Guild Wars 2

Andy.9137:

Raf.1078:

destoyer of lives.7963:

Good job TC taking your bay back………but i have one question…….how do you use an ac to hit lords room from outside north inner gate?……good thing everyone took screenshots of it.

You should probably be directing that question to ANet. If it wasn’t possible before the patch and now it is, then most likely its an unforseen side effect of the AC buff that someone discovered and made use of.

Thats not an exploit….its a bug.

Not unlike the leg mechanic for warriors on AC’s that someone discovered and everyone used until ANet fixed it.

Uhh..well actually. Making use of a bug that wasn’t intended by anet which apparently gives advantage over others, is an exploit.

How do you know its not intended? Just because it wasn’t possible before doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be possible now with the AC buff. Unless ANet addresses it, its there for all to use and ANet to fix if it unintentional.

destoyer of lives.7963:

Raf.1078:

destoyer of lives.7963:

Good job TC taking your bay back………but i have one question…….how do you use an ac to hit lords room from outside north inner gate?……good thing everyone took screenshots of it.

You should probably be directing that question to ANet. If it wasn’t possible before the patch and now it is, then most likely its an unforseen side effect of the AC buff that someone discovered and made use of.

Thats not an exploit….its a bug.

Not unlike the leg mechanic for warriors on AC’s that someone discovered and everyone used until ANet fixed it.

I never said the “E” word. but it is what it is……..the person on the ac knew what they was doing bottom line

Just like every warrior on every server traited for “legs” and used that unforseen buff until it was fixed. Just like peeps in your zerg are gonna be using this buff too.

Until its fixed..or not..as ANet desires.

Maybe it was intentional on their part?

destoyer of lives.7963:

Good job TC taking your bay back………but i have one question…….how do you use an ac to hit lords room from outside north inner gate?……good thing everyone took screenshots of it.

You should probably be directing that question to ANet. If it wasn’t possible before the patch and now it is, then most likely its an unforseen side effect of the AC buff that someone discovered and made use of.

Thats not an exploit….its a bug.

Not unlike the leg mechanic for warriors on AC’s that someone discovered and everyone used until ANet fixed it.

Mif.3471:

Heijincks.9267:

Factor in that practically 50% of the anti-arrow cart posts in this thread are from VoTF members.

After 5 minutes spent with Ctrl+F, I can tell you that 193 of 1316 posts are from around half a dozen VoTF members. And that’s only the VoTF members that advertise it in their signature…

It makes it pretty clear that this thread does not represent the opinion of the greater WvW community, and is nothing but a campaign run by a small group of posters to get their way.

Perhaps VoTF is sitting on a pile of now useless golems?

Caliban.3176:

spconder.2489:

Keeps and towers SHOULD be hard to capture. The whole point of building a fort is to give the defenders a rather substantial advantage, no? Knowing this, who in their right mind would walk up and try to PvDoor a fort? It doesn’t matter how many people you have, it only takes one person to drop the pot of burning oil/tar on your head. And boiling tar tends to leave a slight rash.

I totally agree with this. It is great that this was never a problem before, keeps and towers were hard to capture if defended. Many keep sieges have failed an hour or 2 of work. There was no need to change anything about that.

Well…maybe. But in T1 or T2…. Multiple golem rushes make a mockery of of fully upgraded keeps and towers. Reinforced doors melt so quick you barely have time to make it to inner. Golems followed by overwhelming zergs.

I think this was an attempt to equalize that. But, maybe deactivating/nerfing golems would allow them to crank the AC’s back to normal. And we could go to strategically placed normal siege.

I get the feeling that the AC thing was an ANet knee jerk response to the use and effect of golem rushes on fully upgraded keeps & towers. Which basically makes a mockery of reinforced doors / walls etc..

Get rid of golems, crank the AC’s back to normal and lets all utilize real siege craft. Taking keeps should be difficult, but doable… with rams, trebs and catas.

Try dagger/dagger for solo. I run a staff ele in wvw. I leveled my ele from 25 to 80 mostly in wvw. Running with a staff and a assisting a large group lets you focus on aoe healing, crowd control and dps. Something the staff is good for.

Good group profession. Solo can be challenging..so keep moving and switching attunements. A few points in the arcane trait line will increase your speed of switching att’s also.

