Guild Wars 2

I can totally recommend T8. I am on Fissure of Woe and I usually completely avoid zergs (due to me lagging since the last patch). If you look for a bit of a challenge you go to EB or currently Blacktides borderland. If you want some easier roaming you go to Vabbi (worst Server) or the homeland. No matter what you can always avoid Blacktides zergs.

Absolutely agree here. WvW has become unplayable for me in large groups so my WvW experience is limited to soloing vet guards and caravans at the moment. PLEASE fix that. It’s ruining the entire game for me.

As mentioned in another thread I’m also getting major lags in WvW since the patch. Never had any problems whatsoever before. Only time I had a little lag was fighting big dragons but that is normal I assume.
Please Anet fix WvW for us Mac users. It’s almost unplayable now for me.
But then I wonder if they even read the threads in this area

I’m also lagging alot since the last patch but only in WvW. I never had much problems apart from culling in WvW before but since the patch WvW got almost unplayable for me when there are more than 30 players involved in a “zerg”.
My guildmates playing on windows machines haven’t noticed that so I assume it might be a Mac problem?

Sometimes it’s fun to waste siege and just have a silly fun time

eoloe.4379:

Skill lag might be either side (server or client).
If you have not-so-high upload speed, your client won’t be able to send skill request among all ack’s, movement, etc.
And on server-side it’s not necessarily hardware. It might be plain internet speed limitation.
And btw, we did have skill lag before in big zerg fights. It’s just that now everyone tries out new wvw and zerg fights are more frequent.

Anyways, WvW became a LOT better now, thanks Anet!

Don’t try to blame this on my internet or hardware. I never had FPS problems (3,4 Ghz i7, 2GB GPU, 24GB RAM) and my internet is 100 MBit (usual download speed around 3 GB/s). So it’s either a problem with the patch or a general server problem. Been playing this morning with a handful of players on both sides and I had no problems whatsoever.
Might have really been the size of the zerg yesterday night.

Yesterday night was the first time ever that WvW was UNplayable for me. Maybe the reason is that more people than usually went into WvW after the update, maybe the reason was the patch itself I don’t know. I just want to be able to play WvW again!

Liquid Storm.8097:

As far as FoW is concerned, we’re doing quite well atm.
People say FoW is dying out in terms of WvW. That’s not how I look at it. Considering we are always outmanned and still manage to hold enough structures to end a week with 100k+ points, I think FoW is doing great given the circumstances.

Absolutely. It’s those victories against all odds that I enjoy a lot. I can’t imagine it’s half as much fun for the Arbor guys who take our towers with 10:1 players. Sure, you get the tower in the end, but is that really a victory to be proud of?

@Yorric: lol!

Come to Fissure of Woe. We have a small but faithful group of regular players. We are usually outmanned by the third server (Arborstone atm) 4 to 1 but still we manage to get some remarkable defenses done every once in a while which makes it a lot of fun if you consider the odds. Good thing is you get to know all the players you play with real quick. Same names and faces every night which is great.
So if you are looking for a challenge and don’t mind getting your kitten kicked every now and then you are very welcome on Fissure of Woe!

Thanks for the information.

Irradiated swords is apparently “fine” and not a masterwork. Did it still work out for you this month?

I might actually try the Jewels as well.

Hey guys.

I’ve had all my monthly achievements after a few days…. all except for the crafting. That is because I don’t craft. At least I never did it so far. But I really need the monthly achievements.
So whats the easiest / cheapest way to craft the required amount of items? I usually sell the stuff I gather but I have a decent amount of copper / iron ore and different sort of cloth leather stuff deposited collected cause I knew I’d have to do some crafting this month.
I would really appreciate a good plan or advice on what the easiest and least resource demanding item is to get the achievement.
Thanks in advance!

What I find important in a Commander is tanky build. Whenever we portalbomb a zerg or make a last stand in a keep the Commander should be the last to be down. It’s just ridiculous when the Commander is one of the first to die. Plus it really helps the morale to see your Commander charging a group of 10 alone and making it out alive
Good to impress the noobs.

2 days since the “nerf” now and I haven’t noticed much of a difference, except for the 4s stealth cooldown. Just takes a little adaption in the attacks, is all.
Got as many badges as always.

Sandro.3694:

Oh well and siege weapons on your repop zone is guerilla warfare ?

Seriously guys stop pretending to have a decent fight… we are tired of your bullkitten/cheat/uses of bugs/…

This is no more a guerilla warfare, you’re just always escaping when you don’t have the possibility to do a 5v1. Some of FoW players are valuable opponnents they do not flee on a 1v1 situation, but the rest of your server is filled with cowards and bug users.

So you must be one of the players who get killed by our skilled players when stepping 20m out of the Zerg mass
Seriously though, the trebs in safe zone bother me as well. I don’t like it when our players do that. But I have yet to see anyone on our server cheat! I spend a lot of time in WvW and I’ve never seen anyone from FoW cheat. Maybe you mistook a Vabbi cheater for one of us

Being from FoW I can totally identify with your tactics. Sometimes it’s just impossible to fend of the “huge” (speaking tier 9 size) zerg of the dominating team or the cheating Vabbi party so you go and do guerilla tactics. It’s true we don’t have many WvW players but the regulars are usually skilled players so I was often astonished what you can achieve with a random group of 5 regular players.

What I sometimes do is just lurk around the enemy’s spawn keep and kill single players on their way to join the zerg, so pretty much what you discribed doing. It feels more useful than standing around in a keep with no supps for sieges waiting for the gate to go down and get killed by the ravaging zerg.

So keep up the good work mate. I’ll think of you guys when I see us getting keeps and camps in Arborstone BL while we are losing all our keeps in the FoW BL

Oh and it’s good to have some Aussies on FoW

Sorry guys but I don’t see how this is going to affect thieves and stealth? We can still use our stealth skills. Every thief who relied on something like culling deserves to die.

Those Vabbi players are really pathetic. It’s been recorded now a dozen times and still AN seems to be doing nothing. Tolerate this much longer and people will start to quit playing.
At least “Steam” deletes your account when they catch you cheating….

Spike, you should really post those pics where we are dancing naked and drunk….. with fireworks and an immortal rat xD

Maybe it was smelling you? Time for a shower?
Seriously though, that would be nice balance for stealth… if Ranger’s pets could sort of “smell” you.

Sorry guys, this question might awfully noobish but I’m a thief myself and I don’t really know what the big deal about this is? Why would stealth be useless now?

I can totally back Mishas point. I’ve been playing since Christmas and before Blacktide I didn’t even know there was such a thing as “cheating” in this game. None of the other servers used it or at least not in an amount that made it so obvious and unfair.
Surely, Blacktide are better than us (FoW) and Vabbi but so was Whiteside Ridge but against them it was at least fun.
Don’t want to find an excuse for our people building trebs in the safe zone but seeing a bunch of Blacktide players walking through walls can make you pretty frustrated.