Guild Wars 2

To all the legitimate AR players out there, sorry that you’re in third, but as long as guilds that have betrayed GoM are there it’ll stay that way. don’t worry, they’ll all come back to us with their tails between their legs anyway. i expect a very unwelcoming return party when they do.

i’ll see you in the field TCMM.
20 tcmm emblems on my wall so far. how about you, other GoM’s?

stygon.3798:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/halloween/Hurricane-Sandy-Interuppts-our-Halloween-Event-Merged

thanks.

east coast players may miss up to a week of gameplay because of this so it’d be nice for the event to be extended.(we’re talking tens if not hundreds of thousands of players) i understand it’s a lot to ask for as the event is supposed to be over in a couple days, but i also have a pretty good guess something huge will be out on the last days of the event. as i said, the hurricane WILL knock power down, so it would be pretty sweet for a 2 day maximum extension. thank you for your consideration.

was cool playing with you thursday night mike

the weakest link lost a weak(er) link. bye tcmm!

i’m sorry but when my opponent(s), especially in a 1v1 situation(sometimes more) do something so stupid that even their party members would ask what they were thinking, (IE charging into a group of ten people by yourself as a ranger) you probably deserve to be dance’d on. although i tend to </laugh

Yak’s Bend:
stop spawncamping us and save what little honor you have left.
cheers!

Might i ask the point of an alliance when we’re already on the same server? being outside of that alliance means you’re not on the server or working for the other team, does it not? i can speak for no guild as i’m not sure mine does much WvW, but people i play with can speak for me. i’ll either help support or set up a hierarchy if/when it’s needed.

one thing GoM hasn’t lost is our honor and dignity. lets keep it that way.
Korvus Mindbend

Rovus.5428:

I haven’t tried too many of the Black Lion Chests, only used up the keys i had in the bank.

However, I have tried to save up for a weapon for quite some time now (Charrzooka) and i had about 13g. I’m now down to 87 silver after buying two of the skins and a bunch of stuff you get from those bags, trying out the Mystic Forge to see if i could get something interesting.

And I’m not complaining either, just wondering if you also went on a shopping spree?

your shopping spree is my payday

Niim.9260:

Lightsbane.9012:

slight question to SF.
you’d think that you would prioritize not getting facerolled in your own borderlands but instead fight GOM? common sense would dictate you would want your own territories back. why are you fighting us? are we so threatening?

Playing for the score board in this kind of match plays into the hands of the yakzerg. Game is lost, play to kill and have fun, map is irrelevant. Personally I wont fight GoM in this match because I believe that in a match like this we should be double teaming the zerglets. Other people give excuses as to why that wont work and that is fine, believe what you will, but I personally wont take the fight to GoM lands.

that’s the point of my question. why fight us when together we might actually be able to obtain a slightly more dignified amount of points?

slight question to SF.
you’d think that you would prioritize not getting facerolled in your own borderlands but instead fight GOM? common sense would dictate you would want your own territories back. why are you fighting us? are we so threatening?

GOM’s server motto?
may the grub be with you

insaneshadow.1654:

@Lightsbane What? No no no, not anyone in here. I was saying that before anyone thought about gloating or anything.

comment withdrawn then. i guess in the end all we GOMs have left is our dignity. i’m sorry to whoever obtained our orb hackers.

insaneshadow.1654:

As a Yak’s Bend player, I don’t want to see any fellow Yaks gloating or chest bumping about what’s going on. Let’s keep this classy (that means no spawn camping either guys. Seriously).

i don’t recall saying anyone was gloating.

while we understand the frustration of losing to us previously, Yak’s Bend. spawn camping us Gom players not only shows a lack of honor, but also shows fear. some of your players are obviously afraid of what we can do. we get it, you’ve won. now make sure it remains a dignified victory.

we’ve beaten them before and we’ll do it again…when the point difference isn’t already 31k .

it’s rather interesting seeing these kinds of posts considering how ‘polite’(used lightly) SoR has been in the matchup thread. you won. do not become arrogant because of it. hopefully you retain the insta-30man zergs the rest of this(meaning after match up reset) week. know why you won. GOM is a server with college kids and casual gamers from the looks of it. we simply do not have the numbers(say whatever you want, numbers mean more than strategy at this point almost always) to repel 30 people from a tower
on top of the abuse of mesmer’s portal i’m not sure what you want us to say. sure we’ve got some good commanders, and i can’t and won’t blame them for being demoralized. seeing a keep you fully upgraded fall in 10 minutes to a 50 deep mob can do that. you may even beat that mob off the first time, but seeing another one in less than 2 minutes is the nail in the coffin. (add YB fighting us instead of you until SOR was taking their stuff. their BL was completely blue and still they fought us)
matchups needs to be on rank AND population. i don’t care how highly ranked GoM is in the server rankings, most of us just enjoy wvwvw and …everything i listed isn’t that well, enjoyable.

