Guild Wars 2

3.2k armor 17HP squishy? OK… the highest backstab ever landed on me was 6-7k before… I feel like rolling an ele.. kitten this is so hot… in just 1 second = 6 skills no channel time? xD wow definitely awesome. I’ll research this later. If any ANET developer wants to help out this happened within 10 minutes of the first post so maybe it’s possible they can look into the person in this guild and with that look and that title to see this. You made ele too strong~!

Yes agree with the poster above me, I was about to mention this when you see the multiple 0 dmg as the person gets an invulnerability buff when they are down.

My trap ranger doesn’t have that much condition damage, about around 1.7k with full stacks as I run with a combination of settlers and apothecary gear. I’m still looking for the right balance in survivability and damage that suits how I play (mostly alone). Using a common trapper build: 0/30/30/10/0 build.

This is how it will look like when average trap rangers take camps. Not 2k-ish CD but mobs still melt. Note that it can be faster if I equip off-hand axe to deflect the blinds from the scouts and add vulnerability, and also poison trap would help reduce their heals.

In the next patch:

Warrior banners used by Rangers was fixed so they will only deal 1/3 damage compared to other classes. Utilities except for swiftness will be blanked out while swiftness duration from the banner will be reduced by half.

Eviator.9746:

Congrats to the perma-stealth [VeT] thief duo from FA that finally killed me after a two minute battle in EB. And then laughed over my body. I’m the one laughing, because you should have killed me in 15 seconds.

I thought DB is used to chest thumping and laughing and jumping over dead bodies. A lot of times when DB who outnumber us everytime kills me I will find people doing so. This one in particular loves the jumping thing after killing people with very less numbers. My Asura can’t get any flatter.

Our Asura should have a witty line to comment about it whenever it happens.

My Asura ranger in the new Aetherblade medium skin. I wanted a steampunk look but guess I’ll have to settle with this dye scheme in the meantime and figure that out later…

Doesn’t fit ANET’s no-grind philosophy at all. Pretty sure it will be normaled into something like becoming a buff that lasts 2 minutes in a future patch.

Also when people who claim they main ranger and have put thousands of hours as one in wvw claim we’re cheating w/ stealth when they didn’t cc to trigger hide in plain sight… don’t know we can leap through smoke fields created by the scouts…..

Hm are you sure it’s 25% boon duration? Shouldn’t it be 45%?

You’re off to a better place!!!!

It’s kind of fun to see your pet moving much much faster now if you spam shouts xD And perma regens are great! Actually it makes me think that we can ditch other things that trigger regen and get something else.

Since I use 3 shouts now, I have group buff that gives perma swiftness and regen (traited ), a nice stun breaker that helps absorb all damage for 6 seconds, really happy pets with their protections/regens/swiftness, while not missing the pet damage all that much since I have sic em 1/3 of the time. I’m still having fun with it roaming on my cleric bunker ranger (have to admit I played traps past 2-3 weeks anticipating something bad to pets… but isn’t all that bad).

So you sandwich a group of enemies in wvw with your traited spectral walls for duration and fear damage. Won’t it be fun to see them ping pong ing back and forth? Hope to see a video of this.

Everything is underpowered! Everything is OP! Nerf them all! Buff them all!

I don’t get it. Anyhows,

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With the quicker recharge rate it also means an increase in the time where you’re untouchable. Maybe someone saw it as abit “powerful”. But if the nerf was intended, it should have been documented in the patch; and not doing this and not even acknowledging this even after a few days is really irksome.

1. Like this look. Makes her look very confident with herself.

2. This one makes her look like a Japanese Empress with a kimono looking armor.

3. The librarian.

So far I’ve only shared settings for the settings to everything of this Asura to a guildie of mine. It’s a bit anime-ish and at the same time look like some little blonde girl you just want to squeeze to death because of how she looks.

If we were to apply burning on a non-living thing, it should burn up! My flamethrower should apply burning on siege weapons and the like…

Only a wvw player knows that most self-promoting videos in wvw doesn’t show what wvw really is (meeting mostly uplevels, killing ppl farming nodes, and lack of video against thieves while roaming? lol videos)

alemfi.5107:

Thought i’d note that sbi has a major bot problem in ebg. Looks to be a bunch of charr rangers with guild tag… [PREP] I think, can’t really remember.

http://www.stormbluffisle.com/index.php/forum/wvw/1910-what-s-with-the-bots

Since this is allowed, why don’t we all just do the same thing, capping camps with our own army, taking towers pvdooring, and the scare the hell out of people to make them think we greatly outnumber them. It was funny though as I watched all the bears moving in synch, hitting the same things, running back at the same time.

