Guild Wars 2

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This is my tanky as a kitten build that I’ve been using for the last 2 days. I had taken a month long break from my guardian to play my necromancer in WvW. I decided to pick up the guardian again this week, respecced in a sorta ad hoc manner and ended up with this build which I am loving.

The objectives I had in mind and the strengths it has in my mind are

*Be the guy that can charge through an enemies seige battle lines and and break their organization with the zerg behind me.
*Be the focus fikittengets of non-thinking enemy zerglings while my teamates clean them up.
*AOE shout support for protection, swiftness, stability, healing, and crazy condition removal.
*Even when not charging into the battle still have very good support skills with staff and shout build.
*GS damage not amazing, but nothing to be sneezed at.

What kind of critiques or comments do you guys have for this build? How could I improve it or perhaps do the same thing from another angle?

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R E F L H E X.8413:

Yea that just kind of seems like a load of crap when one arrowcart (I’m not even sure if we did have a cata or if it was just a single arrowcart) can kill three golems before they break through a keep door. Let’s not even mention if there happened to be a pot of oil someone runs up to while there is golems trying to do their little surprise.

What you are saying isn’t worth one gold each. You can surprise attack just fine with rams. They are way too weak defensively given that there will always be defensive siege being used if the server isn’t completely outmanned and left the map.

When I was on tarnished coast we’d drop 3-5 rams at a door and they went up just as fast as you could get the portal in for the golems for the most part.

There was an epic fail golem story posted not too long ago i think it was 14 golems one gate, 1 pot of oil, all dead.

This entire post consists of examples of unintelligent uses of golems. If you’re going to be stupid with them then of course they will be wasted money.

A rematch is looking more and more likely. If the ratings between Dragonbrand and EB change by about 3 points both will remain in their respective current brackets.

R E F L H E X.8413:

Radiodread.8469:

Well, on Friday night our guild released a 14 golem train and took a cumulative 7 keeps and 12+ towers with them by the end of the night. I’d say they were worth the price.

Sounds like your opponents were outmanned, and weren’t defending with a single person the entire time. Which is possibly the best time to use golems because that’s when they will work. Needless to say, you could’ve used arrow carts (that don’t even deal damage to walls) to take down the walls in that situation or ballistas but you went with golems. This is kind of that novelty joke I’m talking about.

While it was pretty late at night, we did infact have some battles. We relied on unpredictable movements, mesmer portals for travel, and using way points to leave spicy conditions. The golems were used for extremely fast gate removal (20-40 seconds depending on quality of the gate). It was not an uncontested situation.

Well, on Friday night our guild released a 14 golem train and took a cumulative 7 keeps and 12+ towers with them by the end of the night. I’d say they were worth the price.

Yeah, 70% of the time I can’t quote from forums either. It is quite annoying.

DirtyApe.9360:

Radiodread.8469:

You remember that fight against NSP? Remember how great that was? Well the core of that server remains, but we need numbers. We are indeed the underdog again, but we’re fighting back. All of our fickle players went to SoR and then Maguuma the week after.

Wait wait, who has come to Mag? Mag has not been in 1st place in any wvw matchup for quite a while. I think maybe you have Mag mixed up with DH but I’m not sure.

Yeah, I think you are correct. DH is what I was thinking of. Thanks for the correction.

Don’t be that guy. Come into WvW and play WvW. I don’t know why Anet even put the isolated npc DE’s into the WvW maps. If you are going to do it, at least do it at a time when your server has low WvW populations and you aren’t detering from the effort by taking up a spot.

I don’t understand whats so difficult to understand about reporting cheaters and exploits to the appropriate channels and not in WvW match threads. It has been posted many dozens if not hundreds of times by moderators. Keep this thread focused on the match and let the proper channels take care of the exploits. PM one of the guild leaders if a specific guild is in question.

You remember that fight against NSP? Remember how great that was? Well the core of that server remains, but we need numbers. We are indeed the underdog again, but we’re fighting back. All of our fickle players went to SoR and then Maguuma the week after.

