Guild Wars 2

I have been out of power for 3 days so far. As of this posting, there are around 4 million people without power. I am currently at my public library with my dinky laptop trying to do whatever I can with my modelling software. It is pretty bad. This is a very fancy library and its internet is top notch. Even with that said, there are only 250 slots for wifi connections. It took me an hour and a half to connect. There are people shaving in the bathroom and eating pizza on the floor. This is what hurricanes do. Even if all you lose is power, everyone loses a sense of what it means to be in a society. Its one of those things we take for granted.

Anywho, I’m not here to boast about how stupid hurricanes are and how we should wage war on them. What I am saying is that from the first day it was expected that my state at least, Connectcut (which happens to be one of the least-hardest hit places) will be out of power from 7-10 days. Now, unfortunately, this ruins the halloween event for me. Me and thousands of other players.

I’ve been very good with this event so far. All I’m missing is Act 4. All I ask is for Arenanet to extend Act 4’s expiration to a later date. Surely the Mad King cannot be stopped by a simple hurricane!

I feel like Maguuma is constantly watching us like a vulture. So what if we drop a tier. We beat you by nearly twice as many points and we can do it again.

And then there’s Ehmry Bay. Why are they always there?

Super Saiyans don’t use hammers. They use Staves and Greatswords

Reference: I am a Super Saiyan

Asmodal.6489:

Judge Banks.9018:

A good GREATsword Guardian will Leap Cancel to cover massive amounts of ground.

this should not be working. last time i checked they changed it. Weapon swap will trigger the full cooldown.

other then that 1000 range against a guardian is as good as 200. JI is too much fun to not have it on the skill bar in pvp.

it is probably the next thing to get nerfed

Shh! I rather enjoy warping onto the ledges in the Graveyard, the broken ceiling in the Clocktower and the Trebuchet on the hill!

Also, between Symbol of Swiftness, Retreat! and Save Yourselves!, a Guardian can amass 38 seconds of swiftness.

Nyaru.7954:

A-Am I kawaii uguu?

L-Lina? You’re still alive?

Go back to /vg/.

Problem is, outside of RE and HVN, I cannot think of one large and dedicated WvW guild from Darkhaven.

I don’t think my elites suck.

Then again, I’m an Asura so I have access to the best elites.

Torch is only good if paired with Mace. Sword+Torch feels like an idort build. A full blast of 5 deals more or less the same damage over time as 1.

Kazak.8459:

Kita.7819:

never dish it out" class.

At ~3200 WvW kills and 830 Badges I tend to disagree. GS/Hammer here. And I don’t zerg much either.

I have a link for you

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sarcasm

I want to say that this has been a really fun match, but mostly I’m shocked at how little aggression there is. Even though we’re in third place, I have no complaints. When Yak attacked AB on their Borderland the other day, they didn’t do it with mesmer portals, culling exploits and stacks. They did it through organization and building 3 friggen trebuchets inside the keep. When they hit Redbriar, they hit the one wall I never expected anyone to hit and did so with five catapults.

CD’s not without exemption either. Their placement of siege equipment to attack Redbriar was also impressive. They built a total of three trebuchets to try and counter our advance. Darkhaven won in the end, but I attribute that to CD simply getting outmanned later in the night.

Then weird kittentarted happening when Yak’s essentially replaced CD on that map, leading me to believe CD was the new Ehmry Bay, but I can clearly see that was an anomaly.

Regardless, this has been a good matchup so far. Its a shame that the Halloween events are kind of ruining WvW, but it is good nonetheless. We’ve ascended numerous tiers to get where we are now. Even if we don’t progress any further, fourth tier isn’t bad at all. Ever since SoR’s hacking days we’ve been all over the list. I believe this is where we are meant to be.

Oh god, I’m getting all jittery. Can’t wait till DH fights you guys again

How Darkhaven has viewed servers from the past:

Stormbluff: The weird asian kid that beat you tremendously in that game you love. You’ve never seen him before and you’re unsure if he even attends your school. Since you have nothing to compare him to, you immediately assume he’s one of those “South Korean Pro MLG gamer” types

Ehmry Bay: The kid that insists on always tagging along with you. He’s always there, whether you care or not. Regardless of if he wins or loses, he just wants to have fun

Rall: The kid that insists you play his weird hacked version of SSBB. He says its better and more fun, but clearly its not. You miss regular Brawl, back when Lucario’s jump lasted for 10 seconds.

