Guild Wars 2

Meglobob.8620:

Its official, just consulted my Auntie who’s a clairvoyant, she saw a precursor…

Was it Dusk?

It’s not too bad if it’s based on pure damage and you are fighting a dummy who can’t dodge. Or in ZvZ where you care little to support the group because there’s already 10 other HammerWars.

Pairing it with another weapon doesn’t give Axe those abilities, it just gives you, I can pair 2 other weapons and get more of the CC/Mobilities. If you want Axe for the damage, no ones going to stop you, it’s just not as useful as the other weapons.

I disagree. I deserve the spot more than anyone, not bcause I am more important anyone in the game, but I am more important than anyone. Ever.

Callahan.3180:

uneditedbrute.8136:

srsly have u ever attempted to use earth shaker on a slope? i say attempted because IT DOES NOT WORK ON DIFFERENT ELEVATIONS.

so anet if u decide (which i recommend u dont) to nerf its damage YOU BETTER MAKE SURE U FIX THE CONTROL SIDE OF IT.

warriors sound off DO NOT LET ANET THINK ITS OK TO NERF ITS DMG BUT NOT FIX ITS BUGGYNESS!

ps this has been an issue since day one.

Marrett
Officer of Zero Negative
Charr Jesus

Migrate to a different game. It’s mainly a giant cosmetic monopoly and they’re focused with this. There’s a lot they could do to every class like add new skills by the end of 2013, which I doubt will be happening until 2014…. or fix a persistant bug that’s been around since day 1 like you said. You and I can both see who gives a kitten and who doesn’t.

Just migrate to a different game to complain aobut another thing.

3,000-5,000 not really sure.

Prunecrakers probably should get friends or read the forums more often so he knows that Ascended Armor is incomming and have a plan for it at least 2-3 months in advance. Since the information has been out for a while, he may assume that Ascended might have came earlier, but if it didn’t it should have meant he has more time to save up for the materials instead of less. If he was unable to hold himself in and splurged, then he can work it up like most other players who played for the moment.

just +95% damage recution while being manned. That way 1 person can hold a cap point until another golem gets there.

Lemrish.5970:

Wow all these people who transferred to SOR before leagues thinking they would win sure are raging hard. Tsk tsk. Next time do your research before you bandwagon. SOR is the most stacked server in NA and have been for months. Unfortunately for them, they have the largest fairweather population as well. This is the reason why they have never in their entire time in T1 matches have had a comeback victory. If the score is close by Wednesday they don’t have what it takes to go all out and push for a win. We have seen this time and again. Sadly, this past week they decided hours into reset to call it quits, a new low for their server.

WTF?

Just put in one of each sigil onthose staves, now you’ll have one for every occasion…

Kiff.8157:

Doomdesire.9365

That’s the difference between BG & SoR. BG guilds are PvX and recruit as many people as they can. More people = more ppt

SoR is hardcore WvW orientated with a bigger focus on guild quality. CHOO/TW/FEAR/Hel/IRON/ONE/RISE are all under 150 quality members each and are hardcore WvW. We like to keep it that way. We don’t have a warchest. We don’t buy guilds. We don’t field insane numbers into oceanic, or massively recruit. But at the end of the day, we keep our dignity. Grats on the finisher, Blackgate. See you tomorrow during NA.

Then why are sor crying about BG stacking when SOR are focusing on quality and decent fight? Isn’t it better if the opponent shows no quality and you get to show them what is the real skill? I don’t understand, this is like the puzzle of the century.

I don’t know who fired the first shots, but to answer your question on my end and probably a lot of other rallians. The fact that BG is saying SoR has completely given up the fight, which is not true, we are not fighting as hard as the first 2 weeks because most of us are used to only playing within our time zones and minimally outside of it, when the league started the feveor of 1st place took over and many people overplayed. After the weekend is over our score grdually tanked in the first week, then drop massively in the 2nd week. Most of us realise there is no way we can compete with the coverage. certain times of the day we can only maintain and slowly bleed until our timezone ends and SEA/Early NA takes over, by then we have lost by many PPT.

