Guild Wars 2

xFireize.6318:

Either way, for that strong effect, anything below 90 seconds is too low.

At 45 seconds yes its quite powerful. Its basically a combination of

1. Guardian Save Yourselves – but you get stability and aegis as well but only for 5 seconds of all boons duration compared to the default of 10 secs for SY
2. Active piece of Warrior Signet of Stamina – clear all conditions.

SY can be traited down to 48 seconds and SoS traited to 36 seconds so for classes with short elites (warrior, thief and necro) the Lyssa rune 6 is rather nice

The problem here is the rune 6 benefit is not available to all classes equally since it fires of elites and elite CD’s are messed up due to balancing the vastly different benefits of them across classes. One easy way to fix this would be to give every class a short, medium and long elite choice, 45-60, 90-120 and 180+. That way you can choose to take the short one and trade off. Of course for balance, the current elites would need to be adjusted. Another way would be to change the trigger for rune 6 to something else. Or course they could wield the nerf hammer and derate the lyssa rune 6 bonus…

This is not just an issue with Lyssa, there are a couple rune sets that trigger off elites as well but just not as good.

RedSpectrum.1975:

Carighan.6758:

@NinjaEd:
Isn’t the rune on a 50s ICD?

No, the rune 6 is on a 45 second cooldown, same as Basilisk Venom, I use that skill only because that skill tells me exactly when I can get the sweet condi removal again :/

They must have changed it then because it used to be a ~50 sec ICD. A 50 second ICD means the best cycle time you could get would be an untraited signet of rage = 60 seconds for warrior or 50 seconds for thief = lyssa base 50 sec ICD. See my earlier post. I will switch venom back onto my thief and test it tonight.

UPDATE: tested this on my thief today and the ICD for Lyssa is definitely at least 45 seconds (or less?) now. Automatically cycling an untraited basilisk venom skill (CD 45 seconds) will trigger lyssa rune 6 every time.

This has definitely changed at some point as I was using this last year on my warrior with a traited signet of rage (CD of 48secs) and the lyssa rune 6 was only occurring every 2nd time and every time when signet of rage was untraited (60 seconds) hence why the ICD was determined to be 50 seconds (between 48 and 6 0).

I will try a traited basilisk venom next to see if the ICD is 36 seconds of below as a final check.

Lyssa rune cd is 50 seconds, unless they have changed it recently of course. It will not fire every time with a traited Signet of Rage (48secs) (only every 2nd time), same goes with basilisk venom (45sec cd).

I have a set for my warrior that I never use now and set for my thief which is quite handy that I still run but I use it with dagger storm.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

So why can’t the gift of battle also be gotten for spvp? Is it dependent on having to battle people rather than npcs specifically? Could not killing zaihtan and achieving dungeon master not also be considered a ‘battle’ achievement?

Because you cannot currently use a legendary in sPvP so adding that as a requirement would not make any sense. If they introduce legendary skin use in sPvP then maybe they will add it as a requirement.

Mad Rasputin.7809:

The ability to reach rank 30 in a ‘matter of hours’ laregely depends on the server you are on and the size of the zerg you can run with.

People can defend the change all they want, but I really don’t see the reason or need for it. Not that it can’t be done or done in a reasonable manner, but the necessity of it is really in question.

The reason is clear – you used to actually have to leave the protected area in WvW to get the badges needed for the gift of battle previously before WvW badges started dropping from achievement chests like candy even if it was only to visit a jumping puzzle.

With the achievement chests dropping WvW badges you could get your gift without leaving the protected area and so Anets original plan that a legendary required participation in all forms of the game it could be used in was broken more than they obviously liked, map completion excepted.

They have just reverted that change by introducing the rank requirement which is still easier than previously since with some laurels and badges you can still buy it without setting foot in WvW proper.

Of course you still need to do the map completion piece and so need to actually visit WvW but that has not changed so is moot given the title of this thread.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I phsycally can’t follow the zerg in WvW. My system simply won’t support it. I freeze and crash.

Turn you settings down to minimum. If you are already using minimum settings and are still crashing in WvW for zerg fights then I have no idea how you cope with those big pve events. I find those a much bigger load on my system than WvW zerg versus zerg.

30 ranks is really not a big issue as others have said.

