Guild Wars 2

Forestnator.6298:

rivx.3267:

And now we wear med armor and do the same damage or less. (nerfed)

For good reason: engi is still one of the strongest classes.

really? do you know how hard i have to try to match even a fraction of a thieve’s damage? oh and by the way, a thief does their damage without might. Engineer needs heavy armor.

class shenanigans?
okay, in the final matchup between GoM and BP, they were attacking cliffside(BP). it was me and 2 others in the tower defending it, and i remembered that i was a mesmer with a focus. i also noticed 6 enemies relaxing by the cliff…dropped my temporal curtain behind them and..poof! six kills at once.

i’m a bunker axe/torch s/d ranger, i was fine before the patch. i’m more of the CC guy, with nasty conditions. a constantly moving target with a huge heal, bunker rangers are deadly and annoying.

i can’t overstate your skill, dude.
also, finals week is over. expect moar scriptos.

Aneu.1748:

With the ability to put 12 arrowcarts on a single door, adding poison to an arrowcart resulting in 33% less healing, increasing arrowcarts damage by 80%, with arrowcarts being so easily built with such small amount of supply required and increasing the time within which bleed stays on you from a cart… how do you think this is a positive addition to WvW?

I cant even … Im utterly dumbfounded at why someone at arenanet would think this is a good idea…

just a thought, and i’m not disagreeing:
perhaps it’s anet’s way of making it less about zerg and more about thought?
you can’t just kitten a tower or keep anymore can ya?

benda.4893:

Enjoy

she looks very properly armored
._.

Satu Kuoleman Tuoja.5149:

Lightsbane.9012:

these are very nice, but being male…
i’d love a necklace/chain of the engineer/ranger pieces!

I will be working on some male/unisex necklaces, I am trying to decide what to use so they look masculine instead of feminine.

Gengis.5942:

hey good morning!
I love it! beautiful job. My favorite is your last jewelry . but the rest is really good too!!
I allowed myself to publish your jewelry on my site ^ ^
www.theguildwars2pictures.com.
You can like my facebook page, if you want !
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Thank you for adding my jewelry to your site, I am glad others appreciate my jewelry. I liked your facebook page and left a comment.

DonRobeez.3560:

Very gorgeous earrings!
I wonder, did you make those skulls, leaves etc by yourself or did you manage to find some somewhere?
I would love to see more pieces of jewelry from you.

Thank you for the compliment. The skulls, leaves, masks, etc. are charms, I did not make them myself. I have many different suppliers, I choose my items carefully and take time to plan every detail of my creations. I drew these earrings up last year, it had taken me a long time to find the perfect supplies.

i think they look great already, a simple chain where the stud is would make me very happy
btw whats your jeweler level?(couldn’t help it sorry)

Edusd.7893:

…and some more…not doodle, stuff. Thanks for checking them out!

ehe, hi kormak ;3

why the class that designed the rifle has no long range damage capabilities with it.
why that commando troll class can’t just be reworked(IE remove all the ridiculous crap) and make that the engineer. Engineer seems designed to be heavy armor(which the game keeps reminding me that i can’t use it by having heavy armor wearing NPCS using pistols.)

Sil.4560:

I imagine if you were getting up to make a sandwich or something mid-fight, Killshot could be a problem. Odds are you’ll still be back in time to avoid it though.

honestly, in wvw killshot can be a problem. especially when it’s zergvzerg.

zexion.5842:

Lightsbane.9012:

McNuggetBandit.8376:

as said above scepter/focus is only used in glamour builds really as it has 1 small confsuon burst on it, and becasue glam mesmers do not do well getting close (no condition removal really and no stun breaks if going full glamour) so we avoid weapons like sword.

Scepter has never been good except for the “okayish” reason i stated. the 1 skill is slow as hell and does negible damage the number two block is good but sword still gives much better utility here with a evasion plus damage wraped into the 2 skill, plus a gap close (a buggy one at that though) and a powerfully 1 attack.

Reason staff is used in almost all pvp based builds is that it is a heavy defensive weapon that can still produced huge damage via clones for shatter making it in my mind our most balanced and best weapon at this stage (bar the useless vunrablilty on staff 1)

i see almost every mesmer in wvw using a scepter with whatever offhand.

Maybe because confusion hits like a truck in wvw? Which ends on the 30th.

i’ve never had that much of a problem with it tbh. any kind of elixir or cleansing flame ends that annoyance.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Lightsbane.9012:

McNuggetBandit.8376:

as said above scepter/focus is only used in glamour builds really as it has 1 small confsuon burst on it, and becasue glam mesmers do not do well getting close (no condition removal really and no stun breaks if going full glamour) so we avoid weapons like sword.

