Guild Wars 2

I went with the Coral Orichialcum accessory sets.

Very high precision,
Solid Condition Dmg,
Power… meh

That with the khilbon’s set gives me 57% crit. Omnomnom, I am still very survivable from the toughness on my gear.

You forgot the entirety of Death magic passives. All of them are worthless for anything but minion builds… which nobody uses because minions are so clunky.

Wow no mention of Maguuma holing up in EH for 3 hours slaughtering wave after wave of NSP in the lords room. It was a good time, even if it was incredibly frustrating.

So… I wish I remember my trig and stats stuff from 10 years ago, unfortunately I do not.
Assuming that the % on crit from the earth sigil stacks like air and fire, what is the math to determing the % of swings that will proc 0, 1, and 2 bleeds?

I leveled and now play a sceptor/dagger and staff condi build. I love it. PvE is pretty easy, for anything challenging, I’ll use my elite pet to tank for the first portion and then load up my bleeds. Staff utility is awesome, and very usefull.

I just switched to the proper gearing for it with Condi/tough/prec. I mostly do wvwvw and was using some cheap carrion yellows. I really enjoy the utility of epidemic, corrupt boon (lol @ Save Yourself! guardians), and staff marks. I use sceptor in focus fire situations and staffs for ridiculous wall coverage.

Edit: also the 4 ability with the dagger offhand dumps 3 conditions on target on a pretty short cd. Thats superior condition control for small scale combat.

The fights with Mag on NSP BL were fun last night. That ridiculousness that was a DB seige was the most fun I’ve had this week. We had the wall down for 4-5 hours but couldn’t breach the choke point of 10+ seige and 3 trebs behind it taking out any seige we tried. Good fun!

I can’t even read most of these posts. The petty kittening and whining and moaning is just so old. Don’t get your ego so wrapped up in a game that has almost nothing to do with your individual contributions.

8PM Friday and 3PM Monday EST. You get one weekend game and one weekday game.

Axxeman, didn’t I see you in EB on NSP yesterday or was that just someone with a similar name?

Yes a zerg beacon can be useful, but there is so much more potential to the commander position. Merely having the zerg in a condensed area doesn’t accomplish much.

The commander icon commands the attention of the lazy and the new. People gravitate towards it and watch what the commander does. If a commander is surveying the feild, assessing the situation and directing seige placement in a tactically sound manner, not only will you win the battle, you will be educating the masses by example. The performance increase will continue after you log out, not just when you put a blue dot on the map.

A commander that gets all pissy with his crew in map chat is a detriment to the team. Morale is one of the biggest factors in long term success and that can and should come from the top down. If the high and mighty blue dots are putting eachother and their respective followers down, it only fragments the community. Positive reinforcement and educating by example should be the primary roles of the commanders.

A rookie shouldn’t be a “commander.” I consider myself pretty knowledgable about seige placement and overall tactics (on BLs, I hardly ever play EB) and I would be hesitant to put on the blue diamond. If you’re going to put on the commander symbol, you need to be more than a focal point for the zerg. If you mislead the masses, you do much more harm than good.

That is pretty accurate. Wish the topics would stick closer to the actual battles at hand.

Ricky.4706:

“you, build the siege golem under the hot oil pot,… you, make sure you keep those 1 hp castle walls up and drain our supplies while they relentlessly treb it, the rest come with me, we have a grub to kill!! We Got This!!”

You! Pull those levers! You! Twist those knobs! You! Push some buttons, PUSH SOME BUTTONS!!!

nornh.9280:

All our base are belong to you.

-Eredon Terrace

Rofl.

I dunno about the whole server, but in our current match our guilds motto is:

Lets just hold cliff.

The problem here, as with almost every WvW issue, lies with free xfers. The ratings system is not designed to be reactive to mass exoduses of player bases.

It seems to be impossible for you to break into T1 this week. Crush T2 next week and hope for one of the T1 teams to lose by a good margin.

I don’t understand all the drama. Why do people care enough to have drama in a game thats not even competitive. I’m just happy last night we were able to hold our portion of one map for a couple hours. I want my corner of a map to be competitive and fun, thats all I ask for in this match.

NSP, I think, has developed the mentality of just stacking on a map because when we don’t we tend to get rolled by a full server force without any hopes of fighting it off. This game is no longer competitive, so we are making it at least fun on the maps we are on.

