Guild Wars 2

Let the happiness flow through you! Let the hate just…flooow away. Your butts don’t hurt that hard BP and AR. We’re not that rough in bed. You’re just inexperienced! Listen to this…awesome music! And some of our wonderful skills will transfer to you. I promise.

Thrumdi.9216:

Wall of Reflection is basically the Guardian range weapon. If they nerf it, they have to extend staff range to at least 900m.

Mmm, watching people kill themselves in chokepoints is great.

Rangers, I’m looking at you

It would be such a better skill if Master of Consecrations actually worked.

Playing. If I browsed these forums all day, I’d get banned for antagonizing all the idiots lovable players who constantly whine about everything.

GW2 also copies EVE Online.

I mean, just look at that market place!

They went on sell a few day sago for 100 each and 360~ for 5. I bought nearly 24~ and ended up using 30~.

Everything in that picture has gone on sale except the mystic forge stones, unless I’m mistaken.

Ya big baby.

Reroll the human to be a norn since you’re likely a xenophibic person.

Humans are pathetic anime tweaks in this game. Less humans, more norn.

Well, seeing this new update to WvW brought me a nice performance during massive zerg fights. I’d say they are.

I’m on a two year old studio laptop. Used to get less than a frame per second in the larger zerg fights. Now I get 3-5.

Because, you know, they made a separate system for the dyes you get from Laurels.

Haven’t noticed a drag, been getting the usual 10 ectos per 7-12 rares.

Kalkz.5297:

[PK] Way of getting BP Hills :
1- Get to BP BL with 20 PK zerg
2- take some towers while sending few to ninja Hills
3- Get wiped 20 – 30 times
4- Lose everything You took in BP BL
5- Hide in spawn for 15 – 20 Mins and Wait for all BP to feel safe and leave their map
6- Go for hills again, Oh kitty hell we got spotted
7- Hide in Spawn again, repeat for 3 – 4 hours

Still a better love story than Borlis Pass.

Be chill guys, be chill!

Patch Notes are not released early for one reason:

They cannot guarantee what will make it into the patch until just before. As some things just might not work, so it may not make it in.

If they released it early and something didn’t make it in that those notes said would: There’d be a dramastorm on the forums.

Creepy Silent.9801:

You’re in the wrong forums bud, this is the Ehmry vs Borlis thread! We are just the spectators in this!

One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?

Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
Did you guess which thing just doesn’t belong?
If you guessed this one is not like the others,
Then you’re absolutely…right!

All I can think of from reading that.

Going for a Bifrost at.

Progress:

Gift of Mastery: Complete.

Some of the materials.

Crying myself to sleep at night. Check.

I bought ten during the sale, I have fourteen now. Now to wait for ascended weapons and armor so I can give it my T3 skin

Rednik.3809:

Syktek.7912:

Easy: Anti-mass congregation system.

Once a group reaches 20, every additional person in that group results in a 2% reduction in overall stats across the board for everyone in that group. So 40 people? 40% reduction in your stats.

This would affect a…15000 area? Possibly more.

Would allow for a 15 man group to wipe a 40 man with ease.

Nah, i demand 30% reduction, started on 2 ppl. Why i should be owned by 2 ppl? This is definitely not fair. Go solo or go home, who cares about “World vs World” anyway? My shiny solo skill must prevail over stupid groups and zergs!

A) You’re an idiot or a troll, but these forums are filled with them.

B) Your contentless complaint can be applied to anything that would prevent Zergs.

C) My idea would encourage people to play in groups smaller than 20, though no larger than 25. This would cause people to roam in groups that would always be around these numbers on up times. These groups would be able to do tactics, etc: Meaning these groups could take castles, keeps, towers and camps in Unison.

The issue comes here: SM and Keep defense where there’s usually 40+ defenders. It would allow for less attackers to be much more effective. So there’d have to be some sort of system that disables the Anti-mass system during sieges of keeps and castles.

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So in essence: The system is active in all areas, but those surrounding SM and keeps.

D) Since you’re so focused on solo kills: I play a guardian and soon an engineer, I’m not worried about solo kills. I’m worried about small gang warfare, which thrives in WvW and would be the kind of WvW if people weren’t so kitten social.

Again, this is about small gang warfare. Not solo crap. That isn’t fun.

(I have gone to bed, I will not be responding to further desecrations)

Easy: Anti-mass congregation system.

Once a group reaches 20, every additional person in that group results in a 2% reduction in overall stats across the board for everyone in that group. So 40 people? 40% reduction in your stats.

This would affect a…15000 area? Possibly more.

Would allow for a 15 man group to wipe a 40 man with ease.