Agreed. Stacking the death trait line with pet passives is just ridiculous.

Everytime I hear, “No! I hand raised that minion!” I want to slap my character and tell her to focus on whats important. No one gives a kitten about the stupid minions.

It is indeed a start, but this won’t be enough. Every server jumper out there will just have to decide what day each week he or she will determine the winner and jump to it. Probably Saturday afternoon for most of them.

My server hasn’t seen a close game since our match against SoR and YB 3 weeks ago. We are getting outmatched while falling in the brackets. The rating system is uselss until server populations calm down.

I’d have gone with a minimum of 8 days and added a cost for high teir realms. Also transferring to a server you are currently competing with should be delayed until the next reset.

Grumpdogg.6910:

Glad to see Eredon Terrace getting stomped.

Why? The people that are still on ET weren’t the problem. They’ve all jumped ship a long time ago. The remaining players on ET should be commended for their commitment to not being the problem.

Advantages to being in a (good) WvW guild:
*Direction from knowledgeable players.
*Training from knowledgeable players. (This is a big one, WvW is a big jungle to feel your way though blind)
*Accelerated learning curve through the meta game.
*More effective use of time.
*Consistent community in WvW.
*Familiarity of strategies and/or synergy with familiar players.
*Higher level of coordination (which is a huge aspect of WvW).

Disadvantages:
*The effectiveness of a guild WvW group depends on the response of its members. Belonging to such a group can be demanding. If X tower is under attack, and you personally want to defend it, but Y Keep is being called as the priority, you will have to drop your desire to defend X tower. Sometimes the wrong call can be made and you will be frustrated.
*Loss of a portion of your individual freedom to do what you want at a given time.

Thats a starter list. To me the decision is clear.

There is not enough space. I think the borderlands are much closer to how it should be but still not quite spaced far enough apart.

EB on the other hand is just a zerb merry-go-round. You can spit on one tower and splash the next.

For the people bickering about time telling, I recorded the whole night (Friday night/Saturday morning) in EB up to about 3am EST and NSP was ahead until I went to bed after the golem march. So the dramatic shift in score happened after 3am EST.

So, when the portal opened a large percentage of players just jumped right in during the excitement. Now we are all doomed to our solo instances and not able to party up. How do I fix this and why does this issue still exist after 2 months?

When is the beginning of Act 4?

So, when the portal opened a large percentage of players just jumped right in during the excitement. Now we are all doomed to our solo instances and not able to party up. How do I fix this and why does this issue still exist after 2 months?

On a Friday night, there is not much difference in population.

Anyone else not see any posts here anymore?

Killing a Yak does give resources to the players around the Yak.

Really!? If this is true, then I’ve missed that aspect for the last 2 months.

You can aoe them manually from right below the wall.

Isn’t the per map per team player cap about 70? Not quite 1000+.

So this is the method I will be trying next time I confront it:

I am a necro, the number 2 ability in plagueform puts out an aoe blind every second. I have a trait that causes chilled when I blind a target. I’ll stand behind the door while the arrows rain down.

Thoughts?

Does anyone know if Necro elite plagueform is target capped? Seems like the blind/poison combo might be pretty useful. If you had say 3 necros, 2 doing the blind, 1 chilling, you could effectively shut them off for 20 seconds.

Also, does anyone know definitively if Necromancers epidemic has a target cap?

While fixing pets would be great, all I really want it so play my petless condition spec without having passive pet traits shoved into my build by force.

Typically these stacks hit gates. Correct me if I’m wrong but a catapult behind the gate firing on the gate should pretty much break that up, no? Any structure that doesn’t have a catapult behind the gate is not one that is looking to be defended.

There are clever ways to take pretty much anything, even without a “safe” treb spot. Catapults are a losing teams best friend. This does go right back to the fickle players point I made. You are correct in saying that you aren’t going to take a fully upgraded bluelake tower with 8 people as long as its manned. Provided you have a population on the server you can throw up defensive seige on the hill south of it, defend it with 20-30 people and catapult the gate and/or wall and the tower seige placed on the front. The losing team spawns right there, so the advantage in a brawl there lies in drawing the enemy out in such a fashion. Make sure to finish off everyone you put down and soon you’ll see that every one of your kills is worth as much as 5 of theirs. People get sick of running long distances.

