Guild Wars 2

That was a lot more entertaining than I thought it would be.

I see you fielding a considerable amount more people than the groups you’re overwhelming in these videos, as well as use of a communication software where they likely don’t.

Always nice to see coordinated efforts, but I wouldn’t consider these videos much to talk about as an example for what WvW is about.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Stop defending, EVERYTHING!

Quickscope montages.

We have a decent holding on the map, but mumble is practically empty. What gives?

Lyer.1905:

The only time it would matter would be during boss fights and with defiant in place, no CC would work anyway, rending a taunt utterly useless in it’s most needed area.

So… knock off the defiant stacks, and save choice CC for it? Though a stun would still be better.

I don’t believe you’re allowed to run Ad’s on Gw2 videos. A fair amount were purged not too long ago.

Mirta.5029:

DreamOfACure.4382:

This game actually does a pretty lousy job of explaining the game’s fundamental mechanics like dynamic events or boons/conditions.
GW2 has actually lost a lot of players because they were looting around for a quest-giver and the game did nothing to explain how Hearts/DEs were to replace quests.

Actually in my opinion GW2 is the most noob friendly game, because compared to some other MMOs it’s pretty easy to figure out.
Both me and my boyfriend came from the WoW crowd, without watching any videos and figured it out for ourselves.

WoW has become immensely more user friendly, and easy to learn since it’s initial launch. What this game really lacks aside from a proper introduction to the game, is intuitive tooltips on skills. Some are outright wrong, some are vague.

A vast amount of people don’t know about the 5 target limit on general AOE’s, and unlimited target limit on line aoe’s, with the exception of line of Warding, only being capable of stopping 5 people at once, but as a combo field it will effect infinite.

Combos are a wonderful thing, but they need to be explained better, or even have a chart accessible in game for newer people to reference.

Information is a very wonderful thing. People like to have it on hand, instead of referencing a wiki that may or may not be correct.

What a bunch of nice fellows, leaving my level 6 Engineer alone.

They just went on their merry way.

Bring back Vanquishing.

DreamOfACure.4382:

Avatar.1923:

^
problem with this: ZERGS.

Solution to this: Anti-Zerg AoEs

AoEs that one-shot players no matter what level/gear they have.
Thus, forcing players to spread out and use the mechanics placed in the area, like Kralk..

Solving zergs (for either WvW or Dragons) is super simple, ArenaNet just has to commit to solving it.

So a relatively small template aoe that ramps up damage based on how many people were hit by it within the radius?

It’s good to hear they have had positive impact. Let’s hope they use it for WvW.

Maybe it wouldn’t be as much an issue if invulnerability only applied to damage, and not CC in general. My Immobilize, and pull are both useless against an ele because of whatever shield it is, and Mist form. They have all the power to escape if I ever manage to hurt them.

Sepreh.5924:

We are all in the same WvW tier (I’m DB) and I can tell you that the group that you ran into was likely members of the all-ele guild on FA. The guy who started that guild is the guy who popularized the DD bunker build and has insane skills on that build. My guess is that the group you ran into is extremely organized with extremely good players.

The DD build can be very strong but being on both ends of things (currently my main is guard), it can be countered as people have mentioned above. Just remember that regardless of the class, my guess would be if those guys learned a class as well as they know ele and were as organized as I think they are, they would have the same effect

It was members of [RET]. I’ll admit, myself nor my friends are amazing in the skill department. It’s just exceedingly difficult dealing with the wide number of invulnerabilities, escapes, and spike damage they could put out.

When the fight opened up, they jumped on me immediately. Unfortunately, I run Sword focus, and at the time my only invis was mass. Null field for the sake of my group etc.

It’s the moment I actually got my hands on one of them and blew half their health away.
Mistform
Ride the Lightning
Tons of boons
Back into the fight 10 seconds later.

Meanwhile, the other 4 or 5 are doing the same thing, juggling in and out or taking the brunt for the rest. I can tell you, not all of them were built as bunkers. So it wasn’t just an issue of us being unable to kill them, but they could kill us with enough focus fire, while they could run away the moment we downed them, and then get picked up by their team.

http://protectmaguuma.com/

Well this is certainly something. A friend just linked me this, after us first seeing them announcing a toughness buff at a tower over team chat. Anyone else have more experience with these fellows? What are they all about?

I’m talking in a WvW perspective, where I recently just faced 6 d/d Elementalists at the same time. One guild, roaming group. spiking down single targets at a time, while they themselves require a huge amount of effort to kill from the various invulnerables, and escape/gap closers.

