Guild Wars 2

DivinityRAGE.5498:

There is no protection from this, though you may be able to see it coming. If you enter a group of 4 with the same tag and act super nice to you, your brain should send signals to hit enter and type “/leave” and hit enter again immediately.

Yes because there is not a lot of super nice guild groups other there that invite someone to fill a hole in their coverage? I group with guilds all the time and have no issues. In my experience: play well, do not be an kitten and it will never be an issue.

irrimn.3192:

All I’m reading in this game is dooms-day and nay-sayers. Give Anet time! You guys aren’t even giving them adequate time to flesh out the game you’re just like, “GIVE ME WHAT I WANT NOW!” and when they don’t you QQ.

TLDR; good things come to those who wait.

Let me guess, you use none of the missing armor sets?

If we were asking for a new map, or something huge and time consuming to create, then I agree ‘more time’ is a valid statement. We are talking about armor sets that already exist in the game, how long could it possibly take to add another few types of rings, amulets and back pieces when they were adding all the others ones to the game? No one cares if they share the same graphic, we care that they do not exist at all.

If for some reason it does take time, and we need to give it more time, then ANET can tell us about it, tell us the reasons and give us an indication of how long we have to wait. Instead we have complete and utter radio silence on the topic, and that is why folks are getting annoyed. More time my bass.

Asumita.2174:

as more ascended gear comes out, that marginal difference will add up to be a significant advantage. The current state, the game will be squeezed into 2-3 types of builds.

This to me is the key problem. Over time the gear variety is being reduced, not increased, and ANET has not bothered to inform the players why.

Chiming in my support for this thread and a desire to here from the dev’s on the issue as well. There have been a number of gear choices I simply do not understand in this game, most notably the ones mentioned here in this thread with ascended gear.

If there is some plan, some reasoning as to why ascended gear continues to be added while skipping specific stat setups, that we as players enjoy, I would like to hear why.

I am also tired of the argument that we are meant to fill multiple roles, there should be no heal role, etc. I do not tell you how to build your character, play your character, or work as a team, so shove off and let me make my own decisions on what I am going to wear. There is a variety of gear in the game for a reason. We all have individual preferences on how we like to play and gear ourselves. Ascended gear is not expanding our gear choices, it is narrowing it, and we have never been told why.

Maybe we should push for the removal of power/precision/crit gear and it will get more attention?

I would recommend looking at your collections tab

Beyondthelol.9504:

How about we have a new rule – if you play a thief you are not allowed to comment on if they are OP or not

I support this rule as long as we have another rule that states if you are going to complain about any class, thief or otherwise, you must properly inform yourself about the class before posting a bunch of half truths, exaggerations, or outright lies.

Besetment.9187:

Nah they are far from the worst. Speargun 2 does insane damage. Spear 5 is ridiculous if you trait for initiative gain. Roll for Initiative can be used underwater.

A good argument can be made that the underwater skillsets for most classes do not mesh with the entire concept of the class. A Thief has no underwater stealth unless your heal skill is Hide in Shadows. Underwater combat for a thief is not based around trickery or deceptive movement.

Oh. and nothing underwater will ever be as strong as a Mesmer.

Niim.9260:

Though it depends on build, thieves are one of the worst, if not the worst, underwater class, imo.

Try Speargun #2 as condition spec and tell me about how awesome it is. The key point is your second paragraph.

John Widdin.9618:

How are thieves under water? This guy panicked the second he chased me into the water, and I turned in on him.

Though it depends on build, thieves are one of the worst, if not the worst, underwater class, imo.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

How annoying would it be if the player who created the guild switched servers and took the guild’s upgrades (incl. the bank) and influence with them?

Wouldnt the same person also have the power to boot everyone from the guild, which would be different from the above how?

casirons.2568:

Battlefield taunts are a compliment.

I find them intriguing personally. I often wonder what a person is thinking since their perspective is often entirely different from my own.

It greatly depends on play style. Is condition damage great if you are hitting 30+ with 5, no it is not. Is condition damage great in a 1vX where you are built to outlast your opponents, yes.

I think that things will even out a lot more after Monday. Ending free transfers has been hugely painful I think for a lot of servers, lots of upsets that are making these kinds of matches happen. After this week I think it will be better.

SmokeyNYY.7841:

Urrid.4593:

There is nothing wrong with Glicko for this fine MMORGP.

(Anet gives not a single kitten about WvW or this freak show wouldn’t happen.)

Hey its only for one more week!

And then you get to face Blackgate again :P

BG is winning their match so far, granted it is pretty early in the week.

