Guild Wars 2

mPascoal.4258:

Would bolas be better than Bull Rush, since that skill is bugged/doesn’t land properly?

IMO bolas is good in theory only, it is bugged by projectile stuff (etc. getting random obstructions or out of range) and many many people when roaming use -condi duration food which hampers the effectiveness of bolas as it reduces their cd. And bull rush can be use as a last resort kiting tool when necessary as well. Normally if I would have to switch out bull rush, I just run 3 stances.

Zivsof.3746:

great video man, keep going with your awesome videos!! i really enjoy from this video

Thanks

Hey guys, I made a new video with a diff build after the sept patch. Build is in the video description and feel free to leave a comment on what can be improved on. Thanks!

Glad to know that I’m not the only one experiencing this issue. Bull rush and rush in general have been missing 9/10 times for me, its terrible. I would like charge on the spot for 1s+ before actually hitting them (giving them enough time to dodge)/ just plain overshoot. I had a 10min+ fight where all my bull rush missed which was extremely annoying >.>. Pre-patch it wasn’t this bad at all

To put it simply, this comic illustrates what anet is doing to us about commander tags. Replace life with anet

ALL HAIL THE PLANT GOD

I suppose this will give me my first infraction but still gotta say, they are more willing to infrac and remove posts rather than actually respond or give a hint of what they are going to use the footage for. Tbh, I got the game because of the WvW aspect of it and I’m just sad as many people are that such a wonderful aspect of the game is neglected heavily. And no Anet, you can’t take my videos to show how OP warriors are

Shu.6981:

Yam.2891:

/laugh @ Sorobradu

Please mugi why u bm me. I’m learning how to be as pro as u and yam

Cygnus.6903:

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Yeah well my point is that when you block, you aren’t gonna block for the sake of the reflecting those shots mostly. It is nice to be able to keep dpsing while blocking but I rather maintain my kiting abilities. But yeah its probably down to personal preference. As for short temper, I still have to disagree as not all guards run shelter and normal aegis has a long cd. Engi, well thats true since almost all engi runs that besides some rifle engi. Shield warrior yes but not every warrior out there uses shield and most warriors use the block to chain into shield bash>evis etc which means you are taking a risk to keep attacking for that potential burst. PU mesmer, yes but they also don’t always get aegis and aegis is juz 1 block which is juz 3 stacks of might for 6.5s (with hoelbrak). Eles, thats 3 blocks and it does dmg when it explodes which can be detrimental as some eles can use that to chain burst you down.

Finally sigil of intelligence, the thing is that it has like a 10s timer on it? Normally what I do when I see it is just to back off a little so I can easily avoid the evis by just moving out of range or when block is up, make them waste their evis. Likewise other classes may even have an easier time dealing with it with blinds (guard/thief/necro etc). And since most classes have range as you said, they can simply back off and range to wait out the sigil of intell timer and you can’t close that gap on axe most of the time. But yes I won’t deny that it is powerful when it lands. But the new changes for warrior (adrenaline change) means that warriors have to be more careful about how adrenaline is used which is going to affect most warriors’ gameplay who spam their burst skills without thinking.

As a side note, I am working on video 3 and using sony vegas pro 13 so the next video should be in better quality! Yay!

Cygnus.6903:

Natar.3671:

Thanks! Wasn’t expect one of the more well-known warriors here to comment on this. As for my take on shield offhand, I find that it is better for me cause sometimes I may need to block in the middle of an enemy zerg when I am with a group at times like in the first fight in my video. The constant block can buy me time to get out and switch to my gs to back out and heal up before going back in to engage. Sword offhand is decent but is probably more suited for 1v1 or 1v2 and such since the torment from impale can apply constant pressure when they don’t cleanse it. IMO, it is really down to personal preference really, I just like shield more for scenarios like fighting in between 2 zergs and having to block aoes or when I go zerg busting with other roamers. As for reflect, I think I like my current trait preference too much to take reflect projectiles as that is quite a situation dependent trait and my current choices cover more bases. Thanks for the feedback though!