You have to do the map completion anyway so if you do some of that via capping objectives rather than just grabbing already capped stuff you will get wxp from those caps.
You can get wxp via laurels and badges. A Friday karma train with a birthday booster can give you plenty. A cycle of the main assets on a BL map would give you over 10KWxp which is 2 levels with a booster and takes less than 20 minutes in a good karma train.
Playing WvW normally will yield around 1 level an hour if you are running in a small team capping camps and killing folks.

The gifts are account bound so you only need 1 avatar at this level anyway. That will get even easier when they do acct wide wxp.

Compare this to the previous 500 badges when they had no achievement chest drops and they only dropped from kills and rarely or you got a few from puzzle chests. 30 ranks now and the ton badges you get from achievement chests without setting foot in WvW are a much smaller requirement than they had at the start.

As others have said, you can use some laurels and badges to get the wxp if you really want and not have to fight anyone or cap anything. If you have a few thousand achievement points (and you will have from map completion and all those other pve activities) then you will be sitting on a few thousand badges already.

Compare this to having to do dungeons to gather 500 tokens or full blown pve map completion or gathering all the other mats and its really one of the lesser things to accomplish to get a legendary.

Anyways, its clear on one thing, folks like to moan.

This is my warrior, yellow-orange skin colour

Aeri.5738:

signet of the hunt is only +50% damage, it’s an ingame typo.

150% damage is +50% damage……..

its a 1.5 multiplier, many ways of saying the same thing. x1.5, 150%, +50% etc

Guru gets my vote, remember some fun times posting there.

Good luck to all three again this week, hoping for some good open field fights again.

This is what I am using in WvW at present when blob smashing. If I am scouting or roaming I switch around some of the traits and skills, sometimes change the warhorn for a shield and hammer for a greatsword etc.

The odd sigil choices on warhorn/sword are a result of howl/bolt and I can’t face reslotting them (how I wish legendary weapons had changeable sigils) those sigils work well enough anyway.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNBiYDbk0p4NGSFCHOggeohVhAaK8DqHzBeEHA-jUDBYgCyEFQkFAEBwZPLaMBKolRFRjVVbR1qbYqYA2dAWzKaG0pWGAmxA-w

I will be replacing the armor with a full set of ascended knights with 2 mel + 4 resistance runes soonish.

Had some serious fun on JQ BL, SoR BL and just now on EB as part of BFD

Nice to see that BG and SoR are out in force, Those were some big blobs of walking bags you had there folks. Certainly its great to see SoR with numbers again. Even spotted a few RET and TW tags in there.

Great to see you both out there bringing the pain. Those EB fights inside SM outer were funny, and thanks for all the bags at Jerri,

Special call out to HB for those fights earlier in evening around JQ BL NE tower, as usual was a pleasure fighting you

Smokee.1754:

Cheers for the fights on JQ bl JQ.. Its been months since Ive seen commanders taking out there troops for fights like that. Well fought.

They sure were good fights Smokee. Nice to see HB out in force. Those fights with our band of BFD around Hills against your HB and RK folks were certainly good for our training

Salute.

Night Hawk Ix.7360:

Jedbacca.6297:

You guys are failing at utilizing the new template…

You guys are in 3rd place and looking like you will stay there, unless that comment was for your own server i’d shhh if i was you.

Do you often have problems with understanding comedy? Far be it from me to beat an old stereotype…..

Cirus.5748:

Waha hasn’t left the game,

He’s just taking a permanent holiday and won’t be back.

and if that’s true its sad for his opponents if they want a good fight in that timezone.

However some folks just want a karma train don’t they……… hence the apparent joy from some quarters.

Been out of WvW for a week, nice to come back and had fun running with BFD tonight and wiping some blobs.

As to the Waha stuff, as far as I know his laptop is kaput hence he is not playing. Hopefully he will be back once he has a replacement. If not Salute.

Fannwong, your posts on this come across as trolling as it is basically you from SoR who is deciding to put forward the news rather than anyone from his guild or JQ first. You decided to crow about it a few weeks ago. You had ATM folks come here and tell you he had not left as you described and it was a temporary thing but you choose to ignore them and have carried on posting it seems.

You call yourself SoR WvW Committee Advisor so I would have expected better from someone of that title. Maybe some pm’s to folks in his guild first (you say you frequent the correct forums) to confirm what you had heard rather than just bleating about it on your own to show how awesomely informed you are as some sort of grand show.

But hey some folks just have no class, each to their own

Can you all take the MERC topic somewhere else? Us bystanders get that there is some kitten hurt folks on both sides but really just play the game no matter what server you are on. Move on from it kitten .