Thanks for all the great fights last night. I went all night in EB with only having to build one stack! Thanks to my group mates that died in my place

Special mention to the fight with TC by mendon’s, where they were all standing on that giant rock, great fun.

Kenage Achalarus.4276:

honestly Anet the only ways we get our Badges of honor for our legendarys is by eathor doing the JP or by killing players it would be nice if there was another way to get them like capturing a fort or tower or camp im getting sik and tired of trying to do JP and having to die a lot by people who troll the JP. this is really fustratring and i would like some change please. here is a screneshot of what im talking about

Instead of coming to the forms and crying about it, learn to use the magic fountains.

Ubi.4136:

Azaruil.3406:

Sexy-cute Asura score update.

My first thought looking at this picture was…“So, 4 thieves and and ele walk into a bar…”

That must be the KoM group?

saiyr.3071:

Niim.9260:

We on SBI till at least sunday.

Where next? Or still undecided?

Yes, still undecided.

IRSyKo.5843:

Niim.9260:

Should be a good match, likely the best match in all the tiers this week, imo.

Wheres AoN now?

We on SBI till at least sunday.

Should be a good match, likely the best match in all the tiers this week, imo.

Duskfall.1296:

Wish we would stop using “zerg” so much. It sorta belittles us a bit. We are in T2 for Pete’s sake. The “zergs” in T2 are usually led by a commander on TSpeak or such. When is see a big group from TC with PINK guild tags scattered in it I don’t say "oh well another mindless “zerg” I say “holy crap that an army!”

I think tier is irrelevant to the discussion. Having fought in almost every tier, the difference between them is largely about population level and 24/7 coverage. Not that all servers are equal when it comes to organization, but not every server in T8 is a cluster puck either.

In my opinion zerg still accurately describes what I most often see on the field of battle, but the term zerg obviously means something different to each of us, depending on your perspective.

Relatively new to guardian, enjoying it so far, but symbol of swiftness makes me angry! My poor kitten is tired of being tossed against the wall every time I get mad at this ability, so thought I would see if there are any tricks, or if the ability is just there to make you angry.

Obviously it does not stack with itself, well if you stand in it, you can get an extra second or so, but the next time you put it down it will have no effect if you are still effected from the previous one. Does it stack with the quickness from other classes, if so which? Any logical reason why it shouldn’t stack with itself and other forms of swiftness?

Some times it just seems to have no effect at all, I am assuming I am passing through the circle between pulses and thus get missed by the effect. I love when this happens when an angry zombie zerg is attempting to eat me. Is the pulses why it is missing me, any tricks here? I have found if I can cast it right at my feet, then I always get hit by the first instant pulse, its when I cast it right in front of me that I have issues.

Does the damage on this ability get good enough when your damage spec to be worth using for that? Is it worth the fact that you have to micro manage placement, because otherwise some pathing mob is going to put you in combat mode, thus slowing you down, also annoying in the case of angry zombie zergs chasing you?

Any tricks with this ability I am likely missing that might make me less angry when I get caught by the zombie zerg for one of the above noted reasons?

Thanks!

I think they could change the healing to ‘spread heals’ like daoc had, that might help.

Or they could add to all group heal abilities that it hits the person you have targeted, plus 5 random. This keeps the limits, and adds a bit more depth to healing in that you would have to start targeting friendlies.

Had some great battles the last couple nights, crashing into SoR and TC zergs with our small group. Coming to SBI for at least this week has been a blast, thanks for the fun.

[AoN] All or Nothing

etrigan.4213:

Just last week you were in first place in Tier 3. One week of losing isn’t reason enough to transfer.

I do not think losing was a factor with any of the guilds that have left.

I think you just need to get better at avoiding zergs, build your characters around it.

Sure lower tier servers will have smaller and less zergs, but they also have a lot less population which means you spend all your time looking for a fight.

I play either solo or a small group and to me T3/T4 is ideal, anything lower and it gets boring. DB seems like a fairly stable server, I would just stay there.

Hexin.5603:

Queues are in relation to numbers.

Why is it so fun in game on Kaineng? and so not on forums? Even the guru forums nowadays – flooded with trolling.

Simple truth. WvW is enjoyable , Nothing to do now? All commanders are helpful. Show tips, tactics, to share with your guilds – maybe basic, maybe not. Server reset every week. Bigger servers who have WvW population all face same thing. Kaineng is good server for WvW, that is all that needs to be said. Don’t care why not going to come. That’s individual opinion.

