Guild Wars 2

Flashing blade has a 12 second cooldown and is useful in combat. If you’re saving it just to catch enemies, you’re wasting utility.

Mace is different. With Mace, you have moves that can heal yourself and give you protection. It allows more survivability so that you can get off more damage with your torch. By this logic, you can say the shield is total garbage since it lacks decent power. But that’s not why I jump into fights wielding scepter and shield. Knocking someone off of the clocktower wastes precious time for them. It can turn a 2v1 into two 1v1s. No extra damage involved. Just utility.

healing power is really bad.

Ynna.8769:

Kita.7819:

Now, both Sword and Torch are offensive weapons. In turn, this gives you a purely offensive setup. Look at cleansing flames and compare it to the basic Sword 1. Cleansing Flames deals just about the same damage, over a slightly longer time, with a 15 second cooldown. The only difference with it is that it has a cone based AoE. Personally, this is not enough to sell the sword/torch combo to me. There’s nothing beneficial to come out of it. Its just offense. When I use a sword in pvp, I pair it with a focus. Focus 5 helps eliminate bursts against me, and Focus 4 helps cause a bit of chaos and also mitigate bursts. If I used a torch, I’d have very little defense against a burst warrior or thief.

I don’t see how “does only damage” is always a bad thing. Sometimes that’s all you want to do. Sometimes you just want to burn things and make them die. I’m sure Necromancers or Thieves (or whatever) use weapon combination that do “only” damage.
And you still have the second weapon-set to complement Sword/Torch.

Just because you have more damage options does not mean you are dealing more damage. Its the same reason why thieves drop so fast. They only focus on offense. If you go sword/torch, where’s your stuns or immobilizes? Where’s your control? What can you do if you can’t reach the enemy?

Okay, here’s my tirade against the Sword/Torch combo.

With two-handed weapons, you get a nice mix of offense and utility. You only really need one skill to be the “this deals the damage” skill.

Now, both Sword and Torch are offensive weapons. In turn, this gives you a purely offensive setup. Look at cleansing flames and compare it to the basic Sword 1. Cleansing Flames deals just about the same damage, over a slightly longer time, with a 15 second cooldown. The only difference with it is that it has a cone based AoE. Personally, this is not enough to sell the sword/torch combo to me. There’s nothing beneficial to come out of it. Its just offense. When I use a sword in pvp, I pair it with a focus. Focus 5 helps eliminate bursts against me, and Focus 4 helps cause a bit of chaos and also mitigate bursts. If I used a torch, I’d have very little defense against a burst warrior or thief.

But since we’re talking pve, It can still be useful, but just not that much. The 15 second CD is the killer here.

It’ll be nice having 3 active servers for once instead of us, a powerhouse and a server that forgot to join the party.

Here’s what I think Arenanet is doing.

They are in the process of fixing stealth. They claimed to have fixed some of the culling when thieves become visible. If it proves to still be an issue (uh, it is), they’ll perform more changes.

Mikitten058:

Nice story.

However, guilds moving servers took WvW from 1 close tier, to multiple tiers with close matches in them.

Have you seen our current matchup? The system believes that Aspenwood is a smidge better than Darkhaven. Having a… what, 300k point lead, is NOT a “smidge” better. Its the equivalent of pairing a hardcore pro gamer up against a casual 12 year old girl that plays Kirby because he’s pink. There is this massive ravine in any Tier 4 matchup. The top 10 servers are significantly superior to the other servers. Its like two different WvW setups.

Did you even look at Kita’s signature? He plays on Darkhaven. This rant and his mention of Blackgate was probably prompted by a WvW guild that transferred from DH to BG this week.

Also, for the record, BG had climbed to the #6 spot in the rankings, and played in a T2 match with SBI and IoJ the week starting on 10/12, which was BEFORE any of the transfers in from HoD and ET.

http://mos.millenium.org/matchups/history/3#NA

Yes, this. One big guild, I won’t say which, left Darkhaven. They were always talking about alliances and stuff to improve Darkhaven. Then out of the blue they stab us in the back for an already-established server.

I use Blackgate merely as an example. Okay, so it wasn’t Tier 1 quality originally. That I didn’t know. However, once it became Tier 1 then this rant takes place.

I like these Darkhaven guys. On the one hand, they complain about zergs. On the other hand, they brag about killing zergs. They’re a contradiction wrapped in an angry, whiny shell.

I’m not bragging about killing 5 newbies wearing what I presume was blue quality armor. I’m just making a point.

