Guild Wars 2

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#magswag

Treborlavok.3504:

Again I’ll put out another guardian example to compare…

I can run AH and PoV and 3 shouts and get aoe healing/stability/regen/protection/retaliation/aegis/swiftness/stun break and convert conditions into boons every 24/28/48 seconds and also spec to grant healing on aegis removal etc etc etc…

Shall we go on and talk about meditations as well?

That’s a guardian not an engineer. This is just 1 kit not 3 shouts and virtues. You want the all in one God kit/elixir is seems. Not gonna get it.

For any other magummans tired of listening to ppt bots the SBI-Yaks-EB thread is providing some great comic relief.

I dont think some people are quite grasping this. Engineers have 4 types of utlities. Elixirs, kits, gadgets and turrets. Each have their own set of corresponding traits. The elixir gun is a kit. As such it does not fall under hgh or 409 or any other elixir only traits. Perhaps the tooltip wording might confuse people, but it shouldnt really.

Elixir toolbelt skills are all worded as “toss”. Elixir skills are “fire fire spray leap launch”.

To have 2-3 more condi removal options on a kit which already gives bleeding, poison, weakness, cripple, vulnerability, swiftness, stunbreak, regen, aoe allied condition removal, healing AND is a blast finisher would be OP as hell. Just step back and think about that for a second.

No and no.

I thought perhaps downloading the client again would solve the issue but alas it hasn’t. I’m at a loss. Its getting to the point where its interfering severly with my experience.

DivineBeing.2086:

shake my head and laugh.

You and me both brother.

The elixir gun toolbelt skill is not an elixir.

Treborlavok.3504:

SmoothHussler.6387:

Doesn’t the trait say " throwing or consuming elixirs removes conditions from those affected"? Since the elixir gun doesn’t throw or make you consume elixirs I don’t see why it would be affected by 409. The number 4 does indeed remove conditions from allies in its cone but since the cloud doesn’t touch you it couldn’t possibly remove conditions on you. Besides, a 409 elixir gun coupled with 3 equipped elixirs would be way op.

Not in the slightest would it be OP. Look at guardians with shouts and pure of voice which actually converts conditions into boons…

If your using 3 kits your severely limited to your condi mitigation. Taking cleansing 409 with EG would give you the option to cure atleast 2 more conditions with your turret or atleast 2 more with your elixir heal and F skill. With the timers of each skill it’s not at all OP.

Another example of insane condition mitigation is guardians speccing into meditations which already have huge condi clears attached to them.

Engi’s arent guardians. If I ran my hgh/409 build with 3 elixirs and the elixir gun cleansing, it would get out of hand. If you want to turn conditions into boons then use elixir c.

You are indeed right that some of the kits need more help vis a vis conditions but the synergy between 409 and elixir gun would be over the top IMO. Between super elixir and healing turret though you shouldnt feel totally kitten in this department though.

Besides, if we want to get technical the elixir gun is a KIT and not an elixir, thus a trait dealing with elixirs exclusively doesnt cover it.

DivineBeing.2086:

You can say the same about ANY team game too. You do realize that right? “You only killed us because it was 3v2 because my other two teammates were on the other side of the map”, says the whiner in a 4v4 team game.

However, in THIS game mode one big mass zerg won’t (well shouldn’t if the enemies know anything about strategy) win you the game. Overall world strategy does.

So your personal skill level is on the super ultra professional level and you should be paid millions for it. Cool story. But that means jack crap when the game type you’re playing is….wait for it….WORLD vs WORLD vs WORLD.

Brag all you want about how awesome you are at duels and 1v1 but the goal of the game is to work AS A WORLD (aka team) and beat the other two worlds through overall score obtained by PPT measured by captured structures, not how many times you killed the enemy.

Basically, you are measuring skill on the wrong levels, your zerg wiped ours? You killed a ton of our players in a 1v1. Cool! Looks back at the scoreboard….I don’t see how that has any relevancy to this game type.

