Guild Wars 2

(psst, you can also use that keyboard for the controls…)

Zero Day.2594:

Kind of curious as to what happened to a post on the thief forum requesting for a live stream of a dev playing a thief (the way a thief is meant to be played).

You missed it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z-d9vGO52E&feature=youtu.be

Raven.9603:

8+ stacks on the other hand, that hurts too bad to attack back through, and if classes are achieving 100% uptime of high confusion stacks despite condition clears that is a huge problem. if there is too much confusion application to counter then there isnt counter play.

And you stick it on a dire/apothecary bunker and you’re back to the old days of ‘oh wait, that thing hurts more to attack than i can actually do with that hit’ from pre-nerf retal

Redscope.6215:

infallible healing

Except that it loses healing based on your poison up time while a burst heal you can intentionally use after cleansing.

ImProVocateur.5189:

Additionally, you can increase the length of that 1s condition to substantially increase the actual damage inflicted.

No you can’t, 1s*1.50 = 1.5s = 1s. You would need +100% duration against somebody with -0% to get an extra tick.

DragonMind.2983:

If this mean you suggest I am troll’ing,
I can tell you I am not,
I really do get taken with the combat
to such a degree that I forget to heal.

Now being a dedicated healer, I do
remember to heal (everyone), but
since GW2 doesn’t have healers,
and the fact warriors never been
healers, and never should be it,
…is a debate for another game.

This was a beautiful poem.

Anicetus.1253:

Zelyhn.8069:

As for guang, well …

6u4n6m47h

is… is it bad that i can read that?

1 player could easily sustain 5 bleeds. This is a pretty dumb rumor.

Why does some guy in this thread keep going on about a 20k health per second warrior?…

Edit: and claiming 100% crit chance when it’s clearly 50.95%…

Decklan.7540:

In the past 3 days I have killed over 4000 magumma roamers on my level 21 hammer / scepter/torch guardian without dying.

It’s true because I posted about it on a forum and anyone who denies it is a clear troll that should go back to farming the krait event.

This guy didn’t get the memo about how people who say things about kill #’s are actually taking screen caps…

Fuzzion.2504:

electriette.8952:

SFShinigami.2015:

JQ just wasn’t as big fans of MLP as Jericho so he felt out of place

So what are JQ fans of then? Cowboy Bebop?

JQ are fans of having a good time

Mag loves MGQ and SB3

Chris.3290:

Cletus Van Damme.2795:

Kinda boring the last few hours. I’ve been chasing JQ GS+S/W warriors around the map and that’s kinda fun, I didn’t know there was a spider champion north west of the map.

GS+S/W?

Folks, go dual axes for roaming; it’s a lot funner.

Yeah… if offhand axe had any sort of use o.O

Pinko.2076:

Mag likes to say “zergbusting” when we know we are outnumbering a group and that it’s just not a fair fight for them. JQ likes to actual internalize that as a win and then post about it. T1 #1 #t1

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure zergbusting originated as a term for the 10-15 mans that would run decent builds and bust the larger zergs.

Why would anybody kite the crusher… that only HELPS it hit you. If you circle it none of the hits connect because of how long their cast time is just like that shotgun guy in CM.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quickness

you get the first 20 levels for free, it evens out.

All to 400 currently only 90g not 110g lol

Also, you can do 400-425 refining t6 and selling it at a profit

SFShinigami.2015:

The attempt just now at garrison … had siegerazer too.

Wat

DeWolfe.2174:

deathTouch.9706:

Reposted to protect the name of the guilty:

This is how the JQ commanders react after you stab stomp them in Mag BL.

Come on Mag, we aren’t karma training hard enough for JQ’s liking! There are too many fights at garrison for them and they can’t get their precious WXP fast enough so they can max out AC/cannon/ballista/siege dmg mastery for all their zerglings! Let’s make sure not to ruin WvW gameplay by deviating from PvD!

Welcome to Mag match-up JQ. We don’t want your kittening WXP we want you face-down on the ground. Seriously, for me, fighting T1 has been the biggest WvW disappointment since release, and not solely from a roaming standpoint.

I’ve very pleased to see a fellow JQ’er extending such an offer. It’s up to you to decline or not but, we’re trying to be accommodating and give everyone a great week! It’s not always easy to find a Mag and SoS not already in a party to chat with and extend such offers.

