Guild Wars 2

TrainMuncher.7938:

Banzie.5248:

GoM Needed to not only zerg us with 15+ people, But they needed to portal bomb us at their north camp in their BL. 15v3 come on GoM. Wheres your ub3r l33t sk1ll5 we all hear about? ITs only 3 of us in an upgraded camps with 2 ballistas, You didnt need nearly that many people or the portal bomb to take it lmao.

Anywho, Seems the 3 R guilds or w/e failed to take a keep today, We’ll be sure to keep watching every NA morning for you guys and flip keep before you can in your bl

The footage we gained from that portal bomb was well worth it! <3

http://youtu.be/3iRuFUmEGHA

that’s more like when you’re the orb carrier in old WvW o_o

Banzie.5248:

GoM Needed to not only zerg us with 15+ people, But they needed to portal bomb us at their north camp in their BL. 15v3 come on GoM. Wheres your ub3r l33t sk1ll5 we all hear about? ITs only 3 of us in an upgraded camps with 2 ballistas, You didnt need nearly that many people or the portal bomb to take it lmao.

Anywho, Seems the 3 R guilds or w/e failed to take a keep today, We’ll be sure to keep watching every NA morning for you guys and flip keep before you can in your bl

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

But what do you really do to WvW? I’m all for adding stuff to WvW but what would make it better that they could add?

what we do, is gain buffs for the server that last an entire week. what we should be given for that i’m not sure, that’s up to anet to decide. i’m just asking for something

Xkyline.5267:

Well technology advances with the times,you can hardly expect them to continue using obsolete crap of 250 years ago in the modern world.We don’t use pinhole cameras when we can just pull out a smartphone and insta-snap now do we?

except the players/npc’s are still using swords/axes/maces/spears/shields. as you say, if those are obsolete, they shouldn’t be there. oh wait…
so i give your post a lolwat.

world vs. world is what sold me on this game. it gets absolutely no love other than the obligatory ‘siege mastery’ insert every 2 weeks or so.
however, the driest part of this game(for me and the guilds i join, every game) is the pve content. we use pve to make money and get achievement points. since the latter is so difficult to acquire in wvw(and since new pve content rolls out biweekly without missing a beat) we’re kind of forced/encouraged to do something most of us loathe doing.
now imagine if WvW got even 50% of the attention that PvE gets.
please give the wvw players some attention. we earn noticeable buffs for our servers, isn’t that worth something? and all we get is siege mastery? i would get achievement points so much faster in pve, i know, but farming AI monsters, and speed running dungeons is far less difficult than destroying an organized enemy zerg. where’s the reward for that?(loot bags is not the kind of reward i’m talking about)
QED: until it’s possible to make as much money off of wvw as it is off of farming mindless mobs, my wish probably won’t be granted.

lordkrall.7241:

Because WvW Ranks are not achievements, they are level ups, more like levels in PvE and you don’t get achievement points for those either.

not entirely. they are based on level ups.

why are there no achievement points rewards for Wvw Ranks? a lot of wvw players hate pve, but if we want achievement points we are forced to pve. this is a one way street as pve players are never forced to wvw. the achievement chests made sure of that.

Averaelas.1876:

We actually like SF. So IoJ, prepare to die.

i like SF too, and kaineng’s slightly smarter older bro IOJ.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

You must be mistaken. [RISE] is a PvE-only guild that specializes in running fractals.

except…me. i die like 10 times in the jumping portion of them.

i like how there’s a thread dedicated to deciphering random text in a link.

IOJ…the gate at your bay is low….and you switch to walls.
you really confuse me.

Simplicity.7208:

The only answer I can come up with is “They don’t want to.”

My logic is that they control the Asura gates & waypoints. They dictate how and when they are used. Not only that, but they have Asura gates in every race’s capitol. It’s a very simple matter to march your army into every racial capitol in the middle of the night, disable all waypoints & Asura gates, then follow it up with a slaughter. Blitzkrieg at it’s best. And the defending city’s reinforcements would be unable to reach their city before it burns to the ground because for the most part, they are scattered across the planet. Added bonus: the Asura say “you may only use our gates for peaceful purposes” to ensure that this strategy is not employed against them.

