I never understood why Anet is so afraid of making the ranger class over-powered. Think about it, they are terrified of it. Greatsword damage got nerfed in beta. Spirits for some reason got nerfed with internal cooldown, even when 2 hits killed them. The bleed stack did also. This probably needed to happen but it left rangers with almost nothing.
Yet, they have no problem with thieves being the most mobile and having the most burst. What is that? You can catch any person and you can burst them down? How is that fair? They even decided to give thieves the ability to steal boons consistently because those were the only classes that stood a chance against them.
The biggest problem with rangers is pets. If you want pets to be a significant part of the ranger’s dps, you need to improve either the AI or give them an auto speed boost like WoW hunter pets. There is no reason they should miss 80% of their attacks and which is 40% of their dps.
Come on guys, keep it clean and healthy. We win some we lose some, its normal. Some chest thumping is ok, but don’t do it overboard or continously.
We should learn to respect each and every server for its effort towards WvW. We fight, we wipe, we learn together.
Just avoid some trolls and replace whatever troll writes as “good fights”. It will be a better day for all of us. The strongest fighter is the one with the bigger heart.
What do you expect? It is nerds fighting dorks They are arguing about a video game. Reason and logic have no place in this universe. Just skip it and understand there are people out there that need attention.
Get to level 80 first and get exotic gear. That makes a big difference in damage and defense. Heck, that might be the 25% more damage you been needing to make a difference. A rule of thumb is to use power, toughness, and vitality karma gear at first. Slowly replace a piece at a time with more damaging gear as you feel comfortable with your survivability.
Also take a look at what you want to do pvp wise. A warrior has to specialize more than other classes. It seems some classes that are good solo aren’t really that great in group fights. If you like 1v1 fights, you will need a build with lots of mobility and survivability. What good is your build if you keep getting run down by groups and dying or you can’t even catch that solo guy?
If you want group fights, you might want to think about forgoing some damage for some CC. Or if your group you run with has the CC, you could be a glass cannon GS warrior. All depends.
Zerg battles, you want more AOE stuff. Whirl, longbow, and reflect projectiles does that. Can also do some other support stuff.
Keep playing around with it. Then, go play other classes. You learn so much from doing so. I always come back to my warrior now and then, each time I do, I do better and better.
Runes work now on bleeds. They didn’t before. You can get 3 × 15% bleed increase. Assuming you have piercing arrows, you will have 20% for traits and 45% from runes. This will allow you to use cheaper 37% foods if you wanted.
That is 6 seconds which will give you 12 bleeds pretty easily. You could go for 7 seconds but would give up a lot just do get that 1 second. The runes are pretty cheap also.
I have to laugh every time BG complains about SoR zergballing. The last 2-3 nights I have been in JQ BL, it was around 25-30 of my guildees and I trying to perform with our numbers. We’d fight the first BG Zerg we find, realize its our 25-30 against their 45-50, and get wiped. We’d then meet up with TSYM, even up the numbers, and farm BG for the night. It’s crazy what you can do with even numbers eh? Shame we can’t have even numbered fights with BG unless we create a zergball as well..
Hmm..let’s see, a 30 person guild group combined with the whole zerg of TSYM fighting against what you claim to be 45 BG (and we all know how we like to exaggerate our enemy numbers), and you are wondering why people are complaining the zergball of SoR?
I love how people think that when they follow 30-40 other people around, it isn’t a zerg. When someone else does it, holy zerg batman!
Fight again real people is and will always be better than fighting against a computer. If you have two sides with equal equipment and numbers, the side that wins is the one that is more organized and better with their individual classes.
In dungeon lands, all they do is add more hit-points and more damage to a monster to make it harder. There is really nothing that has changed in the past 10 years with dungeon encounters. They are pre-programmed encounters, there is no randomness to them accept for them the boss uses it instant kill AOE attack.
Indo on SoR is pretty amazing. I have seen commanders lead PuGs and fail hard. Indo will take these same people and just starting owning. If he ever quit SoR, I think SoR would drop a tier or two.
