Guild Wars 2

Quite a lot of information given here. Thank you Knives and as well as everyone who has contributed so far, this is real helpful info. I guess I’ll start on something easier first.

So I plan to make a warrior. Looking around for cool looking armor, I stumbled across Grasping Dead armor and boy does it look freaking awesome. Of course, it costs 1200 Shards of Zhaitan (if I added up correctly), and I have absolutely no experience with dungeons whatsoever. Rather then joining a lfg and angering those who already know what their doing, I thought I’d make a forum post before I attempt to join a dungeon.

How should I prepare for a dungeon? What do I need to bring, and what should I expect from the mobs? I’m a complete newbie to dungeons, so it’d be helpful if people can enlighten me on dungeons. I’d greatly appreciate it.

Wish they made it so that at least when you press “ESC” it closes the small box and not the entire TP. The only way to close that box now without closing the entire TP is through the small x in the corner.

Mmm, I hope they figure something out. Its actually getting a lot worse atm. I didn’t realize it was this bad. Were moving out of T8 just on the fact that the other servers down here are really empty. As in were doing what T1 servers do to T2: lopsided overpopulation and giving them next to no PPT. and we don’t have much coverage to begin with.

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

T1 doesn’t have 40-60 man zergs on every map. We map hop using voice communications.

Really fun, btw. You use the borderlands to try to move the other zergs. Kindof like a portal bomb, except with waypoints.

I don’t play T1 so yea I’m really inaccurate with guessing how many people play on each border as you can see x). So yea, even T1 isn’t capable of that many numbers(40-60) on every map, its like that for every server.

@Dread – think about it though. If you remove borderlands and have EB as the only map then it becomes even more stale. Another problem is that you might end up being spawn camped forever since there would only be one map. There’s already a forum post talking about being camped in a lopsided matchup. Even if a matchup isn’t lopsided, it forces people to control spawn points for more PPT. Literally, you’d have blobs or zergs standing at the spawn point to prevent the other server from PPTing.

Dreadforce.6980:

well sorry I dont want t1 blobs but 20-25 people between all maps is not a lot. Why even have 4 maps if 90% of the time they are empty. When I was on AR had all our eb stuff what that means to me is it was just pvd the same is most likely the reason for your example of what you saw. I still think combining servers would be a good thing to do.

No doors were stabbed/zerged to death in the process of losing our keep. They trebbed from Jerrifer’s (tower south of green keep) and they took down two fortified walls to get into our keep. The rest of the zerg they had were camping a few meters away from our gates waiting and not PVDing. So the arguement of “PVD or do nothing” doesn’t work. You’re in T8 now, where each additional # of player(s) counts. Also, if T1/T2 isn’t your thing, there is still T3/T4/T5. You’re on the wrong server and on the wrong tier if your looking for more then 20/25 players and on every border. I’m also pretty sure there aren’t any servers capable of having 40-60 man zergs on every map besides T1 and maybe T2? I’d suggest T2 for you since the last time I went on my account on DB (was sometime during this matchup) they were trying to cap our supply camp to the southwest. There were a lot of people fighting over that camp, as in 30-40 on both sides. If that’s too much, then try T3.

I’m not sure how SF’s population is doing but yesterday we (AR) were outnumbered at our keep after losing everything else on EB to SF. So I’d definitely say there are still people playing in SF.

I get that a lot of players left but that’s life down in T8 as its also happened to AR over the year. If 20-25 isn’t a lot then maybe you should try T1/T2 server, if blob v blob is your thing. Also, I’d be surprised if AR moves up and stays in T7 mainly because we have lacked coverage to move up for so long (which is why we’ve been in T8 for ages). Assuming SoR will be in T8 for a long time, AR/SF and Kain might be swapping around in an endless rotation between T7-T8 (2 servers will stay in T8 and swap with the one in T7).

There are also servers moving down into Bronze (Borlis Pass, maybe Maguuma?) and I don’t know how many players they field since BP I believe recently imploded (not 100% sure of that) and Maguuma imploded a few months back. If Maguuma can’t fight for T5 then they’ll drop into Bronze and GoM(?) will move up into Silver.

So server merging may be the solution if populations continue to decline from here. I think its interesting right now because bronze will be shifting around. GoM is the next to move up if a server from Silver Tier moves into Bronze.