Furthermore, the Asura seem to have an army of golems that only they understand how to operate and militarized technology surpassing every other race currently on the planet: who are the ones who made the anti-dragon mega laser? who are the ones pioneering research into draconic energies? who are the ones with a nigh impenetrable floating city, it’s only means of entry being an Asura gate that the Asurans can easily lock down? Yeah…

On top of that, they have more money than every other race combined. When you pay your waypoint fee, who do you think gets that money? The Asurans. When you use an Asura gate, the city pays for you to use it. They’re richer, they’re smarter, they’re stronger, and they already have an easy means of attacking.

In a real world situation, the Asurans would abuse the hell out of their militaristic advantage to acquire copious amounts of goods giving them an even greater advantage over the other races. So why don’t they?

my answer may have already been given but i’ll give it anyway.
in my opinion, the charr are the military strength in tyria. while the Asurans have better technology, most of which is developed for civilian use. whereas the Charr develop things in order to advance their “agenda”/military armaments.

bump

huehuehue

SHAKA ZULU.3128:

Oooo gurl I know I did not just see criticism of KN golem rushes from YB or GoM in this thread here. If I got your gold back from each one of your golems we caught this week, I could get another commander tag. Kitten it, you got me to kitten talk, and now I feel dirty and juvenile.

And wow matchup gods please deliver me from the gif spam threads tonight pl0x.

nice GOM hills cap bro.

Nyx Xox.3540:

LOL SOME of you GOM, your such kitten talkers. Never seen you wipe us with half our numbers. Perhaps many of you don’t know how to count You guys typically run away unless you outnumber us. Keep running your mouths, you get your points from PVDOOR. Congrats you so GEWD. err mah gawd.

the zerg server who gives up at the slightest amount of organized resistance really shouldn’t be calling(implying that) others(are) bad.

kaineng:

1. yaks will wipe you in eb
2. yaks will wipe you in YBL
3. gom will wipe you with half your numbers
4. gom will not wipe you with 10. we have 10.

Sororita.3465:

styx.7294:

Muni’s .gif overstatement aside

Come back to me when you play EB every night and can sometimes be outmanned even in NA primetime.

that’s every day in GOMBL>_> the only thing that ever really does it for us there is superior tactics.

styx.7294:

Sororita.3465:

styx.7294:

Muni’s .gif overstatement aside

Come back to me when you play EB every night and can sometimes be outmanned even in NA primetime.

You’re still not a stormtrooper! And why would you want to be? =(

you’re right. i am.

part 7, War

After observing the conversation between Ronan and Ventari, I finished my meal and went to polish my blade. It hasn’t seen much action it seemed, it must have been a new sword that my father gave me. I didn’t mind this, it was torvlok, un-blooded. Sometimes I relished in the thought of being in a battle with my sword. So much sometimes that I often considered what would transpire if the two races that were meeting at my father’s table were to battle.
Ronan speaks of a city full of humans, one that I assume dwarfs the population of Skystride. This must be a number of warriors that the Centaur could never hold back were they to engage us. I turned to see my brother walking towards the smithy with a distressed expression. He looked toward me and at that instant I could tell he was thinking of the same thing.
“Brother, I fear not Ronan’s people, but those Ascalonians…from what he says they are thirsty for vengeance and for a home. What are we to do against them?” Ventari asked frantically.
“Yes, brother. The potent mix of being dishonored and forced to leave your home will do that to a people. What we must think of, is what to do when they decide to turn that vengeance against Skystride. And to think the decades it took my father to get the tribes to stop fighting each other…” I replied, perhaps not answering his question but voicing my thoughts.
Ventari paced around the smithy for a few moments whilst I continued to maintain my sword. I looked up every so often only to see that he was still pacing.
“I do not wish to fight them, Crowsbane. But I’ve been going over this in my mind since I first felt the suspicion. I see no other way. Ronan is becoming a very close friend, and I cherish this. I expect no hostilities from him or his party, but he cannot speak for the whole of the Ascalonians!” Ventari yelled, and I raced over to embrace him.
“I don’t like this as much as you, brother. But now things are set in motion that are beyond our control, all we can do is ride the current. We either peacefully abandon our lands to them, or we fight them. I favor neither option, but I will not give up the city, or the sacred hills, willingly.” I said, patting Ventari on the back, trying to hide my own fear.
Just then I heard a loud knock on the door, to see my father’s bodyguard.
“Crowsbane, Ventari, quickly. There is a human war-party on the outskirts of the city.” The guard exclaimed, then vanished into the night.
“Thalius save us…it’s started.”