nerva. flurry lasts two seconds, hundred blades last much more than that. a warrior can charge you, a thief can charge you, a ranger can charge you, a guardian can charge you. you have 2 seconds or less to get 1200 away from your target. (also most classes that can charge have some way of crippling or otherwise.) if you call that survivable….idk what to tell you.

and i told you why i liked it. it keeps me out of the thick of the fight while still contributing to it. i just don’t think fighting something toe to toe is that ..survivable for mesmer. would you use your sword against a warrior? or a ranger? how about a guardian?(i wouldn’t)or a thief? if not, i guess it’s for other mage classes.
scepter keeps melee classes off of you(except thief) and if it doesn’t keep them off of you, you block their attacks enough to get away. the channeling time on is about ~1 sec longer than the gsword beam. since you can move around while casting it, is it really that much of a detriment?

nerva.7940:

relax, im trying to have a discussion. try to address the following points concisely:

scepter:

- #1 does incredibly subpar dps, and clone generation is not needed as you can do it by dodge rolling or with utilities, and much faster too
- #2 only blocks one attack. sword’s #2 allows you to evade an entire burst sequence from multiple players
- #3: a good ability, but its channel is painfully slow. 2 dodge rolls can actually nullify the entire ability, and 1 dodge rolle can cut the confusion stack by 2-3.

sword: good dps, good control with cripple and immobilize, and superior survivability.

what does the scepter offer that the sword does not? not counting clone generation, as ive already covered that.

how did you interpret anything i’ve said to be no ‘relaxed’? you realize that just because a set up is popular that not everyone sees it as so? think of how many other classes you can effectively fight with a sword. they’d sure as heck better be putting out less melee dps than you or you’re fried. people seem to fail to realize that you can dodge flurry. i’ve tested my set up in both spvp and wvw i’m sorry that my tastes aren’t yours. if you can’t kill a target with a scepter you aren’t doing something right. i mean if you really think fighting anything with decent melee abilities as a light armor class up close is smart then…i’d love to see it in action. the fact is i’ve had enemies use sword/pistol on me and have always killed them. not sure what else you need to believe me.
i also never said the sword lacked anything, lol. it DOES have good damage, perhaps i just idk, don’t prefer it? my setup’s gotten me through 80 levels so i think i’m doing just fine.

Dracones.9105:

Lightsbane.9012:

i see no one using my build. i use 30 in domination. (I, VIII, X)
10 in dueling(I)
10 in chaos (II)
20 in inspiration(II, VII)
(feedback, blink, mantra of resolve)
gsword/scepter/pistol. i’m very effective in wvw and almost as mobile as a thief. it’s very hard to approach this build in a small unit setting. (i’m using Magic Find gear right now and my damage is still pretty decent)

Why not drop the 10 from chaos and go 20 Dueling(IV, IX)?

because i don’t use sword? lol

nerva.7940:

but sword’s #2 is infinitely better, as youre not just distorted but youre also doing massive dps.

with my mantra set up i can get away from it, i’ve had fights with sword mesmers and always come out on top. using blink=no flurry for you. MoR= no flurry for you. meanwhile you have two phantasms hitting you at once while i’m well out of range of your sword. you don’t have to agree with my build, the fact is it works.

i use it for number 3 and for it’s effectiveness in 1v1 combat. don’t underestimate the block skill dude.

i got staff master on my Ranger the other day lol i dont’ even use staff on any of my characters

i see no one using my build. i use 30 in domination. (I, VIII, X)
10 in dueling(I)
10 in chaos (II)
20 in inspiration(II, VII)
(feedback, blink, mantra of resolve)
gsword/scepter/pistol. i’m very effective in wvw and almost as mobile as a thief. it’s very hard to approach this build in a small unit setting. (i’m using Magic Find gear right now and my damage is still pretty decent)
have problems, like everyone else, almost exclusively with thief.
note: this build is very hard for a staff mesmer to deal with. (chaos storm is very avoidable. especially with MoR.) this build also shines in sPvP, going on a rampage 2x per match. scepter is very VERY underrated. and i’ve gotten a handful of mesmer players to switch to either my weapon set up or my weapon setup AND my trait distribution.

i always found it weird that the class that ‘developed’ the rifle has no volleys for it. i’d happily give up poison dart volley in exchange for a rifle equivalent. it could even be a close range volley like blunderbuss(or at least maybe having the bola shot do some kind of damage)

juicifruitz.6251:

I’d like to thank SOR for the match up last week, and for the way they did, what Yaks Bend didn’t do, and fought back after losing so much ground on the 1st day of this current match up.

To the GOM guys stick with it, over time things hopefully will get better for your server.

