Guild Wars 2

Joe.8379:

Chaba.5410:

Attuning a ring isn’t really a grind. You just need to get the second fractals mastery then buy Agonized Essence for 24s. The other mats are bought from Miyani or TP.

Ah really? I got the impression from the wiki that all the mats needed for attunement/infusion were only obtainable from the vendor in Mistlock after doing mastery/fractals. I’ll have a look into that though thanks

Edit: Ah I see it now, I did not notice there were two ingredient methods, silly me

One slot if through atunning, which is the easy one to get. The other slot is through infusing, which require you to get the mist essences from the fractals.

Straegen.2938:

Jeknar.6184:

Everything is cheese at this point. Why pick mozarella over cheddar?

There are still several power centered builds that aren’t cheese. For example, S/P without stealth is a solid non-cheese build requiring a good deal of timing to play. Most of the non-Boon Duration power builds require skill to pull off these days.

Running DD is more than enough to be considerated cheese thief tbh… Too much evasions. Just as other professions elites have a lot of blocks, invulnerabilitys and kitten.

So, like I said on another post: Anything that is HoT based is cheese these days.

Everything is cheese at this point. Why pick mozarella over cheddar?

Hexinx.1872:

I miss the days of the standard routines… guilds all working together slotting their respective time slots and (if during prime) maps. The hand offs between the guilds… it was rewarding work … and a great way to learn all the prospective ways of contributing to WvW in a larger picture.

Now, there are very few who do this … and to be honest, it seems like most are the guilds who were more in the backseat of the past, who are now some of the prime identities. Good to see some of them last, but definitely miss the feeling and responsibility of owning your accountability and objectives until the next guys come along and you officially hand it off to them.

Nowadays it is definitely more relaxed (which is good too) but definitely feels less organised and more reactive.

Sorry, I come from the bronze tier and I don’t understand what you are saying.

Straegen.2938:

And yep most of us still around will buy it.

Truer words never spoken.

1v2v4? Try 2v3v4 next time.
Besides, the “4” is losing the matchup (3rd, 20k behind 2nd). I don’t see a issue when the “1” and the “2” clearly can hold out against it.

Reh.5986:

Jeknar.6184:

Simonoly.4352:

It’s only 6 seconds now. Press 5 then double dodge and it will be over. It’s even easier to deal with in WvW because there’s much more space for you to flee to for LOS.

Or just dodge the signet itself? It’s a 1s cast time where the kittening signet glows on top of the mesmer head kitten …

Good luck seeing this in a large fight. Still though, it’s fine atm. Still no real counter play (besides dodging around) but 6 seconds is survivable. The pin sniping thing is annoying and seems to be happening more often.

Thing is you’re just as likely to get boon stripped and pulled though. If the other side is pin sniping it will just come down to what they want to use to get it done.

Don’t dive alone and yell to your enemy “HAI BOIS, I’M THE COMMANDER!”? Honestly, when I’m tagged I tell to a charr guardian friend roll ahead of me and he always get sniped in my place. Nobody expect a Human mesmer to be the actual commander.

medusashadow.3567:

Cause Anet likes to silence The truth.

And even knowing that, you continue? Just accept it and move on buddy. Like most of us already did.

medusashadow.3567:

“What part of this don’t you understand? We ignore you, we get gem purchases because we know you’ll eventually move to another server and we are already moving onto the next expansion cashing in. Wait wait….soon, yeah soon.”
-Anet

You gonna spam that on every thread until you get banned fam?

Avengedeath.4671:

SF are super fun.

Simonoly.4352:

It’s only 6 seconds now. Press 5 then double dodge and it will be over. It’s even easier to deal with in WvW because there’s much more space for you to flee to for LOS.

Or just dodge the signet itself? It’s a 1s cast time where the kittening signet glows on top of the mesmer head kitten …

Jim Hunter.6821:

anduriell.6280:

Jeknar.6184:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Rayya.2591:

why they allow rangers in wvw anyway ?
nobody like them
even rangers hate eachother

To kill thieves.

Pet swap for quickness unto RP+Bb F2 is glorious.

for baddies it is.

Luckily 90% of thieves are terrible.

QFT

Sylvyn.4750:

Nuzt.7894:

… well I don’t know what to say, I guess sorry that Anets hates you.

I didn’t get a screeny of it, but we saw an Anet tag on one of SBI’s soldiers tonight…your theory has been confirmed…lol!

But I’ve seen a Anet tag on Dh showing up in the last two weeks (haven’t played much on this one to say if he was still running).

Norbe.7630:

Jeknar.6184:

The current meta doesn’t allow zerg busting if the odds are too far off… Honestly, I’m inclined to say 2:1 is already too much oposed to 3:1 odds we used to see people take on on the first hammer train meta.

i dunno, i must be imagining things, if the meta today is too much for the zerg busters yesterday, it must be because the zerg improved on surviving the zerg busters or the real zerg busters are long dead

Yes, zergs “improved” their survival because of how mindless it is to spam boons to your whole zerg just by having revenants and tempests on it. You need to run a lot of boonstripping against that meta, but if you load your group with necros you won’t be able to survive a heavily outnumbered fight.

