Guild Wars 2

GrandmaFunk.3052:

Since coverage mostly applies to the game when I’m not around, I don’t see why I need to care about it, it doesn’t affect my personal playing experience in any way.

and generally speaking: lower tier means less people, less people means my individual impact/contribution matters a whole lot more.

so my question to you is: if you’re a hardcore WvWer, why are you wasting your time in the high tiers?

This ^

Xom.9264:

It will be something to see overtime if people stick to their guns with the group vs group fights. Will the losers eventually zerg? I say most will turn to greater numbers if they are handed a few loses in a row, the only people I seen not call in more people was BS they changed group make up came back and got us. Everyone else comes back with more people without fail.

We only have 5 active people in our guild + 1 drunk Mesmer who logs on 1 or 2 times a week so the most we can come back at you with is 5 1/2 lol.

Gettin our kitten kicked by KoM, PAXA, and BS. But it’s been a blast, they’ve done 0 trash talking, and hopefully we can step it up to their level.

More small guilds should come check this out. Our Guild was pretty much done with this game till we decided to give this a last chance shot and so far we’ve been playing 10+ hours a day because we’re having so much fun.

Been really fun so far though my ego is taking a huge hit from losing to small groups that we sometimes outnumber. Thanks all!

Most of us just sold some of our mat’s out of collectibles and we all should have enough money to transfer. Planning on moving to FC on friday.

Jscull.2514:

For all of those interested in the tier wide havoc/small man tier creation meeting post here or send me a pm for info. We are planning on having our first voice chat meeting
Tomorrow to get the ball rolling at 9:30 EST. we can discuss who has real interest and what people are looking for in their “small mans” pvp.

Looking forward to having people who like to kill players in game and not doors on the same BL as us.

Meeting in 20 mins post here or PM this guy if your interested.

Time to watch all the fail warriors in spvp the next day or so until they realize warrior is still by far the worst spvp class and boon hate does nothing to help them since its 30 points in our discipline tree.

Gaile Gray.6028:

You shouldn’t normally even need the code. But if you do, the team can work with other info that proves you’re the account owner, so I wouldn’t be too stressed about this. I don’t believe that we can provide the code through a ticket, because that could lead to fraudulent claims of account ownership, but of course you are welcome to discuss with Support.

When your game decides we need to change our password for no reason it makes us use the code, so yes we need it.

The whole point of this ladder thing was to make the tpvp players buy a second account so they can actually keep playing when their 5 man teams are not all logged on and anet can make more money wasn’t it? Making people drop down the ladder from inactivity would seem to contradict this.

Any idea on what day this meeting is on?

My guild might be game for this, it might take us a week or so to get enough money for transfer though.

OP can’t you just lose bleeds last 50% longer and grab the vulnerability trait?

Leo G.4501:

Rez.2578:

Well it would be 3 mobs Namu not 5, since warrior max target on 100b is 3 not 5. The food heals for 325 and 100b hits 9 times. So hitting 3 mobs for the full 4 second channel would give you 27 chances to crit. With the food procing on 66% of crits that would give you a 5,850 heal if you have 100% crit chance.

I wouldn’t consider a under 6k heal to be vastly higher then any other heal in the game.

Also, take into consideration that HB is a sub-10sec cooldown skill while the weakest of heals recharge in 15sec and some of the strongest cooldown in 30sec. Also, this heal was continuous as long as you attack. The dev’s statement about “Hundred Blades being the best heal” was more a whimsical exaggeration that was closer to truth than stretching it. It certainly healed for more than my Mirror which is a 1 1/4sec cast on a 15sec recharge and used to only reflect attacks for 1sec…The skill is more a reactionary heal but could do practically nothing to bring me back from 1/4 of an HP ball.

Agree but to be fair the warrior will be taking more then the heal amount in damage during the 100b channel during most aoe pulls. I didn’t use the food to heal me after I was low I used the food to keep me from dying while channeling.

Well it would be 3 mobs Namu not 5, since warrior max target on 100b is 3 not 5. The food heals for 325 and 100b hits 9 times. So hitting 3 mobs for the full 4 second channel would give you 27 chances to crit. With the food procing on 66% of crits that would give you a 5,850 heal if you have 100% crit chance.