Kaineng: The GRRRRRLLLL GAMRRR (don’t hit on me you silly boys~) that is always at your game events. Every month she seems to have a different boyfriend in the group. Its clear she’s there solely for attention, seeing as its obvious she hates video games

Anvil Rock: That weird guy that has his own sets of rules. He won’t play unless you use the settings and character he requests. Because of this, no one really wants to hang out with him.

Maguuma: The guy that uses Wavedash in SSBM. Despite the creator of the game himself admitting Wavedashing was a glitch, there is nothing you can do to stop him due to the limitations of the game.

Yak’s Bend: That jerk from grade-school that “borrowed” your Gameboy and never gave it back.

Kazak.8459:

Kita.7819:

only to be caught by a guardian of all classes.

What’s wrong with a guardian?

Because we’re the “hurdur bunker support class that can take damage but never dish it out” class.

I’m not watching an hour and a half of game footage. Gimme a tldr version please

Aren’t you guys one of the top-tier servers?

Not seen: Me screaming at the person that placed that ram

Either way, we took the keep. After GOON and PARG exploited culling of course. I did all the /laughs I could once they fell.

You get exp/karma by doing things and taking property. You’d want to just in a tier where property gets taken and lost left and right.

- “Retreat!” will now invoke fear in you and 5 allies for 20 seconds, matching the swiftness duration. This will allow the skill to live up to its name.

just replace “eternal alchemy” with “Buddhism” and it all makes sense.

Transmutation stones.

I only use /laugh, but on two occasions

One, when people think they can gank me and then die

Or when they start using every move in their arsenal to run away only to be caught by a guardian of all classes.

Never have I bowed. Then again, I have never had an honorable fight. Everyone either cowers away or hides behind a guard.

Can’t wait to see how many false responses I’ll get for this post.

“We all have a place in the eternal alchemy”

Nature is apart of the eternal alchemy. Damaging nature is damaging the eternal alchemy.

Probably because they don’t scale at all with healing power.

As far as I know that is.

Ditch Zeal entirely. It sucks and gives you nothing good. Going 0/10/30/30/0 like knives said is ideal for Greatsword/Shout builds. Pure of Voice, Altruistic Healing and Two Handed Mastery far outclass the +5% GS damage and heal-on-hit Zeal provides. Even if you don’t build crit with your gear, this setup can give you around 30% crit chance with nearly 40% crit damage. This is if you grab that “convert 5% of toughness to precision” trait.

I was incorrect about the two handed mastery. Both skills will require a total of 50 points to obtain

urk, that would be crossing a dangerous boundary. No item in the cash shop gives a distinct advantage to gameplay outside of being sellable for money. That’s why the armor on the cash shop are just skins

That’s just because the actual “For Great Justice” skill essentially gives a permanent 3 stacks of might to warriors. Its so broken a warrior has to be stupid not to use it.

deathTouch.9706:

Kita.7819:

The overall problem and aggression with all of this is, yet again, thanks to Sanctum of Rall. This is not Darkhaven’s tier. Maguuma and NSP are treating us like we’re right next to them, or even worse. We’re not. I’ve said this before but I guess it keeps falling on deaf ears.

During Rall vs SF vs DH, this is what the map used to always look like. Rall didn’t put up much of a fight at all.

And then the wvw week ended with Rall winning with 4 times the amount of points SF and DH had combined. A lot can be accomplished with a fly and ohko hack. At random times during the night properties would just change colors without notice.

This is why we plummeted all the way to the bottom. This was never supposed to happen. If things went properly, Maguuma and DH would have been facing each other the week after the first.

But no. We’re not the mighty server. We’re the server that’s ascending through the ranks through luck alone due to this imaginary and dominating night crew you guys keep bringing up. You want to know how many people took your keep in EB last night? 20. That is not a night crew.

Quoted for future reference when DH fails to break T3.

I belittled my own server and you respond by belittling my own server, but done in a way to criticize me.

Okay.

rias.6872:

Something about Maguuma portal bombs and zerg stacking.

They pull it off really well when they were defending a tower and wiped Darkhaven’s zerg force. Bunch of GOON and few other guilds inside that stack. Around 30-40 came out of the stack after we wiped. Very organized. Very disciplined.

They then proceeded to easily bring down walls to AB keep in DH Map. Funny thing is, everything they do reach Lord’s area… the offensive force seems to be weak and they wiped. Same thing happened few hours ago too. They were already at Lord’s area. But they just stack at wall and siege us… even though they outnumbered us.