I run around with a myself a mesmer, Guardian, Thief, Engineer, and a support ele or ranger.

plasmacutter.2709:

John Widdin.9618:

Tell me some downsides to running dagger/dagger. Something I can take advantage of.

all abilities are melee.

all skills that do more damage than a stack of bleeding require a lot of setup.

the survival comes from boon stacking and mobility.

kill them with ranged, constant cripples/immobilization, combo-breaking, and/or boon stripping.

they’re low HP.. use a burning condie spec like crit/cond engineer and they melt.

So as a shatter build mesmer, my best bet is to try and force them to burst on clones and bind them in a null field?

Tell me some downsides to running dagger/dagger. Something I can take advantage of.

Dessan.9420:

Chronos Khan.4539:

Why all the hate on Trahearne? I liked him…

Now Logan, there’s a guy to hate.

Hah, I hate them both! Neither as much as Seiran though. Ahhhh, her death was my happiest moment of this game.

You enjoyed watching a 5 year old die?

Malleus Maleficarum.2603:

Capes
most everything looked better with a cape

Maybe we’ll get capes as ascended back pieces in wubwub.

I got DC’d from the game after I sat in a relatively hidden spot for 10 minutes getting fully stocky on respawning supplies.

quite a shame, I was excited for it.

Magiofdeath.2745:

Magummers, another question. I saw flame rams in supply camps that you took yesterday. What’s up with that? Is it something about this whole flame ram god you got going? :P

Supply burning. If everyone who flipped the camp is full, they’ll just burn whatever supply they can through rams.

That or the Lord Flame Ram homage.
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Rebel, think you’ll be running again next week against Ebay and CD?

The longest it will take you, is 2 months, even at a reasonable pace.

Shout out to these guys. Thank you for acting as opposition for us a few times. Flipping camps isn’t fun without some people to fight.

Thanks for not being a group of 20 people.

I’d love to. I just don’t know where our people are. Every time I’m on Mag BL which is typically in serious kitten, we have no Commander. Hard to rally people who aren’t on mumble without it.

Skapocalypse.5236:

Can’t play, must shovel large amounts of snow. After Sandy and now this blizzard I am pretty sure the weather and the seasons are double teaming me to get rid of me.

Just do what I did on Friday. Decide to help some guys push a car out of the snow when leaving work, and dislocate your knee.

Nobody can expect an injured man to shovel that snow.

It’s alright, we’re still a bit paranoid from our encounter with Kaieneng. Nearly every post was “We’re awesome because you suck”.

If there was a reset, it was going to be Maguuma and Dragonbrand falling upon Eredon Terrace. They really don’t deserve that beating.

All rank really means is population and map coverage. I can’t really think of a way of Tier 8 actually being fixed as far as gaps, because this is all population based. Maybe if the Outmanned buff actually did something.

Guardian.

You’ve been pretty much shaping up a guardian from the beginning there.

nightfend.4072:

wisedog.5693:

So… no ratings reset. Kaineng goes up to tier 2 and Fort Aspenwood joins us.

Rejoice fellow Magrubmans, Tohrbline open season is upon us once again!

Yeah, except FA play VERY well (unlike Kain). Not sure I’m looking forward to fighting them and their portal bombs again.

We’ve improved in open field since we last faced them. It should be fun. I mean really, the last time we faced FA we learned quite a bit.

Oh the Ironing.

Suppose the easiest way to determine if it’s a multibox, is to have a warrior jump into the middle of them and use Fear me. A multibox shouldn’t recover from that, leaving the stragglers running in random directions.

I still have my doubts.

It looks like Chicken, it smells like chicken, but apparently it’s not chicken. I don’t know. Best of luck to him in the upper tiers.

Anyway, how do you guys feel about dropping down to T8 with Eredon Terrace? I’m going to feel terrible after next week. They don’t deserve it.

Zephyrus.9680:

I’m usually running solo flipping camps etc… but here’s the first time I saw WM’s zerg (or rather, first time when it wasn’t being insta-wiped).

http://youtu.be/xok2x4PKrdk

What incredible discipline and organization!

Really hate to say it, but I’ve never seen players move like that with human reaction and input delays. reminds me of the Multiboxers I’ve seen in WoW many moons ago, but I can’t really prove anything so it is, what it is.

Even BT, the most organized group I’ve seen to this day didn’t stay that tight, or move that well synced.

CHIPS.6018:

I am from Kaineng, and here is my take on why DB and Mag is losing.

What about Mag?