If folks want to go their separate ways then that’s their perogative. BG hardly got left in the lurch unless of course winning season 1 was just some bizarre gardening accident.

Zero.5034:

To all the BG players camping JQ spawn on BGBL right now.. way to stay classy. It must take a real strong server to camp 4-5 people in their spawn with a group of 20+

There are three exits from the spawn. Were they camping all three? if not then they were not stopping you getting out onto the map and if they want to sit their blob at the main spawn exit then that’s alot of folks doing nothing. Take advantage of it and take one of the other exits and flip some stuff.

A traited hammer zealots embrace is 2sec of immob every 12 seconds with 1200 range. That is soft cc by your definition so hammer does have soft cc.

Plus you have ring of warding and hard cc with banish. I agree that guardian could always use more across other weapons and if Glacial heart was 100% chance then it might be worth taking but to say Hammer cc is lacking in general when 3 of the 5 skills offer cc and you can use a poor trait to add more seems a bit rich.

Sure, it would be nice for guardian to have more soft cc but we do have some

Yes because I just played WvW as I normally do and the achievements just ticked themselves off without having to focus on them.

Azog.3671:

Never ending 2hour queues, achievemnt hunters, puzzle jumpers, skill delays, mega lags, no overflow www map, PVE scrubs – Noobs and Tards in WwWwW destroying anything they can and now this Chest full of ôôôô….

If the rewards had been better then all the issues you listed above would be much much worse in season 2 if it ever happens. Be careful what you wish for.

Normal service has been resumed. BreadWars.

Was a fun season. Some awesome fights, keeping ZDs out of garry was a blast. Lots of bags on all sides. Shame there it didn’t go down to the final week but still a lot of fun.

Will be interesting to see what the future holds. Obviously, some folks were expecting more from the chest. For me, I don’t play WvW for loot anyway so anything is a bonus

Good luck to all in the coming weeks.

Smokee.1754:

Thanks for bringing fights tonight in JQ bl, it was alot of fun.

Yup, was fun on JQ BL last night. That bay fight was close, was a hard fought take and at one point I wasn’t sure we would get it. Good play by HB as usual.

Good fights on BG BL tonight with our motley crew team. Lots of fun. Thanks to our opponents for some great fights. So many bags

Fannwong.3059:

and Indo has given his blessings

Does he do weddings as well?

Seigfried.5938:

It’s not our fault your PUGs don’t show up when the going gets tough. I heard there were 4 ques during that time zone during your ‘easy’ matches and were non existent when you were faced with BG.

Of course its not your fault. If it were you would mean something and we both know that’s not the case. Nothing to see here it seems

Seigfried.5938:

Kreen.3925:

Seigfried.5938:

Did you expect me to rage at being called pot? Sorry mate, I don’t throw my server mates under the bus like you would do.

Any chance you could throw yourself under a bus instead? Just kidding of course.

Do you even know what the phrase means?

Which phrase might that be? Expecting you to rage? That’s hardly news. Or do you mean your use of that cliched metaphor?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throw_under_the_bus
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=throw%20under%20the%20bus

Seigfried.5938:

Did you expect me to rage at being called pot? Sorry mate, I don’t throw my server mates under the bus like you would do.

Any chance you could throw yourself under a bus instead? Just kidding of course.

Dale Rojo.7485:

SlothBear.9846:

Dale Rojo.7485:

All Blackgate is missing is the label “America’s Team”.

Hahahahaha yes, let’s make this happen. The irony would be wonderful.

It should happen, I’m glad I made that idea.

“WvW World Champions of NA, Blackgate AKA America’s Team.”

You really are a prize aren’t you? The gift that keeps on giving. The fact that you don’t understand the irony just reinforces the stereotype even more. Perfect

Please continue digging that hole.

Tyaen.5148:

Polismassa.6740:

Tyaen.5148:

JQ getting soft it took a map zerg to defend against 5.

Granted 5 [RET] is worth 25 JQ.

so let me get this straight, you were on EB in T1 right next to stonemist and you encountered a zerg (imagine that!), then, when they killed you, you went to forums to QQ about it and even managed to throw in some chest thumping… wow.

Who’s QQing? I’m flattered.

I doubt they came specifically for you. More likely they were running past and you got stuck on the bottom of their boots.

Dale Rojo.7485:

Blackgate are now the World Champions of WvW!