You guys should have just charged at us. So sometimes Maguuma pull off very nice and organized portal bombs and defense …. but at the same time your guilds do some questionable tactics or actions that made me go, Huh? Why they do that? They could’ve wiped us.

I’d ask SomethingAwful that question, but I’m not really into paying 10 dollars for what is essentially an older version of Reddit.

But I need my Dawn and Bifrost. I have to be the rainbow guardian!

IceBlink.4317:

The fourth bonus for this particular set is:

X% chance to shout Yarr and grant Might to nearby allies when hit. (cooldown: 10s)

HOWEVER… when it actually activates, your character will simply shout out “For Great Justice” regardless of profession.

Could a possible patch in the future have the original voice actors for each race and gender record their best pirate impression of “Yarr” and replace the sound effect for when “Yarr” bonus is triggered?

Say what? No it doesn’t. I have 5 pirate runes and have never heard that. Asura Guardian here.

cannons.8109:

Animus.6073:

cannons.8109:

Prothescar.7842:

Dunno, I’m gonna disagree with you there. I find Altruistic Healing to be indispensable in PvP, particularly high volume PvP in WvW. An Empower is very easily a full HP heal in most situations.

How does AH and empower = full heal? I thought it procs a max of (5 targets per pulse x 4 pulses x 73) + about 1,750 = 3,210 healing over 3.5 seconds. Is there some way you can trait it so it heals for more?

Remember that each pulse is 3 stacks of might. I am not entirely certain but I believe each stack counts as an individual boon, each one proccing AH. Then of course there is the base heal from Empower itself. With enough Healing Power, it isn’t unheard of to full heal from 20-25% HP.

Oh, ok. I thought AH procced for each pulse, not each stack? At work, so can’t test this right now. If it procs for each stack, then I need to start using empower more often in groups.

First off, Empower and altruistic healing is awesome. The other guy is right, it really does heal for around 20-25% hp.

It procs with each pulse. Each pulse gives 3 might to allies and yourself. I may be wrong, but each 3-stack of might is actually 3 different buffs.

So since it pulses 4 times, with the fourth also healing you, you can get a ton of hp this way. Even more if you get two-handed mastery, which just so happens to be in the same trait category.

Ninein.4782:

What I find odd on Maguuma is that Friday night, all 3 borderlands were full and had queues. We ended up with all 3 orbs and dominated. Come Saturday we could only queue up one borderland at most. Where’d everyone go?

Well in all honesty, and this applies to every server, people are much more active in WvW during the day of the reset than they are later in the week. No Siege is built, no zergs are formed, no fortifications are up, that stuff.

The overall problem and aggression with all of this is, yet again, thanks to Sanctum of Rall. This is not Darkhaven’s tier. Maguuma and NSP are treating us like we’re right next to them, or even worse. We’re not. I’ve said this before but I guess it keeps falling on deaf ears.

During Rall vs SF vs DH, this is what the map used to always look like. Rall didn’t put up much of a fight at all.

And then the wvw week ended with Rall winning with 4 times the amount of points SF and DH had combined. A lot can be accomplished with a fly and ohko hack. At random times during the night properties would just change colors without notice.

This is why we plummeted all the way to the bottom. This was never supposed to happen. If things went properly, Maguuma and DH would have been facing each other the week after the first.

But no. We’re not the mighty server. We’re the server that’s ascending through the ranks through luck alone due to this imaginary and dominating night crew you guys keep bringing up. You want to know how many people took your keep in EB last night? 20. That is not a night crew.

saiyr.3071:

Kita.7819:

saiyr.3071:

Second favorite Darkhaven tactic!

That’s a yellow arrow… That’s YOUR SERVER’S Siege Golem.

Considering we wrecked it, I don’t think so.

Edit: In case you aren’t convinced that a yellow arrow means anything, here is your gate. Surely it isn’t a spy gate.

Oh, I get it now. You’re just jealous of our oddly placed siege weaponry. I bet this screenshot right here makes you wish you were on Darkhaven

saiyr.3071:

Second favorite Darkhaven tactic!

That’s a yellow arrow… That’s YOUR SERVER’S Siege Golem.

I logged on at 3:00 pm PST time and Darkhaven controlled half of the territory points. I still don’t get where all this criticism comes from. Yes we have a decent night time. We also have a superb daytime.