I know you guys are to busy hurling insults, but this is actually a pretty fun week for WvW. The fight for 2nd and 3rd is pretty close. BG could take 2nd. The fights have been pretty even across the BLs. Yeah, some guilds from each side win in their perspective BL, but I suggest you quit running with the same people on night and try hopping to another BL before you form your opinions. You might find that your side actually does get its butt kicked on other BLs and maybe you aren’t always 1 v 2. Just a thought from some random player.
Everytime I’ve ran with Fear/TW/Hire/Choo, I hardly see wipes, and I follow their commanders daily. I’ve wiped JQ a hell of a lot more times than I’ve seen any of SoR get wiped. So, I’d like to see some decent evidence of you wiping SoR zergs.
I have been thinking about these comments as well. I think from the perspective of someone who doesn’t have good situational awareness could be skewed by things they don’t see.
For example, lets say we are in SoR BL and take/try to take the SE camp. It is right next to a spawn point and enemies can just keep flooding in. We may fight for a long time, but eventually attrition and infinite respawns will either kill you off or force you to withdraw. It doesn’t matter if you killed 150 people in that camp with 30 over time, if you don’t cleanly withdraw, our ‘zerg’ got ‘wiped’. Even if you do only lose a couple of people total and cleanly withdraw, your ‘zerg’ still got ‘wiped’ from the perspective of some.
Those might be the same people that think they are the only ones that get 2v1. This is kinda a poor example. No way you can think you wiped a zerg if you respawned 3 or 4 times. 9 times out of 10, when a guild sticks around your spawn point, they are messing around or just keeping you busy while something else is happening. This is an example of, they let you beat them.
SCHOFIELD’S DEFINITION OF DISCIPLINE
The discipline which makes the soldiers of a free country reliable in battle is not to be gained by harsh or tyrannical treatment. On the contrary, such treatment is far more likely to destroy than to make an army. It is possible to impart instructions and to give commands in such a manner and in such a tone of voice as to inspire in the soldier no feeling but and intense desire to obey, while the opposite manner and tone of voice cannot fail to excite strong resentment and a desire to disobey. The one mode or other of dealing with subordinates springs from a corresponding spirit in the breast of the commander. He who feels the respect which is due others cannot fail to inspire in them regard for himself; while he who feels, and hence manifests, disrespect toward other, especially his inferiors, cannot fail to inspire hatred against himself.
They make everyone at West Point memorize this.
Really sweet idea. I am leveling my ranger and will eventually try it. I also decided to use some of these ideas on my retired rifle warrior. I think it will be crazy good. Can’t wait to get home and try. Thanks.
Rangers seem to get a lot of traits and skills that help direct damage. I think if you stacked some of them, you could do some decent damage with a short-bow. I always wanted to test signet of the wild with signet of the beast master, steady focus, hunter’s tactics, and runes of the thief. Seems like it would do some fast and decent crits. Although a longbow might be better. Guess I need to level my ranger.
Wow…I never really paid attention. I always thought they were Tyvm. As in Thank-you very much…..
Shows how much I know.
Anyways, can we just stop all the negative posts. It is getting really old. Tyvm.
This is like watching fox news when they got crazy democrat guy and fat republican. It doesn’t what is said, they have the opposite view.
Nothing really to say, you have to be on a server that can kill 50-60 people at a time. You have to follow a guild around that can actually kill other large groups. If your server doesn’t have that, it is going to be a long road. Always try to tag the champ of a supply camp. He gives 2 over 50% of the time. If your server isn’t very good, it will be hard. You will have to cap camps and pick small fights. This is a lot slower. If you are on a decent server with one of those guilds that can kill, you can get 50-100 a night.
Instant deaths aren’t fun. Melees would not exist. Guess what? Small groups would still suck. A large group will still dominate because AOE radius of a small group has no way of killing them.
