Guild Wars 2

I feel like it should be mentioned that I saw Krait attacking the Nightmare Court, and vice versa. Perhaps the alliance isn’t as clean-cut as it seems.

Provost.6210:

Am I the only one who feels that players using a character with a higher WvW rank ought to have greater priority in the queues? You’ve had a year to get into WvW, if you’re just getting into it now… you shouldn’t be getting in before someone several hundred ranks higher than you.

World Rank doesn’t necessarily prove how skilled you are in WvW, per se. You could be a part of that karma train, riding through keeps and towers simply for WXP. You could be a scrub that melts in a zerg, but thanks to your 200 WR, you’ll get in way before that commander or guild member that could contribute to WvW more than yourself.

Durzlla.6295:

Madora.9340:

Durzlla.6295:

Really Anet? We’re going down this road now? I mean kitten i thought with all the Bad kitten heavy armor skins in GW1 (for female) that at least -some- of the really awesome armors in GW2 would be the same for females…

Nope, looks like they get chain Bikinis instead of real armor… cause that makes sense….

That being said that trickster armor is sexy as hell, i must have it!

I can’t help but agree. Chain-mail bikinis are sexy the first time around, but I’m thinking they’re way overdone now. Give us something unique to look at, both as male and female!

Don’t get me wrong, they should have chain bikinis (i mean some people like playing that berserker character who is dressed in very small amounts of armor), but if they do that for an armor it should be for both male AND female, not Male being some knightly juggernaught armor where they’re clad head to toe in 12 inches of steel, and then the females are essentially dancers for jabba the hutt.

Hrm, ok. I see what you’re saying and I do agree with that. Armor equality; if girls get a chain mail bikini, men should get a chain mail speedo and that’s it. :p

Durzlla.6295:

Madora.9340:

Dand.8231:

I actually LIKED the Molten Alliance.

It was portrayed as a very fragile “the enemy of my enemy..” alliance. better still, it began to crumble, with each side blaming one another, when they started to lose anyway.

Now that’s how it is supposed to be! Very fragile, and a lot of distrust of each faction. Though, I think Scarlett reminded them who’s in charge when Clockwork Nightmare came out and they became nameless shells full of items and XP.

Well seeing as how we almost shattered the alliance in F&F, i’m pretty sure scarlet forced them back together, i doubt they’re wanting to keep the alliance going since both sides were up in arms vs the other at the end of F&F, constantly blaming one another.

Then again they may have also realized they caused a lot more good (for their race) while working with the other than when they were alone and being butchered endlessly and easily.

Well, the easiest way for Scarlett to stop the alliance from crumbling apart would be to kill the leadership and be like, ‘Yeah, see those guys? Do what I say, or you will end up like them.’…but they could have had that be explained outside of the game so the players have some sort of context of why the alliance is hanging in there.

I suppose that is also true, but being butchered endlessly really doesn’t matter if you have an alliance or not if you are still being butchered. I’m still thinking Scarlett had something to do with it.

Durzlla.6295:

Really Anet? We’re going down this road now? I mean kitten i thought with all the Bad kitten heavy armor skins in GW1 (for female) that at least -some- of the really awesome armors in GW2 would be the same for females…

Nope, looks like they get chain Bikinis instead of real armor… cause that makes sense….

That being said that trickster armor is sexy as hell, i must have it!

I can’t help but agree. Chain-mail bikinis are sexy the first time around, but I’m thinking they’re way overdone now. Give us something unique to look at, both as male and female!

Dand.8231:

I actually LIKED the Molten Alliance.

It was portrayed as a very fragile “the enemy of my enemy..” alliance. better still, it began to crumble, with each side blaming one another, when they started to lose anyway.

Now that’s how it is supposed to be! Very fragile, and a lot of distrust of each faction. Though, I think Scarlett reminded them who’s in charge when Clockwork Nightmare came out and they became nameless shells full of items and XP.

Electro.4173:

Scarlet flat-out stated that she “loves odd combinations” during the Aetherpath of Twilight Arbor. Between that and the two alliances already in place… no. I don’t think they’re going to stop. I expect new alliances every few months until Scarlet is out of enemies to pair up. That seems to be her main “thing”.

Next one will be Sons of Svanir and Centaurs, perhaps.

Ugh…don’t give them ideas…

It’s bugged, and you should know better than to queue up for EB. :P

I’ve been one-hit and two-hit by thieves, even running PVT gear. It sucks, but I guess that’s what 500+ gold nets you when you buy legendaries and the like.