Well known because of my big mouth I guess lol.

About the shield block, no doubt it is better then sword when fighting zergs. No argument there. Sword is definitely a more small scale oriented weapon.

About the missile reflection, personal preference does play a large role in what is the best suitable spec for you as a player. I have to disagree on the situation dependence of reflect though. I can not think of a single situation in which reflect is not useful. You would have to be fighting something like a Hammer+Mace/Axe warrior to have nothing to reflect….

And, more importantly, you have to acknowledge weaknesses to your spec and how to deal with them. I used to run Axe shield sometimes, but I felt I got hard countered by condition specs. They often run with 50%+ condition duration which means your reduction does not nullify movement impairing condi’s quite as good. This is where reflection helps.
The most common condispecs in WvW are PU mesmer, engineer and p/d condi thief. PU mesmer will have trouble stacking condi’s when you reflect-kill his illusions. Engineer uses pistol, try to reflect the most damaging stuff and your golden. As for P/D condi thief, they get destroyed by sword 5 reflect, as it is on such a short cooldown. They can usually sneak-attack every ~5 seconds, which, if you play your cards right, means you can not only nullify but counter 1/3rd of the damage done by sneak attack.

Regarding trait set-up, the build I am referring to does not use 0/4/6/0/4, but 6/0/4/0/4 with triple stance. You lose bull’s rush, dogged march and auto-EP, but gain controlled EP (stunbreak) and incredible finishing power with axe (sigil of intelligence), among other things. Also, Short temper is the best might stacking trait we have. Forceful GS is awesome, but Short Temper will grant you incredible amounts of might for a killer Evis when you need it most, as it is usually a tankier target that blocks a lot (like those shield warriors ;P).

An Evis coming off of 3675 power and 212 crit damage that is a sure crit is funny.

My two cents.

Yeah this is what I was looking for, a discussion. Well for missile deflection, it is situational for me because not everyone is going to be using range weapons, etc you are probably not going to reflect a d/p thief. And I’m sure you block not just to reflect tbh. Against a condi necro, you also can’t reflect anything besides their staff auto and dagger 4. This brings me to my next point of fighting the condi specs. I honestly try not to fight them because it is honestly a boring long drawn out fight to see who has more mental stamina. And I rather have the -33% condi reduction in movement than none at all.

As for my trait, if you watched the video carefully, you should know that I am not running the second endure pain. I also disagree with short temper being the best might stacking trait we have because it is very very situational. Like not everyone has a constant block like a guardian with shelter or shield warrior which limits the effectiveness of the trait. My current trait set-up helps me cover more bases imo. I personally don’t run sigil of intelligence as most people who actually watch the buffs can probably see it and will know when to keep their defensive skills and evades up. I normally try to bait their defensive utilities out first before trying for an evis so even if it didn’t crit the first time, I still can pressure them.

Cygnus.6903:

Subbed, really liked the opening clip.

As for your gameplay, you’ve pretty much perfected Axe/Shield.

Personally, I think Axe Sword with reflect on block has more potential. Even in your vid here, I feel shield underperforms on such a DPS oriented spec. The shield bash is OK, but on a rather long cooldown and it misses often (in your vid as well). The block is OK too, but on an even longer cooldown, doesn’t block necro wells for instance (sword doesn’t either, but just to say a long block is not all powerful), and will generally not pay off it’s entire duration in small scale fights as your opponent will stop attacking after one or two blocks. If they just spam, you will kill them anyways.

It’s great versus zergs of course though. But so is reflect ;P

Make more vids.

