Guild Wars 2

phys.7689:

The issue is, tp flipping can make much higher money than any other playstyle, not only that, but the gains are heavily related to how much capital you generate, which means the more money you get, the more money you can get. (i understand there are limits, but these are so far out of the range of other gold earning abilities as not to be relevant in comparing the two)

The tp lets you make as much money as you can make, nothing else in the game does this.

The amount of money you can make it more related to the demand for an item. Just because you have the money to put up 2k of a item does not mean they will all sell within a reasonable time limit. If only 1k sells within a day the reset of the item will not sell tomorrow. This is because of the surplus the item would cause the other sellers decrease the price of the item.

You can make and lose the most money off of TP. Can not think of a way that would not hurt everyone if you limit profit. The people who play the market put in alot of time on the market. At least TP is a global so it is difficult to control any market for a long period of time before equilibrium is reached.

Aberrant.6749:

The current meta is more slanted towards letting it flip then flipping it back unless it’s upgraded to a point to where you don’t want to lose it vs. try to defend much of anything.

True but when your guild pushes on to a map you try to hold your corner and upgrade the keep. Defending your keep is worthwhile even if it is paper. The 2 gate give you enough time to return and defend it if someone is attacking.

The upper towers and garrison tend to be tier 3 but they are worth attempting to turn them into paper. Sieging tier 3 bases takes time or for the other server to have no scouts in the base. The longest I have siege a tier 3 tower was for 1hour until we were able to flip it. I am sure most have seen long 2-3hr fights for garrison.

I have gained most(60-70%) of my ranks (+430) from roaming/solo stuff. When zerging you are required to defend or siege a keep and that take time. Meaning zerging is not always as rewarding as roaming. Roaming it just a constant wxp. Kill vet, take camp, flip quaggan node, and kill enemy roamers.

The question is does A-net expect anyone to get a diamond rank wvw lvl? http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/WXP Diamond invader rank 6445. So if A-net expect some players to reach the higher wvw rank their should be skills for them.

Well you should get wxp from dropping the wall, which enables you to get wxp from the cap. I do not know why it happens but not getting credit for caps tend to happen alot to me too. I have reported that bug so many times.

Destroy 2 wall with a catapult one walls give 40-60wxp and the other wall does not. Kill a keep lord he gives wxp. Stand in the cap area and get nothing. I do not think A-net knows why that is happening to some players while others get credit.

Opened 27 chest from the keys I have saved up over the months. Now I have 9 black lion claims scrap. I have to level up an alt to get more keys :P, 1 more for a ticket.

Hum 45% damage to wall with cata now.

Contiguous.1345:

Roamers are pretty well irrelevant. That’s because on the whole, camps, dolyaks and sentries are of very, very minor importance. Even towers are generally unimportant strategically (with one or two exceptions)

You do realize that ~25% or more of the total point from the week comes from dolyaks/sentries? Dolyak kills give 3 instant pts, sentry kills give 1. Also roamers give info to the main force about enemy positions. Roamers/scouts enable you to preactively react to an enemies forces movements.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/How-do-score-calculations-work

Contiguous.1345:

The idea of ‘cutting off supply’ as a game mechanic has failed because camps are so vulnerable. They can be switched back-and-forth at any moment by minor forces. The only real obstacle being the buff timer.

So stopping a keep from getting an extra 70-150 supply for siege/repair fails because camps are so vulnerable? I do not get your point here? Camps are vulnerable for that reason. A small group can stop supply/reinforcements, while the main force sieges a keep. The 5m buff and the slow speed of dolyaks movement/respawn gives your force time to break in and take a keep. If a keep has max supply then the defenders can build a ton of siege while having time to repair walls/gates.

What necklace item? I have try most of my crafting mats.

I made a post about that earlier too. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/Mystic-forge-kit-used-in-the-mystic-forge/first#post2383830

No clues as to what you need for the recipe. Still the idea of it being used for an infinite salvage kit makes me want to find out. That would be awesome.

A wxp skill reset for badges would be a nice way to use excess badges but I can imagine some players abusing it if the reset cost is to cheap. On the defensive put all points into AC mastery/burning oil or zerging put all point into guard masteries.

Camps, quaggan, and Towers on the borderland maps are enough to gain you a level per hour. As long as you have enemies flipping them back. Camp groups are like Spvp but you have a long run if you or your group dies.

So open up my achievement points chest and got some mystic forge stone and made a mystic forge kit. Then I noticed that it can be put into the forge.

http://i.imgur.com/CBCPdHV.jpg

Does anyone know what can be made with it or what item can be used with it? I tried elder scroll, bloodshard and all t6 mats in my bank. So it must another expensive item.

If the guide is correct the price of some of the abundant items in TP will increase. Like silk, thick leather, mithril, elder woods, candy corn, Zhaitaffy so on. I wonder if the Zephyr sanctum supply boxes will be worth it.

They can attack walls. I forget how much damage they do to each specific wall type. Just do not feel the need to use 5g that way to test.

World vs. World Build and Repair Mastery
Take your siege tactics to the next level with the Build Master and Repair Master World vs. World ability lines! Use Build Mastery to build siege weapons more quickly, or put points into Repair Mastery to use Supply more efficiently for repairing walls
and gates.

