Guild Wars 2

Tribio.8531:

EU would win that without any problem.. NA just can’t be motivated if there is no oil to be fought for..

Idk about that, i dont say NA will win either, because i really don’t know, but whats more important is the possibility that it happens, and if it does, wvw would be more fun, its been stale for a year.

Pretty much what alot of you guys mentioned is true, OS does not affect PPT/PPK or whatever in WvW, no one really does that jumping puzzle anymore either, So i don’t see anything wrong in making it a Megaserver, just surprised that it has not been implemented yet.

I dont know about putting it in EOTM, putting it in the same map will just make it laggier, and also having its own map will make only people who want to duel/gvg (and some trolls) the only one going to that map.

Not defending POWER RANGERS but OP is definitely salty about them….Power Rangers are not all feeding points to the other team, obviously if he gets focused he’d die just like any class who cant blink/invis to safety. If you play it right, know your role, your strengths and your weaknesses you can win alot of non-premade pvp matches. Just because it isn’t in the TOP tiered pvp builds or rather cuz it isnt used by top players does not make it a bad build. I main an ENGINEER, but played ranger for pvp as well, and the player behind the class is what makes the build good or not, i’ve rekt thiefs and mesmers but also got rekt by others, obviously premade is premade…lets all focus the power ranger…if you team doesnt help you obviously you’d die too, played right and you’d get called OP, don’t and you get called a NEWB…..pick your poison.

Condi is Meta, so is celestial, but some people would rather play a zerk build, so unless you want to FORCE all rangers to play condi builds, they have every right to play LB Power.

But for WvW leave power rangers alone, rangers have been sheeeted on for 2 yrs, they finally get a slight buff to make them useable in wvw, and haters want them put down again. Because all you know is the typical Warrior,Guard,Ele,Necro blobs, it is about time Rangers get there shine and use in WvW, now we can move on in making ENGINEER,mesmers,thiefs much more important for WvW as well(obviously not roaming, since any class can roam)

yeh i thought that there would be various reasons that it wouldnt work, but just the idea of it happening is too much to pass off. When there is a WILL, there is a WAY.

its pretty simple really keep the same colors for EOTM if your on the green in eotm then your green in OS, so if you want to 1v1 of GvG someone/guild as long as they are a different color, you can fight them. Unless you got a better idea, this is the idea that is already out there just not implemented.

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

Can ANET make Obsidian Sanctum a Megaserver? – Yes

Will they spend the time, and small amount of resources required to do this? – No

And yes I know it’s not a simple change, but they did it with PvE so shouldnt be a problem with WvW for one map!

EXACTLY………….makes you wonder too huh.

GW1 came out and have GvG’s already built in the game, i mean GUILD WARS, its in the name of the game, so why 2 yrs after GW2 was released still no sign of LEGIT GvG’s, i mean for all you GW1 veterans in here, remember those announcements on who just won the Hall of Heroes, ever watched those top GvG battles between War Machine(not the same as they are in gw2) and The Last Pride, and all the other Top notched GvG guilds who have gone to tournaments….

Ok i guess the 5v5 pvp battles are getting the attention and cash money prizes right now but i personally miss those GvG’s where its not a person that you know is the best but the guild itself.

For all the wvw players who have been playing since release have you ever wondered who the best guild is….i always wondered how good RG was a year ago, but never fought against them, some websites have ranks on lists of GvG guilds but It would be really nice to find out who is the best….

I dont want to find out about it in a map where troll players can just join in for the kills, I want to see it in a balanced PVP map like they did in GW1 where you observe the match while it is happening but you CAN NEVER troll it. So if people say its 15v15, you wont see 2-3 invisible people join in after fight starts, since it is a PVP map, or those bloodlust stack LOL.

The PVP map Legacy of Foefire is a prime example of a possible GvG map…..if only it was a tad bit BIGGER, so that it would be harder/take more time to just kill the Guild Lord…..but hey im just reminiscing the GW1 days and wondering why guild wars 2 was named guild wars when guild vs guild arent event a legitimate part of the game.

I’m from NA T1 and been so for more than a year, its the same 3 servers every week, ok so SOR went from Tier1 to T8 and TC got bumped to T1 but thats about the only change for a year.

Do you ever get tired of facing the same people, have you ever wondered how good those EU worlds are in wvw? You might say oooooo it will come down to which server has more coverage, this and that…..how about just to find out if there guilds/militia are better than yours, or how different they approach the game, or how there tactics differ from yours.

