Guild Wars 2

He’ll probably be back when we go after Primordus. He voiced Jalis Ironhammer.

You’re all too late.

Everyone is already lvl 80 so there’s no reason to go back to those low level areas outside of world bosses. It’s not that no one plays the game or that your server is dead, it;s that everyone is doing stuff lvl 80s would be doing (world bosses, fractals, dungeons, living world, wvw, spvp, guild missions).

The dragon is Modremoth.

I don’t care how they brought it to us, I’m just glad the Tormented weapons finally made it into the game. One of the best and most popular weapon skins from GW1.

Now Eternal weapons please!!!

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I really wish people stop claiming the sylvari are dragon minions as if it were a fact.

There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to support that claim. It’s just raw speculation and all support the theory had has been debunked!

Anet can change the lore as and when they please (see: calendar changes) so until a statement made by anet says otherwise, nothing is off the table. Doesn’t matter if there is no evidence, anet can add the evidence at any time.

I don’t believe the sylvari are dragon minions but I believe there is some connection that we don’t know about.

No queues except on reset (short) or if a whole lot of guilds are on one map.

omg yes!

for those unfamiliar: every time someone dies, all creatures of the same type (allies and foes) take xx damage and no one can rez.

http://www.fort-aspenwood.com/index.php?/forum/16-recruitment/
Check this out. Most of the guilds on Fort Aspenwood recruit here.

stop trying to make gw2 into every other mmo

if you want mounts, go play wow

I am a WvW player and I was forced to do pve map completion, dungeons and farm karma & gold in cursed shore to get my legendary. Its only fair that non-wvw players be required to actually do wvw instead of getting their gift of battle for free from achievement rewards.

fort-aspenwood.com

use it

Our community ts even had channels all set up and ready for our pve guilds/players to use. Not our fault the people that organized our Teq kills aren’t able to do it anymore and no one else took the initiative.

I read this over a year ago. Nothing you have said is anything new. Stop beating on a dead horse.

Is it so hard to just wait until you’re level 80 and then apply the skin to your armor?

You are foolish for investing in those dyes in the first place. YOU KNEW that anet had already re-released them a few months ago. Anyone with a brain would know that it was going to happen again and it will happen again in the future.

Also, every investment comes at a risk (well.. almost every :P). You should know that.

Cursed Shore train still exists?
Never even knew there was a Southsun train. What do they farm?

DarcShriek.5829:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

How does a book you read hold effect over you? How does your teachers in classes hold effects over you?

The Pale Tree was sentient all her life, she lived for decades listening to Ventari preach his teachings, listening to him, learning from him. Ventari himself taught her – unknowingly – the same way a teacher teaches a student at school. When he died, he made the tablet with the main points of his teachings and like a faithful student, she took his teachings and protected them. And when she made the sylvari, she spread those teachings – via the Tablet – to her children like a mother teaching her baby.

There’s no need for magic. It’s no different than how we ourselves learn. The only magic involved is that which makes the Pale Tree sentient.

Let’s make sure I understand this. For many years Ventari tended to the tree and recited teachings to the tree.

How is this any different from a ritual? There is no difference, it is a ritual and it’s quite a powerful ritual at that. Consider the many differences between the Pale Trees sylvarii and Malyck. These differences are due entirely to Ventari’s and Ronan’s rituals.

So your parents reading you bedtime stories is a ritual too?

Chaotic Storm.2815:

There like wine, aging and getting more expensive with time. Longer we go the less become availible making it more valuable.

False. This weapon is still available through black lion claim tickets.

If Evon won, we would have gotten the Fall of Abaddon fractal. How would Anet have delivered this:

In the Thaumanova reactor fractal, we discovered that Scarlet and her Inquest cohorts discovered a form of ley lines, magical energy crisscrossing the world that seemed tied to the research being done in the reactor. But what do these ley lines mean?

Would they have retconned the known events of the Fall of Abaddon and modified it to include Scarlet and asuras? (* cringe *)
How else would we have gotten this information?

Or am I right to assume that the election result was obviously predetermined by Anet and the whole thing was just a ruse to make us believe that they cared about what the players wanted?

Mr. E will end up being just another character that Anet completely forgets about. Like Evennia, the mysterious stranger during Zinn’s Task and the “he” from HotM.

lordkrall.7241:

Mada.5319:

Oh really now? What is this vertical progression you speak of?

Faction points.
Sunspear points.
Lightbringer points.
(Two of which were actually REQUIRED to even get past certain parts of the MAIN STORYLINE, and the third more or less required to do a certain dungeon or even certain parts of the world, including later missions.)

Ebon Vanguard points.
Deldrimor points.
Norn points.
Asura points.

I would say that was a rather massive amount of grind and vertical progression there, especially since all of those gave skills and most (all but Factions and Sunspear) gave very real and quite powerful passive effects when equipped.

You do realize that you didn’t have to max those titles to get the full effect of those skills/titles right? You only needed to reach rank 5 for most of them which was pathetically easy to get. You were pretty much already there just by completing the campaign.

