Guild Wars 2

You want difficult content?

Go make a new character, don’t use any gear, and do the dungeons at their minimal required level. Also, if you die, you have to delete the character and start over.

There......difficult content.

Liquid.9672:

I dont know what server you play on but scouts, siege and fierce tower/keep defense is a commonplace in T1 NA.

This gentlemen is correct.

Contrary to popular opinion Tier 1 is not full of zergers.

Every T1 server uses scouts, builders, and defenders on every map. We play to win and sometimes that means doing boring assignments, so we rotate every 30 minutes. It sounds like your play style is more suited for T1, may I suggest SoR ?

I know it’s Tier 1 and all you lower servers guys are going to laugh but I’m getting skill lag when no one is on the map fighting. I mean there’s literally no swords on the map and I still can’t use skills.

I think I speak for the vast majority of SoR when I say that we’d like to face JQ and BG every week. But if we can’t face them both, we’d like to face at least one.

Forget karma train matches, please take away the one we have.

Just play the game.

If JQ wins this week, you have nothing to complain about.

About the only thing the last 3 pages have accomplished is getting you spawn camped for next 7 weeks.

Just a free chump bag for the other servers.

I don’t think a subscription is necessary.

If they would take away some of the RNG elements of the game, people would be more inclined to buy stuff off the gem store if money was an issue. Which at this point, I don’t think it is.

The fun was in doing the content once for the challenge or a few times to complete the achievement.

The fight itself is not fun, too many deaths, too much coordination required, no reward for failing. It’s just not worth it...

VoTF should come back to NA, we miss you.

Game is great the first run through.

Some classes just scale better with stats than others.

Ascended gear makes that thief that was hitting for 2000 now hit for 2500 but it doesn’t make an Ele’s stun that was 2 seconds in length into 2.5 seconds. That’s why the game is in the state it’s in now, it was balanced around Exotic gear, not Ascended.

Unfortunately, we’ll never see a fix. The only way to fix the imbalances caused by the increase in stats is to overhaul every skill in the game. You know that will never happen...

Just go play a warrior, that’s what I’m doing.

KcB.6890:

Peetee.9406:

No, sir.

Please understand I am referring to the 2 guilds that repeatedly ran us over for just watching. Not wanting to get an infraction I used SBI instead of those specific guild names, we’re not so petty as to hold you all responsible for the actions of those 2.

Some of your server mates were trolling(even spike building ballistas during matches) the GvG and quickly returning to the crowd. Our intention was to wipe the trolls. If you got caught in the crossfire then it was an accident. Sorry.

We were the ones that spike built the ballista after you wiped us 3 times for no reason. Only HIRE had interfered with your spectators (not the match) prior to that point and they did for so the same reason we did, you wiped them for no reason as well.

There were no trolls from SoR there, you guys were the ones being disrespectful. I hope in the future you can take losing a little more gracefully and not point fingers at innocent players just wanting to watch what was otherwise a good GvG.

bigblah.3285:

Peetee.9406:

We’re going to go out of our way to interfere now with every GvG SBI has the rest of the week. No respect for the spectators means no respect for you.

You say GvG but implicate the whole of SBI? I recall we had a few organized server vs server fights that went without incident (except when SoR jumped the gun and rolled over us, then proceeded to /sit)

No, sir.

Please understand I am referring to the 2 guilds that repeatedly ran us over for just watching. Not wanting to get an infraction I used SBI instead of those specific guild names, we’re not so petty as to hold you all responsible for the actions of those 2.

If you’re going to have a GvG, don’t just mindlessly wipe the sideline over and over because you can’t handle losing. You SBI guys lost to Choo, boohoo.....they’re a good guild.

We’re going to go out of our way to interfere now with every GvG SBI has the rest of the week. No respect for the spectators means no respect for you.

Redo it.

Make sure you let him finish talking before you throw another candy corn at him. Bugged for me the first time, finished the second time

I think 12 conditions is enough.

Offski.4897:

Thanks SBI for the random group open field 50vs50 fights on your border. Some awesome fights there, not so much fun when you wiped us though

Concur with Offski.

Really enjoyed the fights, too bad the numbers thing had it more complicated than it had to be. Hope we do it again before reset. Thanks guys!

