Guild Wars 2

Wait….anet sponsors present scrub guilds in wvw? AHAHHAHAHA. All the true power houses are gone forever, I wouldn’t consider present guilds anything special.

Khang Xithyl.1742:

We did it boys. We beat the terrible evil WvW Alliance. Even with Arena Net helping them. Together with Fort Aspenwood, we were able to crush them.

They got roasted and toasted.

We need your energy to awaken the Beast Gate. With them we can finally destroy this plague on WvW.

We can do it. We can destroy Yak’s Bend.

My soul and staff is ready.

Zappa.9064:

Hi all,

I’ve been testing several classes out in the Silverwastes area but so far I’m loving the engineer the most. However, one of my guildies recommended not boosting my engie since it can be a difficult class to learn. What do you guys think? I have limited time and am afraid I’ll just fizzle out if I have to level another character.

Well I can speak from my experience. Ive played all the classes since launch. I’ve mained necro for wvw roaming and pve. Till a few months ago, I found all the classes kinda boring but engineer. There’s something about the crazy skill rotation and skill aspects that make it one of the most fun classes out there. I say go for it.

You know YB always has that core of people dedicated to ppt? The server will live on. I long for the old FA versus YB rival. Not sure we’ll ever see that match again or days.

I don’t dare roam in EB, too much lag. DBLs haven’t experience any as of late.

Don’t you dare delete this thread anet, this is great lol

Yes, get rid of them once and for all.

I like the DBL for only the simple fact it has people active on them because EB has a 50+ man que most of the time. If EB didn’t have a que, it’d be a barren waste land again and nobody would be there. Let’s be honest.

EremiteAngel.9765:

As a reaper main solo roamer, I roam with a build that gives me an easy time against most condi opponents.

My advise for my opponents is:

Do a condi burst and spam all your evades, blocks, invulnerabilities to prevent the reaper from transferring your condis back to you.

Reapers eat most condi opponents because they transfer your condis back to you so it becomes Reaper damage + your condi damage = you die fast.
So preemptive actions against them transferring your condi back to you is necessary.

Of course, watch out for the Reaper if he is using Consume conditions which has a long cast time and is easily interruptible. So save one interrupt for this.

Do this right and you have a good chance of winning.

Thanks for the advice! I’m still learning engi in general, lots of fun toys!

Well I roam in wvw. I’m finding I’m beating scrappers 1v1 with my prehot condi engi. I don’t think scrapper is very glitter and ponies at all. I think it’s very easy to counter so far. Then again, they could just be bad players lol

So I was in camp…purposely ran away from a scary player who was playing scrapper. I proceeded to run away all the way into corner let the guy cap because i was talking to an old friend. Then the Sob runs to me, keep in mind I was wayyy outta the way, and finds me and gets first hits. I proceed to use my OLD SCHOOL engi condi build to wreck the kid and beat him. I told him that alls i wanted was to talk to my friend and leave me alone, then gets salty and blocks me.

Why are people angry and take the game serious? It makes ozone sad

Are you this guy? He sounded very upset as well.

Dawdler.8521:

archmagus.7249:

The problem I’ve been having with condition builds is they just don’t stack up fast enough, and I’ve run into a lot of reapers with plague signet.

Reapers is a far trickier nut than dd to crack when you bring a condie, true. The key to winning against them isnt too complicated though – you dont stack up condis fast, you hold your cds. Slow burn with constant pressure and slugging it out will win the the day. The most dangerous reaper is actually not one at full hp, its one at low hp and full rs. That’s when they go all out and you counter them with everything you got.

I’m struggling right now against reapers. I feel like they have 5% death shroud left no matter how much pressure, condis, dps I hit them with. I do manage to stay alive quite a long time now outnumbered but I feel like I’m hanging around 1600-1700 condi damage. I did spec to have poison, bleeds, and fire duration increased so I guess that’s the trade off.

hahaha poor TC bandwagoning, serves them right. Glad I transferred out of T1 and went to the great Fort Aspenwood! Have fun in que land.

X T D.6458:

The ridiculous queues..Eb over 150 wtf, never seeing that map again?
The lag is horrible
The communication and coordination is extremely difficult now because we cannot get our guilds on the map, and its difficult to get the people from the other servers on ts or to work together.

Anet why did you not just link lower pop servers, why did you do this for everyone. This is just unplayable.

Yeah…it’s a little nuts. First night. I logged in and went “nope” and went to netflix and a glass of wine. No chance I’m waiting in a 80 man que to play a video game lol

Just log off read a book, watch a movie, or drink some wine.

