Guild Wars 2

Hammer is one of my favorite guardian weapons, so I’m surprised there’s not more people running it, especially since it synergies so well with traps.

Here’s a build I’ve been running recently:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQJASTnsABVdiddCmDB8DhlEi6aZDgEQe5n+rPbG+wAE-TZBFABiXGAhLBgc7PMwDAAgjAAA

Primary rotation is to cast Ring of Warding while using Judge’s Intervention to your target, then immediately drop the Procession of Blades trap. You can then use hammer to immobilize your target. Once the trap is finished, you can drop Test of Faith, use F1 to yank your target through it to you, then banish the poor sod back through for huge damage. Once you’ve used your hammer skills, you can retreat to a safe distance to pew your targets.

The sigils of intelligence ensures the high hitting skills (hammer and bow #2) crit on your target.

Since I’m bringing two traps, I don’t have Contemplation of Purity to clear condis, so I rely on the heal and F3 traited blocks to remove condis.

I’m looking for people to help test and critique the build since I’m sure it can be optimized further, and it’s a refreshing change from the usual sword/focus build.

Leveling up now pops up all these new chests and shiny fun stuff in the bottom right corner that wobble around enticingly. I say that’s sufficiently catchy, especially since I have to click through 80 of them when I power level alts up. Doubly good because no one else gets distracted by your flashy leveling animations.

I just got brain aneurysm.

Gilburt.9146:

I don’t have time to PvP, I should just get all PvP exclusive skins handed to me.

There’s nothing wrong with gating aesthetics behind accomplishments, but there’s a problem when core mechanics of the game which I paid for are gated behind a grind that I didn’t pay for.

Like it’s been repeated ad infinitum, the way the beta weekends were structured made the specializations out like they were going to be accessible immediately, which is what appealed to a lot of payers who were then reassured to pay for the content.

There was a lot of miscommunication up on that front and that rightfully upset a lot of players when the game they paid for didn’t meet their expectations. This is what the main issue is, and Anet directly addressed that in their update announcement. It has nothing to do with whiners or getting rewards handed out for free.

In any case, I fail to see how it affects you whether or not specializations are easily accessible. It has no impact on your game play apart from some misplaced sense of elitism. A large number of players derive no sense of satisfaction from searching for and completing hero points and are more happy exploring said hero points with the new specializations.

If you feel cheated out of the effort you put into getting the 400 HP, it sounds like a better solution would be to get Anet to make a new achievement for it, rather than asking for a revert and screwing over a large number of players.

The old guild system really doesn’t translate well into the new one. Consumables and buffs now require the scribe profession to craft schematics to be put into the aetheric assembler, and all of that requires a guild hall with the necessary infrastructure. You can’t really carry over any old guild upgrades.

Our smallish guild managed to get the Gilded Hollows with 9 people, but I don’t know if the event scales down any further than what we got (2 maws per wave + 1 final boss). You should honestly try make some new friends and go at it together. It genuinely feels epic, and it’s nice to share the hall with other people. The place is absolutely massive and I imagine would get quite lonely if it was just you by yourself.

SnowCow.5914:

How about a reward track that focuses on transmutation charges? I’d rather play Fashion wars 2.

Farm some gold, buy gems, buy charges Or buy with real money. This stuff is suppose to be a premium convenience yo!

Xorgith.3256:

I agree, we should not lose something in order for something new. It seems like we are getting less reward for actually playing the game and only spending real money will eventually matter. Next thing there will be a new expansion titled ‘Pay to win’.

Transmutation charges are hardly required to ‘win’ anything…

Bumpity /15 asuras

We’ve unlocked guild missions finally, we’ll be doing our first bounty tonight. Come join us!

Bump, we’re still recruiting so come join us today o/

We now have a shiny new guild site – and we’re getting close to unlocking guild missions

Bump still looking for more people! We’ve been growing steadily, and the majority of the players in the guild are regularly active during oceanic/SEA prime time hours

Bump still looking for more people!

Bump for awesomeness.

