So I run p/p and staff in pvp and a rev just threatened to report me for it…
I’m so fed up of people turning their noses up at the set just because they don’t understand how it’s used.
For clarity I use p/p to snipe and burst down enemy teams in group fights. I sit my sneaky kitten just shy of the action and burst whoever the target is on until they are down, then with 20 stacks of might jump in with staff and cleave who ever comes into res. It works a treat.
Does anyone else get this sort of abuse? I’d like to add I finished the match with twice the points of the rev.
Single score means Jack kitten and most people get abuse for their play style.
Other than that? Block report.
I love how people are just now calling broken now that thief is meta. Thief has literally the same amount of evades as it did when HoT came out, but nobody is crying until it’s meta.
Hello may i present to you: the warrior
Yeah, especially if every special snowflake wants to be the asura condi reaper commander.
It would help, but only because people are unwilling to adjust their playstyle to make it easier for their own guys.
One could say it is partly in the hands of the players.I play an Asura commander to make pin sniping harder. It’s not hard to follow the tag even if it’s on an Asura, but people obviously have difficulty with it. Instead of raising the height, I’d just say increase the opacity so that it stands out over the zerg.
You might want to create a norn. Play search the shouting little thing if the frontline is charr and asura. As long as people have low frames and high visual noise on screen i can not see how this may help a pub zerg. Possibly a guild raid. We have an asura only warband on our Server. But if the tag convieniently vanishes at melee crotch hight? Nope that just causes the front and backline to loose sight more often than not. And yes i have an asura warrior, yes i tried it, yes people feel more comfortable with a charr norn with a huge back pack.
The most common dh build in pvp is a one trick pony. It takes between 20-60secs to reset their cds. Dodge the point. This should proc most traps that were spammed. Los the bow while the traps are procced. Watch for the grabbling hook thingy, you cant block that, evade\blind. Do not try to stay in point once you See the guard lay traps there. Most common Blocks are focus5 an shield circling around the dh, f2 a shield cone, possibly an invuln, that resets the f abilities( unless they have they Elite traps. If the guard kneels down, los vor Dodge the shot.
Guards biggest enemy is low HP and cds, do not waste the burst skills, force his survival skills. A good map for this is close and far on foefire. Just do not face tank the traps. Remember trigger traps by dodging through them. Important sie notes:
-if the guard had time, the traps will be on the point and their cds most likely are refreshed, Dodge trhough them, retreat. Return, Dodge los.
-if the Guardian attacks your point. Do not wait on point, Start engaging early. Good Guardians will not spam all traps at once, most likely the place one wait for you to trigger it, try to imob vor pull you and lay the next. So look out for it.
Again many zerker dhs are one trick ponies that are immensely crippeled by their high cds. Use that for your advantage. Remember they most likely have only 16k HP. Make your bursts count. If you have non, wear them down and use the Static nature and cds of this playsyle for your advantage.
Can he usw it? Can your disable him? I do not think it is intended. But then again i really do not care for the walking Cannon fodder
Wasn’t it the humans that originally invaded Ascalon and kicked the charr out?
Look it up mate.
One invader kicking another invader out. Said invader returned a millenia later to commit genocide. Both sides had nice warcrimes in petto. How ever the uuuhh ma cat was there first is not really true.
This should be in the lore section. I bet konig would have a field day…
So… A matter of taste is a matter of skill and challenge? As beautiful as the maps were, they were loaded with gimicks. Most players did not like gimicks, they were removed.
It kind of reminded me of the vale wvw map that got scrapped before even being released. (If you do not know what i mean, tyria 3d and Google are your friend).
As it stands you will get desert back, just with fewer gimicks.
And unless your plan to kitten people off, do not assume that taste=skill.
Yeah, especially if every special snowflake wants to be the asura condi reaper commander.
It would help, but only because people are unwilling to adjust their playstyle to make it easier for their own guys.
One could say it is partly in the hands of the players.
Why should a small amount of people be able to hold of a far larger amount of players? I like shield generators as they are.
Wait.
Didn’t you hear? 2guys running arround complaining about zergs, sorry New word for more than 2 players is blob, is the best you can do. OFC you then have to be able to fight of 30 guys. If that does not work, go to the forums, tell all that may\or may not care how good a roamer you are for fighting outnumbered 360 no scope against Server XYZ and their cheating blobbing most likely hacking blobb of 2000 players all multiboxing and bot trebbing while all running zerkercondi Warriors that carry condi Mesmer who fire open field acs and that you and your Buddy tool out at least 3000 of the 2000 guys while posting and listening epic music compilation 2016.