(Edit) Also, the amount of reduction per person is purely just numbers. Alongside the nerf per individual.

So maybe, instead of every single person, maybe every five? And still keep it at 2.

So at 50 players, everyone has a 10% reduction to globals stats.

Evilzara.6378:

Syktek.7912:

Kalkz.5297:

KStudios.2850:

Kalkz.5297:

SolarWind.5693:

I notice that BP and EB are for the most part avoiding fighting each other and are concentrating on DR. I vacillate between being honored that you guys fear us so much that you must team up on us and smfh at how strange you look in the skirt and pig-tails..

Considering Ebay Just took Our bay With 10 Golems, Considering we took their lowlands 2 times today, Considering they also took overlook yesterday, When you lose. Dont make bad excuses, admit your defeat, you’re making your server look terrible

Oh, terribly sorry. Most rude of us… We were looking for parking and found no lots on your BL. You might want to consult your public services department on that. =D

We do so loves our golem trains. Can’t just park them anywhere you know?. Choo choooo!

Dont Mess with Borlis Pass Brother, Remember We’ll Always hunt you Down

Congrats, you dominated EB on our down time! Slow clap

I heard Ebay has 24/7 map coverage. That scared us here in BP..

We did, against people who shouldn’t have been in the tier they were. It angered me when it happened for three weeks in a row. Then we got three weeks of getting our butts stomped by people with twice our numbers. And now we’re here. And I hope we stay here.

Kalkz.5297:

Syktek.7912:

Kalkz.5297:

KStudios.2850:

Kalkz.5297:

SolarWind.5693:

I notice that BP and EB are for the most part avoiding fighting each other and are concentrating on DR. I vacillate between being honored that you guys fear us so much that you must team up on us and smfh at how strange you look in the skirt and pig-tails..

Considering Ebay Just took Our bay With 10 Golems, Considering we took their lowlands 2 times today, Considering they also took overlook yesterday, When you lose. Dont make bad excuses, admit your defeat, you’re making your server look terrible

Oh, terribly sorry. Most rude of us… We were looking for parking and found no lots on your BL. You might want to consult your public services department on that. =D

We do so loves our golem trains. Can’t just park them anywhere you know?. Choo choooo!

Dont Mess with Borlis Pass Brother, Remember We’ll Always hunt you Down

Congrats, you dominated EB on our down time! Slow clap

And if you kept parking your golems inside our keeps we will make your down time 24/7

When hell freezes over

Kalkz.5297:

KStudios.2850:

Kalkz.5297:

SolarWind.5693:

I notice that BP and EB are for the most part avoiding fighting each other and are concentrating on DR. I vacillate between being honored that you guys fear us so much that you must team up on us and smfh at how strange you look in the skirt and pig-tails..

Considering Ebay Just took Our bay With 10 Golems, Considering we took their lowlands 2 times today, Considering they also took overlook yesterday, When you lose. Dont make bad excuses, admit your defeat, you’re making your server look terrible

Oh, terribly sorry. Most rude of us… We were looking for parking and found no lots on your BL. You might want to consult your public services department on that. =D

We do so loves our golem trains. Can’t just park them anywhere you know?. Choo choooo!

Dont Mess with Borlis Pass Brother, Remember We’ll Always hunt you Down

Congrats, you dominated EB on our down time! Slow clap

That battle for Stonemist was amazing, good job everyone from all servers and congratulations to Boris for taking it.

Lots of badges were had.

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And Devona somehow has it back already.

Ethics.4519:

Lafiel.9372:

The JP we have nowadays just isn’t enough now that i’ve experienced the mad king JP. That was one of the best jumping puzzle experiences I had in awhile and now everything else just seems plain kitten easy :o.

Not to mention the theme and sadistic style of the puzzle was awesome, the christmas one, although was fun, just didn’t feel dark enough and was ultimately way too easy.

I hope anet has some big plans for future JP like this and I really hope that when the next halloween comes, it won’t just be a rehash of the old event stuff!

I completely agree. I would love to see JPotM (Like fractals, but jumping puzzles of the mists). The JP gets harder and harder and changes every level, but your chest reward, karma, gold, etc (whatever reward) gets higher as you go along. Actually, I made go suggest this now.

If that happened there’d be a thousand threads about:

“I can’t do jump puzzles! They’re too hard! Woes ME!”

“JUMP PUZZLES FRACTALS ARE TOO HARD!”

“That’s it, I quit because of jump puzzle fractals!”

“Ehhmerrgerrd jermp perzzerles r harruudd!”

