Guild Wars 2

Spicyhash.7605:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

One of the biggest balancing problems in this game is that no build should be able to produce large amounts of damage (condition or otherwise) and still be extremely tanky.

Not the issue. The problem is being able to produce large amounts of damage and still have extreme damage mitigation. This can include being tanky, but it also includes being stealthed for 80% of the fight, being invulnerable, and over abundance of control effects (knockback, pull, knockdown, etc). Any weapon or class that is capable of avoiding damage through these means needs to have the weapons that cause them nerfed in damage. Hammer needs to do way less damage with warrior, invuln for mist form and F4 shatter need to be reworked, and stealth needs to have duration cut in half, or more ways to get the thief out of stealth.

Everybody can relate to just minding your own business, rotating camera around scoping out enemies, then, bang, out of nowhere you’re stunned by basilisk venom, 5k cloak and dagger, invisible thief so you can’t interrupt the chain or escape because of the stun, then 6k backstab. before you can even react the thief has either healed for stealth, cloak and dagger again, etc. it’s just ridiculous.

Mitigation abilities and traits are a separate issue entirely, but I very much agree with you. I’d personally love to see all forms of active mitigation have their durations cut dramatically across the board so that timing and skill would become more of a thing.

My original post was specifically referring to build options and baseline stats being so generous. You can build very heavily into power or condition damage and still have over 3000 toughness. In my opinion, things like PVT shouldn’t exist because it takes away the idea of having to make sacrifices for damage or survivability. But that’s simply how this game operates and I absolutely use PVT on some of my power characters.

One of the biggest balancing problems in this game is that no build should be able to produce large amounts of damage (condition or otherwise) and still be extremely tanky. Unfortunately, it’s been like that for a very long time and further boosted by constantly introducing new equipment stat combinations and rune sets that promote passive play.

Like it or not, this is the direction that has been chosen for GW2.
Adapt or move on.

Careful. That’s dangerously close to match-up talk.
They don’t allow that around here anymore.

Pain Response should be updated to clear Torment. It’s sheer laziness they haven’t done that yet.

In my opinion, Pain Response should clear all damaging conditions and Fleet of Foot should clear all movement-restricting conditions. That would bring those of us with Acrobatics-based builds slightly more in-line with the stealth builds.

Yam.2891:

helo i love pvp

You picked the wrong game, pal.

Darek.1836:

BirdSong.2541:

kaco.9856:

BirdSong.2541:

Song to other servers; Tis the season to be with family Tralalalalaaa laa laa la Nope.

Too much crying, we ain’t even trying, achieve points be flying, WvW iss dyyyiiinnggg

-Rob 1991-2098
#Timetravel #yolo #terminatorwuzreal #sellallappleshares

Lol we can see what you mean when you wont touch FC I can only assume because they match you in numbers and you cant win with what you plan tonight which is why both FC and NSP will zerg us again.

Well they’ve been outnumbering us at times badly and have wiped the main zerg more than once. But the majority of their players are still tactless and awful, more so than usual server pugs. If you get them on their own or in small groups its pretty easy loot bag time.
Although NSP will always be a small player base strong skill set server.

from our point of view we’ve found that Os has no skilled players and have been told they don’t gvg.. (which is ok). however, don’t say NSP has a strong skill set server just because you have (had) a few good players from guilds like tM and formally XOXO

I’m disappointed at the severe lack of SPCA, SPLT, XOXO, and TM in this matchup. Where did they all go? I’m not supposed to feel this safe when solo-roaming against NSP.

Ynot.8397:

Easterbunny.6170:

Hi:

We don’t condone cheating, but how exactly do you know he wasn’t hiding in there already? Not sure where you show the actual part where that person does something wrong…

Someone stood in a tower until it got reinforced walls to port people in?

It’s likely that an upgrade had just finished, but it’s certainly plausible that a player could just simply hide in there for that long. It’s an insanely boring way to play a video game, in my opinion, but apparently pretty popular given that guilds like [WZ] will eagerly dead-camp a water gate all week long if they could.

I think an invasion notice for the claiming guild would be a great idea. Make it look just like that stupid Scarlett message that pops up and lures away all of our defenders at random times.

Highlie.7641:

quiet you, your just a bad ranger with no stealth

That’s a low blow.
I’d never call anyone a ranger… not even my worst enemies.

Viking Jorun.5413:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

No stealth P/P. We don’t have any condition removal like those sissy sword thieves use.

You also waste initiative and have no cleave, and positioning doesn’t matter as much!

Cleave, initiative, and positioning are also for sissies.

No stealth P/P. We don’t have any condition removal like those sissy sword thieves use.

Stupid Elf shot the food again. >_<

KittyRiv.5291:

The one loss was to a ranger…

Losing to a ranger is usually a sign that you should switch to a game more suitable for your skill level. Perhaps try Minecraft?

Who cares if this game is deep or not? Yishis makes great videos that explain how to play THIS game well in a manner that players of all skill levels can understand and appreciate.

