Guild Wars 2

“and it’s expensive when it comes to repairing your expensively powerful armor”

10/10 would read again.

Wethospu.6437:

Why not?

He checked his skill bar. He had a skill called “kick” and he didn’t have a skill called “answer”.

Kick : Immediatly get you out of pick up group. Damages of the group then increase by 100%. Self inflict cripple. Combo Finisher : Explosion.

Answer : Can’t use, you’re a PUG.

Though i would share this with you guys, since i’m reading but not really posting.

Basically, i started a CoF P1 run on the LFG, asking “P1 rush 80, Zerk only”.
The party filled pretty quick, 5 warriors.

So we go for it, but one of the other warriors seems to have a pretty low DPS. Bah, it’s CoF p1 i don’t really care. Then, after the Fiery Balls (that the low dps one managed to fail almost 5 time in a row on the first ball), come the room where you have to split to get the door opened. And there comes the magic he’s just running arround, doing nothing. Okay calm down, he may be don’t know how to do it. So i say how to do it in group chat. No answer, still running around. Then i state a “XXX, answer or kick ?”

Then an unexpected “kick” from him comes in say chat. LOLWUT.

He really asked me to kick him. #IMOKAYWITHDIS

He means that home worlds have meaning only in WvW now In PvE, just group up with your mate, and right click ‘join map XXX’ if you are not on the same map instance.

In PvE all servers are now kind of merged into a big one, so your home doesn’t really matter anymore.

Actually the game is under the mega server. So, the people you can see around you may not be from the same server as you in PvE.

Actually, no single server is able to do it, but cross server communities can. You will never be able to get the numbers for every try with people comming from only from one server. But actually it makes no sense, since all servers are merged in PvE with the megaserver (for example, the French community is based on people coming from all 5 french servers Vizunah Square, Jade Sea, Arborstone, Fort Ranik, Augury Rock)

So, based on this, you should try to team up with people coming from differents servers. It’s even easier on NA, because you have a common language. And even with different language, we did it with Spanish and French Team together, so it’s doable.

What i’m saying here is simple : if you don’t have the numbers, try to get in touch with other communities that could come with you.

You know, when we first did it with the Spanish team, it was before the megaservers. We were around 75 french people (not enough to do it, you need around 150 people) looking for an overflow map to train on one head. The other commanders and me randomly hit on a map where we found 75 spanish people attempting doing the same training. We asked them directly, “hey why not team up, so we can do a full attempt ?”. They said “Hell yes !” and that was this little moment that started everything. Less than one week later, our 2 little communities met up again, and got the full kill. And i still run with them sometimes (really fun people to play with, i really enjoy the time spent there ). That’s not hard to get the numbers, if you are willing to get them

EDIT : About the 50 needed per wurm, yup, it’s intended to be like this. As i said, this event is NOT deisgned for small groups.

And, since your problem seems to be the event itself :

Amber Wurm Guide: http://gw2community.com/index.php?/topic/201-amber-wurm-guide/
Cobalt Wurm Guide: http://gw2community.com/index.php?/topic/203-cobalt-wurm-guide/
Crimson Wurm Guide: http://gw2community.com/index.php?/topic/27-crimson-wurm-guide/

Your stunlock story is not valid. Diboof take care of eggs spawning, and wurms/larva.
Condi teams kills husks while the DPS/Keg pack can manage what they need to do in order to dps down the wurm.

And for TTS :
http://ttsgamers.com/

And if with that you are not able to understand that your concern isn’t a valid one … well, i can’t do anything for you.

Dude, you can’t read or what ? I said check TTS community if you are on NA. I’ve heard they actually do it quite often. And i’m sure there is actually other team on NA doing it.

If you don’t want to put the effort to find them, try to organise one by yourself. Your concern is not valid, you are actually ranting over something that can be done easily as long as you do what’s required to do it. And don’t tell me “i don’t have time for that”, if you don’t want to put the effort to do it, well it’s on you, and you only, not on the event.

When i wanted to get it done, i joined the French community and started to lead and organize it with some people. Then the more we did it, the more people we got. And when we lost people, we met the Spanish crew that was in the same situation and we started to try together. And we got the kill. More than once. Yes, it was hard. Yes it took some time. But we did it. Because we did what was necessary.

And it was FUN. I’ve met a loooot of player comming from different communities, even some that are now guild mates. Worth the time invested.