The sad thing is that so many people are fine with it and just play, vor come to the forums to help other players and therefore never participate in the general forum:" oh maaa gaawwd dis soooow oowp." drama.
But ofc they don’t care for the game, you only care for it if you whine on the Forums.
If you are EU you can contact me ingame, and we speak on TS about a few things.
As Sird said, it is normal XP, and as far as i know normal XP gain was removed from wvw. If you are only in for the wxp, i would suggest eotm. Not only is on the core wvw maps the underlying player philosphy different, generally matchups do not provide even close to similar wxp gains. This may differ from Server to Server and on the current matchups.
Can i have the norn female cloth armour for my girlfriend Please.
So they get even more trash along the lines of: nerf \buff op\kitten Tier XYZ?
I hope not.
Warrior commander works perfectly well. Just have two Guardians in your party for stabo, and you’re set. If you can’t get just two guardians in your party, then, quite frankly, you don’t have a frontline. And if you have no frontline, well, that stability help isn’t as important, because you won’t survive a melee push.
Personally, I just run my normal frontline WvW build for commanding. Either a shout war, with sword/warhorn and hammer (running mostly soldier’s gear), or a hammer/rifle berserker. Zerker armor, soldiers accessories, knights weapons. Utilities are outrage, sundering leap, dolyak signet, and banner. (Yeah. It’s a weird build. I initially made it because I got sick of those I was following killing me off in DH traps. Or just pirate shipping so much that I spent most of my time doing nothing. But I have a lot of fun with it, so even with the meta changing, I’m still running it)Which one I run depends on the situation. If there’s a huge amount of condis, flying at you, then the first one might be better. If you’re in a situation where you’re needing to apply a lot of ranged pressure, or simply need a bigger melee bomb, or the other team has huge amounts of stabo… The second build could definitely work better. (If you’re just wanting to increase your melee DPS though, you could definitely drop the rifle for another weapon, like a greatsword, or axe/something.)
I would strongly recommend though, that you take the banner as your elite. As the commander, you should be one of the last people to die. Therefore, you ought to have opportunities to get up your frontline again, by dropping a banner on them. With the rally changes, that banner is far more critical than ever before.
I agree with most things.
A few points i would like to add:
-as a warrior you tend to have a good survivability, but don’t solo rush popping every thing screaming: on my, why is no one on me??? Only push if you know you have a frontline, no Frontlinie? No pushing, you may survive, you casters may mostlikely drop.
- don’t run super tanky special builds that are for survival. The rest of the frontline doesn’t, if you do you loose the feeling of how much dmg pressure is on you frontline.
-it’s not your job to have endless stabi. You have to guards in your group, they should have a rotation figured out. If you pop resistance and stabil and IP you may survive like a king for a few secs, but again, can your group? No? Then don’t.
-Banner or head butt? Banner is the frontliners best friend, to be more precise: it is your Teams best friend. Are you in the focus grp? Full bersi axe\shield +gs\rifle? Sure take head butt. In any other case take the Banner?
-weapons? Hammer, Horn&sword or Hammer &GS both work find. No shield? Nooooooo! No, no shield,! Why? Again its nice that you stand longer, but you guys? Once again try not to be the guy running in super tanky demanding every one and their (ofc not deactivated, -.-) mini dolyak to follow you. It does not work that way.
- how do i fight? You provide dmg and CC as normal, you rally allies. Don’t think after a long time of pirate ship you can just join the pain train. Range dmg is still high. You may survive, you cloth guys wont.
-aim for the backline. Disconnect the backline, if possible take some kills, regroup. Then push again. If you want to trainwrek the meele, isolate the casters, CC bomb the melee regroup from range, then push.
-you may push in a straight line, you guys can’t.
Allways bait CC and rangespikes. Then counter.
All this boils down to, don’t play a build for survival, don’t do something guards and other frontliners can’t do with out massive cd’s. Better to push for 3downs and geht your kitten s out after 3secs then push deep for 10sec and wipe your guys.
classes equivalent
Sure, take invuln from all classes. Mate just stop rage posting.
1st World Link
Cute
To the WvW Community,
It’s not too late to reconsider & to Vote NO to Remove World Linking.
When the Majority approves World Linking to become a permanent feature.
You will also Silently Approve ANet TO:
1) Change Pairings whenever & howerver ANet deems it necessary for the sake of Population & Score Inbalances
2) Change Pairings without any further WvW Community approval, but with only 1 week notice shall be given
This is how World Linking & Pairing is currently being handled based on what I’ve observed.
World Linking is a Pandora’s Box & Genie in the Bottle…
Given the Fixed 3 Way Fight Model…will constantly require ANet to Manipulate the Population & Score Mechanics to keep Players “Balanced & Fair”.
