Guild Wars 2

Ninein.4782:

Pinko.2076:

We didn’t mind DRgn or RET or Gods. Honestly you guys need work on open field fighting. The biggest threat was when you set more people and siege on a safe treb then we could muster to counter it.

Either that or attack repeatedly the same spot with the same tactics but with more people until it finally works hours later.

Or pray for a WvW build shutdown.

Hope we put up a better fight for you when our servers meet again.

Alrighty, done.

I can say without a doubt, the only thing I hate about Rebel, is that I read every single one of his forum posts in his voice.

Why does his voice have to be so memorable?

Gotta appreciate the little victories. Had a couple fun hours in FA borderlands last night.

Paralda and friends walked into the hole in West keep just as it flipped to FA or DB, can’t remember which., then catapulted the inner wall down.

Good times.

As a player on Maguuma, Yes. we have a great community with similar goals, and various means of progressing. I joined [TriM] Because they’re our server Mesmer training staple.

They really are a great bunch of guys.

Space Marines don’t fight Zerg.. Terran Marines do. Them, and eventually the UED marines I’d imagine.

If this is who I think it is, then tonight was a night to remember, as the day we almost caught him. But alas, his stalwart defense of Garrison while the rest of the map was flipped was unrivaled.

We could learn much from this man.

Hiding in Garrison on an enemy Bl as a mesmer, near the cliff face on inner.

An ele catches me, I drop half my portal and run away.

He stands on my portal waiting for me to come through. Seeing as I have nothing to lose.

The Ele does whatever Eles do with double dagger, and somehow knocks them-self off the cliff, knock down animation and all.

I still have no idea what happened, but it was funny.

(Then a guardian came and reduced me to paste)

It’s purely cosmetic. It just hovers above the ground slightly.

Israel.7056:

Well Kylia was one of the pioneers of the glamour mesmer since when I started playing mesmer and when I faced Avatar when they were on IoJ they ran a couple of glamour mesmers. But it looks like they asked themselves “why have one or two when you can have five or six?” It’s a brutally effective spec if there are enough of them because the constant confusion effectively shuts down the enemy allowing the dps to come in and roll everyone. It’s also very hard to keep track of the real mesmers when they’re generating that many clones. The only problem with glamour mesmer is that the spec has room for only one break stun so you really need a lot of support while running it. It’s funny though I hadn’t really seen anyone run that many glamour mesmers until them. I believe it may be the cheesiest zerg comp in the game.

I’ve heard Klunk mention it before. I can imagine TriM would probably run groups like that if we were ever given the option for premade spec swapping, so we don’t have to respec every single time we enter.

Actually, I may just do that. Character 3 will be a thief.

It’s understandable too. Mesmers messed with me until I played one. Now I can’t help but laugh at people who fight my clones.

Thieves give me trouble on my mesmer because my most efficient means of stopping them is confusion, and my shatters.

I need practice baiting their Rune of Lyssa, It’s pretty much the primary reason I get screwed.

How are thieves under water? This guy panicked the second he chased me into the water, and I turned in on him.

TheFinal.9847:

I wish Mag know what are they doing. If you don’t have any super power time, Kaineng will destroy you when you go to sleep. I will say focus DB is the wrost choice. Your information collect should be improved.

We don’t have the numbers to make any significant push against FA on peak hours. That said, if we were to do so DB would jump on our borderlands. We won’t be able to hold down FA long enough to gain a lead, so we’re aiming for second place. Best way to do that, is to hold down Second place.

Stability, dodge, stunbreaks

well, there’s no Cavalier Exotic rings. So I do Kinda need them.

morrolan.9608:

25 underwater kills happen naturally?
If you don’t like crafting how does having to craft happen naturally?
Specifically having 10 combo kills happens naturally?

Hate to be THAT guy, but I went to Frostgorge, and shot at salmon. 1 shot to kill them, and they count toward it.

Not too bad imo. At least not that. I haven’t seen the other dailies.

Preacher.4836:

Since there is no number that when reached says that you are a zerg I wont comment on that part, However 15-20 man roaming party is most defiantly not the norm. I will say that being a zerg has less to do with the numbers and much more to do how they approach a confrontation.

Preacher

Sorry, I saw this comment while I was at work, and figured I’d throw in some perspective. Before our transfers, our Zergs were roughly 20 people sometimes upwards of 30, but rarely above. Pulling in 60 was sort of a big deal.

Now that we have the numbers and shot up to a tier we weren’t prepared for, we have loads of people fighting a more coordinated force. The worst part is, these people are refusing to join us on mumble and work with us.

This makes things rather difficult when we have 60 FA outside of West keep, and need to make a push, but only 15 people are listening. What’s even more annoying is commanders who refuse to use it.

So yeah, this match up is fun and all, but it’s most definitely not what we’re used to.