Also, the “grind” to advance in the Nightfall story was hardly a grind. Grind means doing something repeatedly. Last I remembered most people did the side quests, which were all unique. It was also exclusive to Elonian characters. Tyrian/Canthans didn’t have to do them.

lordkrall.7241:

All I hear is people talking about vertical progression, but that was present in GW1 as well (worse than in GW2 in some cases).

Oh really now? What is this vertical progression you speak of?

KOPPER.1458:

As a player and a fan of this game, it feels like any time something is broken or not working the solution is to remove it. In game, in the forums, wherever. Why is this always the solution?

Effort is not an option. Anet has a history of laziness and cutting corners. Since gw1 when skills were randomly buffed with little regard for balance and the complete deletion of two pvp game modes after repeated promises that they would be fixed.

katniss.6735:

used in wvw and spvp (ogre runes in spvp)
0/0/20/20/30 pvt/celestial:melandru
bloodlust (force in spvp)/ hydromancy (you need to swap right beside your target to get the most use of this sigil)
ether renewal
triple cantrip
-40 condi food/power stone
fgs to pressure warriors running away

not that great for solo due to lack of sprint and prec.

This is probably the best setup so far in this thread (the rest are god awful). Although, you would want to add some cavalier/knights pieces in.

Spend some time in Lion’s Arch. Most of our guilds advertise there. Ask around and see which fits best.

Additionally, check out the recruitment section of our server forum : http://www.fort-aspenwood.com/index.php?/forum/16-recruitment/

List of most of our pve/pvx guilds with contact details: http://www.fort-aspenwood.com/index.php?/topic/2082-fa-pve-guild-master-list/

There are like a thousand pve guilds on the server. Ask around in Lion’s Arch. That’s where all the guilds advertise themselves.

This lists most of them as well as contact info:
http://www.fort-aspenwood.com/index.php?/topic/2082-fa-pve-guild-master-list/

Fort Aspenwood. We got the pve’rs. We got the wvw’ers. We got the best Lion’s Arch ever. We also love quaggans. The best server ever.

GW1 only started becoming grindy after Nightfall when they introduced pve-only skills that scaled with title ranks. Everyone, even Anet, knew that it was a mistake and that’s why in 2010-2011 they severely diminished the amount of grind that was required.

And there was no grind to get normal skills. You bought them from vendors, killed bosses for elite skills or did quests for them. No grind at all.

Doesn’t matter. Supply is high and there are plenty of other better looking back skins. Anet will also continue to release new, better looking ones. Unless you’re prepared to wait years before you see some meaningful return, don’t bother.

You’re already on the best server there is.
Wait until the leagues are over (in two weeks). We’ll go back to facing T1/2 servers like we did pre season. We never dominated then.

An empty pve zone means that everyone has already completed the content on that map and has moved on. Doesn’t mean the game is dying…

Go to WvW, sPvP, Queensdale, Frostgorge, dungeons or any chest events and you’ll find all the players.

Viking Jorun.5413:

Also, the underwater dragon’s minions are called the Sclerite, said to be corrupted, tentacled monsters. We get a teaser of this from the Strike at SouthSun meta achievement backpiece reward.

The sclerite are related to the karka, as clearly stated in that backpiece. Not the deep sea dragon….

azizul.8469:

what about Teq ? what element does it represent.?

Tequatl is a champion of Zhaitan.

1)The amount of healing your water fields will give is dependent on the healing power of the person that blasts it.

2)Condition damage stats? Really? Please change asap. Get some celestial/knights/zerker/soldier/whatever pieces. Mix and match them until you get the optimal stats.

3)You can’t go wrong with either a zerker or celestial staff.

You more than likely don’t know how to make money in this game. That’s your own fault.

Yea….. only one sigil in each weapon set can have an internal cool down. Or else it gets messed up and won’t work. So, change that battle sigil for something without a cool down like force, restoration, stamina or bloodlust etc. Not any of the “on crit” ones, those have cool downs too and won’t work.

Adine.2184:

Vayne.8563:

Adine.2184:

Devata you are aware that Tengu are native to Tyria not Cantha right?

I thought the sensali Tengu were native to Cantha.

Although there were 2 tribes in Cantha the Tengu were not native to it .

From the wiki
“When the Great Tsunami of Zhaitan’s rise occurred, the tengu across the world saw it as a sign to return home and traveled to Tyria, a descendant of Talon Silverwing leading a charge through Zhaitan’s risen forces. When they reached Tyria, they built the Dominion of Winds which resides in Kryta over what was once known as Sanctum Cay. Out of fear of a repeated past, they constructed a great wall to encircle the Dominion of Winds. Non-tengu are not allowed to enter their city.¹”

This wiki segment does not have the right source. So keep looking.

^Because EU servers have just as much people during Oceanic prime time as NA servers and lag is not a problem.

@Alkalissa: I believe Seafarer’s Rest and Piken Square have oceanics or at least a lot of players that play during that timezone. Desolation may have some too but I’m not 100% sure.