I think lower levels should get better stat boost though. The gap will get larger and larger as the game gets older and older if something is not done. I think it is bad for the game overall because it discourages new players from trying WvW and it discourages veteran players from re-rolling. Being bumped to level 80 was a huge step for the MMO community, they just need to tweak the stats some. Make it fair and fun for the new guy. He is already at a huge disadvantage because he doesn’t know his skills or the people he is fighting. No need to add the fact that he is hitting for 250 damage but taking 1K damage from auto-attacks.
I think way points need to go. Maybe the only one should be garrison waypoint in your homeworld. Homeworld should have an advantage. Other than that, I think if you die outside of your homeworld, you should be ported back to Lion Arch and have to reque. Death should mean something.
What is the AOE limit on siege? I know my arrow carts hit more than 5 at a time.
Major downfall of WvW. They reward people for all stacking on one server. My question is, if they aren’t going to change, why did they even have EU and NA servers? They should have just mixed everyone in one pot.
They just need to get rid of all waypoints but the one in your citadel. You die, you rezz in your homeworld and have to walk.
Nice to see a Sceptor/Dagger video
I play a 0/20/30/10/10 S/D.
Air Vl, X
Earth ll, Vl, Xll
Water V
Arcane VFairly new to game and thus all blue equipment.. Someday I hope to upgrade:
Soldier Armor – Rune of the Warrior -1 sec weapon swap
Knight Jewels – Magi
Weapons – Beserker – Sigil of Energy and Leeching
Does the -1 weapon swap work with elementalist attunements?
The nametags are so big it makes it look like 20 people are there for every nametag.
I brushed off my elementalist last night and decided to give it a whirl. I wasn’t that good with them the last time I played. However, I had a bunch of badges so I was able to get him all exotic gear. I also noticed you use ether renewal instead of glyph for healing. I always liked the glyph because it gave me swiftness in airmode for WvW roaming. I decided to give ether a try. Man, it makes a ton of difference. First, the timer. 15 seconds on your best heal. Then you have the condition removal aspect. I think that is what was getting me killed before. I would mist and use my glyph heal but I would still take a ton of damage from conditions. That doesn’t happen with ether. I can RtL into a group of 60 people and get off a few AOE spells. Once they focus on me and knock me down or stun me, I just mist and ether back to our side.
I will be honest, it felt really OP. My first fight of the night, I got my butt kicked by a necro. I immediately went back to the same spot and found him again. The 2nd time around, he never got me below 90%. The rest of the night was like that, I didn’t mind fighting 3-4 people because I always knew if things got bad, I got RtL away and heal up.
Not to derail but have you guys seen this?
That’s just mark jacobs trying to suck some more money out of his daoc fans.
GW2 > DAOC by a long shot and I played daoc for like 7 years or something.
Mark Jacobs is a very good at telling people what they want to hear. He has a very hard time delivering. When I quit DAOC, I told myself I would never play another Mythic product again. Then Warhammer came out… I thought, well, maybe they learned from their past screw-ups. Boy was I wrong. GW2 is a 1000000000 times better than DAOC.
Does anyone on JQ play for the fights? Or just to win? Serious question.
Don’t you have to fight to win? Serious…
A p/d thief doesn’t need to CnD. He can have 6 forms of stealth without ever doing it. Pre-loaded stealth from steal, 2 second stealth from steal, fighting a thief gives another stealth with follow-up stealth, heal stealth, blindness dust, and shadow refuge.
But like Brass said, you got condition removal, you take a lot of their damage away. However, it is still six sneak attacks…the direct damage will hurt, esp if they are traited for 100% crit on hidden and have all carrion gear. Also, there will be times when those bleeds do tick.