I have all 8 profession w/ 5 lvl 80’s now. Working on my least favorites now…which include the warrior (lvl 40), mesmer (lvl 35) & thief (lvl 71 and prob the next 80).

I have a ton of fun on my necro & ele in wvw. For map completion or harvesting, nothing is better than my ranger.

Love the way my giant Norn looks in full plate. None of the sissy draconic stuff…transmuted all that back to a karma look I found in the Timberline falls / Lornar’s Pass areas.

That said, giant norns can be a real pita in jumping puzzles…plus they make dandy targets in WvW.

PvE, he looks good though.

www.radiorivendell.com

Yes..please go GvG.

We’ll take your garrison while you play tennis on the golf course.

ykyk.2740:

Raf.1078:

Tearofsoul.9843:

Hello, players from Kain, looks like you guys are “worthless” to PiNK & TC according to their conversations.

PS: I am just a messenger

How interesting that an FA player has a screenie showing a party chat in TC.

That’s a screenie posted by one of TC earlier lol

Guess I missed that. Just got here…deleted…my bad.

Evalana.5480:

If we had spies on TC – They would be pretty crummy spies, all things considered, lol

Not disagreeing with how crummy they are.

But they are there and you (some of you) kitten well know it. They just aren’t really making any difference.

Flaming Sword is handy for helping the rams take down keep & tower doors a bit faster in WvW. Plus it gives a spare to another player.

About all I use it for, actually.

Kreaven.3172:

Arkard.3970:

Raf.1078:

Arkard.3970:

Ezeriel.9574:

FA is definitely losing coverage…

Just now TC golem rushed our keep in EB. There was a total of three people inside to defend it… with one arrow cart… and they Golem rushed us…

As 20-30 TC players bashed down one door, I ran through another and right into another 20-30 TC players.

During the daytime hours, FA just doesn’t have the numbers. We might be able to get 10-15 players per map; including the one or two spies that call out “TC zerg at bravost get here fast!” while TC takes langor and kain takes QL…

All in all, it’s just getting old

Spies? >_<

Well, at least its confirmed now. We’ve always thought they were there. Sometimes thier squads respond faster than we do. Pretty sure they are on the voice server too.

Pretty kitten pathetic.

Shrug yeah I know we’ve known about the spies. Just surprised at the slip. Also, really now, there’s no confusing spies and scouts.

I hate to agree with the enemy here. But don’t cause drama where there need be none. He meant scout. It is not hard to read it and know what he meant. Are there spies? Probably. But I do not believe he was talking about one.

Hell when I do my little command thing(Dont have a tag yet = (.. )I generally find a brave thief to go and tail the enemy zergs.

I think it was slip of the tongue, personally. We know FA has spies on our server. Pretending they don’t exist is silly.

Not that it matters though, in the long run.

Arkard.3970:

Ezeriel.9574:

FA is definitely losing coverage…

Just now TC golem rushed our keep in EB. There was a total of three people inside to defend it… with one arrow cart… and they Golem rushed us…

As 20-30 TC players bashed down one door, I ran through another and right into another 20-30 TC players.

During the daytime hours, FA just doesn’t have the numbers. We might be able to get 10-15 players per map; including the one or two spies that call out “TC zerg at bravost get here fast!” while TC takes langor and kain takes QL…

All in all, it’s just getting old

Spies? >_<

Well, at least its confirmed now. We’ve always thought they were there. Sometimes thier squads respond faster than we do. Pretty sure they are on the voice server too.

Pretty kitten pathetic.

Dikeido.8436:

IndigoSundown.5419:

Vaulken.6983:

Are you trying to insinuate that TERAs combat is inferior to GW2? GW2 has everything else on TERA but its combat.

Tera roots characters on any skill that is non-instant. That alone makes it inferior.

Yep yep I totally agreed on that.

I lasted maybe 4 weeks in TERA before going back to EQ2 to wait on GW2. Didn’t like the combat interface and the character animation is just weird. Plus I absolutely hate weapons the size of telephone poles.

nibbles.2408:

Torqky.3682:

Lets not spoil the Game of Thrones for people watching the show still haha. In before someone points out that lannisters have been hiding in their keeps and refuse to fight in the open field. Trolls incoming!

Wait, some people still haven’t read the books? For shame. =)

But Nib,

That series of books has been going on for nearly 22 years (longer than some peeps in this forum have been alive)….and Martin still isn’t finished with it.