I wouldn’t consider a under 6k heal to be vastly higher then any other heal in the game. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Signet_of_Resolve

Caedmon.6798:

Why do they act like warriors were the only people running around with the food buff ? EVERYBODY was running around with it,especially thiefs.

Because of our high up-time on Fury, High base HP, Channeled melee attacks, and high melee desired play-style I think the food benefited us more then any other class.

Sorry Leo its hard to tell with so many people coming over here that don’t even play warrior just trying to troll us.

I’ve only played warrior, no other class, and 75%+ of my play time has been with GS so that really is all I’m thinking about. Since you have 3 lvl 80s maybe you can help me understand on what I’m missing on the overall effect of this change? I could of easily missed it but I didn’t see any of the player base asking for the healing food to be nerfed before it happened (and you know how the player base is, people are always wanting something nerfed.)

Have you played a lvl 80 warrior Leo G? Omnom didn’t take any thinking out of using HB you had to time it right or be ready to cancel it. But nerfing Omnom on the other hand took all thinking out of using HB now you just know you can never use it on trash mobs or in group wvw.

Ascended trinkets/back are one of the best ways to get Crit Damage.

The link in the post 2 above me is about exotic not ascended.

Here is one with Ascended: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/18voh7/a_long_painful_analysis_of_effective_power/

" The best heal in the game can’t be 100 blades or other similar attacks. If you want to play a glass cannon, there should be danger involved, and the food buff mitigated the danger and allowed glass cannons to stand and trade blows without having to utilize their own heals or dodge rolls. They could just stand still and win "

Was anyone able to do this? I used the food with a Greatsword and it was nowhere near as OP as Robert Hrouda makes it sound unless I was doing something wrong? Sure it allowed me to get off a full 100b when there are 10 dredge mobs hitting on me but not if I am full glass cannon and only during 100b when not channeling 100b I for sure had to use my dodge rolls and big heal. Also the stand still and win thing, 100b forces you to stand still do to their design and the Greatsword damage is based around 100b therefor the game is designed to make us stand still but now without the food I die alot more times per fractal run then the rest of my guild since I have to stack toughness to live but yet stacking toughness makes me get agro of the whole pack of mobs that they put in fractals and with no heals now and no protection I’m just getting face rolled.

As a warrior I was really hoping they were going to buff warrior spvp up to match how effective we were in pve and wvw but instead they nerfed the pve and wvw warrior down to the spvp warrior level…

P.S. I never used Axe/Axe with the healing food so maybe that was OP but the Dev specifically says 100b and in my opinion the food with gs made us viable to a party not OP.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-Patch-Discussion-2-26/page/2#post1528771

Robert Hrouda:
“For those upset about the changes I made to Food items that life steal on crit, and the spy kit, here’s some words:
Spy Kits: permanent stealth at the cost of karma isn’t good. It’s practically exploitative since it’s a pay-karma-to-win scenario, and it needed to change. We test all of our dungeon content without the use of external items to make sure it is all capable of being completed. This has led though, to a recent surge in players using items from the open world in dungeons to trivialize content or outright break bosses designed to present a specific challenge to a five man group.
Food item life steal on crit Cooldown: The best heal in the game can’t be 100 blades or other similar attacks. If you want to play a glass cannon, there should be danger involved, and the food buff mitigated the danger and allowed glass cannons to stand and trade blows without having to utilize their own heals or dodge rolls. They could just stand still and win – and that’s not the type of dynamic combat we want for our game. We test our content without the food buffs to ensure they are capable to players without access to them, and make sure the balance is good enough for players who don’t have those buffs. There are a lot of other viable food buffs in the game, and this one food buff meant a core few items were dominating all the others.
For those also thinking I went rogue and did this, I went through all the checks and balances, and discussed the changes with leads. While I do have the power to change dungeons, things that affect the world outside of dungeons is handled through meetings to make sure everyone is on board with a proposed solution.”

Hunlerzfang.4386:

To the four black gate that were willing to duel me over and over in the Tarnished Coast borderlands and showed such honor in victory and defeat. Thank you for being amazing. I was the TC Dagger/Dagger Ele from the guild “What is this Nonsense” and would love to duel you again. You were an Asura warrior, a Human mesmer (Who kicked my kitten ) a Sylvari engineer and a Human warrior. Thank you so much for making my night and taking time to simply do awesome things in game. It’s people like you that make the game worth playing. All of my respect.
-Tiffy
/salute

Thanks we had fun too! I was the Asura Warrior.