“Anet broke their manofesto again! Waaaaah! BAAAAWWW! I’m a kittening idiot!”\

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Though I personally would love seeing something like that as I love and am very good at jump puzzles.

Attack 3150: ( 150 Food)
Condition Damage: 100
Critical Chance 30: ( +5% Sigil) ( +5% Food)
Critical Damage 86: ( +10 Food)
Armor: 3000
Health: 17000
Healing Power: 300

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All stats rounded down to the nearest ten or hundred.

Also, it’s underlining everything and I have not told it to.

I’m generally trying to make a sword/focus, mace/shield build right now but it’s going slow. I know what I want, but I don’t really want to sit down and get the money/tokens/??? to go make it. But I’m getting there.

The general issue with one handed weapons is this: They do less damage and are, in my opinion, somewhat awkward to use. They are also somewhat lacking in crowd control, which two handed weapons are not (GS, Hammer, Staff all have crowd control while only the scepter and the shield have crowd control: A push back and an immobilize). The scepter is also somewhat buggy with its auto attack, making it slightly frustrating to use.

Mace and shield from what I’ve heard and seen is generally to be used with pure tanky builds that use clerics as the weapon itself has plenty of ways to heal you can your team mates.

That’s a lot better. Don’t worry about losing armor. A hundred or so down isn’t going to show you much different in damage. As long as you have between 2800 and 3000, you should be just fine.

And by all means, check out all the builds that are around this forums when you have the time. A lot of them are pretty darn amazing. There’s pure DPS builds that could knock just about anyone on their bum but have no healing past Signet/Shelter/theotherone. There’s the Healway which is pretty darn neat. Boon duration, etc. etc.

Just to give you some other builds. These are what I use.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/guardian/?3|1.1g.h17|2.1g.h1l|1n.9c.1n.9c.1n.9c.1n.9c.1n.9c.1n.9c|1g.67.1p.61.1p.61.1p.61.1p.61.3v.d1e|0.a0.u1ac.u2a9.0|40.7|e

This is what I’m using at the moment for ‘alone’ type of deals. I tend to run off looking for fights. You get 2k heals per mediation. One recharges every 16 seconds, giving you an emergency button.

Dying with this build is questionably harder than others. Seeing you have an immediate 14k health available to you.

Should have stated my slot skills: Signet of Resolve, Judges Intervention, Smite Condition, Contemplation of Purity.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/guardian/?3|1.1g.h17|6.1g.h1l|1n.9c.1n.9c.1n.9c.1n.9c.1n.9c.1n.9c|1g.67.1p.61.1p.61.1p.61.1p.61.3v.d1e|0.a0.u56b.u289.0|40.7|e

Slight changes take me to this. I use this for zerg fights, etc. Staff would be my main weapon, GS is for self defense.

Dying while using this build is something that happens; you’re there to apply boons and be annoying; being annoying gets you killed.

Skills: Signet of Resolve, Signet of Judgement, Stand your ground, Save yourselves.

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Both builds have two stun breakers, etc. etc.

The first build is a selfish Tank/DPS build. The second is a support Tank/DPS.

Try and lower your crit rate to between 45% and 50%, anything over is kind of useless until you hit around 70% (Which isn’t going to happen on any useful guardian).

My only absolute: Drop Strength in Numbers, put Honorable Shield in its place and add either AH or Monk’s Focus. That extra 70 toughness is worth nothing compared to the heals you’ll receive from either of AH or MF. MF at base heals for around 1.5k on mediation use and AH will heal you for 70-72 per boon applied. Use them according to what you put in your slots.

At that, it looks solid.

Someone call me out if you think I’m wrong.

frans.8092:

Syktek.7912:

Ascended items: Things that give you barely any bonus unless used in mass; designed to help you in FotM and other PvE areas; no boost to WvW performance as a 3-5% boost to performance in some stats is null.

It is, currently, about 8-15% per stat, depending on trinket and stat. While +10% on a part of the equipment is a lot less relative to the entire set, it is obvious from dev-posts that more (all) gear will eventually be available as Ascended, making it Best-In-Slot.

If you think 10% isn’t much consider this. In a chess game each player has 16 pieces, with pawns the least powerfull, yet any chess player would consider a match where one of the players is without their (say) king’s pawn (that is 1 in 16 pieces) as highly favourable for the party that can play with all pawns.

Your example holds no water as everyone can get Ascended gear, making it to where everyone has all the pieces they can get.

Still an equal fight.

If you do not have ascended gear a few months down the road it is your fault. So please don’t use “But so and so, cannot get” arguments.

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And yes, maybe an increase of 10-15% on the items themselves. But when added into all the other stats on a character, you get a max of a 3-5% increase.

