Sigil of Strength is used because its better than the others. Its the only sigil in that category that will affect all of your attacks for the next 10 seconds. The other sigils either have a single attack, give the other player a condition, or give you a less useful boon than Might. This is the only sigil that will affect all of your attacks, that is why its used, not because of the ICD.
If the ICD were 5s it would not be used.
Here’s another one: Rune of the Lich. Look at that cooldown: 60s for a jagged horror.
The game is full of this nonsense, and imo could really do with a review to both refresh and vary things a bit.
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I do agree that getting near a tower with multiple people on AC’s is obnoxious, I just feel that in my many hours of WvW, it’s uncommon for said AC’s to live longer than 60seconds thanks to Meteor Shower doing like 9k a hit and Temporal Curtain pulling people right over and off the walls.
It goes both ways. Sometimes a zerg doesn’t have the people to do this. Often we have no mesmer and eles who don’t (for whatever reason) attack the carts.
I don’t know. I think there’s a critical mass where siege instantly vanishes.
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People in my guild had a lot of strange situations lately in wvw. For some people textures like keep walls are just not there, so they can basically walk into a keep. It does not happen every time and on every wall. The strange thing is for whatever reason the problem goes away and then reappears out of a sudden. Maybe the guy in the screenshot suffers from something like that also. I have never seen something like that before and i am playing since release. For me it seem that the last “performance” patch regarding the walls in wvw did seriously break something.
The devs know the way they created professions has led to an unhealthy state and HoT stuff was a first step to make improvements, but they know there is a long way to go.
The proliferation of crowd control has lead to boring immob-to-death crap that is remeniscent of DAoC’s shameful minute-long AoE stun/mez. Follow that up with massive damage spike because when you stun someone you don’t need any defense. Combine that with confusing clone/stealth target removers and is it any wonder new people hate competitive modes?
In that video, Irenio talks the good talk but HoT has just made CC godlike and damage spikes even worse.
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Instead of basing it off the servers place they should give benefits when you have the outnumbered buff.
The benefits should be things that encourage small groups to go out and try things on their own instead of logging off because there isn’t a blob running.
A few examples of what I’m talking about are:
When outnumbered you can pick up an extra 5 supply, so if you are running on an enemy bl and claim a camp you can grab 25 supply.
When outnumbered you will not be marked by sentries, watch towers or when a keep flips.
When outnumbered it takes twice as long to trigger white swords.
Not only does this promote small group play, it forces the blob to split up or risk losing everything.
All good suggestions
Indeed, these are good suggestions, but they rely on the unreliable outnumbered buff.
I have been told by players (nobody in authority) that only one side can be Outnumbered.
It has also been suggested that people would manipulate their map population in order to gain Outnumbered if there was anything decent attached to it. I’m not sure how true/feasible this would be.
If a side were trying to manipulate the Outnumbered buff, it is possible that this could lead to arguments within their community if they were to lose it.
I would also like to suggest that if we use the “whoever is in 3rd place” metric, we could simply give that side speedy dolyaks on all camps until they are no longer in 3rd place (then whoever is 3rd place gets it).
This should help because even a giant blob struggles to hold all the camps at a time.
Having their objectives upgrade faster would be great for weaker sides.
If they had Siegeraiser as well, this could really help them get a foothold.
Further bonuses may be needed to get them back into the fight.
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If what you mean is dps with survivability in general, warrior and reaper are the classes that come to my mind.
These can do a little tanking in PvE, but they aren’t proper tanks in the classical sense. They can’t hold aggro and can’t defend anybody should they lose aggro.
Btw, whoever told you to go staff guardian was probably trolling you.
Staff guardian is WvW tank.
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I still wish they would double the thickness of walls, personally. Not increase the health or the height, just widen them so it’s more difficult for AOE’s to cover the entire walls. You would still be able to kill AC’s and such on the walls it would just a) be more difficult and b) probably require counter siege like an open field AC or Ballista. But at least it would allow for defenders to stand on the walls without immediately getting blown up or pulled off.
You make important caveats there – it’s important to be able to (if difficult) counter the ACs. This being said, the bigger a group is, the more chance an ele gets a good/lucky shot on a meteor shower (my point is that we shouldn’t expect to win against such enormous groups with just a handful of defenders).
