I do love rifle for taking out those kitten y thieves. Anytime some thief tries to stealth around and harass my group I slip out of combat, swap to full zerker, and pull out my rifle. Channeled skills track stealth targets :P
Let’s say you crit me for 2000 damage. Very, very easy for any class to do this. Let’s make crit damage food 40%. 2800 damage…
That’s not how crit dmg % works, that’s how dmg % works. If a crit was already doing 2kdmg then adding another 40% would be 2533 at best (only base crit dmg to reach 2k crit), 2333 more probable (base 50 + 90 from traits/gear/etc.).
Neither of which is actually living story. SAB is a game type they stick in when ready to keep us busy when they’re working on other things and tequatl is the test for them revamping all the world events. Neither involves the LS team or actually changed the events in the world. Technically at this point of the LS tequatl should be dead.
Other than the fact, that a dev has already stated that Teq’s evolution IS going to tie into the LS in the future.
Only in the sense that they’ll change other bosses and say it’s somehow related, but considering tequatl is a construct made by zhaitan who is now dead….
Only dead to those who completed the personal storyline… I’ve been playing constantly since Beta, and purposefully not killed Zhaitan so that Orr makes sense to me! I thought LS was supposed to run alongside PS. It would make no sense for new players to join the game and for the living story they take part in while levelling to be after their personal story. No idea on timelines though.
OT. Cannot wait for Halloween ingame, only place I’ve ever celebrated it. Not something I’ve ever done here in the UK…
Dragonbash was celebrating the pact defeating zhaitan.
Of course mag’s gonna pull out omegas… how else will we lure you out of towers? I
Would like to point out again, that this ikittenhe lakitten night of reset and people are crying over omegas, In maguumas oceanic. On reset night.. when the commanders always drunk.
Come back and complain when that kitten happens during the week
Not sure what the point of your post is, we did have omegas during the week. Only way to keep ebay’s guilds from tower hugging was to knock down the towers…
They run out to omegas, they run out to siege sites, they lose places to hide in when the towers aren’t theirs and they come out to take them back.
Of course mag’s gonna pull out omegas… how else will we lure you out of towers? I think I’ve dropped like 40 ballistas this week without the intention of building them just to make people go ‘oh crap let’s rush those siege sites!’ and get down off of walls. The next alternative is of course to just break the walls.
Neither of which is actually living story. SAB is a game type they stick in when ready to keep us busy when they’re working on other things and tequatl is the test for them revamping all the world events. Neither involves the LS team or actually changed the events in the world. Technically at this point of the LS tequatl should be dead.
Other than the fact, that a dev has already stated that Teq’s evolution IS going to tie into the LS in the future.
Only in the sense that they’ll change other bosses and say it’s somehow related, but considering tequatl is a construct made by zhaitan who is now dead….
We don’t have confirmation on Zhaitain being dead tyvm, the dragon of undeath who is literally made of other dragons fell into the ocean after we shot him with the ground up remains of every pixy in Tyria, that’s all we know. I’m willing to bet a certain dragon of undeath is still kicking, wounded as hell, but kicking…
The word “ranger” doesn’t have as much to do with the word “range”. The only definition of the ones Ethics quoted that had anything to do with range is the one where a ranger is someone who wanders in the wilderness etc. The “range” part might have to do with the range he travels, not the range he fights foes at.
Get it
No, you get it.
Rangers are actually meant to range; guild wars 2 class description says so!
“Rangers are flexible and durable—proficient with the bow, yet surgical with the sword. They rely on a keen eye, a steady hand, and the power of nature to slay their targets. Their loyal pets, which rangers tame and train, distract enemies while the rangers strike safely from a distance. As an adventurer profession, rangers wear medium armor. "
No, it says ranging is SAFE. It also says you use your brainwashed pets as fodder so you can safely sit at range.
Neither of which is actually living story. SAB is a game type they stick in when ready to keep us busy when they’re working on other things and tequatl is the test for them revamping all the world events. Neither involves the LS team or actually changed the events in the world. Technically at this point of the LS tequatl should be dead.