Nothing new came out of wvw since EOTM came out last february, o ok maybe some may count the WvW seasons too, but thats about it.

Just the thought of NA servers fighting EU servers for a change would be fun…..I know PEAK hours for those servers will be different but if they really wanted to fight each other they will show up, even in just on weekends or on their day offs.

Imagine WVW Season 4, Gold League = top 3 NA servers and top 3 EU servers fighting for who is the best (cough cough PPT~hopefully not) wvw server(hopefully fights and not just coverage) in the whole game, i don’t know about you but that gets me excited just the thought of it, well i thought about it about a half a year ago, I’M SURE IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN FOR VARIOUS REASONS but one can wish.

so you can get in as an engineer its not like you can portal anyone in anyway so enjoy trying to cap that solo vs guards. either way guards will rekt you.

Ok, obsidian sanctum is dead, some might say no, but think about it for a second,

Have you ever been on a different tier(ex. you -t1, friend t-3) than a friend or a guildy and wanted to duel them in a NON-PVP map aka WVW because you want to use your own armor stats and runes not found in pvp? and maybe food buffs(ex. condi duration…)?

If so, i’m sure you have tried to do it in EOTM and find a place for the both of you to duel only to find some random scrubs gank you in the middle of the fight, or a karma commander decides to get some wvw kills for the hell of it, point is….

Why can’t we do it in Obsidian Sanctum, long gone are the days where OS was bursting with GvG’s and duels, i mean if your fighting the same 2 servers for weeks or months or even a year, woudnt’t you be bored too? I would, so why can’t we make this small change and maybe just maybe OS will see more use in the future.

Just imagine all the GvG’s that could possibly happen, guilds that never met before due to server/world tier differences.

Just a thought…..TL’DR…it aint long so read it.

well i guess i worded that wrong, i ddnt mean it to be everyone, just meant for the ones that act that way its both funny and sad , it is true its not everyone.

And its funny when you lose to a premade, their heads gets big and says L2P not even thinking that they beat SoloQ’ers its kinda funny but sad at the same time. You’d get called a noob for losing but they ddnt add the fact that they are on coms and are on a team fighting random pugs. Yeah i really hope it gets fixed.

Maybe some of you dont miss that, but people who dont have the luxury of 24/7 pvp buddies online get the short end of the stick. It feels like Anet is forcing people to queue up as a team, maybe because team queue wasnt populated before pvp patch, but fixing 1 problem and making another is not a solution. In 5 games, i would probably have 1/5 majority soloQ’ers, the 4/5 is either a full party premade or a grp of 2 and 3, nonetheless it feels annoying to lose to a premade, because even if there skill level is not top notch just having consistent 2v1 is not very fun. Long story short, i hope anet brings back SoloQ’s, i was really fond of it and cant make excuses for winning or losing, since its random, with the exception of 4v5 ofcourse.

So since wintersday patch came out i have been getting tons of server crashes in the middle of pvp match(and end up losing bcuz 4v5), pve dungeons, or anything else in between, which is really annoying bcuz i even reformatted my laptop and still had the same error day in and out sometimes more than others, it even makes my laptop work extra hard bcuz lately GW2 eats so much RAM i which never had a problem for the 2 yrs ive been playing it, and no its not my laptop,. internet and teamspeak work jsut fine.

Second, wintersday achievements are not only grindy(if you choose to do them) but they are also very buggy and have not been given a fix since it came out which is funny. Bellchoir still has buggy wrong notes, restarted the game still had it, restared pc still had, /wrists.

Third, them snowball mayhem cheaters, well not that i really care bcuz most of the time i wreck them anyway, but some cheaters use FGS or warrior GS to run fast and get the GIFT at start before any1 else comes close, now that is annoying, winning by carryign gifts through cheats is just wrong… anyway rant over, enjoy.

OP dude, ive been having this game crashes the past 3 weeks myself, IT IS VERY ANNOYING, especially if you PVP, all of a sudden i would get an error server crash and idk if it is my pc or the game, but then my internet is still working, teamspeak is still working…..im so kittened myself that i havent gotten a solution for this myself, been playing since beta and have not quit at any point since release, and never had a problem like this, feel bad for you mate, but alteast not the only one having this multiple server crashes in a day.

bump just cuz….

Hi, hopefully i can get in touch with a GM or something, to give a bit of history, I’ve been playing gw2 since beta, gw1 since 05, donated about $1000 to the gemsore since release, cuz i love transmuting my armors SO MUCH, getting new outfits, TONS of upgrade extractors, and buying bank tabs and bag slots across several characters, but also feel good with supporting my favorite game to keep delivering new content to keep me happy.