He’s still a dirty stealther, though. :P

It’s sad, really. This game features a truly remarkable combat system that’s loads of fun to play. Unfortunately, it gets buried under the weight of constant balancing missteps, developer limitations, and a completely garbage relationship with its own user base.

I hate to say it, but this is one game I’d love to see someone make a cheap clone of.

Highlie.7641:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Phlogus.2371:

I will miss the match up threads… Where has everyone gone this is the dullest thread ever. Is there already a new host out there?

Nope, many of us are just playing this game less, posting less, and spending more of our time on other games.

Ahh you just need to troll moar.

But I like the people on these two enemy servers.

Phlogus.2371:

I will miss the match up threads… Where has everyone gone this is the dullest thread ever. Is there already a new host out there?

Nope, many of us are just playing this game less, posting less, and spending more of our time on other games.

#esports

Stillerdakiller.4816:

Lord Kuru.3685:

Stillerdakiller.4816:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Transitioning from PvE to WvW, ditch the berserker gear and slowly add it back as you get better at WvW.

What gear would you recommend I get?

What’s your profession? What gear are you using now? Do you intend to mostly run with zergs or roam in small groups/solo?

PVT gear is good starter armor for WvW.

I play as a thief. Using PvE gear with Power/Precision. Going to run in small groups and solo. Where do I find PVT gear?
Sorry for the newb questions!

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats#Level_80_exotic_equipment

And look for Soldier stats. That’s a really good mix of damage and survivability.

Transitioning from PvE to WvW, ditch the berserker gear and slowly add it back as you get better at WvW.

I’ve had some of my posts in this very thread get deleted due to “clean-up” purposes. No rules broken, no spam, nothing. Just a post they didn’t agree with.

KittyRiv.5291:

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It is possible to target someone here. Reason I ask is in all my time playing I have never been hit there. I was targeted by both a necro and an engineer while operating the arrow cart.

Yes, it’s possible. Very much in the same way that you’re able to target outside with the arrow cart you were using.

Jeknar.6184:

We’ll still have another week, as the forums will only die on 2014… Next week I might do some serious show up, I’ve been playing Heart of the Swarm for the last 2 weeks so I barely logged on Guild Wars 2.

Every time I try to get interested in playing Starcraft, I always think of this video and nope the hell right out of there.

They’re also closing down the matchup forums.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Upcoming-Forum-Changes-to-WvW-Match-ups-Sub-forum

It’s cool, ANet. We didn’t really want to make friends with other servers anyways.

Hopefully soon, you’ll do away with those other pesky forums since unpleasantries exist there as well. The only forum we really need is https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc so that we can report when our credit cards malfunction in your wonderful gem shop.

Avatar of Belle.9623:

It’s much easier on your blood pressure to treat all the kitteny things people do with humor. I am amused by emotes, siege tombs and all the other silly things people do to each other.

For example, my face whenever I see a [BS] group running around trying to lure our pugs into very obvious badge traps.

Avatar of Belle.9623:

El Taquito Bandito, are you rich?

I go the pauper’s route and throw ballistas.

“In order to properly disrespect your opponent, you must first learn to respect yourself.” -Taco Tzu

If you throw siege on a corpse and it’s NOT an omega golem, you’re doing it wrong.

styx.7294:

Avatar of Belle.9623:

I get so much amusement from all the /laugh and jump emotes people do on my corpse. They’re so proud when they take 3-10 people and run down a necro. It’s so cute!

Not gonna lie, totally the sort of thing my guild does. Some people just have no respect! And I’m trapped with them =( Send help.

Wasn’t me this time!
I only jump and sit on ally corpses.

… and ambient rabbits.

I’m very happy with the new ini regen and being able to drop Quick Recovery. Currently running 15/30/0/25/0 instead of the old 10/30/0/30/0.

I’ve been running into [RED]s and [oHai]s lately in spvp. Seems like everybody is bored after leagues were a wash.

Excalibur.9748:

I played around with hard to catch some yesterday.

It’s a pretty fun ability. I don’t really have a good idea how it works yet, but it hasn’t killed me yet.

It almost killed me once I was in SR and I got disabled and got revealed from that. But I managed to outrun all of them with shortbow…

I want to play around with pain response today and decide. Because really, I think hard to catch may be necessary with what they did to shadow return.

Pain Response has been core to my build long before the patch. The cleanse can be a little unreliable, but the regen is great. I recommend you pick it up if you’ve got trait room for it.

I was initially a fan of Hard to Catch. It’s not quite as random as people think it is. At least in my experience, it seems to port you 600 units directly away from the PERSON who disabled you, not the actual disable effect itself. That led to some pretty fun shenanigans where I’d daggerstorm-shadowstep into a zerg just in between the hammer train and the squishies, the hammers would turn around and try to earthshaker me which would actually teleport me BEHIND their squishies (because Hard to Catch procs even if you have stability), then I’d simply shadow return back to my initial starting point once the daggerstorm ran out.

