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Explain why winner dropped tier!?

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last week’s match up was part of the Lunar New Year event which ends in 2 days on Feb 9th.

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Whats the point of WvW?

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In PvE and in EtoM, one often plays with random players that might never see each other again.

Even guilds disappear.

Eternal battle ground and borderlands are places one could meet familiar faces first met many years ago.

I was always happy to see familiar commanders and players even after they changed their looks and with a different guild.

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Anet, you lied to us

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It has been a practice for this game to leave off important details during hypes.

Just like the hype for Heart of Thorns and guild hall upgrades.

The enormous cost of the guild hall upgrades was a surprise to many only after its release.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/A-Scribe-s-Lament-aka-The-Optimist-Love-Story/first#post5945840

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Feed back for Jan 26 Update

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This update made game play less fun because the builds I have been playing have different outcomes due changes in skills and traits.

So I selected files GW2-64.exe and GW2.dat and moved them to the recycle bin and emptied them.

Thank you for the update.

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One liners for ANET

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“Is it Fun?”

Colin Johanson on how ArenaNet Measures Success

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/is-it-fun-colin-johanson-on-how-arenanet-measures-success/

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Increase rewards for WvW

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Be careful what you wish for.

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problem is everyone who just ventured into wvw for the first time to get their achievements or whatever had ABSOLUTELY no idea what they were doing or how to fight..

Just make EotM more rewarding for new players to stay there by setting WvW rewards outside EotM only accessible for players above certain WvW rank, say 100.

Players with WvW rank below such rank gets nothing, no loot, no gold, no karma outside Eotm in WvW but equally well rewarded in EotM.

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Increase rewards for WvW

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Ok. I understand that Arena Net has to make money, .

Arena Net wants to push players to buy Heart of Thorns, and I am fine with this too because I agree with rewarding developers’ time spent building the game.

At the same time, I also believe that Arena Net should honor top rewards to players who contribute in creating content in this game.

WvW could be a perfect place to do just that as an end game for players. It is a part of the game content created by players with Arena Net’s infrastructure support. The Tagged Commanders, the roamers, the coordinating guilds, and the zerglings are trying their best to entertain each other and creating content for Anet. Without them, there would be no WvW but empty maps like what often happened the Desert Borderlands. All of these players deserve to be rewarded for the time spent in WvW a least at same rate as time spent in PvE.

There are things in the game currently are designed to entice players to own Heart of Thorns, like powerful Elite specialization and high PvE rewards for events like Dragon’s Stand.

Probably because WvW is accessible to even players from free to play, its reward appeared to be reduced. This is unnecessary because Arena Net has already gave players without HoT disadvantages, without access to more powerful Elite specialization and War Room updates. Players without HoT should more likely be loot bags than picking up bags. As a Tempest, its power and sustainability becomes obvious to me after playing a few time and learning the skills.

Yesterday, I spent about 3 hours in Dragon’s Stand, the first hour we just did some events on one of the path while taxing players in and we completed the events after the map reset. I also spent about 3 hours in Edge of the Mist, commanding a zerg, taking towers and keeps, defending our keep and winning all the zerg fights. It was fun. However, the amount of loot from WvW was half or less than what was from Dragon’ Stand.

So here is what I am at.

I don’t want to go back to Dragons’ Stand often because it was mindless just like I only went to Ascalonian Catacombs once in last 3 years and Fractals a couple of times.

And I am reluctant to come to WvW because players’ effort in creating content for this game do not seems to be appreciated by the developer.

So Arena Net,

for next big WvW upgrade, please give extra consideration for rewarding players’ time in WvW. Your message for players to upgrade to HoT is loud and clear with Elite specialization, Dragon banners, and Airship Defense and low rewards in WvW does not have to be this part of sale.

And please also reward the guilds that brought War Room upgrades in the game and maybe give them favors for kills by these devices.

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There is no spoon.

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I picked up one in the Eternal battlegrounds today.

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Why Titles are not displayed in WvW?