Basically i enjoy your games and play almost on a daily basis. But, the last week or 2, i have been having this Errorrs in my game, out of nowhere in the middle of a dungeon or a ranked pvp match, i would get an error, doesn’t specify what it is, all it says is send report blah blah blah, which i did send a number of times.

Sometimes it would be not too often and i’d be able to play an hour or 2 without an error but sometimes like 5 mins before i posted this, i lost a pvp match and felt bad with my party because i made it a 4v5 with my error/disconnection issues. As soon as match started 5 seconds into the game i errored out, i relogged about 4 times again and again and would be able to get back inside the match and errors out as soon as i got in which im sure if put in anyone’s shoes would kitten them off insanely.

Like i said, i’ve been playing this game since beta, i have never have an issue like this, ive had the low fps issue in wvw back in september and a few weeks past that but that got resolved and it wasn’t as bad as this, i wanna keep playing this game, but this makes it hard to do so, I have not downloaded any viruses and even reformated my laptop and reinstalled the game just to have the same problem anyway.

Long story short, i’m just at my limit here, my laptop runs with no issues, internet is working fine, got tons of free memory, even ddn’t bother to reinstall other games i used to have, just so i can run gw2 better, if it may make any difference. I’ve lost a number of pvp matches from this within the last week or 2, but after losing the last match i think i’ve had it. Couldn’t take this error thing much longer. Please help me with this issue, i’m no computer expert, frankly idk a thing past using the internet,playing games and microsoft office was never an interest to me other than what i stated.

So i just want to know how often would a solo queue person ending up to fight a pre-made team q guild/friends in ranked arenas. Just a question, maybe someone else answered this in a different forum post but don’t have time to check sorry.

I’m a solo pvp queuer and always hated team queue cuz i dont have a bunch of friends who pvp and dont intend to change that anytime soon, since i survived gw2 for 2yrs without a pvp team, i still do ranked arenas for achievement purposes(dailys & champion titles) and this patch wont hinder me from continuing to do (1600+ ranked matches played) so but it this new change has just been bugging me since tuesday.

Whenver i see a premade guild i try to fight for a good few mins but usually they rack up the pts so fast after mid capture and usually i just tend to just fkkck it and wait till game is over rather than dying over and over which would just psiss me off. Anyway thanks in advance to any answers.

TL’DR: as topic shows: How often does a SoloQ fight against a TeamQ?

And thats why it should be brought back to the game gaile….i remember not even touching gw1 during Gw2 beta weekends and those unique finales.

Nope doesnt sound like l2p, burst engi is just bad in wvw, u can enjoy it for a good five minutes then find out its Whack, no loots, bad survivability in blobs, and if u go roaming and see veteran roamers GG, i play engi in wvw too bro just not berzerker cuz its blows.

Every class in gw2 is unique, for the heavy armor, ive always envisioned it to be different from gurdian and warriors, both of which have access to a lot of weapon sets.

So i think a third heavy armor class with limited weapons to use like an engineer or an elementalist would be original. On top of that maybe using a new unique weapon and maybe having access to one of the least used weapons i game such shortbow(only rangers and thiefs), or rifle(only engi and wars), or mace(guards and wars).

If i was to make a new weapon type it would be knuckles/fist fighting kinda like a monk, but not gw1 monk bcuz that became guardian 2.0(paragon+monk skills in gw1=guardian skills in gw2). Anyway im looking for more like a combo type of class like the monk in diablo 3,monk/champion in ragnarok online(i know thats old),nonetheless this idea would be unique to the other classes, and wont be hard to fit in since this game doesnt use a tank dps heal type of play anyway, as long as one can dps, dodge, and heal themselves there good for any part of the game.

Idk just a thought ive had for over a year, and enough with the chronomancer crap. I dont need a wow death knight rip off class either.

@flumek – AND YES I WANT ANOTHER HEAVY, I DONT CARE ABOUT ALL THE WARRIORS AND GUARDIANS CHARACTERS OUT THERE, PEOPLE PLAY OTHER CLASSES WHATEVER THE REASON MAYBE, BUT HAVING A THIRD HEAVY MAKES IT EQUAL TO THE OTHER TWO ARMOR TYPES. AND BRINGS SOMETHING NEW TO THE GAME, IT WILL FIND ITS NICHE LIKE EVERY CLASS HAS A PARTICULAR NICHE IN THE GAME AND NOT OVERPOWERED AT ALL FACETS OF THE GAME. If you took a minute readin OP i did say idont care about replies like yours, i play wvw and pvp on a daily basis, not all themes are filled, this aint no heals, dps, tank game, adding 1 more class is game breaking that you cant fit it it in a 5man party??? LOL. toughness cant defend against conditions, learn to play bro…before u QQ in forums.

