Guild Wars 2

Stop PVT-ing in Fractals.

This is true. I’ve been stuck at spawn for the last 2 days, I simply can’t leave due to being camped by fully Ascended players, who undoubtedly are the most skilled players in the game since they’ve dedicated so much time farming PvE while polishing their WvW skills to pwn noobs like me and not give me a chance to have fun. I have no decided to retired to Lion’s Arch jumping around aimlessly until magical Ascended Armor falls into my backpack, the only way to compete in WvW now.

Kai.9182:

Iris.9704:

magikfox.9658:

Iris.9704:

I’m sad that SoR and JQ falling down and can’t fight againt BG alone without 2v1
cheer up SoR , JQ you can’t defeat BG alone but you still T1

Is this your way of crying about a 2v1?

nope nope i just miss strong SoR and JQ that are pretty similar power at each 3 server like before WvW season and 1 weak of season.
In your sentence, it’s my way of crying about falling down SoR and IRON leaving.
got it ???

No need to cry man it’s just a game. Do you have any friends or family who can help you through this difficult time?

BG is all the family anyone ever needs.

Just Fyi;
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/The-40-off-deal/first#post3353310

I’ll confirm it. I bought 1 Key for my gf and got 40% discount for my 25 keys. You can8 basically rinse/repeat this. Or you can buy 1 key for 5 friends at the same time and get your next 5 25-key purchases at a 40% of each.

LostBalloon.6423:

Night Hawk Ix.7360:

Inverted.7439:

Night Hawk Ix.7360:

Inverted.7439:

SFShinigami.2015:

Thats okay, 40 upleveled necros are having their way with your home BL

-_- he speaks the truth

If your going to post screenshots remember to edit the chat out first.

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Because our server chat is private to OUR server, but in this case your posting what BL your on, our numbers, but even worse the chat contains info about a mesmer going to hide in the keep thats about to flip as it happens. Just get in the habit of editing all chat even if you dont think its important.

Well for once, it actually helps that you did not censor the chat, there was a BG mesmer glitching in bay. SoR knew he was there, we could just not kill him the way you cant kill krait in underwater fractal that glitch into the rock. (Of course in his case, he knows how to exploit the glitch). TY for putting a character name on that mesmer!

Lol no, it that wasn’t him who glitched in. It was the “OTHER” mesmer you saw. He was definitely hiding in a super secret but totally legit spot. Sweep better.

Also I think the original point was that in the chat box there are swear words that are usually -kittened- out on the forums. Posting an image with those words in it is considered going around the rules. Even if it’s unintentional.

It’s like you cherry picked all the realistic stuff you want and ignored the rest. Lets add in perma death, I mean that would give people incentive to make survivable builds and stick to a large group. Safety in numbers and all. Also while we’re at realism, lets have abilities do more 1 hit kills. I mean If you get face mashed by a hammer, chance of you surviving is none, if you do live, you’ll probably be dazed for hours. So yeah might as well be dead. And who lives through a ballista to the torso? that’s a hole in your body. Also lets add in specific supplies, I mean the supply you fix a stone wall shouln’t all be the same as the supply you fix a wooden door with right? and if you carry 10 of these supplies it should slow you down, and even more drastic if you have 15 or 20 of these supplies. Anyone not taking off their heavy armor before jumping into the water should sink right away and start taking damage.

Of yeah winning side of a fight gets full loot of you body, I mean you’re dead. No need for the gear anymore anyways.

I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about the Ascended Armor Crafting in the 10 Dec patch. Anyone have a link? Or is this something someone saw someone post in a reddit?

I guess it’s an advantage and considered P2W if you’re on a roleplay server.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Ranger pets and that sort of thing effect population levels (the devs have said). This is due to hardware performance, not balance.

One more reason why we hate Rangers.

It’s basically how the gear and stats are setup in GW2. Every MMO usually comes down to 1 or 2 viable DPS build per class, of course one is always more “optimal” than the other. The less Optimal DPS build usually brings utilities that the other build cannot and/or simply boost the DPS of the whole group/raid so is often required.

With the current content and the move away from the trinity system, Pushing DPS and providing utility can be accomplished with a specialised DPS group and anything else is not really required. It’s simply beter to build for amplifying DPS in terms of raw damage. (vulrn stacks, might stacks, fury) is easier to do than managing 25 stacks of bleed, burn, poison, confusion, and torment) but what’s more is that the direct damage builds already inherently adds those condition damage, making icing to their DPS builds.