But consider that the borderlands are Home locations and belong to that server. They’re placed in a defensive position.

Eternal is another story all together.

Really, there’s almost never a spot you can’t counter treb, or beat it in some way. More siege options would be nice though.

I SEE A TOWER, AND I WANT TO PAINT IT RED.

My Ranger had a shark named Chum Guzzler.

fadswaffer.5140:

I wanna know the website where you can see the next weeks matchups please!!

http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA

cesmode.4257:

Still keeping it clean..funny that Maguuma is now within striking distance of us, I do not hear “I dont like this matchup, this isnt fun”.

It’s starting to get fun now that there isn’t horrendously huge groups roaming around.

With exceedingly revealing map.

Potential points update from right now.

TheDevilWithinU.7092:

Keep in mind there are 4 T1 servers basically.

SoS, SoR, BG, JQ.

All I’ve heard about Kaineng is… [WM] and band wagon city.

Sounds exactly like Maguuma, and look what is happening to them..

What’s happening to us?

“Flame Rams”

Keep it civil guys.

If you were to do that, you would completely break the awesome portal trains we’ve done on Maguuma. What do you have against coordination?

If you want to take advantage of culling yourself, have your own zergs group up, and have your mesmers spit out Veil’s and Mass invis. Every time they cross that gap, or take a mass invis they’re reset in the culling queue.

Culling is a double edged sword.

(Ps. Portal activation already has a 1 to 2 second delay from placement. Mass drop AOE on those portals. Punish them for using them.)

Honestly, it’s not the first time we’ve seen a few bad eggs on DB.

A couple weeks ago when we last faced them, we held East keep in their BL and could only sustain it by ferrying resources from a waypoint, which will probably be removed soon anyway.

Anyway, they used a jump trick to get into the Keep that day, as it hadn’t been breached and swept many times. Even caught the same culprits trying again.

I almost regret leaving this corpse here, but there was really nothing we could do about it.

So.. curious question for DB. Is this the guy who got your Golem rush into East keep yesterday on Maguuma? I’m betting you had a thief stealthed somewhere in the keep for an hour or so, who went and rezzed them.

So.. curious question for DB. Is this the guy who got your Golem rush into East keep yesterday on Maguuma? I’m betting you had a thief stealthed somewhere in the keep for an hour or so, who went and rezzed them.Caught us completely off guard. The moment I step away from the Keep, I hear someone shouting about Golems on Inner.

greyblue.4962:

I play a mesmer, and more than once I’ve soloed every camp in an enemy BL. I find I have about a 50% chance of winning a 1 v. 2. I more or less never lose a 1 v. 1 unless I’m not paying attention. I don’t think I could do what I do with another class.

Solo roaming definitely has a place. If I can force a side to bring it’s zerg home to kill the mesmer that won’t let them have their camps back, I figure I’m helping out.

The first two days are usually supply wars. You’re doing a service.

Talk about a rough start on Mag BL. Might have gone better if we didn’t split and held East keep instead, but it is what it is.
Both sides seemed fairly interested in kicking sand in our faces. Both attacking our lone tower and all. Probably just a coincidence.

Looking forward to the rest of the week.

MarzAttakz.9608:

Are you absolutely certain that that is how the system prioritises boon application John?

I could be wrong about the most dead part. but the rest is correct.

Runcore.5107:

Im on fractals every day and whole day so i know how difficult fractals can be and this is main reason why only those ppl who did hard work there should get ascended only. No work, no ascended. Do daily is not hard work enough to get ascended item. Try imagine how now feel all these ppl who did on fractals really hard work with hundreds hours on FotM and now they know that all can easily earn ascended through daily/monthly. I really want know if Anet give to these players some compensation or bonus for this nonsense step with ascended for laurels.

The people who worked hard in fractals and had the luck of the RNG gods, show it off with Fractal Weapons. The Ring are just a means of surviving the upper levels.

Fractals aren’t really difficult until 20+, man. This is to provide a means for people who play WvW to get those items. Can’t have those PVE only guys getting any small advantages, now can we?

Those people defending your world matter too.

(There’s also the chance they will cost a lot. Getting a fractal ring takes a minimum of 10 days. Laurel rings could take upwards of a month for all we know.)

Water fields are still a strong source of healing.

A blast finisher will Prioritize as follows
The group of the person using the blast finisher > Who’s closest to the center of the field > Who’s most dead.

The Benefit for this, is a properly coordinated Zerg can spit out large amounts of healing if they follow disciplined field placements.

Aoe Effects, like Regen, and the Guardian book spell also follow this, but are less beneficial. You Wan’t Tacticool Play, go stand beside them when you hit that button.

That pretty much summed it up, yes.

That said, We’ll be getting WvW specific abilities.

Good turn out. Hope it helped everyone else.

I didn’t even know you could climb the tower in Borderlands NW Camp until today.