Your answers:

1) There have been a few new skills added, all related to siege in WvW. Most of these skills are of no consequence and will very rarely ever be used.
2) There is still no defined support role. You will find Elementalists have moved into a more support oriented role. This is more the result of months of nerfing to their fighting skills as opposed to buffing their support skills.
3) Support players still get hardly any rewards for playing that role. Elementalists and Mesmers have become a scarce commodity. I know that over three quarters of the player base in Tier 1 plays either as a warrior, guardian, or necro.
4) Still repair bills in WvW.
5) Looting is better with the AoE loot function, however you still have to spam F while in combat.
6) Stomping is now more important since you score extra points if you have orb buffs.

Hope that helps!

sPvP will not help you with roaming. sPvP is fairly well balanced, WvW is no where near balanced.

You have to understand that cc/support skills in sPvP are balanced around players being able to deal/absorb a certain amount of damage. That amount of damage is significantly higher in WvW due to stat foods, orb buffs, mastery lines and ascended gear. However, the cc/support skills do not get stronger. That’s why traditionally strong sPvP classes like engy and ranger go underplayed in WvW. They contribute very little to zerg play and their inferior to their pure damage/absorption counterparts in roaming.

Note: You will find good rangers and engineers in WvW but that’s because they’re good players.

For as harsh as it sounds, warrior, thief, necro or don’t bother roaming. Those 3 classes are at the top and if you play anything else you are putting yourself at a disadvantage.

Beyond that, all you need is experience. Keep fighting and adjusting your tactics, eventually you will become a good player and you’ll be able to hang with the best of them.

Furry Fury.9036:

Opc.4718:

Neither windowed mode nor eyefinity are exploits. There are legitimate uses for them, which is why the game itself supports these things. There’s really no programmable criteria to tell if they are being used in a exploitative manner.

They use a game mechanic (displaying the game world) in a way that was unintended[*1] and gives the user a competitive advantage. An exploit.

The game itself does not “support” these things, it turns a blind eye.

No amount of sensible or ludicrous playerbase discussion on this will affect my opinion that this is an exploit. The only thing that can change that is ANet saying “This is not an exploit.” Which they won’t do, because it is an exploit which they’d then have to fix. If it isn’t an exploit they’d readily say “Life is good, nothing to see here.”

Understand that the above paragraph is not designed to antagonise any member of the playerbase, but to prompt a response from ANet.

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1. It’s an assumption that this is unintended, which is why I asked for an ANet comment.

By your definition using a keyboard is exploitation.

Warrior - Highest armor, highest hp, 2nd highest damage, best mobility, best cc, 2nd best support

Elementalist - Lowest armor, lowest hp, low damage, low mobility, 2nd best cc, high upport

ANet believes these 2 classes to be equal. I believe I have no faith in the devs to properly balance the game.

Jeydra.4386:

Such a strange game … I was just on EB and there’s no SoR + SBI zerg on map, even though all towers are upgraded. Makes no sense. It’s almost as though SoR doesn’t want to roll over SoS and SBI the way JQ did.

We don’t have nearly the amount of players that JQ has. Most of our commanders hate that map and will only show up to defend.

This sounds like a perfect ANet solution.

The implementation will be botched making all pets, spirits, minions, and clones count as enemies. Effectively giving all thieves and warriors perma quickness when stomping.

The forums will be full of rage about the new changes, ANet will respond by nerfing ele mist form.

As a male that plays a female character, this video offends me.

Angry James, best WvW commander on any server.

He makes SoR worth transferring to by himself.

Thanks Devon for the responses, much appreciated.

I was wondering if we could get a follow up on the rank chest update on the 15th. Should we start holding on to the chests we earn now and open them then?

Nice to see BG still rallying and holding strong. Well done guys!

Nobody likes difficult content, it’s a myth.

There are 2 different sets of players; those that want easy content and those that want exclusive content.

The first set wants the game to be incredibly easy so they can relax, socialize and generally progress with minimal effort.

The second set wants content that is tuned specifically for them so they can beat it and subsequently brag about it to players unable to beat it.

Notice, no where in there did I say either set wants difficult content. When given the option of being handed a $100 bill or being given a days worth of work and being paid $100 for it, no rationale person is going work when they can get the same reward without working.

You guys are aware that NC Soft also owns Wildstar, correct?

I mean where did you think your money from gem purchases goes? Obviously to fund the creation of another game that will share a 95% likeness to Guild Wars 2.