Now when everything comes out, we’ll see a 10% increase no doubt. But at current, increases are null and are easily overcome by skilled players.

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I will no longer be responding to posts, I am going to bed.

Where’d all the good people go? I don’t see them on the monitor no more.

Coldtart.4785:

@Syktek: I see you have now stumbled upon the real problem with ascended in wvw. If it’s easy to obtain and it makes a negligible difference, why does it even exist in the first place? Why did the devs put work into making new gear? Why do we now have to obtain that gear?

If something adds nothing to the game it has no place being in there. Agony resist didn’t need to bring a stat increase with it and if it hadn’t the treadmill would have been contained to pve where it belongs. If it were like this we wouldn’t even need to discuss what can and cannot be sold on tp.

It’s just more stuff to get, that’s it. In the end, what makes games last longer? More content. It’s just something else to get. That’s it. One player has it, next player says “Oh man, I need dis to stay in line,” drives him to go get it and keeps him playing. It keeps a lot of people playing.

I honestly only have one ascended item that appeals to me and I have it. The book. I’ll be getting a necklace soontm so I can have extra Gold Find.

I don’t mean to defend mistakes the devs have made, but some of the attacks I’ve seen just don’t hold enough ground to be important.

@ Sylosi – I am not quoting that monster post.

First quote: I doubt armor, I do not doubt high infusions.

Second: First bit doesn’t make sense because I screwed up and din’t proof read before posting. I meant to say warrior. What I meant is this: If a per gets their stat bonus, it doesn’t really matter. These bonuses will become noticeable, maybe, yes. Though, these bonuses will be available to everyone who puts a half hogged attempt into actually getting all the ascended gear possible. Therefore, anyone who’s actually competent will have them. These stats will only matter in one versus one and small group scenarios and ONLY if there players know what they’re doing. These bonuses will only be effectively improving of one’s performance against others only if that other person does not have them.

Third: It does not matter if they have the gold to buy a legendary or not. Legendaries remain as a symbol.

If a person is too unable to go run a dungeon a few times to be able to buy / earn / be reward / recieve a non legendary ascended weapon, then they will not have the time to go buy a Legendary or make one at that.

Fourth: The rate is supposed to be pathetic, it’s a thing to consume your time. And there is no such thing as “No gear treadmill” they should have stated it as a reduced treadmill. I think it is somewhat ridiculous to assume you wouldn’t have to grind for certain gear.

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The only issue I have with Ascended gear is that it is much harder, takes longer to get than other items. Then again, this means everyone has to wait longer to receive it.

Sylosi.6503:

Syktek.7912:

…no boost to WvW performance as a 3-5% boost to performance in some stats is null.

Only if you are terrible at maths.

Try telling a football team (by football I mean real football, or soccer if you don’t speak proper like what I do) that their goal will be 12 inches wider than that of the opposition’s and that it doesn’t matter because it is only 5%.

Incidentally where is this 3-5% from as in one of these threads their is a guy stating his warrior’s DPS increases by 7.6% when he switches from exotics to 4 ascended trinkets, now work out what will happen when the other 10 slots are eventually open for ascended gear…

You assume we’ll recieve armor.

At that, say a warrior does et a 7.6 increase in damage. What does that mean to those people that he wasn’t able to kill in the first place? They too have a 7.6% increase in their stat of choice. or even if lacking, a lot of warriors are terrible and that 7.6% really won’t help them regardless.

Tack on this. Legendaries with ascended stats will be on the market still. Someone stated that there will be ascended weapons alongside these. Possible, probably, likely, etc. So that means, regardless, people will be able to have ascended weapons with or without legendaries.

So again, legendaries just become a skin you can apply to things. Remains just a thing to show status, wealth or just to give you a really cool skin.

And yes, ascended items are hard to obtain, I know this. But at the moment. EVERYONE. can get them as long as they donate a tad bit of their time a day to complete dailies. Dailies are now very easy. So in time, everyone can and will have them. Just like those necklaces (I don’t have one yet, because I’m addicted to those GF boosts)

You’ve got quite the leaky bucket there. Care to fix it and make a legitimate argument?

What are legendaries: Skins with soldiers stats applied to them. Possible ascended stats later.

Ascended items: Things that give you barely any bonus unless used in mass; designed to help you in FotM and other PvE areas; no boost to WvW performance as a 3-5% boost to performance in some stats is null.

Seven days.

/fifteencharacter

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• If more than one Guardian is located at the same location, both receive 25 stacks of vulnerability to allow thieves to actually kill them.

