Guild Wars 2

I get lag just zoning into SMC even when there’s absolutely nobody there. I lag staring at the outer wall…

Thanks for all the battles guys, especially WM, THAI (you never give up attacking Golanta, EVER do you? :P) and RUIN for never giving up Has been good.

Lifiane.5203:

Rumors are just that, until Friday comes along TA is still well and alive.

Can’t wait to see you [SYN] kittens on the field, always a good time skirmishing you guys.

Always good to see RUIN putting up a fight, however terrible the RUIN reputation is. You guys never give up! I’ll also be the one ninjaing supply camps solo, so if you see ranger with a cat/spider/bear that’s me

Zid.4196:

Didn’t a lot of people expect a GW1-like MMO? GW1 had like 5 million sales I believe.

5 million over 5 years I think it was.

Don’t have to be with the zerg though. A group of 5-10 can accomplish a lot, and that’s where the shortbow shines. The only thing about bows is that arrows travel waaay too slowly, making them so ridiculously to dodge. Just spamming left right left right in quick succession will guarantee a majority of your shots will miss.

Take away our pet if they compensate our personal damage. As it is pets die waaaay too easily in WvW to the point of being pointless. My pet is put on passive 100% of the time..

I chose Whispers. However when I played through the personal story weeks ago, there was one particular quest that was really tough. Saving the girl from the pirates. It might have been tuned down in all the patches though.

Don’t take supply from StoneMist…

SherlockBrolmes.4725:

Server transfer to Kaineng, push #1 NA.

If you’re really that good, it shouldn’t be too hard, right?

Plus, it will be fun to watch the bandwagon turn Kaineng into a max pop server during the climb.

Hell, if you actually do this, I’ll come join you.

If people are gonna join Kaineng cos TA is there…. Then wouldn’t it just make it another HoD? Since you’re saying the population is the reason HoD is unbeaten. Cos the population will move to Kaineng too like you said, isn’t that right? o.O And HoD beat NSP when AA was at it’s peak, 1-2 weeks after launch before the real imba transfer numbers flooded HoD. Yes, the crowding only became a problem after the first NSP match.

Longbow and + range trait. Shortbow only for roaming. Longbow for defence and offence of keeps.

ritsuko.2863:

What’s Vegemite?

Vegetarian Marmite.

Uh.. We never even officially announced the server we were on, it was more like people recognizing TA guild tags and spreading the news among themselves before TA members ever said anything.

Nick.3926:

A bunch of people patting themselves on the back. Quality entertainment there.

The only time I ever read anyone talk about how it was over on monday/tuesday was that it was over in regards to HoD being unbeatable due to the “night capping crew”. I never once in anythign thread related to the HoD v SBI v ET match did I read anyone state it was over as to HoD losing the match.

It was over because there was nothing the other 2 servers could do to compete with HoDs 24 hour activity netting them +600 points per tick during the night/morning hours.

It’s not HoD’s fault that AA’s Oceanics don’t show up, when they have more Oceanic WvW’ers than TA. Freelancer set up an Alliance but didn’t do any proper scheduling for guilds to be on, that’s on them not on HoD.

Tyrshar.1782:

The problem is that upgrades/blueprints shouldn’t be purchased with individuals’ gold, but rather an alternative currency earned only in WvWvW or an altogether alternate system. Unfortunately, WvWvW is “end-game” and is designed to pull money out of the economy to stop inflation. There is a need for alternative money sinks that are not directly tied to upgrade/blueprints but still relevant to WvWvW (I’ve made other posts about suggestions). Sadly, WvWvW suffers from a lot of problems that are linked to each other in some way, and change will likely be slow.

Blueprints can already be purchased for badges..

So.. 1 day 2 matchups, what would change really? The 2nd set of 12 hours will be during NA down time, you’ll still get nightcapped.. lol..

Mine looks like Shredder from TMNT..

Medium Berserker armour looks really bad on a female ranger too… ):

Huhh?? SYN has never been anywhere but EB since the game launched. Not sure what you’re even talking about. I find it hard to believe you moved to HoD during the first week, when it’s been only days since you started shouting in Map Chat in EB.

boobzooka.3521:

put it simple

If what they said was true, SYN and PRX would had long moved to a smallest server, and made that server #1.

but you know what? Farmers don’t care. Who’s the ones making the wave, and which are the riders, purples will show yall.

Uh…you move to HoD to farm Karma in WvW..

Only YOU want it for Karma. Please just go back from whatever server you came from, your Karma farming with Commander icon on is leading the HoD militia to their deaths for no other reason than YOU want Karma.

