Guild Wars 2

Silas Eorth.7348:

Obviously my OP was laced with a lot of salty and toxic sarcasm. But that’s simply because I frustrated beyond the point of belief. And do I think that these methods actually need to be followed and implemented? Absolutely not. It’s not fair to the WvW Community. But a major change was forced on people who absolutely do not care about WvW. I could have jumped into EB, bought my gift (with badges that were earned before the server mergers) and left… but that option was taken away and I am forced to spend time in WvW.

And the real irony is that now it’s actually easier to get the GoB than it was before. Follow a tag and spam AoE, just like you’d do during a champ train, and you’ll get it in a few hours.

“A few hours” is a strong misconception. Even at maximum participation it would take approzomately 8.5 hours to finish the track. But it’s hard to get maximum participation when you’re getting the kitten stomped out of you by enemy zergs that are constantly camping outside the starting areas in each borderland.

And despite the cynical rage of my OP, I don’t intend of griefing. I’ll try to spend what very limited time I have each day to earn progress (even though I’d rather spend that time doing stuff I actually enjoy). And I wouldn’t encourage others who are in my position to take this “trollish approach” seriously. But this change has completely ruined my game. Especially since I’ll require two GoBs to finish what I started and I don’t want to be forced to do something I hate to get them.

TL;DR = Don’t take the OP serious. It’s cynical and angry for a reason. It’s to hopefully get people to understand that this recent change is unwanted and hurts the community. And maybe encourage enough of the WvW crowd to see things from our point of view and maybe help draw attention to it so ANet can work with us to make a change that’s fair to everyone.

Yup 10-20 hours in a game mode you don’t enjoy is pretty miserable and really doesn’t motivate you to play the game.
Now you are getting a glimpse of how wvw players have been treated since the beginning of this game. If you are expecting sympathy you are preaching to the wrong crowd because your 10-20 hours is a drop in the bucket against what we have to do.

I’m also disappointed you won’t be setting up the pve player bag farm for me

DeWolfe.2174:

shrek.1046:

DeWolfe.2174:

shrek.1046:

DeWolfe.2174:

Hexinx.1872:

Getting rid of a map completely would inevitably lead to never getting another map again. At least having it on 1 BL … would give some hope for the future of WvW …

As a business, they have to innovate or lose. A better way of thinking about is to imagine the Dev’s saying, “Wow, they really did dislike that map. Better make another one fast before they jump ship.”

Except they have made it clear that a new map is off the table if they get rid of the DBL.

Link Please? I’d be surprised someone from Anet marketing would say that as it would have to be one of the poorest responses to a Customer Satisfaction complaint I’ve ever heard of.

It was in the poll on mixed BL maps. Its not certain but there was a clear implication.

So basically your saying the WvW team twisted everyone’s arm with an idle threat that they better vote to keep the DBl or they’ll never make another map again? Seriously? Why isn’t there an uproar over that then? Ya’ll just stood there and took that?

I never saw any anet devs say or imply this. I did however see the handful of dbl supporters repeat it constantly to scare people into voting to keep it.

Justine.6351:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Crapgame.6519:

Jim Hunter.6821:

borya.2964:

bigo.9037:

ah that’s not what I mean though.. I’m just trying to explain how and why, for pure dmg stats, zerker would still be better than this condi spec etc..

It’s kind of wierd to question the OP’s build that obviously works. The build she use seems to be effective in outnumbered fights when the one you actually use is not, or is maybe less effective (i also watched your vid), cuz in a pure power build, you have no damage while kitting.

Yup, the hybrid build works really well when fighting outnumbered and having to kite around for half the fight.
I flipped a camp, sat outside of bay and repeatedly killed groups of 2-4 players. It got to the point where they built a bali to….. I honestly don’t know what they thought the bali would do…

You on Ebay?

One of my accounts is but that account doesn’t have HoT so I run a vanilla power ranger on Ebay.

You are not [EBAY] nights are you? ;-(
oh I see your LGN tag sorry.

Usually during EU time, like 10ish to 4ish est, I work nights. I spend the majority of my time on my other account though, usually the roaming is a bit better in T2/T3 during those hours.

gennyt.3428:

rwolf.9571:

Jim Hunter.6821:

So a bunch of PvE players are going to be standing around a ruin without walls to hide behind? Sounds like free bags to me, this should be fun.

lol if it’s a group on your server doing this!

Am I gonna be pming some friendly neighborhood enemy roamers then? Probably.

^

Dawdler.8521:

Jim Hunter.6821:

The downed state is a pretty broken system outside of 1v1’s, and players blobbing together already have a huge advantage over smaller groups, this would really give the outnumbered players a fighting chance.

