I spent a couple hours most afternoons getting map complete I think it took me a few weeks. It was boring, but it wasn’t that difficult.
My goal when I bought this game was to get a legendary, I started the game in February and had my Incinerator by the end of Summer. I haven’t touched PvE since. *shivers. I also had lots of help from the amazing guild I was in at the time. <3
Anyways, If you can’t meet the requirements you don’t want the stupid pixels bad enough.
Vapor Form seems OP cuz the other downed things I pop stability to stomp, an ele can always get out of the stomp. Buff staff a little more.
Thats like the only reason a glass d/d ele is sorta kinda almost viable in small group roaming. Go in on a suicide run dumping as much damage as you can into as many as you can hopefully downing a few. Then you down use vapor form to stay alive long enough for your teammates to stomp.
Anyways, I do agree the ele needs a lot of work, but I don’t agree with your suggestions.
My ele with her t3 armor and Incinerator sits in LA while my thief and mesmer do work in WvW.
Wow, JQueue doesn’t have a queue for EBG right now, this is the first time I’ve seen this in a long time. Its been forever since I’ve been in EB, I’ve been in maybe five times total since I moved to JQ several months ago.
Well, congratulations to BG in winning first place in this season of Coverage Wars 2.
I hate making threads like this as I’ve always found they seemed lazy, but after looking through the Mesmer forum I can’t really piece together what build would be best for my new Mesmer.
I’m building this character mostly for small group roaming in WvW, I’ve never messed with conditions before so I was leaning more toward a condi build to try it out. In the group we already have quite a bit of healing and sustain, so a super tanky build is not optimal. I want something to have a decent amount of survivability, but also be able to wreak lots of havoc. I was leaning maybe a confusion build?
Back in February when I first found GW2 and started playing, the first thing I said was “I’m getting a legendary”. Five or so months later I had accomplished my goal due to a large amount of luck and a great guild. That was the only goal I set out for myself in the game.
After that I largely stopped doing PvE, except to fund my WvW habit. What kept me playing this game was my guild and WvW. That’s why I logged in every night.
Eventually due to some strong differences of opinion the guild I had been part of the last 6 months broke up. I bounced around a few other guilds, but I had lost my reason to play. I would log in every now and then to solo roam on my thief in WvW, and I ran into few people I made good friends with. Eventually with the loss of my faith in Anet after the nerfing into the ground of my favorite profession among other things I finally put down the game.
I came back to check out the patch on the 15th, even with the disappointment it turned out to be I still logged back in. I ran into some old friends and starting playing again.
What I’m going to say is echoed throughout the community and most certainly said more than once on this thread, but for the sake of reinforcement:
1.) Less hurried, recycled content.
2.) Less frequent updates, increase it the time in between to a month or even two.
3.) More permanent content
Here I will speak for myself a little, you’ve utterly failed to immerse me into any sort of story. I’m not even sure whats going on in the living story any more, I just find it anything but interesting. I’ve never found a reason to get into the story.
The issue with the MF is making sure you have the beginning capital to insure you have a good chance of coming out ahead. In the end its still random and you stand the chance to lose out big. I pulled one precursor out of the forge several months ago: http://youtu.be/NftmxoN2IfU
I still make most of my money off the MF, but its on a smaller scale than dumping rares for precursors.
I have well over 1000g invested in my ele but I rarely log onto to her anymore. The final straw was the regen/stun warrs getting popular in WvW. I just got tired of having to work 4 times as hard for 60% of what another profession can do.
When I do log into GW2, which is becoming increasing rare, its on my thief roaming around WvW for an hour. The game is fast losing its appeal.
Charr Ash Legion story is great for Thieves, but the Charr look crap as Thieves, imo. I have a male Sylvari but u regret not making a human simply because without access to the human cultural armours to mix abd match, Thieves look so lame.
It is hard to find a good look for a medium armor Charr, but they’re a bit of a rare sight which makes them more appealing for me. Charr armor sucks terribly all the way around anyways.
Try out elementalist. It has problems with conditions, but it solos things well and has the ability to escape well.
Try out Mesmer. It can solo and handle 1vX. Not the best at running but still possible.
As far as your comment about the ele, no… just no… Eles are 4 times the effort for 60% of what other classes can do. Mine is shelved until anet fixes them and/or brings some other classes back in line.
Mesmers have some stupid 1v1 builds right now.
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I would have to say the best roamer is a thief due to its mobility and ability to have complete control of an engagement. Its not the best 1v1 class at the moment, but its alright. The thief is an easier class to play too.
Any class can roam though, its a matter of personal choice.
This certainly fits in with their view point of WvW as some sort of super casual game mode. Its a shame I really liked GW2, but I’m in the waiting for the next thing down the line boat and ready to set sail.
Eh, I’ve ran into a couple that wiped my poor thief out so very quickly, but most necros aren’t that hard to kill. Bait the opening burst of condi, clear it, then try and DPS them down.
A thief is OP against bad players and/or glass cannons.
There most certainly are counters to thieves, play one and you find that out pretty kittening fast. That said it is not hard to play this profession and the skill required to use stealth is lower than the skill needed to counter it.
I’ve been running and d/d thief in WvW for about a month now, it quite quickly became my main roaming class. One thing I noticed is thieves get a lot of grief in game from people spamming emotes and/or jumping on your body after 10 of them are finally able to pin you down. I never had this much hate on other classes.
D/P thieves are just a little… much at the moment, imo.
I gave up on my ele when the regen/stunlock warrs started becoming so popular.
I always played balanced or DPS builds. I ran S/D burst for a few months, even before fresh air. I’d also run DPS d/d when I felt like trolling people. I really do love the ele class but you have to work so much harder to accomplish 60% of what another class can do.
