I recently got turned down from AC by some chump named “Depending on Mood” because I didn’t have over 5k AP… even though I’m a berserker scholar warrior with all ascended trinkets. o.O
So another pet peeve: people who think that achievements points —> skill. GG.
With a full berserker party in L80 exotic/ascended gear, you can complete an AC path in less than 15 minutes. While there may be confusion as to why a level 35 can’t participate in a “level 35” dungeon, it’s pretty clear that there are benefits to running meta compositions in a dungeon as “low” as AC. I use quotation marks because despite being advertised for level 35 players, one could argue that all dungeons in this game, especially AC, are best suited for maxed level 80’s.
As suggested before, try doing other aspects of this game before tackling dungeons. I didn’t start dungeons until I was a fully geared level 80 and it worked out for me wonderfully.
Great, another chestbeating thread from BG. Not every server has 24 hour queues all week on all maps and when there is legitimately less people on other respective servers. Even though fighting bgs zone blobs on all maps the with the same 25 people on 3maps, at least we’re getting fights – it would’ve been horribly boring to stay on an overstacked server with no competition.
Edit; comment is in reference to oc and Euro
BG’s commanders pulled off 24-48 hours shifts over the weekend to cover the SEA/Oceanic times.
It is the commander’s tactics/strategies and good scouts on BG that make the difference in points.
No one finds this problematic? Playing for 1-2 days straight, by this guy’s recollection… Guild Wars 2 is life, eh?
Annoy pugs?
Easy,
just ping zerker stat gear with scholar runes on. Most of them hate it.
I always have a good laugh when my buddies and I need to fill a spot or two in our group; we’ll explicitly write “Berserker only – ### paths” and will get people who either 1) refuse to ping gear and call us mean words or 2) ping gear that is clearly not berserker and get mad because they think berserker is too squishy.
There are several sstrong weapon combos for WvW ATM, though that will change in Dec.
The forever enduring H/SwWh for zergin which has been around since the begining
Hambow Point holding, tower capture/defense
SwSw/LB condition build
MSh/GS Stun Lock
GS/SwWh is a trolling build. You annoy people and run run away. You can’t really kill anything with it.
For PvE all you need a full zerk GS/AxeMace for Dungeons and full zerk GS/LB for general PvE and farming both 30-0-0-10-30 or 30-10-0-0-10.
Hambow isn’t viable for open world WvW because of the lack of mobility. If you’re doing structure defense, you’re probably working within a zerg, meaning you’ll want to be using H/SWH for group utility.
Don’t forget berserker scholar rifle/gs for picking commanders.
To anyone who think BG=Buy to win you forget some kind of players BG has.
Me and my friends do play in league over 10 hours/day (we normally play 2-3 hours/day)
What I do in my 10 hours play.
1. Scouting.
2. Walking Yaks (I main Ele and change to Ranger for “Sick em” to fight Thief yak hunter, yes there is no queue in my time zone.)
3. Get Bloodlust.
4. Run supply to build ACs to defend towers and Keeps.
I’m doing these things and get 2 WvW Level/day in 10 hours play, but I’m happy coz there is not only me do this kind of job. I always see BG fellas walk beside me, do these housewife job for server.
Sincere question: Why do you feel the need to do this? What do you owe to this server where you give up almost half of your day doing mundane tasks in a video game that’s supposed to be fun?
So I am a very good PVE/Dungeon Thief. I got 48 PR in fotm ( and so many pristine relics to make a man cry) and I have done every dungeon path with my thief several times.
Thieves do get a lot of hate. Guess what? Rightfully so!!!! Most thieves suck at dungeons because they are so use to the idea of zerker thief in wvw/pvp. I personally have zerker armor but my trinkets are more tanky based. This gives me very strong dps and a reasonable tank (16k HP). However, 16k HP is still very low and because of this thieves must know when to dodge/switch weapons more than any other class.
You can melee with D/D… that’s ok but realize that if your hp <50% or if the mobs/boss has huge melee dps you should probably back away and support your group with a SB. A good thief can go from melee back to range several times in a fight and never get downed whilst also providing some high end dps. Furthermore, people tend to hate SB thieves. In single mob encounters, the SB does decent dmg…. not d/d dmg but decent nevertheless. SB is more efficient with grouped up mobs because of how the sb bounces around targets.
