Guild Wars 2

Once again they nerfed boosters without telling us in advance. Once again those of us stock pilling wxp potions to use in conjunction with boosters are kittened.
Would you guys please start telling us about game changing things like this in advance?
ty.

Do not let this thread disappear. I am sick and tired of getting pooped on by every single class. Doesn’t matter the profession, so long as they are mediocre skill level they can stomp eles. What is the point of playing ele when they have the lowest armor, lowest health and absolutely nothing to make up for that?
I can literally play any other class and stomp people equal to or above my skill level but as soon as I play ele I can barely survive one encounter.
Oh yeah, conjure weapons are gettign a buff I forgot; viable eles inc (what a joke).

Elementalist was the only class that wasn’t played in the MLG. This makes me sad. I guess ele’s really are in a good place: heaven. Because they’re dead. Get it?

I just spent 2 hours in w2z3 collecting baubles and I got booted.
why you might ask?
The party I was in kicked me from the party.
I started the instance
They never entered SAB
I was in the party for 2 seconds to say wutsup
I got booted when they kicked me

SO SOUR

But seriously, how can that happen? Why is that even a thing?
To get booted after hours of work because you wanted to say hi to some guildies?
That’s rediculous.

fugazi.5139:

ryston.7640:

GENTLEMEN:

Y we fighting over who got an invite to the … Minnisota regional milk carton derby finals?

Really this game has about the same following, y care?

LOL I LOVE YOU.

So, I don’t know why my post got deleted. I was just simply stating this game is not an esports.

Really fugazi? really? lol.
I love you.

the cannon should be dodgeable/blockable etc. As is it’s just too powerful.
Falling down should not be insta-death. There should be jump pads to get you back up.

deldrimor steel ingots and spiritwood planks can be bought on the trading post. Time gating them ensures that their value will remain high.

Hype!

Right now the only thing you can get in pvp that you can’t get in pve is /rank emote.
Every skin in pvp you can get, often much more easily, in pve. Several skins in pvp you can get ONLY in pve (eg. SAB skins, fused weapons, etc.). So pvp people have to play pve in order to acquire these items.
It has to go both ways.
There has to be items that you can only acquire in pvp, and that you can then transfer to pve, to get more of the general population playing pvp.
It has been said, said, and said again. But the general reason why people don’t pvp much is the complete lack of rewards.
In gw1, successful pvp’ers were some of the richest people I knew. This should be the case in gw2 as well.
Bring back ATs and MATs. Give awesome rewards for MATs (unique skins for pve/pvp, gems, black lion keys, etc.).

Or any of the wvw jumping puzzles, for that matter, have any Empyreal Fragments? They are the only jumping puzzles in the game without any in the end chests. :/

It really only matters to people who like to role play

If you get bored with just 2 weapon sets, ele or engi are certainly very interesting play style.
They have content updates every two weeks, so there is usually something to keep you busy. There is also ascended items.
If you’ve got time, you can read through all the specific updates here http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates
Or get general overview here https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/
A lot of the updates have been temporary content, though.

Leeeeeerrrrroooooyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Adastra.9821:

Soldier’s is power major stat while carrion is condi damage major stat.

Oh poop, you’re right. LOL

- Hides in a corner -

Manuhell.2759:

So you hijacked an empty overflow along with an already organized group and killed him.
Congratulations for the kill…but that isn’t a proper overflow.
Try it again with an half-full overflow, with most of them afk and some already on turrets.
Then you can say to have completed it in a real overflow.

As opposed to a fake overflow? You do lose your wvw benefits in overflow, that`s something :p

Sir Kaboomski.1508:

Maximillian Greil.1965:

FA’s killed him twice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-K2v9UzNYQ&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDsjfZXZg8&feature=player_embedded

lol in the second video at 46 seconds you can see an Anet tag near Silo’s! They witnessed it! AAAAAWWW YYYEEEEAAHH!

That’s Zinc! He often show`s up at world events on FA. He even got on teamspeak with us

Hecatonchir.9326:

The problem with that is the conditions only get one or two ticks in before they are replaced with newer, weaker conditions.
[snip]

That’s the thing. With everyone running carrion gear all conditions regardless of source will be doing about the same amount of damage. Notice I never said condition builds.
Everyone should be running power builds; we completely agree on this. That doesn’t mean Teq won’t be at or near the condition cap at all times.
Ice bow #4 inflicts bleeding. Confusion does decent damage to him.
Compare two teams, both running power builds. One has soldier’s gear, one has carrion gear. Since both teams have the same power and builds, the team with more condition damage will have more damage overall, even if it’s only by a small amount. That’s what I’m saying

You can try guesting on one of the servers that beats it relatively frequently. Good luck getting into their main server though.
Better idea is to join one of these teq killing guilds and follow them where they go.
Don’t guest to a server only to not really help them.

Hecatonchir.9326:

Quick Mouse.7635:

One important point I think should be mentioned is of DPS…
…or carrion gear (power, vitality, condition damage) if they apply a decent amount of conditions.

