Guild Wars 2

And now all currency is account bound but I have to pick one wvw toon or not be as effective

No we have spent almost a year working together on my server, you rarely see siege with the timer below 50 minutes because we hit a few as we pass.
the reward is all the lootbags from the zergs you repel.
do not add something so easy to exploit

Try Heartseeker its easier imho

Archon.6481:

bobross.5034:

@archon-
I totally agree about the sprint thing…I don’t play warrior, so I’ve got no personal experience to draw on.

I’m currently playing a condi-tank build that has very high mobility and initiative regen.

the thing is, I am limited by initiative, but I dont just have to wait for it. I get cooldowns too and they help a lot.

First I get 1 initiative every second
an extra 3 initiative every 10 seconds (trait and infil-signet)
5 initiative from steal every 21 seconds (and a short speed boost in stealth)
2 initiative from my heal every 30 seconds
So in a minute I’m getting 60 + 18 + 15 + 4 initiative = 97 initiative
so thats about 16 infiltrator arrows in a minute or 1 every 4 seconds (which ignores the 2.5 free ones you get at the beginning for starting with full initiative).
this is in addition to 3 × 1.5k steals in a minute (in a distance wvw run, you can probably expect at least two of them to be profitable distance wise, maybe giving you an extra 1k distance each.

This is all in addition to perma-swiftness and occasional bursts of speed in stealth.
I also left out infiltrator signet-because I counted its initiative regen instead, so we’re assuming no activations.

Sure but this is one of those theoretical builds the OP was talking about that has no real combat viability.

Sounds like 0/0/20/20/30

Even then you specced for ini regen over actual survivability in shadow arts and acrobatics, and the same for the trickery line.

Or lose the extra steal stuff and its a simple utility swap on d/p

No there are many stomps learn to counter, but I much prefer my bp stomp

They were set when match ups moved from daily to weekly.
so I assume they are scaled perfectly

Master of Timespace.2548:

Deniara Devious.3948:

Upleveled characters should be able to access WvWvW. Player skill is more important than his level or gear.

Lol. Tell me. When did you last time got beaten by an upscale ? xD

Lol its more like when was last time I killed on an uplevel.

last Friday (drinking night) we ran level 2 toons created for a theme evening and still took towers and keeps

multivira.7925:

Aberrant.6749:

For large battles nothing beats Omnom Compote for me.

Solo roaming it really depends on my build/class.

If you’re going anti-conditions lemongrass poultry soup is stupid strong.

If you’re going + condition duration make sure you check to see that you’re getting at least a full extra second on your conditions from it. A 3 second bleed and a 3.9 second bleed do the same damage because of how they deal damage every second. Depending on gear/traits, some times it’s not worth while, others times it is.

I believe conditions are rounded to the nearest quarter of a second, so best keep that in mind as well, 3.9 would actually be rounded to 4. Also, while fractions of seconds aren’t useful for damage conditions, extra CC duration is nothing to be sniffed at

They are only rounded down

WonderfulCT.6278:

Get a minor sigil of accuracy and kill one npc.

Wasting 250 power?

Kabuki.9103:

Yeah 1200 clusters were cool for around keeps/towers but I don’t play thief to zerg. I still use sb when I’m taking a supply camp with someone else. Rapid shot aoe. And whenever I see a large group of downed enemies. Again rapid aoe. Not that big a deal for roamers.

And this is the problem we can roam just as well (where most QQ comes from) but have had general/ group play nerfed

Well my thief is now not viable in a group and should be only used to roam and gank noobs?
WTF is going on here

I watched a player get stomped by a thief in a camp the other day (he mentioned it wasnt the first lose to that thief).
I spent 5 minutes teaching him a few tricks and he won 2/3 of the next fights.
Is thief op because they can run away? i think not many classes can outrun my guardian but if they stay…

if you think stealth keeps you safe from 20 peoples aoe you need to learn a few things

yep one ww in my mf gear and they die, or you be nice lets others come and then you dont tag anything. FAIL

why why why make nodes that everyone races for? every other node in Guild wars is cool to share. i see farming this event causing major rage for some.