This thread again …

Okay. First, the event itself is designed for LARGE and VERY ORGANIZED groups ONLY. There is no issue if it can’t be done by 30 people, because it’s NOT designed to be done this way.

Next, the Triple Trouble is actually done daily by multiple communities, if you are on EU, i can think of 4 of them, the gw2community (european), the Spanish, the French cooperation, and the German (this one doing it on the gw2community Team Speak).
If you are on NA, TTS are actually the one you should check.

People do NOT hate this event, if so, we wouldn’t have so many team doing it.

I’m actually a french lead and i did it countless time (around 50 kills at least, and i think i’m underestimating it) and do it everytime i feel to do so. I did it with 3 different communities on EU, got a lot of fun doing so, and now it’s quite easy to get the numbers to do it.

“Massive Aoes.. and stun locks.. will make any strategy moot and pointless.”
“to stay out of the aoe of the wurm. but in the way of the 10+ champs and another 10+ elites that are stun locking them.. to death.”

You seem to not know there is actually tactics and team dedicated to prevent this to happen (seek for diboof on youtube). Means that you doesn’t understand how this event work.

If you don’t know anything about the tactics we will teach you how it works, there is no problem being a beginner on this event, we all have been. Just put the effort and join on of the communities doing it. It is actually working PERFECTLY WELL as intended. So please do not rant over it.

The number of slots in party depends on the area. In the low level, it’s 4, the pets are never taken into account. It will go up to 8 when you’ll reach higher level areas. Some special instance allow you to go 12 slots, but that’s AvA or Urgoz. There is now way to get more slots.

Mesmer are different in both game, due to the fact the gameplay itself is very different, give it a try, and you’ll see by yourself

Also Realist posts are really good one, he pretty summed everything you’ll need to get started.

About the luck thing, you can convert your stacks of lucks in higher tier luck (5*10 luck => 1 of 50 etc …) being an artificer.

The best way to acquire those points is doing the PvE titles.

I did them all (GWAMM, and the whole 50 points and much more) with my necromancer, with the Spirit Spam build and an hero team of 3 necromancer. Actually, there is 2 kind of builds that are very very very efficient for this set up, it’s the Discordway team and the Sabway. If you have a buddy with which you can play, one should use the Discordway and the other de Sabway. Those two combined are super efficient to get the vanquisher title, or any mission in PvE mode.

Unfortunately, i don’t have any link right now to give you, but they can easily be found on other forums (just type “discordway necro team” or “sabway necro team” should be good).

If you want further advice, do not hesitate to drop me a PM.

EDIT : didn’t saw it, but check Prophet video, that’s what i’m talking about.
EDIT 2 : it’s discordway and not SS, SS was the UW duo farm build ^^

We should get some kind of BINGO for sPvP forum aswell

Noah.4756:

Kordash.2197:

3) It works perfectly well as intended. PERIOD.

I honestly doubt that how the Triple Wurm currently functions is even near perfect. Here’s just a few things that make me cringe about this event:

- As you said yourself the taxi system is terrible. You have to join an hour early to get into a good server. That means an hour doing nothing productive.
- New bugs that are introduced each time such as wurm eggs that can’t be reflected and scaling issues
- The time he spawns in EU is inconvenient to say the least. You also have to rush from one big world event (Tequatl) to the next (Triple Wurm)
- Organizing with random people speaking different languages (especially the french and germans) is impossible. Even if they do speak your language there is a big chance many players are undergeared and have no clue what to do during the event

1) Taxi on the server are not linked to the event, this problem is about the system, not the event itself.
2) The reflect nerf is intended, not a bug (i’ve seen a post by dev confirming this). The scaling is currently working well, didn’t saw a try with a bugscaling in a while (thought they could be one, just never got one over the past 2 months)
3) With experienced people, this is not an issue, see the gw2community or the French one, it doesn’t bother us so much we can do Teq followed by the wurm without that much trouble. However, spawning @ 7pm is IMO inconvenient for the french indeed (just the time when you come home from work, if you have a familly, well … you’re screwed :p).
4) Wrong. The Spanish and the French community did the event together, on the Spanish TeamSpeak with around 75 french and 75 spanish, sometimes more, sometimes less on one or the other side (50-100 sometimes), and we did get the kill. And more than once. I’ve personnaly lead some of those trys. And it was a loooooot of fun, the spanish crew was awesome i must say (big up to their leaders aswell).
The language was a barrier, indeed, but we could get ride of this with a little bit of cooperation. We spoke english, french, spanish, and did the translation for those who where in need. Seriously, that was the one of my greatest moment in GW2, where 2 communities overcome their difference and succeed in one of the hardest content of this game.

