I didn’t mean the video to be a reference to server’s playstyle or any server’s behavior at all. It just cracks me up and I think about that video quite often when scanning random forum threads because it seems like half of the posts make no sense and have no context.
Oh lol. I was actually referencing Jade Quarry pvp map from GW1, since it belonged to a group of NPCs that used turtles as pack mules and siege weapons.
And if she plays GW2 at all, she’s probably on TC.
She more than plays it. She’s in it (Zojja). And I’ve seen a video of her bragging about her Deluxe edition on YouTube.
Yah, but she’s a very busy bee.
I know who it is. I’ve watched every episode of the guild. :P She also played/plays WoW. She is probably too busy to play any games at this time anyways. Lol.
I guess since she’s a natural redhead, that makes her the ginger queen (I’d say Christina Hendrix would be tied for that, but she’s actually not a natural redhead). This makes it even better to be a ginger myself. :P
I wonder if the server that doesn’t come in first will use the excuse of “it was CNY” for not coming in first. In past history, it will prob happen. :P
@Ronin – Norn are just pure win. Nice Norn you got there! I posted my Norn ranger with my score update on page 8. Norn and Charr are my favorite races in this game.
@Miiaah – thanks for the information. Now I just need to find or buy one for my necro. Hopefully they’re not too expensive, because I doubt I’ll ever find one, lol.
Hopefully we’ll meet again TC and BG. Good luck to all teams next week!
I guess the folks on FA just don’t like dolyaks. They do smell funny.
Quite the contrary! We love us some dolyak! The dolyak is the fruit of the Borderlands. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey’s uh, dolyak -kabobs, dolyak creole, dolyak gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There’s pineapple dolyak, lemon dolyak, coconut dolyak, pepper dolyak, dolyak soup, dolyak stew, dolyak salad, dolyak and potatoes, dolyak burger, dolyak sandwich. That- that’s about it.
Dolyak! It’s what’s for dinner (and breakfast and brunch and lunch and tea and midnight snacks)!
Now I’m hungry. I could go for a dolyak burger right about now. Put some bacon on it too. There’s some pigs in WvW I believe.
FA – it has been a fun, no drama week – well, besides the seemingly ill-fated yak parade. I hope you do really well in the next few weeks and we look forward to fighting you again! And you killing our yaks again :P
You have fun as well. Maybe you will get a flawless dolyak parade going. I guess the folks on FA just don’t like dolyaks. They do smell funny.
I guess we won’t be getting a Ronin score update this matchup. Maybe next time FA and TC meet in the field, you’ll give us one. :P
Sexy Charrgineer score update with Charr Death Star looming in the background.
Ugh, Ruin beat me to it, oh well. Double score update ftw?
“[4:47 PM] You receive 1 Leather Vest.”
Obviously not.
Hmm? Not what?
You’re obviously not wearing a leather vest. If I were to take your character’s situation literally, then the game chat should have read out: “[4:47 PM] You lack 1 Leather Vest.”
Lol. Well, that’s gw2 game messages for you. I find it weird it says you received something when you unequip it seeing you already own it. First MMO I’ve ever seen do that. No crap I have received a weapon I own, ty ANet. Sometimes it throws me off too when I see exotic text and I’m looting at the same time I’m swapping weapons.
@Viral – that picture is awesome. This is definitely the most mature and pleasant matchup I’ve participated in.
You only have to tap it once to switch conditions. BTW as a proponent of more necros in WvW I would suggest running the “chill on blind” trait and “greater marks” trait which will make your well of blindness and your #2 chill and it will make your AoE area on your plague much larger respectively.
Go Necros!!!
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Oh yeah, greater marks is delicious. I love that trait. I shall try the chill on blindness, as it definitely will add a sexy effect to well of darkness. Thanks!
With the latest update, I’ve been noticing when exiting to desktop via the escape menu in game, it does not end the gw2.exe process in task manager. Is this happening to anyone else? Not a big deal, just thought I’d bring it to your attention.
In light of the strong community response to the idea of a WvW ratings reset, the results of our ratings formula investigations, and our data on the current matchups we have decided not to reset the WvW ratings at this time. All existing WvW ratings will be preserved and the rating calculation methodology will remain unchanged. Any existing mismatches should be corrected by the system in relatively short order. Now that there is less volatility in the player base for each world we expect the quality of matches to improve more quickly. This is both because the rating system is operating in a less unpredictable environment and because more stable teams tend to produce better results.