Better copy/paste this to gw2 guru before it gets closed…

I think I’ll do this.

Do what I did. 0/10/30/30/0. You have to decide between Pure of Voice and Empowering Might however.

Or…

You can use soldier runes. Yes, the conditions are just removed and not converted, but it still affects allies and most conversions either suck or are bugged. Then pop on empowering might, and with a greatsword you can almost always maintain 4-5 stacks of might. I say the 10 in radiance for the signet cd reduction. 8 seconds is the difference between life and death with Resolve.

You need a scepter or a staff in WvW. Or both. No exceptions. End of Line.

Okay, gather around for a moment. Its time to blast all of you.

All of you bandwagon guilds – the ones that jump ship from their server to join other servers – are scum. Yes, I said it. You are bad and should be ashamed. Lets go indepth with a top tier server like Blackgate.

The reason Blackgate is so great is because of the guilds that started on Blackgate. All of the guilds jumping to Blackgate have no idea what WvW is all about. WvW is fighting for your server. The very fact that you switched servers proves that. So now thousands of people want to WvW on one server because they’re the best. Because of you, the guilds that actually made their servers tier 1 are experiencing massive queues. They suffer because people that have no idea how to play WvW insist on jumping over. Remember that you take a spot in the WvW population. A bad WvWer takes the spot a good WvWer could use. [INSERT GUILD THAT LEFT DARKHAVEN HERE], do you think you’ll be respected on Blackgate? You don’t think a regular WvWer will ponder about why you jumped ship? If Blackgate sinks in tiers, whats to guarantee them that you’ll stick around. Its clear that you have no devotion to your server and that you simply want to win while everyone else does the work.

Lets go back to the good guilds, the ones that know what they’re doing. They’re left with an option. Either stick with their queues, or join smaller servers. But the problem is that they understand what WvW is about. How its about the server, not the battle. They don’t want to leave – nor should they feel obligated to. They earned their place.

What’s going to eventually happen is all these bad guilds will keep jumping ship to the higher tier servers so much that their WvW becomes clogged. Everyone will complain, but no one will do anything about it. The only way to remedy it is to join lower tier servers.

I have seen this firsthand with Aspenwood. Once the Euro and big guilds get bored, the noobies come out. The ones that play on aspenwood because they got stomped elsewhere. Yesterday I soloed 5 aspenwoods. Yes, they were all upscaled and wearing armor that a character lower than 60 would wear. These people exist everywhere sure, but what really put me back was that this was right in front of my spawn in EB. They are the riding the coattails of guilds like GODS which goes berserk and summons their entire base when one camp gets flipped. (Actually that was a really fun fight. It was my friend and I, in a camp-now ours, vs 20 GODS. I felt like Samson up until some jerk shaved my head).

Okay, so lets wrap this up.

The future forecast I predict will create a gigantic gap between the top tier servers and the low tier servers. Many guilds will leave their low tier servers to the high tier servers. Guilds that understand the honor of commitment and dedication, like PANG and RE will remain on their servers. This massive divide can and will only be fixed by the guilds that made their servers top tier in the first place. It is up to them to bring life to lower tiers and have growth in this game.

Also, join Darkhaven. Its the Besthaven.

Kita smash.

Organize it on the forums. Add the person’s ID to form a party.

esports will be available

Dogo.4691:

Wow. One page of fairly tame posts vs. 10+ pages of tears in the Ranger forums. I was hoping that was a common reaction to the patch in all the class forums but I guess not.

I think its because we’re still so confused about the lack of stuff. Shield of Judgement was probably the last thing people were thinking of. I tend to forget it even exists.

The staff is not a ranged weapon. Its a melee weapon with a 600 range. It is, in fact, the longest range melee weapon in the game.

If you want an easy time levelling, get 30 in zeal for zeallous blade. Its great for levelling, but once you hit 80 you shouldn’t have any more than 10 in zeal

DH and Maguuma are on good terms

No we’re not.

With love,
Kita

Kyhlo. So many passages in such a small space. Everyone can be standing right next to each other and you wouldn’t know it. Oh, and the fact that I can use Judges Intervention everywhere.

But Silent Storm is really awesome. Gotta play it some more. Shame there’s no single-map only lobbies.

the channeling needs to end. If you were getting healed during the channeling, check your altruistic healing.

People always say “hurdur warriors aren’t op”

We’re not talking about greatswords. We’re talking about the massive amount of locks and stuns the hammer has.