Thanks! Wasn’t expect one of the more well-known warriors here to comment on this. As for my take on shield offhand, I find that it is better for me cause sometimes I may need to block in the middle of an enemy zerg when I am with a group at times like in the first fight in my video. The constant block can buy me time to get out and switch to my gs to back out and heal up before going back in to engage. Sword offhand is decent but is probably more suited for 1v1 or 1v2 and such since the torment from impale can apply constant pressure when they don’t cleanse it. IMO, it is really down to personal preference really, I just like shield more for scenarios like fighting in between 2 zergs and having to block aoes or when I go zerg busting with other roamers. As for reflect, I think I like my current trait preference too much to take reflect projectiles as that is quite a situation dependent trait and my current choices cover more bases. Thanks for the feedback though!

Burned.9520:

nice vid man , what’s your build though ? unless i missed that in the vid.

Its 0/4/6/0/4. Armor is for you to guess. In the video I was using melandru runes but currently I am trying out hoelbrak as well. Can’t decide which I like better :/

I do have some 1v1s but I find that they tend to last quite long if both are on even footing and it is pretty much a matter of who makes a mistake first (usually me ><). And since 1v1s are never balanced, sometimes I might be in a disadvantageous fight which is a good challenge I guess. Anyway I will see what fights I can get and hopefully you guys will like it!

Now I am running axe/shield+gs build (should be pretty easy to figure out my build) and I am looking for comments on how to improve my game play and such. Hope you guys enjoy the video and sorry that its not in 1080p ><

So I will let the pic speak for themselves. When I change render sampling to subsample/native/supersample, it temporary fixes it but when I switch windows like to the internet browser or just open the map, the weird effects come back. This has only started happening today after the latest update. Any idea on how to fix it? Much appreciated.

This is the best looking NSP map ever since season 1, like kitten . And CD, u want ur hills back pretty badly o.o

lol DB u guys rly wanted our t3 garri. bringing in 80 man zerg lol….. random matchup ftw

Server: NSP
League: Silver
Enjoyed S1: hell no
S2?: maybe

Season 1 was just terrible for my server as a whole and if not, killed wvw even more. Unlike the higher pop servers like SBI/FA where they got transfers+ ppl got more interested in wvw, the wvw population in NSP has not increased, if not even decreased. We got DOMINATED EVERY WEEK throughout the season in silver, IOJ as well. Heck my guild enjoyed the fights but server-wise, ppl hated it. Its so bad that the only competition is to see who comes in last place, IOJ or NSP. NSP and IOJ do not have the coverage and numbers to compete in silver at all and that means we get no competition because we don’t stand a chance at all. Unless some population balances are implemented for season 2, it wouldn’t be wise to have one at all because the wvw population of low rank servers are just gonna suffer even more, if not even die out.

This is it folks, the final match up of the season. Who shall come in last? Will it be NSP or IOJ? Find out at the end of the match up!

Today, I had the honor of being part of a 50 man of NSP, a truly rare sight to see.

The best moment today for me. Distracting the defenders at t3 garri with a wp for over an hour and the commander made use of it and took garri from the other side without the defenders even realising until it flipped. The laughs were too good

Fermi.2409:

Turn off stereoscopic 3D or whatever it’s called. Not sure if it would be in GW2 or the nVidia control panel, though.

I tried that option. Nothing changed. Doesn’t help that Anet sent me a reply but the link to the new support tickets to attach attachments were broken. Waiting for them to send me a new link. This is really frustrating because I can’t do anything now in the game because I can’t really see where I am actually attacking/going due to the doubles.

Edit: went to restart my whole com and it worked finally so everything is fine now. thanks for the help

I am currently using NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, driver version being 327.23. Processor is Intel® Core™ i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz, RAM is 8GB, system type is 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor

So I have no idea what happened but right after I updated to windows 8.1, this happens to gw2. The strange thing is that everything else runs just fine but gw2. I even took a screenshot and the screenshot shows everything as running fine so I had to resort to using my phone to take a picture to show the problem. Now I am not really a tech junkie so I really don’t know what to do to fix this so I need help. Restarting the client hasn’t changed a thing.