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Now you don’t ..

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Why Titles are not displayed in WvW?

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Now you see it, a title, in a squad or a party ..

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Why Titles are not displayed in WvW?

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Actually I figured out that the Titles are shown to squad members.

When one joins a squad one can see others’ titles.

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Why Titles are not displayed in WvW?

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Neither.

Could you kindly explain what to be done to display the titles?

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Why Titles are not displayed in WvW?

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Titles under one’s name are not shown in WvW as in the screenshot.

Some players have their titles shown but some do not.

Is this a bug or a setting difference?

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Enteral Battleground is still fun

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Just spend 3 hours in NA T2,

a lot of fights around SMC,

non-stop.

In fact, it is still the most fun place in the game when compared to Auric Basin, Silver Waste, Edge of the Mist and the Desert borderlands.

Many players probably just need a break from the pre HOT style of playing.

I didn’t play in Enteral Battleground for a while and for whatever the reasons, I enjoyed it tonight.

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The proliferation of long term goals

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Players go through the following process

1. Learning the game (many never go beyond this and quit.)

2. Spend thousands of hours for an in game achievement, this could be a skin or a title(this could be repeated until the real life is valued more than what is offered for wealth, health, social and mental in the game.)

3. Became a casual player (because upon the acquisition of an achievement, its value become ambiguous and diminishing.)

4. Spend more time on forum than in game (the memory of thousands of hours of game play stays in players’ mind for a long time.)

My experience for the second step was achieving the title of

“God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals”.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Kind_of_a_Big_Deal

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Help me find a new world!

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https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/members/Schmitma-3185/showposts

How about Dragonbrand? Seems like they’re the underdogs of T2 at the moment, so it must stay competitive for them to keep themselves away from T3.

Also, I’m sure I’ll be able to find a guild I can have fun with no matter where I go. My main goal is to find a server that isn’t going to die out any time soon, but also one that isn’t a super elite T1 server.

Where have you been since last year ?

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Airstrikes ...

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Airship Defense, Dragon Banner and other War Room updates

were probably created to demonstrate the value of Guild Hall Upgrades

where Anet hoped to create an arms race that would generate

game activities and additional gem sales.

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A Scribe's Lament aka The Optimist Love Story

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I post this in the sincerest hopes that people will read it and take heed.
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Most posted are buried in this forum in just a few days. People will read what is accessible and usually it is on the first couple pages of the forum.

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ANet should perhaps take a second look at rebalancing stuff before this discontent reaches levels where people start leaving.
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Anet probably made a lot of money with the pre-sale of the expansion and gems afterwards.

It also planned for a declining player base and made the game Free to Play to counter.

With the way this form designed, it can control its messages where new players would not know these stories and relive them.

It is designed to get players’ time and gold with an addiction usually characterized by short happiness and long term pain.

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A Scribe's Lament aka The Optimist Love Story

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So since Heart of Thorns has come out, .

…. I know! .. I’m broke. 27853 gold is gone.

Life is ….

$3,450 USD can buy 138 Gem Cards for 276,000 gems which gives about 27,876 gold at current 100 gem 10.1 rate.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/gem

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wvw current severs status .

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Server population check online

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I used to love her...

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.. even though she could be cold like the Alpines;

now she is wrinkled with cliffs and chasms,

dried up like a Desert..

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Fix the kitten 0% wall bug already!!!!!!

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As long as the 0% walls looks solid they are fine,

because it is the looks that this game wants its players to learn to care about.

Skins are among the most valuable items on the Trading Post and fashions are top items for gems.

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Guild Wars 2 as an action-rpg

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GW 2 is a fashion RPG.

All activities are for the looks like Winter’s Presence Shoulders, legendary weapons foot prints, Guild Hall Restorations, and many many skins.

So fancy like ..

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Trying to be positive .. but

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where do we go to have fun in this game?

Right now, in the grand plan of things, everyone is supposed to join a large guild and mining shinies for guild hall upgrades.

Just like these guys having fun ..

