Guild Wars 2

how could you not love a doly

also, does my guild need guild organisms? What are they for? hate to ask.

took me two weeks

I really like Dgins in TC too, but he does have room to grow. His ego is a little too big. A big ego is clearly an asset in a commander, but commander doesn’t work without the supporting roles. Dgins needs to learn to make better use of the people following him, not alienate them, waste them, or blame them for his own failures.

People also consider him a cheater, and that hurts him in terms of top players not dealing with him. Needs to get beyond that.

He’s tagging up and working for the team. Everyone appreciates it, very much.

there was a flock of unbelievable kitten kittens in EotM today trying to take out a gate. My staff ele healing is as cranked as I know how to make it, and I just kept casting water fields on them and blasting them myself, since there is no voice communication in EotM. I was surprised, how many of those uplevels I could keep alive, just throwing water on them while they pv door. Must have been 10 min. I just left.

cute, but you are not doing as much damage as a warrior and not as much healing as a staff ele, and they really really want you to be casting water fields and calling them in whatever voice communications you have. If your wvw server is not t1 you may be one of the reasons.

katniss.6735:

Imo Master Splinter is wasting his heals playing solos, that he could be boosting his team more with. I’d be using more gust, earth 5 immob’s in 1v1s keeping people off points. Unstead ground, and static keeping them getting back in. Probably would be 2e (rock steady), 2w, 3arc to keep the health up a lot easier.

I would like to talk about this tournament in the ele forum. There is so much snobbery against staff eles I am surprised to see a couple of them on top pvp teams. You can barely get anyone to talk about a staff build they are so disrespected.

Crovax.7854:

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

Crovax.7854:

0/0/2/6/6 with cleric

real similar to what I run in wvw sounds like. Surprises me to see top pvp players running builds I thought I needed to apologize for and was thinking of swapping out for celestial.

I’m pretty sure it’s not as good in wvw due to 5target-limit and low damage preventing efficient tagging.

kindof the point, I am not there for damage but to stay alive, drop cc’s and keep healing. I had no idea there was a similar role in PvP.

Crovax.7854:

0/0/2/6/6 with cleric

real similar to what I run in wvw sounds like. Surprises me to see top pvp players running builds I thought I needed to apologize for and was thinking of swapping out for celestial.

thanks! can’t wait to give it a try. I bet I can do that : )

Crovax.7854:

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

Which one of Apex is the staff ele? (my video is coming in blurry)

Master Splinter, the charr

Thanks.

New to pvp, I didn’t think I could even play as my main staff ele.

If you can join a good WvW guild, you can run with a medium size (10 – 20), tightly coordinated group with voice command and have a blast. You are able to take many objectives but still have flexibility. Your contribution will matter more in a smaller group.

Which one of Apex is the staff ele? (my video is coming in blurry)

Gak the trash in map and team chat in EotM. The people are from different servers and sometimes all they seem to want to do is call each other names in open chat. It’s hard to do any kind of pvp without communication but that stuff is hard to read.

the two trebs in mendons were mine. we were firing cows right on the spawn path. I would still be doing it if the commander had not gotten too lazy to respond to Siegerazer for a fourth time. Or was it fifth.

that was fun, for our side anyway. : ) We laffed our kittens off for hours.

you know what is more boring than reading about 2v1 is actually doing it. I about cried when I heard that this deal is still on. I cant believe people would want to keep doing this long term.

You could tag up.

maybe you can tell I play a lot of wvw. : )

As far as I can tell, outgoing heals to allies are increased by your healing power. Condition damage you do with siege is increased by your condition damage stats.

I don’t put anything in the Fire trait line for my wvw ele. Her damage comes from the players she keeps alive (and arrow carts : )

0, 0, 2, 6, 6

You will probably need Acrane Abatement to reduce falling damage since commanders love to jump off cliffs.

It would be silly to run without Aquatic Benevolence.

You may find you can’t get by without a permanent 25% speed boost like Signet of Air taking up room on your skill bar.

It probably depends on the tier you are in, but toughness and vitality may matter a lot.

Another thing that may come up as an ele in WvW depending on your server is the need to use voice command. You have to call out your combo fields so they can be blasted. No other class needs voice communication in WvW as much as ele. If the sound of commanders screaming in Mumble bothers you, your performance will suffer.