I read the first 4 over 12 years or so, then gave up. I’ll re-read them all at once when Martin kicks the bucket or finishes the series. That guy is gettin on up there in years.

We suck at WvW…but we can beat you at GvG?

Talk about a strawman arguments.

Bursts.1540:

Professor Sensei.2941:

So I was hearing something about FA is better than TC? I think I’ve only ever seen TC lose to them once and every other time it’s just a server to chase around for loot bags. Why do I keep hearing from random FA players added me to party that our server is trash?

Those players consider winning as wiping the other server. From judging your post you play for ppt and coverage am I right? Just differences of opinion. See you out there in your zerg ball.

Biggest Zergball I’ve ever seen belonged to FA on reset last week….in our Garrison.

Inprognito.9487:

Raf.1078:

Inprognito.9487:

Looks like this is the start of T2 blowout matches. Oh well, we’ll still have fun holding to what ppt we can!

P.S. I will miss the days of the matches ending within 30k points, no matter who wins.

Not unlike the blow-out days of TC / BG / KA?

Though, I have to say I like the line up a bit better this time than back then.

Early on they were’nt as much of a blowout, that is before BG got all their transfers. Those matches finished about 60k? or so apart in the end but it was done evenly throughout the week. TC gained a huge lead in just 2 days, i’m interested to see what kind of lead they have by next friday. Actually may be enough that in a couple weeks Kain will be having a vacation in T3. We shall see

Really?? Kain in T3?…..not unless you guys just gave up. I mean, TC held 3rd in T2 for weeks.

And 3rd in T2 is infinitely better than top o the heap in T3. That just gets boring really quick.

Naw…you guys need to hang in here.

SquirtyMagoo.8321:

Littlefeather.8623:

“Whatever makes you feel better, I suppose. Our 5 man wipes anything less than 30 people. If you’re running more than 30 people, the simple fact that you’re sticking as a huge ball like that is a time sink on its own.”

What does a 5 man SPvP team accomplish in WvW anyway?, I mean seriously, besides supply camps and harrasing solo roamers…

They pretty much harass stragglers and pug zergs. They are pretty effective against unorganised groups that aren’t too big, but I feel like most of the zergs in this tier are too big for them to be able to do anything to.

They do harass stragglers quite a bit. Those trying to get back to the battle….5 on 1…now there is a challenge for them for all their bellowing about looking for good fights.

Inprognito.9487:

Looks like this is the start of T2 blowout matches. Oh well, we’ll still have fun holding to what ppt we can!

P.S. I will miss the days of the matches ending within 30k points, no matter who wins.

Not unlike the blow-out days of TC / BG / KA?

Though, I have to say I like the line up a bit better this time than back then.

Humanity has been praying to one diety or another since the days of living in caves. Worship of the unseen is most likely more firmly fixed in the racial meme than almost any other concept.

There has always been questioners throughout time…but by and large the greater part of the population has probably considered the possibility. So why not video games? Are they so different than any other grouping of humans?

Arkanfel.8403:

Ren.6351:

First time poking in this thread. I know there’s been a huge uproar about our moving to TC and I can only say we moved to just have some fights.

You want fights so you transfer to the largest, most active server in the tier? For most of the day (NA) TC’s zerg is so gigantic that you have to run from it.

It really ticks me off how TC was so gung-ho about “supporting” our recruitment efforts, yet look who is getting all the transfers. I have a sneaking suspicion that the days of a competitive T2 are rapidly nearing an end.

KA griping about another server’s giant zerg is just downright hilarious.

Out of a Guild of 95….we’re lucky to pull 15-20 in WvW on any given day. Sometimes less. Dungeons, Fractals, Spvp and just plain Pve make up for the rest.

Not everyone is a fan of WvW.

Isle of Jaspenwood…..hmmm?

A double standard in place it seems.

Once I got hooked on WvW, almost every part of PvE is exactly the way you describe WvW. Only time you find me in PvE is while I’m waiting on a queue or crafting a new set of armor.

To each thier own.

No one says you have to do them. I think I’ve done…maybe 3??..since they started them. And those just happened.

If your game has become a job, it because you made it one.

Its different in GW2. Being able to multi-guild doesn’t promote as strong a bond to an single guild as almost all previous games have done in the past. It took me quite awhile to get used to this. Finally, I just embraced it as part of the game…but I still don’t think the guild system is as strong as other games.