@haishao – i did say lunatic inquisition is lame on OP, crap rewards for long wait, i did it for achievements not for enjoyment. Same goes for southsun survival, waiting for everyone to finish is just boring.

awesome answers folks, on both of yall, both will never happen but im fine, i play other games anyway, was just curious.

Im an achievement scrub too but honestly after i get the 2nd pair of boots at 24k….i wont even care about the rest of the armor pieces…i find the chest and legs on BOTH Hellfire and Radiant armor to be UGLY….ok you get to be more original if you wear them as less people will be able to get that far… but honestly i was expectign them to be as good looking as the first 4 pieces….but dmn the design on the chest and legs was jsut bad……sigh…

TL;DR hellfire and radiant chest and leg armor – badly designed anyway, sure its original, but they look so whack id rather wear dungeon or t3 armors than those chest and legs.

did you get a precursor drop? if not then this post is irrelevant. bye.

i dont get why people even bother to hide in this thing, rewards are crap, if you wanted rewards you should do labyrinth instead you get loot from every monster you tag(or almost), for me i only do labyrinth for the stupid achievements, gotta do them 80 times to get max achievements, so anyway i dont even hide i always run up to get killed as soon as match starts, then semi afk it cuz its so boring and dont got the patience for the long matches.

LOL to OP…..you can go full zerk and used it for what? Zerg fights? GvG? solo roam? i main an engi and i’ve tried doing any possible zerk build in wvw and find that it blows……give u an example…if u think u can blast them fast enuf cuz of ur zerk build, my ranger can kill u faster with 1 skill….2 words…rapid fire…..for short, some classes jsut do it better, as for engi, zerk in wvw will just kitten u off more than enjoying it, u can still try it though your choice.

let me say this pretty clear….using grenades in zerg fights sounds easy but actually performing it agaisnt a zerg is difficult to pull off and tiring.

I have tried them all….grenades condi and power, flamethrower(die from retal faster than grenades), static discharge…..the only legit way to be in a zerg fight, and survive, damage, not having carpal tunnel, and have any use to your zerg is bomb heals build.

You can try all the other builds you want and believe me or not i love my engi, all the other builds just dont perform, even with ascended gear. So if you want to use a build that can perform and survive while doing so so u can tag some bags…then try this build i have used on my engi since EOTM came out. Thats my armor and infusions.
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqelUUpPr9dx+KseNiaBF6MuxAI6Qmlr8pIA-TVCEABWp8TQlgYq+zd6Bk4EA0mGCAeQAxs/wDHQgAAIA3sNDSci5oH9oH9oHtbezbezfO0SBUkyI-w

Ive posted this in other posts, there is no sticky of this or any build like this for that matter, but you could have found it if you looked a bit more, im sure im not the only one with this build.

i thought theyd make a change where u can move while using skill 4 on shield….still hasnt gotten changed….how come?….would have been a nice non-game breaking plz nerf skill change….but wasnt implemented. GG.

you got 8 unique classes since release, and here a small info about them.

3 light – ele,necro,mesmer
Ele has access to tons of skills like engi yet few weapons to choose from and have low hp, necro has minions and tons of conditions and high hp, mesmer has alot of invisible skills like thief and very good at 1v1s and medium hp.

3 medium – ranger,thief,engi
Ranger got access to pets and has farthest range since long bows hit farther than 1500 range unintentionally and medium hp, thiefs like mesmers have access to tons of invisible skills and good at 1v1s and low hp, engineers like eles have aaccess to tons of skills but limited access to weapons and medium hp.

2 heavy – war,guardian
Warriors got access to a lot of weapons good dps, well rounded class, high hp base but not as tanky as guardian, guards also got lot of access to weapons tanky but low hp, tons of boons though, also as crappy as spirit weapons are they are still like pets.

So why not have a third heavy class with limited weapon access but have access to a lot of skills like engi and ele, but have medium hp, and possible access stealth although not as much of a ninja as thief or mesmer but since guards and warriors dont have access to them would be nice for is to have one. Also having this class more intuned to range dmg than close up fighting like guards and wars makes it mot different han the two.

i know i know people gonna say….“why add more when they should balance what we have better…blah blah”…this post is not for that…i just want to know if a 3rd heavy class is possible to be incorporated in this game. Short n sweet post.