Not necessarily true that T8 part. Anvil Rock pulled itself out of 3rd place in our matchup after being behind by a few thousands. Currently we sit almost 20k ahead of the 2nd server. and we most certainly can field a population more then once a week lol. That also stands true for another server that we face (who fields a looooot of people, you know who you are blue side.) Merging populations isn’t going to fix the problems. Its been suggested a bunch of times and I don’t think they’ll pull through with it. Servers are still on the move, Darkhaven just entered T5 and they’re winning their matchup with a 50k point lead and Borlis just moved into Bronze from an implosion. Maguuma might be heading down as well, or they might stay in T5. With so many servers moving around, merging isn’t going to help. and I believe T2-T4 is in a weird situation where there is 4 T2 servers? (T2 matchup+FA)? I’m not sure of that situation but yea merging – not going to solve anything

Thing is with EotM is that its a farm train and it gives you everything. Gold, Karma, Exp, Bags, Badges and WvW rank. No one goes to EotM for fights, its just a huge ktrain. At the very least, they should have removed badges/wvw exp from EotM because its not even being used as a pvp map, its just another pve ktrain with the option of fighting which is usually avoided.

Has anyone actually managed to NOT fail this group event? Even with a small group of people to prevent the scaling of mobs, a group of us still failed to save Nebo Terrace. There is an overwhelming amount of centaurs that just spawn and it gets real nasty when the champion spawns on top of elites and veterans. This group event is a slaughter every time lol. I hope it gets reworked a bit. The difficulty is a bit too high, maybe bring it down a bit. Not to 11111 to win but at least so that its possible to beat.

If anyone goes anywhere but T2 for GvG then they’re moving to the wrong servers lol. Anyways, SoR is doing fine in the AR/Kain/SoR matchup, as all servers currently in this tier lacks the coverage to move up anyways. Take your time down at the bottom, its actually quite interesting at the moment because its been a few weeks since we have last faced SoR. That, and a small number of players can still accomplish a lot in T8. Good luck to you guys, and lets have a good match

That’s the thing though. Once you give up on your server and transfer you aren’t helping it at all. AR was fine in T7 about 6-8 months ago but then we lost a number of large guilds. We got hit hard by the losses. TBT, Zero, TFH, OAK?(or it was VALE) over the year and they were some of our largest guilds.

So if SoR really did implode again, then let them come to the T8 match up next week (SoR/AR/Kain) and we’ll see how they fair then. Welcome to T8, where 20 man is considered a zerg and 60 man being an entire server. We (Anvil Rock) have I believe just slightly more players then what Kaineng (about 1.2x-1.5x the players) has so it shouldn’t be too bad of a match up unless you lack the numbers to compete. Guild wise, we have LXG, TM, ALS (and another guild that I’m probably forgetting, sorry!).

I hope SoR coming to T8 balances it out cause I don’t believe either Kaineng or AR can even compete for T7 at this moment.

This is possible because ET has a lot more numbers then before. For months they were sitting at the bottom, forever stuck on the red side until transfers happened about a month or two ago. I understand where you come from, I play on Anvil Rock and we were getting stomped alongside Kaineng when we were dealing with the ET/AR/Kain match up. They’re on the rise and should be stable in T6. Give it another week or two and they should be moving up the bronze ladder soon.

EDIT: Just want to say, congratulations to ET. Keep moving up, I certainly don’t want to deal with your coverage anytime soon :p

Not a fight that’s too difficult. The problem I had the first time I fought him was that he kept throwing the fragile bubbles on top of the AoEs resulting in an insta-gib. Keep moving around the triangle, he throws the bubbles often and throws the AoEs occasionally too. Again, standing still makes the fight near impossible.

Dangleon.1569:

AR is now full of hackers as well…LOL

I’ve been playing on AR for almost a year now and no we are not full of hackers. Stop spreading rumors, that and no we did not team up with Sorrow’s Furnace. I don’t know where you get your information from as its obviously false.

Playing from NA and I’m in NA region lol. Just a few minutes ago I experience terrible lag and got booted from a relatively populated map.

I’m not sure if this has been addressed already or if someone has already made a post about it but there are times in this map where you’re literally spiking back to back to back. Its certainly a fun and interesting event but the immense amount of lag is really annoying to deal with. I feel like it happens suddenly too, its not a new map that just starts to lag, it can happen when you already have all 4 forts at 3 defense and readying for the bosses. I created this post mainly to see what others think about this lag issue.