But given that game mechanic? Why is it such an issue? Your members could still maintain the current guild and join the larger guild at the same time.

I’d say you just need to find better company. There is no reason for anyone to put up with bs like that. A more mature guild might help, perhaps?

CHIPS.6018:

GG TC. We will get our revenge next week.

Where did you guys get all those extra manpower this week btw? Internal recruitment or guild transfers?

A lot of people just plain quit WvW’ing due to culling. Quite a few have come back. And while there is some complaints over lag…most seem to no mind the lag as much as culling. So, maybe that accounts for some of the extra manpower….I know several folks who are now playing WvW again.

That or they just haven’t had time to get tired of the lag.

You could offer the inhabitants of the bottom 3 servers free transfers to the server of their choice , then turn that Tier into 3 maps of open world pvp…no more ppts…open keeps & towers to seige up for bases, but no points invlolved in taking them…no camps…

Just open world pvp

I love the tongue in cheek vibe of GW2. A sense of humor in any situation is not a bad thing. RL or Gaming.

Have never found it either. Been playing since the early betas. Have all 8 professions…3 lvl 90, 3 level 70-ish’s….

A truce will probably end up like the Dolyak parade. Mostly because no one has complete control or even agreement from everyone on thier server.

Somewhere, sometime there will “always” those players who will spoil anything…just cause they can.

Bursts.1540:

FA did not get to t2 by playing ppt, they did it by having fun. You get to tier 1 by ppt and coverage, other then that there isn’t a server besides t1 servers that know the ppt game and coverage game.

Nobody get to to T2 without being aware and playing towards ppt somewhere along the way. If you had fun while you were doing it, so much the better for ya’ll. But you can’t separate them and still remain honest with yourself.

Battling for 4, 5 & 6 out of total of 24 servers consistantly pretty much insures there are no losers in this Tier. Not taken in the context of the whole of WvW. T1 may be out of reach for all 3 of us, but given the bullkitten that goes with T1…who needs it anyway.

nibbles.2408:

Raf.1078:

nibbles.2408:

Haha we are outnumbered pretty badly right now. KN and TC zergs rolled through our BL fairly handily, all while we were rocking the Outmanned Buff. It was pretty awesome how TC was trebbing/cata’ing our Garri and KN ninja’ed it out from under us because we were so focused on TC.

Overall though this is pretty fun, very “back against the wall” against all odds feel. =)

That ain’t 2 v1 though…that is opportunity knocking and someone jumping all over it. 2 v1 would have the KN & TC commanders plotting together and agreeing on attack or agreeing not to attack each other.

This isn’t happening. Red is Dead on every server outside of the fight clubs.

Where did I say it was a 2v1? Nowhere… I feel like some of you are way too defensive. One person posts a 2v1 complaint and 6 different people reply to decry the accusation. Then you try to say a post not about 2v1 is a complaint of 2v1…?

Those whose claim 2v1 clearly do not understand how WvW works and that point has been hashed and rehashed multiple times over multiple threads over multiple months of gaming. If they don’t grasp the concept by now they never will. The best response to 2v1? Nothing. My advice is to ignore it, as all ignorant posts should be.

Talk about defensive…sheesh.

Your post was the last one in a series of gripes about 2 v1. I just took it in that context and pointed out that 2v1 is just one server taking advantage of a situation. We all do it.

Big deal. Its part of the game.

Furiousbeard.7602:

Hmmm, hit the gym tonight, or go home and punish the scoreboard… mwahahaha

how about both?!?!

Somebody gonna get hurt real bad

Yeah…better watch that rotator cuff

nibbles.2408:

Haha we are outnumbered pretty badly right now. KN and TC zergs rolled through our BL fairly handily, all while we were rocking the Outmanned Buff. It was pretty awesome how TC was trebbing/cata’ing our Garri and KN ninja’ed it out from under us because we were so focused on TC.

Overall though this is pretty fun, very “back against the wall” against all odds feel. =)

That ain’t 2 v1 though…that is opportunity knocking and someone jumping all over it. 2 v1 would have the KN & TC commanders plotting together and agreeing on attack or agreeing not to attack each other.

This isn’t happening. Red is Dead on every server outside of the fight clubs.