Sammuilee.5814:

Kinglette.4906:

Sammuilee.5814:

Kinglette.4906:

lol fear or stun him, and complaining because someone is built to clear conditions???

You don’t exactly need to “build” your character to clear conditions when you can just use 10 points to shadow arts to get it.

Way shadow’s embrace work right now is bugged. According to tooltip “Remove one condition every 3 seconds while in stealth.” it should remove condition every 3 seconds while in stealth, instead it remove 1 condition when thief stealth and another after 3 seconds.

so weapon choice is not part of a build any more? most thieves are playing d/p now because its stronger because most good pvp players can dodge a cnd.

I don’t buy that most thieves play d/p when I see most thieves spamming CnD. You know that you can have 2 weapon sets right?

yes and in wvw if you don’t have a sb to escape the zergs, well roaming isn’t going to be very fun

Sammuilee.5814:

Kinglette.4906:

lol fear or stun him, and complaining because someone is built to clear conditions???

You don’t exactly need to “build” your character to clear conditions when you can just use 10 points to shadow arts to get it.

Way shadow’s embrace work right now is bugged. According to tooltip “Remove one condition every 3 seconds while in stealth.” it should remove condition every 3 seconds while in stealth, instead it remove 1 condition when thief stealth and another after 3 seconds.

so weapon choice is not part of a build any more? most thieves are playing d/p now because its stronger because most good pvp players can dodge a cnd.

yes, and i like that i can start at 80 with all skills unlocked with other professions, because i hate leveling.
if you wanted to be able to level in spvp we would need it to impact that game mode. Otherwise its like asking why we don’t make money in there.

no spvp is not for leveling.

lol fear or stun him, and complaining because someone is built to clear conditions???
the QQ about theives after each and every nerf is hilarious

So because I have three exotic geared characters I play in wvw, I now have to pick one?
I like that I can currently fill a variety of roles depending on what my group is lacking.
I already have to pay more to gear up all my toons than people that only play one!
Just make the passives 80 only or something, this stinks of develops not thinking the effects through.
Yes I am kitten off that the game is forcing me to not play multiple characters or to fall behind

dreztina.4820:

Confusion is absolutely ridiculous and most certainly needs to be nerfed. I think the only people who dispute that are the ones who run it themselves or in their group. It does far too much damage and can be reapplied far faster than it can be cleansed.

You people keep pointing to the fact that Bunzy is a d/d ele to invalidate what he’s saying. Do you realize d/d only has one spell that cleanses conditions and it’s a single condition? My build barely cleanses conditions, and I had to switch to a heal I don’t like as much to help with that, and it’s still not enough. Should all eles be forced to run triple cantrip 30 water builds to have any chance in hell of not killing themselves vs a confusion mesmer which is becoming massively fotm? Is that good for the game?

Also, that ele build is getting nerfed. So a build which is considered to be so overpowered that it is getting a decent hit with the nerf bat gets destroyed by another build, and that other build is perfectly balanced?

Any class/build that lacks massive condition clearing or uses fast attacks gets kitten on by confusion. And there’s the whole anti-fun aspect of the skill. Confusion should act as a short term punishment for not paying attention, not something that makes you run around like you have a 90% uptime daze on you.

It’s seriously the most frustrating thing in the game. Send your hordes of perma stealth thieves at me. Send engies and rangers which hard counter my build. Send the eles with better dueling builds. Send anything but those kittening confusion mesmers.

And thats why in our group (confusion mesmer heavy) we have classes that add other debuffs to cover confusion.
Some groups aim to beat the fotm build and if that becomes popular because so many people rolled DD ele, then we wait and see what evolves to beat confusion groups.

most tiers first goes after both teams, second and third cannibalize each other to not come last.

Unspecified.9142:

Oglaf.1074:

Vorch.2985:

I like how GW is called a violent game.

Well, technically most of our characters are guilt of mass murder, if not genocide.