Heigh Ho

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If u bring back Alpine Bl, I would...

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.. forgive

because people make mistakes just like ..

Steve Harvey Announces The WRONG Winner of Miss Universe 2015

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Saving the holiday spirit

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Great idea.
Maybe the next update should introduce a “Guild Hall Decorations Merchant” that a guild could purchase for 500 Favor and 5000 Aetherium who would sell a giant tree for 5000 Aetherium and additional decoration for gold.

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I used to love her...

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.. then she just disappeared. Apparently, Her father locked her in a dungeon and pushing a bore to anyone coming for her with lures that the bore would be even more fun if everyone stuff enough gems into right holes.

Not sure if we can rescue her because that family got new members and infected all the elders with addictions to gems.

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Just coming back

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You wanna get a legendary? Play 10 mins a day and save gold for it. In 3 years you’ll have it.
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Could you go into a little detail how to accomplish this?

Which map to go?

What event to join at what time of the day?

What can accomplished in 10 mins a day then log out?

How much gold is expected to generated in 10 mins?

This could be the most helpful post ever.

Thx.

buy 30 fractal encryption keys at 20s each, ..

Fractal Encryption Keys are Account Bound.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_Encryption_Key

And can be bought for 20s each(30 a day) +1 fractal relic

So how much time does it take to farm 30 fractal relic a day?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_Relic

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Just coming back

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You wanna get a legendary? Play 10 mins a day and save gold for it. In 3 years you’ll have it.
..

Could you go into a little detail how to accomplish this?

Which map to go?

What event to join at what time of the day?

What can accomplished in 10 mins a day then log out?

How much gold is expected to generated in 10 mins?

This could be the most helpful post ever.

Thx.

buy 30 fractal encryption keys at 20s each, ..

Fractal Encryption Keys are Account Bound.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_Encryption_Key

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Just coming back

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..
You wanna get a legendary? Play 10 mins a day and save gold for it. In 3 years you’ll have it.
..

Could you go into a little detail how to accomplish this?

Which map to go?

What event to join at what time of the day?

What can accomplished in 10 mins a day then log out?

How much gold is expected to generated in 10 mins?

This could be the most helpful post ever.

Thx.

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Just coming back

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This game is like a giant puzzle and it may take thousands of hours of playing to understand what it is all about.

Some quit before they really understood the game because it demanded more time than they were willing to play and some left after spending thousand of hours in the game because it became tedious and they felt betrayed.

Feeling tedious like taking 10,000 drinks, and feeling betrayed because the gaming experience deviated from the promotional information given prior the release of the original GW2, and its expansion HOT.

True, many post here are complaints and

many also quit without saying anything here.

It is also true that many complained here actually wanted to make the game better by communicating their experiences.

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Just coming back

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And again, 99% of the negative posts are made by people that lack quite a lot of brain cells.
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This is the state of the game so far

Many of the negative posts were made by players with thousands of hours in this game.

So are these players lack brain cells to start with? or lost them in their thousands of hours of playing?

When people with 3k hours in the game insist ….call the game a grindfest, then yes, they lack brain cells

It appears the defender of the game is a new player with a short forum history while many negative posts were made by players with thousands of hours in the game. Yesterday, a player called himself, “King of BG”, with 13 legendaries posted quitting.

Maybe when one reaches 3k hours playing in the game, this “grindfest” could be an obvious conclusion.

So are players lack brain cells to spend thousands of hours in a game? or lost them in their thousands of hours of playing?

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Just coming back

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..
And again, 99% of the negative posts are made by people that lack quite a lot of brain cells.
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This is the state of the game so far

Many of the negative posts were made by players with thousands of hours in this game.

So are these players lack brain cells to start with? or lost them in their thousands of hours of playing?

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Grind Halls not Guild Halls

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Should Guild Wars be called Grind Wards, too?

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Unhappy

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Think of a game that is designed to make its experience boring on purpose where players are expected to pay and play extra in order to find some hope for something maybe fun for a while.