Rookni.2469:

Supply Mastery …

i know it’s so awesome to have one thing that totally isn’t shrouded by the eternal farming trains in divinity’s reach.

Aeros.2046:

Just thought I’d drop into this thread. WTF is going on in Tier 5? Why is Gates of Madness not a smear on the pavement? For that matter, why are they within a hairs breath of passing Kaineng and in competition with Yaks? Are you guys taking the week off or has the Madness gone all Sparta?

GoM has far superior micromanagement than the zergballs know how to deal with. if we ever meet again BP, you’ll be in first, sure. but taking things will be much more difficult.

Rookni.2469:

Catapult Mastery

has nothing to do with living story.

one way could’ve been
“slay x number of ellen kiel/evon gnashblade supporters in wvw or pvp”
why wasn’t this part of the living story? so far there has seemingly been no intention to include players that do not like pve in the living story content/achievement points. yes the wvw community is smaller than the pve community, but ten minutes in eternal battlegrounds will show you it is not THAT small
if ANet makes living story content for wvw players, not only will it get played, but get played a lot. is this not the goal of it? to keep players interested?
for wvw players, you don’t need to give us much, as we already really enjoy wvw. but please give us something. yeah, the kites were included for a while, but pve players kept complaining about getting killed and they were removed. why is this only a one way street? the pve players obviously do not want to be in wvw, and a lot of wvw players do not want to be in pve. why is it when the pve players complain about something they get it, but not us?
rantdone. love you byebye.
EDIT: if this was moved to the general portion of world vs. world subforums that’d be appreciated.

kaineng…you’re really funny without war machine.

hi server poloser.

hi kaineng.
fifteenchars.

^how i feel every time yak’s bend breaches a keep. and with the arrow carts that’s how it really is!

Colt.9051:

Typical PuG warriors just tend to turn on the afterburners and run away thanks to this new Warrior meta now… I can’t count how many times I’ve had warriors run away from fights after things looked bad since then. I guess I’ll have to make a chase build on my thief to counter them.

well it beats the thief meta: where every thief ever uses the meta build. i’m surprised i’m still seeing d/p thieves.

Neko Dudley.2495:

Frosch.7809:

To the Asura warrior i just fought in the NE of our BL, if an opponent does not kill you when downed you should not get up to attack again – especially not while using Vengeance, makes you drop dead after a few seconds. You could have healed and walked away. GoM not used to 1 vs 1 ?

Did he know it was a friendly duel and agree to it, or did you ambush him? Either way, its best to just blow it off and move on.

He may have been new to the game.

or your typical pug warrior.

Thedenofsin.7340:

While a massive hammer or greatsword may eventually appear in the Necromancer’s repertoire, they are the least “necromancy” weapons if you look at it from an RP perspective.

More likely the necromancer will get access to the Mace and Shortbow first, as those typically fall into the “Simple Weapon” proficiency list.

no, they aren’t. Shadowknights have been in nearly every mmo ever. as of now, we are the opposite of guardians. giving a greatsword to the necromancer makes us the complete opposite.

Myst.5783:

Figures as soon as we leave GoM gets an interesting match up.

stay out of this thread.

Averaelas.1876:

Atleast this week we can have fun on the forums and have some good natured trolling without SF/FC/ET being sore losers on the forums and reporting every kittening post.

Also, We only ask that we’re allowed to have SM on Thursday for the Commander Ritual.

we could also ask that the zerg balls fight each other and not just us.

yeah YB took bay, but we took it back within minutes. more or less a free repair.

digitalruse.9085:

Kawloon: Do you use 100% mouse for moving?

he has WASD open.

kitten y charr reporting in!

foofad.5162:

Ahh. In that case, no, nothing’s really wrong. He’s probably a burst specced thief, and you were standing still. The difference between heavy armor with no toughness and 3000 armor is only about 20% damage reduction. Armor takes the edge off, but boons like Protection really make a difference.

i just thought it was funny really. like, how glassy do you need to be to hit that hard?

Celestina.2894:

foofad.5162:

Yeah. You didn’t dodge.