I guess I fail to see how you can be enjoying WvW in landslide style victories week after week? If you have as many good WvWers as you claim, I would think they would all be bored silly.

Littlefeather.8623:

10-15 man teams are great, but when faced in higher tiers those numbers are just loot bags in all honesty, sorry to be frank.

This is extremely inaccurate. 10-15 people properly spec’d and working together can crash into pretty much any zerg I have seen from T2-T8. Now if the zerg had the same level of coordination and synergy as the 10-15 you are 100% correct, but I have yet to meet a zerg that was like that, regardless of tier. No question some guild zergs make this a lot tougher then others, but with proper timing 10-15 people can be a force to reckon with.

As for the OP my view is that Kaineng has better 24/7 coverage, and since WvW is pretty much about who has the best coverage, Kaineng should go higher then Maguuma.

I have to say, I have some respect for Maguuma in that they are actively discouraging guilds/people that play in NA prime from coming to their server. That is a big attitude difference when you compare it to some of the mega servers doing hour long blackouts so they can shove even more people onto an already full server, all in the name of progressing to top tier.

Time will tell how it shakes out.

After reading the post I think taking a break for RL is probably in your best interest, enjoy the sunshine!

Khalahd.4163:

Umm. Have you actually looked at that spot? You can walk right there from outer. It doesn’t do anything, it’s not an exploit, and it’s useless.

I would ask you to speak more kindly of that ledge. I have killed a lot of siege from there, pulled people to their deaths, hidden from zergs, I even danced naked there once with a norn! It is a very nice ledge, as far as ledges go, and certainly not useless

Mohmohchan.4120:

Keep it tight guys! We need one or two more weeks to build the community in SoR. And i wouldn’t object to us in a sort of cooldown-mode to keep the points from balancing allowing us not to fluctuate and head directly to t1 prematurely.

Who would want 1-2 more weeks of blowouts and boredom? Rather be losing in third place in the tier above, then bored out of my mind in first place in the current tier.

If there is one constant in all of the faction based pvp games I have played, it is not once did fighting someone I could dominate ever make me a better player. SoR is getting nothing from these matches other then getting fat and lazy. Most of the good players/guilds will be bored and doing other things, so you just end up with large zerg balls running around pretending they are becoming a better community.

Indo.8629:

Xsorus.2507:

Indo.8629:

Xsorus.2507:

I think most people are annoyed about the players that went from SBI to SoR in the same matchup.

That was in very bad taste for those players to do that.

Frankly I’m hoping SoR gets crushed very bad in T1 to the point those players that left SBI for SoR are forced to spend big money to get off SoR.

That’s some heavy malice, it’s just a game. If you have that much hate for someone or something, you should take a step back and re-think things.

Oh you’re right, I should wish all the people who abandoned SBI for SoR during the very match up they’re fighting SoR well wishes on their future endeavors…lol

You should, it’s just a game dude.

Indo! Long time no see, think Rift was our last server together, didnt know you guys were playing here. I heard a lot of the Rift crowd went to the same server, still many around?

Free transfers ending forced a lot of people to make some quick decisions and actions. It will result in a lot of drama, chaos and tier upsets for the next little bit, but hopefully the game will be better when it stabilizes. While some of the decisions made were not ideal, they had to be made for themselves and their guilds, respect it for what it is, imo.

At any rate transferred to SBI yesterday for a target rich environment, hope to you see you around

Niim/Niom/Neem/Nuum/N??m
All or Nothing [AoN]

Haldunius.7864:

Of course IoJ’s posters wrote those things at that time they were rallying their server. They did (and I’m sure continue to) believe in their server at the time and what is was capable of doing. After those posts, some of their larger guilds left, which undermined the overall server.

The issue is that it was those larger guilds saying those things. One day its ‘we are the best’ the next day free transfers are ending and that belief is put to the test, and they bailed. I do not judge the smaller guilds that left at all.

rubber.5324:

This suggests that stealth in WvW should be looked at as it is:
Not fun to to play against, maybe fun to play as, and is not something other profession can achieve.

Just to be clear someone playing a mesmer, a class that has stealth, clones, confusion stacks, into the void, and moa is complaining about thieves being ‘not fun to play against’?

With the end of free transfers, a lot of population is shifting around, servers are drastically changing, I was trying to figure out how it might all shake out, specifically for tier three, which is where I am at now.

Given the mass transfers to Kaineng and Maguuma I expect these servers to likely get into at least t2. This means two servers there are coming down. Obviously SBI is going down, and I think they will continue on to t4 at least. TC I think will comedown to T3 as they really haven’t gotten many more folks with the mass transfers that are occurring. CD I think is likely to go to T4, for the same reason.