Atreidies.6257:

Holy and Os thank you for the friendly GvGs

Yeah thanks for the fights. It was a nice break away from getting blobbed

I think sbi enjoys pvding/face rolling us alot. I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE ONE DAY, JUST YOU WAIT

yanoch.7051:

Amurond.4590:

Natar.3671:

Is anyone as excited as me for the new content on kessex hills?

Have fun against FA :<

TBH I expected this on the first week. I was even wondering how could we cap SM 5 time for the meta achievement. Finishing second on the first week was a huge surprise even more since IoJ did beat us pretty hard the last two time they fought us.

The way the match up seems to work we will probably never face them. It look like it’s the 3 winners face each other, 3 second place and the 3 third.

Heiann, the match ups are already planned with a schedule. Heres the link https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/WvW-Season-1-Schedule

Is anyone as excited as me for the new content on kessex hills?

Drama started too late, ended too soon and lack class. Please we need more longer-lasting drama with class. Stuff about XOXO is getting stale :<

When even EB has become boring, this happens

styx.7294:

Natar.3671:

Produs.6401:

Natar.3671:

So I noticed some GoM laughing when they wiped the 10 man Os group with 50 GoM. I guess they had an achievement unlocked from killing us. Was funny having 50 ppl chase us halfway across EB just to try to kill us

Vice versa in GoM BL & NSP Bl; I honestly thought i’d be getting more out of this matchup from NSP.

Personally, I only do laughs when someone from the other side does it first but anyway what I mean is that GoM seems to really want Os dead, not NSP in general. Plus whenever our zergs seem to have equal/close to equal numbers, GoM seems to run away and never engage Os at all which makes it boring for us

Maybe you can find guilds your own size to fight in silver league.

Thats if we end up in silver which is highly possible now so shrug

Produs.6401:

Natar.3671:

So I noticed some GoM laughing when they wiped the 10 man Os group with 50 GoM. I guess they had an achievement unlocked from killing us. Was funny having 50 ppl chase us halfway across EB just to try to kill us

Vice versa in GoM BL & NSP Bl; I honestly thought i’d be getting more out of this matchup from NSP.

Personally, I only do laughs when someone from the other side does it first but anyway what I mean is that GoM seems to really want Os dead, not NSP in general. Plus whenever our zergs seem to have equal/close to equal numbers, GoM seems to run away and never engage Os at all which makes it boring for us

So I noticed some GoM laughing when they wiped the 10 man Os group with 50 GoM. I guess they had an achievement unlocked from killing us. Was funny having 50 ppl chase us halfway across EB just to try to kill us

blobs i hear? check this out

Rob.7624:

This thread is far too boring.
So you know what time it is.

Its time for Bird Songs Spoils of WAR!
Big thanks to the crew which showed up last night.
Peaks Peaks Peaks Peaks Peaks Peaks Peaks Peaks Peaks Peaks Peaks Peaks!

W00H. Oh Yeh!

• #BirdSongOPpl0xNerf

This ought to get some hate flowing. All taken this morning while you slept.
Try and spike me if you can.
HUEHUEHUEHUEHUE top lel.

all the wxp farm mmmmmmmm……

Riondron.1069:

Northern Kittenpeaks is much better…

GTFO from this thread ET, no space for u

Jyeoi.6027:

Natar.3671:

On a side note to those from [SG], halo fellow singaporeans

Hey man come join us! I see most of OS is NA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If5sLsgTcyU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRgu5QFF2HM

oh look thats me getting staked at the start of the 2nd video. nah im happy here and too poor to transfer so no ty

Gannicus.4132:

Natar.3671:

Gannicus.4132:

Hello to you. We enjoy this crazy pointless zerg in SBI as much as you do. It ruins much of the game play for us roamers.

Well if it was just 1 week of you guys, I’m alright with that. But we have been through 3 weeks of this. First you guys, then CD and then you guys again. The fair-weather players are practically all gone and the core wvw people are pretty sick of always fighting blobs as well. But good fights with you guys, hopefully I can try fighting you guys with an organised team instead of almost all pugs with me.

