Guild Wars 2

Luvpie.8350:

iAmTheDuke.6201:

Fun scrim [Fang]!

Thanks for the fights/lessons.
VR’s kiting/ranged meta annoys us -.-
So many minions.

We couldn’t get duke to pull out the 15 minionmancer group for 1 fight

Sorry spoj, that doesn’t beat the screencapped post.

Wanna stop a hammer train? Have you tried going left or right instead of backwards?…

You’re a warrior and you run slow?… Signet of rage, banners, balanced stance, warrior’s sprint, warhorn, sword, greatsword. So many options o.O

:( I just realized how much it’s going to suck when SAB goes away again.

I don’t get why people force close… you still get armor damage and the enemy still gets experience. You just gave yourself a much longer respawn time.

When did kaineng get into this thread?

“Party, meet pooper” ~Scarlet

0 crit dmg, 0 condition dmg

Congrats, you took tanky gear and it had to have a third stat that wasn’t toughness/vitality so you got some power.

gerzerber

At the end of the event there’s a typo in the defector’s text (teel instead of tell) also “The Renegades are up to something big, something lethal.” is repeated in the voice over (not the text, one instance of it being said happens before the correct text shows up).

SmoothHussler.6387:

Pinko.2076:

SmoothHussler.6387:

Its becoming harder and harder for NA folks to bring themselves into wvw lately with the stagnant situation, but I always wonder what motivates these asian players from staying on during the hours they do considering there is nothing around.

It’s really only SoS that has a huge night time population without being in t1/t2 (probably more t2 size), but that still means there’s 7 servers. Short of a mass exodus of one of them, there’ll always be one out of place.

If the rolls go bad, then DB/FA’s night time also has a dull week.

That actually doesnt answer the question. I was asking an oceanic player to chime in and explain what keeps them coming back to wvw considering the servers SoS draws dont have people on when they’re zerging.

They like champ bags and capping achievements.

bhagwad.4281:

kyro.8162:

You’d have to transmute it to a white weapon. Then that will make it account bound. Afterwards, you’d log onto your alt and use a Transmutation Splitter to split the legendary from the white. It will come out soulbound.

But will we still be able to choose the stats out of combat? And the stats themselves won’t be “legendary”. So in short, there’s no way to actually transfer the legendary itself to an alt. Only the skin.

Transmutation Splitter…

Gabby.3205:

Does she have a 3DS?

Doesn’t the 3DS have big warning labels about not letting little people use it?…

Adamantium.3682:

Seveleniumus.5973:

So I get to last level of world 2 in infantile mode and I find out, that I need 400 baubles to get the torch to progress, too bad I have only 100, as I already spent 180 on the candle and bosses just don’t give you enough, how was I supposed to know that? Do I need a guide to play infantile? O.o So now I have to GRIND just to see the rest of the worlds

The candle is free. If you paid for it, I’m sorry you didn’t find the hidden shop where you get it for free.

You do not have to GRIND just to see the rest of the worlds. Do the dig spots in 1-1 and 1-2 alone and you’ll have enough to buy the torch. That takes about 15 minutes.

Hidden?

laokoko.7403:

level80 guardian in full berserker 20/30/10/0/0, ascended jewel and ascended weapon. In AC story

power 534
percision 457
toughness 252
vitality 206
condition damage 67
Boon duration 0
critical damage 19
agony resistence 0
attack 875
critical chance 59%
armor 581
health 2292
condition duration 30
healing power 0
virtual recharge rate 0
magic find 106
HP 2361

You have 10 unspent trait points…

The stronger your crits, the more a crit means. The more you crit, the more you benefit from them being strong.

You’re complaining about the hammer train meta… NOW? o.O Hammer train is weak currently and will be useless with the engi stability patch. Hammer and mace/shield is not perma stun. It might be long enough to kill somebody who doesn’t attempt to get out of it but it’s definitely not perma. Thief, engi, and mesmer can all easily use movement skills to get distance between them and the warrior and a hammer/mace/shield isn’t catching you if you choose to run since you don’t have the ability to dodge telegraphed stuns or bring breakers.

Did you leave before the timer actually sent you to the bonus level?