I like how close the points are to each other. It enforces group mentality. Knowing where all the buffs are helps against pugs right now

I don’t get why people get so bent out of shape with the turrets. I hate turrets. When an engie places turrets on a capture point I know that if I go inside it, I’m going to die.

Lets talk about a different game. Dota. Not LoL, that game sucks. In Dota there’s a role called an initiator. What they do is change the field of battle to aid their allies. Enigma can maintain a huge AOE whirlpool that stuns and deals damage. Tidehunter can create an immense aoe stun that deals massive damage. Sand King can channel this earthquake that deals large damage unless everyone scatters about, changing their focus into running away.

GW2 is no different. There are still fields of battle, there is still positioning, there are still roles. Engineer Turrets is Tidehunter’s Ravage. They’re not there for your 1v1 action, they’re there for your allies. They’re there to shift the course of battle to your favor. If Tidehunter uses ravage against one person, he gets laughed at. At least here turrets are viable in a 1v1.

A large consensus agrees on one thing. Zeal sucks. Zeal really, really sucks. There’s nothing good in it unless you’re going for spirit weapons, and even then spirit weapons suck outside of the sword for pve and hammer for pvp. So there’s only really three ways for a guardian to go. Build tanky, build critical or build bunker.

There’s a popular build floating around called the “Meditation Build”. Its 10/30/30/0/0 with all meditations cept merciful. Its mostly meant for pvp, but can work well in pve.

what does your gender have to do with this?

Guardians have about 20 bugs.
Arenanet fixed 0.

I don’t use retaliation and I stomp all over thieves. I’m a meditation guardian. Its as offensive a guardian can get without going beyond stupid.

Thing is, no one ever said that thieves can ever win in a 1v1 against a guardian. What I’m trying to say is this is not the point of pvp. You’re not 1v1 in pvp, you’re 5v5, or 8v8. If I see a thief, yeah, I’m going to beat him. But if I’m distracted and you sneak up behind me, it really doesn’t matter how much defense I have. I wasn’t ready for a thief encounter and suddenly half my health is gone. I see these crappy thieves all the time. They jump me out of no where and expect to win in a 1v1. Then when I’m at 90% hp and they’re at 10% they start to run away. Flashing Blade, Judges Intervention, they’re dead. Then they go complain HURDUR GUARDIANS SO OP. No, you’re the idiot that smashes all his keys and expects to win. I’m the one that uses focus 5 to block all your heartseekers. I’m the one that uses smite conditions to remove that lovely stack of bleed you gave me.

Think for a moment. Do you really think Arenanet would make a class that is capable of winning, simply because they have the upperhand at the start of a fight?

Each class has their positions. Thieves seem to think they belong front and center in 1v1s. Wrong. They belong behind the opponent, striking them when they’re distracted. You don’t want to be focused. Me, I love being focused which makes killing thieves all the better.

Thieves are still capable of huge durations of stealth.

Its clear that Arenanet doesn’t want all-inclusive skills to affect everyone. But Arenanet, you’re missing one. Mesmer Portal can still warp an entire server’s population. How are we to stop these portal bombs now that we can only attack 5 out of the 50+ people that jump through the portal?

Okay, lets start off simple. I’ve been suspended 3 times so far from these forums for trivial matters. First time was one day. Okay. Second time, three days. That’s okay too. Third time was 10 days.

Why. That was the question I wanted an answer to for 10 days. on my account page it kept saying “Check your pms for more information”, yet there was no more information. I sent a letter to the forums email asking about it. Nothing. I sent in a support ticket, explaining to them in detail that I sent a letter to the forums email and nothing came out of it. Their response? Send a letter to the forums email. Great. I try that again and still get no response. Finally I got off suspension.

Lets see my list of gruesome and horrifying infractions that makes this forum hell for other people

In a thread discussing thieves and batman, I posted this

In order to fight the night, you must become the night. I am vengeance! I am the night!

I

AM

BATMAN!

their response?

Please refrain from making posts that do not provide any meaningful contribution to the topic at hand.
Your post violates our code of conduct for inappropriate formatting. Please refrain from the use of all caps and excessive line breaks when posting.

Yes. I received an infraction for staying on topic and quoting Batman. This is the infraction that gave me a 10 day suspension.

But there’s more.

In response to a very confusing thread, I posted

What?

The moderator deleted it. Their response,

Hi,
Please refrain from making posts of this nature. Posts that lack content such as this are against our code of conduct and do not provide meaningful contribution to the topic at hand.
Thank you for your understanding.