Absolutely disagree. [snip]

Gonna have to disagree with your disagreement.
Sure there is a condition cap, but more condition damage is still more damage. Techically everyone wearing carrion gear would give the highest possible dps, since power is the same and conditions are stronger, albeit slightly.

There are several problems with the ele in the current meta. Ele’s have the lowest armor and lowest health in game, which means they are very reliant on healing skills and boons to stay alive.
As mentioned before, ele’s used to be “OP” because they would build super-tanky and had good access to boons and healing through their class mechanics. This was nerfed, and I think rightly so.
What happened afterwards is that they buffed all the counters to ele, which greatly aggravated the original, deserved nerfs.
They buffed boon hate/boon removal (eg. necro corrupt boon and thief s/d), meaning ele’s couldn’t maintain the boons they needed to stay alive.
They buffed stun builds while nerfing stun breaks on eles, again creating more hard counters.
They then gave us some interesting traits in air for some more bursty builds, but this was a double-edged sword. It’s “OP” because there is very little animation and thus almost no counter play (and thus the OP is complaining). However in order to have a meaningful burst you have to lose any sort of defense you had as an ele.
Ultimately we have been pigeon-holed into one of two builds, both of which are unviable in the current meta.

One important point I think should be mentioned is of DPS.
People in the dps zerg should be either in soldier gear (power, vitality, toughness) or carrion gear (power, vitality, condition damage) if they apply a decent amount of conditions. You need to be survivable in the dps zerg and high power is really the only way to dps him.
Keep as much might and quickness as possible on the zerg. Guardians with staff, warriors with for great justice, buffs from turrets. Rangers should have frost spirit and warrios should have banner of strength.
Ideally Teq should have 25 stacks of confusion on him at all times. retaliation also does a tonne of damage to him. Keep ethereal fields down so projectile finishers can keep confusion up.

MELEE HIM! Unless you have specced into ranged attacks that pierce and can properly position yourself to pierce all three hitboxes, melee damage is invariably higher than ranged. Watch his animations so you dont die to waves (commanders should be calling out waves as was mentioned above).

Hmm that’s weird I used the jumpad to jump over the title wave (without knowing about this achievement) and didn’t get anything for doing it.

You can get almost all of pvt from temples (including accessories). The only piece you can’t get is the pants, which you could get from a few runs in ascalonian catacombs or from wvw badges.

Do you have to have allies targeted to use this skill? I was trying to get it to work during teq events (use in earth to res 3 players). I understand there is a radius, but also some bugs. Everytime I used it I didn’t notice anyone getting resed and did not get any experience like I would normally for resing someone. Halp!

Stormcrow.7513:

Having to do this content by being in a specific guild for the sole purpose of killing teq, having to guest to low pop servers and specific overflows shows how broken the encounter is in regards to open world.

I disagree. At no point was I in a specific guild to defeat teq. When we get 100+ people on the community teamspeak to get organized, we want to make sure that everyone is following directions, that the right people are on the cannons, defending cannons and killing fingers, that warbanners are used when called for and reflections are up when needed. You can type in map chat in all caps as much as you want, people don’t listen.
Guesting into low pop servers also helps those people beat teq when they probably wouldn’t have otherwise been able to.

It is the only way to ensure that everyone on the map is in teamspeak with you and not afk/leeching. Most guilds dedicated to killing tequatl use overflows for this reason.
We also guest to low pop servers like Maguuma and Anvil Rock to try to beat him there.
So do not remove guesting or overflows.

Several large FA guilds guested to Mag on Friday? and got him down to 1% or so I heard. Later that night we guested again with myself commanding, but only got him to 25%. I will see if we can get another go at it

Yeah mine’s gone too

Toddzilla.6438:

Mouse, why no Glyph of Renewal? tsk tsk :P

I also forgot to pop a powerful potion of undead slaying. Shhhhh

Character model limit and quality in your graphics settings.
Be warned: Turning them up may cause your computer to melt

Bunch of people from Fort Aspenwood (NA) joined an empty overflow and downed tequatl with about 2 seconds left in the timer lol! My heart was racing

Isslair.4908:

Time limit actually encourages players to use dps builds, which is a good thing.

I partially agree. While putting a time limit forces people to not only avoid boss damage but also have maximum dps at the same time, the actual time limit itself is completely arbitrary. I can do fire ele with 10 people, wipe 3 times and still beat it with 10minutes to spare. Teq on the other hand, how many more servers would have beaten it already if it were 20 minutes? Probably a much much higher percentage than it is now, simply because of the phase1 mechanics.

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

They they were to nerf it, the best way would be to extend the time limit, that way the game mechanics and difficulty would not change

I disagree…as I said before time limits are such an arbitrary fail mechanic they don’t deserve to be in the game…this extends to ALL world bosses.

75%) no change
50%) rare chest as per any world boss. once per day
25%) second rare chest as per any world boss, once per day
dead) big chest wih guaranteed exotic. third rare chest once per day.