There is usually a shortage of staff eles in wvw. Two or three in a 25+ zerg is not enough. If you die, you will definitely be missed.

If you run with havoc squads or small teams, your damage output is more important than your group healing, so zerk would work there. But in a zerg of 25+ your damage probably won’t matter as much as your healing and boons.

Ele in WvW is expected to provide support, especially healing.

I disagree about Berserker gear. Zerg is no place for a glass cannon ele. You need to stay alive to do your job, which is to cast healing during fights.

same idea with towers and siege. Of course I am going to run inside the tower and blast them with an arrow cart. That’s what it’s there for.

why care about any identity. Who cares who you are if you don’t.

why care about server identity in WvW? Get off my server please.

yeah who cares, not my server or yours. all we want is fights, not wins.

easy to demoralize the dupes paying for all the upgrades and all that siege and time to build it.

also even T1 is way too stupid to take advantage of their basic resources of supply and gold spent on siege. easy pickings

WvW is a good place to learn about human instinct including your own.

WvW makes people act on instinct. Pure instinctive tribal warfare.

hanging by a thread most of the time even in T1. The people paying for all the supply in time and gold are sick of it and saying so. That is a leadership mistake.

there is overlap between paying for upgrades and PPT. You kiss off PPT, you pizz off upgraders. That needs to be taken into account. No walls doors or siege if nobody pays for or maintains it.

who gives a frak about roamers feelings. They don’t contribute that much to anything but themselves.

They kill a few yaks and people trying to get back to their tag, but that is not much more respectable than trolling.

Not in WvW to duel you. I’m there to make your side lose. Getting you and other big brave ‘roamers’ off our yaks by any means available whether or not it hurts your feelings will help with that.

Some of the guild leaders planned it and both servers are disciplined enough to follow the chain of command, so far. Nobody is saying it wasn’t a mistake.

Is it ok for JQ and TC to set up some exhibition matches while we wait, just to pass the time? Seems like if 2v1 is ok, arranged matches should be too.

I love how much like real life tribal warfare this has turned out. The psychology is interesting. It’s more than a game.

we are pretty good players, many of us.

BG seems to be doing a new strategy right now of leaving TC and JQ nothing but each other to fight.

“Liu Bei joined forces with Sun Quan to fight against the stronger Cao Cao in romance of the three kingdoms…”

Did these guys get bored to death, too?

tim.8127:

… What will it do to the long-term health of the WvW format? I fear the effect will be bad — very bad.

I don’t want WvW to die a slow, horrible death. I don’t want new players to be turned off by spawn-camping ‘veterans’ who gloat about how bad they are making ‘the 1’ feel for real (or imagined) events in the past.

Are 50 extra tickets a season really worth doing that much damage to the WvW format? What will those tickets be worth if the WvW population collapses? …

I don’t think the double team during this tournament will permanently damage WvW. It spoiled this tournament for the top servers but we won’t forget we ruined our own game. Nobody is going to put up with this stuff for months on end.

Every little detail of the landscape and buildings gets worked into strategy, tho. Distances and lines of sight matter. You don’t want them changing all over the place.

Tough question. We have some good ones on TC. Everybody respects Chuu (in spite of him jumping servers over and over.) Chuu is a fine strategist and gets extra points for patience. He works with other commanders, trains people, explains himself. It doesn’t drive you crazy to listen to him in Mumble.

you could analyze the kinds of things people do while they are defending and increase rewards for those. Example might be that defenders are more likely to use siege, so exp for hits with siege, not just kills. Stats for guarding yaks are already kept, exp rewards could be increased. Exp for paying for upgrades is another.

1. Multiple commander levels
2. Elite class of siege that times out in 3 hrs instead of 1 hr
3. 3X bigger EB map with greater distance between the keeps and SMC, more towers and supply camps
4. WXP for defense roles
5. Higher quality loot

we are doing ok with our staff eles in TC. Come on over and get stomped.

range is good stuff. I like range.

dang how do you have time to target that one person in the middle of a fight? In chat some people seem to be able to instantly identify. Just wondered. If there some option I have not selected or something.