Except this would make it even more broken in small scale. Outmanned is global, not local. IE you can fight 5v3 while technically being “outmanned” because there is a 70 man blob elsewhere on the map. Is that fair?

You’d have to change the outmanned system entirerly. Which they wont bother with.

I know how it works and I already considered that. If you are fighting larger numbers going down is a death sentence 90% of the time anyway, it will barely make a difference in those situations.

So a bunch of PvE players are going to be standing around a ruin without walls to hide behind? Sounds like free bags to me, this should be fun.

I like it. The downed state is a pretty broken system outside of 1v1’s, and players blobbing together already have a huge advantage over smaller groups, this would really give the outnumbered players a fighting chance.

Crapgame.6519:

Jim Hunter.6821:

borya.2964:

bigo.9037:

ah that’s not what I mean though.. I’m just trying to explain how and why, for pure dmg stats, zerker would still be better than this condi spec etc..

It’s kind of wierd to question the OP’s build that obviously works. The build she use seems to be effective in outnumbered fights when the one you actually use is not, or is maybe less effective (i also watched your vid), cuz in a pure power build, you have no damage while kitting.

Yup, the hybrid build works really well when fighting outnumbered and having to kite around for half the fight.
I flipped a camp, sat outside of bay and repeatedly killed groups of 2-4 players. It got to the point where they built a bali to….. I honestly don’t know what they thought the bali would do…

You on Ebay?

One of my accounts is but that account doesn’t have HoT so I run a vanilla power ranger on Ebay.

Dara Potocska.8196:

Good evening friends,

I wanted to let you all know that the team is working on a fix, but that it is going to be a bit longer before we are able to deliver it to you. It will not be out before the end of the weekend. Unfortunately this means that those who prefer or need to use the lowest setting will encounter this bug for a little while longer. While you wait, if you’ve not attempted it yet – some of you have reported that a potential workaround has been to raise the character model settings – which may be a workaround for some of you. As is, I apologize to the many of you who are affected by this bug and thank you for the continued reports and your patience while we work on fixing this.

Thanks for keeping us updated. This kind of communication is greatly appreciated. I for one can deal with a few days of irritation since I know the problem is being addressed and we aren’t being ignored.

OriOri.8724:

Jim Hunter.6821:

OriOri.8724:

Legendary weapons are something you have to work for. If you want them then work for them, they shouldn’t be handed out to people just because they don’t want to do the work required to get them. If you really hate PvE that much then get the gold and buy the weapons from the TP.

That’s funny because I remember a time when pve players had to get wvw map completion as part of their work for a legendary….

I fail to see how that is relevant, in fact it supports my argument. WvW map completion being required forced players to participate in WvW (or wait for possibly months on end if you kept getting the same 2 colors for the matches) in order to get all of those vistas and POI. That forced players to do different game modes, which is exactly what OP is complaining about now. He wants to not have to do PvE in order to get legendary weapons

So it’s okay for WvW players to be forced into PvE but not vice versa?
okay.

Crapgame.6519:

Berserker vs. others – everything is fine and fun until a pistol packing dagger wielding thief jumps you Then you melt like butter more often than not and Lord knows those little kittens are hiding in the weeds just waiting to bite at your ankles…

OP – nice video, thank you for sharing. I run LB/Staff in WvW but run Nature Magic, Beastmastery, and Druid instead. I tried a build similar to yours trying to min/max conditional damage with toughness and healing, couldn’t get it right. So I ended up this route using Celestial armor and power, toughness, healing power accessories. So I play the heavier sustain/armor (3200) with healing and kill them with boredom

No, seriously. That pistol packing mamma / asura I mentioned above, I don’t fret over them anymore – lol. On the other hand, that Necro…. But at the end of the day it is all about managing Celestial Avatar then the rest falls into place.

Again, thanks for sharing. Enjoyable.

I rarely have trouble with thieves. Most of the ones I run into are hot garbage, the good ones are still a pretty fair fight since they have to go glassy to be a real threat. And necros are easy bags with the mobility this build offers.

Seriously I think the one thing that kills me more than anything in wvw are “obstructed. .. obstructed”.
I can’t count how many times I missed a stealth or knock back because the grass was too tall.

borya.2964:

bigo.9037:

ah that’s not what I mean though.. I’m just trying to explain how and why, for pure dmg stats, zerker would still be better than this condi spec etc..

It’s kind of wierd to question the OP’s build that obviously works. The build she use seems to be effective in outnumbered fights when the one you actually use is not, or is maybe less effective (i also watched your vid), cuz in a pure power build, you have no damage while kitting.