DeeSystm.1256:

I didn’t really like ebg before hot and it never changed so I’ve spend most of my time on dbl.

I get that. For a roamer, EB is hell with cancer builds. I do find better 1v1s on the bls, when I can find them, which is sorta approaching never at this point. But I feel ya, eb can tend to be a lag fest as well.

Gaile Gray.6029:

We’ll post on the NA list this evening. No sneak peeks, sorry guys!

Good, I’m happy. This ain’t TMZ for god sakes

Gaile Gray.6029:

What? You have purple. That’s all you need!

Ok, I really don’t know if there’s an option to add colors or a plan to do so. But just in case, what would be on the wish list? Keep in mind the tag should be visible on the mini and world/overhead map, so it might be best to suggest bold, non-metallic, non-transparent-ish colors.

Gaile, what are we going to do with you kid….I’m a mr fix it dude. Have the devs visit Sherwin Williams website and slap on a tool belt, let’s get creative

http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/find-and-explore-colors/paint-colors-by-family/

Invictorum.7643:

You the DB Minion master Reaper who took some camps last night?

Remember the thief who murdered you near NNC? I’m coming back tonight.

No cause I play engi. I’ll be on tonight though! Maybe….you know how demanding fiances can be

Come drink with me TC…..you won’t enter the camp

Guard for sure. There’s an old school one that most run, don’t know if anyone can provide link but it works pretty well for me.

Chaba.5410:

I think players forget how EB was always queued first before Alpine borderlands.

Yep lol

I prefer the old bls though for roaming, much more fun and entertaining.

1. How do you feel overall about reward tracks?
I’m very happy with them for the most part. I would like to see a bit more wvw dedicated track. I guess an example would be exclusive wvw skins though I know this would include staff time to create and such. Good intern goal or project anet

2. What are your thoughts on the rate at which you gain participation?
I think it’s fair so far. The reward farmers or afkers are concerning. I could see “those” people sitting at spawn and sucking up que times.

3. How do you feel about the rate you earn reward track points?
I believe it is well balanced currently.

4. Overall, what are your impressions about the types of reward tracks we have?
I think they are pretty good. Would agree with cowofglory, some path towards ascended pieces would be nice. Even if it includes working towards 4 specific mats and combining in the mystic toilet to create one piece of gear, I’m down for it.

5. Are there any other reward tracks you would really like to see?
Ascended gear for the most part. I’ve run into roamers who have insane stats lately that grinded pve crafting/mats and I’m just not into grinding. I play the game for fun and wvw only. I’m just not into grinding, pve, crafting, etc. I just like wvw and roam for the most part.

It could be just that we are in beta and all, or TC has 5000000 man zerg, but the lag hurts anet

Even small scale fights are a bit laggy for me, not sure if anyone else is getting it bad but map chat seems to agree.

thank you arch!

Yeah….noticing a lot of zergs just using that “bloodlust” sigil. Please, keep running zerker gear. I’m having a field day with my necro.

The advice “you need hot to roam or be competitive” is a myth. I’ve won plenty of 1v1, 1v2, etc with old school necromancer, ele, and engineer builds. I don’t know much about the melee crew roamers though.

Just don’t get frustrated and accept that sometimes you will run into some insane build that HoT has catered to. For me, I’m terrible against tempest eles because it feels like they have 5000 boons and can regen like crazy. But for the most part, you should be fine.

It all comes down to practice for the most part and reading up on what your skills actually do and timing. Good luck bud!

I don’t think it’s too bad, definitely way too many condis during large scale fights still. I’m really hoping anet keeps moving forward here, they look like they are going in the right direction with the changes lately.

I want the days, as a necro roamer, where I’d turn a corner and go “OMFG it’s that guild with a nasty melee train”! and run like a school girl into a tower.

I’d like to see some type of system where you could just buy gear or skins. The TOK are being handed out like candy on Halloween lately, not that I mind. I’ve max out all my toons and thought about getting another toon slot, but honestly I’d rather just spend the tomes on something useful as in making my supermodel necromancer have a tighter shirt or something stupid. Or epic battle staff.

I’m just a wvw addict so they mean nothing to me right now.

Put those interns to work anet!

My issue is still with eles, memsers, necros, whatever spamming aoe + pulls insanely way too much. You can’t even defend most of the time. They attackers have the advantage in this game.

briggah.7910:

so uh.. how are them queues in t2?

Not too bad on FA for the most part, EB the norm 10+ que typically but only been here short time.

Can’t speak for DB. I’m sure TC has some based on every map having TC flies.

Think it’s time briggah came to FA

It was me TC……I took your precious rouges quarry. muahahahahh!

