Guild Wars 2

BrotherBelial.3094:

eNeRgOo.5463:

BrotherBelial.3094:

You clearly have not been paying attention to the story have you.

Leader of the pact, the person we help with there wild hunt. Sylvari.
South sun, the “bad guy”, Sylvari.
LW1 bad guy, Sylvari, the story was all about scarlet.
LW2, still mostly about what scarlet was up to.
HoT, about the Sylvari being dragon minions.
Now what part of the story for the last 3 years has not been about them?

As for story holes, you didn’t play Guild Wars did you. There are so many plot lines that where never finished. Its how the story telling rolls in GW. Every race starting story is unfinished. Heck the dungeon story isn’t finished. Get use to it

It’s not three years. You know why? Then READ THE PREVIOUS COMMENTS FOR KITTENS SAKE! It kittenes me off that I have to explain it milion times with other players.
YOU KNOW HOW TO READ? USE THAT ABILLITY! Then you wont write the same arguments like others here, because I am now answering the same questions all the time. READ REALLY. THAT DOESN’T HURT. Few posts up is an answer why it’s not three years of Sylvari’s lore. Done.

I did, but GW is different game than GW2. Plus GW is an old one here
Plus they had Malyck story on the table. Now it’s time to take a look on it again.
So it’s completely different situation here.

I hate to say this, but ANet have said HoT is the end of the Sylvari story that started at the end of Eye of the North. The game has had a Sylvari central character through out the game for 3 years. If you can not see this you are blinding your self to this fact. People are telling you this but you are sticking your head in the sand about it. I honestly can not understand why you can not see this.

Also if your not a Sylvari character you will have no clue about him. Not a one. I’ve never played a Sylvari Beyond the dream because I read about the shadow of the dragon. I do not like them as a playable race, they just don’t speak to me.

Thank you.
15 heads of lettuce

Sword\horn is great to keep you mobile as a frontline warrior, just remeber blast the waterfields not the light fields guatdians seem to loose in every regroup

I did not notice that the wxp gain was reduced. Doing HPs in hot maps is now quite easy, that is if you find 1 or 2 friends to do it with you. Also these proofs of heroics are now stored in your wallet, BUT all existing ones need to be stored there first by rightklicking and consume all. I had to go through 12 characters and suddenly had 276 of the bloody things.

One thing i can suggest, should you struggle with an event or HP, if you own a commanders tag do tag up write in mapchat XYZ on my tag. That works quite well for me

I really think the lags should be fixed. I would love to have the feeling of a huge battle going on, not 150 guys hammering keys and cursing and shouting bloody murder at the skill lags. Let us hammer keys and shout bloody murder because the fight is engaging.

skullmount.1758:

We need less salad based stories (#BurnTheGroveDown), and more Asura/Charr centered stories.

You got it almost right: #BurnAsuraAndCharrAndUseTheGroveAsPyre

Danikat.8537:

Are there any maps in particular where you’re seeing this, or is it all the low and mid level ones?

Right now it wouldn’t surprise me if they’re relatively empty because we had a big update a week ago which revamped WvW, dungeons, Fractals and the HoT maps so a lot of players have gone back to those areas to check out the changes. We’ve also got new dailies which encourage players to go to the HoT maps.

But that will even out over time, even if the vast majority of people like the changes it will stop being new and exciting and they’ll go back to other maps as well.

Especially with the map bonus system, which made level 15+ open-world maps the best place to farm some previously hard to farm items.

(If this is something you just noticed today you also need to consider the time of day. Most GW2 players live in Europe and North America and when you posted this the majority of Europeans would be heading home and the majority of Americans would be going to, or already at work/school. So all maps are going to be relatively quiet. Things will pick up as the evening goes on, then (at least on EU servers) drop off dramatically after 11pm.)

That’s my guess as well

Banner is your friend. That is the rez Banner. Your job often will be to pick up the poor guys the guards and eles could not heal up, or they got stuck in CC, or lag, or the enemy is OFC outnumbering and skillless and imba brocken,… In short you ignore the miriad of excuses for failing and pick them up. You will not geht the poor a necro or ele gehts (too few aoe), you will not get the uhhh we are so usefull yadayadayada guatdians are so prone to spout out but you are.