Come to the Skirmishing area for bags and fun if you’d like!

o.O fight club is terrible for bags and JQ doesn’t show

SleepingDragon.1596:

Player Character.9467:

You should submit those to anet uncensored, pretty sure coordinating cap-backcap like that is violating some1’s game mode

Nah. Anet probably endorsed that and may have some of their developers follow you. They need wxp, karma, and gold too. It’s only trading kills is a game mode violation. You’re not supposed to trade kills but you can trade caps. Got it?

Kills are kills, caps is score manipulation :P

deathTouch.9706:

Reposted to protect the name of the guilty:

This is how the JQ commanders react after you stab stomp them in Mag BL.

Come on Mag, we aren’t karma training hard enough for JQ’s liking! There are too many fights at garrison for them and they can’t get their precious WXP fast enough so they can max out AC/cannon/ballista/siege dmg mastery for all their zerglings! Let’s make sure not to ruin WvW gameplay by deviating from PvD!

Welcome to Mag match-up JQ. We don’t want your kittening WXP we want you face-down on the ground. Seriously, for me, fighting T1 has been the biggest WvW disappointment since release, and not solely from a roaming standpoint.

You should submit those to anet uncensored, pretty sure coordinating cap-backcap like that is violating some1’s game mode

Zelyhn.8069:

Player Character.9467:

I think my favorite is when they compare classes/weapon selections and list none of the setups :P

What do you mean?

When you or guang are like
guardian – XXXXX dps
warrior – XXXXX dps
mesmer – XXxXX dps
engi – XXXXX dps
ele – XXXXX dps

and attach 0 calculations, builds, etc

Ghostwolf.9863:

ibrennanhuff.3597:

Oh yeah, this needs to be a thing. I can only imagine what a legendary 2h axe would look like…

(looks at other legendaries and scratches my head)

Give this man a job.

redslion.9675:

I can kill hammer warriors with my condition engi. In WvWvW. While I have no food and in rare gear, against full exotic warriors with food bonuses.

Since I’m in dire gear, that means 200 points in armor less than what I should have.

Yet, I down them in the right time. What I need is to be careful and patient. I circle strafe him, and I’m always ready to blind him while he tries to use earthshaker.

Sometimes I make a mistake and get stunned, but I have protection to make sure I don’t die.

And then I put bombs on the ground, which work like invulnerability fields (when I drop smoke bomb warriors go away, because trying to hit me is useless).

Against GS/mace warriors I have a tougher time, for I have to be much more careful. But remember: circle strafing works wonders, and makes warrior’s mobility useless. I just need to dodge rush.

I’m much more scared of thieves and their automated gameplay.

Psh, what’s so automated about basi venom, mug, C&D, backstab, 2,2,2,22,2

Lordrosicky.5813:

BlackDevil.9268:

Lordrosicky.5813:

“Basically” what you think I am saying is stupid. I never said anything like that. At all. I am just someone trying to make an argument to maybe improve the game for people who dont like blobbing all day. People will have different views and I get that. What this IS about is the maps only rewarding guild blobs and nothing else. Because they are too small and because of the aoe cap. The new map is an opportunity to change this, and to make roaming more viable and not just have more blobbing all day every day.

You have a real chip on you shoulder in this thread. Calm down dude. It is ok that some people dont think going around in 20 man blobs spamming aoe’s is skilled. Some people think it is skilled and engaging gameplay. That is fine. Opinions are a good thing.

If you like blob v blob – whether in the field or set up as a gvg – then more power to you. I just dont want this to be the only overpowering thing in wvw.

If you don’t want replies like this, then don’t say kitten like ‘’Guil… or no, BLOB vs BLOB aka 20vs20 is skillless’’, while you never did it yourself.
Btw, this last post is just you trying to avoid getting pointed at the kitten you said before. Putting the problem in my hands wont help you with that.

@ Moon
Funny you bring up my old guild. I never said anything about Red Guard, did I? I was talking about my personal skill, not the ones that team players of RG had in roaming.
We weren’t built for ‘’small scale’’ and even if you saw 4/5 guys running around, then we were just trolling about. It’s not that we were gonna play hardcore with specs and builds based on each other for 5 man groups if we just had a raid after that or were about to start a raid before that.
I’d love to see you gathering 20 guys and beating us in that ‘’skillless blob fights’’ you guys mention all the time. Many tried, many failed.
You know what’s also funny? There are some really good roamers in votf. Did they beat us? No they didn’t. Did any USA ’’top’’ guild beat us, even with the 0.5 sec delay we had constantly? Nope they never did.