Daeqar.8965:

Raf.1078:

Kalkz.5297:

Keep with a waypoint shouldn’t show under attack unless there’s a Ram or any kind of siege is hitting it, i think Having 1 person running around all day hitting gates to stop your enemy from spawning is just wrong, Basically it it Shows (UNDER ATTACK) while its NOT (UNDER ATTACK), Same thing goes with towers, my whole point is, things shouldn’t show (under attack) unless somehow its under serious attack, opnions ?

Having a sentry at your keeps and towers would put a stop to that tactic.

Not likely. It’s pretty easy to do a drive by on a door and then escape the few angry defenders that give chase – at least for some classes.

I didn’t mean it would stop the Thief (or whatever)…I meant that having a live sentry to do a quick sweep of the tower or keep would stop your forces from having to respond to the swords.

Trebs are a distance weapon for taking down walls. SW works pretty well against those shots with several Ele’s blocking from the safety of walls.

Catapults have a faster rate of fire and are shorter ranged…no efficient way for an ele using SW to counter those. The CD for Swirling Winds is no less than 24 sec and you have to trait for that. Ele’s trying to block cata’s with SW are meat for the zerg. They won’t last long.

Kalkz.5297:

Keep with a waypoint shouldn’t show under attack unless there’s a Ram or any kind of siege is hitting it, i think Having 1 person running around all day hitting gates to stop your enemy from spawning is just wrong, Basically it it Shows (UNDER ATTACK) while its NOT (UNDER ATTACK), Same thing goes with towers, my whole point is, things shouldn’t show (under attack) unless somehow its under serious attack, opnions ?

Having a sentry at your keeps and towers would put a stop to that tactic.

I don’t have any problem with the skill. I think its a fair use of available skills. I’d hate to see it get “fixed”, personally.

Reize.2176:

Just avoid making an Engineer,Ranger or a Necromancer. Thats all.

I have all 3…and do fine on all of them.

Actually I have all the classes and none of them are intrinsically bad.

Choose the class you think you might enjoy playing, OP. Or just play all of them and decide for yourself.

It really is a supply chain issue. 5 peeps can’t carry enough supply to take down a reinforced door or wall. Unless they ninja an unguarded keep or tower and run supply.

Zergs are the most efficient supply chain. Large zergs can put down multiple rams n’ catas over for inner and outer doors/walls withou ever making a supply run. Large zergs can fortify a keep or tower in just a couple of supply runs. Blitzkreig in a nutshell.

Its the nature of WvW. A better fix for those wanting smaller groups would be for ANet to redo spvp in some fashion. Or for those so inclined to just be satisfied with popping camps and yaks. Or, as mentioned before, ninja-ing keeps or towers.

As long as supply is such a critical factor in this game. Large zergs are the equivalent of a fleet of 18 wheelers compared the horse and wagon small groups.

WyldKat.4712:

I let myself fall for the propaganja and have been hanging out in TC BL for the last few days. I’ve even taken to plinking TC people when I have a choice between them and the Kaineng folk.

Am I supposed to call them KN? That’s a LOT nicer than some of the names I’ve fumbled upon them recently. Is it Kai-neng or Kain-eng anyway?

TC! I r n ur BL killin’ yo yaks! Someone call me an exorcist, the stupid has overtaken me.

Yer time is a’comin..oh killer of cows.

Odaman.8359:

Furiousbeard.7602:

Can we please put this to rest?

Not yet, we need more sane FA to drown out the whines of a few of our allies. Looking forward to tonight though, hopefully we’ll see more TC out… you guys probably had an easter egg hunt in divinity’s reach amirite?

Yes…an RP Easter Egg Hunt replete with gallons of PinK dye provided by (that) guild, bunny ears, dolyaks and Super Adventure Boxes.

Its just the way it is here in TC land

Tearofsoul.9843:

IRSyKo.5843:

rchu.8945:

hello,

T1 player here looking to transfer to a lower tier, how is the WvW scene in T2, is it anything like T1 with mega zerg balls in all WvW maps? Hows the skill lag for you guys?

Sometimes there is.

Sometimes there isn’t

Look! “80-man” BT zerg is here, let’s switch borderland!

Yeah…you can join your own FA 100 man zerg ball rolling TCBL.

Looked like someone had kicked over a fire ant bed on Sunday.