We were actually hoping to bunker the hell out of hills considering that our server took every single tower/keep in the game leaving us nothing to do at all. Then the crazy zerg showed up and repaired all our doors despite us telling them not to. After that happened you guys were no where to be seen, much to our disappointment.

Yeah after seeing that blob I felt very frustrated and tired so I went to take a break. Had been in wvw for almost 10hours by then. And considering the fact that you guys defended garrison, I thought you guys would defend hills as well since it is the easiest keep to defend and I was right.

Gannicus.4132:

Natar.3671:

Amurond.4590:

Ahh Oceanic prime time, where I can get away with building a cata and taking a tower without seeing any opposition for 20 minutes. Whilst NSP were taking their northern towers back, I had some fun stealing a southern one. Did end up getting more people to defend Garrison for a while though.

So I guess you were one of those [SG] players that fought us in garrison. You guys handed our kitten to us for sure, had a hard time rallying the pugs to push in. And after we wiped you guys and headed for hills, le wild SBI zerg appears and took our garrison while we wiped at hills. To be honest, I’m sick of these match-ups, retaking our stuff only to lose it within the hour to a blob while we have maybe 10 defenders without any siege or supply. I think I’m gonna take a break from wvw for the rest of the week.

On a side note to those from [SG], halo fellow singaporeans

Hello to you. We enjoy this crazy pointless zerg in SBI as much as you do. It ruins much of the game play for us roamers.

Well if it was just 1 week of you guys, I’m alright with that. But we have been through 3 weeks of this. First you guys, then CD and then you guys again. The fair-weather players are practically all gone and the core wvw people are pretty sick of always fighting blobs as well. But good fights with you guys, hopefully I can try fighting you guys with an organised team instead of almost all pugs with me.

Amurond.4590:

Ahh Oceanic prime time, where I can get away with building a cata and taking a tower without seeing any opposition for 20 minutes. Whilst NSP were taking their northern towers back, I had some fun stealing a southern one. Did end up getting more people to defend Garrison for a while though.

So I guess you were one of those [SG] players that fought us in garrison. You guys handed our kitten to us for sure, had a hard time rallying the pugs to push in. And after we wiped you guys and headed for hills, le wild SBI zerg appears and took our garrison while we wiped at hills. To be honest, I’m sick of these match-ups, retaking our stuff only to lose it within the hour to a blob while we have maybe 10 defenders without any siege or supply. I think I’m gonna take a break from wvw for the rest of the week.

On a side note to those from [SG], halo fellow singaporeans

ilr.9675:

Is NSP still having a ton of trouble too?

That one really surprises me b/c they seem to have their stuff together when it comes to Temples. They kept completing Grenth & Balth with a smaller than normal force even when many other larger servers thought it had become impossible.

…I don’t understand it. (Then again I can’t seem to ever get in to SEE why they’re still failing it?) …I’m guessing it’s b/c all the Living Story pubbers are still crowding out all the more serious PvE players…

yes NSP has not cleared teq yet to my knowledge. and temples are rly easy and dont require much coordination once u know mob spawns

Does anyone prefer teq over wvw this week?

As the title states, claw doesn’t lose his wings after entering phase 2. Occurred once so far, not sure whether other fights have the same graphic bug.

oh gawd, both servers zerging on our bl. let us retake our keeps at least so we can get the wxp and ascended mats :<

Yam.2891:

Natar.3671:

To my knowledge, the guild ‘OS’ from NSP doesn’t do any organised guild runs but the one by the name of ‘Os’ does. You peeps sure you got the right guild names?

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go back to ur roaming u nub

To my knowledge, the guild ‘OS’ from NSP doesn’t do any organised guild runs but the one by the name of ‘Os’ does. You peeps sure you got the right guild names?

sephiroth.4217:

Natar.3671:

Voljaz.9186:

Natar.3671:

Elite Slasher.3561:

Hardbrain.8067:

SBI and IOJ too coward to fight each other, instead let fight both on NSP borderlands where they are 3x less than us…

Lame.