Yup, the hybrid build works really well when fighting outnumbered and having to kite around for half the fight.
I flipped a camp, sat outside of bay and repeatedly killed groups of 2-4 players. It got to the point where they built a bali to….. I honestly don’t know what they thought the bali would do…

Teon.5168:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Teon.5168:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Teon.5168:

Xenesis.6389:

DeWolfe.2174:

Xenesis.6389:

ImperialWL.7138:

Who gives a kitten when most of the people who vote are pve kittens who play WvW once a week?

That the new excuse going around these days for polls that don’t go your way? more pve players vote on the polls than the wvw players?

lol

How about how poorly and biased the poll’s have been worded? Do another poll Anet with something as concise as “Should we permanently remove the Dessert Borderlands: Yes or No?” With “YES” being first as every logical minded person would think and say it. It’s literally called a “yes–no question” for a reason!

This poll was doomed from the start with poor wording, poor staging, and from a “new” majority now being 75%. How many voting are even WvW players? How about a “Reward Track” for each poll where you have to earn the right to vote on a WvW issue? The more times you complete the reward track, the more your vote counts? That right there will take care of non WvW players and those with multiple accounts voting.

Oh the other excuse people are blindly voting the wrong way cause you think it’s not worded properly. It’s fine, there are more people who are willing to give the map a chance than those that want it removed permanently, stop crying about it and move on.

Completely agree. Apparently the vocal minority didn’t realize they were a minority.
The poll so far is even a surprise to me. I thought that ‘get rid of the dbls’ option would reach around 45%. Guess I even overestimated the size of the vocal minority.

That being said, I hope that Anet continues to tweak the dbls to make them more playable for more people.

Go look at the posts people are making. A common theme is, "I don’t like the dbl but if we vote to destroy it anet won’t make any new maps. "

People aren’t voting on whether or not they like the map or if they’ll play on it, they are voting to keep it out of fear of WvW being ignored again.

LOL. Ok, whatever you say.

You do realize that a very large portion of the people that are voting in the polls are being notified in game, and have never once(other than the polls) read or posted on the forums? So, if they haven’t posted or read here, then how would they know about this “common theme” conspiracy that you are convinced is going on?

Oh wait, that is probably also a part of the same conspiracy.

So…. You’re point is that on top of the group that allowed themselves to be scared into voting to keep the map, you also get the vote of the uninformed pve players that hop into wvw for 10 minutes to get their dailies….. okay.

Like I said, whatever you say. /wink

You just can’t handle your views of dbls being in the obvious minority, huh?

Lol look at the post right above yours.

……….. seriously?
So the devs opening up communication with the wvw community for the first time in years is a problem?

The past few months have been fantastic. If we’d had this kind of interaction before they made all the mistakes like kitten near everything that came with HoT, and the stability change, wvw would be in an amazing place right now.

Teon.5168:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Teon.5168:

Xenesis.6389:

DeWolfe.2174:

Xenesis.6389:

ImperialWL.7138:

Who gives a kitten when most of the people who vote are pve kittens who play WvW once a week?

That the new excuse going around these days for polls that don’t go your way? more pve players vote on the polls than the wvw players?

lol

How about how poorly and biased the poll’s have been worded? Do another poll Anet with something as concise as “Should we permanently remove the Dessert Borderlands: Yes or No?” With “YES” being first as every logical minded person would think and say it. It’s literally called a “yes–no question” for a reason!

This poll was doomed from the start with poor wording, poor staging, and from a “new” majority now being 75%. How many voting are even WvW players? How about a “Reward Track” for each poll where you have to earn the right to vote on a WvW issue? The more times you complete the reward track, the more your vote counts? That right there will take care of non WvW players and those with multiple accounts voting.

Oh the other excuse people are blindly voting the wrong way cause you think it’s not worded properly. It’s fine, there are more people who are willing to give the map a chance than those that want it removed permanently, stop crying about it and move on.

Completely agree. Apparently the vocal minority didn’t realize they were a minority.
The poll so far is even a surprise to me. I thought that ‘get rid of the dbls’ option would reach around 45%. Guess I even overestimated the size of the vocal minority.

That being said, I hope that Anet continues to tweak the dbls to make them more playable for more people.

Go look at the posts people are making. A common theme is, "I don’t like the dbl but if we vote to destroy it anet won’t make any new maps. "

People aren’t voting on whether or not they like the map or if they’ll play on it, they are voting to keep it out of fear of WvW being ignored again.

LOL. Ok, whatever you say.

You do realize that a very large portion of the people that are voting in the polls are being notified in game, and have never once(other than the polls) read or posted on the forums? So, if they haven’t posted or read here, then how would they know about this “common theme” conspiracy that you are convinced is going on?

Oh wait, that is probably also a part of the same conspiracy.

So…. You’re point is that on top of the group that allowed themselves to be scared into voting to keep the map, you also get the vote of the uninformed pve players that hop into wvw for 10 minutes to get their dailies….. okay.