With the recent update I was excited to finally try out scrapper. I have to say….I’m not that into it. It feels like a guard overall and doesn’t fell like engineer I guess.

So…..I want to try roaming with engi. I’ve been using a simple condition build I came up with buy was wondering if anyone had some recommendations on roaming builds they use. I do ok with my current build, but always willing to try something new!

Thanks!

Second that, they did a really nice job here.

I’m fine with it, anet did a good job here.

This is the problem with you instant gratification kids today, you want everything perfectly laid out for you and stress free. No work and all about you.

Welcome to the real world nibblets, things happen and I guess you’ll just have to be patience and go outside and play.

Scrappers are not too bad. I fought one today for like 5 minutes with my old school engi condi build and beat him eventually. But he did seem to never take any damage and clear my condis like crazy. But then again, I use elixirs pretty heavy myself.

He proceeded to alt 4 me after he was downed, must have been mad but then again he was a TC player lol

The old school Engi prevails!

Long ago within my first months of playing the game on a high tier, oh yeah I’d do it and laugh. Then I decided I wanted to get away from blobs and joined the last place server to command and I found out in a hurry it hurts the game mode. I think you are forcing the opposing server to log off, then your zerg gets bored and it overall hurts a lot of player experience. As a commander who tagged up heavily outnumbered 90% of the time I did command, it really sucks and your zerg or small crew will get frustrated and log. You can try multiple tactics other bls for example, the spawn campers will eventually just find you again and steamroll you.

I didn’t mind it much, whateves, but I felt more bad for my pugs and such. Because as a tag you want to make your followers experience as best as you can.

Ok characterthing

Join the alliance FA or DB instead. Be part of the resistance!

I’m with the OP, yawn on all you roamers. Same boring engagements over and over.

Ozone may be coming to FA….I want to be part of the rebel alliance!

Communication anet…..communication.

Feel free to step in anytime anet…….it’s what professionals do.

I agree. I’ll never grind to get viper’s gear for example. I don’t play the game that much to grind for crap like that, I have a full time job and two cats for god sakes.

I’m not a guild type of guy, but wouldn’t specific designs to weapons, armor, etc like we can current do to guild symbols be an awesome thing to incorporate into wvw? There’s some pretty creative folks in wvw, I could see them designing some pretty epic gear or weapons unique to their guild style.

I SAID WVW ONLY ANET, don’t be using my idea for pvers now.

When I am scouting or if havoc tag is up, certainly it would be helpful. But for just basic game play, roaming, or dueling it is an extreme annoyance

With the update next week does anyone know if anet is planning on adjusting that stupid massive box that appears on your screen “SERVER HAS CAPTURED CAMP RAWRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!”?

It’s becoming a nuisance

X T D.6458:

@RodofDeath, what do you think of Sentries showing players only when there is a certain amount that get marked, for example if 10 players attack the sentry they will get shown on the map, but if 1 or 2 attack it, they wont be. This way it can keep sentries useful but wont constantly give away roamers.

Basically a scaling mechanic for the marked effect.

I fully get the servers that are cliche and say “we here for the fights” like a toothless redneck who use to be a good boxer, but for us roamers or small havoc crews it is kinda fun to ninja towers and then see a 50 man blob arrive at the tower just to see it flip.

Hence….why….roamers are so important to the game. We can provide intel and scout for you big gigantic groups. I think that the sentry points are hurting the game. Seems like someone at anet went to options and set wvw to “easy mode” in my opinion.

-Spawn siege removal

-Remove chilling fog, stealth fountain bs, and whatever else gimmicky crap they put in smc

-No emergency WPs, work for your save

-I don’t need the entire enemy blob to know I’m taking a sentry point. Love your roamers anet, remove marked invaders.

-Utilize that stupid harathi and skritt areas in old Bl in the ne and nw corner. Just add another camp or something. In the years I’ve played, never seen one soul there. Or you could get GIRLS GONE WILD and add a small look out tower/post. Utilize your map for good not useless data like a skritt running around like an idiot.

-Wildlife is ok I guess, for a roamer they just get in the way when I try to escape a 50 man blob chasing me and puts me in combat. Maybe one of those 1 HP bar types is fine, just not level 80.

NO GIMMICKS, at this point in the game anet should be plenty aware what the wvwers would like to see, you have three forums essentially. Enough excuses start cutting the fat and let’s move forward.

We don’t want to hear “we don’t really know what wvwers want”. Well I’d ask whose fault is that?

Fix the lag sure, but for now no thanks. It will not be a pleasant gaming experience.