The point reset won’t be taking effect, we’re fighting for T1 baby! Bring it!
Turtles ftw. Even if they did get stuck. (<troll> We know that ArenaNet were secretly Kurzick </troll>)
Omg, so terrible. I played both sides when imperial faction came out (before that, primarily played Kurzick). The worst was Jade Quarry where both the turtles and juggernauts would get stuck! Aspenwood was such a fun map though. So much crap talking, it was hilarious.
I’ve been enjoying TC – they are a very competent and great community (they aren’t super strange like most games’ RP communities). I am enjoying this matchup a lot. Overall, aside from the times I ran with HzH on JQ, I am enjoying tier 2 more than tier 1. Being on my guild’s server helps a lot with that too, even if we don’t wvw all that often.
I’m the opposite. I came from TC to JQ a couple months back. I thought the RPers were funny but just too many of them for me They do have a respectful community.
I think JQ has an awesome community and quite frankly a (usually) very friendly WvW atmosphere. The commanders, for the most part, are top notch.
The commanders on JQ are great, but I usually ended up playing when the HzH commanders were online so that’s why I rolled with them the most. HzH is nostalgic for me since I remember them from GW1. That being said, I ran into a great commander on FA the other night and had a really good time going around with him and his guild. FA was always my secondary choice at launch, but the guild I was in on JQ that consisted of friends from previous games, including GW1, went inactive, and so I moved over to hang with my other guild of friends that I’ve also known for a while.
Overall, I think JQ and FA have stellar communities. Now if only we could get a classic matchup of siege turtles vs juggernauts going. Lol.
Is the #9 skill flesh wurm? How do you usually use that? Do you use it as a escape mechanic or put it in a middle of a zerg and teleport to it for the poison effect?
I’m trying to get used to my necro in WvW. I like running with axe/focus and staff. My utils are well of corruption, well of darkness, and w/e else (usually spectral walk). My elite is flesh golem, but have been contemplating plague.
You definitely want to run plague as a necro in WvW.
Good to know, thank you! Now if I understand the skill correctly, you only have to hit 1 of the skills in plague form once to augment the plague with that extra condition right? Or do you have to keep spamming it?
I’ve been enjoying TC – they are a very competent and great community (they aren’t super strange like most games’ RP communities). I am enjoying this matchup a lot. Overall, aside from the times I ran with HzH on JQ, I am enjoying tier 2 more than tier 1. Being on my guild’s server helps a lot with that too, even if we don’t wvw all that often.
Who’s trying to be funny? Everything I wrote was true story.
The rabbits and mosquitoes part was clearly very sarcastic, since every class does high damage to critters. The whole post was sarcastic. Nice try at being funny though.
well, I can’t get into GW because our internet is being crap right now (low levels, they are coming out to fix it today).. but here’s a picture of my… kitty.
I suppose I can put the holiday ones down too as good ones, even though the Mad King’s clocktower made me rage over a stretch of 3 days, 3 hours each day (yes, it took me ~9 hrs to complete over the course of 3 days). It felt nice finally finishing though (as a human – bah to people who complained about Norn and Charr on the puzzle).
I liked the Winter Wonderland as well and completed it several times. Not as hectic as clocktower, but had its moments (screw you candy can platforms on the snowflake part!). Lol.
Well, there was one moment where a thief, maybe 2 took an oddly long time to kill my necro (which I’m still learning how to play at least decently in WvW). I was able to make it from west supply camp to FA gari where I died before making it into the gari. I was completely expecting to die a lot sooner than that (thief was probably just toying with me). I had wrong skillset on and I didn’t have staff on swap at the time (like I said, noob at WvW necro atm). No, I’m not tooting my own horn – just sharing an experience where a thief didn’t kill me in 3 hits or so. This is a extremely rare occurrence. I was also alone at the time. I went to check why the camp was being tagged, fully expecting an ambush at some point.
@Jericho, thank you for the information. Much appreciated.
Ha, poor mendon’s lord. We made him bake cookies and then didn’t let him have any! BWA HA HA HA
Its amazing to me, 15 pages and no prolonged arguments over “you guys are 2v1ing me” or “your only winning because of coverage” or “if you knew how rating worked you would never attack my server, noob”.
We at blackgate, were obviously the problem lol.
PS. WE NEED MORE GVG!!!
Oops, doublepost. Its because this isn’t tier 1.