Teon.5168:

Xenesis.6389:

DeWolfe.2174:

Xenesis.6389:

ImperialWL.7138:

Who gives a kitten when most of the people who vote are pve kittens who play WvW once a week?

That the new excuse going around these days for polls that don’t go your way? more pve players vote on the polls than the wvw players?

lol

How about how poorly and biased the poll’s have been worded? Do another poll Anet with something as concise as “Should we permanently remove the Dessert Borderlands: Yes or No?” With “YES” being first as every logical minded person would think and say it. It’s literally called a “yes–no question” for a reason!

This poll was doomed from the start with poor wording, poor staging, and from a “new” majority now being 75%. How many voting are even WvW players? How about a “Reward Track” for each poll where you have to earn the right to vote on a WvW issue? The more times you complete the reward track, the more your vote counts? That right there will take care of non WvW players and those with multiple accounts voting.

Oh the other excuse people are blindly voting the wrong way cause you think it’s not worded properly. It’s fine, there are more people who are willing to give the map a chance than those that want it removed permanently, stop crying about it and move on.

Completely agree. Apparently the vocal minority didn’t realize they were a minority.
The poll so far is even a surprise to me. I thought that ‘get rid of the dbls’ option would reach around 45%. Guess I even overestimated the size of the vocal minority.

That being said, I hope that Anet continues to tweak the dbls to make them more playable for more people.

Go look at the posts people are making. A common theme is, "I don’t like the dbl but if we vote to destroy it anet won’t make any new maps. "

People aren’t voting on whether or not they like the map or if they’ll play on it, they are voting to keep it out of fear of WvW being ignored again.

TorquedSoul.8097:

Jim Hunter.6821:

….You do realize the majority of roamers are on the alpine bl right?

But yeah, I have no problem with rotating ebg and the kitten map. It would need a lot more changes but I honestly think it would take less changes to make it suitable for an ebg replacement than it would to make it bl worthy.

Well there are only Alpine BL’s at the moment so where else would the roamers be.

The question is where were they when there was only the dbl? Because they sure as hell weren’t roaming that bl.

…and no, I don’t count you kittenes that capped empty kitten and ran from fights to be roamers.

Xenesis.6389:

….anything that involves having to move any structures on the map is a waste of development time, that should go to a new map with a better concept.

Then I hope you voted for it’s destruction because that’s only part of what needs changing for it to be a suitable bl map too.

Xenesis.6389:

Oy this again.

Why would you replace the most popular map?

Desert is a home borderland map, it cannot be used as an ebg map because of the number of structures available, it’s not equal so it doesn’t maintain balance. EBG works as a middle ground map because it gives equal access to all 3 sides.

Wish they had never went with the stupid concept of 3 borderlands 1 middle map and designed all maps like ebg.

Loosmaster.8263:

Lol tell that to the guilds that put the effort into getting them. Also, the center of the DBL needs to be dealt with.

Turn it into a giant Colosseum arena.

The map needs to be reworked anyway and it has plenty of room to throw in more towers and camps. The whole middle of the map is currently a waste of space, so it’s not like they’d have to cut out anything important to add a sm style keep there.

Shademehr.1397:

You may be hearing the clickety clack of a mechanical keyboard, which many gamers find to be preferred over a membrane-based keyboard.

PC Mag has a decent article on the “10 Best Gaming Keyboards of 2016” here (and maybe where to purchase them):
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2415290,00.asp

If you don’t need all the extra buttons, macros, backlight color customizations, or just don’t want to invest that kind of money in a keyboard, I have a Monoprice mechanical keyboard that does just fine for me (available backlit in either blue or red):
http://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=13788

I also think there is a company out there that makes (or used to make) a Guild Wars logo’d keyboard. I’m not sure which company it was nor do I remember the quality/price.

I’m pretty sure that was steelseries. No idea if they still make it. Most of their products get decent reviews but I’ve never tried them because you could usually find something comparable for a better price.

Furajir.3815:

Been wanting to make an SB hybrid ranger build for wvw forever, it’s just so kitten weak

I was running one for a bit but ended up switching to longbow. It’s way less bleeds but it’s just such a better weapon overall.
The SB soft cc is just so outdated and you end up taking a broken amount of damage from retal. Once they nerfed ancient seeds so you couldn’t proc it 5 times I retired the weapon.

Loosmaster.8263:

It will make the Airship, Cloaking Waters tactics useless but otherwise a good idea….

Good riddance

….You do realize the majority of roamers are on the alpine bl right?

But yeah, I have no problem with rotating ebg and the kitten map. It would need a lot more changes but I honestly think it would take less changes to make it suitable for an ebg replacement than it would to make it bl worthy.