The deal breaker for me, though, is that you get ported away during a stability stomp.

Avatar of Belle.9623:

ET is the wolf zerg?

The wolf zerg that apparently got outplayed.

ET got a shoutout in Team RIOT’s gold league celebratory video.

http://youtu.be/_w4BQstxXvY

I’m actually kind of digging it. For serious. It’s got a weird learning curve, but I’ve gotten some good use out of it so far.

Hijacking this next spot because I am a jerk.

GoM: “OMG OMG OMG OMG new PvE content!”

We awesome gunslingers will keep on pew-pewing in this post-patch apocalypse.

I’m not mad about the rewards at all. In fact, I’m impressed. The rewards were exactly as most people expected, and yet still people transferred in droves under the assumption they would get something spectacular.

I’d be happy with a trait in Acrobatics that removes 1 condition per dodge roll.

Garbage rewards all around and “bragging rights” that expire after only 250 uses.
ANet are pro level trolls.

I’d love to see a real-money grand total on gems spent on transfers. The bandwagon is real.

Leagues are done, y’all. Stop fussing.

Colt.9051:

Is it just me, or is it REALLY laggy this matchup? I DCed 3 times in a half an hour and each fight I wind up lagging through the whole thing… and my internet’s fine

Don’t worry… it’s not your internet. It’s simply the servers trying to process the massive influx of new precursors and ascended gear from all those Season 1 reward chests that just got handed out.

Dovgan.8605:

Easterbunny.6170:

Don’t expect to be underestimated a 2nd time :p

-Mummies R Us

This was the biggest advantage AR had the last 4 weeks, and I think AR knows that. It was the server that was supposed to be in last place. Absolutely no one we fought thought we were any threat. Most of us knew we would be weathering the storm every reset night, but it’s something we have become accustom to(our resets have always been fairly light). Put a few well placed oceanic players into the mix and some folks staying awake trying to complete a meta that should have been done weeks ago, and the result is what we have now. Coming off a tough match doesn’t help any Bronze Tier server either. All in all the match was well fought by everyone, so no complaints. GoM is a tough server, we knew that going in, and I don’t expect any less than a tough server in the future.
Good fights, good fun. We’ll see you on the battlefield.

Sorry man, I can’t justify letting you call GoM a tough server. Not after this week.

We’ve lost matches before, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen us flat-out give up and roll over. Even during Kaineng bandwagon week where we lost by something like 300k points, we’d still pick a tower to defend against impossible odds and make them work their kittens off for it. This week, we refused to send even an extra person or two for a fortified garrison lord room defense against a 10-man DR group because “we were going to lose it later anyways.”

Can’t blame the fairweathers for this one. We were total garbage. Congrats to AR and DR for stellar play this week, but don’t call us a tough opponent until we prove that we still can be.

CornChips.5392:

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

irishhaf.1692:

All that said, AR has always been a class act in my memory and the rest of us should remember that and not let a few poor winners ruin the reputation of a good server.

Definitely. I always enjoy fighting AR.

AR is playing the PPT game very well this week. The late night pvdoor crew is obviously carrying the score hard for AR, but that doesn’t discredit the efforts of the rest of their players. Even during the primetime-to-midnight hours when we can actually run up the score on them a bit, they do a good job of minimizing the damage until everyone goes to bed.

A gif for you. I know you like a good gif. Also you get to be Indi in this, nobody can complain about that.

Indy is cool and all, but I wanna be this guy when I grow up.

Linked servers and shared scoring is a great idea that’s been pitched numerous times by different people but never seemed to pick up steam. I’m hoping they’ll be a bit more open-minded to community ideas given the lackluster inaugural season.

See: http://youtu.be/qHcO6Xo8eJ8

Nikkinella.8254:

^I’ll still be using dual pistols on my thief I don’t care how bad it is, its fun. And I have the satisfaction of knowing I killed someone with the worst weaponset thief has. And I don’t use stealth so I like rushing in all guns blazing suicide mode anyway.

I like you.

irishhaf.1692:

All that said, AR has always been a class act in my memory and the rest of us should remember that and not let a few poor winners ruin the reputation of a good server.

Definitely. I always enjoy fighting AR.

AR is playing the PPT game very well this week. The late night pvdoor crew is obviously carrying the score hard for AR, but that doesn’t discredit the efforts of the rest of their players. Even during the primetime-to-midnight hours when we can actually run up the score on them a bit, they do a good job of minimizing the damage until everyone goes to bed.

Steve Whitley.8359:

edit: gif’s dont like me, so i dont like them either

It’s funny watching your revisions in progress.

Seriously, just take the file you’re trying to upload and change the “.gif” to a “.jpg” on the file name. Your computer will probably throw out some big warnings about “blah blah blah file will become unstable if you change the extension,” but click yes anyways because you’re way higher up on the food chain and don’t need to take orders from a stupid machine.

Then edit your post and upload your new “.jpg” file. It’ll still be animated because the forums just don’t know any better.