The Ethics Committee is preparing to instigate a new world order, and we are looking to recruit people willing to get their hands dirty! We’re the necessary evil that will do whatever it takes – to conqueror the world for the greater good!

Guild site: http://ethicscommittee.enjin.com (TS details inside for members!)

Who we are: We’re a small social PvX oceanic guild based in NA – Yak’s Bend, and we do daily pretty much everything with a focus on PvP and PvE content. We like killing people and getting rich! We’re looking to build a tight knit gaming community that can possibly extend to other games in the future, and have a community presence outside games. We plan on keeping the guild small enough that everyone will be able to personally know everyone else, yet still get things done.

What we do: We extensively participate in PvP and PvE game modes, and have experienced players in these areas. No matter what your play style is, we’ll be able to accommodate, from PvP/WvW havoc roaming supplemented by the occasional speed dungeon run, to pure PvE heroing. We regularly participate in world boss fights and other organised activities including SW Vinewrath farming.

Who we’re looking for: We’re primarily looking for people who are willing to engage with the guild and help build a long term community from ground up. Whether this may be veterans looking to do intense PvE speed runs, get together a PvP team, and perhaps lead others, or new players seeking guidance and tips, everyone is welcome so long as they have the community spirit and willingness to share and learn.

Why you should care: As real people with real lives, we understand that sometimes real life takes precedence. However, we like to do the best we can in whatever we end up doing. If you’re looking for a friendly and chill guild with no strict demands, but nevertheless gets things done devastatingly effectively and efficiently, come say hello to us We plan on creating a super active guild site which all members can participate in when not in-game, so if you don’t have the time to login, you can still socialise with some cool people who share a common interest.

tl;dr Join if you:
- want to play in a decent PvP team for the upcoming guild PvP leaderboards
- want to do organised wvw havoc roaming (not compulsory so don’t hesitate if you’re not on YB)
- want to speed run dungeons for fast gold
- want to participate in open world PvE events including teq and wurm with friendly faces
- like the idea of building a tight knit long term community and socialising with other awesome people
- are new to the game and want to get in and learn the ropes on any of the above

We’re all pumped for Heart of Thorns and ready to get down to business. We are currently doing weekly guild bounties, in addition to preparing for guild raids and guild halls

Guild site: http://ethicscommittee.enjin.com

Contact in game:
Opc.4718 (Leave mail if neither of us are online)
Thunderfudge.5862

SobeSoul.6910:

ESL and tournies =/= entire competitive base of players. I’ve been able to farewell against some of the people who play in those tournies. Not so much the very top players. However, I know there are guys like cmc who aren’t/weren’t regulars in the ESL in solo queue who can.

To count as ‘competitive’, you need to actually compete in something right? Not a lot of players do that anymore – primarily because there’s not a lot of incentive to jump straight into a competition against those same old top teams.

SobeSoul.6910:

Plus there’s quite a bit more than 20 people across the continents who can compete at highest levels.

Considering the number of teams who actually play regularly in ESL tournaments, ~20 isn’t far off the mark.

Gonna give this a bump, this is happening to me still as well.

Dat lord rush though.

Aomine.5012:

Loonita.7421:

Most people I see raging against rangers is because they usually stand on ledges and just shoot. Now this is just an opinion, but I believe the range is way too crazy specially since all maps have a spot for rangers to simply sit all game. Most jumps/ teleport skills won’t actually reach these places for example guardians judgement will not take you to that ledge.

But this is not WvW, so you can’t actually just hide in that spot just dpsing, expecting your PUG teammates to help you cap the node, which you know it won’t happen.

Except that is exactly the role of a ranger, and with any competent teammates, works incredibly well. When it’s pulled off well, that’s when the raging starts because it’s “cheesy”.

Cindas.6149:

Remember those quotation marks and cite your sources.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases <

“Using another person’s phrases or sentences without putting quotation marks around them is considered plagiarism EVEN IF THE WRITER CITES IN HER OWN TEXT THE SOURCE OF THE PHRASES OR SENTENCES SHE HAS QUOTED.”