Scale Venom is just another consumable like food, why disable it with stuff like Gears.

Sam.3645:

Sunspots.9861:

Here’s an exciting look at last night from [PiNK]’s perspective. Pretty raw footage but it was a great series of fights so I left it all the way to my own demise! Enjoy! Make sure to watch it in 1080p.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTTQ5poq0RY

There was a Anet Dev (Who I shall not name) that ran with our zerg, let’s see if you guys can spot him in that cluster of kittens :P

I helped kill him when you guys moved to north camp and he was slow to follow :P

Here is a link to look at the build in more detail. Use heal on crit food and Ruby Orbs in gear. All your gear/trinkets/weapons should be Berserker or Knights.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-sg-70;0RKkN0P4ZL-60;9;4JOE-948-49-1;34;0J;04;9-5RK
*Copy and paste.

Agro everything, stand next to one of the scouts and do a frenzy/endure pain HB to kill everything but the lord who will be almost dead and 1 scout. Berserker with a few pieces of Knight’s gear, high crit chance and heal on crit food its easy.

Spiral Architect.6540:

Rez.2578:

<snip> …or20/25/15/0/10 with all the adrenaline traits.

Interesting. Are you thinking something like this?:

Strength 20 (V, IX)
Arms 25 (V, X)
Defense 15 (I)
Tactics 0
Discipline 10 (II)

Yeah but Discipline (V) and never use burst abilities so you always have max Adrenaline. Also Defense VI if your group uses Scale Venom for 100% weakness on bosses.

Beefcake.9032:

Rez.2578:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-sg-70FCRKkN0;0ZL-60;9;4JO-9E48-49;25;05;0L-V0-Rk0KJG4KJG45Rg

I’ve also been running this exact build for a while now. Also mixing Knight’s/Zerk +Lyssa. GS with Fire Sigil.
I have dual axes as offhand for fast Bloodlust stacks, Omnom-healing (Whirling Axes), Axe-cyclone, chop and Eviscerate are also nice. Switch to rifle situationally.

Mending – FGJ / SoS / Balanced Stance – SoR

Rez.2578:

If for some reason I decided I didn’t like Lyssa Runes I would switch in Ruby Orbs and change the build to:
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-sg-70FCRKkN0;0ZL-60;9;4JOE9-48-49-5;01;3L-V0-Rk0sV2DsV2D5RD

For Ruby Orbs I’d probably switch to 20/30/0/0/20

Ya same here, 2 axes for Bloodlust and use them for trash and put in rifle for bosses.

20/30/0/0/20 would be a good build for Ruby Orbs for sure, or 20/25/15/0/10 with all the adrenaline traits.

CookMETEnder.7582:

You two run the same exact build except the choices in equipment.
For equipment, I definitely would say berserker all as you get used to playing.

Questions for you two:
1. Do you guys use the GS burst skill? I have found a few people arguing that if you go with a build that traits Berserker’s Power and Heightened Focus, then you should not use burst unless you have multiple sources of fast adrenaline regen (not just fast attacking).
2. How do you guys fare in end-game content? Not trash mobs, but hard dungeons, fractal high levels, etc. What about in low level when helping? Solo roaming (tanking a group and killing them, etc.)?
3. What is your general playstyle? Do you guys initiate with longbow skills or charge right in and use LB only for boss fights (combo field w/ F1 and such). Why not Rifle over LB?

Oh, and why not 5 more points into Arms to get 10% To bleeding foes?
Also, how much crit % can you SUSTAIN indefinitely? (Food included)
^Realistically speaking w/ food.

1. When I use GS/Rifle I never use burst skills other then maybe a rare kill shot for laughs. If you throw in Bow instead of Rifle then I use the Bow Burst followed with #3 and #4 and/or #2 then switch back to GS(5 Sec Weapon Swap build)

2. I’m only up to Fractal lvl 29 but as long as I have enough Agony Resist I’ve had no problems with any fights in there, with 5 sec weapon swap and GS/Rifle I just bounce out every now and then for a rifle #3 and a couple #1’s to heal up/wait for cool-downs.