Can’t be genocide… those kittens just keep respawning…

Most animals do irl as well? but really they had a prior relationship or the dickhead would not have been able to drive to the victims house

Predator.7321:

SilverWF.4789:

Matt Witter.6982:

Skale Venom … have been removed

You only ruins this game.

How does that ruin the game

getting hit for 25% more damage? how does that not ruin the game? I take it you don’t play against organized groups, mark a kill target and all hit it for 25% more. plus it allows debuff protection by adding two covers

Avatar Dynasty has no fotm mesmers we just have a lot of mesmers and the confusion build might be because of Kylia?
But im not sure if we have as many mesmers as OG has DDeles and thieves?
Find something fun to play and kill people.

you want it earn it, i have three toons with 100% wvw map completion and my highest total is only 44% of world.
And i play on a server that did not have many wins.
Try joining a wvw guild when you are going in they take many more places and make it much more fun. If not cry less thestar does nothing unless you are going for a legendary, if you are then wvw maps take less time then grinding cash or pve maps

hell no, having scouts and communication through different parties, guilds, alliances is a level of coordination i dont want to see taken out.
As for the point of needing superior numbers to have scouts??? 2-3 people is plenty left to watch a borderland and complete the upgrades, but please remember to help those people with funds. a few people upgrading a borderland is expensive.

Rskippy.3620:

ibeo.6732:

we don’t need no stinking walls

We don’t need no Trebucation.

we don’t need no portal contol.
Anet, don’t take our rams away.

Rng hates me but I still keep opening them, I know its stupid but…

Then take away the pve side for me and let my three toons with 100% wvw map complete not have to wade through the mind numbingly easy pve maps. Deal?

I bought new greens every 5 levels, cheap and I never really felt weak

use an existing thread where many have disagreed and want the culling to stay.

SSD I7 16g gtx 670.

Jscull.2514:

The only people saying culling is better, are those that run in the mindless 15+ groups. Anet will lose all the small man /solo / skilled based pvpers just like the past 6-7 years of “pvpers mmos” if they don’t fix culling, aoe cap, and downed state. Period. Read the forums. Small manners say terrible … Zergers say perfect.

15 players is nowhere near a Zerg, some of us enjoy playing in groups , 5-8 people is small scale. World vs world is not spvp you don’t like that some people have friends???

loopi.7913:

MarzAttakz.9608:

Let me offer a counter suggestion to those of us who feel abused by our commanders due to the ability of certain skills (*cough: swirling winds, *cough: portal )… Have a non-racial/non-class specific utility tree available to all players which would include skills such as portal and swirling winds.

I’ll leave the creative thinking up to you as… hang on Air #4 off colldown treb shot incoming… I’m sure some pretty crazy ideas would show up.

^
This is actually a very creative idea! wvw trait skill tree with the ability to spec into something useful to your team? I’m not sure how it would work but I like the thought of it. Also swirling winds can be countered by hitting just in front of the wall instead of right at it. The elementalist would need to jump down to provide protection to the wall and open themselves up to attack. Thieves and guardian have an skill that can block Treb shots too. So you would need to lump them into this also. I think im going to call nerf on nerfs. Give us more skills not take them away please. Perhaps ideas like the above could give more skills for countering them instead?

A trick we use is having a spotter call the ele position and hit low on the wall he drops down we go high. He can’t stop all the shots and the wall dies

I have high end machine and its an improvement for me and my guildies.
I can see the enemy coming and appearing out of portals way faster. I know where my guild is I don’t need to see them all as long as we all push at the same time we can still bust a Zerg.
I can see that pug groups need to see each other so maybe prioritizing your commanders could help? But for organised. Groups it’s all about seeing the enemies so for me the new culling gets two thumbs up.