King Amadaeus.8619:

Steve Whitley.8359:

you guys have a better night tonight? because w/ even numbers we wiped you every single time we met in arbl and eb and we took everything you had every time we tried.

its no wonder you send such outrageous numbers everywhere; because without that our small man groups would stomp ya like we did tonight and your players would stop playing like they do all the other times your server tries to play wvw…

had some fun, then like real people who dont spend our entire lives idling in an empty map, i logged out and am headed to bed. i’m sure in a couple of hours your server’s no-life’s will zergroll it and sit there for hours on end and continue to do the same thing they did before we came on tonight (this is the really sad part, and i’ll quote you about “this is just a game” there).

you guys are super… have some cake

Congrats for summarizing WvW for the last 12+ Months…..

Also please, as a general rule to everyone reading this thread, stop coming here to chest thump about wiping (likely) random PUGs….Crazy stuff happens all the time, not everyone has to come to the forums to Tarzan about it.

If you want to brag about something wipe a guild group at least, and have some video to back it up.

Also every outmanned server in history as had “better players” and every server that has dominated PPT has had “mindless zergs of horri-bads”…Do you know why that is? Because it is fairly simple to figure out…..

Just like how the Germans were beaten in World War 2; quantity over quality.

I don’t know how to answer the first question, I’m assuming it’s a bug.

Well, waypoints in keeps are building upgrades. You need to pay silver or gold to get the quartermaster to begin the upgrade. The yaks that spawn at the supply camps on the map will all walk towards a keep. Keep them alive, and they will give your keep the supply it needs to build those building upgrades.

I think everyone needs to remember that their online experience may vary. Sure, the achievement hunters will come out of the woodwork but unless those servers have a community that caters to the WvW crowd on that server, don’t expect things to change. I’ve had a great time in WvW this week, and the introduction of many of the newer players asking the veterans how to play may have helped our numbers out. We’ll have to see, but for my server, the outlook is looking good.

Looks like everybody forgot to build superior ballistas to counter…

Zaxares.5419:

Would LOVE an Azurite node for my Home Instance. Southsun-related nodes are unlikely to happen given that Southsun Cove is only a gate-trip away from Lion’s Arch though.

Yeah, but how many Blooming Passiflora nodes do you see? Probably about 3, and you still have to run through angry wildlife to get to them.

And I too would love that Azurite node, I’d even pay money for it. Take notes A-Net and let us also get Sentinel Insignias/Inscriptions from them!

I’m at about 500 CC due to running the labyrinth a few times earlier in the month, but since school takes out a big chunk of my day…yeah…Not very achievable since I also only have like ten silver.

As an Engineer, I have no problems in the water thanks to automatically tossing grenades. :p No muss, no fuss.

Npac.3476:

Ricky.4706:

I hate to say this, but I’m beginning to accept that gw2 is simply not a good platform for serious competition. While it has potential, and is fun, there are simply some fundamental flaws that turned a game of chess (Gw1 ) into a mix of dodgeball and checkers.

I predicted that it would be a number 1 game, but I am now also predicting with confidence that these blob / zergs won’t be a long term problem as eventually there will not be enough serious pvp’rs in the servers to form big blobs, and wvw will eventually be owned by small gvg groups – and even then it won’t be serious competition because matchups are not player controlled. I give it a year.

Accept it. Has been for almost a year. You just had more fun expecting/hoping change would come soon. Hasn’t even come close to changing giant flaws.

All the real head hunter guilds left the game. Unfortunately all that is left are blobs of people who really dont know how to pvp….or even what it looks like for that matter.

Simple GIANT game-changing mechanic change would be just to only allow rezzing from out of combat players. Solves so many issues. Enough of the crutches for new players.

MAKE YOUR GAME HARD SO WE STICK AROUND TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO WIN!!!

Stop with the hello kitty island skill level requirements.

…Says a thief…

In all seriousness, there should be something much bigger than ourselves that we should be working towards, whether something is in motion or not, I’m not sure.

Kingmutez.4931:

i think this is a pretty cool idea and nice change from back packs, i mean really how many of those we need? But if we get momentos in our home instance showing off what storylines we been through, then im ok with that too. I think queen Jenna owes me a clockwork guard for my home instance.

Southsun fruit tree/pet karka for your shells and blossoms, aetherized azurite formation (Something like that), clockwork guard for your sprockets, and I can’t think of anything else, really.

This entire thread is true. I joined SF last year around Halloween and every single day, my hotness stat has increased by a percentage point. I am currently at 365% hotness and continue to get hotter every day. Ladies, you know where to find me.

What? You mean the thing I’m always doing? Oh wait, I can’t hear you over the sounds of my grenades going off.

Eating the candy corn, and using them in crafting are two I can think of off the top of my head…and probably are the only two.

Burn out, probably. I’ve noticed the population has died off as well on my server. Probably get about ten to twenty people now.