Players Basic Motivation & Behavior constantly & persistently leads them to be PART OF the team that Wins more.
Players Stack to the Strongest of the 3.
To be “Efficient”…ANet has to be given free reign to Manipulate both Population & Score.
Balanced & Fair Match-Ups will be an illusion based on ANet’s skill & speed at Manipulating these variables.
ONCE World Linking is Approved by your Yes Vote…
The WvW Universe will change…hope you’re ready for a Long & Never Ending bumpy ride…where you’re just the passenger & ANet is the pilot in charge of your flight experience…
Honestly, you should have asked ANet for a Fight Model that put you in the Pilot’s chair & let ANet only control the Air Brakes.
See my signature below for details on this Fight Model…that is Player Driven…yet…ANet Controlled.
Peace,
Dikup.s.
What happens when only 3 Surviving Worlds exist after everything is Merged?Don’t forget about the impact that different Time Zones & Languages have on WvW Match-Ups while Powerful Guilds continue to game the system.
Possible Full Solution – Google Search – Reboot Base Map Mechanic
Do you know, if i hadn’t voted yes allready, i would do so now, just to spitze you and your tons of assumptions.
While world linking (speaking only for EU) needs a load of adjusting, there are not only extremely good or Bad pairings. My Server got merged with a lower one. There is a load of community drama, but most commanders and players managed to make peace with the change, startend recruiting, training, helping and actually slowly began to see the benefit. One moth from now i was sceptic. Now after having Seen that there is finally life back into our maps i have to give anet credit for making this move.
I undrtstand that my guys and me were lucky and others have a much harder time. That, However does not mean that the past population distribution was better.
From where i stand it was a good change, but as there is still much to be tweaked, not a final solution. Especially in EU Tier 1 seems to be a rather strong discrepancy between partners. This However is being monitored by anet and i trust that the will intervene if things get out of Hand.
Well cloth is needed for most inscriptions and caster armour. Many gw2 want to be aoe Harry Potter, therefore cloth prices are the way they are. If you want to farm you can either farm them on low lvl Charakters or dropp tons of bloodtide coast karma cloth items into the mystic toilet.
It would help if leather and metal armour inscriptions, or if more players would farm for these Mats, or if players would play less ele and necro (my personal wvw stick).
As it stands, you can “farm” them, just not like timber or ore.
Honestly? I hope you realize how amazing it is that you answer these lore questions!
Big thank you from my end for that!
Gw2efficiency shows the top person they have on their listing as having:
741,257gold 85 silver
Played for 8,592 hoursNumber 15 is listed as
217,085 gold 40 silver
Played for 3,718 hoursEdit: I misread it. That’s account value not raw gold.
Looks like highest liquid gold is
214,748 gold 36 silver
Played for 10,374 hoursLiquid gold is if you liquidated everything you could. The highest straight up gold is 120k or something.
It’s interesting to note over the last few weeks the guy on gw2efficiency with the most account value has gone up from ~520k to 700k+ without his hours played changing at all. Guess he has some nice stuff hoarded!
Hey mate,
you made me curious.
Just checked my ACC and behold: from 9k to nearly 15k worth. I think it has to do with skin prices though. I did not play more either, nor , as the rather low acc worth of mine shows, do i play to farm.
Interestingly enough my pocket change is 6g right now, Mats in vault accumulate to 30ish g.
I think the price drop of many Skins lead to an increases distribution\stock of those. The skin prices have since increased and now more of the Skins increase the overal ACC value rapidly.
I may be totally wrong though
The in-game mail notification should be active now.
How it works:
The mail is sent once upon WvW rankup (minimum rank 10), each time a new poll is activated. The mail includes a link to the poll website.
That is great news!
The facto that 18% right now can force their will in 73% of the voting population does not another any one? Really?
If it is something as significant as this, i really think that should pop up ingame when entering the wvw. Hell we have bloody pvp twitch advertisements ingame. Why such a hush hush vote? Yesterday 9pm i lead an DE zerg with 60 guys in TS and no one knew? Do you know hove bummed my guys were? I think something like this, which finally brought back life into Servers and that, at least for my guys was offen a reason to return should not be such an unkown event.
In a similar matter:
How about linking the patchnotes in the launcher while it updates instead of a semi furry behind….
I am really stunned that the polls are still often unkown in wvw.Whether you realize this or not, putting in a poll up as soon as you enter wvw would be an annoyance to some people, we even have people complaining about seeing the spvp twitch links in the loading screen for kitten sakes, a loading screen… where they do nothing but wait anyways.
