Guild Wars 2

Rawr.5930:

No it’s not a jibe or chest thump, just an observation, FA’s strength is reset weekend, which seemed strangely vacant this week.

You’re right, I noticed the same thing. Granted it was hard not to notice being able to go to any map we wanted during reset.

Whitebeard.5172:

credit on the running away speel. It’s old hat not to mention that I never see it happen.
Anyhow, onward.

I’ll be sure to start recording it then. Before it wasn’t really that bad, I took a break and came back to see it happen 4-8 times a night. It won’t take long to get it together. It won’t be a very interesting video though, hence why I started posting about it. It’s boring and pathetic to see it on a regular basis.

MrSilver.5269:

Thank you for proving my point.

Your only point is your server doesn’t chest thump which was proven wrong long ago. I would be curious to hear the tc voip though… do you congratulate each other on a successful “retreat”?

Genocidal.8615:

And here I thought the thread was becoming more civil again.

Convince TC to stop running away from and i’ll be posting with bunny ears and fire works photoshopped into my score updates with compliments to everyone hidden in my chat.

MrSilver.5269:

Little word of advice to you FA: respect your opposition if you wish your opposition to respect you.

Hard to respect anyone running from fights on a regular basis. I just hope T1 has more fighting oriented guilds than FA so that when they pvdoor everything TC owns you have nowhere to run to… forcing you to have “meaningless fights”.

Tallis.5607:

The (albeit subtle) difference is that these FA-people are trashing TC already for months and TC never really replied in the past.

But there comes a point when too much is too much.

For me, that point came when these FAers kept saying that they were better than TC… after TC won against FA 7 times in a row.

When FA looses 7 matches against TC and some FAers keep saying over and over and over AND OVER that FA is better than TC, you can not expect that TC just stays quiet and doesn’t react to these insults.

People like to use their own experiences and apply it to whole servers. BT does well, and we see very large zergs run on sight, so much so that we had to change tags to get decent fights and even that effect lasted a couple of days at most. This isn’t to troll or gloat, it’s a fact. At the same time, I know that TC isn’t running or losing, and in fact is probably stomping other people on my server. When you see someone saying “we’re better than you” you have to take a step back and think about who said it (all the while thinking they’re a bit slow for applying their success to their entire server).

TC and FA just don’t mix well, condescending roleplayers that post cuddly things on one side, and deflecting whiners + kitten stroking gankers on the other side.

Edit: Make no mistake, both sides think ppt is important, and both sides have people who like to fight. I just think FA has more of the latter, and TC has the numbers to dominate the former. Overall I couldn’t call a “better” server.

MrSilver.5269:

One day you’ll get there if you continue to work hard and don’t get discouraged because you aren’t seeing a return on your investment.

K

I’d just drop the trait and change specs. I mostly wvw though, for spvp i’d move to another class unless they did something worth a kitten like boost mantras and fix certain phantasms.

As others have said, deceptive evasion clones are reres.

Leave the commander tag for real commanders. Let the guilds do their own thing without needing the dorito. I hope the idiot who thought not having a larger grouping system in a game with a 5man group size was fired.

I wish people would stop following me. Seriously though, if they’re not rude about it maybe you should have the same courtesy and just let them do their thing.

Pop caps are there because the maps are tiny and the game couldn’t handle more anyways. I agree it’s bullkitten, but you get what you pay for… b2p ftw

dank.3680:

Odaman.8359:

PinCushion.7390:

So, they have to figure out a way to sell cosmetic items to a group of players that largely are interested in winning in WvW (where most of their cosmetic stuff will be turned off by everyone to reduce lag).

Yeah, that’s a real riddle. I wish them luck.

I’ve actually had more issues with the bad models than the high res ones. I keep my stuff turned up, but I do wish they’d give me the option to see the enemy’s dye jobs

Turn off team colors in options…

Isn’t that just for your own server? Maybe i need to pay closer attention

It needs to be done. Ring and lines are far too strong as a result, and is the real reason confusion mesmer is so strong in wvw atm. I don’t see how they could do it without putting charges on the skills like portal, and that’s a bit too much of a nerf.

It’d definitely make more money than town clothes since you hardly see them while playing the game.

PinCushion.7390:

So, they have to figure out a way to sell cosmetic items to a group of players that largely are interested in winning in WvW (where most of their cosmetic stuff will be turned off by everyone to reduce lag).

Yeah, that’s a real riddle. I wish them luck.

I’ve actually had more issues with the bad models than the high res ones. I keep my stuff turned up, but I do wish they’d give me the option to see the enemy’s dye jobs
Their main problem is the fact that most of the cosmetic armor is town clothing rather than armor.