Kebab.4013:

DevonCarver.5370:

Kaleden.9386:

Outfitter? You mean the NPCs selling PVP weapons/armor? If so, did you check just south of the home-point spawn location on Red BL – they were the last time I saw them (this was on Sanctum of Rall’s borderlands a few weeks ago).

I do wish banks were more accessible in WvW, but those are one of the few useful perks from upgrading personnel at a Keep. That said, IIRC, the banks were removed because people were queuing up for WvW just to access their bank, causing longer queue times.

That’s also what was the impetus for removing the crafting stations. The more time people spend in the maps not playing WvW, the longer the queues are.

You do realize there are players just standing afk autocasting heal right?

That doesn’t even work either.

Aridia.3042:

GS
Sword + warhorn
Lightning reflex
SotH

Disable auto target.
Swoop, horn, turn backwards and hornet sting, face forward again and monarch leap, turn backwards and LR. Repeat.

How do you turn yourself, manually with the mouse? I usually use about face, then use that/LR, then aboutface again. Sometimes I mess up that combination in the heat of battle though.

Hi, I have a question about Moment of Clarity.

Due to the unpredictability of the cast time of the F2 skill (I know the channeling times it’s just that sometimes they’re on queue or something), I thought maybe I’ll press F2 just before I daze, so the F2 attack will land right after the daze. Will that attack gain the damage boost provided by the trait?

I have been leveling up a Ranger the past two weeks, and decided to try this Ranger species (I hate mainstream class builds, just like how I hate oft-played Chess Openings).

Terrahero.9358:

A bunch of arrowcarts are already more then effective in stopping a zerg. All i see about the people who think ACs needed a buff is people who feel they should single-handedly be able to repel a 50man zerg. What are you people smoking?!

Half a dozen people on ACs was already a serious roadblock. And now, with the 80% dmg buff AND mastery, they count twice as hard.
Great, you anti-zergers got what you wanted. 3 ppl can defend against 50man zergs. Cheers. Now try playing in a tier where 6 arrowcarts on a gate or wall are the norm, instead of 1 lone defender.

Those 3 will be useless once intelligent people (not the stupid zerg that goes omg we can’t stand in this circle, we’re doomed!) start putting a catapult far from the arrow carts.

Nokaru.7831:

shortcake.8659:

This seems like a real challenge, so I shall tell you guys how to not die to the arrow carts even after the buff

I have made your diagram a bit more accurate.

That means that the server went over half the siege cap for a map. I don’t know why people do not learn strategic play. There are a lot of guides on standard siege placement. More advanced ones in the playbook of a few commanders that I know. There are trebuchets, catapults. Eles with focus do not work anymore.

PsychoticWaltz.1768:

Nokaru.7831:

shortcake.8659:

Seriously it’s not hard just don’t stand in the red circles and you’ll be fine

Exactly!

Too bad we can’t move rams.

You can catapult/treb, heck even ballistas can deal some measure of damage. You put something in the open, of course it’s going to get it.

Zumos.2056:

Nokaru.7831:

shortcake.8659:

Seriously it’s not hard just don’t stand in the red circles and you’ll be fine

Exactly!

yeah don’t stand in the red circles when there is 10 ACs firing and there is circles everywhere … Do you even play WvW?

I play every single day, and I know that if there’s circle everywhere, I go from 1 LOL dmg circle to the next. Makes me happy knowing that. And unless a person is ramming, they won’t expect arrow circle stacks. So people should be smart to take out the arrow carts, or find another way to break the keep instead of standing in a lot of circles wanting to eat all the arrows until the gate is down. And all you know is call people expletives and obscenities.

Zumos.2056:

You can’t dodge out of ACs, you can’t run out of them when sieging, there is no skill at all using them.

So people ramming can’t switch/swap in another person? The person meant to eat all the arrows until the door goes down?

And there’s absolutely no skill at all getting out of the arrow circle. Yeah you get hit once, but it was LOL dmg.