Other than the fact, that a dev has already stated that Teq’s evolution IS going to tie into the LS in the future.
Only in the sense that they’ll change other bosses and say it’s somehow related, but considering tequatl is a construct made by zhaitan who is now dead….
After thinking about it for a while, I’m wholly NOT in favour of a 4-league system. Maguuma’s matchup would be absolute garbage. SoS, Maguuma, EBay, SBI, CD, and BP. CD, BP, and EBay have literally one (maybe two) decent guilds across all three servers. We’ve faced EBay for 3 weeks in a row now and I have never been more bored in WvW in my entire life. SoS has all of 3 people playing during NA times, and would win the entire league by virtue of a 695 PPT for ~8h while everyone is asleep. SBI, no idea; it’s been too long since we’ve faced them. If they have even one guild who plays during Oceanic/SEA, they’ll win against Maguuma handily, because coverage is king. All-in-all, sounds like a terrible set of weeks, enough to potentially make half of Maguuma quit.
I’d rather get my face smashed in by T1/T2 coverage but still have open-field fights that don’t require us to break down a tower or keep first.
Only one? couple days ago on EBG we ran omegas from one tower to another watching ehmry sit inside, waypoint when the wall dropped, and regroup in the next tower. Wasn’t really a surprise when they then lost the gvg yesterday
Why are people going on about this now? It’s still september…
Because patches happen every other tuesday. We already know what october first will be, october 29th is way too late, and the usual LS style would suggest october 15th will be an expansion on october 1st’s content.
and it’s not very likely for scarlet to turn into the mad king.
And yet you conviniently left out the most recent pair, SAB: Back to School and Tequatl Rising… I suppose you aren’t suggesting a connection between these two, now are you?
Neither of which is actually living story. SAB is a game type they stick in when ready to keep us busy when they’re working on other things and tequatl is the test for them revamping all the world events. Neither involves the LS team or actually changed the events in the world. Technically at this point of the LS tequatl should be dead.
Sol is right, FA and DB have moved on from t3 with superior skill and organization. Maguuma is just sitting in mumble playing dating simulators all day on their welfare checks.
I thought the guild formerly know as Mag All Stars but now go by Mag Zerg Stars were the only ones doing this…..
Apparently Ark is a small-man roaming guild now.
Wow that 1st week of Ebay vs Mag was detrimental to Mag….not only did GF sweep GvG, but they chased off Agg and broke up Ark
Wow.
Hard to imagine Ebay chasing anyone anywhere.
Must be fun to hype up GF when half our players no longer bother to log in anymore.
he I still log on….I just dont WvW anymore. I dont see any future in it like I used to.
Well sPvP makes me wanna smash my nuts with a hammer and PvE isnt fun either. So ill still be runnin round WvW having some fun where I can find it. I wish they would let pirate peg legs be used in wvw again… nothing was better than running around as a dolyak knocking people off cliffs.
I just run a troll build in Spvp for the lulz. its literally so easy to hold a point down dont understand why they claim its sooo skilled.
PVE while yes it is boring it nets me a weeks worth of gold in a day so yea…lol
I spent most of a match with 3+ people chasing me earlier today, mesmer kept calling me a nub in chat while his team held no capture points…
Because I only see cons
2-20 from scroll which I don’t even know where you get it from so please do tell.
And 20-76 from crafting 1-400 and last levels you have to pay 566g 18s(source http://gw2crafts.net/total.html) ? And you guys defending this and saying it is fair against the people who haven’t done this?
You get the 2-20 scroll from your 1 year birthday gift and also from an Achievement Chest ( I think its at 5000 Achievement Points).
If you follow the gw2crafts.net guide and level all professions to 400 to get lvl 76, you pay around 76g.
The 566g you are quoting, are for lvling your 3 weaponcraft professions from 400-500, which is off topic and also not the best way to actually lvl your crafts from 400-500.
I actually made a small profit after selling the stuff i crafted getting all 3 professions to 500.