The problem isn’t one thief, it is 2 or more. Their skills all feed off each other. Two D/P thieves are really OP. One guy powders, then they both heart-seeker for stealth followed by a backstab. Then the other guy powder. Hard to fight against that. Your side needs to time your stun and AOEs perfectly. They don’t. If you pop endure pain….no problem. They just back-up and repeat. They don’t need to be glass cannons either. Two thieves still hit hard no matter how they are specced. That gives them access to more initiative for more stealth and heal/condition removal on stealth. The icing on the cake is when you do get lucky and down one. The other guy just needs to drop a black powder and shadow refuge then revive. It works about 90% of the time. You have to get lucky to be able knock them out of refuge or kill the downed guy with massive AOE If not, by then the downed guy can port away, the other thief can use is AOE stealth and finish it. You won’t have any idea where they are.
And I am not even telling you the half of it. There are still some other tricks out there that make thieves even more powerful.
I stomped right next to my co-worker today, she didn’t go flying in the air.
Each piece will only be 500000 current badges or 1000 of the new badges.
Which server will be the next to crash and burn?
Wow, I killed warriors pretty easily before. Should I close my eyes now when I fight one?
Blaming the game for not being fully up to YOUR taste is rather harsh and disrespectful. I play as solo as you can possibly play, I’ve got my Ranger to level 80 and I’m currently re-starting as a Thief currently at level 21, I play solo, I don’t have a Guild, I don’t play on getting a guild. If I go WvW I play alone and just tag a long with randomers if need be. The only time I ever socialize with the other human beings is if I need to do a dungeon or fractals, I’ll join a group.
And I can’t say I feel the same as you, I enjoy it just as much as I’d enjoy it in any other MMO.
You can make your own guild. It doesn’t take long to get a guild stash and other stuff. It is almost a waste not to have your own guild because you earn influence for just about everything.
I love playing solo. It is my escape from the real world. I don’t want to talk to real people. I don’t expect the game to change because I choose to be anti-social. Some stuff was made to enjoy solo and some stuff was made to be grouped. I am fine with that. It is like the real world. If I choose to play a MMO at night, I don’t expect to get laid by anyone but myself.
Instead of trying to get better we just pile on one server….
As long as you got the 40 precision trait, you will be fine. Every 5 or 10 levels (depending on how much money you got), search the trade post for cheap upgrades. There are tons of them. Just go with all power if you do not plan to WvW. You will kill so fast, health isn’t an issue.
If you want to WvW, get the karma invader stuff and switch gear. You will need toughness and health which means you won’t have much attack power. Zerg it. With the gap widening more and more between level 80 and non level 80’s, you won’t do much solo unless it is another non 80.
With a condition rifle/sword you can solo a buffed camp. Pull and kill the two range or at least one. You can do them both at once with piercing shot. Once they are dead pull everything into a big group, make sure melee guard used his shield bash and boss used his knowdown (or use some stability). Don’t want them to mess up flurry. If you only killed one range, pull everyone to the other one. Pop endure pain and flurry. With ghost peppers you get a bunch of might in daytime. Trash mobs will melt, with the might you gained, you will be hitting from 130-160 per bleed on the boss if you also use justice and rage. You can stack about 6-8 bleeds on a buffed boss (10-14 on unbuffed). Just keep kiting till bleeds kill him. Wait till he tries to heal and bullcharge to interrupt and flurry. Your endure pain will be back up so pop it while you sword him till rifle is back up.
It does take awhile so chances are enemies will show. Be prepared to run. Also, your side might show and rob you of your solo buffed camp glory.
camelot. unchained.
If Mark Jacobs involved, it will be trash.
Great… This was the push I needed to stop playing GW2 and maybe re-join in 6-7 months. Makes me think what kind of testers they actually have over at ANet. :/
Threatening to quit a game that has no subscription fee is kinda pointless. They already got your money, they really don’t care. The best thing that can happen is people do quit and then the ones that are left on low pop servers have to pay to transfer.
I sandboxed it last night. The issue that was causing the randomness… I only get stacks when the weapon with the sigil is being used. I have double dagger, double pistol. The sigil is on the dagger. If I get a kill with my pistols out, no stack. If I get a kill with my daggers out, I get a stack. So if I get max stacks on dagger, I can then switch to pistol and still have the stacks.