Thanks for the heads up. Time to re-adjust back to 7pm resets. I was quite confused when they changed from 7pm to 8pm a few months back but now it makes sense.

Large Bones crashed down an entire silver mainly because of the Labyrinth. Also, keep in mind a lot of gold is probably being sunk right now for Candy Corn Cobs, people buying ToT bags for shinies, etc. Besides, prices actually went up. T5 mats were 2s20c-2s40c range months ago. T5 mats were all costing about 3s+ a piece right before the halloween update. So if anything prices are stabilizing again.

Well, ignoring the forum post war here. If you want a challenge then come to Anvil Rock. I will be honest, don’t expect huge numbers because tier 8 is not blob vs blob, and when “blobs” do form they’re roughly 10-20 people at most. We also tend to be fighting outnumbered fights (as of late, we have been bleeding players for months after slowly building) and do win a fair number of them as well. Come and help us at Anvil Rock, we could use the support

Assuming the recipe is not account bound and that the sigil is account bound. I guess their trying to avoid the next Sigil of Generosity mess where only select few can craft and sell them. Same thing goes with Sigil of Torment, Sigil of Renewal.

EDIT: Above applies only if the sigil fits into the current meta. It might work for some classes but I don’t think its enough to replace say, Sigils of Battle, Sigils of Torment and all the other good meta stuff.

This is really tedious, so unless you are capable of shutting your brain off and just mindlessly pressing 111 on ambient creatures, then this is not for you lol. Also as someone has stated earlier, DR hits rather quickly. For me it only took half an hour before the drop rate turned to poop.

The NPC is there alright but I didn’t get anything from her and the only dialogue option was “Leave.” Mad Memoires is not back, at least its not for new players.

Thank you for the ideas guys, really appreciate it . So far, stacking up and dragging lich to the south in the corner has worked for another group I was leading 2 out of 3 times. I do have to agree with some that its rather difficult to see in that building and how many people would be the ideal amount to take him down?

So I was commanding a random group of about 10-15 earlier in the day and we got slaughtered by the skeleton lich. After that we decided its not worth it and ran past him to the other doors around the labyrinth, killing the labyrinth horror relatively quick as well as the Candy Golem Boss. Has anyone figured out a strategy to deal with this legendary yet? I’d love to know cause hes the most difficult legendary out of the 3 by a large margin mainly because those instagib retaliation skeletons.

I really hope they don’t take those swords away cause its going to start problems. As someone who plays in Anvil Rock (24th in NA) we barely have enough players to keep stuff on both EB and BL during prime and now you want to remove swords? For low tier population servers, these swords are essentially one of the two ways we have to keep track of where our enemy is going. Nobody wants to stand at a camp and watch over it, what fun is that. I can see this system working for gold tier but really this is going to screw up lower tiers.

I assume salvaging goes underneath Crafting.

So I bought Heavy Fused Gauntlets for the skin, and I also had intentions of using the gauntlets as well. However, now that I no longer have a use for them, I now find out that I’m unable to salvage them. I’m sure applying the Hellfire Vambrace skin over the gauntlets does not make it non-salvageable. Anyways, I’m rather disappointed because I wanted to take that Superior Speed rune out of it; I could use that 3g rather then have it stuck inside a non-salvageable gauntlet. Could we get some sort of warning for items that are salvageable or not? This also happened with the Fervid Censer which I had to toss out because again, I wasn’t aware that you can’t salvage it. Fortunately for me, I didn’t end up sticking a Strength Rune or a Hoelbrak Rune into one of these gauntlets; that would have been a real upset to find out its stuck in there. Of course, upgrade extractor is too expensive to extract ANYTHING but a generosity sigil. So at the end of the day, I lose 3g which isn’t that bad compared to other people’s losses on non-salvageable items but please. Give us a warning on salvageable and non-salvageable gear. I feel even worse for WvW armor buyers who find out they can’t salvage their gear for their runes.

EotM is probably the most rewarding train out there by a longshot. Karma, Gold, WXP and Badges beyond belief? Badges especially because it takes FOREVER to get in WvW. I got 2 the other day just for capping my own garrison, really? I would assume most people are there just to ktrain and many of them are PvE players trying to get to 80 as fast as possible. People tend to flock to the most rewarding game mode and that’s EotM. They really should haven’t added wxp and Badges to EotM, just more reasons not to play WvW.