Scepter has never been good except for the “okayish” reason i stated. the 1 skill is slow as hell and does negible damage the number two block is good but sword still gives much better utility here with a evasion plus damage wraped into the 2 skill, plus a gap close (a buggy one at that though) and a powerfully 1 attack.

Reason staff is used in almost all pvp based builds is that it is a heavy defensive weapon that can still produced huge damage via clones for shatter making it in my mind our most balanced and best weapon at this stage (bar the useless vunrablilty on staff 1)

i see almost every mesmer in wvw using a scepter with whatever offhand.

Then you’re probably not looking very hard.

i don’t need to look very hard. a lot of people still use swords instead of that failstick. point in fact: theres more people that use that failstick

McNuggetBandit.8376:

as said above scepter/focus is only used in glamour builds really as it has 1 small confsuon burst on it, and becasue glam mesmers do not do well getting close (no condition removal really and no stun breaks if going full glamour) so we avoid weapons like sword.

Scepter has never been good except for the “okayish” reason i stated. the 1 skill is slow as hell and does negible damage the number two block is good but sword still gives much better utility here with a evasion plus damage wraped into the 2 skill, plus a gap close (a buggy one at that though) and a powerfully 1 attack.

Reason staff is used in almost all pvp based builds is that it is a heavy defensive weapon that can still produced huge damage via clones for shatter making it in my mind our most balanced and best weapon at this stage (bar the useless vunrablilty on staff 1)

i see almost every mesmer in wvw using a scepter with whatever offhand.

‘move on’? oh, you mean go back to using a sword again.

and by build i mean weapons.
build 1: greatsword sword/xxx
build 2: staff scepter/focus(a build that for some reason everyone is in love with)
cookie cutter: staff sword/pistol

i’m asking why scepter is so loved now, but 2 months after release it was disdained. i had a ten page argument in this forum to prove how good scepter was, only for time to prove me right.
so why the change in opinion, fellow mesmers?

Merlin.4058:

Oh GoM is moving out, thank god. Get them out of here. I’m sorry I dislike you guys with a passion, your man power is insane. Heck I’d love to see some actual number of how many people you actually have on your servers.

in pve? because before whatever gave us these numbers that’s the only place you could find a zerg. like how level 80’s with map completion would consistently be at the wasp queen event in queensdale.

JKFlipFlop.7123:

I always enjoy fighting Basic. They bring something new to the table every encounter.

i think i’m able to take that as a compliment too. mainly because they zerg an ex member on sight with love

can i ask why no one ever uses Amon Amarth for the music to their video?

Aeonblade.8709:

Oozo.7856:

Aeonblade.8709:

Jscull.2514:

I don’t think it’s a terrible idea… I would probably participate but I’d rather have 3
Faction teams appoint each other. And group specific sizes.

Ideally rather just have more people want to focus on beating other players
Via killing them / deathmatch rather than fight over some keep. Objectives ruin player vs player.

I can understand this attitude, but I have to disagree entirely, without objectives, PvP is little more than PvE to me, people just jump around more than monsters.

Fighting a good player that thinks on his feet requires you to think on your feet and be a good player.

A, the good player, a mythical creature, once roaming the lands of border, long ago, in a galaxy far far away…. lol, I see what you are saying, I just can’t get into pointless PvP anymore these days.

nonsense! live for the kill bro

i can see GvG working if the guilds being fought aren’t from your home server. otherwise it feels like you’re taking away from the war effort in WvW.

styx.7294:

Lightsbane.9012:

hi, gom defender at bay here. i think it’s quite funny watching ET put so much effort into this keep in the process of losing their entire BL. if your strategy is to take this keep and lose everything in your bl in the process, it(’s) work(ing,ed)

Hi, Gates of Madness defender at Bay here.

I’m not sure anything you said really makes sense if you stop and think about it. It was basically one guild, Agg, at the siege by Bay.

one guild that could’ve helped ET secure their BL, not that i’m complaining. if that doesn’t make sense i’ll have a lot more questions for you.

hi, gom defender at bay here. i think it’s quite funny watching ET put so much effort into this keep in the process of losing their entire BL. if your strategy is to take this keep and lose everything in your bl in the process, it(’s) work(ing,ed)

these are very nice, but being male…
i’d love a necklace/chain of the engineer/ranger pieces!

FERRARO.1459:

Shout out to [RISE] from GoM… guys are hella tough, your group of 4 really gave us some good battles today in our borderlands

do you mean the treb of doom?

well that was a fun fight in bay, who’d a thought a lone GOM charr engineer would last that long in a fc/et clusterkitten?