Start of the 3rd week, PPT war has ended for SoR, we went back to just playing in our own time slot, or at least minimally, while BG still hang on to it’s coverage. As with any server though, demoralization of the pugs and possibly WvW guild members is always the case in these situations, so the numbers of those drop drastically on SoR. While BG pugs see’s the win and every pug and their mother joins in the fight. Keeping the numbers lopsided.

Personally, I am here for the fights and not really sure how or why the back and forth of this pointless thread started. I do have a few friends on BG from my old server and one of them did question me on why SoR quit the match, and I only try to explain to him as I do now, but his fear was losing guilds on BG because a lack of a fight on SoR. And I don’t think he whole hearted believed me when I told him SoR OC this week is pretty much how it has been every week, that is how much we have every time we play.

But I know some BG will keep going on about every SoR quitting WvW. But I can assure you the WvW regualrs are always there doing their best every day, regardless of what goes on in this thread.

do you keep a tally of which character earned which tokens, gold and badges? Don’t you want to have the proper character earn the proper equipment themselves? Why even bother making a new character and gear them out via the shared-inventory exploit?

TKiller.6829:

15 AR should get you through 2x FotM even if you fail some dodges anyway.

Pretty much this, I’ve ran 3x with less.. granted it was with friends.

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

Visit TC then. I need to do a lot of Arah and other dungeons for stat types for my engi and guard.

LFG tool is universal. If you are talking about people in /m then that’s a different story. The number of casual runs I see listed outnumbers the serker runs by at least 10:1

I fail to see the point. The groups that I have seen that REQUIRES you to be serker optimal is minimal, and I doubt those are the only ones you see, the people who does that have a set-mind to just get it done and over with. I would say this is a minority.

Nothing stops you from playing a sub-optimal speed run build, in fact many people do, if you want to take the time to kill stuff then nothing is to stop you. If you are saying that because the serkers run dungeons faster because they opt for a higher risk build, and you want to have that same opportunity but stay safe, or at least not -forced- to buy a serker set, then you are being ridiculous.

Even in WoW, after content gets old, the old trinity isn’t optimal anymore, people run DPS/Tank build hybrid for tanking and Healer/DPS hybrid for quick runs, they’ve got the mechanics down and have no interest on wasting any more time than needed to get what they want.

Even if Anet changes the Mechanics, all they are doing is creating a new meta, that is what a meta is, finding the most optimal way to play. All you’re doing is makeing a set group of people change their gear to another set and then making that small elite few still repel others who don’t play thier style.

RL Money farm. An extra 1 or 2 hours of RL farming can earn you an 50-100g. Best time/gold rate.

8 hours/day=400g
7 day/week=2,800
30 day/month=12,000
365 day/year=146,000

but if you can only spare 1 hour a day for RL money farm you still get about 36500/year. Not bad!

I’d definitely loo kinto Nike’s build, especially if you have a good PvE guild or friends. Or if you have really thick skin and can with-stand getting kicked from groups often when you don’t perform well or just get tired of dying.

I have a decent basic build for just general play, tanky enough to take a few hits and can still put out decent damage:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQJARTjkOFvJPaPMxBA8BvuMoip0jwIbNA-jEyAofEsVgoCBKBWEN22QR0YVLYqSioavRR0qlCIixAA-w

As you get more comfortable with running dugeons, start swapping out the more defensive stuff for more Offensive. Start wit hthe Dolyak Signet and use Signet of Fury.

After that Ether go with Nike’s build but keep the same equipment, or slowly swap out Knight’s armor for Serker’s gear (which you should be able to buy with dungeon tokens), until you can confidently run full serker+nike’s build.

