Guild Wars 2

barti.7685:

in all honesty if you play a burst spec with no vit or toughness you cant really complain about thiefs damage because obviously you are trying to do the same thing to them..

its hypocrisy to its fullest.

if you think its so easy change class

Ummm, the problem is too many already have thus compounding the problem.

Everyone but 1st time mmo nubs who think they are actually that good know that thieves are broken. Want to know the most common reply from thieves in game when talking to them about it? “Dont be a hater, just roll one and profit.” Problem is if you nerf them now you prolly kitten off HALF your players. Better to do it now than later before 3/4’s of your players are thieves. Or players say screw this game. Not really that far fetched, SWtoR being a prime example of players who will not tolerate this crap.

I am loyal to my few friends I have been gaming with for years not some made up name for a place that doesnt really exist. I liked my server til the same thing happened and now I like my new server cause my buds are there. If winning or misplaced server pride is standing in your way of actually having fun thats on you, your the one who prioritized it that way.

As an American I moved to a bottom 3 EU server. No que times, no brutal rendering problems because the battles are smaller scale AND I actually feel like I make a difference there. If winning means I don’t get to play screw that.

my server (SoS) had a ton of guilds come in and que times got rediculous. I transferred to one of the bottom 3 EU servers and must say I’m actually having a lot of fun. Fighting during their night time there’s way less people on and rendering is a thing of the past. Instant ques all zones. Its too bad cause I really liked my old server but cant justify sitting for 2 hours waiting to play. OH-and the karma and loot we are raking is most outstanding. I really think they should drop NA/EU zones and make it one big ladder. As much as I want to play on a top server I want the server I’m on to be tops because of the work we did, not because a ton of guilds transferred in and I cant even play anymore.

Maximum bodaciousness-was fighting away and got sent to another bl (no idea why) and stuck at loading screen-c ya in 2-3 hours i guess. looks to be one helluva battle. SoS ftw.

You make a thief or mesmer (thief here) and profit. If you play to win anything else is counter productive.

gorgewall.4901:

Warlord.9074:

Players of SoS need to understand that, whatever pride they have for their server isn’t necessarily shared by those who transferred there.

What could SoS possibly have pride in? Their ability to knock over empty keeps at 4am? Yeah, I know Dragonbrand had server pride at the start of last week, too, and everyone saw how that went the moment they faced serious opposition.

Umm from reset til the aussies got on we were still owning you guys. it just exasperated the situation now that our US prime time crew is competitive as well. Thick and thin a lot of us have stayed and after getting our kittens handed to us week after week there’s not a lot of sympathy to be had for our enemies.

Long que times to get into wvw after being used to instant kind of blows. I’m not so sure being the “best” is for the best. Hour and a half and still didnt get in. Oh well, got 3 episodes of Big Bang Theory recorded that need watching.

levelnine.7036:

OMG please A.NET nerf dem!!! i play glass canon and wanna do massive aoe damage but those nasty thiefs always come from behind and do thier thief-ish stuff (my kitten hurts afterwards for some reason btw). please-please-please with cherry on top NERF DEM, remove stealth from the game omg coz i cant see them!! last day i was backtabbed by greatsword wielding thief for 100k dmg in less in 1 second!!! cant play at all!!

Edjumacashun-get one.

make necros the hard counter to thieves. toss them a bone lol. give them 1 ability that reflects the first attack from stealth or first attack in the back.

Pimpslapper.2047:

One second of glory, and one minute of weakness and being as frail as a granny. Trade off?

1 second of glory? 1 minute of weakness? how long to completely regain your initiative? prolly not as long as it takes my stun break to come off cool down.

yup lol i went to a german server. i’ll check out shiverpeak and desolation. theres only like 3 of us coming over for now so its not like we’re gonna really turn things around but hey, who knows my old guild is 200+ strong.

so me and a few friends are going to come over and play night crew in europe. first server i tried NOBODY speaks english and even if they did their crew is so small theres nothing we can do to help. What server has a good or at least decent presence? we want to come and help someone win not just be cannon fodder.

UO had live gm’s as well who were constantly busting people (me) for macroing. As did WoW way back when, but they were more helping people than busting them. ACTUAL toons in game that were gm’s. UO had an actual jail that your toons were thrown in for violations and you couldnt get out til your sentence was served. Man, them were some good times. Could be as well in this game but they need to be heavy handed. 1 warning then account banned.

I play for SoS. This taints all our work we have done to keep the match close. They need to outright ban these guys. I can only speak for my guild (200+) when I say we do not cheat nor condone those who do. I would rather lose than cheat to win.

And we’re here to stay. Whats not to love? Insta ques? Awesome night crew? Good times indeed.

Love my necro but just wont play him. I mostly pvp. BIGGEST problem I see with necro is no gap closer. No sprint or teleport or way to counter being kited makes a melee necro a free kill. If I’m doing it wrong please enlighten me cause I would love to play my necro but he just doesnt compare to my engineer (which has a way to do kitten near everything).

