Guild Wars 2

Swords in our SE camp! So I head down there only to find a sole FC Guardian in the process of taking the camp. Well I should save it I tell myself, after all that is what Heroes do right? However shortly after that Guardian ran away I receive a party invite. The Guardian wants to chat! I figure she wants to congratulate me on my awesome save of the camp but such was not the case. I received a plaintive request by that FC Guardian to “Please go away, you can take the camp back later”.

I pondered some, feeling a small bit of empathy and wavering in my resolve but then I looked at the map and noticed that FC did not own a single camp in their Bl! I said “Go to your own BL to cap camps”. I was told that it was “too far to run” so in turn I replied “perhaps if you took your camps, built your waypoints, it would not be that far”. Makes sense does it not? Then I was summarily informed that HoD did not belong in Bronze league.

So the question that should be asked is if you did not want to mess with HoD as they should be in Silver League what in the world are you doing in HoD’s BL, solo capping HoD’s supply camps? Would you not expect some resistance to your nefarious endeavors? I went on to kill that Guardian 4 or 5 times. I mean she should have congratulated me on my awesomeness! I may have relented……….. NOT!

Jesse.4631:

Theftwind.8976:

What skill gives you all boons? Bountiful theft gives only 2 and only if your target has 2 boons on them , 3 for Thrill of the Crime and those are fury, might and swiftness. So I am trying to figure this out.

Its the Steal Skill we get off of mesmers

There are two skills a memser has that involves boons. Arcane thievery will trade 3 conditions for 3 boons and Signet of Inspiration will grant a random boon every 10 seconds unless activated where it grants all boons to allies. So to get all boons the mesmer would first have to have the Signet slotted and secondly he would have to activate that signet. Now what intelligent mesmer would do that against a thief?

Jesse.4631:

Theftwind.8976:

If done correctly there is no room for the thief to dodge the wave while waiting under the house, the wave will cover the whole circle. It will fail if a) you are too far back from the edge or b) you only catch half the circle and they are in the other half.

The stolen skill gives me all boons in game for a few seconds, why i say if your smart and pop this in shadow refuge you won’t get knocked out. Aegis block and well stability help too :p

What skill gives you all boons? Bountiful theft gives only 2 and only if your target has 2 boons on them , 3 for Thrill of the Crime and those are fury, might and swiftness. So I am trying to figure this out.

Jesse.4631:

And a smart thief will use the memers stolen skill to stop that or dodge in shadow refuge :o

If done correctly there is no room for the thief to dodge the wave while waiting under the house, the wave will cover the whole circle. It will fail if a) you are too far back from the edge or b) you only catch half the circle and they are in the other half.

Jesse.4631:

And a smart thief will use the memers stolen skill to stop that or dodge in shadow refuge :o

If done correctly there is no room for the thief to dodge the wave while waiting under the house, the wave will cover the whole circle. It will fail if a) you are too far back from the edge or b) you only catch half the circle and they are in the other half.

Jesse.4631:

Jeknar.6184:

I’m sure thieves and warriors are the next on the hate line after the mesmers.

No one complains when that Shadow Refuge is above their downed body <3

Easiest thing for a mesmer to counter. Stand at the edge of the circle, use GS 5, Illusionary Wave before the House drops. It blows the thief out of his hidey hole and they stand there for a couple of seconds with a stupid look on their face. Since they are now running out of initiative it is prime time to turn them into a moa. Thieves love being chickens.

Narsil.6579:

I can take emotes, its when HoD pugs decide to run into a keep or tower even though they outnumber me just to man siege and still send 7 after me , now that, that is class

No, class is when that little Asuran thief from FC that has been hanging around our northern camp taking out yaks runs from me when I catch him in the act……and keeps running. No wait! He is turning around to fight me! Yay! No, he has 4 friends with him now so I go down, and he proceeds to laugh. So I guess all servers have them!

I see FC has their fair share of class…like these 2 that took me out…that spam and jumping on my corpse you see went on for a whole minute plus.

Stay classy FC……and dump these two clowns.