Seem like my post wasn’t clear… I meant what was typed here " The 566g you are quoting, are for lvling your 3 weaponcraft professions from 400-500 "
in addition to 1-400 on the craftings.
Let’s see if I can make this post short with better information:
Before:
All professions = 1-400 ~ 77g more or less = 80lvls
Total cost for 1 – 80 : 77g
After with scroll:
All professions =1-400 ~ 77g more or less = 76lvls
All weaponcraft professions = 400-500 ~ 566g more or less = 4lvls
Total cost for 1-80 : 643g (77g+566g)
I hope you guys do see the differences now…. if not.. then I have to give up I’m sorry xD.
The impact / problem is that this does not only affect people who craft for pure leveling.
———————————————— Maybe this is off-topic since he was not asking for this…. but I saw people were typing about it so I just followed the pack.
AND yes gw2craft.net may not be the best way to craft but I mainly used it for the COSTs of what it could cost to get craftings up
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Crafting the 3 weapon crafts to 500 would get you from lvl 76 to 85. Why are you doing that? If you’re worried about having to put some amount of effort in to make up those other 4 levels, do all 3 400-425’s in preparation and you’ll be somewhere around 78/79 and refining ore→ingot can actually be done at a profit even with tp taxes…
For example: If you have this rule of “Glory rewarded after the match”, then match the score limit with the time limit, it takes about 1 or 2 minutes in Skyhammer to max glory, so if they just lower the time limit match the score limit to about 50 or whatever seems equal so the amount of kills they are getting they cannot max glory every time.
It seems like a really good idea.
Could it work this way?
Timer set to 1 min => max 10
Timer set to 5 min => max 50
Timer set to 10 min => max 100
Timer set to 15 min => max 150
I like how there’s more people posting about this than doing this. I currently see 2 people in all of the servers set to skyhammer only and it’s a guild server.
Pretty much. I currently have an interrupt warrior that I feel dirty when I play her, but not really. Saw one guy in a zerg I stomped/hammer burst/juggernaut into and he had 12 stacks of confuse. Did not feel a bit guilty about doing it, either.
I like how you mention what should be several interrupts but you applied the confusion of just your first interrupt for a warrior…
They should definately get the inventory slots, but be limited to swapping out of combat. This doesn’t change the mechanics but would be a QoL improvement, making sure that these classes don’t have to shuffle around in their bags to swap a weapon set outside of combat. I mean the rest of us very rarely open bags to equip different weapons so I don’t see why these classes should be subjected to additional UI headaches when a mechanism already exists to make it less painful.
As long as they’re OOC swaps only I don’t see the problem as they would play exactly as they already do.
Because nobody else has to shuffle weapons OOC? I guarantee you I have way more weapons to swap through on my warrior than your ele does.
Because I only see cons
2-20 from scroll which I don’t even know where you get it from so please do tell.
And 20-76 from crafting 1-400 and last levels you have to pay 566g 18s(source http://gw2crafts.net/total.html) ?
And that’s as far as anybody is going to read that.
As of when I am reading it, Normal Guide – 77g41s46c, Fast Guide – 93g19s13c
Pretty sure the cost of everything didn’t drop that hard in… 4.5 hours
Sol is right, FA and DB have moved on from t3 with superior skill and organization. Maguuma is just sitting in mumble playing dating simulators all day on their welfare checks.
I thought the guild formerly know as Mag All Stars but now go by Mag Zerg Stars were the only ones doing this…..
Apparently Ark is a small-man roaming guild now.
Wow that 1st week of Ebay vs Mag was detrimental to Mag….not only did GF sweep GvG, but they chased off Agg and broke up Ark
Why are people going on about this now? It’s still september…
Because patches happen every other tuesday. We already know what october first will be, october 29th is way too late, and the usual LS style would suggest october 15th will be an expansion on october 1st’s content.
Maybe Sol is the 1 zerg-bot that didn’t get banned in The Great Cleansing of Kaineng.
You know what’s better than rubber banding via zerg recruiting of terribads that quit from boredom or hop to the next bandwagon so they can queue v 5 in T5-8 on their way back up again? Everything.