I’ve been saying this… if you want people to vote then tell them in game, tell your guild, tell your server mates, all it takes is one sentence in map chat to spread the word.
The players who want to be heard, want to be involved, want to be kept informed of things, already come to the forums, whether it’s good or bad. Now if you want those beyond that involved, like the pve’ers making a trip in wvw for achievements, or the casuals that clock in an hour a day, or hop in for dailies, you can inform them.
The poll was even linked in the “other wvw forums” within minutes it came out here, it’s been linked on reddit, the other “official” forums, with a few responses from Tyler there as well. https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4kcqok/world_linking_new_wvw_poll/
Tyler and team have been doing a great job and communications with us, even on the weekend he’s posting. If players want to be heard and be more involved they should visit the forums more often now, that is where the communication between developer and player happens.
We have had like half dozen polls already, if players are not talking about them with friends and guild/server mates then people are not interested in getting involved with the changes.
All it takes is one sentence in map chat to inform people.
And then there are people that play the game, are aware of the forum Drama and avoid it the game.
Well should this poll, given to a crowd of forum warriors, actually force the will of the minority on the majority i can guarantee you that the loser tiers will once again loose population.
Giving out advertisements and giving out essential information about a poll that decides whether or not you continue to play the game are worlds apart. By all means defend selected information. The results will speak for themselves.
yeah i dropped rev upon realising anet is gonna keep nerfing it unreasonably
I went back to my Ventari build it’s not the best around but it works. For DPS I usually play thief now.
Mind sharing?Also…as far as Rev goes…they will buff it in time…just like they did war when it was shaite.
QQ startend summer 2014, nerfs came, spring 2016 trait gets buffed\mandatory for warriors, warriors get even more hate from the cast wars 2 community. I wish you all the patience in the world if it takes the same time to buff rev as it took to buff one trait and make it mandatory for sustain.
@Skyshroud: It’s completely logical: Anet can unlink the pairings once the other lower servers are more populated.
And yes, I think it’s an intentional fix to a long term issue where players refused to fix it themselves.
You really believe the servers are going to be unlinked, again? I really doubt if that will happen. Sure, the pairings might change, but I doubt if we’ll ever see servers unlinked, again.
Mate look at the poll before posting that we are close to the old Situation.
Uhh i smell the burns incomming XD
The fact that 18% right now can force their will in 73% of the voting population does not annoy any one? Really?
If it is something as significant as this, i really think that it should pop up ingame when entering the wvw. Hell we have bloody pvp twitch advertisements ingame. Why such a hush hush vote? Yesterday 9pm i lead an DE zerg with 60 guys in TS and no one knew? Do you know how bummed my guys were? I think something like this, which finally brought back life into Servers and that, at least for my guys was often a reason to return should not be such an unkown event.
In a similar matter:
How about linking the patchnotes in the launcher while it updates instead of a semi furry behind….
I am really stunned that the polls are still often unkown in wvw.
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There may be a problem with application of common sense here. Let’s say every morning on your way to work/school/whatever, some guy is standing down the street throwing sledgehammers at you. What is the best way to deal with this? I haven’t tried blocking sledgehammers with my face but I can imagine it’s not very effective.
Love it!
The issue is that most people wanted the story to be “look at how I got my Precursor in 10 minutes at no cost!”
How dare you!!!
I want it to take 2 weeks vor so but cost nothing!
No… Seriously though i am bloody poor, but i kinda liked the axe hunt.
I would to see this for guilds as well. For a game called guild wars there really isn’t much as far as bragging rights in the guild dept.
Mate,
i know what you mean but really even the camp guards are bragging in this game XD
Do you think we neeed any more of that stuff\drama?
I think that bug came up quite a few times over the last 1 1\2years. I remember it being fixed at one point, but … Well
Seems to be a rather persistant little insect.
Oh screw me… Now i have to make german subtitles for that thing. Really helpfull vid mate. Thank you very much.
I would agree with nocta, the venom is after all one target and an Elite skill.
I would rather they fix the bloody aftercast on some Dodge skills though, call me biased.
If you plan on playing WvW i would suggest:
Charr\Norn for Frontlinie. Just you know face Aggro
Asura if you are focus grp, female sylvary can be small AS well though.
Generally, do what you feel suits you, but if you fight other players, keep in mind many find it hard to read asura animation, and a group of 15 norn\charr charging looks just plain amazing.
That said, never trust a charr XD
I’ve played warrior in PVP.
I’ve played against warrior in PVP.
The spec isn’t fun to play because it’s one dimensional.
Warrior defense train, so whatever!
Mate that’s just sad.
I played class XYZ i do not like it, nerf it. Naaaaooow.