If we talk about our feelings on this more, I feel that those who are buying guilds with their hard earned (with Visa) gold will definitely stop buying guild as they will know the error of their ways. C’mon guys, let’s really let them know how we feel!

I wouldn’t run off and do full serker’s yet unless you have a group you run with often that is patient. I would go with a more inbetween spec to get the hang of it. I find what annoys me the most about full serker warriors or full glass anything is that if they die, it’s never their fault but the group, because the group should’ve played their style. To a point I do agree, that groups should do automatic things like gorup rez the downed guy instead of tunnel vision the DPS.

I am in transition of a more serker build, but usually only with a group I am well attuned with, I might do full serker every now and then for pugs. I don’t Pve as often so, I had to take time to learn all the encounters, and how to deal with it when a group doesn’t play the same way as the others.

I think the 0\20\30\0\20 would be better.

I’m not sure if half of the post are from people who never read the forums before now or just brand new WvWers who have no idea. Let me recap.

-SoR was very enthusiastic at the start.
-Last week NA players pulled overtime on the weekends to cover our weak spots.
-Weekday started and we lost grip, specially in our said weak spot, losing nearly 10k/day
-During NA prime we can make up a few or have even fights with BG, but drops off again during off hours.
-SoR decides to just go back to play for fights and not worry about PPT, going back to our original stance of not doing overtime. Read our recruitment thread, it specifically discourage over-coverage.
-Weekend hits for W3. You have your average SoR playtime. BG has near full coverage 24/7. Does not matter when SoR comes to play, there will be good fights to be had during any of their primetime.
-SoR discouraged? yeah, chances are high that puggies and a few WvW guild members are discouraged, but the normal WvW players still show up for WvW as normal, this time with less pug support.
-If BG want’s to claim superior skill to beat SoR, then go ahead, it’s still not going to make SoR players put in more overtime, we originally put in overtime to push PPT, but seeing as it doesn’t matter how much you guys win by or lose by you still get the standard 5-3-1 points, it makes no difference to push hard and then lose in the lower coverage zones.
-BG will maintain high numbers, because your morale is high and your puggies will inflate your numbers around the clock, while SoR puggies decrease. Keep your coverage, we’ll play and have fun on our terms.

Fade.7658:

JonathanSharp.7094:

We just posted this:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Dec-10th-Balance-Preview/

We’d love to hear your feedback!

Why? Anet has a long history of doing what was initially proposed, regardless of comments/suggestions from the player base.

Why do you keep posting on about it if you know this to be the case?

The most asinie thing I’ve read in this thread is the few people who are saying SoR is throwing the match to purposely lower their score and get new guilds. Who actually does that kitten?

Staff Ele’s aren’t really that readily replaced. the bring good water fields and static fields, possibly still the best wall siege clearers. I won’t deny people saying that warrior hammer train are powerful, but warriors have been heavily used since forever even before the heavy Hammer Meta. But saying whoever has the most wins is simply untrue, it’s almost as bad roamer vs zerg arguements where roamers claim that zerglings only mash 1 to win (of course they also say that it has to be a hammer train that mash 1 to win, since we all know the #1 is the highest DPS skill of any class, especially warriors, since it stuns, immobilise adds 25 stacks of vulrn, and grats AoE might.)

Because a guy who spends his time working on tricks and books probably didn’t practice sprinting in full plate mail.

Bringing people from the downed state is not the same as the dead state, in fact in GW2 the dead state isn’t even dead, you could say it’s equivelant of the unconcious state. War Banner -inspires- people to get off their kitten and fight harder, acting kind of like a beacon for a second (or third, or forth or 50th) wind. Just because players call it a “res” doesn’t mean it has to be a ressurection ability. You may try to counter that by saying what about the sigil on the guardian and how does that inspire people, not all class needs to bring people from the downed state up the same way.

Either way looking too deeply to tie game mechanics into fantasy realism isn’t really a great way to get things changed.