Very cool idea, but would need a new dedicated map IMO.

I loooooove to see people complaining about this “impossible” event. As a french lead that organized countless trys on this event, and succeed both before and after the 15/04 (last one i did was this sunday), i can tell you that if you are not able to get it, you are doing it wrong. In EU, there is at least 4 communities that do it on a regular basis, French, Spanish, German, and of course the gw2community team. I actually did with 3 of them, and succeed with the 3. (Never did with the German one, thought i’d love to try with them sometime)

Btw,

1) This content has been designed to be hard
2) It has been designed to be done by very organized team that know what they are doing ONLY
3) It works perfectly well as intended. PERIOD.

The only minor issue isn’t about the event itself, but about the way we gather on the map. It was bad before the 15/04, it is bad now aswell IMO (with or without megaserver, if you aren’t in time for the taxi you can’t get in the right map), but i think Anet know it and will come with a better way someday. In the meantime, if we are able to do it, you should be aswell, if not, either you are doing it wrong, or you are a leecher. In both case, the problem is coming from you.

Before posting such a thread, i think you should ask yourself : what will be the cost of it ?

Not only in $$ (doing such a thing will require at least several man/days), but with things like what would it imply in term of ping/lag, how differently Americans and Europeans play (just give a look at the first ToL, the meta are completly different), how will player deal with the 2 very different community (hey, Americans don’t have servers with different languages) …

Don’t get me wrong, i would really like to see this happens. But you seems to think it’s an easy thing to do. Since you don’t have any real metrics, or data about how the system actually work (neither do i), you just don’t know, so please stop being agressive. If a dev’ could explain a little bit why they can’t do it (or don’t want), i would be glad to know, i’m a little bit curious

thaooo.5320:

Servers and networks cost next to nothing, so sorry but that’s a moot point.

Wow. Just wow. As a developper myself, i can tell you that saying “Servers and networks cost next to nothing” is a completly stupid statement. I would suggest you to check the REAL cost of it.

Btw, my two cents on the “passionate developper” thing : Yes, passion is better. But don’t ever forget that these people need to bring something to eat, and something to live for their family aswell.

And actually, most video game company are almost considering their developpers as pieces of meat, repaying them with almost half of the salary they should make with their degrees, for almost twice the amount of work. I originally wanted to work in the video game industry, but after seeing how these companies work … not anymore. I’m not saying Arena Net is working like this, in fact i don’t know, but a big part of the industry at least is doing so, and i would not call any video game developper “capitalist driven” and even less “they have no passion for what they are doing”.

(sorry for my english, not my native language)

ilmau.9781:

14) Seafarer’s Rest 353

loooool comon!!! i m in 5 guilds and 3 of them exist ONLY for claiming/upgrades !!!

If you open a thread like this make sure you have some serious datas

So, if you want to know we have actually 46 guilds following our WvW community, all actives, mostly WvW oriented (some PvX) all of decent/small scale numbers, we don t have 60+ blob guilds.

Have a nice day

Read his post completly before posting, you would have know he said the data is based on claimed objectives, meaning the number aren’t the real ones …

timmyf.1490:

Aidan Savage.2078:

timmyf.1490:

I just wanted to make a science joke. :-/

Most science logic in a game forces a “404: logic not found” error. Otherwise, how can you explain a character carrying up to 40 thousand gold ingots? Or 40 thousand planks of wood? Not only is the first example going to weigh quite a bit (possibly several tons), the second example is going to be awkward to carry considering the planks are going to be up to 6 feet in length.

Wormhole bags.

Duh. ;-)

10/10

Scorze.1056:

The way these two bosses are right now have no place in the game imo. Asking a lot of times random people in the zone (not all of which are fighting the bosses mind you) to be able to cooperate and all know the strategy perfectly is a bit too much. It’s almost impossible for people who play solo or in a small group to defeat these bosses unless they get super lucky and land on a great overflow. The way things are right now is not fair at all. What I suggest is that there would be some kind of queue for these bosses and you get a daily try (or can just earn the reward once a day as it is now). Of course, level 80s only and possibly some kind of weapon/armor requirement. Finally, before you all jump at me and say that I’m just a casual, I want to remind you that you can only contribute so much to these bossfights on your own or with a 5-man party. Also, I’m not asking for any kind of nerfs to them, I just want the boss fights to be more organised since they do require a significant amount of organisation themselves. A lot of people, including myself, have long since stopped trying to defeat them as it has little to no point.
Of course, you can think of other ways to fix them but please take some measures!