If you did the beta weekend 1, there was an event that occurred on the last hour before servers went offline, it was in plains of ashford i believe(or diessa plateau i dont remember).

The event was like a humans vs zombies type of game, although on this one its your characters vs branded enemies(kralkatoriks minions)…..basically you and the rest of the zerg fight and kill this branded minions, but if you die you become one of them(kinda like Lunatic Inquisition)….BUT it wasn’t as lame per say, because you were able to fight the enemies with your own skills and not some crappy specified skills that can’t even touch them, and i dont know how big the battleground was all i remember was runnign around a huge part of the map and finding tons and tons enemies to kill.

TL;DR i just want to ask maybe if any dev read this, whatever happened to that event, i thought it was fun (A huge dynamic event TOO), but it never got incorporated to the game during release or anytime during the 2 yrs its been out.

I’ve posted this beforea few times, but here is a build i have been using since EOTM came out, whenever i want to do zerg fights.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqelUUpPr9dx+KseNiaBF6MuxAI6Qmlr8pIA-T1BEABWp8DgHAggKBf4EAgp6Pxs/wd6BCAgAcz2MAO6RP6RP6P7m38m38oHtUAFpMC-w

With the build i’m perfectly satisfied with my survival, my benefit to the party/zerg, and my dps. You cant have them all but you want the best you can get. Anyway, i dont read other people’s builds because i like making my own although i doubt im the only one who uses this type of build. Even after all the updates from almost a year ago i havent found and better frontline builds for me, then again its your playstyle in the end, as for me when i make my builds its always, how much i can survive and how many bags i can get through tagging and killing enemies, thats how i define a legit build, obviously not meant for gvgs.

bored @ work so i read this post…so anyway for me, i still play this game MOSTLY for DAILYS & Achievements….why….cuz i am bored of the same thing for 2 yrs…..i have done all pve has to give(dungeons, living story, map completion, world events), i have done wvw(zerging, roaming, dueling @ OS, GvGing @ OS) and eotm, i have also done soloq and teamq pvps with the occasional hot joins in between….idk what else so i turned to achievements….living story got me going every 2 weeks but when they stop i just lose any incentive of playing outside dailys….so yes i still do play on a daily basis but unlike 6 months to 2 yrs ago where i would spend 8-10 hrs a night on this game, the last few months id spend 1-2 hrs just doing dailys then logging off to play another game to have my fix.

I stopped crying to anet to release an expansions worth of content because they are sticking to there guns about the whole living story thing, but at the end of the day i would spend a few hrs to do those achievements then get bored right after as well, so i asked myself what should i do since gw2 just isn’t what it was for me a year or 2 so ago…..answer….play other games beside it…..

I’m not pushing anyone to leave gw2…but since gw2 has lack of updates outside gemstore updates every 2 weeks, i found that playing other games such as Archeage, Destiny, Shadow of Mordor, Alien….and other ps4 games got my fix just right. In every game i look for certain aspects. GW2 used to do it all for me but that ended 1 yr ago when i have tried and accomplished most parts of the game, not trying to be the best (insert class here) or any of that crap but i have done well competitively in all facets of this game and grown tired of it.

going to the past….i played gw1 from 2005-2011(when i finished HoM), i also played WoW for 5 yrs around the same time to and i played both games for the same reason that 1 game grows stale after sometime and i would play the other game instead, just like how i’m playing other games right now bcuz gw2 has been stale for me. But i dont burn down bridges whenever a new update comes, i’’m usually there right away and ready to tackle on the new content for GW1 and now i am doing the same for GW2.

TL;DR if gw2 dont do it for you anymore, try playing other games with it. You dont have to quit, you can still hop on every now and then, but crying over anet, whether they hear your pleas or not no one knows, and if you say you dont have the money for that, well you can always find free 2 play games to play with. As for me, i will keep doing what i’ve been doing, and when anet finally has made an update that is expansions worth of content i will be ready to hop on the board, but until then playing other games will keep me sane and give me the fix that i need.

ppl wanted ranger buff nerfed from the night of the patch lol. But no sorry i dont main a ranger but i believe its about time rangers shine in wvw. Not everyone will keep playing ranger, its only for the moment because of the hype, but i like how rangers make a difference in wvw now, before they barely were noticeable and frankly were hated and called noobs by wvw guilds. So no, i disagree, anet will keep this as is, its not like the ranger aoes like a meteor shower, were talking about single target it is not unbalanced.