OFC you do not have to take the path of the heavy armored Banner kitten and frontline tank.
I for one am quite happy when my guild allow’s me to be a backline Farmer. Full zerk and evicerate those complacent eles with 2 hits, stun and destroy necros that are busy throwing their wells into the main zerg.
Vanss builds( just look it up in yt) works just fine for me.
But before you do, get used to zergs, their composition, general class roles and learn your own build.

And do not get disencouraged by the few people spouting nonsense about zergs, ignore bitter people. The majority enjoys zergfights, maybe they are too busy having fun as to come to the forum kittening about it. One thing i might suggest is to ask in your local TS if some one could explain warrior wvw. Learning by doing is allways better.

I hope you enjoy your time in wvw be it as nurse for your own side, stun machine or nasty suprise in the enemies backline.

More options would allways be nice.

Oh i do not know :p wvwvw maps are not void of players.

Srsly though, I was finishined of a few collections lately and met quite a few players. Possible more players are organizing maps via the New lfg system and are therefore not as offen stranded in maps which in turn might give the impression of fewer players. Also: the New maps have been updated\made more accessably (is that even a word) and are therefore of interest for those who avoided them previously.

I think Vizuna’s stones might be funny, but maybe a wee bit suggestive… also Ringside might have a punny ring to it .. :p. So far Debbi was the one that had me laughing

Dawdler.8521:

Awaiting the posts that can look at the picture and still say that nightcapping does not exist.

Because trust me, they will come no matter how much its boggles your mind.

Theres never night every where, so there is no such thing as night capping. And yes. I am trolling you but you literally asked for it

I see what you did there. Seriously though, guys give it some time. Its weekend, its new give it a month to settle. I am sure things will calm down. And remember its a beta test. I think the word beta can not be stressed enough. There is a time and place for torches and pitchforks. But I do not think its 1-18 hours after something every one wants to give a try was released. Every one and their dog wants to check it. Lets wait a wee bit more.

They are quite funny, well lets see if some stick. I can imagine they do

Allright be looking out for Gunnar’s Woe then

Quite a few times this night we referred to our troop as drakkarsund. Did you guys found similar names for your alliance?

Edit: millerlake might have a nice ring to it as well

Regarding TS.
Expect a community that has its own heroes, villains, drama and prejudices. If you want fun stay clear of the drama. Right now there is a lot of salt and bitternes in quite a few comunities, if you are knew stay clear and concentrate on the game itself.

Regarding attitude:
- your own:
Fights may get chaotic for you, look how other guys arround you do it.
Do not over commit in an attack. If you guys push, stay with the main body, there are often skilled focus groups that take you out quite fast if you isolate yourself.
Try taking camps with your zerg gear and build to learn your build.
There is nothing wrong with zerg fights, its a question of taste. Do not let other people tell you what to do be it roaming vor zerging.
Get to grips with the map, defence and offence often happen a certain way.
Get to grips with siege weapons.
Learn what supplies are for and how to use them to your team’s advantage.
Find a role you like. You have to like it, not some random kitten on the internet.

After those things you may think of joining a wvw guild.
But please do try to make some experiences of your own. Do not believe everything people say on TS. TS has the Option to mute, do it rather than argue with every random Bob about stuff that will not matter in 30 years.

Have fun. If you don’t stay clear of wvw. Finally if you do not like THW people vor their attitude on your server, transfer. People are fond of expressing seither that it’s the same every where or that server\nationality XYZ is evil incarnate while they are XYZ Leonidas 300 skillzor… I think you see what i am getting at.

Once again: your experience counts, your taste and fun

A well placed nerf. The implementation of condi dmg felt even more broken with this arround. Oh and just because you can’t face roll the cp any more does by no stretch of the definition mean you are useless. You want useless? Try shout heal frontline warrior after the last 2 years of balancing. Necro is a viable class. It still is a force to be reconed with.

As taobella said. You should hit at least once then heal. Regarding your question of what the problem might be I think it’s the fact that it feels clunky if you compare it to an staff ele. I tried it, but if I am looking for a support I would think ele and if you can get to grips whith it druid.
If you want to support may be you want to try glint\dwarf as you can push your team’s performance quite a bit. But alas you might feel like a boon bot. How ever do not unerestimate 50% DMG reduction for 5 people. I hope you find a way to play as support.

After reading the reaction and hearing in TS the reaction of TS admins and supossedly pillars of the german community I can only suggest you stay clear of them. It seams like once more drama is on the horizon and narratives and agendas will dominate the next few weeks. I my self think about leaving to another server after 3000 hours for this server.
Alas you really might want to wait for a week and see how things settle.