You missed the biggest snowballer: Fickle Players

It doesn’t refill. It has whatever supply was in it before you took it over. Think about it. You raided a supply camp to, you know, take its supplies.

I also think its a bit silly. Both badges and gold can be sent between alts, but the blueprints cannot. I started with a guardian who now has alot of extra skill points. I switched to a necro lately. I went to make a bunch of superior blueprints with my guardian and couldn’t trade them… GG.

Also mystic salvage kits are soulbound… wtf?

As far as I know, as long as they can hit the bay they can be destroyed from outside the keep.

It was down when I went to bed about 8 hours ago, and its still down now that I’m at work. Anyone know what the deal is?

Erebus Delirium.4892:

Spawn camping is just a symptom of other WvW imbalances.

Not really a balance issue. This has a little to do with the whole “losing team needs a comeback mechanic” issue (which I disagree with). The quickest fix for this is 2 fold:

1. Players need to stop getting butt-hurt and leaving a map when the chips are down. Morale is a quickly multiplying issue.
2. Use the other exits. Honestly unless I’m going to the tower directly, I will almost always take one of the side exits. It is just faster and runs past a supply camp.

Maybe I’m blind but I don’t see a thread for us yet.

Does anyone have an updated score?

So far this game is shaping up to be pretty competitive. I’m glad to be back in a bracket that is closer to our population. I really hope they shut down free transfers soon to avoid the lopsided finish.

Also, if you witnessed the Os golem march in EB last night, I’ll have a video of it up soon. 7 Keeps and 12+ towers isn’t too bad for a golem train.

Wait, you can get 40g for $60? I bought $35 worth of gems last week and only ended up with about 12g or so. Somewhere in that ballpark.

I think I paid 6 or so for the sceptor and somewhere in the same ballpark for bramblethorn.

Unfortunately the type of behavior that is best for leveling is not the organized structured guilds. The most experience comes from hitting weak maps with a giant zerg.

CharliePrince.2071:

Isle of Janthir reporting..
other commanders worth noting
Freelancer [TL]

He’s on his what… 4th(?) 5th(?) server already?

I think things are pretty fairly priced, assuming the bigger guilds are taking control of the keeps. The one thing I would LOVE to see would be a contribution button towards upgrades. So that I could toss maybe 50s towards the 1.5g upgrade for fortify keep. I’ve dumped about 10g per week over the last month in upgrades and siege blue prints. I’d love a mechanic for others to be able to chip in.

Ricky.4706:

wish i could be a fly on the wall to watch the NS vs Ebay vs Sorrows Furnace fight!!

www.twitch.tv/radiodread37

Tonights matchups are pretty much set in stone at this point.

10. Crystal Dessert G
11. Yak’s Bend B
12. Darkhaven R
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13. Fort Aspenwood G
14. Maguuma B
15. Dragonbrand R
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16. Northern SHiverpeaks G
17. Ehmry Bay B
18. Sorrow’s Furnace R

I dropped about 45g yesterday on the khilbon set, mystic sceptor, bramblethorn, and coral orich accessories. Lots of gold, but MAN I can feel the difference. I’m rocking double earth signets in my sceptor/dagger and I can push a 15 stack pretty quickly if I get luck, 10-12 baseline.

mystic sceptor
bramblethorn (staff)

Yeah, as long as all 3 servers have decent map population during the evening/night good fun can still be had.

While the actual bugs can be annoying, ayone complaining about lack of viability of condition necros are bad at the profession.

The fodder minions need a bit of a fix for targetting, etc. The flesh golem, however, should have a control bar. Just give it

Attack target
Return to me
Defend/Passive toggle

Mechanic is already in the game, I"m not sure why you wouldn’t do this for an elite ability pet.