Now for the YB Folks, Grow a heart and show some pride in your server. Sure SoR hit back with numbers, but what did you all do? oh this is too hard now so SOR will win and I will take the week off WvW. The sadest part of all of this, is not the thumping YB is receiving it’s the fact that the total lack of pride, of heart, of will from the folks on YB.

any ways I have left YB because of the lack of heart and pride people in the server have. So I wish ya’s GL with your future battles.

stick with what? it’s pretty disheartening when you see 30 people take a supply camp. GOM has seen so many guilds leave. the orbs on top of masses is just a slap in the face. but fine, ‘good fight’ and all that.

BrunoBRS.5178:

or, you know, keep the orb system.

or, you know, get rid of it entirely.

Lightsbane.9012:

i won’t call it orb hacking, because it’d be hypocritical. GOM has done it…buuuuuut
explain this please?

notice the absence of the typical ‘under attack’ sign over at the Hills keep. that was blue taking it from the keep they did not own, nor did they attack it.

i won’t call it orb hacking, because it’d be hypocritical. GOM has done it…buuuuuut
explain this please?

the moa morph skills is one of the most hilarious things i’ve ever seen and done to an enemy.

GS Main
Scepter/Pistol swap
30 domination 10 dueling 10 chaos 20 inspiration
utility skills: feedback, blink, and mimic

mostly use rampager’s(or exotics with those stats) on each piece of armor. my build set up is made for small unit wvw tactics and for spvp. also has a nice niche in the keep defense etc in WvW.

sceptus.9415:

Seriously? You are claiming we are using culling (a problem with the game’s client for ALL players)? When I die due to invisible players I don’t come to the forums and blame the players. Go to the general board and complain about the client issues. This isn’t the same as a singular cheater flying around grabbing orbs in seconds. Wait, you aren’t from GoM are you? I mean, it would be pretty ironic if you were.

oh, you mean ironic in the sense that 5 people hacked the orb and told no one else? sure, i guess. you forgot to mention the 1:5 population ratio in wvw at any time.

Mablung.3519:

While I was not there at the battle, I have fought plenty of times at the exact location with large numbers on both sides. It is a rendering issue. Culling. No exploit.

I do however understand it is easier to have excuses for why you did not win instead of just saying well done, maybe next time.

if it’s a rendering issue then it’s something wrong with the game, no? a glitch in the system. if that’s an ‘excuse’ then i’m sure the mass server hops are an excuse too.

Gate of Madness is currently in a similar situation.

we know you have been using the render exploit. you do not get through a line of siege weapons with 20+ people without us seeing you. if a mes did it we’d have seen the mesmer. expect more screen caps.
secure your client Anet.
PS: a mes portal entrance lasts 20 seconds, and to even get remotely close without us seeing you you’d have to A.) use an epic speed buff B.) be stealthed C.) somehow have minimal cooldown on Blink. D.) be there in a 20 second window to drop a portal exit.

for a while i’ve noticed that when 2 worlds team up on another, more often than not one of the two worlds that are ‘allied’ will eventually turn on each other. (E.G: SoS’s current grand total of 3 towers and 2 camps)
this is just a suggestion: fight for your own world and your own world only. not only will you retain some dignity but some points

just as i was about to finish off my third opponent. not suspicious at all. nope.

‘disrupting supplies, what wvw has become’
i do not know what to say to that. did you think the other worlds would simply LET you endlessly supply Stonemist?

Schwa.1620:

I don’t really care about them being balanced or not, I’m more concerned with them being so easy to hack with such a huge payoff.

the pay off is the same as getting it legitimately. so…you ARE concerned about it being balanced.

sceptus.9415:

I’m accusing SW. Until you expose the player your server is going to get its due.

maybe you should look to arena net instead of throwing mindless punches.

Shaojack.3871:

Yay they have 3 orb bonus now.
Lightsbane, we dont need to cheat to get the orb, house is checked, if we were doing it we would have at least one orb right now.

yet it happened, oh well.

sceptus.9415:

We aren’t attacking SoS until every GoM is dead and their lands are wiped out. Server allies until the guilty party is exposed here.

then i guess you should investigate SW(they are the hackers, i do not know the actual guild name) instead of blanket accusing like an idiot.

or smart….if they capped it…

Let the grief continue…

they didn’t.

living among the human race means most of your ideas aren’t original.

eliminating orbs from the game solves this problem. do it already, anet.

Kazim.2043:

/signed

Orbs are just a source of trouble right now.

orbs are mostly a source of imbalance. for that i’ll vote this post up

voting to get the orb system out of wvw. mainly so ‘hacking’ is never put out as an accusation. that and well if some world has 3 orbs you’re not doing anythign to stop them.

etsmith.9025:

gates used hacks in their last game rotation. orbs stolen left and right. Was surprising to see all 3 orbs taken from the other teams and “appearing” in gates keeps in all 3 maps within a 2 minute time period without taking the keeps holding them.

happened to us twice this week. try again.