Even if there are multiple viable builds the gearing and stat system has no diminishing returns to speak of where in other game balancing out your stats matter since at certain point another stat would be more valuable than the other. Then you go into the condition builds, you have to compete with other class who simply does condition damage which may or may not block out yours nothing but bleed stacks in intensity and even that has a 25 stack limit. But the increase of 0 condition damage to 1500 condition damage on your stat is weak (roughly 66% more damage per bleed tick I believe)

Asudementio.8526:

Tarkus.4109:

morrolan.9608:

DKNS.2135:

Bro, try to understand. They had training week going on last week. This week they are in a beta. Next week, they have IRL responsibilities unlike us non-lifers who play GW2 24hours a day.

Why are you trolling a thread for a match you;re not involved in? BG have come out with excuses when they’ve lost you know.

Because most of BG is bored atm, also doing a PvF GvG with mag roamers is enough to do your head in. Meh, SoR is going through a rough patch that I hope that improves after leagues as some guilds are restructuring and rebuilding, while some will be coming back to the game in the coming months (i.e. TSYM). SoR isn’t as dead as people like to make out, its just that in its current stage it appears most of thier core is playing ESO. Thanks to the guys who come out every night regardless of score.

Weekend for eso ended midnight eastern time today so they should be back, but i’m sure we’ll here another excuse.

What’s going to be BG’s excuse once league ends and ZD leaves you as they have suggested? too much bandwagoners filling up your que and your WvW players can’t get in? In your match up with JQ lat week basically the same thing happened when you were vs SoR W2. We took the weekends and once people are back to work/school you take it back on the weekdays whe ncoverage becomes weak. Congratulations to ZD on the win.

For all their trash talking roamers, I’ll still put in vote for Maguuma. Plenty of good fights to be had with them

Not wishing for 4th for SoR, but I would really hate it if JQ or TC give us a pity win. If we take 4th then so be it, after leagues the fairweather will surely abandon ship and we’ll keep our core players. If that means we’ll play in T2 then we’ll just play in T2. At the moment it’s only ever entertaining to fight against one of the T1s anyways.

vespers.1759:

“You’ve joined too many groups recently”

I get this so many times. I’m not spamming parties I’m just trying to find one that isn’t garbage. I’ve done dungeons so many times I just want a smooth run without any BS. Since there’s no way to see anything about people beyond class I end up baling on a lot of failures.

please get rid of this awful feature. I’m not really sure why this was implemented when things like 2 man kick and the whole party being kicked when leader leaves are untouched. this is an annoyance and serves no purpose. A party spammer or whatever will be voted out quick if they are annoying.

I’m glad you find it annoying. I find it pretty annoying for people to join, have a full group and one person leaves. I basically have to open up the LFG panel, hit advertise, and hit OK again.

BeoErgon.9107:

jheryn.8390:

I agree with Hjorje on this one. And I think the answer to your question is another question. “Who would grind or have a long term goal of getting a weapon or armor that are equal to the exotics we can already easily obtain?” I sure wouldn’t work that hard for a mere skin.

Well, there are lots of player grinding for Legendaries that were mere skins just not long ago…
And don’t forget the OP quoted comments : long term goals were supposed to be just that: skins.
Me and as far as I can see many in the forums liked this game just as it was: no grind for stats.

Hjorje.9453:

Snip…

Exotics were just fine as advertised : maximum stats by leveling 80. Craft them, use dungeon tokens, get them by exploration, for karma,… Easy to obtain and everyone can afford.

And you talk about minimum stat increase with ascended, but with jewels, now weapons and later armors the increase will be far from minimal, just like there is a big gap between full exotic and rare.

And lucky you to have had all the mats at hand to craft, but for many people, specially those that never bothered to level up the crafting, there is a big investment in time and money to just be able to start crafting one weapon.
When Armor crafting comes out the investment will increase even more.
How is this not a grind? Even if it takes you months playing it your way the number of mats needed does not change.

This is creating a gap in stats between players. Armors will increase that gap.
How can anyone tell this is a good thing?
I absolutelly hated the equipment induced gap in other MMOs.

Well, at least PVP players are not affected, but I seriously pity those in WvW if one full exotic confronts one full ascended player and both have same level of skills.

Stop using WvW as a scapegoat, aside from rare 1v1s and any other scenario where the player count is even and for some odd reason only one side has full ascended and one side has full exotics, Ascended gear matters little. Many people who push at the fact that Full ascended gear is 15% better than full exotics are pointing at effective power of full serkers, I’m not sure how many full serker builds out there are viable in WvW. Lastly WvW is inherently unbalanced as said multiple times, and the stat difference of ascended vs Exotics gets blown out of the park when you just have 1 extra person in a small man fight.