VcY and good roamers? Lol you gotta be kidding me. If that’s what you call ’’good’’ then you must be FG level.
Yes BuLL got some good roamers and ‘’smale scale’’ people. Funny thing is, they never beat RG in a GvG.

I always like it when roamers compare smale scale to GvG’s and say you need more skill in roaming than in a GvG. Most of them, like you, never did a gvg so you don’t even have the rights to say anything like that and when they actually face a 20 man group, they seem to lose every time while they are ‘’much more skilled’’ than those 20 guys beating everyone.

Oh and don’t worry, I’m on riverside. Maybe next week I’ll get to duel you or face some of these ‘’super skilled’’ people of buka. Till then, keep your big talk out of GvG unless you actually faced some real guild.

Don’t pretend most of gvg isnt just on the leader calling stuff and on builds which synergise/have the right composition. The actual players in those fights could be good or bad. It is really irrelevent. There is no target acquisition or anything of that nature. It is just – spam ur kitten now – type thing. The leader needs a ton of skills to do this effectively. The everyday guy in the guild needs no special skills beyond gear/a build which synergises. That is it. You could take the worst player in gw2 right now and train him to be as good as almost any gvg solider within a week

And end up with a completely dead backline before you down a single enemy?…

A Massive Headache.1879:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aria_Venom
low level thing, but I guess she was made for a make a wish foundation, so I guess that explains why she’s so strong. I’ve done that event a few times

It woulda been pretty dark if anet doomed her character to die over and over again…

Tree.3916:

Player Character.9467:

Tree.3916:

Why would they remove something that keeps people playing the game? Retention is a large part of why RNG is so prevalent.

because players that get really bad rng streaks start to look at other games

This game is more addicting than heroin… just try to stop

Oh I gave up on fractal skins long ago when I got more of the focus than classes that can use it while only getting 3 other weapons.

Tree.3916:

Why would they remove something that keeps people playing the game? Retention is a large part of why RNG is so prevalent.

because players that get really bad rng streaks start to look at other games

LordByron.8369:

(FYI took me 450+ runs to get the 2 i wanted…..)

And it took somebody else 3 runs, how does that not sound like an issue to you?

Saying that you have the right to play how you want in ANY situation means that you feel your ‘right’ should be allowed to infringe on the exact same ‘right’ of anybody you party with allowing you to intentionally force your way into a party that doesn’t want you. If I invite you into my HOUSE and said “Please take your shoes off right inside the door” and you said “F-dat, I walk how I want to” that doesn’t make ME the entitled elitist…

Malik.6781:

DeWolfe.2174:

If you take away my Hammer, then remove root on 100B in exchange.

If you are so concerned with balance, start with Thieves and Staff Necro’s.

Oh well, you can find some threads by Burnfall in “Thief” class. He was always beg anet to nefr “perma invis” “insane damage” " perma perma perma".

o.O you say that like permastealthing doesn’t exist and isn’t something anet said ‘oops’ about

Ghoulina.2976:

You can sit there with red hands and say no no no all you want. I’m still going to /facepalm.

As I’ve said, any server I’ve ever been on does this.

Really? I haven’t seen EVERY server offer a couple hundred gold a head. It’s really too bad that doesn’t seem to go very far in quality, but I guess good players wouldn’t be bought.

Evalana.5480:

Ghoulina.2976:

SmoothHussler.6387:

Eternum.1706:

It’s really ticking me off that people are acting like this towards JQ as if we wanted this, or that this is our fault. .

So we’ll just ignore all the recruitment threads and the fact that your server pays for transfers then.

Statements about paying for transfers to servers are so ignorant. Any server I’ve ever been on does this (from T8 through T1). Not just for WvW, but also for the PvE community. So to act like T1 is the only place this exists, is ridiculous, to act like your server is innocent of this, is also ignorant.

We’re a great community, we will always welcome people to share in our community, but trust me, asking for 8 hour queues, skill lag out the posterior, isn’t on the menu.

Oh wait, here’s an add for Mag, right there at the top of the recruitment forums.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/recruitment/Maguuma-IS-looking-for-MORE-Oceanic-SEA
And here’s SoS https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/recruitment/Sea-of-Sorrows-Version-3-0

Pot, meet kettle.