Elixir X(Elite) is kinda iffy to use, for one you have to trait for elixir cd to make it semi decent to use, 2nd you would want to trait Elite Supplies to make it better as well, going through traits you don’t use just to make this elite decent, is not worth the trouble, elite skill should just blend with your build and not the other way around.

Ok come on anet devs, i get it you buffed the mortar a…..little bit……feels the same like nothing changed…..simple question……what makes you think i’d use it over supply depot, supply depot has been the old reliable for any situation pvp/wvw wise, and still is the only elite worth mentioning in the Engineer class.

If your gonna buff mortar….just make it a kit plz……how OP would it be to be able to pick it up as you move…..if we are talking about 1500 range, what can a mortar do that a grenade kit can’t do better…..nothing. So why should anyone even consider using this with the crap 1 drop forget about it method when the enemy blob pushes you, when supply depot has so much better utility. It just doesnt make sense that this gets a super itsy bitsy buff but devs cant make it into a kit type.

Ok fine if you want, while using mortar kit your stuck on spot and u do get a few seconds of stability if u want, dont really care, but if you have to move you have a skill 6 that makes it so that you can carry it off the ground and put it back into a kit. So for short when you press 0(elite skill)it will drop the mortar and you can use it, use it, then when you want to leave and put the mortar back on your backpack press 6(obviously you got no skills 6-0 while using the mortar kit(kinda like using costume brawl skills, skill 6 to get out). Its a simple idea but it makes the mortar considerable to even use.

Its use is promising even if the dmg is crap, You devs made the ranger at least viable for use in blob fights in wvw, now make engineers viable were the last class who have a tough time being productive in this large scale fights. I hope this doesnt fall on deaf ears, give us a 2nd skill we can call an ELITE SKILL.

If you made this sept 9 changes for pve….lol….thats all i can say…..hahahaha.

@ Zeefa, if it comes across as another rant, so be it, i cant tell you how you feel about the post, i only made the post to keep people informed. The Rng part as i posted is just a side note, that only supports in some way how even though myself, yourself, and other loyal veterans have played this game and continue to do so without ever getting a precursor, nonetheless still keep being loyal, i dont really know how Anet RNG works and frankly no one can say they do unless they work for anet, and understand what kind of coding they have done.

But going back to the point is the post is really only to say that there is no armor reward as of now, who knows what will happen in the future. I may have ranted a bit about not rewarding loyal players, but i have played other mmo’s through the years, and most if not all of the ones i played do reward loyal players way more than newbies obviously, its very distinct seeing the difference between players who played from that games launch to players who just started; maybe gw2 is like that too, but then again progression is linear in gw2, endgame = making your character look pretty, thats bout it.

Kaz.5430:

At the moment nobody has even reached 25,000 achievement points so your complaint is a little early. Maybe they have not decided what skins to put there yet because they still have plenty of time before it’s reached.

At 24.5k AP you can see the 27k reward, same principle in lower AP ex. you can see 9k reward from 6.5k AP…its not early at all i’m doing this now so people can be aware. i did my homework before posting. Regardless if they haven’t decided about the reward or if they choose not to put a reward, the post is like i said to keep people aware and Anet informed that they better get those wheels going, they should have seen this coming, and/or probably just forgot to fix it.

So…I asked a TOP Achievement Points player what he/she sees under the reward on 27k AP(reward is viewable at 24.5k AP), he/she said laurel,acct bound bonus(forgot which; magic find or gold find…), and some gold, NO ARMOR…..So question is….is Anet gonna leave that as it is. I mean its screwed enough as is that if you pick hellfire over radiant you can get head, shoulders, gloves by 9k, then you get the one you DID NOT like/choose from 12k-18k ap…..WHY?? then u did the both boots at 21k and 24k as if its not hard enough to get that high…….now you leave 27k empty……come on Anet……I get it that you are encouraging new players into the game with your patch coming in september….but what about loyal players….what do we get……forget about the loyal players cuz they’ll keep playing anyway?

Side topic: Its bad enough that the RNG in this game is still as crap as it was 2 yrs ago when the game launched, and still nothing has been done about it. Again and again i hear stories of people who played since launched and not quit at any point not getting any precursor drops and you hear new players or players who quit 3 months to a year getting incentive to stay after getting a precursor from mystic toilet with insane luck of only investing idk 5 gold(while others such as myself were stupid enough to drain 500g on the toilet for nothing), or getting it from some random champ box. i’m not sure how your RNG works but it feels like your leaving out loyal players and ive heard this stories so many times… its nuts.