As far as Kaineng goes, I haven’t seen any stellar show of ability in open field, but they certainly defend and siege up well. That and have people absolutely everywhere, so we’ll call that scouting for now.

Whatever works for you gents, your Oceanic fellows nightcap and upgrade, while your NA crew plays solid defense. Your coverage is most certainly what won you this match up, but that’s not exactly a bad thing. It sucks the fun right out of the game for servers without, but the transfer issue should have been resolved a long time ago.

I hope you gents move up, be all you can be, and we never see you again. My computer can’t handle the horizon of red names.

The more I see people describe WM, I’m seeing it more as multiboxing. Not botting.

I wonder how they’d implement a system that promoted scoring based off server time strengths. An average point value over the course of 24 hours, Based on points accumulated every 15 minutes. Which would then be added to the primary score at the end of every day, over the course of the week?

VakarisJ.5619:

Mesmers: An elite on short cooldown that stealths a ton of people for a long period of time, strong PBAoE, portals;

To add a few things.

- Mass Invis: Elite = 5 target limit, invisibility for 5 seconds in your area.
- Strong confusion application, through Glammour field build, or Shatter build
- Time Warp: Elite = Powerful tool for both golems and players.
- Portals: Portals
– Veil: Utility = Unlimited target limit, when placed at the front of a zerg group, will cloak all who pass the field within 4 seconds.
(The reason it’s unlimited, is it’s a Line effect. All line effects are infinite target limit, though line of warding on the guardian can only stop 5 people at once from passing through it.)

Veil is easily your strongest utility with a Zerg. If done right, things will look something like this. Which is powerful in combination with Might, and retalliation stacking before the zerg moves forward.

Invalid.8765:

6 man wiping 20-30 zergball before our reinforcements arrived. lols

On another note, my first time on necromentalistwarriorrogue was fun times

What are you talking about? You clearly outnumber them 3 to 1, and have hackers in your group.

Oh and you were felled by their blades numerous times before hand.

CHIPS.6018:

I found it funny how even in T3 the trash talk is still happening. They speak as if Mag and DB never have zergs.

There were many times where Mag and DB clearly outnumber Kaineng on maps. But Kaineng still held on and eventually win.

What does it take to get some respect around here?

A bit of humility.

What goes around comes around. The spanking will at some point in the future be on you, Dragonbrand. Just not sure when.

Also, to be very clear on something. Clutching to a little victory like holding just Garrison on your map isn’t a bad mentality at all. Especially one that’s fully upgraded. The second you start getting negative, it becomes a lingering doubt in everyone. If you keep saying “We got this guys, we can hold this”. It’s good for the health of your community. You want to keep people pumped, find the positive in the sea of negative. Nobody likes a negative nancy.

At least we had Garrison, and we held it.
(until we went to bed.)

So.. were they from Tarnished Coast? Just the RP and all.

Jeda.5209:

Just responding to John Widden’s screenshot. For some reason cant reply like normal. That screenshot doesnt exactly show a whole since you could have taken the screenshot on any match. All it shows is Maguna.

I have a screenshot too

Don’t be a butt. Why would I post a picture from another match?

We can’t seem to account for the people filling up our queue. But we will hold Garrison.

The Little victories my friends.

Niim.9260:

Iris Ng.9845:

John Widdin.9618:

b…but why? I was fighting a guy, AoN came so I stood still to accept my death, and when they downed me. They left.

Because a tower is worth more than 1-2 badges.

Nah, likely they/we saw someone else to kill. No offense meant, I am sure you are more then worth downing, but we often leave folks to be downed by others and in fairness some folks will just spam #1 to death anyways even if we leave.

Suppose I got lucky then. I can live with that.

Iris Ng.9845:

John Widdin.9618:

b…but why? I was fighting a guy, AoN came so I stood still to accept my death, and when they downed me. They left.

Because a tower is worth more than 1-2 badges.

There was literally nothing for them to take at the time. East Keep was still holding strong, as was the rest of the map.

General.7803:

To. Mag and Dragon

first, Thx for 1 vs 2.
second, Thx for your 3107 death during 12hours.
third, don’t give up.

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

b…but why? I was fighting a guy, AoN came so I stood still to accept my death, and when they downed me. They left.

Glad we actually learned something last week.

Sounds like a new Demoman Weapon. You should email that to Gabe, or Robin.

Nobody will ever be banned for it.

escobert.9024:

Sorry I don’t use exploits so I dunno what you’re talking about..

Just blanket statements met with blanket statements.