The difference is – we actually NEED the coverage – The big 3 servers: do not.

Also VR wasn’t paying anybody to come here, we just have oceanics that would like to see more than 10 people on wvw when the NA players don’t stay up till 6am.

Merlin Dyfed Avalon.5046:

Lordrosicky.5813:

BlackDevil.9268:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Omne.4603:

Lordrosicky.5813:

celeron.3469:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Team wasn’t invited. I would be interested if ANY roaming guilds (never more than 5-6 people) get invited.

If not I give up all hope for this new map. It will just be blobby like the wvw maps if they only invite the blobby guilds who run their stacking 15-20+ zergs and feel pro all running right next to some leader spamming aoe and auto attacks.

I hope some roamers get let into the beta so that they can direct the direction of the map away from guilds like this who just blob and make wvw a skilless and no-fun environment.

RIOT is a roaming guild.

Well I hope they will try and drive this map away from the “same old kitten” that anet seems to love. Aka. No 25 man guild blobs all clustered up and moving around the map in seconds to just blob everything they can.

This shouldnt be viable. They need to add skill to the combat by making roaming more viable. Which means bigger maps and more spread out objectives.

25 people is not inherently a blob bro.

15-20+ is a blob. A blob is a group so big that you just spam all your kitten without having to think. A blob becomes a blob when it is favourable to all blob up and abuse the aoe cap

I would bet that my gameplay during those ‘’blob fights’‘, aka gvg’s were more skilled than you would do with your small roaming sessions.

And no need to whine about how skilled roamers are, because I probably also got more hours into roaming than you do.

A blob, by very definition, is a group who BLOB UP. As in. When they run past you – instead of seeing individual dots you just see a BLOB as all the dots combine into one. 15-20+ is a blob because the best way to play in this is to all stay close together like a train. Same with GvG – or Blob v Blob. Maybe it takes skills. I have no doubt being a leader of such a blob takes skill. As a player? It doesn’t take any to be honest. It is just about spamming ur kitten. Lame and boring dude.

That isn’t the point though. The point is that if they only invite such guilds who run large guild events (15-20+) then we will get more the same old blobbing with a small map so one guild blob can feel pro covering the whole map.

Maybe the map has smaller objectives or more ways to accomplish victory or some intriguing layout that ensures the blob to lose..

ah who am i kidding ^^

Pretty sure it has no ‘victory’ it’s just terrain for pvp.

BlackDevil.9268:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Omne.4603:

Lordrosicky.5813:

celeron.3469:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Team wasn’t invited. I would be interested if ANY roaming guilds (never more than 5-6 people) get invited.

If not I give up all hope for this new map. It will just be blobby like the wvw maps if they only invite the blobby guilds who run their stacking 15-20+ zergs and feel pro all running right next to some leader spamming aoe and auto attacks.

I hope some roamers get let into the beta so that they can direct the direction of the map away from guilds like this who just blob and make wvw a skilless and no-fun environment.

RIOT is a roaming guild.

Well I hope they will try and drive this map away from the “same old kitten” that anet seems to love. Aka. No 25 man guild blobs all clustered up and moving around the map in seconds to just blob everything they can.

This shouldnt be viable. They need to add skill to the combat by making roaming more viable. Which means bigger maps and more spread out objectives.

25 people is not inherently a blob bro.

15-20+ is a blob. A blob is a group so big that you just spam all your kitten without having to think. A blob becomes a blob when it is favourable to all blob up and abuse the aoe cap

I would bet that my gameplay during those ‘’blob fights’‘, aka gvg’s were more skilled than you would do with your small roaming sessions.

And no need to whine about how skilled roamers are, because I probably also got more hours into roaming than you do.

GvG’s aren’t necessarily blob fights, and if your gvg’s are just blob v blob spam-guard-staff-1-while-pressing-other-skills-and-hoping-they-go-off fights then no, that’s not skill.

wads.5730:

Robot Chocken.7012:

Robert.9086:

Robot Chocken.7012:

Logged of from boredom on Mag BL after both opposing servers ran from 30 or less of us mixed group for two hours…

you were probably outnumbered 3 to 1 as well…

Actually we have discovered you usually run from equal or less numbers. We enjoy taking on larger numbers.

gvg?

k, Jqueue v queue at the windmill

runeblade.7514:

Staff is in a good spot but with just one flaw.