Nikkinella.8254:

For the idiots who think warrior can’t bunker. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VSMD3rmL2k

The numbers those 2 are hitting that warrior for are kinda sad. Maxed out toughness but no protection they should still be able to make higher numbers pop on his screen if their builds weren’t so bad. Reminds me of that spvp clip of 2 devs built full bunker that couldn’t manage to hurt a bunker warrior.

Nickthemoonwolf.1485:

Player Character.9467:

Nickthemoonwolf.1485:

I run a group build warrior with loads of health/stun breaks and mobillity, I’ve had plenty of other classes manage to run away from me. Its quite funny to chase a warrior with the same build though… The warrior can engage in the fight, but if they sacrifice their damage capabilities for mobility, chances are that you’ll win the fight regardless. So what, they can get away? Its not like you lost anything from the engagement. Take the win and be happy with it. I’m guilty of engaging against a bunker build and both of us being unable to kill each other, so I ran away. OMG NERF NAO!

What you do when some1 runs from you is you quickly swap in the rest of the mobility weapons when combat drops then catch up :P

I’ve got to be honest with you… I have no idea what you’re trying to ask me but I’m going to try answering…. You take it as a win, and move on. SIMPLE AS THAT. You dont need a loot bag to signify that you win a fight. Its even that way in zerg fights. Your group manages to kill half of the other zerg, they run away, its considered a win. The rule applies to 1v1 as well. Edit: I still dont really understand what you’re asking, but if you’re asking “what do you do if the person you’re fighting with switches to mobility weapons when combat drops” why are you letting them do that to begin with? without the mobility weapons you should be able to keep up just fine.

It’s not a question… it’s an instruction
“what you do when _ is __” ie “what you do when the house is on fire is you gtfo”
english comprehension please
When some thief or ele burns all their mobility and breaks combat, you swap back and forth between a greatsword and a sword/warhorn by clicking your inventory. You use all your mobility skills on their cooldowns and that runner isn’t getting away.

Chorazin.4107:

Player Character.9467:

Signet of Judgement – 10% dmg reduction
Dolyak Signet – 180 toughness

Lol ya dolyak signet so good.

?? Stability is the best boon in the game bar none, there’s a reason why every Guardian slots SYG. Seems like you’re just trolling now rather than arguing the point about ‘Warriors can’t bunker in the slightest"

This thread isn’t about ‘warriors can’t bunker in the slightest’ it’s about ‘How is this fair?’. Other classes can achieve superior bunkers.

Chris.3290:

He is kind bringing up a good point though. Ark was the only guild non-SoS group that stood it’s ground on SoSBl last night. Even normally strong guilds like hawk and VR were boring.

You guys fought well and shouldn’t complain about anything.

VR got tired of fighting FTF/hawk/Ash/GH/pugs all nut hugging.

I… I just +1’ed a Broadicea post

:P

When looking at the population that is playing this release of SAB, has ANet even considered that releasing it in the same patch as the ascended weapons was a terrible idea? “Oh here guys, have some limited time content that only gives weapon skins, but also have this time gated content for BiS gear that you can’t do in the SAB.”

They released ascended weapons to make players go do dungeons/world events, kill champions, and capture things in wvw. Why would anybody be surprised that the flashy side content that provides no crafting materials and rarely anything you can even sell wouldn’t be a top priority for most people?

MaideN.3284:

Player Character.9467:

isellguns.8734:

Player Character.9467:

Rufy.6093:

Josh Foreman.8250:

Congrats. I’ll keep that in mind when I put together TM for the next world.

More reason for me to not even attempt it. I thought this game was for casuals, not 24/7 no lifers.

As long as he keeps them difficult but of a manageable length it won’t matter what kind of gamer you are.

I agree with “manageable length.” It was the most infuriating part of the dungeon. When I went to the restroom I had my roommate press a,s,d,w to make sure I wasn’t sent to the hub.

Also, keep in mind GW2 is the game, not Josh F. GW2 presents.