I had no idea communicating on these forums was so dangerous. I bet this post will punish me with an infraction as well as have the moderator tell me to email the forums@arena.net address again – the one that doesn’t work.

So please. Explain why there is no way to get in contact with the forum administration, and why I keep getting suspensions for holding basic conversations.

Kam.8109:

Angriff.1935:

I think it would be really cool if in the future, each server(or world) had a unique home map, that was themed towards the name of the server.

I love this idea. Blackgate server would have a huge gate of some sort. Tarnished Coast would be one huge coastline. And Sea of Sorrows would be a map filled with perma-stealth thieves.

Yeah, because the servers are totally not named after actual locations!

…

Black Gate is a Ogre Camp in Grimm Hills area in the Fields of Ruin. Tarnished Coast is around the Asura and Sylvari home areas. As for Sea of Sorrows, just hit M. Its directly south of Lions Arch.

We need to talk about binding blades, Greatsword’s 5.

- Binding Blades severely lacks any form of Z axis
- The pull will stop when something as insignificant as a tiny rock is in the way.
- The pull may not pull the entire distance, even when performed on a flat level.
- The pull is incapable of pulling anyone off ledges unlike the necromancer’s spectral grasp.

Also, use this site to determine who needs help

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

Right now we’re all lower mid.

Every server has their older populations. This game itself is just built that way. You want a child’s mmo, go to WoW. GW2 is where the big kids hang out.

Heck, I keep hearing the voice of some grandparent on RE’s vent.

Sometimes my staff gives me the advantage. Even though the hitbox is no different from the other races, the graphical effect is smaller. S norn would penetrate an enemy with rainbows whereas my colors are non-existant. Misleads the enemy into wondering just how far is enough when it comes to being safe. Fact is, 600 range for a melee weapon – yes, its technically a melee weapon – is huge.

I think its okay. Its how DH started the fight club.

They should just make it so you need to be doing something to get credit, such as using swiftness or killing players.

WvW needs to provide increasing loot drops. At some point I should get exotics as often as i get yellows.

Moonlite.7536:

As a Maguuma player on the outside you guys definately have the numbers. As Maguuma has seen. But somehow you guyz need to find a way to get your pugs under control. Dragonbrand and Maguuma have prob 2/3 of the population that you guys do. None the less i’ve enjoyed the fights with you guys. Darkhaven has the potential you guyz just need to put it together. Maguuma will always be here to keep giving you guys a good fight.

That’s only the case after 8:00 PM EST. Before that its a Mag World.

if I could choose what type of warrior to play with me, I’d choose the type that can take full advantage of my utilities. I’m not saying glass cannon, but I want to see my retaliation shout go noticed.

You would work well in Darkhaven. We need more people during those times. Here’s a link with more information about us

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Dark-Haven-Alliance-lookings-for-guilds-to-make-a-difference

Darkhaven has two Brazilian guilds, one of which is called BRL. They’re pretty good. Whenever I see them in WvW they’re usually in 15+ man zergs

I whispered him ingame. He went with Devona, which as we all know is not a WvW server.

So… I have no idea.

Darkhaven’s not going anywhere. We’re comfortable being right in front of you.

Mag stopped being Tier 4 once Darkhaven started rising again.

“my grammar’s bad because I’m not dealing enough damage”

“Yesterday I managed to pull a warrior off a high ledge into a pit with my binding blades!”

Airships. That is all.

ded map ded gaem.

Darkhaven, duyuh. I speak in EST, so convert that to your time.

First, take a look at this link
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Dark-Haven-Alliance-lookings-for-guilds-to-make-a-difference/

We lack an early day team, but once 8:00 hits we start sweeping way into the night.

Our guilds are friendly are are open to anyone. That is to say, none of us charge a $10 registration fee just to use our forums.

Every server has its hackers, but ours are shot down fast. Never have we had a hacker that has impacted the game as largely as what Rall did early on.

When we fight, we fight with strategy and honor. When we make a treb, we guard that treb. We don’t walk in a stack of 50, spam shield of absorption and call it tactics.

When our commanders say jump, we ask how high. When our commanders say build, (most) of us build. When our commanders say flee, I run into the enemy zerg with Judge’s Intervention and Stand your Ground to ensure others can get away. And because its fun.

We’re borderline Tier 4. We need that extra oomph to fortify our position in WvW. In order to do that, we need people like you to join in and make a difference. I’m not asking for your money or your knowledge of BP’s guilds. I’m asking for you. You are a person that can make a difference for our server.