I have yet to see people zerg busting against the boonshare meta.

Norbe.7630:

WvW is all about being Outnumbered but in times like this, zerg busting guilds are born…

The current meta doesn’t allow zerg busting if the odds are too far off… Honestly, I’m inclined to say 2:1 is already too much oposed to 3:1 odds we used to see people take on on the first hammer train meta.

Sylvyn.4750:

guess some people get tunnel vision and strategy goes out the window…hehe.

When you’re 200k ahead I don’t think you need to bother with strategy.

briggah.7910:

Jeknar.6184:

briggah.7910:

you’ll just get linked to another tier. no need for a free transfer.

No. I want to choose where I go if they delete my server.

you will still have your server, you’ll just have no identity like every other server that isn’t a host server.

Oh, you mean make 3 tiers with the linked servers instead of 4… I thought you meant to just delete current T4 servers (CD, ET, BP, Kn, SF, FC, GoM, Dh adn Ebay) and toss the people around the other servers.

sephiroth.4217:

Would celestial/viper core guard with burn traits be cheese?

I personally have 0 problems with burn guards.

Chaba.5410:

I suggest you tag up in those situations.

But he said he don’t care.

briggah.7910:

you’ll just get linked to another tier. no need for a free transfer.

No. I want to choose where I go if they delete my server.

briggah.7910:

delete tier 4.

Only if they give me a free transfer.

ArchonWing.9480:

what isn’t cheese?

Pre HoT builds. Well, most of them at least…

Jim Hunter.6821:

Rayya.2591:

why they allow rangers in wvw anyway ?
nobody like them
even rangers hate eachother

To kill thieves.

Pet swap for quickness unto RP+Bb F2 is glorious.

Crapgame.6519:

Symbols in general need to be removed and converted to aura’s. Fast pace of sPvP or WvW does not lend a good fit to stationary symbols.

What you tell me about wells then? They are pretty much symbols with a bit larger radius.

Bezerker.2379:

Guys… just strip the boons.. problem solved.. Focus target and they’re rip anyway.

Goodluck stripping boons from an entire zerg. Unless you have a zerg of necros, or is running a boonshare zerg yourself, you’re likely dead at this point.

ArchonWing.9480:

Hope to see your ideos then.

Also, hour long fights? :O I recall back then having a underwater thief vs thief fight that lasted 15 minutes.

I fought an ele on my mesmer for 30mins once. I popped my food at started and when I saw it ran out I just walked away… Most boring fight I ever had.

Naix.8156:

Jeknar.6184:

Naix.8156:

(i.e. boon duration really isn’t needed on the mes as it doesn’t increase the duration of anything passed from sig of inspiration)

Unfortunely, boon duration DO increase the duration of the boons you share. I’m not sure if it’s intended, but it happen. I run 60% boon duration on my mesmer, and if I share a boon which I have 10s duration left, I give 16s instead.

So I did some testing and the boons passed out by active on the signet do not benefit from boon duration.

Oh durr, I realized why I thought it did. Bountiful delusionment also give the boons to the allies so it looked like my allies boons were lasting longer (and infact they are since they received the stack from BD and from SoI).

You problably want to read the other threads with the same subject such as:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Power-Class-for-Roaming-1v1s-2s-2v4s/first#post6276053
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Best-Roaming-Small-Group-Class/first#post6265161
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-Roaming-rank-the-classes-why/first#post6249122

Hexinx.1872:

Can provide stab for the backline

They can actually protect it with the shield. But they also can go frontline even with the bow, so.

Hexinx.1872:

Nope… seen it first hand. Commander looks at squad, yells at squad … get off your pew pew rangers and play real class… I need guards kitten it… 25% swap characters…. “Okay we on guards” as they produce their longbows

A guardian with a longbow still much more useful in a zerg than a ranger.

Zenral.3958:

Jeknar.6184:

I still think you people are flipping tables for too little.

Don’t blame anyone for flipping tables at this rate my friend, Anet has been constantly messing up WvW and people do get fed up at one point, but it’s still Beta and it’s always a plus people share their feedback and flipped tables so Anet can take notes.

This post came up like 5 minutes after the patch. I don’t really think anyone had time to test the hammers to some meaningful lenght to justify all this table flipping.

Reverence.6915:

Lolwat

I’ve never had this many BoH until the buff to their drop rate from player kills. Literally overflowing with them now.

Problably because you never use them. I know a lot of people who say they have too many BoH but they only use them to buy somenthing for big spender daily or to buy some food from pocket provisioner.

I still think you people are flipping tables for too little.

Pretty Pixie.8603:

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

Stupidity is something else that needs to be nerfed. It’s getting out of hand.

Stupidity is nerfed intelligence. Please buff intelligence.

Actually it’s a bug, but you can’t fix stupidity.

We been saying walls are death traps and favor more the attackers than the defenders for a while now, but they remain silent about it.

Dusty Moon.4382:

in other words get rid of the Pirate ship meta.

Pirate Ship was sunk by the boonshare meta.

I don’t remmber in what thread, but they said we would problably start seeing the test for score changes near the end of august, and then we will have the cannons and hammers.