I’ve afk’ed over an hour in SAB.

yep i can confirm the afk.. i was away for 1h33min exactly and i was still standing on a ledge when i came back ^^

Just afk away from owls

You can also just not use auto?…

D: fine swift

Chorazin.4107:

Player Character.9467:

In identical gear your guardian will achieve the exact same toughness, any class will achieve the exact same toughness, and as they are also a heavy, the exact same resulting armor value. Your HP is lower but you can spam protection whenever you feel like it with a hammer making your effective HP 1.5x what it reads.

Hammer is terrible, the 3rd part of that chain is like the second coming of jesus, i’ve tried to make it work i really have but in a fast paced action based combat game it just doesnt cut it. But yes we can get prot from mace, shield, SY and HTL, i personally run 85% boon duration to increase my uptime on prot/regen to try and counterbalance the low HP pool.

Dolyak signet will give you more toughness if you choose to slot it, usually people slot it for the stability more than anything else.

I guess we will have to agree to disagree, the original quote still stands as “Warriors cannot bunker in the slightest” I feel they can if they spec for it, might not be the best bunkers out there but they can be quite tough to take down or clear off a point.

Signet of Judgement – 10% dmg reduction
Dolyak Signet – 180 toughness

Lol ya dolyak signet so good.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

TehPwnerer.7215:

Broadicea.8294:

People won’t understand that you’re supposed to skip some parts until Anet makes all the mobs Legendaries with a neon sign around them that says “SNEAKY PATH HERE!”

Really because I did my Dungeon Master title by killing every mob in my way. Not sure why some things are MEANT to be skipped.

And did you jump on top of the clouds that crap rainbows so you could get your chievey-wieveys?

D: those clouds are awesome and I want one of the super horns to make their noise. It’s comments like yours that make those crazy lightning sword wielding clouds

lol 6 day bump, wtf?

Chopps I think people were more calling him that bad because not only is he bearbowing, he’s getting wrecked by the incredibly slow tooth attack while doing so. Either AFK or really really bad.

There already is a spot for that, it’s called bloodstone bricks o.O you only have mats for 82 of them out of 250.

Of course there’s also the issue that bloodstone will always need other things too so having 10x as much of it is kinda pointless.

why aren’t all your upgrades shared across your account? What’s the point in having to upgrade each character by itself when I’m only ever going to take one in per day? All you really accomplish is limiting people to only taking the same character in, which makes the entire experience even more repetitive.

Josh Foreman.8250:

Adorable! Gotta share this with the team. Posted the vid on my facebook.

OMG Josh got a post through the ANet Mithrillium Curtain!

obviously the only ebay in the entire wvw are gh lead by commander fritanga

also open field siege is never destroyed when some1 drops it in a camp, defends said camp, then leaves or wipes

EFWinters.5421:

GuardianOMS.8067:

Okay, EBay, this is the second reset in a row this had happened. You lane break to get a southern tower from Mag and you end up losing your keep because if it.

Why?

You don’t get Dragonite Ore from defending a keep.
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Hey everyone, this looks like it could be an interesting week.

EV is looking for 2v2’s and 3v3’s, PM me here on the forums or in-game and we can set something up.

See ya in-game, and GLHF everyone!

You don’t get dragonite from towers either o.O

Commisar.8695:

Player Character.9467:

Comprissent.3856:

To all ebay

please don’t be boring tonight. Thank you

They’re too busy queue v 40’ing us on SoS bl

SoS bl is queued for us

We’re not blobbing.

Comprissent.3856:

To all ebay

please don’t be boring tonight. Thank you

They’re too busy queue v 40’ing us on SoS bl

The true T3 matchup, rank 7/8/9.

Saiyr owes you a cookie for beating him to it.

Nickthemoonwolf.1485:

I run a group build warrior with loads of health/stun breaks and mobillity, I’ve had plenty of other classes manage to run away from me. Its quite funny to chase a warrior with the same build though… The warrior can engage in the fight, but if they sacrifice their damage capabilities for mobility, chances are that you’ll win the fight regardless. So what, they can get away? Its not like you lost anything from the engagement. Take the win and be happy with it. I’m guilty of engaging against a bunker build and both of us being unable to kill each other, so I ran away. OMG NERF NAO!