Or Mango Pie. Can’t go wrong with Mang Pie.

Anet gives you a mile and you still ask for another foot. Buy an exotic, I’m sure you’ll live with 6% less stats.

While I find it very convient. I don’t see the need to make a toon specifically for WvW and one for PvE. It seems like it’s more inconvient to log out and log back in t oa different character than to just pay the 3.5 selver to re-trait.

I rather have confusion turn friendly fire on.

It’s just the most basica comp, Mesmers have thier uses and contribute greatly to a group, but unless you plan on having 100% uptime on viel while moving around the map there is no need to have a bunch of them.

Thieves have their uses in large groups, but are much more valuable elsewhere, but unless spec’ced specifically for zergs they are kind of limited, and even spec’ced for it other class does their job better.

Rangers. This is probably the red head step child of Anet, I feel sorry for them.

Ele’s really useful, but I think most people find their role/play in group pretty boring compared to other classes, so we’ll be lucky to have 3-4 staffies in a zerg.

style.6173:

thefreezingvoid.8516:

I assume you are talking about JQ getting 3 weeks of t2 match ups?
If so, would you shut up about the unfair schedule already?
Even with the easy match ups there is a good chance JQ will not get gold, depending on what happens in BG’s and SoR’s match ups.

Besides hardly anyone in JQ is happy about the t2 match ups either. Many of us are afraid what will happen when we have to face a t1 server gain. Will we be too rusty? Will too many AC hunters still be clogging up the queue’s not realizing that this isnt another easy match up?

As well its painful to watch other match ups and realize your powerless to help. To watch BG ticking 500+ against SoR. Seems to me BG have an easy few match ups as well.

But here is my question, if BG end up winning a land slide despite JQ getting the schedule they got, will people still be crying unfair? For instance if BG keep beating SoR the way they are, JQ have little to no chance of winning despite the supposedly unfair schedule. Especially since BG pulled the wool over SoR’s eyes and got them to help force us to 3rd.

Will people still be crying unfair?

Only someone in JQ would think this is a fair schedule.

Way to go and twist his words, there are a few people who enjoy overwhelming vicotry, I assume you are one of those people since you keep bringing the point up. I don’t doubt there are some JQ’s love blowout matches, but there is no reason to blame them for it, I know your anger is misdirected because you couldn’t get 3 easy weeks, but cut the crying down.

What, you came here to QQ about a 1 day reversal? If you had any clue or played a warrior consistently then you would have known that Leg Specialist had an ICD before the patch, when the patch was released and there were no ICD, even I thought that was way OP. Sword auto attack can chain immobilze a whole group of people. Even if it’s perma immobilise for one person that is completely overpowered.

I still use leg specialist on my solo build, it’s still a powerful trait. Get over yourself.

It’s just mostly you killing uped levels and people who are outnumbered. I am sure most people who solo/small man get the same results on who they kill but if you’re going to make a video you should leave the upleveled and scenario where you have clear advantage of numbers out.

Whatever it is, I rather it not be attained like it is now. As stat’s is not the issue, I would like to feel more like a journey, even if it meants time gating events, currently any of the legendaries can be “rushed” and too many people have it takes away from the Legendary feel.

It should be something a player should be able to chose to get and slowly work towards, not luck or gold grind to get.

I’m the only hero that matters. Who care’s who they chose to be my supporting cast.

The downed state in PvE was just Anet’s way of making money from the PvE’ers via finishers.

Maelwaedd.5842:

Kiff.8157:

Mitsubishi Eclipsed.6732:

Kiff.8157:

magikfox.9658:

Didn’t know BG held its forum warriors in such high esteem. Getting some lovely hate mail

The best server has to be winning in every aspects, be it WVW, PVE or PVF
Forum warriors are as important as Olympic athletes.

Special Olympic athletes right?

Sniff.. ooops I sense discrimination. Is that really appropriate to say that?

