How do I salvage rare weapons/armor into ecto?

Which type of salvage kit should I be using?

Is it more profitable to sell rare items on the market? Or to salvage them into ecto? (and sell the ectos?) Or just store the ectos for future use.

Should I bother trying to salvage the runes off rare items?

There is no room for dueling in WvW.

I’d say its between Mesmer and Elementalist.

Mesmer because of portals and other things I don’t want nerfed so I’m not going to list them.

Elementalists because of Swirling Winds (yup it’s that good)

It’s too bad other classes that can supposedly block/reflect projectiles don’t actually work against catas and trebs (thief/guardian/Mesmer and any others I’m missing)

OK the one’s I listed are all featured prominently in WvW. I’ve seen Tengu in PVE areas. Never heard of Largos or Kodan though.

Yup it’s good that pesky bug finally gets some attention. It’s really worth shutting down WvW today.

teviko.6049:

Amiron.1067:

Everything in that article I disagree with, except for the part about a weak story. Other than that, whoever wrote that article is full of kitten.

I agree with him, a lot, except on the crafing. The crafting is fine, although I feel the system takes more of the rare crafting materials than it needs to ( 1, 3, 5 is just fine, not 3, 5, 8, 15). I do think other games out there have MUCH better crafting systems, but that was not the point of the conversation. The point was about the discovery system, and well, I felt it was fine. I enjoyed it, and broke up the monotony of normal crafting grinds.

But to say I disagree with his crafting stance…well, you don’t really know why and perhaps if A.Net is watching this, they won’t know why and you might have well not even posted.

I think the crafting system is fine. In fact it’s rather simplistic once you get the hang of it. I’m also surprised the article’s author didn’t mention anything about the BLTC and all the FUN you can have there.

I don’t agree with the majority of this article.

No defined class roles? That’s perfectly fine. In fact it’s what makes Guild Wars 2 so enjoyable and so easy to group with other players. There’s no need to wait for X-type of character to join your party (most of the time). You can just gather up any 5 players above a certain level for your dungeon/quest/etc. and off you go. NO WAITING around for hours to do something because of a lack of a certain type of character.

The only thing I agree with is that the storytelling is weak in this game. Guild Wars 1 was much better at this cuz everyone had the same story and the cutscenes had better angles and camera motion instead of GW2’s repetitive one on one chats. Everyone has a different story so it’s kind of difficult to find anything memorable or something you can relate with other players.

I feel sorry for the engineers that built around grenades but for sure this was coming. Practically every engineer was using grenades instead of all the other possible kits or weapons.

Yes! The buff to signet of air means focus builds won’t be as much of a drag as they were before. There’s no need to put points into Air Magic now. This new and improved signet of Air works fine for me!

I’ve recently joined the 8 professions @ LVL 80 club. Yay!

For those of you that have played each profession to level 80. How would you rank them from most favorite to least favorite?

My list:

Best
Mesmer <- They’re just awesome!
Thief
Guardian
Engineer
Necromancer
Ranger
Warrior
Elementalist <- low hp AND armor sucks!
Worst

Mesmer Portal. The Mesmer utility skill Portal now has a maximum # of times it can be used before it disappears. This means that 1 Mesmer can no longer send an infinite # of allies through a portal. The current # is 20, which may come down more later. We still want the Mesmers to feel cool for having such a powerful ability, but we also want to put a limit on the # of players a defending team needs to worry about coming out of 1 Mesmer Portal, especially in WvW.

I don’t really like this change since it weakens offensive strikes. However, walls don’t instant-repair now so I guess it’s a fair trade.

I’ve never had to port 20 people at once in the jumping puzzle anyway.

O no big nerf on portal. O well. I’ve personally never ported more than 20 players at a time but it probably does happen.

You could still port 40 players in with 2 mesmers though. Looks like teams will have to be a little more organized.

I think this update’s great for necros. There’s more mobility options. With the new Signet of the Locust you don’t really need warhorn or spectral walk anymore (except wail of doom and the recall feature of spectral walk are still pretty useful).

Before I felt pigeon-holed into using both spectral walk and warhorn for best mobility. Now we have more options.

It’s a good update except for that part about the prestige.

mantras should cast faster now….so maybe they’ll actually be useful dunno 3.25 seconds still seems like a long time.

We got a speed buff boost yay but necros, rangers, and elementalists will move even faster with their updated signets. Necros may even be faster than thieves now. They’ll be harder to catch!

My my my look at TC invading CD and FA borderlands.

Here you go update