So
1. read the last big patchnotes regarding rev
2. take notes
3. slap your self in the hand every time you read % reduced or reduced
4. go to the hospital because no one should beat themselves for 30 mins.
5. repeat every time you think a heavy armour class is op

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Silberfederling.9302:

yah
too bad that warriors main weakness is blind, good thing that you have hit i too do not see where there might be a problem
/sarcasm off

Everyone’s weakness is blind, that’s neither new or alarming. It’s just another reason that one has to approach AH from a different perspective than it being a passive… it’s not anymore… it’s a HOT that procs on burst hit. It procs passively, but that’s not the same thing as being a passive.

If you’re so worried about blind, there’s this AMAZING visual queue that tells you you’ve been blinded… so when that happens hit your AA and then burst. Might take some practice, but part of playing a game is learning how to play. /sarcasm off.

~EW

remarkable how every complaint get some sort of l2p answer, do not even bother to condecent your crab any more i am out see you guys in 4 months

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

I tried out the new AH a bit last night…

doesn’t seem to influence how I have my build structured. It just influences how I approach using bursts.

~EW

yah
too bad that warriors main weakness is blind, good thing that you have hit i too do not see where there might be a problem
/sarcasm off

renturned after 2~ months pause, 15 min in wvw thief roamer insta kills me in soldier/bersi before i have time to build adrenaline turn arround remove blind aim for the shadow step location and hit.

well done

see you guys in 4 months

I do not like charrs, i would like them a wee bit more in that armour though. That looks amazing.

Lexander.4579:

i think you should be grateful to your teammates for winning 4v5 so that you dont get a point loss and a desertion instead of complaining of not getting a point for a game you were afk at

It is remarkable how unpleasent one can be on the forums …

You know that the bandits will go to the forum and demand nerfs right?

R O C.6574:

Novuake.2691:

So its expected of me to kittening watch a list of people on my block list just to play the game? No kittening thanks.

If you think its good that you get matched with the same people over and over again, almost assuring a loss, then you have no idea how a healthy matchmaking should work.

I bet if you got matched w/ the same guy over and over and you were winning you’d think that’s great

Its a pvp forum but, you know, you do not have to attack every one. Your post tries to discredit the poster while not adressing the topic posted. Just be nice. Please?

Had something similar, but we lost. However: kudos for trying to come back asap to help your Team!

I belive 2 minutes is correct

Can we close this now? If there ever was a discussion to run its course, it has. The general behavior including op has been dismissive towards other posters or aggressive. I See nothing productive here, just someone with an agenda not discussing but cat fighting other posters, disregarding and at times smearing each others. I can only repeat agenda driven fanatism should not be part of a balance discussion.

i just tried for 3 hours to get out of emerald last tier. i lost. i won i lost. no movement but i observation. one pip from the next division? you get abysmal teams. no pips in you tier left? one win. one additional win. 3 defeats.
guys no matter how far you want to go with learn to play or omagowd you kitten need to be gassed ( not my words but pvp leag words) this is bogus.
its bogus because i percieve other human beeings as a punishment.
if you have won a game i check if my teams ap even match the enemys team. thats how paranoid i got in 3 bloody hours. and you know what? if you have a 900 ap guy in your team and the enemy team has 30k, 24k, 14k guys tell me. who has more experience with this game? who has more alts and experience on them? its bloody annoying that even a rather ap desinterested person like me started looking out for this.
once again. i do not want to play with demi gods one round, and the next with completly new players. how is that a thing? the consequence is that the atmosphere in pvp more often than not is rotten. if you would like to prevent that than care for propper scaling. and bloody well balanced teams. its the worst idea to use other human beeings as punishment to prevent players from progression.

yup stuck in a match now as well

I am guilty of killing off:
1. sylvary warrior: the for greater justice shout was the final straw… Call me stupid but i would like a deeper voice for sylvary. Something that would remind me of a dark forest for instance. Take the tigers voice from the New junglebook adaption.
2. sylvary mes: same reason…
3. human guard: he was a pve remnant and my wvw guild wanted a bulky frontline.
4. norn guard: holy moly norn have a nice voice but run like treakle.
5. human, asura, norn engi: could not decide for an outfit.

This lead me to two thoughts. Please make race change a thing.