Going from 7 yrs in GW1 i got 50/50 HoM and GWAM title, atleast i got those stuff across to GW2 as sort of reward for being loyal to GW1 which felt sufficient actually, some unique skins and titles that although small, atleast we felt having accomplish some feat that would differentiate us a bit from new players. So going back to the main topic, i know gw2 is considered casual, but come on anet, enough with babysitting new players, start rewarding us loyal players, maybe just give us some sort of accomplishment like this armors or w/e. Give us a hint that your still there.

vincecontix.1264:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khFMcw2guIs

Celesital engi can be pretty good. You got nice combo fields. Lots of heals from bomb+super elixier and water feilds. Also considering how tanky you are you damage is decent the spec is my spvp build in other video but will add build to this vid.

I’ve watched your videos vince, very nice, i’ve tried to play around with your playstyle, its a good change from the typical condi roamer build that i use, but i gotta say though, your build is defintely roamer build, not for zerg fights, then again depends on the tier of your world, i play T1 and can get very zergy so i make my zergy builds very tanky yet able to do dmg, and heal allies at the same time. For roaming obviously its a different story.

this guy…..onoesssss can’t beat player A…need nerf…..rofl…..go play a different game maybe ull win.

Since april patch i only use 6/6/0/0/2 for PVE full zerk scholar rife – grenade,bomb or tool kit, elixir gun. I find it maximizes dps as an engi while maintaining that unique 25 vuln on the enemy.

Engi since beta here.

Here is a build i’ve been running since February. Felt like sharing it after a few months of using it.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqelUUpPr9dx+KseNiaBF6MuxAI6Qmlr8pIA-T1BEABWp8DgHAggKBf4EAgp6Pxs/wd6BCAgAcz2MAO6RP6RP6P7m38m3coDtUAFpMC-w

If you want frontline this is frontline, side by side with the commander(stay on Bombkit most of the time). Effective with water fields, bomb heals, leap, oh kitten break stun button. Thats the gear i use, but you can change it if you want. I prefer Elixir S over Toss Elxir B as the toss is a bit delayed reaction, and since boons can be removed. The only important stats for me is Power gets up to 2.5k, Health gets to 23k hp, Armor sits at 3k, 500 heals per second(between backpack regen and bomb heals).

Does very good tagging and not dying on inc or retal, good survivability. Having a guard or two in the party would be neat, but not very dependent on that matter (total of -73% dmg recieved while stunned/knockdowned…) unless its a map blob fight. 2 Water fields and 3 blast finishers on low CD, immob from bomb#5, range aoe stun from supply depot on enemy zerg regroups. Feel free to use or change up a bit to your style but this has been very effective for me since Feb.

Yeah I agree to everything Coglin said, sad part is half the time I have to explain myself and my build to people who don’t know anything engineer, lack of knowledge is always the root of it.

To Fluffkin, not attacking you per say just got put off a lil bit when u said something about no strong build that don’t use grenades. I just wanted to clear others that it’s not true, or fact, but rather just your opinion, ddnt mean to attack you the way hvaran did.

Fluffkin…..hold on there buddy, replying to hvarans post won’t solve anythign your both in the wrong here.

Anyway, Idk how extensive some of you are in playing engi, but i personally played engi since beta, played PVE with 19k AP, champ genius in tpvp, wvw zerging and roaming rank800+, I have wasted hundreds of gold working on every possible legit good build…3.5k hrs on engi alone…..and I must say grenades alone does not make engi good, sure it’s great but not all the time.

Static discharge is still good for sniping people, it’s still a legit build, don’t need grenades for it. I have tried bomb heals and honestly if you played with every trait in the class and min max with armor and weapons, you can use bomb heals for wvw with the melee/hammer train, great tagging, and if correctly traited, and right food, can withstand the hardcc that the the other Zerg gives you, often I’ve survived and stood beside the cmdr and healed him to full between water blasts and bombheals.

Eg/ft builds are still doable as well…personally I’d keep it in PVE though but with the right traits and armor/runes, it does well in PVE not the best but good alternative if you get bored with bombs and nades.