Well if you guys defended you BL that won’t happen. The only reason why SBI is so ahead because you let them cap your whole BL and hold it for hours last night. So if you don’t defend your BL or don’t have enough people of course you will get double teamed. Is it easier to attack a BL with all waypoints up or the BL where everything is wooden. Maybe if you guys defended your stuff a little better and actually put some pressure on SBI that wouldn’t happen.

HAHAHAHA i like to see how u can defend your bl against 30+ man zergs with golems with 5-10 ppl in a PAPER keep cause u guys wont even give us time to upgrade

Awkward for you, we have been, that and 20-30 against 60-70 (ratios are the same) at N-E tower and bay earlier today, which was great fun btw SBI!

right but were ur stuff paper and no supply like ours? plus having 20-30 ppl with supply and ON sieges make alot of difference compared to our situation

Well not sure about the borderlands… but at the moment in EB we have wiped your 3 attempts to take flip the east side, we have not retaliated either but it’s the same thing everytime… We give you a chance to get your kitten back, we push SBI and you guys creep over to our 3rd again and again and again the moment SBI hits the west side.

I had a giggle when you came to Ogrewatch only to be steam rolled by SBI.

Edit: As I was typing this and logged back in you guys had orange swords pinged at veloka.

im not a fan of eb and when our own keeps in our bl keeps getting flipped, i tend to focus more on our bl.

Voljaz.9186:

Natar.3671:

Elite Slasher.3561:

Hardbrain.8067:

SBI and IOJ too coward to fight each other, instead let fight both on NSP borderlands where they are 3x less than us…

Lame.

Well if you guys defended you BL that won’t happen. The only reason why SBI is so ahead because you let them cap your whole BL and hold it for hours last night. So if you don’t defend your BL or don’t have enough people of course you will get double teamed. Is it easier to attack a BL with all waypoints up or the BL where everything is wooden. Maybe if you guys defended your stuff a little better and actually put some pressure on SBI that wouldn’t happen.

HAHAHAHA i like to see how u can defend your bl against 30+ man zergs with golems with 5-10 ppl in a PAPER keep cause u guys wont even give us time to upgrade

Awkward for you, we have been, that and 20-30 against 60-70 (ratios are the same) at N-E tower and bay earlier today, which was great fun btw SBI!

right but were ur stuff paper and no supply like ours? plus having 20-30 ppl with supply and ON sieges make alot of difference compared to our situation

Elite Slasher.3561:

Hardbrain.8067:

SBI and IOJ too coward to fight each other, instead let fight both on NSP borderlands where they are 3x less than us…

Lame.

Well if you guys defended you BL that won’t happen. The only reason why SBI is so ahead because you let them cap your whole BL and hold it for hours last night. So if you don’t defend your BL or don’t have enough people of course you will get double teamed. Is it easier to attack a BL with all waypoints up or the BL where everything is wooden. Maybe if you guys defended your stuff a little better and actually put some pressure on SBI that wouldn’t happen.

HAHAHAHA i like to see how u can defend your bl against 30+ man zergs with golems with 5-10 ppl in a PAPER keep cause u guys wont even give us time to upgrade

Sororita.3465:

Natar.3671:

bokkieskitten.8023:

JKFlipFlop.7123:

bokkieskitten.8023:

JKFlipFlop.7123:

I can not believe I got the two servers I wanted. Hey RUN and RISE, you better watch out. I have you marked. Let the games begin.

Whatcha mean RISE? They moved to Stormbluff? :o

And heeeey buddy, been waiting for you!

Yup, RISE is on SBI. Gonna be an interesting week.

Woot!

mannn i hate fighting organise small man groups like RUN/RISE when I’m not with an organised group myself. still, gonna look forward to any roaming fights

are you accusing me of being organized?!?!?!
How dare you sir! Shame on you.

hmmm in wat way are u NOT organised?