There’s also this: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/recruitment/Alph-Aussie-EU-Fissure-of-Woe-WvW-PvE/first#post2434669

Check out the recruitment section on the FA server forums:
http://www.fort-aspenwood.com/index.php?/forum/16-recruitment/

Many guilds on our server have recruitment threads there so you can shop around and see which one suits you best.

Chris.3290:

To be a little snarky, FA complaining about 6 weeks is proof that they weren’t up for Gold League. There was no concious decision to tank, but they chose to not be in Gold via low turn out and poor showing against a servers they enjoyed significant coverage advantages against.

It’s just selan…
I don’t think having your guilds bought by T1 servers constitutes as tanking. Also, Maguuma’s NA did massive overtime to make sure they got gold.

Reverence.6915:

QL is remarkably easy to defend. A few well placed arrow carts and trebs can let 5 people hold out against 20-30 long enough for your zerg to arrive

Build an AC under the bridge. Bye bye all defensive siege.

Mika.9815:

LightningBlaze.4913:

Any wvw build works for pve too so no need to change it every time.

Zerk builds aren’t that good for wvw.

Reading Comprehension?
He never said pve builds work for wvw…

Before I go making some celestial gear I just want to confirm whether the end result (the gear itself) is soulbound or account bound?

So lets say I want to make celestial gear for my ele but my necro is the one with lvl 400 in tailor. Can I make the gear on my necro then transfer it to my ele or will I have to do it the hard way and level my ele to 400 in tailor?

It’s full when it’s listed as “Full” on the server list. Every time servers start getting “full” anet raises the cap to allow more people in. That is all we will ever know.

Crawford.4135:

Tibstrike.2974:

Mada.5319:

Thieves are so incredibly important in wvw. Guilds are very, very particular with who they want to play thief because it’s a high risk role which requires a lot of skill and battlefield awareness. It’s a tough class to play in wvw (actual wvw, not roaming) and only 2-3 are needed in a zerg. Good thieves are in high demand.

My guild is jonesing for a couple great thieves. It was my first lvl 80 but I’m honestly jot that great at it so I switched to guard which fits me so much better. The engis in my guildare loved as well as they can bring so many fields and knockdowns into the melee range as well as mess with the periphery. Mesmers are also of great use with boon stripping and now mantra builds. I dodon’t really understand where this guy gets his “only 4 professions needed” deal. Yes its heavy in those 4 but the other professions ha e excellent uses. Just don’t need as many.

That said, I am sad about the lack of viability rangers have in WvW. At least in zergish fights. A good ranger coyld be used as a periphery hunter alongside thieves I suppose. Some guilds are using them for that.

Heh, you’re the first and only guild I have ever known that wants “good thieves” because I have yet to really see any good ones in WvW. I have yet to see ANY thing pull off what I can to a 50-Man zerg in WvW and walk away from it. I tried teaching other thieves the exact same thing telling them “Hey, YOU ARE a huge benefit in a zerg, you are greatly needed, here’s what you do, ok?”

Why? Because I get sick of Thieves saying “Oh, we’re so useless in WvW zergs, we’re pointless”. No, they are pointless because they refuse to see how their class was designed and how to benefit it. “But if I can’t 1shot someone inside a Zerg, we’re useless!” <— More bad Thief talk I see in this game.

ArenaNet, hates, my, guts, with, a, very, huge, hatred, passion. They absolutely despise me. (I’m not kidding, I’m dead serious). But, that’s their problem, not mine – I just find it funny . . .

There is a time for a Dagger, there is a time for a Pistol, there is a time for a Bow and there is a time for a Sword. Thieves haven’t figured that out yet and stick to Dagger/X (or X/Dagger) and a Bow. That’s all you see: a Dagger/Bow Thief that will claim up and down that “it’s the best setup for WvW zergs” till their blue in the face.

“Oh but you should see this thief who only uses a Bow! HE IS GOOD!” Sorry, but no. No, and no.

I gave up trying to help Thieves a while back because they refuse to understand the class and accept they are one of the biggest benefits in a Zerg, more than any other class. So, I will just remain the only, and last come next years releases, thief that knew how to be effective in a zerg.

I have always said that common sense is either born in your, or not at all. It’s like watching American Idol: You can sing, or you can’t sing.

It’s up to the individual whether they want to realize the full potential of their class or not. Those that realize how much of an asset they are in an organized zerg will go out of their way to get into a wvw guild.

McWolfy.5924:

body block from gw1
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Body_block

No. This will introduce rubber-banding which is as horrible as skill lag.

Thieves are so incredibly important in wvw. Guilds are very, very particular with who they want to play thief because it’s a high risk role which requires a lot of skill and battlefield awareness. It’s a tough class to play in wvw (actual wvw, not roaming) and only 2-3 are needed in a zerg. Good thieves are in high demand.

Defending is super fun! It’s like the bags are coming to you!

Gates were paper and we got to recap it for our achievement

Man, I can’t wait for when this forum gets flooded with threads by pve’ers crying that they get killed in the JP.

TheAmpca.1753:

Nah.
It’s mostly because DB just imploded and FA has nearly ZERO non North American coverage

You couldn’t be more wrong.