That is pretty much it. You have to have the weapon with the sigil in use when you get the kill. So if it is on a dagger, you have to be using daggers when you get the kill. Once, you have charge, you keep it till you are downed. What I do, if I have some cheap karma weapon with the bloodlust sigil. I build the charges, then switch to my main weapon. Shortbow for a thief works well, you can tag lots of targets at once. Zerg on zerg, charge in with cluster bomb till initiative is gone, dagger storm to heal and build initiative, cluster bomb again. On a good push, you rack up 12-15 charges. Make sure you follow a decent commander where people know how to stack and charge. If not, find a group of monsters. I can usually kill 4-6 at once. Wolves and coyotes are the easiest, they have low health, esp the one they summon.
They should make 24 hr servers then if that is how they want it. Pair the best NA with worse EU. Pair the best EU with the worse N/A. The middle servers would be paired with middle servers. The overall coverage should be improved for all the servers. As your server improves you are paired with a weaker server. If your server isn’t so good, you get a more powerful ally.
Right now it is just plain dumb. The server with the best off hour coverage wins. Nothing else matters.
Stealth is defensive and mobility skill. What is happening right now, you can focus all your stats in offense and with stealth, you do not lose much surviviabilty. If a non-stealth class does this, they are glass cannons and will die fast in most conflicts. Yeah, a GS warrior can kill people but they die a lot also. That doesn’t happen with a thief. You do your burst and then stealth to keep from dying.
The logical solution would be to somehow tie defensive stats to stealth. Someone that wants to pure dps of a thief should have weak to no stealth. They need to find that fine line between defensive and offensive stats like every other class.
If you walk backwards into a portal in Lion Arch, you skip the queue and your number counts against the other server. Why you guys can’t get in….
More hackers in T1…never seen so many people abuse the down state hack
BG and FA, i sincerely hope you guys pulverize TC into tiny bits of RP’r dust. I’ve never played against a server that constantly complains so much about everything. Needless to say it was a great joy spawn camping them to the extreme ( trebs, ballistas, shame ram trains and barricades). I can trully understand why FA detests TC so much now that i’ve played against them.
Oddly, the first time SOR faced them, i dont recall them being this way.
Wow thats some baddass sanctum player, spoilt winners? good for you that you got hundreds to your server, we didn’t don’t boast about how wonderful your server is, it is not the great. your players can’t beat some of us when you outnumber us easy.
For exampla,
I took on 3 SoR with my mesmer, alone. (1 ele, 1 mes, 1 guardian) all fought pathetic
3 people took out 5 of your team, finished them, then as always your “ultimately so called AWESOME” zerg of 50 people came and wiped them afterwards.
I hope you guys get stomped so hard in tier 1 you fall to Tier 3, and all your noob players leave so you can become a quallity server for the first time.
Time to log on GW2, and go roaming in SoR BL. I wonder how many I will kill in the JP.
Someone takes this game way to seriously and really has no idea that an alt is no where near as good as a true level 80.
As someone who plays BG, I do NOT want to fight Sanctum of Rall or Henge of Denravi. People on that server just kitten me off. Dumb stuff like building a ton of siege in the jump game. Or having squads of theives jump you outside your base. Just stuff that pisses me off.
BG has the largest population of thieves in the game. You probably haven’t noticed since they are all CoDing walls.
Zergs don’t care about swords, they just goto the next objective. Take away god buff from supply camps. Let a small group take them whenever, hide, let zerg take it, then retake it when zerg leaves in 30 seconds. That will force the zerg to split up to defend.
Also, swords only appear if 5 or more people attack. You are a zerg yourself complaining about a bigger zerg.
Any non zerg will know only to have 3 people attack.
Do server pairings. The top NA server with bottom EU server and top EU with bottom NA. As you move up the tiers, your partner gets worse. As you move down, your partner gets better. Almost every server would have close to 24/7 coverage that way. The lag isn’t that bad between NA and EU servers, I have been on both. Just alternate back and forth where the WvW is hosted week to week.
PvD = lame.