This was kind of timely. I know someone who has 8 level 80 characters (and that was a few months ago) who ports himself religiously daily up to the chest (with a friend helping). That’s like more than 100 badges a day just getting ported up for him (log in, run to portal, run to chest, repeat).

DevonCarver.5370:

VOLKON.1290:

DevonCarver.5370:

The timer works like this: When you deploy a siege site, if you don’t put supply into it for 2 minutes, it will despawn. Every time you put supply in, it will get a new timer of 5 minutes. Once siege is fully built, it has the 30 minute timer. That timer resets every time someone uses the weapon.

30 minutes? That’s it?

This patch seems to have put a lot of focus on making defending even harder than it has been, is that deliberate? Sure, arrow carts hurt more, but if you get there and they’ve all despawned, ouch.

The 30 minute timer is actually longer than it used to be. It also is visible now, which it did not used to be.

Thought it was always 30 minutes before. We refresh them every 20-25 minutes though to prevent any lapses.

Arrow cart was sort of giving LOL dmg to my engi before (maybe I had toughness). My grenades even do better insta downing the zerg below. Doesn’t make sense to have people standing in an arrow rain. Arrow cart buff is timely.

You think it’s unfair?

This was one of the biggest reason I stopped playing my Power necro. In normal state with food and buffs I had around 3.2k armor and 27HP yet when I’m down I get dpsed down faster than a full berserker warrior.

I had thought this was intentional, that everyone’s stats doesn’t matter anymore, and necro has the very low downed HP compared to others. I was pretty kitten because of this.

I stopped reading when I saw turrets.

Chris.3290:

CD, you want bragging rights; don’t quit every match by Monday. I left CD because of that crap.

Wow. Forum warrior. Glad you left CD, but we’ll sure be gladder to see you off this thread.

Sure, we definitely need those kitten numbers next to our names.

I’ve been in a BL in desperate need of a commander (it was off-hours) and the only blue doritos around was doing jump puzzle.

Hm, WvW is bad here, WvW is silly bla bla, and even if it’s just an opinion of one person who sucks at it, who is just a tiny percentage, rather meaningless one, but the person’s view matters and it is important so therefore WvW is a failure entirely.

/sarcasm

OK, so I queued Tier 3 fortify walls on Hills before the new build today and it was well on it’s way towards getting there. After the new build, not only progress is not showing, and workers stopped doing work, I couldn’t pay for another one as it says “It’s currently upgrading”. Is there any way we can get our wall upgraded without having to lose it to enemy then taking it back?

Wow, people are going to great lengths trying to find a way to nerf thieves more!

We will have to have ANET come up with cold, hard numbers. And until they do that, remember that there are 6 camps in every borderlands, 8 in EB, which makes it a total of 26 camps. That means theoretically 52 live yaks may be moving around at the same time. With the number of people always on the move roaming and hunting them down, individual tests are almost meaningless.

Saw patch notes saying they reduced the area where players can be invulnerable near the camps not far from their spawn. Seems they still miss a spot. Hope cleaned up abit soon. More of them doing same thing today.

Tried to figure this out a few days ago and found out a way to do it. When my guild was discussing if it was cheating, we concluded that since a quite a number of classes are able to get up there, and the fact that the ones up there can be attacked, and pulled down, we’re pretty sure it isn’t cheating if people aren’t able to cap the camp because of an exploit. More like player incompetency.

I find this screenshot amusing… looking at the Charr stamping on my Asura over and over. I really look flattened there.

What’s cheating? Decent numbers on Killshot and Volley, nothing OP, or anything that needs a nerf. Move along now.

Big misconception: people thinking server population = wvw population.

How many points a dolyak is worth is best tested in LOW POPULATION TIERS where ZERGING is not as rampant as T1-T3 servers. I love seeing some posts where their reasoning of how the whole thing works is “oh..killing…lets see before and after…156,336… now it’s 156,338!!!! so it must be 2 points at this place from that place” and never giving thought that there are a lot of dolyaks in 4 friggin maps.

Everything has become so much better after the patch. Everyone in my guild knew I complained about lag every night, especially during wvw. Now with the customizable options I’m enjoying wvw like never before! Thhaaankkkss SO MUCH, ANET!!!

They can keep the current system but every few weeks or so they can have a week where matchups are random. Then back to the way it was for another few weeks.