Olympia.5697:

sPvP badges are not equal to skill or are PvE or will be WvW if they go with it. It just shows your progress on a game more inside GW2. Where you chose to spend your free time playing this game, that’s all. If you look in to it, is all a joke to brag about any of the badges on any game mode in GW2, just asking for equality here.

As for the name, agree, the shorter the better.

sPvP badges are not equal to skill ? so u say to get into legendary division all u need is farming ranked ? seriously now ?
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Pretty much.
I have seen plenty of players that were hard carried by their teams. And let’s not act like there is a whole lot of skill left to the game with all the broken HoT kitten that was added. PvP got to the point where you would have entire games where no one could take a point because of the broken bunker/support builds that required the majority of your team to kill.

This is quickly becoming my favorite thread of the week

That kittening horrible map is going to survive for the sole reason that so many people have been fear mongering that voting for it’s removal will mean anet won’t develop new maps.
Just implement 1 dbl, 2abl’s and be done with it. Don’t set some ridiculous 75% threshold. You know if you bring back dbl for 3 months you will fully kill WvW, don’t be kittening stupid for once.

Tragic Positive.9356:

It also usually goes near your target, then turns back from where you cam from – executes the attack hitting absolutely nothing at all – and then turns back to your target to receive some free slappage.

that’s when it doesn’t stop you in place halfway through for a full second before doing the leap portion…..

OriOri.8724:

Legendary weapons are something you have to work for. If you want them then work for them, they shouldn’t be handed out to people just because they don’t want to do the work required to get them. If you really hate PvE that much then get the gold and buy the weapons from the TP.

That’s funny because I remember a time when pve players had to get wvw map completion as part of their work for a legendary….

Offair.2563:

Anet should just put some raw damage to the traps, so when it triggers the teef pops out of stealth.

While they may not be OP or a big threat according to some, it should NOT be possible to kill people while BEING 100% in stealth.

Inb4 they ignore this sound advice and trap runes take another nerf.

bigo.9037:

Jim Hunter.6821:

bigo.9037:

the condi is not worth it. you would be better off replacing the condi dmg with crit dmg instead. or power .. you have 63 % crit chance without fury, yet you only have 160 % crit dmg. youre effectively losing out on 40 % of your crit dmg. the condi just isnt worth it. not with this hybrid setup. i admire the creativity tbh and ive tried something similar myself.. but its not worth the dmg. you could take another stunbreak or a different utility skill instead of the bleeding one as it has wayyy too long of a cooldown to be effective at all.

and since theres only so few conditions, its easy for anyone with a normal build to cleanse them off entirely without even trying.

effectively id say youre losing out on like.. 20 or 25 % of the dmg you could have.

Hard to cleanse when the bleed ticks reapply with every hit. And with all the projectile hate that was added to the game those bleed ticks really help keep up your dps.

Yeah you can’t burst down full glass players as fast but you’ll still end up killing those players. The hybrid damage works better against builds with some built in sustain.

well the thing is, you dont apply enough bleeding stacks on crit that its going to end up dealing a lot of dmg. and bleed is a very weak condition in most cases, taking a long time to deal all its dmg. many ticks are needed.

and yea sure its true some builds might be easier to kill with this setup, but the far most of them would be easier to kill with a standard power-only build. i said youre losing about 20 – 25 % of the dmg. and saying that the bleed will increase dps against classes with projectile hate is not true, as youre forced to hit with your arrow / staff anyway. the bleed only comes if youre already hitting them anyway. so projectile hate means = 0 condi infliction.

sure you could use staff, but that would generate the exact same results. you would get more direct dmg with more power instead of condition dmg. the bleed simply takes too long to do its dmg to be worth it. the build would have been worth it if it was something like burn or confusion… but it isnt.

I’m not doing 0 dps because they can’t block projectiles 100% of the time. If they start reflecting shots I can cancel my attack and I’m still doing 1-2.5k dps from bleed ticks instead of the 0 damage I’d be doing with a straight power build.

The same thing goes for fights where I have to kite around a lot, or when I go into Cele firm to daze them and heal up. Or even when I’m fighting in an area like a camp where they try using the huts to LoS when they start getting low.
If all my opponents sat still letting me free fire, power might be better (although I’m pretty sure SB a/t vipers is our top DPS now), but they don’t. Having the added pressure when I can’t attack has won me a lot of fights.

bigo.9037:

the condi is not worth it. you would be better off replacing the condi dmg with crit dmg instead. or power .. you have 63 % crit chance without fury, yet you only have 160 % crit dmg. youre effectively losing out on 40 % of your crit dmg. the condi just isnt worth it. not with this hybrid setup. i admire the creativity tbh and ive tried something similar myself.. but its not worth the dmg. you could take another stunbreak or a different utility skill instead of the bleeding one as it has wayyy too long of a cooldown to be effective at all.

and since theres only so few conditions, its easy for anyone with a normal build to cleanse them off entirely without even trying.

effectively id say youre losing out on like.. 20 or 25 % of the dmg you could have.