Last but not least, thieves are great for niche parts of dungeons. Need a cloak? No problem! I mean thieves make dredge fractal bearable since they make using the control panel easy as well as they are great at soloing the bomb path.
Remember, when you play a thief in a dungeon you better be skilled or YOU WILL get das boot.
Your allocation should actually be the other way for maximum DPS – zerker trinkets and whatever armor fits your needs.
16k hp is rather high, not low.
Maximum dps is achieved by using full berserker everything.
Many things can be avoided without burning dodges, in melee range.
You can still dodge at <50% hp.
Not getting hit > tanking hits.
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Of course berserker everything is better, but I was referring to your specific situation. You need extra armor so I was simply commenting on how you can maximize your damage while keeping comparable armor levels. Right now, your setup is not maximized and thus wasteful.
I didn’t mention it in my previous post but with a few exceptions, any serious dungeon group would kick you if you used shortbow. Stick with melee weapons.
You must be a clicker if you have trouble seeing highly telegraphed hammer attacks since you’re spending most of your time looking at the skill bar instead of the opponent.
Only class in WvW that is a beast in almost every role (roamer, skirmish, zerg). They are the highest burst class, best zerg damage/utility (banner warrior), pretty much tied for best solo mobility (speed warrior), tons of control attached to a lot of damage. They even shrug off conditions and start with enough HP/Armor that most light/medium armor get only by stating for it.
So good they are finally nerfing the control/damage/speed warriors.
VR looking for 15v15 GvG underwater, and 2v2 GvG (meaning 15/15 v 15/15) 30v30. msg me if you’re ready to break new grounds!
Let’s do 18th and 19th century style GvG’s – both guilds have rifle warriors that are lined up along with an engineer with a mortar to simulate cannon fire.
I hate it when you open a box of Frosted Mini Wheats and you discover the entire box you got has almost no Frost on the Mini Wheats, seriously I might as well be eatting Total.
You have a interesting complaint. If you would use your link and take a look at the SoR/BG/Mag match, as you can tell BG is winning, at times ticking 300-400+ most the match. While mag doesn’t have the population to win, Mags guilds and players are out there fighting hard. Just a few moments before this post, Mag had BG pushed back to Vally in EBG (while our map is queued)
Your problem is expecting you can win the PPT game, with out coverage, you can not. You bring up balance? Both Anet and any WvW player will tell you, WvW is not balanced and won’t be any time soon. It’s up to you to make it fun, you say you’re a commander? Rally 20-30 regular people, train them, get better together. Get out there and fight, drop the “we can win the match” mentality because its (As SpehssMehreen said) a defeatist attitude.
Good luck
To note us magummans are always wining 12 hours after reset and usually get lead a few oceanic’s can make all the difference in WvW. What I don’t see is why WvW is devided into NA and EU servers when best servers have 24 hour zergs. I push for all seasons to be merged gold, silver and bronze for NA and EU. This way we actually have people same level to fight against. Let first half be random and second half be best fight the best and score be based on who you win against not that you win determined by off season ranks.
TC does the same thing, they are normally leading reset during NA and lose the lead in OCE. No doubts the prowess of T2 NA forces, its the water fall effect of them having to make up ground after oce/sea/eu that puts them at a disadvantage.
As for a Tier 1 EU/NA league would be awesome. I would love to test our might against VS and see where we really stack up. I bet JQ and SoR would feel the same. I think there is just a physical limitation on anets side that won’t allow for it. It would be truly epic though.
Only a poor sap from BG would ever say fighting Vizunah will be epic. If BG and VS were in a matchup together, the third server would be bored to death because everyone else would be turtling in keeps.
So I am a very good PVE/Dungeon Thief. I got 48 PR in fotm ( and so many pristine relics to make a man cry) and I have done every dungeon path with my thief several times.
Thieves do get a lot of hate. Guess what? Rightfully so!!!! Most thieves suck at dungeons because they are so use to the idea of zerker thief in wvw/pvp. I personally have zerker armor but my trinkets are more tanky based. This gives me very strong dps and a reasonable tank (16k HP). However, 16k HP is still very low and because of this thieves must know when to dodge/switch weapons more than any other class.