Bout to hit 60 so I have to go pve to make the gold for my next book Any suggestions on how to make cash fast as I loathe questing?

Relocated to SoS. Ran with the aussies last night (my time) and THAT was awesome. Will mostly be playing prime time US time and I see great things ahead for this server. Got my friends coming over as well. Played Ultima Online for years on the Oceanic server and always enjoyed my time there. Great community and the aussies never fail to keep me amused and enjoying my gaming time. Its more than just winning and losing its the atmosphere. When you can have both its truly awesome. More of my fellow Americans need to come check it out. We are underdogs at the moment but that will change and there’s nothing better than being a part of it as it happens rather than jumping on the bandwagon of an already top server.

All I know is I moved to SoS and joined RUN today and the wvw was AWESOME tonight. RUN has its kitten together as does TC. The battles were epic. I am quite pleased to be in RUN and on SoS.

at night if an American guild wanted to transfer over there? I just dont want to join one of the leet American servers and wait in 2 hour ques and would rather join a mid range European server. And is ping a problem?

Our server doesn’t have a good “night presence” so we usually lose. That and we don’t have good hackers on our server lol. First day there’s usually a que but after that there isn’t. We get hacked first day and night capped first night and the match is pretty much over for us. So why bother if there’s zero chance of winning?

my ele is lvl 26 and every fight is a fight for his life. i cant even begin to imagine farming with him.

Its time for me to create my pve exclusive toon. What is THE best farming class for getting matts for end game crafting? I’m guessing warrior/thief or guardian but would like some input from those who play at level 80.

Bugs have a lot to do with ruining a match as well. If a bug occurs early enough in a match making capturing something vital to victory impossible then the week is shot.

Hackers ruin everything. We were fighting our kitten off to get the situation under control. Started taking some real estate. Log off for an hour then log back on and we’re losing by more than when we started. Then the snowball effect comes into play. less people logging in to wvw and it looks like the week is shot for us. I vote NO MERCY for hackers. Perma ban them and their ip’s. A handful of kitten wipes ruining it for over a million other players. And forget about 3 day bans and all that crap. The hackers in SWtoR just laughed at those and sure enough 3 days later were back and hacking again. It boils down to a decision by the dev’s, us (fair players) or them (hackers) because I personally will not put up with it for long. Love the game but am very intolerate of cheaters. If I have to cheat to win I pass. And if I have no chance of winning unless I cheat theres no point in playing the game.

Chessrook.8643:

We have defeated the might of EBay.
We have stood firm against the Goon Zergs of Maguuma.
And we shall defeat Sorrow and overcome Madness.
We are Tarnished Coast, and we shall overcome!

FOR THE TOAST!

…………yeah after seeing who we were going against I just wanted to make some sort of motivational speech post. Move along.

You get a little hair on your chest and all of the sudden your King Kong?

Fat Lady aint singing yet. GO EBAY!

Sometimes, if your on a server getting its kitten handed to it wvw it is not viable. I think there should be an option to receive xp instead of glory or whatever it is in bg’s or warzones or whatever they are called. I want to level pvp’ing but there are times when it is impossible due to server imbalances. That means if I want to level I am forced to pve. That does not seem to be in line with the mission statement of the game which was freedom.

cool-thx. was just being impatient as i just hit 30 and only have 1 skill point banked and wanted an elite skill.

Is there any way to reset them?

GaileGray.9587:

MsScabies.7168:

It also does not seem to work properly. I am allowed to sign into my account then kicked out the second I click my character. Ive verified my account.. (through much difficulty as that doesnt work properly either). Ive turned off the option of having to verify every time and now I cant play at all! I switch IP’s as I travel to 2 different houses a lot through out the day.. and I seem to get more problems in the 2nd home rather than the first… maybe someone can tell me what I am doing wrong?

You should be able to authenticate/verify both locations. Can you let me know after you’ve tried a few times at both locations if that is not the case? Thanks.

I’m good now-thank you

so awhile back a lot of us made unique emails for gw2 exclusively and got messages to verify email on log in. it was broke back then and we could still play. this morning it MADE me verify. OK so I did-what i did not want is to have to go to my friggin email account everytime i want to log in. I DID NOT sign up for that particular service and do not want it at this point. My kids play the game sometimes and I do not want them in my email having to verify every time they log in. I DID NOT sign up for this and want it removed!

I read somewhere that 56.8% of statistics are made up on the spot. So heres mine-war/guardian/thief/mesmer=95%. Apparently masochism claims 5%.

And it begins. Seems like every game the hackers and cheaters eventually come out in force and ruin things. I have NO DOUBT this happens. I can only hope that a company finally has the gumption to just perma ban cheaters. That’s the only thing that will stop it. They should build in a button to insta record and send to admins.