Because citing sources and the issue of plagiarism really makes contextual sense in a forum discussion setting…

Sweetbread.4701:

I don’t think anyone really cares about Justin’s stats. I know I’ve had quite a few ridiculously lopsided matches vs. premades since the pvp changes.

By “quite a few”, you mean a statistically insignificant amount compared to the rest of your total matches? No match making system is perfect, and these stats show the current match maker is pretty kitten good. Justin’s stats show exactly how many lopsided matches someone is actually experiencing, and you’re going to just brush it off because “cognitive bias”.

Ping them a [Packet of Salt].

In PvP, there are pretty big penalties for leaving the game part way through a match (ie dcing) but there is a grace period…for a grand total of 30 seconds.

Dante.8456:

I look for certain things when I look at my team. I look at level, gear, weapons, titles etc. as a rough indication of whether or not a player has a lot of hours on their class or in PvP. For me I like to find players with good gear and PvP titles that show me they are capable with their class, whatever it might be.

If i had to pick a class though I guess i’d god D/D eles

And that’s why I like going on lvl 2 titleless/skinless characters with the deer finisher :P

DeceiverX.8361:

Farzo.8410:

Always a good way to mail people salt when they start to whisper you bad things.

I’m now going to carry around a stack of salt.

Why did I not think of this earlier ._.

I’ve even started a guild just for this – Salt Merchant [NaCl]. Comes with a nice little happy customer message too.

I LOVE kittening people off with LB ranger haha. It’s such a simple mechanic but bad players fall for it every single time and can only cope by raging at you.

If you right click and block someone, you can then get their account name from your block list and use it to whisper people.

If you can’t figure out that there’s 3 exits for you to go out of, you kind of deserve to be trolled.

I have so many tomes of knowledge levelling is pretty much trivial for me. I’ve insta 80’d lots of characters, but unlocking all the traits is getting expensive now

Lore wise, I suppose it makes sense for these unique items to be, well, unique to your character. The game makes them out to be special artefacts with a history behind them, and it wouldn’t make sense to equip two of something for which only one exists in the game world instance of your character.

Logic wise, the unique system seems like the easiest way to solve the infusion problem eMKay listed. I really can’t think of a more elegant solution.

It’s so terrible that you have to actually WORK for those 10 achievement points eh?

You can’t open them until you get full round 250 stacks on all of them :0 DO THAT AND TAKE ANOTHER SCREENSHOT OR ELSE I CAN’T REST IN PEACE

Reborn.2934:

Torsailr.8456:

Michael Henninger.7451:

There are 6 GMs with the power to monitor WvW in the live environment and all work directly under me.

6 seems like a small number to monitor all of WvW. Is this a test before expanding the team or is your data indicating you can monitor everything with just 6?

I’m not trying to be critical, just mildly curious.

Either way, I think it’s cool that we may see visible dev oversight when there’s a problem.

if you think that this is cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46FSZdp133A ….. i am speakless

That’s a video from 2013, presumably an anet employee enjoying the game like any other player would, as it happens every now and then. Here we’re talking about actual GMs with “god-mode” powers, and they’ve already stated they don’t interfere/participate with the game play.

I really don’t see where your vitriol is coming from, I see this as a good thing.

I played as a medi burst guard the other day, downed someone in one fast burst rotation and got called a hacker :/

Knowledge really does only come with experience.

Palador.2170:

The star is awesome, as is the tree. I don’t have as many of the stars as I do the blooddust, but Mawdrey II was in my “won’t/can’t do” range. The star’s a nice second take on it, though. MUCH more accessable and fair to those that are getting “rewarded” with ascended crafting stuff that they’ll never use.

The only reason why I was motivated to start making Mawdrey was because of Mawdrey II. Surprisingly, it wasn’t that difficult to make (costed 40-50g for 2 clay pots, the heat stone and firefox clusters), the scavenger hunt was actually fun to do with a friend, and this will be my first ever ascended back-piece Coming from a hard-core PvPer/WvWer, don’t give up on it!