Burl.9567:

Odaman.8359:

Mediocrity has no excuse. Let arena net continue the way they’ve been going and they’ll have nothing but pve in their pvp focused game. CU and TESO will take anyone who liked wvw and i’m sure any random moba will whittle away at the spvp population until it is nothing more than people in hotjoin.

Goodluck to them on making decent returns on an expansion when you’ve screwed a large portion of your playerbase.

Have you seen the leaked TESO beta footage? I don’t think ANet has anything to worry about from that game.

Nope, i don’t bother to keep up with teso… i never expected it to be decent. That said I think you’ll still see many jump ship and least for awhile regardless of quality… it happens with every big mmo.

Mediocrity has no excuse. Let arena net continue the way they’ve been going and they’ll have nothing but pve in their pvp focused game. CU and TESO will take anyone who liked wvw and i’m sure any random moba will whittle away at the spvp population until it is nothing more than people in hotjoin.

Goodluck to them on making decent returns on an expansion when you’ve screwed a large portion of your playerbase.

Get rid of the 100 krait and the lake in the middle before you bother with the mobs on land. Once you’ve done that, make the skritt and centaurs stop attacking camps. After that thing out the other mobs. I don’t mind having camps in wvw, but the mobs are everywhere.

If nothing else freeze the kitten lake and leave holes to go down underneath the ice.

Confusion is really strong in wvw right now, but against anyone decent it does no damage. Honestly I’d rather see a rework, because if they nerf it in wvw then it will be subpar in every aspect of the game.

Hickeroar.9734:

Odaman.8359:

Hickeroar.9734:

Oink Oink

Case in point.

Dat bacon was good tonight in tc bl.

Seriously though, nice fights… anyone taking the hog comment seriously isn’t all there in the head.

There’s only one thing that needs a wvw and pve split and that’s confusion. Everything else is fine.

Hurry up and get to work then baddie… at least the devs won’t fumble with papers and miss half the important kitten for this one.

Bridging the gap is all well and good, but you won’t be doing anything like that in a guild that ostracized itself from a good portion of the FA population. Have fun with it, but don’t fall under the delusions that it’ll accomplish anything like what you’re saying.

The majority of what I see is guardian and ele. I see more warriors, rangers, and necros than mesmers in wvw. We do need a nerf to confusing enchantments, which is our only really overpowered thing for wvw because it makes glamours equivalent to line fields giving them an unlimited target cap for the enter/exit confusion. You take that away and you’ll see people shy away from confusion if they prefer power specs. If you think mesmer as a whole is overpowered then honestly there is no point in going any further.

Can’t speak for spvp, I hardly do it with how terrible it is.

Not going to happen until they split wvw and pve. It sucks in pve and considering most of their time seems to be devoted to pve you can guess which one takes priority

It could use a nerf, but not to spvp trash status. That said…. easily countered and I don’t die to it on mesmer even with our horrible cond removal. The real issue I have is the most viable wvw spec for anything but solo (good solo too ).

Why do antipersonnel siege weapons (arrowcarts) damage siege? I think gate damage is there to give a zerg an easy point of entry (funnel them due to convenience) so that you can set up to defend more easily against typical large groups.

Upgrades definitely should… kitten they cost enough gold Placing siege shouldn’t though, we already have issues with people building useless siege. I think defense ticks should give more wxp though.

Furiousbeard.7602:

Can we please put this to rest?

Not yet, we need more sane FA to drown out the whines of a few of our allies. Looking forward to tonight though, hopefully we’ll see more TC out… you guys probably had an easter egg hunt in divinity’s reach amirite?

Everyone 2v1s. I do it all the time except I try to be an equalizer in the equation especially when i’m solo…. it just makes it more fun to see those 3 beating up that 1 guy get stomped. Then again i’ve always been a fan of sketchy unspoken alliances that break quickly… it makes the game interesting when you don’t know if the guy you’re helping is about to stab you in the back.

Spent most of the time playing meta in fa bl last night, but ended up roaming with the guild at the end…. that TC zerg in tc garrison at like 10:30 est was a scary sight. I know we had RET and the militia in there as well, but had we not funneled you all into NE tower we would’ve been done for I think.

Small copied maps. Even EB is too small.

Most of the space is jammed with objectives in siege range of another.

Skill lag.

Other than that it’s fine… I don’t expect them to change stance on being so casual friendly the hardcore don’t matter at all so the char progression etc aren’t worth crying about.

Point capping is boring, but I agree it takes more skill in spvp… mostly because of the playerbase there not so much the “even footing”.
At the same time, builds are limited heavily by the game type so you have less you need to counter in spvp.