You can melee with D/D… that’s ok but realize that if your hp <50% or if the mobs/boss has huge melee dps you should probably back away and support your group with a SB. A good thief can go from melee back to range several times in a fight and never get downed whilst also providing some high end dps. Furthermore, people tend to hate SB thieves. In single mob encounters, the SB does decent dmg…. not d/d dmg but decent nevertheless. SB is more efficient with grouped up mobs because of how the sb bounces around targets.
Last but not least, thieves are great for niche parts of dungeons. Need a cloak? No problem! I mean thieves make dredge fractal bearable since they make using the control panel easy as well as they are great at soloing the bomb path.
Remember, when you play a thief in a dungeon you better be skilled or YOU WILL get das boot.
Your allocation should actually be the other way for maximum DPS – zerker trinkets and whatever armor fits your needs.
All is right in GW2 again. GvG Showdown is back and suddenly there’s 5+ Upcoming matches on gw2gvg.com compared to the 1 or 2 that’s typically been there since Orbageddon. Now we just have to get NA to start using it again cause it really was extremely helpful in setting up matches before.
I definitely want to encourage both EU and NA guilds to make threads about their matchups here in this forums, especially if you plan on live streaming.
need help getting most of the guilds out of the PPT mindset and out of Gold League
most GvG’s dont happen in NA gold league is because “indo xyz” is a dictator in sanctum of rall, who for some reason is deemed a God. Anyway, GvG’s aren’t allowed to happen unless he gives the okay, I have heard this from every guild on SoR.
“We can do wednesday, but it depends if Indo says it is ok”.
-facepalm-
It’s the most ridiculous thing I heared here for a long time, you hamburgers are strange people… I thought America prides itself on its widespread freedom?
The world transfer price has become skewed due to the inflation of gem prices. Transferring to a ‘High Population’ server costs 1800 gems (about 122 gold), regardless of the server’s rank on the seasonal WvWvW bracket. That’s one player transferring to a server for the cost of a commander tag and a golem zerg that could wipe out half a borderland (many times over in the case of lower bracket WvW borderland).
I recently came back to Guild Wars 2 because of the changes in the game and mainly in the PvP, but I have friends I’d like to play with on Anvil Rock. I play the game for the PvP aspect, so the transfer cost is just not doable. I see no real reason to play if not to play and WvW with my friends, who are on Anvil Rock, which from the looks of bracket rating WvW system, could use all the help it could get.
AR isn’t a great place for WvW. You actually will want to convince your friends to move from AR.
A lot of the dungeoning is experience. Both in game mechanics and dungeon encounters. A group of 35s, after the AC redesign, did a run and destroyed the place. Its very doable, even at level. You just need to know your class and the dungeon; it may take some learning.
AC path 2 is by far the easiest/quickest. Unfortunately to many people don’t know how to play ghostbusters and never learn it.
Path 1 is actually easier and quicker. A good group can spend around 10 minutes completing it.
Just wondering where your army went too? They seem to have disappeared after week 2 of seasons. Did they transfer to JQ or smthng?
Nope. We’re showing up every night for BG’s loot bags! PPT is not something we value like BG so why don’t you just go back to shooting arrow carts in your siege-capped objectives, buddy?
AC explorable is the second hardest dungeon imo, while Arah story is by far the easiest.
i see some inconsistencies here. it should get harder as the dungeon level raises.
now it’s like this from easiest to hardest(explorable):
-Honor of Waves
-Caudecus Manor
-Embrace of Sorrow
-Twilight Arbor
-Citadel of Flames
-Crucible of Eternity
-Ascalonian Catacombs
-Arah
while EoS, TA, CoF and CoE share pretty much the same explorable difficulty imo.
also, difficulty inside a dungeon (between each path) is pretty incosistent too.
well, at least they fixed the burrows at AC, which are responsible for many wipes back in the day.
I’m sorry but this is BS. I’ve got my Dungeon Master Title and AC is arguably the easiest explorable dungeon along with CoF. In order of hardest to easiest explorables..
Arah>CoE>SE>HoW>TA>CoF>AC
With the last two being interchangable.
CoE is incredibly easy with an experienced berserker group.