I’m hoping for that free skill point in our home, and something new and refreshing to hit PvE….I did see a thread about a JP that ends with a boss fight on the top of the tower and a dungeon in the tower, which would be pretty fantastic in my opinion. Maybe the drop rate of everything will be improved.

Dude, we’ve had people spy on us here on SF and we’re not even T1. I’m probably going to have to elaborate with that so here it goes; but a long time ago when we were fighting DH and HoD (I think), we wouldn’t get an inkling of an attack or zerg rush unless we took a camp. However, when our commander would run to a tower and popped his tag, it wouldn’t even be twenty seconds later and he would get rolled by a sixty man zerg. I think he actually tested this by going tagless for a while before popping his tag at a location. I’m not sure of the results, but I think we eventually concluded that there was a spy and there wasn’t anything we could do about it conventionally. We lost due to the lack of organization.

I used to tea-bag people by abusing /sit, but after getting so many /laugh’s and /dance’s, I decided to change it up. /bow is for an amazing fight that went my way, /salute is for a tough, honorable opponent and if I fight anything less, it’s /shrug.

Ashabhi.1365:

I think that Scarlett is definitely tied to Trahearne in some way…like maybe an ex-spousal unit? ;P

Actually, we don’t know yet what’s coming… She could actually be a creation of some other evil-ness that is throwing her at us as a diversionary tactic so that he/she can blindside us. The Krait have already built something “under our noses,” so who knows?

Oooh…Crazy ex girlfriend would make things more interesting…

PhaNTaSiZe.4215:

Jeknar.6184:

PhaNTaSiZe.4215:

Sometimes we go where the points are (paper keeps), and sometimes we go for the ones we need to golem rush with 10+ omegas (t3 sieged up keeps). GG to everyone!

FTFY

I belive they are all the same if you look that way… Our fully upgraded overlook fell as a paper keep last night, after being golem rushed while most our peeps were sleeping (Not that we weren’t outmanned the whole day, everyone was fighting to try hold ETBL).

This is a prime example of what I meant when I said I can’t speak for the rest of SF… I personally do my best to stay away from EBG as I personally view it as a cesspool of Stonemist-addicted mindlessness, so that golem rush was not my doing. And I’m sorry if that seems like overkill, but hey it got the job done, one way or another. A cap is a cap.

But does fights doe.

Player Character.9467:

Madora.9340:

Player Character.9467:

callidus.7085:

8 coordinated necros can keep a group impervious to conditions (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Well_of_Power).

8 coordinated mesmers can keep a group impervious to conditions (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Null_Field).

Pssst, those fields only target 5 people per pulse and each person only gets 1 condition cleansed per pulse.

If the eight necros are all partied up, their abilities prioritize party members over other people. While it is only one condition per pulse, you can stay in the field as long as you want until it goes poof.

And it takes 8 necros to keep it up always… and it can only target 5 of those necros total…

No. The necros are a part of a larger group for those who don’t have condition removal.

Sometimes, the candy field spawns on him and allows melee folk to beat him up…but sometimes it doesn’t. To be honest, I’d just watch for the fields to spawn and stack on them before going in and hitting him.

Monadproxy.3489:

Carrots? lol. Many people in my server already finished the meta by ignoring it and doing wvw the same way they always have. I honestly see no harm in achievements for wvw. These achievements make it so people who only wvw can get their free gems and gold now.

I’ve done this as well. I don’t focus on earning all the achievements because constantly thinking about that carrot is what ruins the fun of a game. When you only play a game not for enjoyment and only for the achievements, how is that fun at all?

Shonie.5297:

Madora.9340:

I came up with an exponential function that would even the odds, but there isn’t any answer for such a large man zerg. If they are all grouped up like that, go steal their territories. When they only capture a tower while you snag two camps, two towers and a keep, well, I guess they’ll have to learn.

So your idea of making the other team pay by running a giant blob… is that in the time it takes for the enemy blob to take a tower… your small group will take two camps, two towers, and a keep?
Lol
Or are you running your own giant blob? And how is it 400% more efficient?

I wouldn’t be running a large blob of people, no. It takes two or three people to snag a camp, about ten to take a tower quickly with superior rams, and twenty to take a keep. I know, the chances of something like this happening are pretty small, but it can be done. And if anything, you would force the enemy to WP whether you tap their keep, or when they notice everything on their end of the map has white swords.

I think you can also use Zhaitaffy, but I used candy corn to make sure.

panzer.6034:

MithranArkanere.8957:

What should have been a seasonal way for people to get one extra bag of 20 slots, it’s a pointless waste.

It’s cheaper to get a fractal of the mist bag, or even crafting a 20-slot one.

Seriously. I remember practically getting a 20 slot karka shell handed to me for showing up for that event.