I made an upgrade post ages ago that suggested walls become taller as an objective upgrades – meaning that trebs will be able to reach further and making walls easier to defend.
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World vs World:
I haven’t done much of it, because it appears largely unrewarding and it’s not my endgame. It’s also a frustrating and confusing zergfest of following around the commander tag and avoiding fullscale combat at all costs. Whenever I got into a 1v1 or similar small scale skirmish, a thief would pop out of invissiblity oneshot me and then bow-dash to africa before I could even blink. I’m in full berserker gear and I SINCERELY HOPE that’s the reason I’m getting instakilled with no chance of defending myself.
That’s not an unreasonable assessment.
There is a lot of avoiding combat, but when the zerg vs zerg happens it is glorious and rewarding. Also, if you’re not on your community’s voice chat (teamspeak or whatever), the experience is massively diminished.
Regarding your 1v1 experience, that is absolutely typical. Thieves or such super-twitchy-pro-apex classes in PvP specs completely obliterate regular WvW players, even if we do tend to run tankier gear than berserker. You had no chance to defend yourself because that’s what Jon Peters, Roy Chronacher and Karl McLain think is fun. Welcome to eSports.
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I like the game, I love the WvW community, but I dislike all of the professions and the combat system. Whoever designed it needs a slap to take a long look in the mirror.
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I think this is a legacy from a period during development when Arenanet didn’t want their game to be about staring at boons and conditions. Instead they wanted players to be able to identify boons/condis people had by looking at the playing area of the screen.
Sadly, they abandoned this at some point and adopted WoW-style buff (boon) and debuff (condition) bars.
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Looks more like a wishlist for thieves. What’s the point? Are we all to write a list of things that got us killed? Nerf clones, stealth, blinks, self-water-blasting! Nerf twitchy gameplay and huge spike damage that separates the best players from the (far more numerous and thus more important in financial terms) dollopers!
Ridiculous? Maybe.
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While in Death Shroud, upgrades, such as sigils, on the necromancer’s currently equipped weapon continue to function. (Note: While you cannot swap weapons in Death Shroud, entering Death Shroud will activate sigils that trigger on weapon swap.) The weapon strength of the equipped weapon is applied to the Death Shroud skills, including any traits that affect the equipped weapon, such as Axe Training.
I run berserker gear, traveler runes in our melee tanktrain. I counter the frailty with Death Magic’s defensive traits (most players seem to go Spite instead). It’s a Power Wells hybrid. I get kicked into Shroud when it gets hairy and as long as I’m not being focused I can usually hit stability (Shroud#3) and Shroud #2 to get out of trouble and back onto our tanks.
It works ok.
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As a new player (started 3 weeks ago) who picked Elementalist as my first class and will hit level 80 with tonight… I find this thread rather depressing. :-/
dont be too disheartened, outside of spvp its a great class, lots of variety of builds and fun to play.
IMO If you can master ele, most of the other classes will probably be easy to learn. So you could play a “better” one.
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maybe you could change tricks and traps into permanent items so we dont have to buy them more than once ? not so much because of the price but like with harvesting and mining tools you just run out of them when you could use them
I don’t relish the idea of permanent siege disablers, but acknowledge how beneficial they would be to those who do use them.
Maybe a Tricks and Traps vendor could be added to the keep merchant upgrade, instead/as well?
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I get the impression that most of these are unused due to their Cooldowns (specifically, lots are too long). A massive amount of variety could be introduced to the game with just a few numerical adjustments.
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Congratulations on getting your idea adopted by Arenanet.
Emissary’s Staff
Legends tell of the envoys—people who mucked up so badly in life that they’re forced to spend eternity shepherding souls to the Mists. Has anyone tipped these slackers off to Ascalon? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Anyway, get a jump start on your Halloween costume with this genuine, imitation-replica Emissary’s Staff.
Come up with a better solution to repair damaged cannons/oil/mortars. (hint: siege weapons regenerate health while the objective is not contested)
Repair Hammers aren’t worth all the [time and effort (both from devs and players)], supply, gold and soon badges.