Ummm…its daytime and we are still winning.

Every match keroski. Every match. And my computer and connect are top notch.

De Nile. Its not just a river.

Vanilla rogues. Everyone and their mother rolled one for a reason. No one rolled one because they were “balanced.” That is all.

You guys are dancing around the issue. Some classes have WAY too much burst and are capable of killing someone that fast with 2 buttons. I cant even count how many times I have been fighting and at full health when BAM I instantly drop dead. No warning, no time to counter, just dead.

Warrior player:

Kalar Meadia.8439:

So it is balanced that you must build your character and your strategy around defeating guardians?

This is false logic. Really you could supplant guardians with any bunker class. And YES, you should have at least one bunker-buster character in an organized team build.

And yes, if you’re seeing a trend in the meta you should build to counter that trend if you want to play successfully.

Summary. If you play a thief or mesmer everything is cool, if not you need to l2p.

I want to physically injure you.

There’s a difference in what people are complaining and what is an actually valid feedback. Most problems, yes, it is ‘learn to play’. The number of bads in this game is suprising even among mesmers thieves and guardians. But given these classes are popular, the ease of how these classes can be counterered should already be well known now.

Thief is a glass cannon, stun him once in his rotation and he’s forced to try to reset. Get agressive with him, and not sit passive every time he goes invisible, and you’ll find yourself winning against thieves consistantly.

Guardian’s are buff-kittens. Lay on the condition and buff removal and watch him melt. If you think you’re going to win against him with a physically bursty combo, you’re going to have a bad time.

And mesmers are so reliant on their their phantasems these days it’s embarassing. Destroy them with AoEs, lock down the mesmer with cripple/chill/imobalize and they’re dead.

Every other thing in this game right now that makes these classes stand out, is a matter of bugs (Each profession is littered with them, they need to be fixed.) and general performance tweeks like AoE damage spells and the rarity of Boon Removal.

Using the Portal to speed up repairs for Trebuchets is the only thing that could use a hotfix, and even that can be countered by not being akittenand constantly ambush the enemy trebuchet whether it’s up or not. Stick a tanky up there same way you would a capture point and if the enemy team tries to gank the assaulter, you punish them on the points. It’s amazing why people can’t think of a simple countergame like that.

Lol. The op is right. If its so balanced as you say good pvp’ers would have rolled all the classes basically equal. They havnt. Know why? Because the op is right. And no way I buying the arguement that its just a coincidence that so many who play rated just happen to like those classes. If ANet created a rat that could 1 shot people GW2 would be rat infested. They play them because they have to if they want to be competitive. They need a major patch and soon because it gets old fast. Look how fast SWtoR went down the crapper because they didnt fix PvP.

I don’t even really understand your sentiments OP. I haven’t seen a build in this game which did not have a very strong counter to it.

3 mesmers 2 guardians. There really isnt a counter if all 5 of them are top pvp’ers. Now if say, an ele had choices where he could make a build that was a guardian slayer it would make strategy mean more other than role op classes and nuke stuff down.

Yah, used to love experimenting with exotic builds in UO. Nox ninja paladin, Samarai mage tamer, etc. Thing is in UO everyone was the same then you picked what skills you wanted and only had so many points. I still think it could work in GW2 once the classes are balanced a bit more. The biggest thing to get rid of is insta jibb combos as it really promotes cookie cutter builds and FotM classes.

A game with enough freedom to create builds that counter other builds. If a certain build by a certain class was too strong it would have a hard counter build. Where when you faced another class all you knew was what class it was but not what tricks it had up its sleeve. Where cookie cutter builds would be viable for maybe a week until players figured them out and created hard counters then counters to the counters. I had hoped for more strategy. There are certain builds that it takes a pro playing flawlessly unless he is also one said builds. Still love the game and wouldnt think of quitting but I was hoping for a game more like UO than WoW.

Mr Big.4891:

So what you’re saying is, “working as intended.” All of these classes are preforming well in the area’s they were designed for.

Thief is essentially an assassin, high burst low survival. As they up their survivability via stealth abilities, they lower their dmg out put. Thats why S/P is called the glass cannon build, they only have 1-2 stealth abilities w/ a high cooldown. There are cons to every pro.

Guardians, has more defensive abilities than any other class… Not even going to point out the issue with that statement.

Haven’t played enough of the Mesmer to speak fully, but I would assume that its natural for a class built with the intent of “Utility” to have more utility than the other classes.

Working as intended? Is the elemental working as intended? As is in this game a 5 year could roll Gandalf for his lunch money. If ele was working as intended it would be numero uno in dps but have the worst armor. Just saying.

Love the engineer in pvp but struggling with solo leveling. Its kind of a deal breaker. Any tips?

I’ve been using monk on head and shoulders, afflicted on chest and hands, krait on legs and feet and earth on my pistols. I’ll check your build out tho, whats the basic play style of it? My build is just run and gun.