You could come to AR unless you’re trying to leave then . Anyways, DR is a pretty good server to go to. Sometime around S2-S3 (can’t recall exactly) they started moving up the leaderboards. Now they sit comfortably in Silver Tier after moving out of Bronze Tier. I would assume they’ll be sticking around in Silver for a while so yeah I say check out DR because they are by far the most rapidly expanding server over the past few months.

xusa.4021:

I’m not complaining for being on the bottom of the leaderboards, my complaint here is that we don’t have anyone to fight, the best we can do right now is a zerg of 10 ppl, capture EB keep and lose it after the IR time is gone. This ain’t a matter of being on the bottom, this is a matter of never being able to get out of it.

Here is the thing though. ET actually made a forum post in WvW Recruitment to get people to transfer to their server (congratulations on making it out of 24th ET, well deserved). Not only that but I remember a few months back that Kain and ET were the bottom of the barrel and we’d pretty much farm them. So now its reversed, were the ones getting outnumbered on a daily basis. I’m not going to complain about it mainly because we’ve only been 24th for about 2 weeks maybe? ET was getting farmed for months as they said and its true that they were getting farmed by any server they were matched with. Also, “never being able to get out of it” isn’t true as ET managed to get out of it, same with Kaineng when they were 24th (I believe this was before ET and EB started tumbling down the leaderboard) for a while. We AR players need to realize that yes, were on the bottom of the leaderboard and it is highly likely that we might be here for a while as sad as it may be. Don’t give up is all I can really say because again, ET was in this situation for months yet they stuck through the ordeal and now they are no longer 24th.

Bought the Tempest Hammer, I love it

It depends on what server you play on. Gold Tier having the least amount of servers so that’s obvious. Whichever team has the lowest PPT switched with SoS and vice versa every week during the tourney. If you play in Bronze League in a server in the middle of the pack (Fergusson Crossing being a prime example) they faced almost every single bronze server at one point.

Same thing happens to us at Anvil Rock for the first 2 weeks of the tournament. You’re going to have to deal with it.

Overkillengine.6084:

oZii.2864:

Mizu.4508:

Personally I don’t run Boon Duration builds as a Guardian (not my style of play) but I do have to agree with the OP. If you ran 45% Boon Duration through the Water/Monk/Traveller then you knew you were giving up a 6/6 bonus but that’s how Boon Duration is supposed to be played. Their reasoning was they wanted people to encourage players to use 6/6 runes. So why not just create a 6/6 Boon Duration rune? Not everyone will use it but it solves the whole problem with people who use to run the 2/6+2/6+2/6 Water/Monk/Traveler runes.

How can you not see a 45% general boon duration rune competes with every other boon rune out there I don’t know.

Now you have burst eles running runes of strength. When the super defensive bunker players stop moaning asking for something they wont get they can eventually run 6/6 water or 6/6 monk or 6/6 dwayna or 6/6 earth runes. You see

Strength, Earth, Monk, Water, Altruism, Grove etc… they all compete with each other believe it or not. You give out a rune giving 45% boon duration then there is no reason to run any other rune set because general is better then specialized if you have easy access to boons.

Exactly. If there is an easy way to get a global bonus that matches or exceeds a specific bonus, the choice of the specific bonus may as well not exist.

And games that do not have valid choice but rather the illusion of choice tend to not be as successful if at all.

Otherwise you may as well argue that the Celestial stat array give a bonus equal the primary stat on other sets, but to ALL stats. Sure you could choose one of the other arrays but why would you?

See how silly this comes across?

Thank you for the explanation both of you, I understand why a 45% Boon Duration would be used over all the other duration runes.

Personally I don’t run Boon Duration builds as a Guardian (not my style of play) but I do have to agree with the OP. If you ran 45% Boon Duration through the Water/Monk/Traveller then you knew you were giving up a 6/6 bonus but that’s how Boon Duration is supposed to be played. Their reasoning was they wanted people to encourage players to use 6/6 runes. So why not just create a 6/6 Boon Duration rune? Not everyone will use it but it solves the whole problem with people who use to run the 2/6+2/6+2/6 Water/Monk/Traveler runes.

With the sky rocket in price of the Superior Rune of Exuberance (From 12g~13g for 6 runes pre-patch to a massive 71g~72g for 6 runes), has anyone used this rune with the new Force of Will trait? Assuming Guardians are the reason why this rune exploded in price with the new trait and the fact that crit damage got nerfed.