3. I use GS for 80% of the fight on all Fractal Bosses other then the Dredge Final boss which the whole group kites around. Most the time if I die its just because I messed up and got hit by a big move even though I had enough endurance to dodge roll or GS #3 off cd.

Oh. My build has 25 Arms.
Also. 3,283 Attack not counting Might stacks or Bloodlust stacks. 61% Crit Chance with food plus I’m at 81% because of Fury for 46 out of every 48 secs. 71% Crit Damage. 2,365 Armor and 19,672 HP.

Then with traits I get 12% more damage with full adrenaline, 10% more damage when using GS, 10% more damage if my target has Bleed on, and 1.5%(?) more damage for each active boon I have one.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-sg-70FCRKkN0;0ZL-60;9;4JO-9E48-49;25;05;0L-V0-Rk0KJG4KJG45Rg

Here is what I’ve settled on after a lot of different builds. Any of the 3 heals work, use your favorite or jump around between them depending what your fighting and the blank utility I switch between Frenzy, Endure Pain, Balance Stance, or Shake it Off.

The gear started off as Full Knight (Toughness/Power/Precision) but I added in Berserker (Power/Precision/Critical Damage) every now and then for more damage and now I only have Knight Helmet, Legs, Chest, and GS everything else is Berserker.

I use Omnomberry Pie, Superior Sharpening Stone and Scale Venom(On Bosses) as my consumables.

If for some reason I decided I didn’t like Lyssa Runes I would switch in Ruby Orbs and change the build to:
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-sg-70FCRKkN0;0ZL-60;9;4JOE9-48-49-5;01;3L-V0-Rk0sV2DsV2D5RD

*You’ll need to copy the link into your browser to get them to work.

The orbs stopped servers from doing what they do now (Everyone pile on 1-2 maps if you don’t have enough to que all 4 maps and zerg the map to death.) I cringe inside when I look at the maps and Blue BL is 90% blue, Green BL is 90% Green, Red BL is 90% Red and EB is the only one with 3 way fights happening.

I think if the Orbs were brought back it might break things up and bring back 3 way fights to all BLs.

lol TC has the most fun forum warriors. Thanks all!

Spitjaw.2987:

For me new system is like..10 million times better.
And no..i am not running in zergs.
Also…thiefs are insta rendered now as soon as they start attacking out of stealth.

ALSO..this is just my personal experience.
Love those changes.

Same for me.

Tallis.5607:

The way I see it, explained by an example…

Next week’s tier, is fully based on the score of what the servers will have friday at reset, with the old system. I take the numbers from http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA as example)

T1 = JQ, SoR & SoS
T2 = BG, TC & FA
T3 = Kai, Mag, DB
T4 = SI, YB, CD
T5 = EB, IoJ, DR
…

All servers will have ‘Old ranking = 0’ in the first week.

Assume the following scores at the end of week 1.
T1 = JQ = 90k, SoR = 80k & SoS = 70k
T2 = BG = 51k, TC = 121k & FA = 71k
T3 = Kai = 92k, Mag = 82k & DB = 72k
T4 = SI = 103k, YB = 83k, CD = 63k
T5 = EB = 84k, IoJ = 94k, DR = 74k

Then week 2 will look like this
T1 = TC, SI & IoJ
T2 = EB, YB & Kai
T3 = JQ, Mag, DB
T4 = SoR, FA, CD
T5 = SoS, DR & BG.

So, the tiers in week 2 will be 100% based on the margin of victory in the first week. Because everyone’s ranking in the fiorst week is the same, there are no higher or lower ranked servers in your tier, so this factor is not taken into account.

Week 3 ups and downs will depend on the same as now, the margin of victory and the ranking of the serves in your tier compared to your own ranking.

This is the week were the old top servers are going to have to proof themselves.

And it will be pure, blind luck for the other servers if they will be pitted against a top-3 server or not in this week.

Result?
Lower servers will be tempted to do what SoR did last week and manipulate the rankings at the end of week 2. Just a few points up or down can make a huge difference: it will decide if you are in a tier with a top-3 server in the 3rd week or not. And the result in week 3 is very important, they will determine where your server will be in week 4 much, much more than the results determine rankking snow, due to the reset.

Your math is flawed, TC will never beat BG =P

Best thing about BG is all the small/medium guilds that work together instead of forming one big zerg ball. So if the zerg isn’t your thing but you still want to fight in the top 2 tiers you can find alot of like minded people here.