And if you could offer more voice packs via gem store i would sell you my dogs firstborn. I see no harm in choice. I apreciate it is a huge effort, but you could kitten if people would actually pay for it and if so cater to this voice hungry crowd

Thanks for the Staff. They are a wee bit over the top imho but thanks for not another set of glowy shiny plant lightsabers

I am afraid the new bl keep lords, which allready scale, caused much disdain (is that even the right word?) in my servers community. I can not speak for the entirety ofcourse, but many people said they just do not want more |pve|. I had similar thoughts myself but in the end, after talking to guildies we could not come up with a satisfying solution.
I think posts like yours are very helpfull and even if the general feedback you recive might feel negative, i think you and any one careing or interested in change should make suggestions and offer polite responses to those. I think this is a greater help than telling the devs over and over how much of a barstuard the wvw gameplay is. I think we Were Quote vocal about that for the last 3 years
Edit: autocorrect once again…

So i worked part time as a fencing instructor, wanted to become landscape architect, but had actually fun working whith children so i went back to school, than startend studying and plan to major as M. ed. All this got me up to lvl 27human. I still do not have my elite skills so neeed more tomes of knowledge…

Now where is the Godzilla vs monmothma GIF. Bugger it just imagine it.
On a More serious note. Shroud Pops kite and wear it down. Shroud off: CC and nibble at its health. No valid counter? Gfi till shroud pops again. Rince and repeat. In none 1v1 situations concentrate on wearing him down in shroud. But again do not try to tank, take care of chill and cripple asap. You have the higher movmement plus sustain through health and stealth. This worked for me. But then again i am a verrrry average player. High tiers might have it different.
Edit: autocorrect is haunting me ….

Infusion.7149:

This is a bumped thread from months ago…

morrolan.9608:

Armor needs to be at least 3000 for frontline.

^ still holds true

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That said I would take Stealth gyro over mortar kit for a frontline (preference), you can take over warrior duty for ressing as needed & also disrupt enemy veil pushes. I’d also go with Elixir B for the stability on the toolbelt skill.

@ RudyTjhia.7250 , with the amount of CCs flying around, Projection Injection is VERY strong. I’d take that over Invigorating Speed and use Adrenal Implant instead of Gadgeteer

So i would really like to see you ressing 5 downs covered in heavy CC and rangebombs. You know, 5 at once not 5 guys that tried to safe their butts by breaking out of line. Take 5 guys at once out of harm’s way and please make a vid. Warrior is down but trust me the day you guys replace warrior in it’s entirety is when i sit on klovans wall dropping my heavy armor and wait for a slow death by trebuchet.

Weell^^ i stopped playing wvw a few weeks ago, but the most common builds at the time where (AS far AS i noticed): shiro\ herald sword, shield\ hammer , full zerker backline. Or: dwarf\herald staff\hammer, armor soldier\ trinkets zerker\ the runes in both cases were either hoelbrak or strength. This ofc was mid tier wvw EU and i am not aware how the meta might has shifted, i hope this helps you a wee bit.

I don’t think the problems can be solved. Since release warriors core Hammer f1 the hammerstun has problems with uneven terrain, for example ramps in towers in wvw. The hammerstun has since release problems with higher or lower standing enemies. Looking closely you See that the impact seems to affect only the same level where it lands, not higher and not lower. As the CoR skill uses the ground to establish the viability of an hit it seems to have the same Problem. I think a rework if the skill to make it maybe a projectile vor wave could solve this. I think of a projectile like the DH longbow shot that seems to follow every bumb in the terrain. Alas i do not know how this could impact in balance and i do not know when or if this can be fixed but i hope they read this threat and try or at least tell us if it is not possible

Now, where was my popcorn …

Zenral.3958:

Silberfederling.9302:

I fully understand you and that is why i suggest this to you:
Delete this threat now, unless you are prepared to take the incomming l2p kittenstorm.
This subforum is for demigods. Stay away unless you can take dozens of salty and enraged defenders of a system that works for them because they are 360 no scope pros.
You can not win anything here move on and return once the next season starts and the balancing bat killed of the last remaining heavy armor builds.
Run you fool the reapers are comming

Everyone knows the “lol L2P” answers are obsolete by now, nice try though.

Oh are they? Take a look arround every threat is contaminated whith this crap.