Mesmers are susceptible conditions. Dodge the illusionary Zerker , leap /or pistol daze and you just killed alot of their deeps. load them up with conditions between dodges.

Doesn’t the trait say " throwing or consuming elixirs removes conditions from those affected"? Since the elixir gun doesn’t throw or make you consume elixirs I don’t see why it would be affected by 409. The number 4 does indeed remove conditions from allies in its cone but since the cloud doesn’t touch you it couldn’t possibly remove conditions on you. Besides, a 409 elixir gun coupled with 3 equipped elixirs would be way op.

A useless elite I wish they would address.

Good list. I’ll have fun breaking these rules lulz

Fractals were boring as hell before. At least now there is some variety. Probably lots of bugs to fix but still better than running the same few crappy fractals over and over.

OK like all this griefing in the jumping puzzle is like way out of control and stuff. Trying to duel and blobs of griefers ruining it. Like stop already.

Psych.

But seriously I hate you all.

Remove turrets and add signets.

Cod on Cod.3694:

I don’t have any PvF ammo against Mags or SoS. They just too small, never really fought you before, and I dont give a rats kitten about roaming.

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Cuddlepie.8109:

1/10? Well, that’s arguably a generous score for the feared Maguuma Youtube roamer who styles themselves “Hashtag Blaze it”.

Ballista hero identified.

BUMP

Unfortunately the problem is back. Deleting said cache doesnt work. Running as admin doesnt work. TP will open upon logging into the game. After a map switch or initial opening it won’t.

OP you forgot buttlust!

Omnitek.3876:

Pinko.2076:

Omnitek.3876:

comments about my skill less thief perma stealth build (I run p/d with no stealth)

what?

I was told by a mag mesmer that I am a skillless trash piece of…. For running a perma stealth d/p thief build. I use p/d. Condi damage, evade build. I sometimes use CnD, depending on how much I feel like being in melee. (I didn’t CnD him or his phantasms)
This was after he came back 3 times to die.

No blinding powder, no HiS, no shadow refuge. Perma vigor, perma swiftness. Fun change from easy mode.

Oh I’m sure there’s a teensie bit of stealth in there somewhere.

Nice video for sure. Fortunately for that guy people didnt seem to know what cc was back then when engi’s only had rng stability.

Spinal shivers. Try it out man you could have removed his elite with 1 button press and did not.

TheThiefMaster.3812:

Btw you had more than 8 against 3 oPP( 2 on toons they hardly ever play i might add) and some pugs but why am i expecting you of all people to be honest.

I thought I remembered reading about OPP and how they were a roaming group. Expected to find them something along the lines of AoN. What I did see however was a group of 10 with some pugs thrown in (cant really blame you for the pugs) building siege in north camp against 5 or so of us.

It is what it is, but please dont blow smoke about being outnumbered and such.

Quite frankly I’m getting tired of staring at queues and people who will only fight within running distance of one of the (all the) towers that they own.

Getting to the point where I’m done with this game very soon.

That did it! Appreciate your assistance friend!

Bump.

1st time I log in I can access the TP. As soon as I change maps or enter wvw I cannot unless I exit to desktop.

Oh incendiary powder how I will miss thee. Was a long time coming though. One of the best adept traits in the game. Oh well. To Jon Peters would you please look at gadgets and the rifle auto attack please?

Agree with the op. Warriors are still in a great place don’t know why all the complaining. So hammer got some attention so what.

deathTouch.9706:

With regards to “adjusting strategy”, which of the following JQ techniques did you employ?

1) Recruit more players;

2) Drop more open-field siege;

3) Hide in nearest T3 tower/keep;

4) Stack with greater regularity;

5) Force more PVT usage;

6) Run from even fights with greater haste;

7) Ignore outcome of battle, brag about PPT;

8) 1 and 3;

9) All of the above.

lulz so true.

Should be another fun week of watching jq sit on walls.

Just as it says. I cant access the TP. All I get is an eternal loading circle. This randomly started 2 days ago.