It’s better, I know how my guild moves so I don’t need to see them.
I do need to see how many enemies there are and not let them flank me.
For those that say treat all other groups as zergs and start ranged, I say bust the front line and kill the Zerg.
<———- plays melee.

its better, last time whingers got this reverted DO NOT let it happen again

Straegen.2938:

Besetment.9187:

What server are you on? Because the counter to that style of play is surprisingly easy…

If you are going to say portal bomb, that does work sometimes assuming they clump too much. Large zergs basically roll over top of the bomb killing everyone and rezzing their friends. If there is another tactic I am all ears.

My apologies. I shouldn’t have vented here since it really isn’t appropriate. I started a non-server specific discussion out of frustration (stemming from running into back-to-back-to-back-to-back “culling groups” in different areas of the map) and I will take it elsewhere.

They are bringing back the better culling system on the 28th, but really 20 people is not a Zerg.
There are so many counters that can be used on groups this size it’s just BT execute very well. It’s the groups of 50 before the healing cap that were hardest to break

there is a massive difference between tiers, this idea of up and down every week would be stupid.
Look at his expample of Mag from last week dominated tier 4 and currently 3rd in tier 3.
Once it stabilizes then it wont be so bad.

Braxxus.2904:

purpleskies.3274:

Wanting to know if anyone had any recommendations?

I say go to loj and help them rebuild their numbers. It’s a shame what happened to them with all the server hopper poopooheads. Bring some friends too and help out a server that got screwed by the free xfer/paid announcement bullkitten.

Holy hypocrisy telling someone to move to IOJ because they don’t enjoy their current WvW server. The guilds that left IOJ did so because we didn’t like the way our server was going.
But its ok you keep calling poopooheads because we want to enjoy the game, I guess you are still to bitter because you got rolled so hard last week?

5 is a party, not a small group.
Imho from here on up you need to run 10-15 people as a small group so you can wipe out the smaller zergs.
The real zergs 40+ people are still a hassle but can slowed, distracted or outsieged it just takes more coordination.

make your time more productive earn badges by completing the JP and killing players on the way?
I will also continue to kill players in the jp because its a pvp zone, red is dead

screw mounts learn to use swiftness.

not playing because its almost time for BBQ and booze, with hottest 100 as soundtrack.

If Kaineng wants to move up they can win their way up?
People move servers let the scores settle where we all end up no bullkitten boost cause people think they deserve it.

hope you all make it over here, but really if people transferred early they still had time for a switch.

Also how the kitten do you transfer to the wrong server

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 and I hope that it will cost months and months of daily/monthly for one piece of ascended for laurels.

Fozzik.1742:

Many players (like me) have multiple characters, and have to share the pool of laurels between them. If it takes more than a month or two for one character to get one piece of gear, it makes the acquisition pointless. There will be better gear released before my characters were fully outfitted.

You want to be fully outfitted? Go to FotM and make ascended rings and back like other industrious ppl and dont wait until Anet make unfair shortcuts for lazy players who want best items without work.

Or how bout i get to continue to WvW and have access to the same gear?
No one is making players come into WvW for max stats why should i have to pve?

Heinel.6548:

Espybuns.1890:

Is there something I’m missing about the whole notion of “server loyalty”? Why does the term hold any value? A server is simply a server; shouldn’t that loyalty be directed to the friends you have on that server instead? If your fun is being compromised by staying on a particular server—or you feel that more enjoyment could be had elsewhere—then for what reason do you have to remain apart from your friends?

Speak to them; convince them that it’s just a bullkitten concept. We paid money for the game; you shouldn’t feel like a certain fallacy should prevent you from enjoying it as much as you should. In the end, it’s quite possible that this meaningless pride is just going to be detrimental in the long run.

You are confused about the semantics. By server loyalty, people are actually referring to people who stick with the server. A server’s identity is comprised solely of the people that it is made up of.

If you were a IoJ, you deserted the people who chose to stay in that server. They have the right to call you traitor.

LOL if you had paid attention you would notice that much of IOJ’s WvW population are loyal to each other, we are just now loyal to each other on a server called FA.
We left a pve server to fill our coverage holes after months of trying to recruit.
Now we can WvW for fun with many of the same people and some new friends.