If you WvW in zerg raids, you hit the jackpot with a Sentinel weapon. You ought to use it for your guardian (greatsword or staff) or warrior (hammer) depending on which one you use more.
I think I’ll put it on staff for running/tagging ect. Any suggestions to a sigil for this job?
That was the reason why SOR welcomed IRON, BUT when IRON came Jang Gun (my old boss who’s on my friend list) left the game after 1-2 weeks. We were mystified as to why but when Jang left BG EU forces was about 46% less effective. Is that what you meant by PVDoor? I am not familiar with the exact mechanics of the term.
If you move a bit forward in history, you’ll see MERC running past SEA well into EU time. I would log off at 2 A.M (+8 GMT) and Tarkus would still be plugging away, bringing up our PPT to competitive levels and making everyone think that Blackgate had EU coverage.
This is also why I’m puzzled why IRON has been notably absent. I would see hordes of them during my usual raid hours, but perhaps they were also playing outside of their normal time and have now pulled back to raiding during their timezone’s more reasonable hours. Knowing how Blackgate’s phantom EU coverage worked, I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case.
As Fannwong mentioned, Wrex’s absence has had a tremendous impact on IRON, resulting in the hours that we put in being noticeably lower. We have not logged on early for SEA or stayed up late for NA as consistently as we used to; pulling back to more reasonable hours would be the correct way to think about the current circumstances. However, we consistently show up every day during our prime time and enjoy the fights; that has not changed and will not in the near future.
If you WvW in zerg raids, you hit the jackpot with a Sentinel weapon. You ought to use it for your guardian (greatsword or staff) or warrior (hammer) depending on which one you use more.
But yeah there are a small time zone about 2-3 hours where SoR is extremely weak and unfortunately that is ZD prime time, we lose EVERYTHING
We lost garri about an hour ago and ZD is running rampage PvD with no resistance
Unless PPT is all they care about, I can see them getting burned out soon. The game is no fun without people to fight. The EU servers are probably where ZD truly belongs.
I personally never understood full signet builds. Why stack weak passive effects?
is not about passive efects, is about a trait in precision who allow for each unused signet 40precision… thats 200precision more all the time
I run 3signet warrior coz I love me stability in dungeons
No need for stability when you’re melting bosses and dodging correctly.
Ironic how some SoRs are calling ZDs as rage quitters when you look at the past 2 weeks.
You mean the same SOR who finished 2nd place 3 weeks in a row? That don’t sound quitting to me. ZD on the other hand basically abandoned ship and Rage Quit their home server of whom they have been on since launch, all because they finished 3rd in a week 1 matchup
SoR tatics to win this war:
-trash talk ZDs untill they feel the anger and pain and leave NA server. Yeah champ, keep it up, we’re laughing so much about posts just like this one
-NOT showing up for fights! You claim that you dont care about ppt and LOVE the fights…well BG is providing you one of the best chances to get EPIC fights! Why you’re not there?
SoR have no morale to talk about rage quit after this match.
BG sitting in towers and keeps does not translate into epic fights, buddy.
On the other hand, it was fun fighting EP and Agg last night on BGBL. Hope to see y’all again tonight.
I don’t think many of their members speak english…
A lot of us do. And not everyone of us is Russian. There is no need for us to prove something in forums, we give what we have in field.
Thanks for fights to TW and IRON when you where separate.
Why are your server mates so serious and cynical? All I said was thank you for the good fights. Didn’t know there was a double meaning to it lol.
But again, thanks for the fights. Hope you will run separately as well!
ZDs actually started logging in about Midnight ET, fielding 10 people to walk yaks in BGBL. It’s a big change because this was previously uncontested that a single thief could disrupt supply caravans headed to Garry.
That additional manpower creates a very effective havoc group for that hour, and I admit that they are more skilled and coordinated than any other permanent BG guild.
They’re a great addition to your team, don’t lose them at the end of the season.
“They [ZDs] are more skilled and coordinated than any other permanent BG guild”.
Boom. They will carry BG on their backs for the next 4 weeks.
We know for a fact they are more skilled than IRON. Boom?
How do you know? We haven’t even had proper fights. But we do know that permanent BG guilds are much more lackluster and skilled compared to ZDs.
You might want to hold off on chest-thumping about your new guild. Your rent-a-season contract with them will be over in a few weeks and you’ll find yourself with a server that hasn’t grown any better because you were carried for an entire season.