I find it interesting in this thread ….

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Strongest-1-vs-1-class/page/2#post3252146

…that most people rate Guardian as the worst 1v1 class in WvW.

I have taken towers with only the wife and myself, no golems. Usually the two of us will use catapults to open the gate/wall and then take the tower. Mind you it is a bit tougher if it is guarded by anyone other then npc’s.

Edit: We took the NE tower two times in one night with a mesmer and a guardian duo but failed on our 3rd attempt as we were laughing so hard at the hapless enemy that failed to sweep we forget about the RI on the tower Lord!

Gorani.7205:

Alternative idea:

Make those “Supply removal traps” easier to get & use. They are 15 Badges & 525 Karma + 10 supply to build, now. If you make them as “cheap” as an AC (6 Badges) + 6 supply to build you would see a wider use of them. Also make them more visible on the map (e.g. by some flag posts) and non de-spawing when the player leaves the map. Perhaps change the functionality to that of the other siege items & introduce a refresh mechanic.

You could even go a step further and make those patrolling NPC upgrades drop them in front of a gate automatically.

Now that would be fun!

style.6173:

So many people in this thread have no clue. Want to know why people zerg? Here is the shocking answer…. because it is the most fun for them. Rewards are not the most important.

Surprise! A lot of people actually like seeing large open field fights.

I beg to differ. Many people have no clue how to fight without a zerg. Trail a zerg as a solo and pick on the stragglers. They have no idea on how to fight one on one and would rather run after their zerg, as fast as they can, taking hits all they way rather then turn and fight. I have picked off many zerglings this way. Sure I get caught from time to time if the zerg turns on me but more often then naught they are single minded in their objective and ignore all else but that objective. A zerg for the most part is a mindless entity, hence the name zerglings from SC.

So yes people like zergs but the reason they like it is because that is all they know how to do.

As far as increased supply capacity it would take fewer people to gate drop and build a golem then it does now. That would just not work.

I suffer the most from this anomaly when I am playing my Guardian. Any movement with him and the heal will not fire and I have to wait a couple of seconds for it to reset so I can try again. With my mesmer it is not as prevalent while the other classes it seems like just once in awhile.

Killing those stupid living story corrupted thingies should count towards the PPT. After all they spawn on the yak paths which if the yaks do not get through we could lose points.

And the chickens! They are actually spies for the other servers because everyone knows the other servers are all chickens, right? So I go out of my way to kill them all but do we get points for it? No! We do not even get the opportunity to stomp them so I am going to give up WvW if this chicken thing is not fixed!

Speaking of the elder dragons have you ever wondered why Zhaitan seemed small in comparison to some of the others and he was the numero uno dragon? Think about it, in Frostforge Sound we face off against a single “Claw of Jormag”. Where is the rest of him?

Alright, I could not help myself, my apologies.

Perhaps if they add more options for off hand weapons such as allowing mace and sword to be used in either hand. That would open up more possibilities.

Just a thought.

Righteous.4307:

As per usual… Thursday (11/21/2013) will be the Fightclub….There will be some GvG’s going on an hour prior to fightclub so if you have group that would like to try it out all are welcome! Smaller groups can be accommodated but 10v10/15v15 match-ups are preferred.

GvG’s: 8pm EST (5pm server time)
Fightclub: 9pm EST (6pm server time)
Location: HoD borderland at the southern windmill

Good luck and have fun.

I would like to ask the “enemy” participants to please be honorable and not run down to capture the south camp for stacks or guard leech while they are waiting their turns at GvG or fight club or run back to the windmill if they get caught in the act as they will be put down, regardless.

If you already have the specific pet charmed (check your pet list) the interactive charm button will not appear.

Best thing for the “insane regen” warriors is to have a couple mesmers taking turns turning them into a moa. The regens are not available then and you can quickly focus them down. The wife and I will run our mesmers and do just that. They usually end up running away….and running..and running…

lunyboy.8672:

vitali.1609:

LOL, whats up with all the HoD players doin the /logout when they are downed?