Edit: Oh look, CNB ran off to join the night crew of SoS. Blobbers gonna blob.
if the weapon swapping has 180 sec cooldown i would have no problems with it, it can be realy anoying for an elementalist with a staff to play 1v1, if i could switch to D/D quick i would have a chance. a 10 sec for elementalist is overpowered.
imo engineer needs it more, or atleast have one of their kits attatched to the weapon swap button so they can still use 3 utility skills if they want more than 5 weapon skills.
180 sec cooldown would not remove the ability to burst.
you simply can’t finish it w/o running certain set up of classes/builds
Ya, every pug knows swapping your utilities for a specific fight shouldn’t be necessary! Play how you like!
it is not just utilities, you have to run only specific classes, those classes HAVE to have specific builds AND gear….all for just one fight; basically if you don’t play those classes and didn’t farm dungeons/spent gold on set of gear you will never see that path
idk when was last time you done F/U path, but amount of spiders that spawn and their spawn rate is absurd; i have better chance surviving 80 man zerg in WvW than those spiders….
Plz point me to this +projectile destruction/reflection field duration armor. And no, guardians and mesmers aren’t the only classes able to do this. But you’re right, don’t take 5 necros.
Dolyak signet gives you 180 toughness. Protection is a flat 33% reduction to incoming damage. One of those is less than a 10% increase in the armor of a full zerker. The other is not.
Open world PvE raids are just another form of PvP. You have to fight the idiots and the afks. The fight itself is simple enough that they expect a group of randoms to beat it.
Mmm…
Commander: “Hide your faces, group in me here, near portal”
C: “Do we have a mesmer?”
M: “Yes, i’m here”
C: “Prepare veil”
C: "Group up, fire field, empower, mesmer veil the portal, GO-GO-GO, stability,
Ele: “Static one”
C: "Bomb the static, bomb, bomb!
Group: “Hammerstun”, “Hammerstun”, “Hammerstun”
C: “Regroup on me here, empower”
Ele: “Small water”
Group: “Blasting”
C: “On their regroup!”
Ele 2: “Static two”
C: “Bomb the static!”
Group: “Hammerstun”, “Hammerstun”, “Hammerstun”
Ele 1: “Big water, meteornado up”
Ele 2: “Meteornado up”
C: “Finish the downed”
C: “Collect your lootbags”
Still completely trivializes any ranged content by using only 1 skill. Is this secretly a TAFU thread? The more balanced duration effect you’re looking for would be Toss Elixir U. Smoke screen destroys projectiles, wall of reflection reflects them.
It’s like everyone forgot that there was a number between 2 and 4… This would make it 1-8, 9-16, 17-24. Ideally, I’d like tiers of 6 so there’s less face-stomping, but I’d think 1 vs 8 would be far less bad than 1 vs 12. Likewise, 1 vs 6 would be less bad than either of the two, but what can we do?
Oh wait, we could try fixing the wvw population distribution. But we’ll just keep masking the real issues with fake new issues that nobody really cares about.
More like you forgot that 8 isn’t a multiple of 3.
I don’t know where you got 8 being a multiple of 3. There are 24 servers. 8×3=24…
And I’m not seeing Devon actually responding to anything. He’s kind of just dodging questions. We want to know how the player distribution disparity is going to be dealt with. Either fix your servers to top tiers aren’t such lag-fests, or find a way of encouraging a mass exodus from tier 1.
And in order to not guarantee that a rank 12 server will come last against a rank 1 server, has Anet considered taking score evolution into consideration? That’s the closest thing we have to an actual measurement of skill (in that it shows that we do better or worse than the system expects you to do). Taking the total score evolution from the 7 (or however many weeks) period, maybe a server ranked 12 can actually compete against a rank 1 server… Probably not, but it becomes less about the score of an individual matchup and more about how you score against the system’s predictions.
8/3 = 2.666
Matchups in a league of 8 would be 3 servers, 3 servers, 2 servers. Do NPC’s just man the empty slot until it’s capped?