What you do when some1 runs from you is you quickly swap in the rest of the mobility weapons when combat drops then catch up :P

Oxxy.7068:

Upper left. Take a look at his title. He also had the pony shooter as offhand if i’m not mistaken.

Is it bad that I know the warrior you’re running with who has their commander tag up to make himself a special snowflake is in celestial gear?

Oozo.7856:

Player Character.9467:

Oozo.7856:

It’s directed more at the game mechanics that rewards stacking up but doesn’t punish it. It’s another example of how Anet fails to understand risk vs. reward. Anything with a huge upside should potentially have a huge downside, and it should be up to the enemy player to recognize and exploit that.

In Anet’s game design there is a huge risk in stacking… have you seen what happens to a pug zerg running into a tower with a few superior AC’s? It’s there, they designed it, you can’t really complain that there isn’t a counter to stacking when 10 can defend a structure against 50 if they don’t stand on the walls staring at people. What most people are looking to do is open field fight but Anet has already made it clear that isn’t really their intention with the game type (probably because it makes the servers crap their pants) so yeah, wvw isn’t designed around what we want, doesn’t mean it isn’t designed.

I’d think that some huge zergling fight over a keep puts far more strain on the servers than a 15v15 at the ruins.

Which would be valid if you were suggesting moving the player cap to 15 per map

isellguns.8734:

Player Character.9467:

Rufy.6093:

Josh Foreman.8250:

Congrats. I’ll keep that in mind when I put together TM for the next world.

More reason for me to not even attempt it. I thought this game was for casuals, not 24/7 no lifers.

As long as he keeps them difficult but of a manageable length it won’t matter what kind of gamer you are.

I agree with “manageable length.” It was the most infuriating part of the dungeon. When I went to the restroom I had my roommate press a,s,d,w to make sure I wasn’t sent to the hub.

Also, keep in mind GW2 is the game, not Josh F. GW2 presents.

I’ve afk’ed over an hour in SAB.

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

Mesket.5728:

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

colesy.8490:

The funny thing is, since zerkers are trying to maximise their potential they actually have the most open mind of all players since they’re always interested in making themselves better (excluding opinions on the meta pre-brazil ranger video, most of us were pretty closeminded on class meta until then), it’s just people post stuff that is blatantly wrong so many times.

This 1000 times. I was talking with Brazil today when we were discussing a (former) guild mate who quit the game when a weapon he liked got nerfed. I was saying that is such a carebear BHB attitude.

Let’s say a patch came out that radically changed the game and Longbow became the best warrior weapon by far, and optimal for speed running. What would the min/max speed clear crowd do? They would run longbow warriors. What would the open minded, run-what-you-brung, play how you want crowd do? They would run what weapons they liked because it is they who aren’t willing to change to be successful. The dungeon community is always interested in improving and doing things a better way. If clerics gear became meta, we would run clerics. So who is close minded, and who is open minded?

Nike, this is what I’m trying to explain. You are describing a meta that can only be achievable with the game as it currently is. If encounters were “smarter” or more random where improvisation is key, no meta could be achieved cause no combat would be the same as the other. In one battle straight damage could’ve been king where conditions ruled in another depending if the NPCs locks you down with CC or not.

You’re describing a meta where celestial gear is the best. God help us if thats the case.

I had a warrior in a CoE pug who kept insisting celestial was the new zerker… oh and that it made it super easy to run low lvl content where he would always die in his zerker gear.

StealthSnake.9134:

I’m always hiding behind walls, and on seige 24/7.

WvW is all about ppt~

Lewt is all about supAC~

I hate the idea of necros getting dmg mitigation buffs.

… because of a massive hp pool from DS.

(see what I did thar?)

Chorazin.4107:

Player Character.9467:

(1) Healing signet is not regen, it’s also your 6 slot skill.
(2) DM procs when somebody actually procs it.
(3) Last I checked poison wasn’t cripple/chill/immobilize so no, DM doesn’t work on it.
(4) Pizza+traits = 70% condi duration, your 65% reduction is now gone and there are classes that can poison @ 100% uptime with just the regular duration. Seriously, go play against some1 in dire gear and tell me how well your reduction works if they’re stacking food, traits, giver’s weapons, and their own runes.
(5) Your 2×4s endure pain are on a 60s cd, and your 3s block stance is on a 30s cd. That’s 14s out of 60 sure, but your opponent is equally invulnerable during block stance and conditions/cc still go straight through endure pain (both before and after using it).
(6) Your stats aren’t actually important as anybody else in a pure tank set of gear can achieve relatively equal results.