Hard to cleanse when the bleed ticks reapply with every hit. And with all the projectile hate that was added to the game those bleed ticks really help keep up your dps.

Yeah you can’t burst down full glass players as fast but you’ll still end up killing those players. The hybrid damage works better against builds with some built in sustain.

I was using oil instead of crystal, my condi damage was high enough and vipers had the duration at something like 90%.
Next time I logon I’ll see exactly what trinkets I’m using and throw it on a build editor.

My entangle rarely missed in 1v1 because I would pop it from stealth or when I saw an opening (like right after they blew their second dodge or broke out of a cc).

I still keep on flipping back and forth with a few things. I was running druidic clarity and SoS over sharpening stone.
Primal echos allowed me to pull off some pretty clutch saves when people were down but not having druidic clarity got me killed once or twice. SoS definitely comes in more handy when facing off against a couple thieves, wars, or when you are trying to stomp in a 1vX.

Justine.6351:

Jim Hunter.6821:

hmmm…. I tried running something really similar except with viper armor and entangle to proc mad king more often. Somehow your stats look better than mine though.
Going to have to look through my trinkets and see what I can change to tweek them a bit. I probably have my condi damage a lot higher than it should be, and I’d be better off investing that in more precision or toughness.

Anyway, good video, You just convinced me to start running SotP as my default elite with this build over entangle.

Yeah the precision on viper is too low.
I have 3 pieces of celestial gear, earring, ring, backpiece so I am not super glass but if you wanna run it super glass those would be the thing to replace with viper gear (or the equivalent in armor/weapon slots cause hot raid trinket bs). And of course there is the +251 toughness when swapping to staff, my defensive weapon.

SotP had to happen. I was excited when I finnaly made the jump to QZ over spike trap. All 5 survival skills on bar, glory! But entangle was just not serving me. Madking + SotP, insta 25 on smokescale and of course a properly placed smoke assault would grant me a minimum 5 might in turn. I tried WHaO but I couldn’t get into it, not yet. Might really would be king on this build but I’ve looked for a proper way to get it and it’s just not there.

With fury I still had about 75% crit chance, 85% when flanking. I think the extra bleed duration makes up for the 10% loss.

It seems the build editor doesn’t accurately show the extra bleed duration that vipers gives you, that’s why my numbers seemed so off.

But yeah, SotP really helps out in most fights. Entangle is still great for 1v1’s but there is easy too much cc to fight outnumbered without stab.

Heibi.4251:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Heibi.4251:

Jim Hunter,
When did I say that ANeT reps shouldn’t play WvW? Never. Read what I wrote.

Claiming things isn’t “using their anet privileges”. Like it or not the stupid HoT guild upgrades are a part of WvW, using them is part of playing the game.

If you catch them flying around, turning invisible, swapping teams to walk through a tower door and then swapping back, then you can kitten. But you are crying about everyday game play and it’s ridiculous.

ANeT is the admin of the game. Any player who represents ANeT has both privileges and responsibilities in having said tag. And, Jim Hunter, did I say anything about the HoT upgrades being bad? Again, no. Read what I wrote. I personally like the upgrades.

I just don’t like the idea of an Admin for the whole kittening game using his/her Admin gained privileges to influence the outcome of the game. Like I have said, and apparently haven’t read a word of it, ANeT reps should remain impartial. And claiming objectives as an ANeT rep is not impartial.

What makes you think their guild hall upgrades are “admin gained privileges” and not something they worked for?

And if they did get them through normal play why shouldn’t they be allowed to use them? Do you also have a problem with them using siege? Is the only acceptable form of play for them to run around in a blob spamming 1?

Heibi.4251:

Jim Hunter,
When did I say that ANeT reps shouldn’t play WvW? Never. Read what I wrote.

Justine,
They can play in the WvW environment without using their ANeT privileges. We know they do play both anonymously and overtly – I’ve seen the ANeT tag over players’ heads at times. But to use their “guild” as a way to boost/help a particular server breaks impartiality. As a simple player, even if they have the ANeT symbol over their head, they can only influence things as far as t heir skill. But using the resources of a ADMIN Guild is a totally different subject and should be against their dev rules to do. If you can’t see that then you see 1 sheep and 2 wolves deciding what or who’s for dinner to be a fair decision. Judges should always avoid anything that shows favoritism, no matter how small.

Claiming things isn’t “using their anet privileges”. Like it or not the stupid HoT guild upgrades are a part of WvW, using them is part of playing the game.