I’m pretty certain that Eclipse is eluding to the fact that WvW and PvF are 2 seperate mediums for competition much like the Olympics and the Special Olympics, Kiff if you are trying to say that forum warriors have some mental or physical disability then you need to have a good long hard look at yourself before making such outrageous claims, only a warped mind would make such a leap to conclude that

Call me a One-Arm Bandit.

Reading this is like reading political post on FB. Neither side knows what they are talking about and readily known facts are straight up ignored just so they can prove a point.

They should add in flying mounts, that should really change the dynamics up…

Feydra.6318:

To be honest BG and SoR, you both have great organiced guilds, but both of you tuck tail and run, seriously, time and time again i see militia from TC run in bad odds, getting slougthered, they reform and try again, the moment we get numbers, both of you run, so yea, shut up and start dying !… This said your both better then us, so thanks for the great fights !

We don’t usually run from fights, if we do it’s to disengage and defend an objective. I know defending is still a new concept for some of the lower tiers so I won’t hold it against you for not knowing.

awww man, not a whole skill point a day.

Odokuro.5049:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIMQNAS5ejkOpwFPyQMxBE0DNsK4iTBlQ9YOsj4A-jkCBYfERz0yAkFJjyAiABOBqIasVQFRjVbDTFjIq2mrIa1SBwkwI-w

I use a similar build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIMQNBiYDbk0J5t4RGiJOggeohVBXcKoEqHwxGGHA-j0CBYfJDdEAfJykDwkFCZkIQpPFRjtCqIasabYKXCRqYpWKgIWGB-w

I do have a spare knights armor in the bag for situations where we are outnumbered. In general ZvZ fights though I go with more power for the extra DPS. I try to keep my precision at 20 ish. Since Fury+UF gives me +70% cirt chance already, anything over 30% would make it a waste IMO. Since our guild runs multiple warrior, and we are pretty coordinated with our attacks, a chain of Earthshaker will pretty much destroy a group.

SleepingDragon.1596:

Keiel.7489:

I remember when I wiped 23GD by myself. I was so excited I didn’t bother screenshotting it and totally forgot to run fraps that day. But please, take my word for it.

I remember I wiped out 60 SOR including some XPK by myself in a single blob fest. I also didn’t bother screenshotting it since it was so common for me. If you don’t believe it ask your fellow server mates who fell to the “moo moo” finisher.

So that was you…

casterfaster.9146:

Keiel.7489:

Kiff.8157:

casterfaster.9146:

SOR sea asian time . ocx, hire. gc, song, nys. sahp.

jq sea asian time. merc , wvw, atm, GE, GGYY, FOO, FB, EB pugs. also JQ dont have any good EU guild.

sor have huge numbers then jq. no?

Edited for you.

Be careful when you say JQ don’t have ‘good’ EU guilds. I know there is a small sized EU guild on JQ and saying them ‘not good’ is not what any BG/SOR would ever do. I don’t see why EU should join JQ in this case.

He probably meant large, because JQ still thinks numbers=skills.

yes. sor no reason to have more numbers. i was there 23GD wiped 60 iron with skills.

I remember when I wiped 23GD by myself. I was so excited I didn’t bother screenshotting it and totally forgot to run fraps that day. But please, take my word for it.

I’m surprised no one came here to tell Anet to remove this ability or risk destroying their game forever.

Chris.3290:

JQ had a truly evil idea with this one, clearing their queues once they are too far ahead to lose.

There appeared to be some sort of formal agreements from both Mag and SoS with JQ on Tuesday, but their latest tactic is just to give away SMC and keeps to retake later.

To think that Maguuma’s resident trollmaster general was actually bragging about taking JQ’s garri yesterday LOL.

If you want to put a stop to this, go the BL where the trades are taking place and put a stick in the spokes. That’s what most of us on SoS are talking about doing.