I was given a 20 slot Karka Shell for logging in right after the event ended because A-Net felt bad that I missed the event, which I appreciate due to me being busy that entire day.

I’m sure they’ll be people that would oppose such a thing, I mean, interracial dating and marriage is still looked at with raised eyebrows. I’m sure when the human and Sylvari males get married, expect the church to be razed to the ground because you’re getting both homophobes and xenophobes, but that’s my opinion.

Although, I keep getting the feeling Rox likes Brahm, though perhaps not in the sexual sense. I don’t know how things would work out gene-wise because I take it Charr are a completely different species than a Norn, same goes with Sylvari and Asuran….But I think human and Norn are close enough to a common ancestor to make it work.

I came up with an exponential function that would even the odds, but there isn’t any answer for such a large man zerg. If they are all grouped up like that, go steal their territories. When they only capture a tower while you snag two camps, two towers and a keep, well, I guess they’ll have to learn.

Morsus.5106:

I’m saving judgement until I see the cooldown and healing amount. If it only heals 100 health I can see it being balanced. If it takes 120-180 seconds to cooldown I can see it being balanced.

That’s too long, considering most heal skills are between 15-45 seconds.

More than just an axe, seems like they got a chainsaw…

Expect Superior Krait Killing sigils to rise in price.

Fungalfoot.7213:

I think they’re just desperate for gold sinks after all the duping and trade manipulation which has been going on since launch. Kind of sad that we all have to pay for the actions of a few bad apples instead of just having these individuals be punished for their selfish actions but I guess that’s the way it goes.

Though I would implore the powers that be to look into putting a higher emphasis on other currencies than gold. It would also be great if the best rewards were tied to personal accomplishments rather than any kind of currency which could easily be manipulated. I think we can all agree that the economy experiment has failed and that it’s time to bring fun back into the game. More farming isn’t the answer.

Welcome to the world of insider trading and the stock market.

Seems like A-Net needs to upgrade their servers with all that cash they just got and optimize their game rather than let this issue persist.

Player Character.9467:

callidus.7085:

8 coordinated necros can keep a group impervious to conditions (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Well_of_Power).

8 coordinated mesmers can keep a group impervious to conditions (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Null_Field).

Pssst, those fields only target 5 people per pulse and each person only gets 1 condition cleansed per pulse.

If the eight necros are all partied up, their abilities prioritize party members over other people. While it is only one condition per pulse, you can stay in the field as long as you want until it goes poof.

King Amadaeus.8619:

Jeknar.6184:

King Amadaeus.8619:

I think your MiniMap is broken sir. Also TS3 servers get attacked just like anything else. We just started using skype, but then it turned into chat roulette so now we are thinking of going to a “tin can and string” method of comms.

Just go for the map chat!

Map Chat is so 2012 bro.

Pfft, we all know carrier pigeon is the best method of communication.

mordran.4750:

Madora.9340:

You know, I’d hate to say it, but you guys need to…

Please in that order

Wish I could have noticed my .gif not working properly, but oh well.

NargofWoV.4267:

Just build an Alpha instead?

Good luck hitting that treb on the third floor of SM with that golem.

You know, I’d hate to say it, but you guys need to…

WarLord.8430:

Fun fights last night, to those that say IoM cant fight open field!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEd8sf2aaNg

Also to those people that posted thinking that its ET or DH kittening with your Mumble server you are very wrong, go check with your service provider or switch to teamspeak or something, ET dont stoop that low so no need to worry about us.

Like they would admit to such a thing. It doesn’t matter, we’re still having fun.

Pistol engineers with coated bullets seem to do quite well with conditions in a zerg, probably because we tag everyone. :p

gimmethegepgun.1284:

Solstice.1097:

ballistas are crucial for quickly taking out enemy siege i.e. cannons and oil and anything else. also for destroying people coming through choke points.

they’re under-used but not under-powered imo

Cannons and oil are nearly worthless because no one can even stay on the things when facing a zerg, so ballista being good against them is meaningless.
Then lagfests hamper their capabilities in choke points where they’re supposed to be useful, whereas carts will hit more people and aren’t subject to the whims of the targeting system.

If you’re quick on the siege, you can get to the oil and cannons…but usually roamers take them out when nobody’s looking.

Ballistas have their usefulness as countering siege and killing anything in choke points. They are also very handy and fun to use when sniping an enemy zerg.

I would think the base heal and healing factor would suck, but I think A-Net took the wrong hint from Tequatl and decided to help everyone remove conditions.

…Not like it’s going to help when said conditions will reapply instantly thanks to the amount of passives I have. It doesn’t matter, really.

I think Scarlett is best described as a distraction from some force bigger than herself. She’s just a cover.