Paulytnz.7619:

1/2 – You have 5 char slots so test a few different races/classes until you find one you like.

3 – I am in New Zealand and have a great time on Ehmry Bay.

Join Ehmry, we need more soldiers for the WvW front. Seriously…

As for class. Depends on what you want. Want a DPS guy who won’t die immediately? Warrior. Want a guy who can take a small wars worth of a beating, put out a nice amount of DPS and support his team? Guardian. Want a person who instagibs things? Thief. Along the lines of that. Go check out the class sub forums.

As for species/race. I tend to like them based on how well they are made artistically and the lore following them. Such as most human characters are ugly and the human lore is filled with pansies who whine about everything. Though just go with what appeals to you here.

Racial skills are obsolete in most cases, so don’t worry about them too much.

Surviving assassination thieves and then turning around to chase them off or kill them.

http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=29555

^My thoughts. You shouldn’t have been banned IMO.

Engineer, honestly. I started off with a Guardian and have been loving him to death. Recently started a character that is to become my permanent second and he is an Asuran engineer.

It’s fun, quite capable in all scenarios.

It works, the numbers just don’t show up.

Couldn’t tell you. A lot of people seem to think the Charr are horrid for jump puzzles, but I do just fine. I can rapidly do them as my main character, a Charr, and if I fall it’s likely because I jerked, day dreamed or was tagged by an enemy below.

Since some people are getting into class because of the misunderstanding. Might as well as say that any class that has a natural speed boost is going to do better than the ones who access those boosts through buffs/boons/elixirs etc.

I can tell you that during event jump puzzles, Charrs and Norns need to take their armor off. It’s just common courtesy.

Wait for the Tengu <.< Honestly, they are the next species/race we’re getting. Think about it, they have their city gate which is locked off to the rest of the world. THey have guards in front of it who joke about when it’s going to open. There’s even a small circle-ish plot of land where their city will be.

I’m waiting.

Female Charr would make a badarse thief though, if you can’t wait, as you can make them rather skinny and they have mean hairstyles and aggressive though sweet faces.

1. Kitties (Charr are not kitties, they are big angry cats with horns)
2. Tengu
3. Naga (Face it, snake people are hot…I mean, awesome.)

Dungeons. Make 1+ gold a run at minimum. So I’m happy.

Flamenco.3894:

It’s pretty obvious.

The thief

Nah, Tanky DPS retaliation guardians wreck thieves.

Honestly, Guardians are great and can do a lot. Same with the warrior. Just depends on taste.

Guardians have more staying power.

Warriors have more DPS.

Currently running perma retaliation build with Tank and DPS. I’ loving it.

I have no complaints.

AstralDusk.1670:

I don’t know… this sounded suspiciously like a complaint.

Does it matter? Nearly everything on these forums is a complaint.

Soon, but on Valve Time. This is how I like to put it.

Could always go Knight’s or Berserker’s gear or a mix of whatever and spam Staff #1 through the gate. It gets you plenty of kills and is very, very annoying (AKA, a very good deterrent).

I have absolutely no qualms with the Laurels or Ascended gear. I’m actually enjoying the addition of both alongside the drama they bring as I really like my drama; specially when it’s sourced from a bunch of buffoons (Third infraction here I come!) who have no idea what they’re talking about.

Laurels: Way I see it is that we have this neat new system that gives out a much better reward than the daily system before it. Save that extra reward came with a greater challenge, some finding it annoying. Now I do agree that some of the new dailies were not necessary, but you can easily do them in WvW, etc. The other issue seems to be being given a few less Ks of experience a day.

Though I’m not complaining at all. As said, they added an awesome reward system, made it harder to do dailies and int he process they removed some of the experience you get from doing them. Boohoo.

Ascended gear: Ascended gear was intended for helping players go further and further into the levels of FotM, specifically designed to have infusions for Spectral Agony. However, these items have ‘slightly’ better stats. So people thing they’e been ripped off. Some idiots complaining that this somehow affects PvP and other screaming that it gives an unfair advantage in WvW small gang lolfare and 1v1s (No, no it doesn’t).

Though now we have utility infusions for the amulets; which give you extra gold, karma, etc. And if you’re lame enough to purchase the cheaper utility infusions; you get +7 to one of your stats. Personally these only affect PvE aspects and are fine by me.

The only thing you could argue that gives an advantage in WvW is the backpacks (The books and other things) as they have large ranged stats and are pretty ficken cool; so everyone wants one but they’re actually difficult to obtain as you need to go into the fractals to actually get them. Only confliction.

Thought this thread was going to be about Guardians spamming #1 through gates in WvWvW.

Heh. Heh. Heh.