I gave up and rolled a thief for WvW roaming(still the best ele exploit :P). They’re many times easier to play and you will rarely die to anything but a major kitten up on your part. The regen warrs are still a PITA to kill but youre in little no danger of getting killed by one.
Yeah, after seeing the leaked stuff I’ll be moving on shortly.
I played Guild Wars 2 and WvW for small group game play and dueling(Don’t ask me how I ended up on JQ). I didn’t give a rats kitten for sPvP because its kitten. With this showing Anet will not support how the players wish to play the game but are actively destroying it is of great detriment to my opinion of them.
The WvW update being burried under PvE crap is just more evidence they don’t care about WvW.
Not our fault all these kitten regen warrs and heal guardians are near impossible to take down with direct damage yet they can stunlock while dealing enough damage to be dangerous. Conditions are apparently they way to go with killing them. Don’t warriors have like 30K HP and guardians have lots of condi removal? I dunno, I hate the heavy armor classes.
For those who scoffed at the grind for cool skins and asked for a challenge to prove yourselves worthy of the skin instead, well Anet has delivered. I was not one of those people, but the skins I must have.
I trudged through world #1’s worst, fighting random deaths while jumping over liquid, the insta kill lilly pads, the jumping rocks that couldn’t make up their minds.
That said I will never forgive Anet for what they have put me through. I am far too ashamed to say how long it took me to complete. I hate platformers and I am terrible at them. This was an amazing exercise in anger management.
One thing I must ask of you Anet, fix the kitten hitboxing issues with the insta-kill liquids.
The glorious chests at the end of each boss fight has a chance of dropping a skin. 3 of the 5 people in my party (including me!) got a skin from the first zone
After flipping through a few threads I grabbed some PVT and Scholar Runes. I went with Valk daggers and zerker trinkets. I still hit(with food buffs) back stabs of 8K+ on GCs/lowbies, 6K on targets with some toughness, and >3K on all these stupid super tank regen warrs that are running around. I didn’t want a instagib build, so it seemed like a good option. Its done me pretty well, but I will probably move more glass.
Not to belittle Wulf’s video, but if you’re going to try and brag/gloat at least post a video of us actually doing something. We’ve had fun fights, terrible defeats, and great victories on the battlefield since we moved. We’ve made great progress from what we were on GoM, but we’ve still got a long way to go. There’s the fact no matter what you posted it would simply be discounted by those here.
Yes! the awesome pvp roamers from JQ server are back! welcome back guys!
Can’t tell if troll
It’s not! Jq has some awesome solo and small group roamers. Unlike sor I have only met 1 in all this time. Even DB and TC had way more during the short time they were in tier 1.
I’m glad you found the exciting non-stompy non-easy win tough match you guys always wanted. We’re gonna stick it out and hope one day our random number generator gives us a match like that too.
Edit: I’m not as good as the other people in this thread who wipe twice their numbers regularly.
t2 is a whole different game from where you are here. There is always a fight somewhere, thats what makes this match up entertaining. Sure having to deal with the smelly magswag wasn’t the best this week, for us or them, but whatever.
I haven’t been in WvW too much recently, so I haven’t experienced this personally as of yet. That new farm has just been too crazy. (100g in two days FTW)
This thread fell right off the humorous to just plain sad cliff and landed face first in the kitten.
go back to not being noticed in the 40+ man zergs in jq plox.
B…but its more entertaining here.
I really haven’t spent any time with the pug commanders its either guild group or trolling zerglings that got lost. Hard to break the habit of solo roaming even if the most common outcome is getting chased across the map by 30 DB.
I liked Zombieland. They did good work on the server. People who complained about the work they did to get people out of Queensdale and Lion’s Arch to karma trains while our matches were easy don’t get it and are the people who don’t go to meetings, don’t try to involve themselves, and apparently only sit on the sidelines to complain. We’ll be weaker without ’em but life goes on.
But leaving because the match ups are too easy? That’s ridiculous. Especially to join one that’s even more unbalanced. Any server has a chance to roll a match up against 2 lower ranked servers, especially Jade Quarry (ie. their match up right now). Gate of Madness has rolled more easy matches than anyone else and some how that made Zombieland lose their kitten enough that when Jade Quarry came calling with enough gold they thought to themselves “transferred once, why not do it again?”.
Boring is a better word than easy.
I didn’t make the decision and t1/t2 wouldn’t be my first choice, but I’ve got too much invested in this guild to leave. Its time to pick up my staff and get my zerg on.
Even after all the hate, I still wish you the best of luck GoM, but I won’t be back.
Looking forward to experiencing a higher tier of WvW.
Quick question, why does DB feel the need to jump on bodies after they wipe a couple people with anywhere from 3 to 20 times the numbers? Like every time there is a few that do it. FA doesn’t do that.
This started long ago when the faith of The Divine Ram of Maguuma was strong. If you are unfamiliar, it is of course when one dies they would erect a sacred ram on top of your body to commend your death. As we have advanced to a more modernistic age, erecting rams whenever someone died became inconvenient as such it was easier just show our emotion to the dead with as you see /emote. Thus we can conclude two things, that you and those whom you have experience on FA are lacking in faith and that your not way-pointing back fast enough.(Note that non of these findings are yet conclusive and are awaiting defense)
I’m just checking everything out waiting for the rest of my guild to get situated on JQ.
I was seeing if solo and/or small group roaming was viable on these higher tiers, I was greeted with mixed results. Immediately WPing back wasn’t high on the priority list. I didn’t come here for that anyways. I came for zerg tactics.