WvW is death of a thousand cuts. There are a thousand little ways that have nothing to do with how these so called leagues are organized or how ppt is calculated which negatively affect wvw. Many of these things are basic design elements of the game at large. I mentioned some of them including down state and sieging down structures from inside the safety of other structures. To be honest I dont think it can be fixed without a radical redesign of many core game elements. I mean we’re talking about a game where balance vis a vis individual classes is NOT a design principle. Dont know how one can design large scale pvp starting from such a seed as that.

Here’s hoping ‘others’ are watching this game and taking tips on how NOT to do large scale pvp in such a way that encourages mindless blobbing.

Take out downed state.

Lower the queue ceiling by 25% per map.

Make towers and other structures unreachable by siege from other towers/structures.

Decrease siege cap ceiling.

Voila.

Ghoulina.2976:

SmoothHussler.6387:

Eternum.1706:

It’s really ticking me off that people are acting like this towards JQ as if we wanted this, or that this is our fault. .

So we’ll just ignore all the recruitment threads and the fact that your server pays for transfers then.

Statements about paying for transfers to servers are so ignorant. Any server I’ve ever been on does this (from T8 through T1). Not just for WvW, but also for the PvE community. So to act like T1 is the only place this exists, is ridiculous, to act like your server is innocent of this, is also ignorant.

We’re a great community, we will always welcome people to share in our community, but trust me, asking for 8 hour queues, skill lag out the posterior, isn’t on the menu.

Oh wait, here’s an add for Mag, right there at the top of the recruitment forums.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/recruitment/Maguuma-IS-looking-for-MORE-Oceanic-SEA
And here’s SoS https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/recruitment/Sea-of-Sorrows-Version-3-0

Pot, meet kettle.

Excuse me? We’ve said it 1000 times already. Mag does NOT WANT anymore NA. Any recruitment threads are asking for oceanics because we have by far the lowest amount in the top 6.

You have queue blobs 24/7 and still beg and PAY for guilds to go over to you. Pathetic. Anyone from TC above has no reason to recruit at all nevermind to actually pay people to transfer.

Any thread where someone is moving is immediately bombarded with ppl from jq, sor and bg. The 3 servers who least need ppl are always the first ones in.

Don’t try to compare Mag to any of them. If you fought against the opponents we do with the numbers we do all you princessses would have quit the game long ago.

And for the big mouth quoting some tye thread, you’re welcome to find 1 person who has payed for someone or some group to transfer over to Mag.

Not to mention that PYRO has been offered something like 100g a head to move to one of your t1 bretheren. ITS PATHETIC.

thefreezingvoid.8516:

SmoothHussler.6387:

Eternum.1706:

It’s really ticking me off that people are acting like this towards JQ as if we wanted this, or that this is our fault. .

So we’ll just ignore all the recruitment threads and the fact that your server pays for transfers then.

I dont know why you subject yourselves to queues and lag so bad you cannot do anything. Ironically I believe you lot play this game as the developers intended. Sieged out. Hiding in towers. Queue zergs etc.

JQ hardly buys off guilds. They just find guilds that are unhappy with their servers or are looking for a change. Once the guild has agreed to move, they donate the gold to help move the guild over, since moving a guild can be costly, depending on the size, and conversion rate of gems to gold. Even them many members of the transferring guild will still pay their own way.

I hardly think that is the same as buying a guilds.

Maybe it seems a bit dirty from other servers perspectives, but all t1 servers do it. Its an arms, race to make sure the servers have the best coverage 24/7.

Queue’s usually arent that bad. Its just bad atm since all the fairweathers and acheivement hunters are in game. Most organized guilds are having trouble getting half their forces in.

Queue’s for instance in a normal t1 server match up before leagues were only 40 minutes for EB, and less for the BL’s. I personally cant wait for it to return to that.

As for Lag, ya it sucks, but its the price that has to be paid for true competition.

As for people hiding in towers, I mentioned before, that most guilds have a hard time getting their full forces is the maps, thus meaning what you are seeing is a lot of fair weathers and acheivement hunters who would be less willing to fight and die then the wvw veterans. The organized guilds you do see are running short staffed, and as such are again less willing to fight open field.