We are:

• A small casual guild (no strict rep/participation requirements)
• Hardcore WvW roamers
• OCX timezone based

Join us if:

• You want stress free but quality small man roaming
• Like killing (virtual) people
• Like killing people with other like minded people
• Are dedicated about killing people but don’t want to treat it like a job
• Want to use the guild as both an insult and an excuse for all the deaths that will occur as a side effect of casual hardcore roaming

We are looking for:

• Experienced WvWers in more serious guilds who want to try something new
• Bored duelists
• Roamers who want to band together to counter the t1 zerging they call “roaming” in TC/BG

As we intend to keep the guild small, we will be looking for quality over quantity. Mail or PM me in game if you’re interested

I’ve played through my 3G phone connection before, and while it had minor lag issues, it worked fine. You shouldn’t have any problems with 5G.

I had this problem as well, with the download being stuck on 25MB with no further progress.

Executing the client with -clientport 80 to finish downloading the patch DOES fix the problem. The odd thing is, when I did it, the remaining file that I needed to download was only a couple of MBs, no where near the 25MB that I was stuck on.

LMAO I know these guys. They like pulling out “AIDs team” comps to troll team Qs. Mid looks absolutely beautiful when you have 3-4 sets of supply crates and a million turrets everywhere. Unfortunately doesn’t work once you’re ranked up high enough and facing coordinated opponents.

TheDevice.2751:

Rifle
Low projectile finisher on R1, Immobilize on R2, Knockback / Condition cleanse on R4, Leap finisher on R5

Turrets combined with Experimental Turrets trait (10s aoe boon interval)
Flame – might/ smoke screen applies smoke field on active/ detonate applies blast finisher.
Thumper -protection/ causes cripple/ creates blast finisher on active and on detonate.
Rocket – retaliation, active causes knockdown, detonate causes blast finisher
Healing – vigor, regen on OC, and blast finisher on detonate

so far = x4 blast finisher, leap finisher, low projectile finisher, smoke field, water field, condition cleanse, x2 knockback, might, vigor, protection, retaliation,

Toolbelt
Flame – applies fire field
Thumper – stun break+ blast finisher
Healing – regen

Traits are pretty simple
x3 Knockback (per destroyed turret)
protection / elixer S or blindness. and we already covered experimental turrets.

The only boon you don’t have is Aegis.
You have burning, bleed, cripple, blind, vuln and immobilize

Your combos give you, Fire armor, Might, Burning, regen, blindness, Healing and Stealth.

Mate, actually play the class and THEN tell me what an engi can do in the normal course of a standard skill rotation.

Some skills are just not accessible when you need them, some combos are a waste of a combo finishers, some are on a HUGE cd and therefore marginally effective once in a fight.

I can go through all the classes and builds and enumerate their access to all their fields/boons/condis and it still wouldn’t reflect how effective the build is. It’s just not a viable way of gauging how good a build is because it doesn’t take into account accessibility, practicality, and cool downs.

yolo swaggins.2570:

Sanduskel.1850:

I ply thief, its stealth is laughably opd. It’s made this game an utter joke among gamers.

As someone with a fresh outlook (about 1 week in) on this game, the way the community acts is way worse than stealth could ever be. I mean, there are players willing to spell their profession out to those who know nothing about it but half the time those players refuse the advice and continue to get killed by them. And it isn’t exclusive to this game.

Also as someone who likes to do plenty of research before jumping on anything, I don’t mean to pry but I’ve seen how people react to your posts so I looked at your post history and I can see why they act that way.

You need to stop overexaggerating stealth. It isn’t op and can be countered, just not in a way everyone wants. And this counter requires more than just a button press. Needs work but easily doable. Why do you think I started one?

This.

Just because you’ve met a really good thief who manages to completely destroy you, does not mean it’s a good representative of the entire class. It takes finesse to master the moves, and a good player can make it seem effortless and easy and OP. But more often than not, you’ve just simply met a player who has outplayed you.

On the flipside, you could just be an average thief, and completely own a newbie who doesn’t know how to play against thieves. That doesn’t make you OP either.

Silent Shino.7239:

5. a curfue time so some servers can’t just wait until the night to cap everything.