People pointing to the manifesto as “proof” is wrong because half of them never even read it, they simply just heard someone talked about it. when this was shown to them and that no where in the manifest states there would be no gear progression, and in fact unless you skew what two of the things they’ve said to great extremity can you even think they’ve said it. Just like how the OP took out only a small part of what the devs said and took it out of context.

Why not when your character die you perma die? Make sense, no?

I know you’re not 80 yet. But I would go with this or work towards it.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAR3cjkO9uJPCPMRCE8BN0UoHuMgCmQpYOqDA-jQyAYLBZCCMVIQJviox2GKiGraBTvSEV7Nw8JER1yAkvFA-e

You’ll have passive movement breaks, passive regen and passive move speed (25% while pressing nothing is good enough). Passively do a great deal of damage. With just FGJ you’ll have 99% crit chance. You can afford to fall from greater hieght.

You’ll probably have a hard time killing champs by yourself, but verything else you can just swap to axe and spam 1, or swap to GS, whichever you fancy.

On the side of good news, [XPK] is starting back up, Oceanic time. We’re looking for some more manly men (or manly women) to do manly things with. Pants not required.

They had a different set of items on sale each day of Black Friday weekend. It’s the occuring theme of all internets actually.

Mini battle!

/15chars

I would say the only dishonorable people are the ones who use cheat via exploits, third party programs and/or purpose sabatoge another servers resources (man power, supply, VOIP).

My guild is pretty successful at taking out larger numbers. Not 100% success rate but I would say we win a good majority of it.

Your statement is based on your assumption that a smaller force is always more tactical and/or strategical than a larger force. Which is not true if your smaller force constantly gets -steamrolled-. When both sides have equally good players, the only ting left to define the fight is numbers, and there is nothing inherently wrong with that, the option to move away to a better position or attack a different objective is always there if you believe your small force is in cappable of taking on the larger force.

I don’t even understand half the complaint in your post. PvEers who came to fill the que up should be long gone, whatever is left would augment your force, I don’t see them keeping you in que for more than 15min on reset night. The largest population servers in NA has not complained about this since week 2 of the seasons, so I’m not sure how this is even a real problem in the lower tiers.

You complain about being wiped by larger zergs than you own because of the influx of players. If there is an influx shouldn’t it be on all servers? If the ycna keep their zergs together by using their augmented PvE population why couldn’t your server?

Night time coverage resulting in wins happened before leagues, it’s happened since the start of the game. How does it even matter if a force of 10 guy took all the undefended keeps/towers at night than if it were actually 30-50 guys taking all of it. You’re still asleep in both scenarios and you still wake up to a map full of the enemies colors.

If you’re going to critique the league and what it’s changed, then don’t attribute things that it didn’t usher in. Spies, mass exodus, cheating and even sabatoge has happened way before league started. Saying that these things started with leagues tells me you’ve never participated in WvW or WvW community until leagues started.

My personal feelings on leagues is neutral. It hasn’t brought much positive or negatives from my perspective, the numbers of complaint has remain the same. Instead of the same people asking for change and people telling Anet that if there isn’t big change comming soon GW2 will die because WvW population will die (disregarding PvE has a much larger population). We get people who wants to go back to the pre-league system. So I could only imagine when S1 is over what the forums will be like.

Man, a whole 10m zerg? geezus, that’s like a whole bronze league server’s primetime. how did they get such numbers?

DarkSpirit.7046:

Pandemoniac.4739:

Interview with ArenaNet Economist John Smith and Lead Designer Izzy Cartwright

How are the economics of account/soul/unbound gear items taken into consideration when creating an item?

Izzy: Really, it comes down to the goal of the item. If the goal of the item is to be a great reward, like a rare drop from a dungeon, then you want it to be tradable. If the goal of the item is to be very prestigious, then you want it to be account-bound or soul-bound on acquire. As we create the item we look at the goals of that item and what is it trying to solve, and that normally tells us pretty quick how the item will be bound.

That philosophy totally runs counter against their initial promise by Colin. What happened to “It’s extremely important that we stay true to our philosophy that you should be able to play Guild Wars 2 the way you want to play the game in order to reach the most powerful rewards.”

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/colin-johanson-on-guild-wars-2-in-the-months-ahead/"

For example vial of condensed mists essence, gee I wonder if I can get an ascended back piece without going to Fractals. Answer: No you can’t! Well except for the sclerite karka shell which has the unpopular apothecary stats and also requires the exotic sclerite karka shell that are not available now.