There has been some discussion about connection issues on our server of late, and several regulars have mentioned it, that could be part of the problem.

Are you getting XP?

Yep, nothing like getting into a fight with my Guardian and get stuck in a perma- whirling wrath that does no damage to the opponents and then disconnected only to find myself dead on the ground in Divinty’s Reach.

I have 3,441 hours and have yet to get a precursor.

I feel your pain!

Gab Superstar.4059:

Theftwind.8976:

Bllade, there is only one problem that I can see with your proposal. Since the spots per server are fixed let us surmise that players A,B, and C are elite players. They want player D to join who is also an elite player but the spots are taken up by a new player who is still learning what WvWvW is all about. That new player is going to be pressured into giving up his spot so the elites can all be together.

A very simple overview but I can guarantee that is what will happen.

I don’t see the problem.

Sincerely,
Detective Miss Winters,
Very Good Detectives [VGD],
“We make Devona’s Rest free of crime!”

Lol…you don’t? Then blind thou art!

“Get off this server you noob, you cannot play worth kitten. Go somewhere else and play. Leave this server for the real players.”

You cannot see a problem with that?

Bllade, there is only one problem that I can see with your proposal. Since the spots per server are fixed let us surmise that players A,B, and C are elite players. They want player D to join who is also an elite player but the spots are taken up by new players who are still learning what WvWvW is all about. Those new players are going to be pressured into giving up their spots so the elites can all be together.

A very simple overview but I can guarantee that is what will happen.

You take your hard earned key in your trembling hand and walk up to the chest. Slowly you place the key in the lock and give it a twist until you hear a satisfying “click”. Holding your breath you open the chest to find……… an RNG box. Opening the box wondering what you will find within you see another RNG box.

In frustration you rip open the last box only to find another present from Scarlet Briar. Rest in Peace!

SF your MoM guild has some pretty decent fighters but I cannot extend the same sentiments for the thieves of that group. They are great ganking clothies but when they see a lone Guardian they run. Why? Afraid?

Waffler.1257:

morrolan.9608:

Waffler.1257:

The math is not very strong in you.

No need for insults, I didn’t calculate the 10% others did in other parts of the forum.

Believing statements by random people without question is the leading cause of stupidity.

Then pardon me if I do not believe you.

ptitminou.6489:

Not only do we have to deal with a stacked server, but we have the game playing against us… hope when the HoD nightcappers do their thing that it at least fixes this bs…

Bah you are just a rabbit killer anyways, what does it matter?

Well he could have been more polite but I know exactly where he is coming from as the stupid things always spawn directly on yak paths! They do not help anyone that is WvW eccentric to gain achievements, they do not drop anything useful in any significant amount and to be blunt they are just an irritant that nobody in WvW asked for. The prevailing sentiment on my server is not allowed to be posted here.

Well tonight I went to Orr, nobody was running events, in fact the place was a ghost town on my server. I finally got into the Jormag event and got just enough dragonite to complete one Ascended weapon. Now since I have 9 level 80’s …………..

Ah the fine art of the portal bomb. DR had our se camp sieged to the nines and we were only 7 but a well placed portal bomb into the center of their siege broke their morale and they lost not only their composure but the camp and their lives. For a few seconds they just froze wondering what had just happened! Fun times!

Just noticed how far down the list this thread has fallen. I suppose it could be due to the lack of input by the devs, everyone seems to have given up interest in it. No 2 way discussion, no replies, just silence since the last post by Jon 9 days ago. Sad.

rhapsody.3615:

^Well, I think we all hated the recent LS event in wvw… And several seemed to hate the Seasons achievements bringing in wvw newbies. So I don’t think we want LS in wvw.

Lol definately not. Especially since the corrupted things insist on spawning right on the yak paths. Those are just annoyances as you cannot complete the LS by staying in WvW.

And that is the point I am trying to make. They introduce the Ascended weapons yet force you to play PvE to get the materials required. If it is that easy to get the dragonite in PvE then it should be just as easy to gain that material in WvW. They could add it to rank up chests instead of the normal blue and green pieces of junk that you pull from them.