From what I’ve seen on the forums, TC is the most interesting/least weird RP community I’ve seen from any game. I mean, obviously I can’t say from perspective of playing on the server, but RP moments I’ve witnessed in other MMOs just makes me want to shudder. One word from an MMO I used to play (I don’t RP at all mind you): Goldshire.
Nah, Tier 2 had plenty of this last time we were here. lol
Ahh ok. Then I attribute it it to that FA (now that I’m on the server) seems like a server that just wants to have a decent time and for the most part does not care about the score too awful much. They don’t seem like the type that cares to get to Tier 1 currently (I could be wrong, but that’s what I’ve observed). TC seems like just a good community period, aside from those few that were camping the EB JP. >_> That was fun though trading shots! Didn’t quite understand why a naked sylvari ranger attacked me at one point though, was kinda weird. BG earned my respect their 2nd week on JQ (when I was still there) because again, a solid community with good people and a fun opponent. There was a funny moment in EB last night at SMC with some BG’ers. My guild and I thought the group we were with was going to attack SMC but they moved on to another objective and yeah, didn’t end well for us.
Ha, poor mendon’s lord. We made him bake cookies and then didn’t let him have any! BWA HA HA HA
Its amazing to me, 15 pages and no prolonged arguments over “you guys are 2v1ing me” or “your only winning because of coverage” or “if you knew how rating worked you would never attack my server, noob”.
We at blackgate, were obviously the problem lol.
PS. WE NEED MORE GVG!!!
Oops, doublepost. Its because this isn’t tier 1.
From what I’ve seen on the forums, TC is the most interesting/least weird RP community I’ve seen from any game. I mean, obviously I can’t say from perspective of playing on the server, but RP moments I’ve witnessed in other MMOs just makes me want to shudder. One word from an MMO I used to play (I don’t RP at all mind you): Goldshire.
@Ronin – Click “more posting & formatting options” and at the bottom, there will be a choose file button under attachments. Attach your score update there! :o
I find it really funny that the only people that disagree with thieves being OP are the ones that main a thief. It would be a tragedy if the easiest class to play in PvP/WvW were nerfed rite? There’s a reason you see more thieves in pvp than pve – they suck in pve. Every thief I’ve been with in fractals dies left and right. The only useful thing I have seen from a thief in PvE is using the control panel in underground fractal, but anyone with ash legion spy kit can do the same.
What you don’t get is GW2 is so alt friendly I’d say a majority of players have multiple 80’s likely fully geared. If not, they have alts for sPvP. The trend is people who have a Thief character at all don’t complain because they understand the mechanics fully and have no problem dealing with it on any of their other professions that they happen to play. People who complain tend to not understand the game yet and have never invested time playing the Thief. No, you cannot get away with not knowing everything about your enemy in this game, no matter what profession and expect to be successful outside of just zerging.
And how do you combat something you can’t see every 6-12 secs? Blindly throw AOE all over the place? Seems impractical. How do you fight back when you’re downed to someone that is stealthed and finishing you off? I’m sorry, but that part is complete BS. I think that annoys me the most. NO other class can stealth finish someone with their class’s mechanics (maybe snow leopard norn can?). GW1 didn’t have stealth, and assassins were fine in that game. They were still pretty powerful, but not any more powerful than any other class (and they were better in PvE than GW2 thiefs!). GW1 had more balanced PvP than 2 will ever have. GW2’s pvp is more like any other traditional mmo pvp, unbalanced.
I find it really funny that the only people that disagree with thieves being OP are the ones that main a thief. It would be a tragedy if the easiest class to play in PvP/WvW were nerfed rite? There’s a reason you see more thieves in pvp than pve – they suck in pve. Every thief I’ve been with in fractals dies left and right. The only useful thing I have seen from a thief in PvE is using the control panel in underground fractal, but anyone with ash legion spy kit can do the same.
@Warlord – yeah, in other mmos, damage breaks stealth and you can’t really stealth mid combat unless its a escape mechanic. In GW2, however, damage DOES NOT break stealth, even if they have a DoT on them and stealth is more than just a escape mechanic – its used to damage your opponent and finish them off, which is stupid.
In this thread: Thieves saying thieves aren’t OP. I see noone has been able to answer my question about what other class can kill in 2 hits. I rest my case.
Next up: thieves saying “guard” skill for ranger’s pets is OP.
I will answer your question.
Warrior Kill shot. 1 hit at 1500 range.
Ok, let me rephrase. 2 hit kills that don’t take any time to charge and are instant. Backstab or whatever I got hit with twice was instant.