Classic. Just keep reinforcing that stereotype. You are aware there is a world outside of NA yes? In fact there is even a EU WvW league……

BG are the winners of Season 1 NA league. Nothing more and nothing less. Congratulations to them, but world champs? lol.

good luck to all three this week.

Berformet.2981:

back online now

yes looks like they lost a hamster and had to add a new one into the power circuit. That’s still a manual process at present with this tech level.

Yup, getting this now and can’t get in. I was in game, switched characters and got this. Seems like their login server is down.

Rhaegus.8924:

Hoots.9564:

electriette.8952:

it looks to me that TW split though. or at least, a good portion of TW is now part of RET.

TW is still around, we were out last night with our 18 killing stuff on SoRBL. We certainly don’t have the numbers we used to run with as we are are starting to break more/look into other games. But you will see us out with at least a flank group on 4-5 nights a week.

So, you’re saying that you’re now running with around 18 people, which is far less than the numbers you used to run around with? (see bold part)
And here i am, thinking TW only ran “15 people max” at the hight of their power.

Correct, TW only ever ran with 15 max, I have the sea of quotes from TW posters filed away if needed.

Sounds like they got some new blood then if they are up to 18 regularly.

Nickthemoonwolf.1485:

Again I’m just happy its not a blow out.

Same, fights have been surprisingly good this week.

riverrhyne.9751:

Kreen.3925:

What happened to TC? Did they get a new influx of less than charming individuals?

They used to be such a polite server.

Dude, I’m FROM TC, and I’m asking myself the same thing… I apologize in any case.

Also, a shout out to the JQ who let me and a couple of guildies into the JQBL JP yesterday so I could help one of them get their achievement. I salute you.

No worries, we all have our problem children I am hardly a saint and have been known to stray from the path on occasion. Pleased you got the puzzle.

DKNS.2135:

Kreen.3925:

What happened to TC? Did they get a new influx of less than charming individuals?

They used to be such a polite server.

Probably JQ’s influence. They have had a kitten ton of matches with TC.

On that note,

GO TC !!!

BG’s gotcha back next week. TC for 3rd place.

Of course, how silly of me, that must be it. JQ’s fault once again. What a naughty server we are with such a dominant personality it seems given it appears to rub off on others. If only we could be all sweetness and light like BG, those paragons of virtue. They set a good example as well and stay in their own match threads.

Thank you for sharing your deep wisdom with us.

What happened to TC? Did they get a new influx of less than charming individuals?

They used to be such a polite server.

Vespirisa.1497:

Does the JQ in EB enjoy getting wiped in the QL/Danelon area? This is like the 5th time coming back.

They were obviously tenacious. You know what EB is like. To be honest I never understand comments like this. Would prefer them to leave the field so you can pvdoor?

Just enjoy the fights and hope they change their tactics

Moleless.1462:

I’d just like to quickly thank JQ and SOR for their lovely bag donation last night. 6 hours of commanding on SoR BL, I think we wiped both blobs about 20 times each during their relentless assault on bay. Ended up with a bay WP and 40+ heavy loot bags by the end of the night, so thanks.

Pleased you had fun. 40 loot bags for all that work doesn’t seem alot to be honest. I got 109 plus a full 5 bags of loot in one garry defence last week playing my ranger in 1 hour

good luck to all three this week

Good tough fights all week.

Thanks for the fun BG and SoS and congratulations to BG on Season 1.

Great fights in JQ Garry tonight BG. Was a hard fought defence. Good to see some ZDs there as well.

Thank you for all the loot and great fighting. I was on my ranger tonight as I started killing yaks on BG BL for while roaming and then the call went out to defend Garry and it was killing and looting time Ages since I have played him.

And SoS, you little scamps, trying to come in via watergate with you sneaky havoc squad while we were defending against BG Thank you for keeping us on our toes.

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

<3 JQ. I love you guys and I don’t care what anyone says despite our coverage and us hitting you at your weak points, you guys keep fighting. You guys used new strategies, pulled crazy hours and fought your hardest and you guys made this match enjoyable.#GolemQuarry

Thank you for these sentiments.

Cod on Cod.3694:

Kreen.3925:

Cod on Cod.3694:

Butter.3024:

Sunt.6835:

oh come on … JQ really has no right to complain …

when you bought MERC …. you pvded like every night until season started lmao

And this is why we hate BG

Who are we?

Do you represent a server? A guild? A Group of JQ investors?

Who wants to know?

Hi, im Cod on Cod and im 33 years old, and have been playing GW2 since beta.