Lightning Surge.

This skill needs a buff or change.

Buff suggestions:

• Decrease cast time from 1 1/4 second to 1/4 second. This way it is easier to defend from a burst. It also helps the elementalist support allies by blinding downed enemies. However, this won’t give the elementalist a free stomp with Lightning surge like how Blinding flash is.
• Make Lightning surge bounce 5 times. This way, target has a chance to be blind two to three times. It will stop around two to three attack. Which can be vital to stopping a burst. Reduce cooldown to 3/4 second.
• Add 5 stacks of vulnerability. Ice spikes + Lightning surge will give 10 vulnerability.

After a positive change to Lightning Surge, I feel that staff elementalist will be complete.

Considering that skill hits as hard as a single meteor, you’re getting a little silly with the buffs. 1/2 or 3/4 second cast time, no bouncing (it’s a kitten aoe already and iirc it’s not even a projectile…), no vuln. Increase movement speed on gust and widen the area is applies to.

SlothBear.9846:

dreztina.4820:

Still needing to know the tags of the good guilds from JQ.

Here they are:

This… this guy right here… he’s a realistic man.

Aerial Melodies.4938:

Player Character.9467:

Wow, I just broke 3 ribs laughing at this joke. Aerial #1 comic NA. JQ not blobbing? I think that violates the terms of a guild transfer contract and means you have to give back what they paid you or something.

Pssh, wish I got paid – I’m tired of farming bags to get a legendary! I’m going to go complain to the powers that be in T1. HMPH!

PS: You guys are scrappers and I love it. Please tell me some of you made it in (and we get to fight). <3

Only mag guild i’ve heard got in was PYRO so it sounds like you guys won’t have much to do in there when matched with mag.

There’s a cure for this, it’s called not bandwagoning

IIRC even the EU servers are sitting in the USA.

Garrisyl.7402:

Like almost every other wvw achievment, Demolition Expert is bugged. Sometimes you get it with one hit, sometimes you ram it down from 100% to 0% and get nothing.

You get it with 1 hit because the rest of your party did enough damage in total for you to get credit once you had tagged it. You don’t get credit if you ram it down because your character never hit it, the ram did.

l2kneel/sleep/sit emote properly on chairs

Mesket.5728:

Tree.3916:

play how you want

Its funny and ironic, you using this as some kind of insult or sarcastic joke for others.

The funny thing is that the joke really is on you if you don’t play like you want to. Funy and sad.

Just because you’re allowed to play how you want doesn’t mean I have to play how you want by letting you be in my party.

Aerial Melodies.4938:

You should also remember that just because a T1 guild fields 40+ players on a map, it doesn’t mean all 40 stack up. Some do, some split up and try to achieve objectives separate from one another.

Wow, I just broke 3 ribs laughing at this joke. Aerial #1 comic NA. JQ not blobbing? I think that violates the terms of a guild transfer contract and means you have to give back what they paid you or something.

GJ JQ, trading a waypointed keep for a paper tower that somebody else can breakout on. T1 tactics?

But burst reduction isn’t doing anything for you in 30/0/0/10/30, those adrenaline traits are the key to the entire build… Also empower is the same spot as banner so if you swapping in empower then nike’s number for your build would be *1.05 (5 boon) and you would be at 20465.55

Fleaman.9864:

What other classes could use a greataxe? If the models aren’t TOO huge, Rangers could possibly use them to contribute to a mountain man/Paul Bunyan look. Necros could use them too, for the executioner concept. Don’t know what the skills would be; presumably they’d fit into any gaps in those classes’ current build options.

Mesmers could by the same logic that they can use greatswords lol.

spoj.9672:

Just a link to a build website or few sentences describing what gear, utilities and traits are needed along with a paragraph describing rotation and key points in brief. Thats the kind of thing I prefer to read, gives me the core info so I can get started on trying the build without having to sift through lots of info to find what im looking for. Basically a brief summary of the main build.

If I find i need more detailed info thats when I start reading the big walls of text. Im sure a few others have been put off from reading the guide because of this. Its obviously helpful to have a full detailed guide but not everyone needs that and for those people who dont its a bit much to read through.

I think my favorite is when they compare classes/weapon selections and list none of the setups :P

Tarnished Coast
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