When Darkhaven complains about Maguuma, its stuff like culling, rendering issues and guardian bubbles. When everyone complains about Darkhaven its “oh we have a better night crew. You guys are so lucky that there’s no capping.” Its almost as though everyone is treating it like a handicap. “Oh, they’re not really that good since they’re only good at night.”

If we were only good at night, then the score would reflect that. It doesn’t. I keep seeing NSP people running to their deaths at bluebriar. Are we winning these “fights” because of our “night crew”? No, its because you keep running towards arrow carts!

WvW needs to give something besides badges. It needs to reward involvement not through some random token system, but something based on deeds done. If I lead a successful zerg, I should receive some sort of entitlement. If I earn enough of that, I should earn proper honors such as being a commander

I still associate Darkhaven’s grand revival to our stomp against Kaineng and that other server. It basically showed our entire server that we own at WvW, and that we can only get better

I’m curious. what if t here was team-based collision?

Honestly I’d like to see this portal banned from WvW entirely, or at least have it self-use only. This is someone that has used portals about 10 times to skip the EB puzzle and about twice to launch a surprise ambush in Stonemist. Its simply unfair. Whenever my team takes a keep, I always have to shout “Sweep for Mesmers!”

I don’t sweep for guardians. They can’t single-handidly draw an entire enemy force in. Why should I have to sweep for Mesmers?

hobbes.6178:

Enjoy taking the high road and “playing fair” Darkhaven, you will eventually regret it. You should be thanking Maguuma for teaching you a thing or two on how to WvW at an upper tier.

I was in WvW all night, Darkhaven borderlands, and of all the zergs we encountered maybe 3-4 of them actually wiped us. Why did we get wiped you ask? because we couldn’t see you just like you couldn’t see us. Culling works both ways, we just adapt ways to be effective while its happening. Stack up, place heals, guardian bubbles, work as one solid unit, when enemy is disoriented burst out and catch them off guard. For you to say that is an exploit is just flat out ridiculous.

How can you honestly not sit there and watch people use effective tactics and not say to yourselves “Wow, maybe we should try that?”. You immediately get all pissy like little girls and assume exploiting? Give me a break. I had a blast in WvW tonight but apparently you guys didn’t…oh well sucks for you I guess. Apparently Darkhaven is so righteous and true they would NEVER use such tactics! I cannot wait until you guys hop up a bracket or two…god are you in for a rude awakening.

Are we now? Rall is a tier above us. When we faced Rall, everything was going well before the hacker issue came up. We held our own against Rall. Because of that, we plummeted to the bottom. Then we rose a tier. Then we rose another. No one knows for sure where Darkhaven’s “average” tier is. What I do know however, is that its not here.

if you want a good farming build, focus on shouts and knight/valk armor pieces. Have your main weapon of choice (which should be greatsword) a beserker.

Get Zeal when you’re leveling to 80, but once you reach it drop it entirely – the line is horrendous and gives you nothing good.

I went into the game thinking i would use spirit weapons. Instead I use everything but. Their usefulness is lacking and require a large devotion to traits to be good. Unlike most skills, such as shouts or meditations, their traits are spread across different branches. Bane Signet seems to outclass hammer, bow is useless, I still have no idea what shield does and sword is the only decent one.

The main problem with spirit weapons i feel, is their wonky activations. I can use a spirit weapon and never activate it. At the same time, I can activate it instantly after I summon it. What they should do, is instead of disappearing once their CD is up, perform their activation skill-THEN disappear. Let players have the ability to activate it at any time, but I shouldn’t have to start a mental eggtimer to ensure I get the most out of the spirit.

Sometimes it turns out nicely.

I also like how that berserker/gladiator/whatever armor shows more skin than a “naked” female asura.

Apparently I need to be careful with what I say here, lest infractions get imposed.

On Friday, the Goon squad did this tactic where they stacked on top of each other. As we know, there is an odd rendering issue going on where people will not appear visible even when they’re right next to you. It gets worse when more people in small are involved, allowing large groups of people to not appear at all, or appear in very little numbers.

It gets especially bad when those people stand on top of each other, allowing zergs of people to walk around silently with people taking them for granted.

Since I am not allowed to have an opinion on this matter, that is all I am going to say.

I have a guess that it may be related to Halloween. Total shot in the dark, I know.

I’m seen one too many thieves do this. I guess its just another one of their escapes