I reallly, realllllllyyy want to beat as others have within the current parameters. I have gotten soooo close. Others have beaten it, proving it’s possible. I really really want to beat it before you might nerf it.

If you do nerf it; only change ONE of the following:

1) Make it a little less difficult to get through the first phase. Currently this phase takes up about 50% of the timer, making the timing of this phase very difficult and ultimately determines the result of the battle. If you dont beat it in less than 7-8min, GG everyone afk for 2 hours.

2) Change the fail mechanic to something other than time. IMO this is the best option because failing because of timing is such an arbitrary mechanic that it does not deserve to be in this game. Make it something like failing to defend the turrets or the megalaser. If you do this make it significantly more difficult to defend the laser

Otherwise DO NOT change this encounter

rizzo.1079:

Quick Mouse.7635:

You know what’s not fun (for me)? Showing up to an event, not caring about who’s there, spamming autoattack while you go get a glass of water, and coming back to pickup your loot.

If you were afk spamming 1 at Teq then you were one of the people that I’d always have to rez after the event. You’re welcome!

did you read past the first line?

rizzo.1079:

Yeah, I guess events where you have to stand around for hours just to make sure you’re in your home server and have so you can have a tiny chance of winning just aren’t for everyone…

Edit: I guess since any mob in the game can drop lv 80 exotics if you’re lv 80, only lv 80’s should be fighting mobs?

You know what people have started doing? Purposely going into overflows instead of trying to get into home servers for this exact reason.

You know what’s not fun (for me)? Showing up to an event, not caring about who’s there, spamming autoattack while you go get a glass of water, and coming back to pickup your loot.
Many people, myself included, really like to strategize, organize, and attempt something very difficult that requires people to synchronize their efforts and skill usage.
I like the fact that after every failure we have to analyze what went wrong. I like the fact that it is very difficult, that it has become like a badge of honor to have beaten him.
Previously there was nothing to be proud of accomplishing in pve since all it required was braindead farming.
As mentioned, this content might not be for everyone.

Let’s git ’er dun NA!

I agree that something should be done since the turrets are integral to the success of the encounter. This method would certainly work.

Manasa Devi.7958:

One problem I’ve been seeing with overflows, is people trickling in over the first few minutes of the event, because they only head for Sparkfly Fen when the event is announced. That means, no time for organization, and a slow start. Hopeless, unless people start camping pre-existing overflows as well as the actual servers.

Yeah it would be nice if the announcement was a good minute before the 15min timer started. However if you notice from the replays posted thus far, teq doesn’t hit 75% for the first 5-7minutes of the fight (seems the first 25% is the hardest), so this does add some leeway.

Ele

Once more people learn the strategies I believe it will become easier for overflows to accomplish. Right now 90% of people don’t know what to do.

Congrats!

Completely agree. It’s incredible to see an entire server come together to coordinate and strategize. It’s something you used to only see in wvw. I think it’s a great addition to the game and something that gw2 has been lacking for a while: pve content that’s challenging and fun.

Mirta.5029:

3rd Teq attempt on UW. We just can’t get any further. Solved the turret problem by sitting on them for hours, but we just don’t have that zerker DPS to take him down fast enough.
I think I’m just about done today. Wasted all the time that I ever had. Really it needs a nerf.

Thing is you can’t crit teq, so having precision and crit damage don’t actually count for anything. Going full Pvt is the way to go.

Guys, Tequatl came out YESTERDAY!
And it has ALREADY BEEN BEATEN (see here: http://www.twitch.tv/flickky/c/2951634)

Seriously stop complaining about it being too hard. 90% of people still have no idea what to do.
Give it time.
If you watch the video, sure they had some good coordination but there was lots of room for improvement (several people could not dodge/jump the waves).

And it DOES NOT REQUIRE VOICE COMM! Just people who are skilled and know how to react. Warriors: bring your warbanners. Eles: bring your icebow/fiery greatsword. 90% of the time the commander was just calling for cleanses and more ice bows lol. This is something players should be able to figure out themselves.
Ever try a dungeon for the first time? Ever try a dungeon for the first time with voice comm? It’s much easier of course especially when everyone is learning, but it is NOT necessary.

Stop calling for nerf and instead learn, adapt (l2play).

Congratulations players of blackgate for world first! (^_^)//

http://www.twitch.tv/flickky/c/2951634

Which server will be the first!?

As someone who mostly plays pve but has a decent amount of pvp experience (rank 30+), improving the rewards should be first and foremost. The best idea, and something I can’t stress enough, is:
PvP ONLY REWARDS THAT CAN BE PORTED INTO PvE
There are tonnes of skins that can only be obtained in pve that can be ported into pvp, but none the other way around. Having uber nice skins that can only be obtained by pvp will get tonnes of new players from the thriving pve community in to pvp. For example: completing the set for the very popular radiance armor (chest, legs, boots and helm).
People want shinnies.

All that being said, I am really excited to see more game modes added