/endthread

yeah i know i didn’t. was in a tower and safe from death, didn’t think it could do that much.

i just took a 14586 unload barrage from a thief. i’m new to guardian so i know i’m not the best, but i have 2800+ armor. is something wrong here?

ozidylan.9186:

Lightsbane.9012:

that was an interesting battle outside woodhaven, [PVP] from SF.
your tag is strange, because it implies that’s what you do. yet a lot of your force was feared off the cliff.

SEVENNNN

ELEVENNNN

i look forward to this because i really don’t like being part of ‘meta builds’
i run my builds before updates, then everyone else is running it. with the weapons introduction, it would at the very least force ANet to make certain classes that are best at one thing better at lesser used builds.

that was an interesting battle outside woodhaven, [PVP] from SF.
your tag is strange, because it implies that’s what you do. yet a lot of your force was feared off the cliff.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT BAGS.

Xom.9264:

ARM.3912:

BS – Stay in school.

ARM

Ah yet another fellow trying to talk the talk but cant walk the walk…. Nice troll agree to a GvG then not showing up, thought your were small man and down for the hard fights?

People like brah and you might troll Vs for agreeing to GvG, but if you wont even try for fear of failing you will amount to nothing in game and life, and thats some real talk.

thank you friend, for greatly dishonoring the foundation i helped create in Basic. stop acting like this and play the game. you’re good players, we get it. no one cares.

Myst.5783:

This thread fell right off the humorous to just plain sad cliff and landed face first in the kitten.

go back to not being noticed in the 40+ man zergs in jq plox.

styx.7294:

sephiroth.4217:

styx.7294:

Insane Pancakez.9182:

And I thought WvW was GoMs skill group?

What? No.

*I liked Zombieland. They did good work on the server. People who complained about the work they did to get people out of Queensdale and Lion’s Arch to karma trains while our matches were easy don’t get it and are the people who don’t go to meetings, don’t try to involve themselves, and apparently only sit on the sidelines to complain. We’ll be weaker without ’em but life goes on. *

.

Also you say people sit on sidelines and complain, those people who complain are paying for upgrades, encouraging people in map chat, letting new commanders know in pm what they might have done differently especially the use of a ballista in a funnel situation, sending new players siege, scouting paper towers for a zerg to take easily for the PPT and a variety of other tasks.

We all do WvW, yes. There’s not many people comin up with fresh ideas on how to move the server forward though. Just lots of people are there to say they don’t like this or that.

you’re welcome

part 6b, Friendship

“Tell me, Ventari. By whom were you trained in swordsmanship?” Ronan asked, taking a swig of ale.
“My brother, of course. All sons of the Og’Rahn are trained in the sword from the age of ten.”
“Yet you favor the dual sword approach and he favors the greatsword? Those are two very different styles.”
“My father always said that the path we choose as warriors is also determined by what spirits grace our birth. I am told I was born with the river and the wind, and Crowsbane was born with the spirits of honor and resilience.” Ventari exclaimed, setting his blades on the table behind him.
“I get it, you favor speed and he favors outlasting his foes.”
Ventari laughed, then slapped me roughly on the back.
“Yes, he makes the decisions that I cannot.”

Kiriakulos.1690:

Lightsbane.9012:

Kiriakulos.1690:

Calling it now, Axe MH/OH will be OP because of axe mastery.

still not nearly as op as a lot of the things warriors have/get.

Please don’t tell me you actually think War Axe OH is good.

i said nothing of the sort.
EDIT: read that as MH.

wouldn’t it be funny that when we get maces, we end up throwing them the way ranger throws axes?

mace:
1. throw a mace at your foe, bouncing to up to 3 targets and causing vulnerability to each.
2. explosive mace head; ignite your mace head and throw it, creating an explosion akittens target and dealing damage to up to 5 targets.(~10 seconds cd)
3. electromace; electrify your mace and smash the ground with it, dazing all foes within range(~20 seconds cd)
4. dazing block; block the next incoming attack, dazing the target(~12-16 seconds)
5. stielhandgranate; throw your mace to the target area, dealing damage and knocking back foes(~25-30 seconds)

Kiriakulos.1690:

Calling it now, Axe MH/OH will be OP because of axe mastery.

still not nearly as op as a lot of the things warriors have/get.

well, inb4 necro gets a deathbeam from greatsword. or…uses it like a greatsword.