Mikitten058:

Maelwaedd.5842:

Commander from SoR on TC borderland contact me immediately in game

If it’s about Bay, we had 2 mesmers hiding. (The only reason I know which location without you mentioning is someone contacted Alpaca Owl, and its over TS atm.)
1st mesmer was killed by BG, 2nd ran past 2 afk BG’s to potal us into Bay keep so we could take it.
If you want to know, the 2 AFK BG’s were on the cliffside, and the mesmer ran past them, dropped a portal on the top of the cliff, followed by one on the bottom of the cliff where we were stacked. The mesmers hid prior to BG taking BAY and one was killed during our push on the NW tower to take that from TC.

Lite/Potato were the mesmers, and Lite was on his alt, he’s the one y’all didnt kill.

I’m on BG and our 5 man guild group plus 2 pugs went through the NE wall at Bay that TC had treb’d down and hid by the SE gate till after TC capped it and quickly ran off, without sweeping, to defend garrison from SoR. So we went and broke down the inner gate and capped the lord. But since there were only 7 of us we couldn’t sweep Bay fast enough to check for any TC or possible SoR since SoR owned it 15 mins prior. And we saw SoR get portal’d up and take it back from us. I’m 99% sure SoR did not hack as they could of easily had mesmers still hiding.

P.S. We’re gonna get you back [CDS] one of these days, my guild was able to wipe you guys 2 times a couple weeks ago in open field but since then you’ve wiped us about 6 times lol.

Fail………………………………

Was interesting to read even if it didn’t reveal anything. Most mathematical posts I can’t keep up with so I give up after the first few lines but you do a good job at putting it in a way I could understand thanks for your posts.

Coldviper.6794:

IoJ is gonna get crushed. That’s something new.

I wouldn’t bet on it, they have some serious fight in them.

I’m so glad I’m on Blackgate and not any of the other top 6 servers all you guys do is whine and kitten. I’ve lost track on the amount of times now that I have been in wvwvw in tier 1 or 2 and seen hacks happen to us but yet I haven’t seen anyone come to the forums and whine for days about it. Map chat doesn’t get all blown up about it when it happens with so and so server sucks and hacked us, we get mad at the hacker not the server. First week we were in tier 1 either JQ or SBI, I forget which now, took cragtop back from us 2-3 times by a Mesmer doing some jump behind the wall or something but the funny thing was no one in team chat even called it hacking they just blamed themselves for not watching for it and that this is tier 1 we gotta step up our game.

Keep it up Blackgate its been fun.

Lol, spawn campers posting wanting anet to nerf the spawn invulnerable buff, I’ve seen it all now.

Wobels.1679:

i think number 5 is fine the dmg isnt great but its dmg and its fun number 4 needs some work its lacking big time i think they need to add a leap in with it as a gap closer that would totally make it usable and not mess with dmg

Agree if they kept 4 the same damage but made it a leap and add something more to the 5 like reflect projectiles or have it throw its own projectiles while spinning then it would be used a lot more.

I’m not sure about Ascended gear you might want to wait and see before you do anything but otherwise if you really like that build with the healing shouts then you could craft the Cleric armor: Healing Power, Power, Toughness.

If you would rather do more damage and less healing then you can craft the Toughness, Power, Precision gear or use karma for Power, Toughness, Vitality set, 44,000 Karma each piece you can get everything but the Helmet from Orr event venders and you can get the Helmet from Hotw or AC.

Personally I would go with the Karma Power, Toughness, Vitality so that you can use your $ on Runes, Trinkets and Weapons.

Oh and I would go with the Runes that make your shouts remove conditions.

Cover Girl.2580:

Blackgate players that have been playing on SBI BL this week, you have earned my respect. You guys must have bought a playbook from somewhere, or decided to stop following a bad commanders advice, because you guys, with the small numbers you have, are pulling off some amazing plays. Not only that, but you are using your head, and attacking JQ now, who is in first place, and not solely focusing on SBI. (not claiming we’re 2v1 poor JQ, cause as soon as we push them back to nothing BG comes right after us for more points).

Keep up the good fights!!

Thanks we had a blast all weekend hopefully you won’t crush us while we at work or sleeping.

I tried to report the quaggan for orb hacking but it wouldn’t let me.