Boobzooka is a new transfer to HoD who only came here to farm Karma with his commander tag on. You’re terrible at calls, just turn off your commander tag already…

Zireael.3285:

Yep, I could swear that you said you fixed that. Meaning no new person getting in the queue could enter faster then people already in it. Well, guess what, you didn’t fix it. It’s still broken, not longer then 20 mins ago my guild mate logged in, queued, and in 2 mins he was in WvW while other guildies wait an hour or even 1,5 to enter.

Is there any way you could actually know what you’re doing Anet? I’m getting kitten of your growing incompetence.

Nope, I don’t think they did. Last update on ques were that it will take some time to fix.

MotionBlue.9687:

@Keldrath.4735

What? HoD was never a small server, large PvP guilds from GW1 and WoW chose to roll on it back during Beta.

Baby, 90% of people randomly chose their Beta server, cos…it’s a beta!

vangedas.7358:

Rangers have probably the best elites in game, close to mesmer. You clearly play only hot-joins at rank 5 atm. Nothing to discuss here.

But rangers have the absolute worse Signets ):

Yup that’s the Norn Tier 3 cultural. I’m using this skin on my Longbow.

I like how he said “strategical”

We’ve had a random guy building flame rams at the SM supply hut too, wasting all our supplies. No idea where he’s from >.<

It’s not an “Ultimate” skill. Is it so hard to read the description where it says “Elite” skill? Sheesh. If you ever played GW1, an Elite skill is a skill that’s very different, has a long CD and has very specific uses. It’s not a OMGWTFkittenBBQ one shot skill.

Nobody? ): Somebody must know something XD

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/61872-server-ranks-na/page__st__330

Go through the last few pages, there’s update history from the official rankings there.

Rasudin.9238:

Yes it can reach top of ramparts, and the range isn’t an issue because the defenders tend to crowd the towers, but when defending other than the jump technique , traps are quite useless.

Hmm I’ll try it out. By any chance do you know the effective radius of Entangle? I know it has a 600 cast range with the Expert Trapper trait, but how big an area does it cover? Healing spring is 240, most traps are 120 without the trait (180 with trait I think).

Just have a simple question for the Elite skill Entangle. The skill says it has a range of 600, which means I can cast it on an enemy 600 range away. But if I cast it on my feet, what’s the radius of Entangle? Is it 240 like Healing Spring? Or is it 120 like normal traps? I do have Trapper’s Expertise in my build.

Are targettable traps really able to reach the top of ramparts? Cos in practice on the ground, the range is really really short so I specced out of it cos it was so…useless.

You don’t have to explicitely have an “alliance” to do any teamwork. Look at how SBI and ET had the same mutual interest in bringing HoD down, they didn’t need any formal alliance cos they didn’t need one and it worked brilliantly! I for one know there’s no “collusion”, just 2 top tier servers wanting the same thing

Detahmaio.2014:

Samfisher.7942:

Detahmaio.2014:

it’s clear from the score ET doesn’t have a night time presence or they would have at least 100 points potential even pugs can make that happen.

When ET went vs IoJ and SoS their lead was so big it made up for the night time loss and they eventually stopped doing massive siege.

On the weekend when henge had full resistance they choked and was losing as soon as sunday night came they starting gaining ground.

This is from one of the guild websites in AA, fully copy pasted :

Resonance (AU)
Harlequin (AU)
Nocturnal (AU)
Oceanian (AU)
Fury of Order (CH)
Heroes.Ph (PI)

7 guilds and they can’t field 50 people in every borderland and EB? Come on!

Yeah but a screenshot shows no clear resistance from the server. Seriously sub 100 potential points for an alliance is terrible.

Then isn’t it AA’s responsibility to make sure their very own members actually are online and enter WvW instead of bashing HoD for the Oceanics/Asians/Europeans for being online during their respective prime times?

I understand that SBI has only WM/EVIL and maybe a few smaller guilds for off-peaks, but ET really has no excuse here… And yet HoD aren’t bashing ET for providing absolutely 0 challenge in any of the WvW maps for the past 2 days. I thought that was the whole point of AA? To be competitive throughout multiple timezones, the same goal TA had when it was founded.

Also, HoD can very much duke it out with the big boys, but when 2 top tier servers concentrate a large amount of their forces solely on HoD (note that I am not saying SBI and ET didn’t attack each other), it’s hard to get out of spawn to capture anything. As posted by multiple players from both servers, the focus was definitely HoD. I loved that we were 2v1 and never QQ’d about it. In fact, it was one of the most intense matches in a long time!

SBI, you’re a very very good server and all you need is probably a few more off peak guilds to really hand it to us on HoD ET, I don’t really know what to say though. Motivate your off peak crew and we’ll have some very good PvP

Detahmaio.2014:

it’s clear from the score ET doesn’t have a night time presence or they would have at least 100 points potential even pugs can make that happen.