Its to the point that when I am a late comer to a big battle, I run directly into the fray and to the location I want to all the while giggling to myself, “hehehehehe they can’t see meeeeee, ehehehehe…” Free stealth for my necro!

Toble.2968:

BlackRabbit.1259:

The rendering issues are NOT related to your PC. I know this for 2 reasons.

1. There was a post made by an arenanet employee that said this. in fact he specifically posted so that people wouldnt listen to fools like this. I cant find it, but it exists. trust me on that.

2. I have very very high end system, all the latest Kit, OC’d. SLI etc.

Do not listen to this guy and do not upgrade to the latest and greatest. sure it will improve your experience, but it will NOT solve this issue. it is a back end issue. Anet still need to solve it.

The person claiming to see the red names, but not the characters is having a rendering issue, not a culling issue. ^^

The new system is simply a suggestion for those who are having a rendering issue, not a culling issue. They are not the same things. The game recognizes that there is in fact a character that can in fact take damage and show that damage in the space given. The appearance of thieves out of stealth is often a rendering (Not in fact culling) issue. Mind you, I said often. If they appear seconds after they get out of stealth, that is often rendering. If they do not appear at all, that is often culling. You will see that culling is when nothing appears at all including damage reads and name of character. The only things that seem to appear are moves occasionally.

Yet again, it is simply a suggestion if you have found RENDERING issues a hassle as well as culling. My old computer still displays culling issues as well as rendering issues while my new one does not. I have talked to others which find that recently the issues have become less and less (Out of those with medium-high quality computers)

I also found through experimentation that the mac beta displays less culling issues as well on both old and new computers. if you have a mac and run on windows and are experiencing culling issues, I suggest try it on your mac platform. (Which I warn you has more standard graphics. Less sparkly)

All of my issues are culling. I never see red names wihout a rendered character.

While they fixed the crazy rendering issue caused by the patch last week, I wouldn’t say this is a “fixed” issue. I run a top of the line system that I built 2 days before head start (3570k, z77 extreme4, GTX 670, and I run the game off of an Samsumg S3 128GB ssd) and I still experience rendering issues (admittedly for the most part still very playable).

I was 2-shot on my alt ranger last night. 8.2k Cloak and Dagger immediately followed up by a 13.4k backstab. This was in a pretty big team fight in EB, but I verified it in the combat log. The thief rendered after he finished me in my down state. Yes it was an alt, yes I had negligible defenses, but 13.4k is ludicrous even for a base damage on crit.

Yeah, I have no problem playing against DH. Last week was fun and somewhat competitive. What I have a problem with is the fickle fairweather players who can’t take placing in 2nd and jump ship everytime their home server loses. This is not a nightcapping issue, its a population issue. The timezone difference merely serves as a catalyst for the issue.

Server transfers are the “it.”

Jumping servers won’t solve anything. The issue lies with fickle players and free xfers. At least your server hasn’t devolved in the aftermath of the “night capping” point defficit. The current trend on most servers is that once the team with the stronger night presence is known everyone jumps to that server from the losing 2, and from there on out even in prime time the winning server doesn’t drop below +400 potential. Then by monday nobody plays anymore.

I was playing an alt ranger, roughly lvl 16 at the time, the other day. I have approximately 18k hp. As per combat log, I was hit by Cloak and Dagger for 8k+ and successively by backstab for 13.4k. These both happened before the thief even rendered out of stealth.

It seems to me the complete lack of toughness on low level gear (usually) and poor armor scaling would be the culprit (thief’s OP burst aside). I have since purchased quite a bit of toughness gear for my ranger while I level him. I haven’t played WvW much since, so I haven’t run into quite as much of a burst situation.

Fellyn, last week we had twice the WvW base. This week you have them. We hardly even match up in primetime now. This one is over. Have fun with your new fairweather players.

Not like it matters anyways, Javy and Worban. This match is long over.

Anatax.3905:

Welcome to Darkhaven VIP things were much easier with you than against you. But with the addition of VIP our queue times are quite a bit longer now.

Pansies. VIP is a joke.

Awesome, thanks guys. I appreciate it. Had half of a heart attack thinking my SSD was corrupted or some such thing.

Besetment, I agree. But the biggest problem NSP has is the migration and lack of participation of fairweather players. Outmanned at primetime on saturday means your server gave up already.