I travel between servers alot to get a taste of everything, so im not in a guild (well ok, sometimes i rep my own “banking guild” for a few minutes). Im a permanent selfmade pug

It’s been boiled down some in my signature, true.

My allegiance lies with BG though, but I think a quick run through my post history would reveal that.

Now do you know who Butter is speaking for? Really don’t like when my simple questions gets dodged like the plague, like Keezee did for an entire day…. (well, technically still do).

How refreshing. Nice to meet you Cod. I am Kreen and have been on JQ since early beta. My allegiance lies with JQ, no surprise there. I don’t hate my enemies. Some I respect and some I happily clean off the bottom of my boots. The ones I respect tend to be the ones who do the boot cleaning on me

As far as butter is concerned. I have no clue there. I would guess he speaks for himself as we all do. Some folks like to speak for others buts that’s just the ego rising to the top as it sometimes can do.

With regard to dodging questions, I gave up bothering about that years ago. If people are dodging your questions its because they do not have the answers. Take it as a compliment and it means you have already won. Move on and find another target like me.

Right now this is a target rich environment, much like WvW.

Seigfried.5938:

Kreen.3925:

Seigfried.5938:

If by ‘BG will do anything to win’, you mean we will come out every night fighting as hard as we can, then you are right. Do you want me to name a few guilds we lost? MERC, CA, TKG, etc. ZDs transfers to BG and covers a part of that timezone and SoR just ‘gives up’. Truth is, you just don’t like getting wiped by such an organised guild every night, so it is stackgate all of a sudden. Before the league began, BG was in 3rd, and now 1 guild was enough to break a server like SoR? JQ had all of it’s maps qued when fighting tier 2 servers, and now can’t que up more than 1 map? Says a lot about the server.

Honestly, when I see posts like this I despair and isn’t this an exact copy of something you posted a few days back as well? Does anyone of substance on BG actually know this guy? Is it worth my time responding to this at all?

If you want to insult an entire server then fine go right ahead, whatever dude.

and,,, before anyone else takes offense, my definition of a person of substance on BG at present is anyone but this guy I reserve the right to add others to the list but of course its my list and its also easy to be removed

So in my whole post you only read the last line? At least try to refute what i said?

No, I only quoted the last line. The rest did not warrant quoting as it was nonsense. There is a difference….

You really cannot see the flaws in your nonsense? Well, I will leave you to wallow in your ignorance. You are not worth my time.

Seigfried.5938:

JQ, how are you enjoying getting farmed in your own garrison lol

Actually I thought it was the other way around. Certainly the 109 loot bags from that defence suggested that….

You really are a prize aren’t you. The gift that keeps on giving.

Ok, I took some time to test on the reddit post with my ranger and can confirm that this explanation is correct. In my particular case it is related to the nature magic traits “nature’s protection” (vast majority of the time) and possibly rejuvenation rarely and wearing mainly zerk gear so it was more common for my hp to reach 75% to trigger nature’s protection.

Each time I saw these traits activate (protection or regeneration appear) when gathering with mobs hitting me I got a gathering fail. I had to set up a special test for regeneration since the proc hp level is so low but sure enough it did cause a fail as well.

I also agro’ed my pet into mobs and then gathered without being hit and got no fails.

Since my ranger is mostly being used for gathering at present then I have moved the 10 points out of nature and put them into wilderness survival.

I guess I would class this as a bug since it is specific to these traits etc procing but its up to Anet.

Anyway, thought I would provide an update

Seigfried.5938:

If by ‘BG will do anything to win’, you mean we will come out every night fighting as hard as we can, then you are right. Do you want me to name a few guilds we lost? MERC, CA, TKG, etc. ZDs transfers to BG and covers a part of that timezone and SoR just ‘gives up’. Truth is, you just don’t like getting wiped by such an organised guild every night, so it is stackgate all of a sudden. Before the league began, BG was in 3rd, and now 1 guild was enough to break a server like SoR? JQ had all of it’s maps qued when fighting tier 2 servers, and now can’t que up more than 1 map? Says a lot about the server.

Honestly, when I see posts like this I despair and isn’t this an exact copy of something you posted a few days back as well? Does anyone of substance on BG actually know this guy? Is it worth my time responding to this at all?

If you want to insult an entire server then fine go right ahead, whatever dude.

and,,, before anyone else takes offense, my definition of a person of substance on BG at present is anyone but this guy I reserve the right to add others to the list but of course its my list and its also easy to be removed