ZDs actually started logging in about Midnight ET, fielding 10 people to walk yaks in BGBL. It’s a big change because this was previously uncontested that a single thief could disrupt supply caravans headed to Garry.
That additional manpower creates a very effective havoc group for that hour, and I admit that they are more skilled and coordinated than any other permanent BG guild.
They’re a great addition to your team, don’t lose them at the end of the season.
“They [ZDs] are more skilled and coordinated than any other permanent BG guild”.
Boom. They will carry BG on their backs for the next 4 weeks.
Something that doesn’t help matters for SoR is they are so spy-paranoid that their trigger-happy, hot-headed and big-mouthed admins perma-ban their pugs from TS for no good reason with no questions asked. After having corresponded with SoR leadership over the past two days, my ban still hasn’t been lifted. I’ve been there for over a month, have been a verified member of their TS for the entire time, have spent countless hours scouting and have communicatd in TS quite frequently. At first I felt at home and thought the community was a welcoming one. What’s funny about it all is I play the most during EU time when the lack of numbers is obvious. I chose SoR because of the fighting spirit and friendly community I heard they had. I was scouting a tower, like I often do, when I was banned. I’m considerably older than the average player in GW2, so it’s quite unpleasant having to plead my case to people half my age. I’m about to be done with that.
Advice to others who are considering moving to a top tier server without being in a well-known guild. Don’t. You’ll be just another name plate in a massive sea of name plates, and like me, you’ll find people won’t generally remember your name or any contributions you make in WvW. However, be labled a spy and you’ll be easily recognized and quickly find that 20 people have added you to their Contacts list. LOL? I wanted to find out what it was like to play in T1. Hindsight’s 20/20. Gaming is supposed to be fun.
I dont think your telling the truth, we wouldnt ban people randomly as your suggesting. We do minute bans on some people for lols. But you havent given your reason which could be why.
Thanks for the info! Glad I was close to the right track.
One more question. The armour I’ve figured out I get from the Arah dungeon, whatever that is. But I can’t find any details on how to obtain the weapons. Any clues?
There are several ways to get Berserker gear:
Citadel of Flame tokens
Crucible of Eternity tokens
Arah tokens
WvW badges
Crafting / TP (Berserker’s Draconic)
I don’t care about whether the schedule is fair or not. While JQ is stomping T2 servers and dulling because of boredom, SoR will continue to get good fights that keep us on our toes.
In some ways, JQ actually got the short end of the stick.
BG switched the goal posts stacking EU above and beyond if they had not have done that i would have agreed JQ would have been an ideal destination but SOR is in a better position of countering them at this stage than JQ.
Wait what? No disrespect, but it was SoR receiving even more EU players and in advance of and during league. It has been clear for quite awhile that SoR had the solid EU numbers advantage. Did ZDs change that all by themselves?
You guys have seriously overestimated our guilds numbers IRON is the single strongest represented guild we have during EU the other two are small havoc 10-15 each, I think there has been more concentration on the number of guild names appearing in the SOR roster than the actual total number these guilds have brought and or fielding. i know every single one of your EU guilds from across the pond an average estimate HIB is a bit larger than AFTL with maybe 20, COIN 25-30 and ZD’s can field about 30-35 possibly now around the same as COIN after the move, i think that’s more than enough to Counter IRON and whatever small groups SOR has.
We on BG agree that we have superior EU now with the coming of ZDs, that’s why a lot of us here are trying to push BULL to SoR. However before ZDs come over, SoR does have superior EU. Coin has 20-30, RK has 15-20, and HB has 15-20, however HB only plays 3 days a week, so our usual EU coverage is only Coin and RK before ZDs coming over.
Evidently, math is not a strong suit of BG players.
IRON runs 30 during prime time, give or take a few. Add a few pugs (not many, since we only run untagged) and we’re at around 35.
COIN and RK love to hold hands with HB, so based on your numbers, 20-30 + 15-20 + 15-20 = 50-70 + the loads of pugs you have. A lot more than the 30 or so that IRON runs.
Perhaps we ought to be flattered that people think SoR was/is stacked in EU even though it’s basically a couple guilds that are coordinating.