Besetment.9187:

Lastly, not all aoe damage has a 5 target limit. If you want to play clever, if you want to improve yourselves as players and thus improve your teams and lift up your server, you should try to understand what aoe damage is affected by the 5 person limit and you should actively use the ones that are not to break stack. Then you should give that knowledge to others and train up your newbies so they can shoal with you.

Zerging and stacking in this game has a real bad image, like its a mindless thing. If done properly, it is anything but mindless. It is basically lots of players that unite together under a single command to overcome all weakness. It requires planning, organisation and perfect communication. A zerg and a stack should be capable of splitting up and reforming without losing any players. If you can’t do this, you aren’t doing it right.

Why get better when they can just join you? Much easier!

I’m not sure what you’re getting at. I’m still in the battle and playing hard. They just need to end free xfers so the battles don’t get lopsided as soon as there is a clear leader.

saiyr, I’m just speaking from what I’ve seen on NSP the last 2 weeks. We lost to SoR by a hair 2 weeks ago, and had an exodus of players to that server. Then this last week we lost to DH by about 40k and had an exodus of people to that server. Now we have outmanned in 3 of the 4 maps at primetime on saturday.

Fairweather players will be the end of WvW. Soon there will be 6 competitive servers in the top 2 brackets continuously cycling players and the bottom tiers will be ghost battlegrounds.

Askil.8301:

Please – stop! Are you losing? Do NOT switch server! Figure out WHY – and then figure out how to change it. HELP your server overcome their problems instead of adding to it.

Players switching servers are creating alot of problems, and tbh, does not help anything.
In the end, you will want to be in an organized guild; probably in an alliance that coordinates WvWvW.

So start being part of the solution, not the problem: Join an organized guild, and start work on solving the problems your server face, instead of jumping ship.

Askil, leader of The Asgards [Asg]

Yep, server jumping only exacerbates the problems you left for. It throws the brackets off, keeping up the perpetual cycle of lopsided slaughters. Earn your win, don’t be a pansy.

Kita.7819:

I Hope this VIP jump is real. My guild was talking about VIP jumping ship to our server as I was killing a VIP warrior in Ehmry Bay Borderlands.

Its real, don’t worry though, if you lose to Maguuma this week, they’ll jump from you to them. Don’t take it personally, they just don’t want to earn a win.

Actium.8765:

VIP jumped to DH? lol woooow…

Wow, way to be a shining example of whats wrong with free transfers. GG.

Worban.1574:

Yes, kudos and big respect from me on DH to both NSP and EB players. NSP fought hard with some pretty solid coordination. I have tremendous respect for EB because while they trailed a distant third, we often couldn’t tell on the battlefield with the ferocity they displayed.

You kept fighting, reclaiming your map and putting up really good fights when most other servers would have just quit playing WvW. That shows a lot of spirit and I thank you for keeping WvW a fun, interesting 3-way battle to the very end!

NSP, looking forward to another week against ya! Glad to hear that you’ll probably be losing one of your less than reputable guilds to a European server. I know they were not native to NSP so I never judged NSP by their renegade actions. I also hope you find a decent replacement for that guild before the next reset. I don’t want to see your numbers thin any.

Cheers to a great week!

Which guild?

I’m all for the competitive spirit, but I’m not waking up early before work to cap towers before heading off for the day. :P

NSP player here. I’m curious about Maguuma’s night presence. Here’s hoping they can compete with DH at night because someone needs to split the map with them from 1am to 11am EST.

iii, you’re one scary mofo on the battlefeild.

Hey guys, I was just playing all night, got booted from wvw when the server restarted for the patch, but when I relogged the launcher kept crashing. I could use a hand. Here is the first portion of the report logged.

I should note that this particular error log was taken while trying to reinstall.

—> Crash <—
Exception: c0000005
Memory at address 6a74a064 could not be written
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 1552
Cmdline: -allowInstall
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 15754
Module: RTSSHooks.dll
When: 2012-10-16T02:37:51Z 2012-10-15T21:37:51-05:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:00:03
Flags: 0

—> System <—
Name: BLACKMESA
IpAddr: 192.168.1.3
Processors: 4 [GenuineIntel:6:10:9]
OSVersion: Windows 6.1 (64 bit)

—> System Memory <—
Physical: 5849MB/ 8087MB 72%
Paged: 12817MB/16172MB 79%
Virtual: 3024MB/ 4095MB 73%
Load: 27%
CommitTotal: 3355MB
CommitLimit: 16172MB
CommitPeak: 4062MB
SystemCache: 1605MB
HandleCount: 30556
ProcessCount: 94
ThreadCount: 1227