I fully understand you and that is why i suggest this to you:
Delete this threat now, unless you are prepared to take the incomming l2p kittenstorm.
This subforum is for demigods. Stay away unless you can take dozens of salty and enraged defenders of a system that works for them because they are 360 no scope pros.
You can not win anything here move on and return once the next season starts and the balancing bat killed of the last remaining heavy armor builds.
Run you fool the reapers are comming

so, how is this a thing?
after loosing almost all pvp matches since the 17th i decided i would give it one last go this night. well turns out i am not made for pvp as i seem to be unable to even down equally skilled players.
what i take from this is, that i should just let it be, all i read here is: a true pvp player looses 1xxx times and “soldiers” on, l2p you noob and other nonsense, while the developer tells me the matchmaking works as intended. well seems the matchmaking tells me to gtfo pvp.

oh wait for the next hotfix
-thief aa is too low: 42%
- rev is too high: -42%
-scrapper has to low survivability: 400 healingpower in stealth
-reaper condi dmg was nerved: cd reduction for ds by 50% and dmg boostet for aa by 50%
-warrior removed from game
- dh stoned to death by forum mob so removed as well
any more salt?

Soon* trademark pending by Evon Gnashblade

Hello
Let me start with saying that i fully understand your sentiment, but sadly buffing\nerfing to enhance one possible playstyle has, so far, only worsened the overall balance Situation. You see the rangers damage is not only his weapon damage, in case of the ranger you have to take possible pet damage values into consideraton as well. Now the damage can be low if you sport the cute little brown bear but trust me, there are pets that hit like trucks. Raven is an example for this, at least i think it’s DPS is quite high, the trade off is that it is quite the sqishy little bugger. If you visited the pvp or ranger forums lately you will find that the bristleback is also something that increases the salt lvls of your opponents. It has some nice spike potential.
I would suggest that you, while you play ranger you consider yourself and your pet bodyparts. You are the arm that delivers the blow, the pet is either a fist or a floppy open hand. If you want to hit hard, use the fist, use the pet. You are a ranger not a sniper/archer every balancing will also involve your pets possible damage. I understand that is not what many people want, in gw1 it was possible to go without your personal little dogmeat but as of now ranger and druid are to quite a huge degree bound to their pets. But who knows, maybe we will see a pet less bow man as a future specialization.
One last word regarding buffing and nerfing. Please, before demanding changes: balancing has to take into consideraton 3 game modes and the relation to all classes. Simply demanding one buff or nerf may kill another class or put your own class into the spotlight for slander and hate from the remaing community. Just visit the ele, Mesmer, revenant or thief and pvp forums. You will unterstand what i mean.
I hope i could help,
have a good one

Ranael.6423:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

• Rytlock or Laranthir are my bets on the new Pact Marshal. Despite the vocal playerbase’s outcry to be leader and hatred of Trahearne which no doubt led to his death and the Pact’s (probably earlier than originally intended) destruction, at least in my mind, I hope they don’t make the PC the Pact Marshal. The PC wouldn’t make a logical or realistic organization leader.

While I totally agree with the bad reasons for Trahearne’s death, I’d still like the PC to be the Pact Marshal… for a short time. My dream would be that for LS3, we, as Pact leader, have to go in different places over Tyria due to official task. But each time there would be a dragon minion attack. In fact, by having a prominent role in the defeat of two of them, the remaining ones would see us as a primary target. It would lead to the attack of the new Pact HQ. After that everyone in Tyria would be scared of our presence anywhere. We would be forced to transmit the lead to somebody else (Laranthir being my first choice but I’d like a new vote in game) and only DE 2.0 would stay with us. From there our role in the fight against the dragons should be less in the heart of the action… until of course the very last fight against the next one.

It would give a more dramatic feeling on our character, the fact that you can’t be a hero for ever and that when you fail (even if it is not directly your fault, then other will rapidly reject you as if nothing you did before counted).

Well i am all for PC as pact leader, but only if he is norn, sylvary or human. As pact leader we tame the dragons and sic them on the asura and charr take ascalon back and give the asura tec to the skritt, oh and then the world ends but fear not: one female sidekick of our PC was blinded in the process and turns into a goddess to safe us all. If you bothered to read until this point, yes i was goofing off. Hope you die smile at least a little.

Erukk.1408:

Aaron Ansari.1604:

Charr are even worse. Their fur would be more flammable than any sylvari.

Didn’t you know? After overthrowing the Flame Legion, the other Legions all added a special flame kittenant shampoo and conditioner treatment regime to their schedule. It’s how they all added that extra body and shiny to their fur coats.

This can not be unseen. Some one make a rytlock head and shoulders advertizement. I love it XD