Since I hate Fractals, I can never ever get an ascended back piece regardless of how much of the other aspects of the game I have achieved. Setting up ascended items to be account-bound is just a “cattle prod” to nudge players to play the areas that they want you to play, instead of the areas that you really want to play.

I am pretty disappointed in the delay of certain items to be available elsewhere. But they said Ascended back items will be available by other means soon(or eventually as I read it). I view the back items as a special slot to really -cap out- your stats, as the back piece has always been somewhat odd piece to get (remember the start of game the stat increase was small but the only exotics, or was it rare? were obtained through guild backpacks). For other items there are other means now, and Ascended weapons has multiple ways to obtain (though not all are friendly and RNG heavy unless you craft) but I expect in the future more options will be available.

Anet wanted ascended gear to not be as readily available as exotics since month 1 in people were arlready maxed gear. Players have split opinion on that. Personally I don’t mind ether concept.

Figured I should bump this, we’re rolling back up starting next week.

I don’t think all great gamers are considered elitist. Nor are all elitist great gamers.

1.5million that’s 6000 bag slots. Even if they have empty accounts for nothing but holding onto mats, that’s a lot ofbank tabs and character slots. I know I bought a good amount of Quartz because I wanted to do them daily to have it ready on hand for ascended armor (if a set of celestial armor exist).

A lot of the time when I see items like these increase due to speculation is because someone “leak” information. What I would do if I were the leaker is to make a website or fake patch notes on reddit claiming certain items were needed for the next patch in large quantities, after I buy a hefty sum of it. Then when everyone is jumping on the bandwagon I watch the price rise, then dump my share of it and get a quick profit. Then when the patch is released and it had nothing to do with those items, I pick out another item for the next “patch”.

Rake in the money from the suckers.

You would see this at the end of the match

BG 680k+
FA 100
HoD 98

If we are just talking about stealth, then I have no problems stealth in this game is rather short for all non-thief class and is basically a move to quickly confuse your enemies.

If you are talking about how to reveal stealth, and believe that simply damaging someone while in stealth should reveal them. Then I ask that you look at the other game and see which ones have as much ground targeted AoEs, or non-ground target AoE abilities including Auto attacks that you can simply just spam. If a person can get revealed simply by being hit in GW2 you might as well remove stealth all together cause it’s not a useless mechanic.

Compound that issue with the thief, people keep comparing GW2 thief with all the other thief. But fail to compare the combat mechanics of the other games and any other abilities and utilities the other thieves have access to. Thieves in other game starts the fight perma invis, out of stealth they still can lock you down easily with pletura of skills, stop. beforey ou say GW2 thieves have that option too, they do, but no where near as much, and have to sacrafice much for it. Then when their combo is done and they are out of abilties, oh yeah, their special long CD restealth, usually after this opening they kill you or run away.

WvW – It’s currently the best place to get the most benefit from it. The only thing you don’t use is glory boost it gives.

Outsdie of everything, there is not a class or gear requirement. One of the benefits of GW2 right now is that there is no DPS meter, where your bad damage is readily visible to others.

Arah is populated with the most “gear” check runs, but even with that I see more messages about being expereinced rather than “serker only”. Few times I would see a “Looking for a expereinced Guardian” which is understandable, unless you can provide what the guardian could in that group If you can’t find another group, it’s not even that hard. If you can’t start your own, I’m sure there are plenty of people who don’t play Mes/War/Guard who are willing to join you, because of how “huge” of a problem this is.

I’d look back and feel depress about the time and gold spent on my 2 ascended weapon. Then shrug it off. It’s realyl not an issue for me either way, it would be better for them to make Ascended more readily available than to remove a tier of gear though.

Eventually Ascended will be super easy to get (even more than now) and people will stop complaining. I remember 3 months into the game and people were asking Anet to keep the gear cap in WvW at Rare, because exotics were too hard to acquire…

SonofNoob.3102:

DeWolfe.2174:

If I had anything to add to this thread it would be for ZD, all Guild’s really, to better scout server’s in the future. They really misjudged the populations on Bg, SoR, and JQ for their time slot.

No they didn’t misjudge. They scouted and saw IRON and SoRs other EU guilds out there playing during their primetime. But as soon as ZDs showed up, those SoR guilds ran away.

The mis-information amongst all the servers regarding ZD and coverage is so terrible. In this thread, one of your guys linked a post by a guy in ZD who was responsible for the BG move. According to the ZD guy, he asked SoR first to join us, and whoever he talked turned them away because we already had a EU population (not sure if the said person knew the size of ZD or that they would start 2 hours before our EU and certainly wouldn’t know the would be emergency situation Iron has). But it’s been speculated and the back and forth of what really happened and why is getting old. Everytime I read a match-up thread, everyone just spews crap out of their mouths. I’m not directly pointing this at you, but BG members have no idea what happened and why, I think all the other sservers should stop speculating based on what they’ve heard their guildmates said from this one guy they know back in a bronze league server on the chinese servers.