For most who liked daoc it will always be better than gw2 because anet wants to make wvw casual friendly while daoc leaned toward the hardcore crowd. This is seen in siege(gw2) vs killing(daoc), full rewards on tag(gw2) vs split rewards(daoc), and minor passives(gw2) vs major power gap creating actives(daoc). I prefered daoc, but I don’t think gw2 is worse (well it is for me =p) just different. Anyway, CU may be promising for the more hardcore players looking for their fill…. we’ll see. I do think anet is doing a decent job with wvw. My only real complaint about this game is no raid functionality…. leaving that out was kitten and keeping it out this long makes me wonder if they even wvw as a guild.

I have every class… more of a wanting to know my enemy thing more than really liking other classes more than mesmer. I still main mesmer, but i do love some mh sword/GS warrior in wvw at times… GS for mesmer has good flow like GS for warrior… too bad izerker is being kitten

purpleskies.3274:

Love the quickness nerf! Wish they reduced the cool down on TW to compensate though. But still very happy

This, maybe they’ll get around to it next time.

Max.8563:

For pvp this is more of a nerf than a buff.
Players can no longer hide behind npc’s or other players to be safe from beam attacks.
As mesmer is capable of keeping up 3 npc (illusions) most of the time, we are disadvantaged by this change more than most classes.

Also, I don’t believe the change was intended to create a new aoe, it was intended to be able to continue hitting your target with beam attacks when they go behind something.

Beam attacks were never stopped by players being in between you and the target…. not sure what you’re talking about. It was a buff, the only downside is maybe agroing mobs when people run around…. but that’s more of an issue with wvw being full of random mobs than the ability itself.

When I first logged on the beam attack width was huge (guessing around 200 on each side of the beam), but now it seems to be smaller. I did switch from GS to scepter, and I thought it may have been that, but since you are all saying spatial surge also has a small width I think they probably hotfixed it.

True story, the culling change worked out better than I thought it would. Skill lag is the next thing they need to prioritize though.

I think you’ll see the zergs break up a bit more…. from what I saw tonight the normal zergers were getting trashed without culling to carry them. I do think they might want to bump wxp from players kills a little bit (what is it? 9?).
I did find it funny the worm in the BLs was giving 75 wxp.

A majority of that armor wasn’t available via karma. Karma should always be the easiest way to get armor…. i mean it’s worthless for anything else and you have it stockpiled. That’s like saying it’s easier to waypoint than to run somewhere. I’m glad they put it in to fill the gaps (cloth rabid chest piece = 20g on tp or farming a dungeon, boots = 10g last i checked). It would’ve been nice to see decent skins, and ascended gear… but it’s a start I guess… and i’m pretty much done getting ascended on my main (QQ for my other 7 alts).

I’d rather see a power gap than this waste of time. They would’ve been better off spending those hours on class balance than giving us this trash.

When it comes to progression the majority will always go for whatever rewards the most. This will just reinforce zergs (i run in a 30+ group fighting larger numbers not a 5 man havok squad so don’t bother with the find a guild bs) which is disappointing to say the least. I’d rather see people encouraged to split into smaller teams…. I remember hearing Anet devs say they wanted to find a way to split up zergs. Guess what, this was the best way to do it and you kittened it up by giving everyone who gets a tag full rewards.

Yay, a bunch of mediocre bonuses. Supply and – siege damage are ok, but the rest are trash…. hopefully they push new ones out relatively quickly.

No ally targeting and limited abilities makes me think teso will be trash. Part of what was wrong with this game tbh (though the grand experiment was nice to see someone try…. too bad they shunned a portion of mmo players without giving them anything else to do). Best bet for decent rvr will be CU if it even gets funded.

Anyways =p fundraising for arena net to buy new servers…. kitten someone should do it.

Good change, stacking isn’t being changed so you may see veil → mass invis taking the place of veil veil, but it will not keep everyone in stealth so it is a change for the better. I’m a little concerned about beams though… apparently confusion mesmer isn’t strong enough in wvw so lets make confusing images kitten more people

For the thief it will be painful at the start until they throw in the mobility on non sb weapons. It won’t be the end of the world… thief will still do fine, but there will be some growing pains. Granted the culling alone is a big change for thief.

Yeah teso looks good. I’ll be throwing money at the camelot unchained kickstarter as well.

Absolutely nothing important other than a slideshow induced by the removal of culling. There’s a reason they had culling to begin with, here’s hoping that it was just to save low end computers from a lag fest and that high end pcs will be good to go.

If you nerf it do I get something useful? Thief and necro both do more damage overall in downed state unless the mesmer is condition build and you’re swinging away with 4+ stacks of confusion. In that case though…. phantasmal rogue does trash damage. Apparently mesmers can be condition build and glass cannon power at the same time. OPD

Rackhir Tanelorn.9123:

If the face fits….

Just a bit lazy for a roleplayer.

Vomit inducing already…. welcome back tc