Generally speaking, even during Karma train, any self-respecting server would still defend thein Home BL’s Garrison and EBG Keep regardless.

Kiff.8157:

casterfaster.9146:

SOR sea asian time . ocx, hire. gc, song, nys. sahp.

jq sea asian time. merc , wvw, atm, GE, GGYY, FOO, FB, EB pugs. also JQ dont have any good EU guild.

sor have huge numbers then jq. no?

Edited for you.

Be careful when you say JQ don’t have ‘good’ EU guilds. I know there is a small sized EU guild on JQ and saying them ‘not good’ is not what any BG/SOR would ever do. I don’t see why EU should join JQ in this case.

He probably meant large, because JQ still thinks numbers=skills.

Neo Annubis.7429:

Ben K.6238:

Wow, I never knew running regen warriors was that hazardous.

Healing signet is broken man. No one can kill warriors now.

I beat a regen warrior the other day. The universe imploded and then recreated back to that point so that he would win, but then it realised I was also a regen signet warrior…

Wrei Mors Les.8406:

Game update notes: 29 Oct 2013
“Items
•The crafting recipe for Bolts of Silk now requires 3 Silk Scraps.
•The crafting recipe for Cured Thick Leather Squares now requires 3 Thick Leather Sections.”

Discussion start:

Unbelievable. This in just before ascended armor is scheduled. I hope everyone refined their scraps/sections before the update.

I wasn’t expecting this but I did stashed up/refined on these mats before hand in anticipation for the new armor. guess I’m lucky.

Seigfried.5938:

Chris.3290:

Speaking for T2, we only seek to be balanced with each other.
The human nature to stack for an easier victory is too prevalent and no one has the stomach for that level of an arms race outside Tier 1.

This is a very nice sentiment that has been promoted for a long time (mostly by Blackgate, Cheers!) but unless someone wants to be the first to dive into the water???

Could you get enough folks to do it without destabilizing the current T1 situation?

T1 is so unstable that every guild transfer (outside of NA) results in a massive swing in fortunes.

MERC (or just some of them) transfer to JQ and suddenly #3 is number 1. ZDs goes to BG and suddenly #3 is #1 and everyone is saying how JQ needs EU even though even a modest sized guild would throw the math off again.

How do you prevent a stackwagon and prevent a server implosion if it should dip to #4 for a week or two?

Here’s your problems on the tier 2 side:
TC:massive fairweather population, queues are rough and they have lost a lot of their WvW focused strength outside of CERN and PINK
SoS: Anemic NA, but if it’s NA becomes strong it will start crawling upwards in rating. Plus we don’t really have a burning desire to be T1 again (unless the nature of T1 were to change drastically).
Maguuma: The addition of OCX/SEA guilds would help them, but then they’d have to redefine themselves (can’t say you don’t PPT when you tick over 300) and there would be massive infighting between roamers and blobbers.
Fort Aspenwood:I have no idea what their problem is, but I hear there are a lot of politics
SBI: Too many lower tier transfers, won’t be ready for primetime for a while.

Continue with all the name calling, stackwagon, etc. Who really cares about #3, #2 or #1, as long as we are in tier 1, we have the best fights. And you forget how hard everyone in tier 1 fights. 1 guild can make a difference between #3 to #1, but everyone else on each of these 3 servers fight harder than in any other tier

While it is true in most cases, I would like to see the T2 servers get more numbers to promote more fights. With how thigs are right now when T1 gets matched up with anything else there isn’t much to do, the one or 2 maps that gets fights are so overstacked during those weeks that you can hardly call them -good-.

I know numbers=/=skill, but with numbers it does help people stay in WvW a lot more.

Painbow.6059:

in pve warriors certainly do not need a buff. all they do is 100b and they are worshipped by about every dungeon group

I disagree, I think Warriors GS should AoE stun or at the very least immob for the duration of the attack. It’s way to easy for mobs to dodge out of my attacks in dungeons.