When I roam most times I don’t use grenades because no dumb roamer will stand there and take it, it’s very hard to hit from range for roaming or dueling, usually I’d go bomb kit,tool kit,rocket boots or elixir gun…..as it is harder for the enemy to read your movements, and easier to hit the enemy as well, personally grenades are good for Zerg just don’t die of retal or soloing camps, but outside that I prefer not to use them.

You are not forced to play nades, you just have to play around more with builds and you’ll find out there is more to engineer than grenades, also please do not dis other builds unless you have personally used them extensively in every facet of the game. Play how you want, your opinion is yours, but don’t impose it on others, just enjoy the game.

You see, what i’m trying to find out see the right way to beat this champion without dying again and again and again. So i need to know the right (boss/champ) mechanics per say, kinda like doing dragon/world events and not dying again and again because you know when to dodge when to run when to damage….knowing the monster skills get you there….i want to know the right way of fighting this champ.

Hi folks, ive been wondering, what is the right way of fighting this Mordrem Champion(big ugly flower) in Iron Marches, because the way it is for me now, its possible the hardest champion fight in the game for me. Stay range you die, stay melee you die, no tells on when to dodge, when to run or whatever, all you know is you get poison when you attack him no matter the distance, and if you have 1 access to condi clear in 30 seconds then your toast, that poison will kill you in 5 seconds. So i was just wondering how to actually fight this thing, and do the whole event without dying once.

1) pull one npc the rest or most should follow, hide in the corner (LOS), then either blind or block the first few seconds bcuz they will CC the hell out of you, after that rain grenades and if bored pop that supply depot.
2)i never bother with sigils for roaming since you will still die(dont run as fast as a warrior or stealth as much as a thief), you can kill them but your no sprinter, if a group of 5+ focuses you your pretty much dead unless lucky. For Zerging just kill enemies on the go, +5 stacks per kill is easy.
3) i do zerg fights as range grenadier CC’er and melee bomb heals(oh yes you can survive that hammer train), both works but very different playstlye.
4) not long, i only use certain skills on certain fights i dont use them all because i might need to use others later on(ex. GK 2,4,5 switch….save 3 for needed blinds later if needed-its dps is bad so only use it for blind)
5) usually i solo roam, but your best friend is a guardian 2 things they have a lot of: 1. Aegis 2. Stability……this 2 things you will almost never have….ever.
6) simple…if your a range dps…stay with the range dps or rotate accordingly….if your bomb heals stay beside the tag, you dps people on the way and you heal allies to. When im zerging i usually dont change skills since all of the skills i use is tested and proven…roaming on the other hand yes change on the fly…(ex. fighting a necro, bring hard CC)
7) at 1 point i had 5 sets of armor, but as of now only got 3…1 zerk for pve, 1 rabids, 1 mix knights/cavs/soldiers(need to get certain stats high and some not needed so mixing is crucial)…..but if anything id say get rabids first.
8) everywhere….played engi from beta and release….playing in pve helped me with combo fields, playing wvw zerging helped me aim grenades, playing pvp helped me do 1v1 fights and find my strengths and weakness…wvw roaming i learned to hate
- pu mesmers(cant kill you if you know what they do, but very annoying)
- Super ninja thiefs….like seriously the stealth in this game is so broken, its not smart play all they do is stealth then attack then stealth again….basically anything that stealths alot and can restart every fights is annoying.
9) engis dont excel at 1 thing, you gotta combine alot of skills to be effective, block attacks, knockbacks, blind, dodge, stuns….also if you pressure them with your offence you may not need to defend that much….gotta do them all depending on the situation.
10) Engis are fun….once you play its as a main, its hard to play something else and not get bored, its the playstyle, its unique to the engi that you cant seem to feel on other classes so you get bored….oh and yes we can do zerg fights, there are things engis can do the benefits the zerg, there just underappreciated scrub commanders only know to ask guards,wars,eles and necros…..the old GWEN….but honestly a good player behind any class makes the class good, a great player…..

Thing is Krisztian, its gonna be easier for a change if Anet revamps 1 skill. If they make a new Elite Skill for an engi, they will have to make 1 new elite for every class.

@Aomine, i played around with mortar kit in WvW last nyt and well even when traited with elite supplies, the damage seems lackluster, slow to fire and all, that i preferred to spam grenades instead. So yeah maybe a bit more upgrade in the Damage and Crowd Control department to the Mortar Kit would be nice, make it an actual Elite Skill feel, kinda like how Supply Depot feels like in pvp/wvw roaming.

ok your #1 is the same as what i mentioned the rest are iffy, could be overpowered….just having it be a kit makes it extremely useful in itself.