And what do you propose for those people living in parts of the world where “night time” is the only time they can play? The game doesn’t revolve around you unfortunately, and when I get in game, I expect to be able to play it like every one else no matter what timezone I’m in.

The only thing I really want introduced in wvw is the ability to get ascended equipment without resorting to any pve matt farming at all.

Tricare.2946:

When you go into the downed state, the game is pretty much saying “you lost, here’s a 2nd chance to try and not suck” Which favors the zerg mentality.

The game is presenting you with the option to revive your team mate, or let him die, and there’s an opportunity cost involved in both that you have to think about and strategize to come out on top. That adds a layer of complexity to all fights that are not full out 20+ zergs. When you HAVE 20+ zergs involved, stomping really makes no difference to the outcome of the match, you either have enough momentum to kill everyone or you don’t and die.

The only time stomping is truly disruptive is when you are harassing a much larger group by trying to pick off players one by one – it’s no longer possible if the group is coordinated enough to have a tight train with no stragglers. If that’s the case, it’s part of the game design for the larger group to come out on top, and you’ll just have to fight smarter if you want the kills. It’s not up to the players to say “it’s unfair I can’t get the kills I deserve because of the game mechanics” – you don’t deserve the kill in the first place if you can’t find a way to make that stomp.

If you’re playing competently in an out-manned group, you know that the people rezzing are going to be free kills doing no damage.

Also, necro has very little access to stability while guardian has stability godmode, that’s not fair we should make all the classes the same, amirite?

To the cheeky roaming SF engi asura from [BOSS], I’ll get you one day in a duel that wont last half an hour. Just you wait

Keiel.7489:

It’s like you cherry picked all the realistic stuff you want and ignored the rest. Lets add in perma death, I mean that would give people incentive to make survivable builds and stick to a large group. Safety in numbers and all. Also while we’re at realism, lets have abilities do more 1 hit kills. I mean If you get face mashed by a hammer, chance of you surviving is none, if you do live, you’ll probably be dazed for hours. So yeah might as well be dead. And who lives through a ballista to the torso? that’s a hole in your body. Also lets add in specific supplies, I mean the supply you fix a stone wall shouln’t all be the same as the supply you fix a wooden door with right? and if you carry 10 of these supplies it should slow you down, and even more drastic if you have 15 or 20 of these supplies. Anyone not taking off their heavy armor before jumping into the water should sink right away and start taking damage.

Of yeah winning side of a fight gets full loot of you body, I mean you’re dead. No need for the gear anymore anyways.

“More” realistic =/= like real life. I mean, salad people? How would the biology even work.

Transformation potions changing your name tag is an awesome idea and I’m completely on board for that one. It makes hiding in flipped structures worthwhile, lets you set up ambushes, allows you to do sneaky scouting, and I can think of lots of other awesome uses.

I’ve been hanging out around the obsidian sanctum arena every night to see if I can catch any duellists, but there’s rarely anyone over there. We need to get more roamers in there for impromptu duels!

You know what’s the biggest condi spam culprit in a giant zerg fight around keeps and towers? Necro epidemic on the lord/champion, who will have every condition in the game stacked up on him, killing everyone the epidemic hits around him. It’s one little skill, on a relatively short cooldown, which is deadly even on an upleveled character.

The trolling in Obsidian Sanctum was pretty random, but I’m fairly sure the whole thing escalated from 1 or 2 actual trolls, and when people retaliated everyone else got pulled in. I remember a few AR being adamant about wiping DH because ‘they started it first’, and the late comers all happily jumped into the brawl to help out team-mates.

vdontev.7084:

I came to the the conclusion that AR doesn’t have many skilled players, do they? They will fight when its a 2v1 and run with their buddy dies!

[Grammatically correct] correction:

I’ve come to the conclusion that GoM/ET don’t have many skilled players. They will fight me when it’s a 9000+v1 and fail hard. They won’t even be able to run after I’m done with them!

There, I’ve just conclusively proven you wrong – because I’m clearly a skilled player, and that must mean everyone on my server is pro. My awesomeness spreads by diffusion.