This is it!

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Laughing can be contagious

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Amid many unhappy posts here, maybe this can cheer some of you up

Happy Holidays

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Reboot the Base Map Mechanic & Population

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Anything important one wants Anet’s attention could have a topic on Reddit.com too.

It appears Reddit is a warm and fuzzy place for developers where they are active with posts like

Cupcake Day at ArenaNet!!

It is read by a larger audience including non GW2 players that GW 2 wants to market its game to.

And Reddit.com is neutral place where Anet can’t infract, edit, or delete posts they do not want the world to know which could make posts more impactful.

And someone already started

WvW after Month and a half of HoT #2

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To Those Who Think They Want A Megaserver

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Players who wants to keep the server system has to take one thing into consideration that is the

new guild upgrade system

which is the most important update to GW2 because it represents the developer’s philosophy of its core revenue stream of the product for the future after free to play. It is built around the pressure of guild activities and it will be protected at all costs and molding other parts of the game around it. Revenue from server transfer has declined because anyone can make a new free account at an open server under free play.

So the key to save the server system is how can it be rebuild around the core guild system.

Players are complaining because right now WvW is sort of like ..

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/tim-cook-on-new-iphone-6s-battery-case-i-wouldnt-call-it-the-hump.1943619/page-13

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How could you!!

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You can’t buy shovels with money, so I don’t get your point.

Go to the Silverwaste and place “WTB Shovels for 2g each”. Add player to your guild, they deposit the shovels, you pay them, and then G kick. Done and done…

So150 shovels for 300g plus some administrative work.

There you go.

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Reboot the Base Map Mechanic & Population

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Anet should looking into this suggestion and give feedback so players and developer can make WvW better together.

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How could you!!

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One can drill down the Mat’s requirement from here

Guild upgrade

so many pages ..

You can’t buy shovels with money, so I don’t get your point.

You are right for these account bound items one has to divide time between PvE and WvW.

This is worse.

No wonder less people are in WvW, they could be in Silver Waste looking for shovels.

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How could you!!

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Oh, all those Mats that are required for guild upgrades in WvW that many complained are designed to be bought with gems through Trading Posts. ANet knows WvW players do not have the patience to grind for PvE mats.

So be prepared to support guilds with gems.

Silverwastes Shovels?

One can drill down the Mat’s requirement from here

Guild upgrade

then here
War Room Restoration 1

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/War_Room_Restoration_1

and here
War Room Restoration 2

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/War_Room_Restoration_2

and further here
Scribing: Cloaking Waters

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Scribing:_Cloaking_Waters

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and so on and so on ..

so many pages ..

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WvW dead. Nothing left to do

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Finally the War is over and Peace over the lands.

It’s all green.

Time for celebration in this

season of Joy

Maybe with snowball fights..

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Godly_Yuletide

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How could you!!

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Oh, all those Mats that are required for guild upgrades in WvW that many complained are designed to be bought with gems through Trading Posts. ANet knows WvW players do not have the patience to grind for PvE mats.

So be prepared to support guilds with gems.

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How could you!!

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Dear Anet guys:
WHY?
..how dare you..

Well, according the internal calculation the future stream of revenue from Server transfer could be too small to make it viable and the new stream of revenue might be from gem sells through the pressure of guild activities.

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Surprise?! 18.12.2015

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Nice thought

Maybe also a Rey’s staff too?

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Coalescence of Ruin and WvW/GvG

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This gives so clearly a reason for WvW players and the new free players to buy HOT because Revenants are so powerful with this 2 sec cool down massive long range AOE damage skill.

Revenant is unique. It appears to be the most powerful class in zergs and only it comes with HOT. Any side with most Revenants wins.

The pressure is on ..

Leveling Revenants and getting armors and hammers with right runes and sigils might be another few hundred hours of playing time; so investing some gems could speed this up.

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Inside a "World vs World" War Room

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Inside a "World vs World" War Room

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Making gold for a legendary?

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This is about 44.55 gold per hour.

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