Look man, I’m a foul mood tonight. I’m really not interested to hear your bullkitten excuses on this or that. You are what you are. Just leave it at that. Ok?

Eternum.1706:

It’s really ticking me off that people are acting like this towards JQ as if we wanted this, or that this is our fault. .

So we’ll just ignore all the recruitment threads and the fact that your server pays for transfers then.

I dont know why you subject yourselves to queues and lag so bad you cannot do anything. Ironically I believe you lot play this game as the developers intended. Sieged out. Hiding in towers. Queue zergs etc.

I run full pvt on my necro but my wells and life transfer still hit hard and do their job with almost 70% crit dmg.

On my warrior for group play I run a mix of knights-pvt armor with zerker/zerker-valk trinkets. I dont think running full ANYTHING is a good thing. Its about a) what class you are, b) what your role is c) your play style and finding a good balance between these various factors.

It blocks projectiles. Or more specifically it absorbs them.

I wasnt paying attention what am I supposed to bring back to Tassi to make this progress?

Shiren.9532:

Three servers in gold league will be destroyed for seven weeks straight, battering the morale of the players on the server and wearing down their desire to play (there is a difference between losing a match and playing a T1 server without T1 coverage or numbers) and they will get rewarded less than the servers who tanked their way into silver or cannibalised servers to remain in T1.

Very true.

I don’t main guardian but I’ve enough hours on mine to be somewhat confused as to all the disappointment on this forum. Pov was bugged before. It was always meant to only affect 1 condition. We all knew this. Besides , meditations are now insta-cast by default which is good and can be a source of fury which is also good. Condi meta is really only a major concern in PvP and if you still pay pvp hard core well then I’m sorry for you. Yes warriors got buffed but it isn’t a zero sum game. Guardians need work in zeal and radiance for sure but it took warriors 10 out so months of being bottom feeders to being where they are more so don’t fret. Fact is 3 of the 5 guardian trait lines are as near perfect as I think there is in the game. Meditation builds just got all the more powerful and shout builds are still viable. Is not all doom and gloom.

Some of those people were keyboard turning you know.

Just saying.

SweetCream.8051:

I feel it’s like a mesmer starting with all of its clones, or a warrior with full adrenaline… if we’re gonna try to compare classes lol.

Except before healing signet was buffed popping healing surge to fill your adrenaline was standard operating procedure for warriors, with the idea being that by the time it came off cool down you’d still be alive with your high hp and armor.

SBI’s march to gold league.

dynafire.5196:

Haha, I was thinking this exactly. I would not want to be known as the server that no one ever returns to, or that doesn’t welcome back former players. The only thing that shows is that a person holds grudges, or that the experience on the server was so bad – no one wants to return. I’d far rather be the opposite.. As you said, maybe that’s just what we get with our years.

Naw. We’re not into bandwagoners. Its better anyone who wants to bandwagon leaves mag. And take Oldsmeller with you if you go.

Too Frisky.9165:

Even more humorous was that we revived the lord about 4 times lol.

Is that all the banners 25 of you had? No wonder the player to loot conversion of SBI is so high.

Boonprot.6274:

I think you forgot 4:

4) Everyone on SBI transferred there before it got bandwagoned. Everyone.

For sure man. Eveyrone was always in before the wagon train began.

Full pvt gear and weapons. Zerker amulet and back piece. Celestial trinkets. 0-25-0-15-30. Trip wells if you’re group comp and positioning is kosher. Plague as elite. Staff axe-dagger. Melandru runes. Hit like a truck with your wells and death shroud. Great survivability with ds and runes and almost 30k HP. Food is sharpening stone and saffron bread or poultry.

The whole thing took my party over 2 hours yesterday. Probaby nearer to 2 and a half. My first time in TA also.

As soon as I switched to my guardian things got alittle easier. It IS hard.

She’s young. Only lvl 80 for a few weeks. Still a work in progress.