So my best guess for T3 a month from now would be (in no particular order):

Fort Aspenwood, Tarnished Coast, Dragonbrand

I would love to see some alternate opinions and comments.

Raincrow.1840:

I’ve always had respect for FA, so I don’t know where the idea that there was bad blood between FA and CD came from. All we wanted to do was have a parade, and when FA didn’t play nice TC went on a rampage and took both FA and CD’s entire maps. Why would FA players be mad at CD for that?

I do not think FA is, I am not even sure why FA is getting involved in this to be honest. Before this reset, I never felt any out of the ordinary anger towards CD from FA folks, certainly not even close to the lack of respect most people have for TC.

I have had a lot of fun moments with CD folks, such as naked dancing on a supply hut with a full blown battle raging on all sides, and a lot of decent fights as well. Really what more can I ask from an enemy? Do they have a couple long winded forum trolls, sure, but what server does not? Do they have some epically bad zerg guilds that think they are great, sure, but what server does not? IoJ’s issue with CD is their own as far as I am concerned and to me it’s all transfer drama. Couldn’t just say ‘we liked FA’s community’, it has to be given a negative tone.

Population shifts leading up to the end of free transfers is going to cause a lot of server upsets, power shifts and frankly a lot of drama. It will be a bumpy ride and unfortunately many servers will be very different as a result.

Karykarywook.2481:

appledainty.8127:

I come here on this forum thread every week asking people to join our friendly multi-server Dolyak Parade guild to forge friendship and and friendly rivalry amongst servers, and neither FA or IoJ have shown any interest.

Probably because for FA at least, we were deemed enemies of TC and CD when a small group of FAers decided to kill the Doly on the first event. Videos and threads posted to make FA look bad because of it doesn’t exactly make me feel like joining up.

This and the entirely silly response TC had of the whole thing with their threatening and bullying. I didn’t mess with the event, and still haven’t, but I was tempted after reading the kitten TC was spewing about it.

Stiv.1820:

AoE has never truly been a threat to a thief. Main threats are knockdowns/pulls, roots and stuns.

This is bang on.

Haldunius.7864:

Finally, trying to label this as a bandwagon move. That’s almost as stupid as trying to claim CD has not benefited from transfers. You see, when you transfer to the 3rd place (for 9 weeks?) server – that’s not bandwagoning.

Out of curiosity, why? What does server placement have to do with bandwagon distinction? Is the Neo Alliance and massive migration to Kainieg not bandwagoning? Just because they were in the bottom tier does not change the fact that people are all moving there en mass because it is the next big thing.

From what I saw in chat last night a lot of folks moving together is more about staying together, keeping friendships and such intact. That to me is a far greater description as to why it is not a bandwagon move, then our tier position.

KrazyFlyinChicken.5936:

I think at this particular juncture, it’s pretty hard to call ANY guild a fairweather. With pay transfers coming up, it’s not a matter of server pride. It’s a matter of prospective homes. Come Jan 28, regardless of which server you once called home… your guild will be there, and there to stay.

Back to us disagreeing

If they actually had server pride, were all hardened warriors, blah blah blah, why would their prospective home be different with free transfers ending or not, shouldn’t it be IoJ regardless? To me it looks like that pride was put to a test, and it came up empty.

A lot of these folks are now abandoning a sinking ship and fair enough on that, can’t say I blame them, but for the ones that sunk the ship in the first place, they deserve to be mocked after all the kitten they spouted.

Deathdom.8250:

HOPE, you are a FA guild. Would you mind staying out of CD? Spying is a big no-no.

I thought there was a HOPE guild on CD as well? There is several guilds with the HOPE tag at any rate, including at least one on CD or IoJ, so you might want to be more specific as the guild name is different for each.

We have ques on all maps other then our home borderland, I would say we got a lot of transfers.

So much for IoJ being proud of their server, battle hardened warriors, blah blah blah. It’s not like you guys stuck with it till the bottom and then decided to move on, you all left while it was in tier three, lol.

Cynuous.5309:

And below is a link to how we get down =)

Wow a golem rush. Very original and innovative.

In the short history of GW2 has there been a major alliance that has not fallen apart and left their ‘home’ server a shell of what it was, letting it slowly crawl its way to the bottom after months of losses and ruining whatever tier match up they are in?

I am sure this time it is different, but I ask you how many of your alliance actually care about the people that were home to the server before you all parachuted in, and how a slow crawl back to the bottom might impact them?