Geez guys all this kittening about op or not makes you wonder. What exactly do you want? A class to farm and flame? A class that is straight forward and then flame? A teef with out invis, and then flame?
Mate i would honestly suggest you and all the other o ma gawwwd me sa coowl me sa class xyz meesa knows stuff guys stop bloody whineing right now before you dehydrate.
Oh and its not invuln. Involn prevents Hits. It is stopping DMG. AS in 0 DMG. kitten that requires a hit can still proc on ignore pain. It does not in ele, engi, mes and guard. All classes that have at least 4 dimensions, am i right?
Instead of learning to fight a class that has been kittented about since summer 2014, just go to the forum and cry some.
It is sad. That is all i will say with regards to these ridiculous rants.
Now i sit back and wait for the crying crowd of caster wars 2 to demand AND GET warrior nerfed.
The only second dimension these days seems to be demanding nerfs on the Forums, while the first was getting wasted ingame.
Hammer warrior says hi , “hi”
Hammer warrior says get a number, i am here since 2012.
Well for me it depends, are you in for the loot or do you play focus group and are hunting eles.
In for the loot? Its not CoR pre nerf sooo nope.
Wanna drop scrub eles so they open topics on the forums how unfair and violated they feel. Press F2, press F1, press 4, Start laughing at a guy trying to run with his stupid cloud thingy while being imob.
The dmg has been nerfed, but you still do good, that said:
Do not waste it on the Main body of the zerg, take out injured slakers, or a thief thats OoP.
Reroll teef, vault wait for Dodge aftercast vault, Staff 5 vault vault Staff 5 vault 9 k dodgerolls but warrior is op. Gimme a break
I have finally seen every thing. A necro complaining about top few lootbags in wvw. You just blow my mind.
Depends where. SM castle 3 way? I am not sure. LA, HotM, world events? Also not sure. Depends on model quality and effect lod. Apart from that i think you should reach 60 fps. Spvp should be no Problem!
Really another one? I’m running out of space on my GW CD to make a scratch on for you guys…
A wee bit of a warning. Yes it works but:
In a pug fight you most likely just kill either 25 guys that went through the Portal vor the poor souls that didnt. Why? Well the dmg a 40+zerg can do is insane. If the Portal is done poorly, aka you were noticed the zone will be nuked into a crater, including those that stepped though it. .
More often than not pug Frontlinie will be throuh, leaving the backline defenseless.
But: a guild group of 25 that surprise bombs is still rather Bad for the enemy.
The Problem is, that the mes invis is shorter than it was, therefore you risk being spotted early. Best you have a thief hell you into stealth. That However requires training to pull off as your timing has to be perfect.
Please safe this thread. I love it
New patch, big patch.
Players return.
Need to adjust gear.
Want stuff fast.
Buy of TP.
Demand increases.
Prices increase.
Just my tuppence.
Soooo: “I feel excluded, anet please make me be in the cool kids group, exclude some one else.”
Good Lord, that can hardly be the solution. So far i have seen quite a few dd’s but if you want to replace tempest i suggest you teach your dd some waterskills…
Yup a net do this please, or the poor scrubs in my guild have to remain dancing in the throne room, for our guild leader’s entertainment.
A time machine would be lovely. Back in 2005 you heard: “GW is no good you can’t jump.” then we got jumping, but the devs gave it the option, OPTION, to do jps. The even gave us the option to include it in the daily. Know it is unrelenting pressure to do jps if you might as well leave it out? Whhaaat? I honestly do not know why people allways complain about options but want that the rest of the playerbase is actually forced to something, or gets taken something just so you don’t feel pressured to do optional daily jps.
Good grief.
A load of initial pve drama because the buff those “wvw psyco’s” worked all week for and most players profited for with out ever pressing “B” was removed. Demands to bring it back so people can continue to leech from people that are openly declared as “wierdos”.
After 1or 2 months? No body cares anymore.
Thats what i think. Excuse me i am off doing some wood chopping…
I know solution of this problem, simply put their health to 11k base like thieves elementalists and guardians. So be a glass cannon but die quickly. Or be a tanky one with 18k hp and don’t do 15k undodgable eviscerate.
Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.
My friend…
Again Warriors gain sustain by hitting with their burst. Do not get hit by that.
Unfortunately clones/pets can’t dodge and some burst skills cleave, so it is not always possible for some classes to prevent adrenal healing.
Mesmer is still top tier in PvP and WvW roaming nonetheless. Build does matter – a lot. Saying warrior is better in general is simply wrong.
You are absolutly right about that. Op i saw we are in the same matchup this week. if you you want add me ingame and contact me. I’m sure we can change a few things to straighten the path.