Chaba.5410:

Servers that are last in their match and have the lowest KDR clearly are getting blobbed.

And when the lowest score is the highest KDR such as TC is at T1 atm?

Reverence.6915:

Herald’s Facet can be toned down a bit, but too much and it’ll put them in Warrior status.

I’d love to be in the skirmish godlike status that warrior is atm.

Naix.8156:

(i.e. boon duration really isn’t needed on the mes as it doesn’t increase the duration of anything passed from sig of inspiration)

Unfortunely, boon duration DO increase the duration of the boons you share. I’m not sure if it’s intended, but it happen. I run 60% boon duration on my mesmer, and if I share a boon which I have 10s duration left, I give 16s instead.

Even when there was no PPK people would still run away from fights and hide inside tower/keeps and roll on zergs afraid of engaging close-to-even fights.

There is nothing new here except that the server that have more kills now are rewarded for it just like a server who pvd empty structures.

Justine.6351:

Ann Jay.2950:

Justine.6351:

Ann Jay.2950:

Justine.6351:

I find it a great source of fun! So much champion bags!
I can’t wait for next week! Will probably build some trebs to spawn camp ebg! Shame all dh wants to do is hide in spawn!

Span camping a graveyard is pretty boring. Nonetheless, I’m amused at your PvE attitude. Perhaps you would like to redirect your enthusiasm to a more fitting map called Edge of the Mists. When you again are placed into a viable match up (should I say “IF”?) you might find yourself more at home in that environment.

On the original topic, I feel bad for SBI. T4 is hell. But perhaps nothing is as hellish as being at the very bottom of T4. Anet essentially destroyed DH and Ebay. And at this point I don’t even have a suggestion for fixing this kittenfest. Anyone up for Overwatch? Minecraft? Club Penguin? Hello Kitty? Tetris?

Actually I think its dh/ebay that should go play in EoTM if they havn’t already.
“It too hard they got too many, gonna let sbi put a wp in our ebg keep ;-( "

You’re adorable. But you lack common logic. You think DH/Ebay should go play EoTM, but if the few of us gave up completely, everything would stay green, and you’d miss out on even more of your precious champ bags.

Give your nighttime eBay some credit. They are probably worth more than dh/eBay daytime.

I still trying to see where beating empty doors make someone somenthing. Not that rolling over 10 people with 60 is much different.

Junkpile.7439:

I don’t even see reason why you can give boons to other players. Every player should get their own boons.

Because it’s a group mechanic? In a group based game? Hell… That’s the most idiotic statement I ever read in this forum, even if you are trolling.

Alora Arrowstorm.1268:

But didn’t they swap the pairings for DH like the 2nd week?

huh, no? Dh+EBay been linked for 6 weeks now and the only new matchup we got is now that they manually changed CD rating.

ArchonWing.9480:

Well, it seemed obvious that pairing 4 servers together would be a disaster. Break off one and move it somewhere else.

They already stated they don’t won’t change links except every 2 months.

Arena Net dropped the ball 3 times in this ragard:

1) Poor links without taking the shifts on population in consideration. Everyone pointed Darkhaven wasn’t even fit to be host to Ehmry Bay. Everyone pointed that Eredon Terrace and Kaineng had received people from being linked to a T1 server before. SF tri-link isn’t all that bad honestly since they look just as small as Dh+EBay.

2) The poor links showed it’s effects right in the first week. CD was far too big for it’s competition. However Arena Net didn’t do anything for 5 weeks. T4 (including CD) was much more populated than it is right now. Should CD have moved earlier, the outcome of that change would problably been different. But now everyone is pretty much gone to other servers or from the game as a whole.

3) If the artificial rating was actually used on the end of the match rating calculations, they wouldn’t get another server stuck in CD place as the T4 servers would have much more rating and not drain it just from being there. I said how dealt with a similar situation in the past on several threads including the one where they finally responded that they were giving T4 artificial rating. I pointed out this very problem after their decision, and yet it was ignored.

Honestly, the best they can do right now is to rotate YB/SoS one week in the T4 each as we still have 2 weeks of this poor link as it is entirely unfair to keep SBI stuck (as much as it was to CD) and then get the links right in the august 26th.

So you basically saying that Anet should have left CD/SF/DH match last 2 months?

dzeRnumbrd.6129:

Right now, an entire zerg stands around holding their proverbial while the one staff ele in the squad of 50 waits for their Meteor Shower to come off cooldown.

That’s what the zerg gets for running a squad with heavies only and a bunch of ranger pugs. Honestly, I don’t play staff on my ele but I always carry one in my bag for that.

Justine.6351:

Shame all dh wants to do is hide in spawn!

I’m sorry that the 10 of us don’t want to “fight” your map queue.

Chaba.5410:

Also, it really isn’t a problem for others that it needs one whole minute. You can find YouTube videos of how to place defensive siege that doesn’t get taken out by eles.

Several walls don’t have a safe-spot where you can place defesive siege to cover it such as Bay Southern Wall or Garrison North Eastern wall. Anything you place to protect these walls will be with the range of Meteor Shower.