The combo you’re refering to is Steal (traited for Mug) + Cloak and Dagger (CnD). CnD needs a .5 sec cast time. So therefore, based on your new perimeter, no one can in this game 2 hit kill someone without a charge/cast time.
Well, it certainly felt like it was instant. 1.75s for kill shot is a lot slower than 0.5s. Eh, I’m done with you. You’re obviously don’t realize thief class/stealth is OP in their current state – blame culling if you must – or don’t want to admit to it.
Next, you’re going to say rangers are OP, at which point I will just laugh at you.
Sharkmaw Caverns
Scavenger’s Chasm because it reminds me of a 3D Zelda dungeon where you have to collect pieces to open chests/boss door lock.
Wall Breach Blitz because it was the first one I succeeded at in beta.
In this thread: Thieves saying thieves aren’t OP. I see noone has been able to answer my question about what other class can kill in 2 hits. I rest my case.
Next up: thieves saying “guard” skill for ranger’s pets is OP.
I will answer your question.
Warrior Kill shot. 1 hit at 1500 range.
Ok, let me rephrase. 2 hit kills that don’t take any time to charge and are instant. Backstab or whatever I got hit with twice was instant.
Is the #9 skill flesh wurm? How do you usually use that? Do you use it as a escape mechanic or put it in a middle of a zerg and teleport to it for the poison effect?
I’m trying to get used to my necro in WvW. I like running with axe/focus and staff. My utils are well of corruption, well of darkness, and w/e else (usually spectral walk). My elite is flesh golem, but have been contemplating plague.
In this thread: Thieves saying thieves aren’t OP. I see noone has been able to answer my question about what other class can kill in 2 hits. I rest my case.
Next up: thieves saying “guard” skill for ranger’s pets is OP.
Ability to put them away permanently, which would be useful for fights like jade maw or simply just running somewhere, since your pet getting hit by a enemy causes the ranger to go into combat movement speed.
where is the new dungeons? Why are they torturing with garbage we have? this is so disappointing…
Whoever said about new dungeons? o.o
at this point anything for me to do in pve for longer than an hour would be a welcome… Like seriously i don’t know if im the only one here but in the past 1 month and a half i have absolutely nothing to do but two fotm dailies which i only do because there’s nothing to do (if that makes any sense…). What anet is releasing is complete crap. Pve needs things to occupy players for weeks/months and it has nothing. I thought they would be adding 1-3 new fractals every month to expand their new dungeons and they doing ****. Disappointment after disappointment.
If your getting disappointed its because you set up unrealistic expectations. Thats your fault, not theres. They never promised what you were expecting.
The irony of all these posts is when Arenanet first talked about ‘an expansion’ worth of updates, there were thread from people complaining that Arenanet should spend time fixing its current system and world zones before adding anything new which is pretty much what they are now doing.
Infact Colin, clarified his expansion comment, saying he was refering to the new systems and such being added and updated to the game.
From my experiance Arenanet is doing fine for content development. People say they are the worst but frankly Im not sure what MMOs they are comparing them too. I play several and Arenanet is holding its own against them.
I suppose by the end of April we will have had a chance to see what he meant by a expansion’s worth since its still very early days yet.
My expectations are from gw1. Gw1 didn’t disappointed me from 07-2012…
100% in agreement with this. I played GW1 from 2005 when it was released to 2012 with a ~2 yr break to play another game. Quality of GW1 was much higher than GW2.
Regarding the achievement points and laurels post by Hadson. The three people that answered his question were wrong, and the mod who closed the thread saying the question was answered was wrong. Yes, we were not promised a date, but here’s a quote from a dev.
Laurels are only earned through daily and monthly achievements (starting with the feb monthly) and will not reward for previous daily/monthly achievements completed since folks didn’t know this system was coming.
We will however introduce an expanded/new reward system in the future that will reward for other types of achievements, this system will reward previous achievement points earned. (But may require bringing back into line some infinitely repeatable achievements that would bloat/break this system)
Bolded parts for the point the three posters were wrong on.
The finishing move while stealthed is rather ridiculous.
Also, 90% my fault, but a thief killed me today in 2 hits. 90% my fault because I let him attack me from behind and I was typing in guild chat and I had glass cannon armor on. Still though, tell me one other class that can kill something in 2 hits? A channeled skill does not count, because its like 8 hits (rapid fire for example). I mean literally 2 hits from backstab killed me. Good luck telling me of another class that can kill in 2 hits.
</troll>)
BAD BOYS!!!!