When ET went vs IoJ and SoS their lead was so big it made up for the night time loss and they eventually stopped doing massive siege.

On the weekend when henge had full resistance they choked and was losing as soon as sunday night came they starting gaining ground.

This is from one of the guild websites in AA, fully copy pasted :

Resonance (AU)
Harlequin (AU)
Nocturnal (AU)
Oceanian (AU)
Fury of Order (CH)
Heroes.Ph (PI)

7 guilds and they can’t field 50 people in every borderland and EB? Come on!

Free transfers should have been over 2 weeks ago honestly speaking…

CardboardBox.6087:

@samfisher

Send us some over :P

I don’t know who we can send ):

Namu.5712:

maximumpanda.5178:

im not going to sugar coat it.

HOD is properly prepared for the WvW of this game.
they have numbers
they have skill

the simple fact is neither SBI/JQ/ET alone have the ability to field and army the size of HOD combined during off hours. AND THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT TACTIC with WvW in its current state, it is he who has the largest army and the greatest coordination. thus HOD is currently the only server prepared to dominate WvW during the week days.

this week is a good fight and it has been interesting and ruin anyway is happy for the fight. we will be seeing you out there this afternoon.

Its been alot of fun fighting both servers on multiple fronts rather then steam rolling one server and the other is the only one putting up a fight…. has made for a intense week….

but the trash talking in the forums is getting annoying. QQ about tag teaming, QQ about night capping….. its like if your not winning 24/7 someones gotta QQ…. and if you are winning your talking about how your winning because the other server just aint that good…. lol

I believe if you’ve read the posts, nobody is actually QQing about being double teamed, just stating a fact that it is happening and we welcome the challenge Double teaming =/= alliance, let’s get this straight ^^ Both want to topple HoD, and so their mutual interest brings them knocking on HoD’s gates and walls pretty darn often xD

CardboardBox.6087:

SKYeXile.2716:

didnt see any of the ET guilds tonight and we were on 2 maps tonight after we got over sbi borderlands we went over to green.

whatever handful of RUIN was online…about 20 of us or less were all in EB.

Where were the rest today? 22 hours ago SYN was constantly going against at least 40 RUIN member in EB alone. Need more people ):

Aza.2105:

This should show you that HoD only makes progress when everyone else is sleeping. I agree with Rodarin, in terms of the best HoD probably is 4th or 5th. I actually felt ET was better in terms of skill, HoD not so much.

Hmm? 1 match out of the whole month since release that HoD has not led and suddenly we are not “skillful”? Sure.. I guess.. xD

Saul.3905:

uhuh. Nice. Let me show you ours. Hopefully we meet on the next match

http://i.imgur.com/a79la.jpg

We’ve met you tonnes of times…

There’s a range limit.

I do feel this too. There’s almost no skill/spell effects to most of their skills, and those that do are just white/gray/transparent. I don’t want it to be flashy, but just seeing a gray streak of arrows is just so boring… But I’ve always played a ranger class in every game I can, and will stick with it regardless.

Coming from HoD, I don’t really care much what the 2 servers are doing as long as I get good fights Of course they have a mutual interest in dethroning HoD, that’s only natural. I don’t believe there is an “alliance” as such, but more of a shared direction Having tons of fun!

Hello Robert. Just to add to what the others have been saying, I’ve experienced this on my Windows pc as well. Using a good IPS monitor, the game sometimes (very rarely nowadays) just turns the saturation down a few notches and it stays until a map change, sometimes persisting after that for awhile too. Most noticeably was at the zombie invasion part of the Dolyak escort event in Gendarrar.

I can crit for about 2k++ on my auto attack if I stay above 1000 range on my longbow. Also Orb buff might have added another 50/100/150 stat points to whoever is owning them.

Reese.4183:

No region locking, just drastically reduce the amounts of points gained and the upgrades available for forts at server zone nightime. And for the people who are going to complain “Do i deserve to have a lesser impact on world just because i live in another timezone or because i play at night ?”, yes, you definitely do, because all you do is fighting against NPCs, and zerging empty forts in PVE mode.

Come to HoD and see how many empty forts you find ^^

DesertRose.2031:

Rapid Fire – This is one of the best skills the ranger can have, shooting 10 arrows in a rapid speed is highly damaging and very effective. does more damage than all of shortbow skills put together.

I hope you know that the damage you see is the damage all shots did combined, it doesn’t show the damage of each single hit.
I’ve tested it in the HotM, Rapid Fire shots 10 arrows in about 4 to 5 seconds for a little more than 3k damage, a Shortbow shoots 10 arrows in about 4 to 4 seconds for around 300 damage each, resulting in around 3k damage.

My Rapid Fire can crit up to 10k++ damage in WvW.

I’m fine with double teaming. Heck, that’s why it’s a 3-way war!