—> Process Memory <—
Private: 888MB
WorkingSet: 80MB
PeakWorkingSet: 80MB
PageFaults: 47296

[DbgHelp.dll is C:\Windows\system32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 6.1.7601.17514 (64/32-bit compatible)]

Obviously there will be random players that will do what they will do, but yesterday during the day time the VAST majority of pvp guilds and players were on green/blue/EB. We made a specific effort to take as much blue off the map as possible. In fact, EB owned the Entirety of their borderlands for a good portion of time. NSP started losing ground in DH BL when red forces showed up in number to cut off supplies and reinforcements to the underseige AB. So… its a 2 way street. We both need to concentrate on blue if we want to perform well this week.

NSP here, also sick of people complaining about time zone issues. Just play through it. It is what it is. Its a worldwide 24/7 game.

EB @ DH BL. Why are you helping blue take the bay?

Anyone got an update?

Arius.7031:

TsukasaHiiragi.9730:

East Coast Servers always have a major disadvantage going up again DH, simply because its one of the few ‘unofficial’ Aussie servers, so when its peak time for you guys, all of us are sleeping – Which again, kinder makes a mockery of WvW in general. I think umm..Sea of Sorrows was the other unofficial Aussie server too.

Anyway, these week I expect DH to run away with an easy win because of that fact ~ Ebay has a severe lack of population, unless your counting PvE bots running around..I still think the population levels are broken (Click World transfer) Everything is high ~ our server at 5am in the morning is dead – no chance in hell is Ebay high population not unless there is a bot army somewhere hiding out.

Darkhaven is the unofficial Aussie server? Since when? Most of our night crew is people (like myself) who nap during the day to get some time in late at night or early in the morning. We have a decent oceanic presence, granted, but that isn’t even primarily due to Aussies…

Seriously guys, keep this clean. Let’s try to avoid “oh the other server has an unfair advantage” type of posts. Be gracious no matter if your server is winning or losing. Let’s try to keep this thread as clean and civil as we can, thanks!

Score update coming:

Thanks for the update!

Also I agree. There is no way to completely balance out server population and play times. We just gotta play through it and bring it on strong when we are able. Tis just the nature of the game.

Nut.4713:

Bahatsu.4521:

Wont let me quote for some reason.

Yea nut I guess so except we are now fighting both of you. Sanct to win and you all to stay second.

Basically we deserve minimal second but have to 2 on 1 the last day and end up third because we could have actually won while you all kittened around with us since you were to far back to matter.

It was never a 2 on 1, SoR was fighting us hard till the very end. They managed to come up with a zerg in NSP border around 4pm eastern that was double what we had in the zone, cleared us out completely. In Yak’s border they were pushing hard into our territory until 6pm when we finally repelled them, not really bothering with NSP at all. We had a slight focus on NSP, but I assure you, we were taking SoR territory as often as we could, and SoR was certainly not leaving us alone.

I don’t want to get in an argument here, but this comment is just sour grapes, nothing more.

Nut… as in nic?

I’d expect a slightly different dynamic soon. I think quite a few people burnt themselves out on that last match. I was sleep deprived for most of the week, lol. I know I for one am planning on resting up tonight and coming on strong for the rest of the week in our match. I’d assume you have players in similar situations on both of your servers.

Harpazo.5217
I think the issue with NSP not having a good turnout is that we put our all into that last week match up against SoR and YB and we got dropped an entire tier just for having a third place, even though it was the closest third place to second and to first of the entire WvWvW community. We fought our butts off and paid just as hard a price for losing as if we hadn’t done anything productive at all. That’s how I feel, anyway, and it makes it hard to want to queue up, especially when we’re so quickly behind again. The week isn’t determined and we haven’t given a fair showing of our strength yet, but it takes time to care again about something we did honestly try at and get shut down by the bracketing system like we did. In all honesty, I wish we could have had another week with SoR and YB to really determine who the winner was. SoR just happened to be in the lead for the last ten or so hours before the week was up, but the truth is, at various parts through that week every server had just as much of a lead as SoR did in the end. I’m glad they both got to stay in their bracket though, it should be a lot of fun for them.

Well technically we went UP in our ratings. We only dropped a bracket because the increase in our score was not enough to overtake yaks or SoR… just barely. And GoM acquired alot of points from a dominating performance in this performance and jumped us.