You have to go to PvE to make any reasonable amounts of gold.
You have to go to PvE to gain any reasonable amount of dragonite.
You have to go to PvE if you want to gain any of the LS rewards.

Yet we are currently fighting for season rewards in WvW where it is all hands on deck if you want the chance to win the season. I spend up to 12/14 hours some days in WvW, (retired) yet I would dearly love to build my Ascended GS for my Guardian. All other parts are complete except for the dragonite but I do not have the time to PvE until after the season is over.

Something to me seems amiss but that it just me I suppose.

Edit: And the sad part is a PvE’r can go into WvW long enough to get the Achievement (easily possible in 2 weeks) and never enter it again for the next 5 and still get the full season reward.

Anyone that loses and claims it is just because of numbers.

Give me a break….there was an opening <—————————→ that big!

I was there once, long before the lake was drained in WvW. I glitched into it while fighting at the northern camp, spent sometime just swimming around in a vast ocean with the land masses above me and finally came up against the lake boundry. That was the fascinating part for although the krait were directly ahead of me there was a barrier between myself and the actual lake. I finally waypointed out.

I have only had dragonite drop from keep Lords, never from tower Lords. Currently in the bank I have amassed 3,000 Empyreal fragments and 1,620 Bloodstone Dust but have yet to collect enough dragonite for one Ascended weapon. Sad it is seeing as to how I have gained over 100 ranks in total between my toons since the season began and got the Season 1 key at the start of the second week. Must I go to PvE to get the dragonite I require?

With the current ram mastery, omega golems at a dime a dozen, and massive zergs, your idea would make it even less likely that anything would ever be upgraded. If you have only 6-8 people on your map in the wee hours it is possible they could stop an attack, but those 8 people could not cover all 13 objectives on a map to avoid decay.

What I do not understand about JamboHammer’s post (okay I do not understand most of it the way it is written) is that while he complains about perplexity runes he has no qualms whatsoever about bragging about his stun lock, perma regen warrior running torment runes.

“yet when i ran condi war every mesmer in my path was dead before the fight even started with those 20+ bleeds stacks and 7+ torment stacks plus being a complete and utter tank with massive condi dmg not even burst from a shatter could take me down”

At least I THINK that is what he is saying in the above quoted text. So the tables are turned on him and he goes into a massive rage.

JamboHammer.4397:

lmfaoo i came here to point out how baddy players useing perplexity runes actually think they have any skill watsoever and need to laugh spam when they finally get a kill and i enjoyed very much laugh spamming on his little cheese war with my warrior, and the fact that u jumped on my d as soon as u saw this post probably shows u run cheese runes to get kills also. sadly once i changed to my thief after beating him with my war i could not find him anywhere i was roaming all around eb looking for him but i guess he rage quit when he lost to my warrior

Lol any shatter mesmer running a zerk build against perplexity runes deserve what they get. Talk about a “baddy” player, not recognizing the perplexity and avoiding the shatter is just poor play. So he rages on the forums over his own foolishness. I have a rank 135 mesmer, he has never made that stupid of a mistake.

Yep, nothing like looking for that group that just ganked your teammate only to see some red nameplates sticking out from behind the corner of a wall as they lie secretly in wait for their next victim.

Lol I thought last night that I had achieved something great….. 5,000 total objectives captured in WvW! Then I looked and the next tier takes 25,000 with one more tier to follow.

With my luck dealing with the RNG Gods the mini Dolyak I get will probably be dead… like Schrodinger’s cat.

Shoutout to that SF thief from at about 4:30am mst yak slapping in our bl. You laughed when you nailed my engie from behind so please excuse my laughing at you when my mesmer put you down three times in a row. Karma can be a mean one. You make such a pretty moa!

thenivekproject.4139:

Hi all,

I’ve been running WvWvW with my guild and these couple of weeks have been pretty amazing. Have seen Guardians and Eles that can go into stealth both during combat and down state.