If you catch them flying around, turning invisible, swapping teams to walk through a tower door and then swapping back, then you can kitten. But you are crying about everyday game play and it’s ridiculous.

hmmm…. I tried running something really similar except with viper armor and entangle to proc mad king more often. Somehow your stats look better than mine though.
Going to have to look through my trinkets and see what I can change to tweek them a bit. I probably have my condi damage a lot higher than it should be, and I’d be better off investing that in more precision or toughness.

Anyway, good video, You just convinced me to start running SotP as my default elite with this build over entangle.

Trepidation Lost.3469:

especially in wvw camps

^

Heibi.4251:

Baratta.1083:

LOL Anet has magical influencing admin powers. I like the fact Anet is joining the fight and interacting with us. Some people will cry about anything get over it. I have fought with and killed a few Anet reps. The stupidity of anyone actually getting salty over this might want to start life over and grow up.

So, imagine this if you will. No guild with bonuses(very rare, I know) is available to claim a keep/tower/camp after it is taken. The group needs the +5 supply for their next attack. One of the players just happens to be an ANeT rep. He/She switches over to ANeT tag and claims the objective. ANeT has just influenced the game at that point and has taken sides.

The whole point here is, anyone who can be judge, jury, and executioner should never take sides. They should play anonymously and only put up their ANeT tag when necessary in WvW. There is no saltiness here, only logic.

……Are you seriously arguing that anet shouldn’t play WvW?
You know how often people complain that anet doesn’t understand WvW since they are rarely seen outside of T1 pug blobs? How the hell could you possibly be upset with them playing in T4 and learning the game mode that they are supposed to make adjustments to?

…. seriously wtf

UnitedChaos.8364:

Tipper.6973:

As others have suggested, I think simply lowering the CD (30sec?) and making the attacks unblockable would be enough to bring the skill into use.

I can agree, although my suggestion was more interesting. :p

When trying to get positive ranger changes pushed through it’s better to shoot for simple and functional lol.
Small steps forward are better than nothing.

No prob. I wish they’d take the time to scan the content instead of just looking at the date.
Good idea Wondrouswall, thanks for taking the time to make the image.

I voted for 1 month but I can live with 2. Just sucks we are stuck with these match ups for another few weeks…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Suggestion-An-Organized-Pet-Selection-Panel/first#post6196247

@Mod: A post isn’t “outdated” if the subject hasn’t been addressed yet.

Wondrouswall.7169:

It’s getting closer and closer to the release of Heart of Thorns and I would like to propose instead for an organized Pet Selection Panel in the Pet Management Menu.
The developers must be extremely busy with crunching and finalizing for the launch and upcoming beta event weekend, so my previous suggestion has been altered to shifting the placements of the pets in alphabetical order (according to species and name).
No overhauls or fancy additions, just a simpler proposal so players, both new and old, can have an easier time finding the pets they want in the selection panel.
Note: Most of the new pets found in the expansion and exclusive aquatic pets were placed in the same line so for ease and to avoid rows with only 1-2 pets of the same species.

Even without invulnerable dolyaks it’s a pain since dolyaks now get that boosted defense when people are around.

The worst is when you see a Dolyak heading back to camp and you use a ranged cc to stop it….. and it teleports into camp because of the graphics bug.
kittening trollyaks…..

Fantastic change!
Anyone know if the new recipes require mats you have to pve for? Can they all be bought off the tp or aquired through reward tracks?

Malediktus.9250:

If you think it takes a lot of work to get the desired stats in GW2, you probably havent played other MMOs. I never played a MMO before, where getting the best stuff was this easy. (and no GW1 was not a MMO, it was a CORPG)

What the kitten does that have to do with anything?
People aren’t asking to get the stuff for free, they just want to work for their gear in wvw.
Only a total kitten would argue against this.

psizone.8437:

OGDeadHead.8326:

LionChain.7694:

I don’t know if the answer is in nerfing these two pets

That’s not the solution. Don’t repeat the shortbow/longbow logic – “in order to make core pets more attractive, we felt the need to nerf HoT pets even more” – yeah, that’s typical Anet logic, and I’m sick of it.

+1 to this. Bring the core pets up to a competitive level, don’t nerf the pets that are actually viable again.

Ftfy

apharma.3741:

DeceiverX.8361:

I will be resigning myself from the game I think though for now.

Just encountered a full dire druid. I’ve got 4k power, 230 crit damage, 80%+ additional damage modifiers, backstab for 3k, took perplex passive.

Hit one trap, took the interrupt from perplex, comboed into PBS interrupt, bleeds from roots and RF fell over dead despite having 20k hp and stunbreaking and cleansing the trap to get out.