Edusd.7893:

Still waiting on that script…

oh, yeah i haven’t really thought much about that sorry

what is going on with this haste bug?

XxNuggetxX.7823:

@ Lightsbane, So you are the ET’s that stole our [BS] guild tag. hahaha we where harrased for a few days asking if we had transffered when the BS came up in WvW.

Nice tag BTW XD

BS is actually originally from GOM. they transferred, i didn’t.

Darkothe.1253:

The really funny thing about GoM is that if we get riled up enough…we’re dangerous. Keep kicking the hornets nest. We’ll rebound. We’ll regroup. We’re having fun, learning things and adapting. I think this week has been a great lesson for us. If anything, it’s showed us that we need to get hungry again, start recruiting, adjusting our tactics and play past all of the nay sayers and trolls.

It’s all good. Turn your backs on poor, little GoM. We promise we’re not going to be a threat. Really…

Want a cookie?

as someone here from day 1, i’ve seen all the alliances crumble. i’ve seen this ’hornet’s nest’ get kicked more times than a glass engineer fighting a thief. there was no rebound, minus a few completely one sided matchups where the other servers were completely absent. However I am optimistic. I’ll fight with anyone who thinks they have a clue until they prove otherwise. keep in mind, every effective “alliance”(completely redundant, as you’re on GOM and the goal is to win, needing an alliance to accomplish that is kind of sad) I’ve found who i work well with and they’ve left too, and i can’t blame them at all. Transfers have been something that’s decimated not only the GOM morale but our ability to get almost anything done(remember those 35 pointgains? i do.) at this point i’m fighting for the sake of fighting. and i’ll do it for either the ‘glory’ of Gomdor or for myself.

dank.3680:

I could ask why do people do PVE, or SPVP because neither hold my interest longer then a couple minutes. I WvW because I like it, simple.

play on pvp servers of other games long enough and you pve for money aka to be better at pvp. PVE players in guild wars 2 really confuse me.

pullnointer.1476:

I’ve always wondered. what do you find fun about it? it seems ridiculously uneventful and dull to me.

and fighting legions of risen is challenging?
got it.

scooby treat.8420:

To the guild BS on ET I would like to duel you guys not the 5vs1 as I charge you guys but 1vs1 hit me up.

love you Basic.
from your friendly neighborhood kormak. [eat more lead, Mekanos]

super bumpyfuntime

my thoughts on an all engineer guild name?
FOR SCIENCE [NERF]
out of luck [ily]

Sororita.3465:

So how was SF rocking you with those numbers…also my lowbie necro is better looking than all of you so far ET,no style.

by ogdens hammer…yeah that’s all i got. we’re the underdog again in the underdog server. underdogception.

nope, don’t recall.

i think it’s completely up to you, but i like the idea. so far you’ve gotten the characters pretty well so i’m definitely for more.

i haven’t logged into my account for more than ten minutes(this means i haven’t spoken to anyone) since before the flame and frost patch. obviously i’m questioning why my account was suspended for 135 hours, because i was not in the game to commit the offense that was shown on my login screen.
answers?

Edusd.7893:

Sorry it took so long, but the background was giving me sad days! Anyway I hope that you like: “Kormak and the pretty mesmer”.

thats cute xD
good ol’ kormak and his nonchalant stare.

while it’s nice to see HOD not completely useless this time around, where did you get these numbers?

Edusd.7893:

So, you would’ve had Lola by now, as it was the focus of my Sunday, but I just wasn’t happy with the color scheme. I hate color, I’m just not good with it. But here is her pic so far, I’ll try and finish her this week. Sorry its taking so long, but a 70hr work week doesn’t leave a lot of free time.

sir it’s fantabulous

Kormak and the License renewal

One day I was strolling around Lion’s Arch, minding my own business when an asura comes out of nowhere and hands me a sheet of official looking paper.
“Hey, hey little man, what’s this?” I asked.
“The paper? Oh, nothing special. Your Engineering certificate is up for renewal.” The asura said, then scampered off.
“…Engineering certificate? What’s that?”
“You should know what it is, Kormak.”
“Wait, how do you know my name?” I asked, with a confused expression.
“It’s on the envelope you daft charr.”
“Oh. So it is. Hehe.”
I stood there with a straight face, with no idea what was going on. I looked around a little, wondering if there would be anymore interruptions. When I realized that there wouldn’t be anymore, I went back to what I was doing.
“Do Asura have to renew theirs?” I asked, scratching my mane with my left paw.
“No.” The Asura said.
“Why not?”
“Because we’re elitist yoda look-a-likes.”
My expression turned from discontented, to aggravated. Just because the asura use bigger words when they aren’t needed doesn’t make them better! I’m a magic Engineer! How dare he!
After a few minutes, the asura started walking away again, so I fired a glue shot at him and pinned him against an anvil. I walked up to him slowly, and stole his engineering certificate. He tried getting it back, but I took a swig of the trusty Elixir S and shrank out of his grip and got away. I started laughing when I was a safe distance away and left him there calling for help to the master armorsmith. She merely asked if he had coin.

google.3709:

• yes.. apparently engi’s are to be hybrid between long-short range since all weapons and most skills a broken between these two ranges.