Before you tell me it’s my latency of FPS I’m talking about a maximum of 5 man battle and my entire guild saw it everytime it happens because we’re on Mumble.

Anyone else here experiencing that?

I ran into a Guardian that stealthed at full health. Just went poof the moment I attacked and reappeared moving away from me. Nobody else around except me and that Guardian, no latency, FPS at 60.

I will laugh at those uber hammer warriors that will charge in waving their hammer every which way but loose and then find out they are a moa and moad down. Not so uber anymore are you? Had one of that type the other day, came four times and four times he went down.

Many years ago I was involved in a game that had what I would term a truly living world. If a bridge needed to be built to get from point A to point B, the community would have to band together, gather the resources and use their skills to build that bridge. After that point in time that bridge became a permanent fixture in the world. Although the game had its own flaws the “living” aspect of it was awesome. We built communities from the ground up, we built bridges and mines, all of which had functionality after the fact.

What you are calling “living” in this game is not the same. There is nothing that will permanently change and once the event is over what remains behind becomes mere “clutter” and nothing that truly adds either functionality or usefulness to the game. We get recipes that require certain “drops” from the “living world” and once the event is over they become once again, clutter, this time in your vault and if you require those items you have to go hunt down that remaining “clutter” to get them.

For example, the Scarlet thing. Now we get a pop up on our screen telling us where an attack is taking place but if the story were truly “alive” we would have defeated Scarlet and moved on. However with the current design you have to leave “bits and pieces” around to satisfy the requirements for the recipes. So to satisfy the requirements for a recipe you have to go out and “grind” for the components.

In that previous game once that bridge was built, it was complete. You did not have to go back and rebuild it, new people to the game would miss that part of the content but there was always something else to be done that would build the world.

The problem with the current design of the “living world” is that you have far too much in the game, be it armor recipes or weapons or what have you that depends on the content from one installment of the living world. Looking forward, after a year or so of these types of releases, you are going to end up with a whole lot of disconnected pieces and yet nothing in the world will actually change.

If the world was truly alive then Orr for example, would have seen a drastic change after the defeat of Zhatain. It did not because it is not truly alive.

Cantur Soulfyre.5409:

But isn’t Run Away an offensive skill on the bar??

It is for hammer warriors and thieves when you moa them.

Assassin X.8573:

Hod bronze major kitten in [rawr]. Even when you outnumber 6v4+fully upgraded guards, you don’t have enough mobility. Add bulls charge to your utilities so you can run back to the bay faster.
What a joke. You might as well playa thief or ranger is you are so afraid of combat.

Well speaking of running, two of us, a mesmer and a warrior took on 4 DH yesterday outside of our Bay, (warrior, mesmer, and 2 thieves). After we obliterated them the first two times they just ran away from us after that and they were dropping such nice baggies!

I will gladly share my mesmer build with your mesmer if you will send me oh let us say a nominal 50 gold.

Good RP can be a double edged sword. In a previous game I played a few years back we (the wife and myself) on a RP server. One of my characters was mean, sarcastic and basically an all around kitten. Well imagine my shock when I got whispered while playing another of my toons saying “that <insert name> from your guild is a <insert line of expletive deletives>” She went on a ten minute rant of how all the other characters in my guild were so nice and why in the hell did we not kick that person out?

I laughed and laughed some more not only because of her misunderstanding of roleplay but also because she had no idea that she was talking to the same person. I finally had to tell her all my character names. She was so embarrassed she left the server.

The problem with Roleplay that only good roleplayers understand, is that the character has his own life and has nothing in common with your life. That is why I seldom roleplay in GW2. Too few would understand.

About that fight club thing. AR needs to teach their people some manners. Yesterday our south camp was under attack so two of us went down to check it out. When we arrived an AR warrior was in the process of capping the camp, as the Super was down and a few people from both sides were up at the windmill dueling. As soon as he spotted us he dropped the cap attempt and raced back up the hill to the Windmill trying to pretend he was part of the fight club.

I wish I could have killed that dweeb more then once, truly pathetic.