And then to get PM’s with the audacity of talking trash when I fight 1v3 the entire person’s guild who play power builds and win, nope. Done with that mentality.

Oh hold on, you haven’t met the dire perplexity condition reaper in my match up!! You’ll love him. 7 conditions on you instantly and if you look like you’re winning 3 of his mates turn up and they jump around your corpse.

Yeah I hate how dire armor turns 1v1’s into 1v4’s……..

Balthazzarr.1349:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Irene.9340:

I don’t really post in forums so I’m gonna be brief – after reading all these comments and having voted, I only see 2-3 supporting the server re-linking or re-evaluation (however you wanna call it in this case) for over 4 or even 6 months.
As another person said in this thread, having WvW matchups changing as often as a month or 2 or even 3 is just very very unstable. This is WvW remember not EoTM. Having servers swap around so much and often can only be harmful in the end.

- No server will have stable population or at least its not guaranteed that it will have stable population in order for it to balance out the fights against the other 2 servers competing.
- People usually in WvW use ts3 and coordination gets really hard when there is new people coming in every 4 weeks. Gather, meet, have them listen etc.
- In relation to the previous one, not only its hard to coordinate, its even harder to get certain groups of people or guilds going specific times a day to cover WvW 24/7. This just means you need to know there are certain players and loyal WvW’ers who do that.
- Also, the servers you merge together may not even be half interested in WvW anyway, so the server to which they are merged to initially is left to do all the work again without having the right support.

I don’t know, these are just few of my points here but honestly I really think the 1 to 3 month options are just a bad idea. It doesn’t help stabilize things, it messes them up more.

Honestly, at this point stable is overrated.
Switching links up more often will help retain server identity for the smaller servers and add more variety to the match ups. As of right now the largest thread on the first page is people kittening that they are sitting out of WvW this week because the match up is stale and they already know who will win in each tier.
If we can get fresh match ups more often it will help keep people interested in playing.

How can switching links more often retain server identity for the smaller servers??? We already don’t have a server identity as it is… now you think that moving us from host to host will give us more of an identity? I have already mostly lost interest in WvW because my server, Borlis Pass, is simply a hosted server and as such is subject to moving at the next server link switch. Right now I could switch to a ‘host’ server but then I will have moved away from the people I’ve played with for years. Yes I still get to play with my peeps that I enjoy … but now if/when I do it’s simply for a bit of fun with them, and NOT for any sort of server gain, other than to help out the host of the term.

Because you’re more likely to focus on working with your own server mates rather than the host. It will be a partnership instead of the smaller server being absorbed.

With the 3 month rotation people start sharing ts and cross server guilds start forming because 3 months is a long kittening time.

But if it does switch to monthly anet has to give back the smaller servers tags. They can’t keep treating this like a merger.

mrauls.6519:

Jim Hunter.6821:

mrauls.6519:

What server experiences good roaming fights???

What time of day do you play and are you eu or na?

NA; PST, 5-9PM

I’d say unless you are bringing a small group with you, go Mag and stick to the bl’s. My T4 account can’t find any worthwhile fights during NA prime. Most people are running around in 6-10 man groups.
My Mag account still finds decent fights with groups of 3 or less and Mag is right on the T2-T3 border so the match ups don’t get stale quite as quickly.

Irene.9340:

I don’t really post in forums so I’m gonna be brief – after reading all these comments and having voted, I only see 2-3 supporting the server re-linking or re-evaluation (however you wanna call it in this case) for over 4 or even 6 months.
As another person said in this thread, having WvW matchups changing as often as a month or 2 or even 3 is just very very unstable. This is WvW remember not EoTM. Having servers swap around so much and often can only be harmful in the end.

- No server will have stable population or at least its not guaranteed that it will have stable population in order for it to balance out the fights against the other 2 servers competing.
- People usually in WvW use ts3 and coordination gets really hard when there is new people coming in every 4 weeks. Gather, meet, have them listen etc.
- In relation to the previous one, not only its hard to coordinate, its even harder to get certain groups of people or guilds going specific times a day to cover WvW 24/7. This just means you need to know there are certain players and loyal WvW’ers who do that.
- Also, the servers you merge together may not even be half interested in WvW anyway, so the server to which they are merged to initially is left to do all the work again without having the right support.

I don’t know, these are just few of my points here but honestly I really think the 1 to 3 month options are just a bad idea. It doesn’t help stabilize things, it messes them up more.

Honestly, at this point stable is overrated.
Switching links up more often will help retain server identity for the smaller servers and add more variety to the match ups. As of right now the largest thread on the first page is people kittening that they are sitting out of WvW this week because the match up is stale and they already know who will win in each tier.
If we can get fresh match ups more often it will help keep people interested in playing.