Actually, i can get both these bosses done everyday by following the EU community TeamSpeak and their great commanders. Even more, i’m actually co-organizing (in coordination with people and commanders from every french servers) trys every week for the French community, that are actually quite successfull (Tequatl is killed every time, the wurm a bit less, but still done). These bosses are really easy if every one is going to put down the effort to kill them. That means, get on TeamSpeak, get the right optimized stuff and builds, pick things like fire elemental powder, and follow the commanders organizing it. If you are on EU and not able to get it done, you are doing something terribly wrong PERIOD.

The only little flaw there would be is not to be able to create a particular instance of the map only for people doing the Wurm. But actually, we manage to create a special overflow to get at least the 150 people on the TeamSpeak.

There is one thing to actually fix though, that would be some bugs on achievements for the Wurm and the bug when Tequatl is not going in defense phase when he should. But that’s not something that’s really blocking.

(sorry for my English, not my native language)

Sounds like you don’t have a big WvW experience, am i wrong ?

Anyway, join a WvW guild. I can assure you that even outnumbered 3V1 fight isn’t autowin for the biggest zerg (fact is, well organized group can take a 3v1 situtation when the ennemy zerg is not coordinated, even seen 4v1). Also, make sure to be on your server official Team Speak if you’re not runing in guild, some commanders are very fun to follow. And there is far less toxicity in WvW than average PvE/PvP

I don’t roam that much, so i’ll let other people talk for this.

And if you still don’t find it fun, well, it just doesn’t match your tastes, not a big deal, try to find something else ^^

Thedenofsin.7340:

When players get on the forums to express their dislike with the direction the game is going they get perma-banned from the forums. From the company’s perspective, this appears to make the most sense. Forums get cleaned up and all the negativity is removed. Players no longer complain on the forums for fear of being banned and everything seems fine. Of course, the end result is more people silently leave and the game continues to diminish in its player base and, consequently, its revenue stream.

When you come here and say Kitten kitten kitten bullkitten rather than “I dislike this because this point is not fun/to hard to deal with/imo unbalanced and would like to see it becoming more like this”, yes you DESERVE and SHOULD get perma banned. Saying something is bad without a proper previous thinking on why is it this way, why this choice has been made, and a solution to improve it is completly stupid.

Saying something is flawed in a constructive way isn’t a bad thing, saying it’s flawed without thinking of the reasons and without giving any possible solution, AND being as agressive as a lot of people of here is won’t get you anything but hate.

Constructive and respectfull feedback >>>>> Mindless agressivity (something that this forum is full of) (And English is not my native language, apologies for the mistakes)

Good ideas overall, but the dodge while immobilized thing ? I don’t see any logical reason for that. Maybe i’m missing something, but IMO, imobilisation isn’t that hard to deal with, in the current state of the game, and doesn’t seem game breaking.

Wow. I would really love to see something like that in game. That’s some pretty nice ideas, thumbs up !

I’ve seen this proposed before, so i’ll just say that i approve the idea of putting some of reworked GW1 missions (before hitting me with whatever you have, i know that’s GW2 and NOT GW1, if i’m suggesting it, it’s only because the Lore of GW1 is amazing imo) or something related to the DoA. I would love to see something about the elder races, like Jotuns, when the Elder Dragons rised for the first time.

I personnally think Skyhammer is perfectly fine as it is. I love the way it requires to adapt my build and plays if i want to dodge knobacks out of the map and skyhammer shots.
I also love to see players complaining 24/7 about it, and see that most of them don’t even try to adapt their builds with more stability, stun breakers and knockback than in other maps as they should. (seriously, every class have a stun breaker, stability, knockback, fear ability or even grabs, the main problem is that most players i fight and see complain about the map NEVER use thoses).

I think Spirit Watch is fine aswell, though i REALLY hate it. Not because of pseudo unbalanced map, but becauce IMO it’s not fun to play. But that’s just a personnal taste. What i don’t like it ? I find it very frustrating to have to try to kill someone carrying the orb while his team is just caping points. In SoloQ i found it awfull since the team coordination is very hard to maintain with this, and i get way too often team mates not focusing on the points. Again, it’s just a personnal taste, i think that THE MAP is balanced.