I think the transfer crowd does more damage to their host servers in the long run, then the servers they end up beating because of the transfers. While it is all great while your winning, eventually those transfers move on and leave behind a server now higher in rank then it should be, and likely pulling a lot of the previous community with it when they go.

JayMack.8295:

Why should I?

They don’t ask us before they do it, because our guild is relaxed and we don’t ask for daily updates from our members about what they’re doing. If they’re in another server, we give them a ‘wvw exploring’ rank and that’s about it so they aren’t kicked. I’m not going to warn people that they shouldn’t go mapping on CD because they want world completion because a couple of people from their server think we may be spying on them – they can do what the hell they like, it’s their game time. There are a number of people in our guild that are going for world completion who are in servers other than CD, too, because they’ve done research on who’s best to go to currently for what they’ve got left.

Stop being so paranoid about something that isn’t even true.

Is it paranoid if it is true? I have seen your guildies repeating information from enemy chat. Seems that out of general courtesy to your enemies and your server, it would be a simple thing to ask your members, but do as you will.

Ethose.5694:

Screwed how?

Over time the Tiers will finally start to even out and we’ll end up with good close matches. You don’t need to be higher ranked to have fun in WvW. A good close game is where the fun comes from.

In my opinion obviously..

I think the point is that if your server was on a current upswing and popular with a lot of the transfer crowd it is a good time for them to put in paid transfers. If you are a server in a slump, then you will likely stay in a slump.

I think it would be super funny to transfer everyone back to their original server selection, and then allow for paid transfers. Can you imagine the chaos of their glicko system

JayMack.8295:

Niim.9260:

LaMisT.1863:

To the guy from OBEY guild from FA that transfer to CD for “Map completion”, you should have gone to kaineng or maguuma they have the whole map now

OBEY has been doing this ‘move’ since the release of the game when they were on SF. I have seen them relay information from enemy chat before, so personally I think it is just a ploy to be a really crummy spy.

Nice try, but no.

It’s not something we would order, and even if it was, we don’t have a large enough dedicated WvW base in our guild to even bother attempting something like this. The vast majority of our guild is PvE, and we very occasionally do WvW events for fun.

What you’ve seen is probably what members of every guild out there have had: A random member of the guild actually being there for map completion but then telling the guild what the opposing team’s state is because they’ve felt like it. It’s not some order from our leader or any of the co-leaders (myself included) to gain information about CD.

IoJ: It’s been fun. You guys are always up for a laugh in the EB jumping puzzle, too, so I’ll miss you regardless of what the outcome is.

Here is a crazy idea then, take responsibility for your guild membership and have them not transfer to a server you are fighting for map completion. There is a bunch of other tiers, pick one of them.

LaMisT.1863:

To the guy from OBEY guild from FA that transfer to CD for “Map completion”, you should have gone to kaineng or maguuma they have the whole map now

OBEY has been doing this ‘move’ since the release of the game when they were on SF. I have seen them relay information from enemy chat before, so personally I think it is just a ploy to be a really crummy spy.

Odaman.8359:

I think it’s fine, much like engi turrets are fine. At the same time it’s annoying since they leave things like this and dragontooth while kitten mesmer for awhile to keep up from doing this.

Mesmer had a far greater impact then any of those, imo, which is why it was fixed and others not.

I think all of these things should be fixed, including aoe through objects, but I do not consider them an exploit unless they are being used to ninja the keep without knocking down walls/doors or hiding inside.

While they are doing this, they should also make it so that sentries have a point. Whatever the new setup is, they should be able to stop a dolyak from getting through. Dolyaks just walking past them, defeats the point of them even being there imo.

Turkey.3605:

Niim.9260:

I think it is pretty silly to believe that all tasks that need doing in WvW are better done by a large group of players. Solo and small groups respond faster, have more specific focused impact, are not worried about dying to do their task, better able to shadow/scout large forces, etc. Most of the people I see running supplies to repair gates and walls, keeping dolyaks guarded or cleared, suicide on siege, and the other host of small things that make up a successful WvW campaign, are small group players.

But the person I replied to didn’t say he wanted to do any of the things you mentioned, he’s just looking for 1v1’s and 2v2’s. And my second paragraph was all about small groups achieving smaller WvW goals. But a nice straw man you built there regardless.

Looking for those small scale fights precludes the ability to participate in WvW? Do big zergs not fight other big zergs? Just because I am out helping the war effort in my way, does not mean I do not appreciate some good fights.