1 True it’s not regen but it’s still a massive 400+ a tick, lets look at my healway Guardian with around 1350 Healing and traited AR. Base heal for Virtue of Resolve passive is 84 and healing power coefficient is 0.06. Absolute Resolution increases Virtue of Resolve by 25%.

So at most I will be getting 206 health per second with a traited VoR and 1350 healing power, not counting WvW bonuses:
84+(1350*0.06)=165
165*1.25=206.25

VoR vs Healing Signet?… One of these things… is not like the other…
If 206.25 is all you’re getting then I guess you broke the 6 button on your keyboard and refused to redo your keybinds.

Chorazin.4107:

2. True, but you will find it procs very often in sPvP and WvW

Again, only if your opponent chooses to. If they use multiple chill/cripple/immo effects within 10 seconds to soft cc you (hint: counter to stability) while either healing or comboing then it will only proc once.

Chorazin.4107:

4. How is this a problem solo to Warriors? Other bunkers will have the same problem no?

And other bunkers can also get similar condi reduction/removal coverage if they so choose. So, clearly, fair.

Chorazin.4107:

5. Well the point is to bunker most likely on a point for as long as possible. A warrior looks able to bunker fine, 14s of no damage except from condi’s is solid. Massive HP’s/Tough/Armour and decent healing from the signet.

Really? You’re going to try to solo bunker on a point in WvW?….

Chorazin.4107:

6. This is plain wrong, my Guardian specced for bunkering/Healing has no-where near 25-30k HP’s, not even close, my toughness will be a lot less as well(around 1700) generally. I look to counterbalance that discrepency with long uptimes(85% boon duration) on protection/regen from HTL and SY.

In identical gear your guardian will achieve the exact same toughness, any class will achieve the exact same toughness, and as they are also a heavy, the exact same resulting armor value. Your HP is lower but you can spam protection whenever you feel like it with a hammer making your effective HP 1.5x what it reads.

Oozo.7856:

It’s directed more at the game mechanics that rewards stacking up but doesn’t punish it. It’s another example of how Anet fails to understand risk vs. reward. Anything with a huge upside should potentially have a huge downside, and it should be up to the enemy player to recognize and exploit that.

In Anet’s game design there is a huge risk in stacking… have you seen what happens to a pug zerg running into a tower with a few superior AC’s? It’s there, they designed it, you can’t really complain that there isn’t a counter to stacking when 10 can defend a structure against 50 if they don’t stand on the walls staring at people. What most people are looking to do is open field fight but Anet has already made it clear that isn’t really their intention with the game type (probably because it makes the servers crap their pants) so yeah, wvw isn’t designed around what we want, doesn’t mean it isn’t designed.

Sil.4560:

What’s this sudden hatred of stacks, anyway? I had someone party me the other night and start berating me for roaming with them up. Yes, I’ve killed 25 people just like you and some guards when I hit camps. Problem?

TIL fightclub is roaming not duels.

Lol @ GF going to fight club in full stacks and guard stacks… and then losing their first fight.

Knote.2904:

Player Character.9467:

Knote.2904:

Old games are old.

Where is our Everquest mana resource for this game?

We should have to meditate for 15 minutes after every mob kill.

That’s fun right? Just like having to grind pointless crap in SAB instead of just focusing on pure puzzle solving and jumping puzzles.

But the dig sites ARE puzzles, you just read a guide so you find them to be mindlessly walking to point X instead of looking at the area and thinking where they would stick one. If you had to meditate for 15 minutes, you were doing it wrong. Autoattack off, sit on a mount.

Dig sites are NOT puzzles lmao.

It’s finding a needle in a hay stack.

And do you search for them in some grid checking every single possible location or by actually thinking about it?