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

The game has been reduce to DpS/support, of which the heavy armored have both of these categories tied nicely and there is no need to bring anything else.

Then, take 2 team at EQUAL skill level, one with only War/guards (builds and number of war/guards doesn’t matter) against a balanced team with like 1 war, 1 guard, 1 necro condi/mm, 1 spirit ranger, and 1 whatever you think will suit more efficiently (would say a D/D or D/P backstab thief).

Make them play 100 games. And you’ll see that the full heavy team won’t do so well

I wasn’t talking only about it. Try a 5v5 as i described after, without any point caping. The 5 Warriors will still get crushed. At equal skill level.

And actually, i agree with previous posts saying that you are trying to apply the Trinity system to a game that wasn’t designed for it.

Yes, actual combats have flaws thought (bit of unbalanced regarding certain classes), but what you described is not AT ALL a part of it.

Sirendor.1394:

- PvP: tanks are, like healers, weakening the team, because they contribute less damage and still take a lot because the armor ratings don’t make a big difference. Also the main defensive abilities are dodging and blocking, which are all abilities that can not be used to defend allies because you can’t do it for allies.

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. Bunker Guards and Spirit ranger would be completly uneffective if it was the case.

In PvP, the real matter is not about fighting, but “should you fight or run”. My current Guardian build has a very low DPS output, yet a lot of boons for allies and a strong tankiness ability, and by the recent increase of my win/lose ratio, i wouldn’t say that i’m weakening my team.

As a counter example, try to take a 5 zerkers warrior against a balanced comp let’s say (just as exemple, could be totally different) 1 guardian bunker, 1 warrior HB, 1 necro MM, or full condi build, 1 spirit ranger and 1 thief. WITH ALL PLAYERS HAVING THE SAME SKILL LEVEL : If i follow what you’re saying, the healings buffs given by ranger and guardian won’t be that effective, the tankiness of theses two will weaken the team, and the 5 warriors would win 100/100. But what’s actually happening in this case ? Nothing like that, it’s more 80/100 win for the second team.

Also, sorry for bad english, it’s not my main language.

I’ll keep this in mind the next time i’ll see you in game. I’ll totally crush you (or get crushed by you) just for pleasure Cya in game !

Pretty nice idea. And it match perfectly with the CDI i guess.

My bad then. Sounds different in your first post.

Troma.3250:

Saying what i think is playing victim now? what the hell is wrong with you. Did you ever see me cry like you did in the past? when the time are difficult, i fight, i do not whine. WHERE do you see a victim in my post? i’m just disgusted by some guys, they used my patience little by little.

The work on Vizunah changed nothing. The amount of trolls, arrogance and personnal attack from some SFR changed a little my patience with them yes.

I’m never playing a role on thoses forums (except when call to arms mode); i just tell my opinion.

That’s why i guess, when i put something positive for Vizunah in this thread, i “used your patience little by little.”. Man. You perform irony against your own mates, and still complain about the trolls ?

I did a bet, didn’t said it wouldn’t be hard, still, you come and flame.

And yes i’m from Vizunah if that wasn’t obvious for you.

Back to the topic : We fought collaboration in the past, and got through it. There is no reason Vizunah can’t do it again, even if it the risk of it happening is really small.

Oh Troma … You’re hurting me. Not even able to read between the lines …

Haha, even if Piken and SFR team up, i bet they won’t be able to succeed in putting Viz third place. At most SFR first, Viz second, Piken third.

Btw, i really enjoyed fights with Piken this week, kinda fun and hard fights

As i’m a beginner commander too, i would say the best way to keep you talking, is thinking of something funny about your opponents and what you would do to them.

I like to see my opponents as a bunch of cookies, so when i have to give a move i say something like “turn left, turn left, kittenING big chocolate chip here !”,“Eat them all !”,“hold on, care for overdose !”

I don’t know if you get my point since english is not my main language (and god, i’m bad at it, sorry) but this simple thing help me keep the talk flow, plus it got some funny answer sometimes :p

Dear sir, for my first reaction “WTF is this ****”, i’ll give you a 8/10. Thanks for the good moment :p

9/10. Seriously, best thread ever in suggestions.