Instead of adding new content to the game, they can just reskin the entire game and sell it to you again.

Pibriamal.8719:

Why do you need a dev response?

Anyway, are you missing this one? http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chantry_of_Secrets

^^^^^^

We’re all here for fun and if there’s a more fun situation than the present one, players should persue it.

Instead of restricting players with queues, they should work on expansion. It’s about time that WvW get some new maps. If there were 6 maps instead of 4 maps queues wouldn’t be an issue, also skill lag would go down with the players more spread out.

Expansion is the answer, not subtraction.

Talyn.3295:

I can only say mesmer, after logging enough hours in both to get them to 80 I can only say I hate the current state of the elementalist. The problem is to much glass for the amount of cannon you get. In gw 1 the ele was much better. Problem is that now Anet tried to balance it to be able to run solo in pve so its gotten a few more heals etc but a major nerf in damage. its sad that I can spec a warrior, theif… or really just about anything to get the same result for not nearly so much effort.

I have 2000 hours into my ele and I agree with this.

Lowest base toughness and 2nd lowest base vitality means ele is the class easiest to burst down. This would be okay if the class was given either high damage or made highly mobile. Unfortunately thanks to nerfs to maximum targets and rtl/flash, the ele no longer has either of these.

As an ele these days you’re just a glorified buff bot. Stacking might, swiftness, and throwing out the occasional cleanse. If you’re okay with playing a role that makes your already more powerful allies stronger while you continue to be tissue paper, give it a shot.

Asudementio.8526:

Mirsa.1628:

Obscure One.4357:

A little something we picked up from those tier 1 match ups we keep losing. Guess Zerg balling the map, always fighting under siege, and never engaging in any fight without a 5 to 1 advantage is rubbing off on our PuGs.

We can’t take credit for developing this tactic, that honor goes to SoR.

Lulz TC players have huge egos that don’t match their poor skill. It’s all fun and games when you beat up on T2 and T3 servers but the moment you guys face servers more organized than yours, you go QQ all over the forums.

Funny sounds just like SoR to me

Maybe

I’ll let you know when SoR faces a more organized server, it certainly hasn’t happened yet.

Asudementio.8526:

That is a lie, SoR spawned camp TC extensively the week of January 26th.

That was me and my 172 man zerg.

Keep bringing those dolyak tears, they’re so yummy!

Want to know what beats Ascended gear?

Another person...

Gotta avoid that initial bull rush than those heavys melt like everyone else.

Eles and Necros def have their place, I don’t see enough staff mesmers.

Ascii.9726:

Peetee.9406:

Anytime you’d like to duel me in sPvP, let me know.

Good… Good. Let the hate flow through you.

WoW, did I just get trolled? kitten, I’m getting soft in my old age. Those Indo speeches are starting to take their toll.

Ascii.9726:

Peetee.9406:

Time to bring the pain!

I’ve seen pillows that can bring more pain then you can.

Anytime you’d like to duel me in sPvP, let me know.

If you’re a late oce/early sea player that would rather run havoc than zerg, we are looking to pickup 2 players to replace inactives. We don’t mind teaching new players, all we ask is that you get on voice comms.

Contact me if you’re interested.

Time to bring the pain!

I don’t think loyalty within a video game should be encouraged.

We’re all here to play for fun and if there’s a more fun situation out there than the present situation you should take it.

Got some high class trolls over there on the Euro ladder. Our just drop 20c ballistas.

Gerby.6219:

“While there are trolls on both sides which sometimes go out of hand”

- Indo Xx

The Community Divider
/sniffle

I wear it proudly!

Loyalty......in a video game. What an odd concept.

You must play on Jade Quarry.....

JQ’s ridiculously overstacked now, SoR nor BG stand a chance

He’s mad he’s been getting farmed by SoR/BG monozergs this week.

Don’t worry you can go back to monozerging FA/SoS next week.

PvErs: "Please make conditions stronger!"
sPvPers: "Please make conditions weaker!"
ANet: "Balanced!"

Game’s been around for over a year if someone’s still here than they’re not going to quit. They may jump at the next best thing but EQNext is a long ways away.

Personally, I’ve hated the last few updates but I’m not going to throw a fit over it and uninstall. No matter how much content they throw in the game that makes me rage, it’s still the best game on the market.

Glad you’re enjoying it. I’m approaching 2000 hours myself and the game is still a blast!