I’m more saddened by a lack of Cavalier Exotic rings.

Shrieksy the Raptor is born at the beginning of the Asura story, and is fully grown by the time you reach Orr. So how quickly do raptors grow?

That would be a scale for the story at least.

People like to bandwaggon hate. Just how it is. WoW was a good game, and still is. I just personally don’t get enjoyment from it anymore. One of the best things about it is the Engine, and responsiveness. The game can run on a toaster, and do it well.

Even if the outcome is small, a few people is still better than none. A handful of intelligent people can still make a difference.

Looking forward to it. See you gents there.

Subtle.4596:

Notice how we were all lowbies lol….
We had like 3 80s in that group

I wasn’t trying to be insulting or anything. We really barely held you off. The gate got to 20%, and we hit local siege cap on inner, all pointed at the front.

We sort of screwed up in the manner.

Good job Yak’s bend. That golem rush on West Keep Ioj just now was entirely unexpected!

We barely got siege up in time to stop it. That’s the kind of spunk you guys have been missing the past couple days. Keep it up.

During this, IoJ managed to get Garrison north wall down.

I’ve had it happen a few times. I’ve fixed it by either relogging, or Hiding the backpack, then displaying it.

That’s unfortunate. Maybe once people are rewarded for their progress in WvW, there will be more dedicated players. We can only hope.

I would like to take a moment to extend my thanks to Yak Bend. For giving me 70ish badges in 5 hours. You guys have given me enough to get my Gift of Battle.

Thank you.

Ps. Why are you flipping supply camps when you can easily take west keep with NW Tower? You have the numbers, you’ve pushed us out of your Garrison twice.

Pss. *badge slurping noises.

It’ll be on the 28th.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guesting-is-coming/

“The wait is over! Guesting is coming to a world near you with our update on January 28th!”

It’s difficult to balance large scale encounters off every class being strong and having a purpose. Any implementation of raid encounters is best left in the open world, and made specifically difficult forcing players to use Terrain in the encounter, and proper positioning. I really wouldn’t mind hard encounters.

Now I know the second anyone mentions WoW they get shot around here, but it has good fights that mechanics would be good to consider.

Imagine if you will, a rather sizable cave.

In the center we have a clutch of Basilisks being basilisks. but wait. They’re corrupted. Well now it’s our business. The Legendary Basilisk of insert dragon here.

This rather large beast stays near the center of the room. Targetting his closest target. He’s not terribly intelligent. Just for the sake of making the encounter have purpose. The dredge are riding this thing into battle firing cannons at everyone but the Basilisk’s Main target. Let’s say only at the sides and back of the beast. Again, not huge damage. just sustained and forcing people to duck away. Occasionally the Basilisk will also charge up and fire It’s beam in a straight line with It’s current target player.

He will do a periodic jump, stomp in the center which will deal damage in a wide enough distance that you don’t have time to run out. Let’s say roughly 1000. You must dodge this, but again. Long wind up time Easy to predict etc.

After every slam, chunks of the ceiling will fall down with very little warning in a ring around the Basilisk. Having one of these blocks land on you will Launch you and force you to either slowly get up, or pop a stun breaker.

The Basilisk will then fire it’s Beam in a line and rotate it around the room at a relatively fast speed. Players will be forced to either rotate with the Basilisk at the middle, or hide behind cover.

Lastly, a simple control mechanic that will screw with people enough to force encounters to be harder with the server population.

Smaller elites or champion Basilisks being spawned. They just so happen to be the children of this monster. Killing one of these within line of sight will build up a buff on the boss, which it can expend at random intervals to release an energy wave that destroys all ceiling blocks.

At 10% health the Basilisk will begin attacking twice as fast with it’s single target ray. Rocks will begin floating in patterns around the room as this thing starts bringing in power. This will form a simple jump puzzle up to the center of the ceiling where one large jutting rock remains. Players must break it with sufficient damage before everyone on the ground is petrified.

Breaking this will cause the rock to slam down and crush our beast. Regardless of what amount of health He’s at. If nobody is within range for the Boss to attack, he will begin petrify beaming people at ranged at an almost constant interval.

Ps. Being petrified doesn’t kill you, but you cannot be revived until out of combat, or take a waypoint. The active waypoint will be outside the boss chamber, and be blocked by a group of invulnerable dredge holding up shields who are technically blocking line of sight to avoid mesmers jumping through.

Sorry for that.

Anyway, this will force a huge amount of coordination and most people will hate it. Especially when people start griefing. Large encounters have a place in the world, but not inside instances.

Also, don’t give them massive as hell health pools. The fight with people playing properly shouldn’t last more than 10 minutes. This is the same kind of thing as the Dragon encounters. They have a place in Gw2 so long as the rewards are worth it.

Why would it be a problem? You’d then have to include half the holiday tonics too.