I mean, what’s the point? The logistics of supply in WvW are already often problematic.
Perhaps this element of the cost might be significantly reduced?
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Supply isn’t really the problem when doing 50v5 keep defense
Supply isn’t the only option, but it is a logical start point. It’s possible that other bonuses could be added to the third place side.
… and to be frank 50 should really win vs 5 anyway.
You say that like they don’t.
More supply won’t help population imbalance
Don’t get me wrong, I agree with you.
I am of the opinion that although Siegeraiser was a well-intentioned effort, I’d like to see a LOT more of that sort of thing. The cheapest way of doing this is to measure the positions at a point in time and hand out bonuses to whoever is losing.
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The WC change was a good one intentional or not. Defending against catas in that cave was all but impossible against a superior force. Now attackers at least have to work for it.
Langor is very difficult to take when defended. There are several spots inside to defend that back wall.
It is all but impossible to defend that back wall against a superior force.
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The reason they abandoned Guild Wars to make Guild Wars 2 was because Guild Wars was a lobby game with instanced maps and they wanted to make a full fledged mmo. Unless they decide that they want to make something besides an mmo then I dont see them making Guild Wars 3.
I have no idea why people ask for GW3. It would mean years of little or no content for GW2 while they make it and you’d have to abandon an account and characters you spent years working on.
The “content” we get at the moment seems to be too much about new systems piled upon systems. Instead of fixing existing systems, we get more and more new ones. There is new content along with these, but it irks me that development resources are wasted with flavour-of-the-month novelty projects instead of making the existing game better by efficiently re-using old systems with the new lore and using the development time to perfect the existing systems.
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WORLD VS. WORLD
General
The walls in WvW have been updated to improve performance.
Someone on my server mentioned that this probably involved reducing the complexity of the geometry.
It seems that this has resulted in a few glitches where players can get stuck in walls or pass through some walls.
Wildcreek on EB has an undocumented change. The destructible wall on Rogue’s Quarry side of the tower is now indestructible, but the opposite wall is now destructible instead. I believe this has been done by mistake (hence no documentation). IMHO this is a change for the better and should be repeated at Langor (which has a vulnerable wall which is extremely difficult to defend).
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Mesmer, Thief, and Ele need more unblockable options that fit within their meta builds. For example thief has to go condition to use it’s unblock able traps. Thief especially could use some more trait based unblockable options.
After necro gets stealth, blink and/or self-water+blast.
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…Sure, some people will say that you only lose when you die, but if you are forced to tuck your tail and disengage completely (go ooc) it’s a loss in my book.
Thieves have one ability over all other classes, Mobility. As a thief you have no idea how many people have whispered me hateful things about resetting fights. “Stealth is a crutch, you go ooc you lose, try fighting me fair”, etc etc. It’s almost irrelevant to them that you killed them after the third opener. That’s the goal when I play thief, to kill you on the second or third opener. You guys see it as a quick and dirty 30 second slug fest, I play it as a 2 minute dissection of your skills and cooldowns. Also I don’t play condi, I play generic power d/p d/d.
The basic idea of thief, that few seem to accept, is that its entire design is based around it being a mobile, stealthy, killer. It will and should be able to assassinate enemies who are alone, wandering the wilderness. What you guys are doing by complaining about these things is slowly homogenizing the game. If your a slow, bulky, whatever class/build that gets ganked by thieves, probably don’t go out alone. We can either have an asymmetrical unbalanced game about fun and flavor and different classes, or we can have WoW.
You’re 100% wrong about stealth. It’s a huge crutch in more ways than one.
The first is obviously that your opponent can no longer see you, but the second is that your victim loses target.
Frankly, I believe Karl McLain has a lot of explaining to do. This isn’t fun for your victim at all.
I’d rather have WoW combat than this crap system.
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Thief is the weakest class for any scale battle that involves an equal amount of participants from both sides. If a thief wins a duel it either means that his skill is miles above the other player or the other player did not have a proper 1v1 build and the thief had.
PvPers in WvW. A farmfest until the zerg arrives to save us all.
The safety of the zerg will save us from gankers!
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