• Gadgets, skills are good but they just need a much shorter cd.

• Rifle engineer easily owns any warrior. But yes! warrior rifle skills are ridiculous! i’ve been running it on sPvP hitting 17k’s!!!! on light armors (possibly add screenshots)!
  ps: it’s only kill shot & volley that are good in my opinion, rest are meh.. engi’s are better.

• You’re right a lot of points tho

the point of rifle eng owning warrior has no correlation to the fact a shotgun is better suited to a heavy armor class though.

the ‘golden rule’ of damage output is as follows:
in every mmo, regardless of what the developers say, the damage output is in favor of the cliche classes.(warrior, rogue, archer[not so much ranger], mage)
the second golden rule is, the more popular a class, the more attention it will receive from bugfixes(might explain why our list just keeps growing)
knowing how much a backstab from a thief can hit for(just took one for 5.6k in wvw)and knowing how much 100b can hit for(i’ve been dropped by the 4th swing)what’s an Engineer to do? Well normally we’d see what we’re doing wrong, but i took those when i was running about 3300 armor rating.
wasn’t it stated that all classes would be able to do the same amount of damage one way or another?
100nades is a way i guess, but being a glass scientist isn’t my cup of charr coffee.
by the way, perma-stability for warriors is complete garbage. you can do absolutely nothing to that as a rifle engineer.
I don’t know about the rest of the Eng players, but i’m fine with less kits, but make the ones that are saved better. flame thrower? just scrap it. Elixir gun? for me it’s useless. Bomb kit? i guess if you’re suicidal…. Grenade kit? leave it as is. Tool kit? save, but needs an incredible amount of refining. that box of nails thing is just pointless.
Most of the elixirs work as intended, but throwing them is so unreliable it hurts. Try needing stealth very badly to get into a tower and getting stability instead. Not funny.
Gadgets: they do nothing, moving on.(although for lulz, throw the knockback mines on walls to knock off enemies)
Elites: i run elixir x and love it…when it turns me into a brute. the mortar(with traits, yes it counts as a turret) would have 1800-200 range if the traits worked. in wvw, you would not see an Eng without one(gotta find an Engineer first to see it)

Rifle: while it’s fun, it’s also kind of insulting. the profession that designed it(which also wears the lighter armor) gets less beneficial things than the class that just fires it.(really? you let warriors snipe too?) Warrior’s armor is much more suited to Engineer’s form of rifle. I propose Eng’s rifle be a hybrid of close and long range. (3 round burst auto attack anyone?)

kbyegripeoverloveyou

Jace.6973:

I really do enjoy being double teamed in EB. It really allows for us to test our skill against you guys.

sorry but ….with your numbers…
this reply deserves nothing but a
umad?

sorry, haven’t logged into the website for a while. she looks just like i’d imagine her to. keep it up
i can even imagine what she’s saying
“Kormak you’re an angry little kitty”

well if turrets were mobile we wouldn’t even need to make a sarcastic post about it ;D
IE:
turret detonates at determined target. Engimes.

Edusd.7893:

Question, does the crazy cat guardswoman story have anything to do with the “I hug cats” lady from that match.com video? My roommate named one of his characters after her….

actually yeah lol. maybe i should’ve used her for the v-day one instead?

Cameron.2315:

only thing i agree with is more siege would be nice i would love to see a siege tower implemented http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/images/middle/tower.jpg

then you would need the right counter siege to be added thats where my idea dies cause it would seem hard to balance it lol

this thread, for me at least, is kind of like a dream update. will never happen and i’m fine with that. someone suggesting that choppers should be included though would just be ridiculous.

‘experienced rangers’
90% of the rangers in world vs. world attack keeps with a short bow. i want so badly to create a wormhole in my monitor and slap them in the face. other times i’ll find them roaming, and they’ll sit there and shoot me hitting for 200. i’ll start dancing(lolbunker vs shortbow)
to people that think longbow is limiting, i’d ask how you’re using it. longbow is your gap closer and long range dps. if you are using it at under 700 range, just switch classes.
i run s/d and longbow. never have the problems that i see people gripe about in the forums. in fact, since rapid fire got an additional 2 shots, i’d say you’re crazy if you won’t at least try it.