It was probably only a Dawn, no worries.

Ahka.6705:

Handin.4032:

akamon.2769:

Handin.4032:

Tarnished Coast Dolyak Parade

Handin, Handin, will there be an SEA one this time around??D

also, server time is… PST?

Im actually not sure what server time is (I’m still not used to this rediculous daylight savings time). A fast way to tell is log on, turn on the server time on your mini map in options, and just compare (that’s what I normally do)

Server time is in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) which is basically GMT. Here in the EST time zone we are normally -5 UTC, but during daylight savings we are -4 which is why reset is now at 8pm instead of 9pm.

So the Doly parade will be at 11pm EST (8pm PST).

Server time is in PST, not UTC. If you go to your settings you can have a digital clock on your minimap and then set it to server or local time. Setting it to server time gives you PST times. This is at least true for US client, I’m not sure if the EU and Asia clients use a different time for their server time.

Traejan.1729:

nerovergil.5408:

Because they got kittenhurt by Bg

Basically this.

Also, they’re mad that the “3rd seed” server going into season matches won which I’m sure will result in a lot of ppl taking a permanent break from this game lol.

People who outside of T1 and to an extent BG-ers are more upset than JQ or SoR about the situation. I thank all you lower tiers for looking up so highly to us Rallians.

I find it pretty funny.
I knew people who got to 81 soon after fractals was released, these people realised that with the ring and back piece only they shouldn’t be progressing anywhere near that level as it wasn’t intended. After the patch people still pushed passed 50 for reasons unknown. If it’s for the challenge then you should be welcoming this new challenge all the way back up to 80. If it’s to /brag, then now you have a system that you can show off too and the race really begins to see which group is the fastest to the top.

I only feel sorry for those who have little time to play and have made their way to 50 so they could work on their own gear. Everyone else. meh.

Pretty obvious the reason why people play warriors is cause they are the only manly class out there.

Yes, let’s ask all of WvW population and see what everyone’s view on the subject is. I’m sure we’ll get plenty of deep and insightful post about “Buy Wars 2”.

Shouts can buff the team without the heals that goes with it, the standard DPS build uses FGS and a Banner, which also buffs your party’s DPS. When survival isn’t a factor it comes down to how fast you can clear a content. The build isn’t “bad” but if you can play the game and feel it’s easy and comfortable, then maybe you should push the envelope and try something a bit harder.

I’m really not all into the theorycrafting since I just leech on other people’s hard work. But I think I can clarify some of the thing’s Nike says.

When he does the math for the build, he does it with optimal set up in a gorup setting and 30/25 pulled ahead of 30/10. But in real world, weather by accident or just not being able to fill a group with people you know, or simply using it for people like me, who just pugs dungeons. Optimal conditions rarely happens, the 30/25 set up will pull ahead due to innate higher self reliance on DPS. That is when the 3-4 extra stacks of might becomes a factor.

Do you play in the bronze league? how do you know they don’t play in underdog servers?

I’m sure more Dev’s play in all servers, but they are in normal guilds and don’t rep anet all the time. When I was on NSP we had a anet employee in our guild at one point.

Time to watch the gossamer plumet in price. I hope a lot of people lost gold in this and continue to do so. Grats to the .01% of people who actually made any meaningful profit.

0/10
Try harder.

Qaelyn.7612:

Keiel.7489:

A well played mesmer trumps all.

Okay, so as a new mesmer, how do I do that?

Practice. I’m actually not a Mesmer player at all, not that I dislike learning their game play, it’s just I never really enjoyed laying cloth in any MMOs, any game actually.

But I can tell you this much from my experience playing vs a Mesmer. You can pick any build and gear set up you want, from the cheesiest to the lamest, the biggest thing that seperate a good mesmer from the bad one is how well you play to blend in with your clone movements. If you’re bad at it, you’ll be picked off by a bearbow ranger, great at it and you’ll have 5 men team chasing you around all day.

I play in oceaning WvW guild primarily and it’s hard to do high level fractals with people I know. I would do L48 Fractals with you if you want, currently sitting at 45 AR (haven’t bother trying for 40+ fract so no point in increasing my AR. I main a Serker Warrior for fractals.

Go buy a full set of rares, and run a dungeon. See if it makes a difference.

I have done this process with Sunrise and yes you can still change the stats of the weapons when out of combat afterwards.