Interesting.

I normally solo camps and the new guard leech was a nerf. Before I could solo a camp and still be at max hp by the time everything is dead. Still the 100 extra power/condition damage is better for overall group play. It was a shock when I noticed that the guard are actually doing damage to after the patch. Tend to run full glass cannon for soloing camps.

Never really like EA. Do not dodge enough for it to be useful to me. I use alot of blinds in my build. Fresh Air is a great grandmaster trait unlike the last ones for Air. It really increased my dps for my glass cannon build.

If their was not an AE cap you would not be able to take any thing other than a tower without dieing to AE. Need hundreds of supply to take a defended keep. Fights without a AE cap would be more about who attacks who first instead of using any type of advance tactics.

Fresh Air is an awesome trait for Air scepter. Every 5 sec you can hit someoen with 3 instant cast 2-3k crit spells. Electric discharge on attunement swap, lighting strike 5sec cd(air scepter 2), and sigil of fire/air. This will help with Air burst damage.

Khayoss.2019:

I still bought the 1st level of AC mastery. I re-invested the rest into extra supply though. I’ll go and get AC mastery again next. They aren’t useless by any stretch.

1 extra supply for 20wxp points is not worthwhile. That supply capicity should be the last thing you level 300wp for 5 extra supply.

zastari.1730:

lol @ the XF commander giving up their position and trebs on west to chase 10 D#RP with their 40+ zerg for 5 minutes. There’s a reason we flip all of your keeps in our primetime and you can dump a wall of golems and trebs on our BL and only flip one thing.

Yes it is simple you break all of the t3 stuff we have during EU time, since we only have maybe 5 people people per map then. Come NA time everything is paper so it is easy to flip.

Taking any undefended t3 base is easy. A defend t3 base takes hours to break. Mag has the people to defend their borderland during oceanic times, Kain has no one to defend during EU times.

Boonprot.6274:

Gz KN, took you a few hours and a full queue zerg to take WK from us. We had less than 20 defenders inside <3

Even then, you had to siege creep us.

Interesting you think Kain had a fully queue zerg on KNBL for hours? More like brief queue when RE was their before swapping to EB. Kain rarely has queues during NA time. Thought you would have realized that by our outstanding points per tick during NA time.

Unless you are wiping zergs, I find that it is easier to get wxp from taking camps on the borderland and killing other havoc groups. Still it is possible to get more points from zerging but that requires you to be in one of the dominate zerg on the map. If you are defending you will not get as many wxp from being in active zerg or havoc group.

I can tell you now Kain lost over half of its guilds and is able to compete in t3. So if Kain gets matched up against any t2 server or above it would be a blow out. When Kain was at full strength (maybe 12 guilds) it was not able to compete with BG before it moved up to t1 and BG stomped everyone in t2 by 100k. As Kain was falling to t3 we still had around 9 active WvW guilds now we are down to maybe 4 WvW guilds. So the differences between t1, t2 and t3 are HUGE.

No I can still solo no upgraded camps. Its the stuns and immobiles that kills you. If they are hitting you to hard you could invest in guard defense ( I would not).

Last week was the first week after all of the guilds finished transfering. The score looked like what I expected use being slightly ahead of Yaks by the end of the week. This week is still in progress and from last weeks score it is to close to tell what will happen.

With berserker you may do 50% more damage than Pvt but the problem is will you survive long enough to do that damage. Once Massive AE’s drop all uplevel and berserk players drop. You will only survive 2 sec in multiple AE’s with berserker vs the 5-6sec with Pvt gear. Berserker gear is only good for the small scale fights not the big ZvZ fights.

Conditions are the best way to deal with high regen tanks builds. Poison, confusion, and burns do more damage than the regen boon. Also if they are using cleric gear they will have low hp but high armor so a few conditions, stuns and you have a dead tank. If you do not have a poison skill you can use sigil of doom(assuming you are swapping weapons alot).

Fiery Greatsword is the highest dps available to elementalist. Its auto attack hits multiple targets in a line. You can easily do 25-30k damage per auto attack when hitting the 3 target spots on claw of jormag. Fiery Greatsword is the elite when you use to quickly clear out a group of mobs or solo a wvw camp. Glyph of elemental is more of a support elite.

The Tiers in WvW determine the amount of WvW activity, coverage, and skill of the various servers. Tier 1 has 24/7 coverage multiple large guilds during every timezone(Oceanic/SEA/EU/NA). Every tier below that will have less fights, coverage, and skill required to be competitive.

Tallis.5607:

The SM fight we just had was epic!

KN breaching outer & inner with golems, portalling to the other side of Lord’s when they saw they could get through. Smart, smart.

As expected, FA came in too, so the lag was terrible! We couldn’t even rez the Lord and he was right at our feet, lol.

Pretty sure that we could have hold SM against KN if FA didn’t came in. Oh, well.

Odd that neither FA or KN took the opportunity to take stuff on our BL, so in the end, we didn’t loose all that much and we are still ticking at 300 per tick!

Kain lacks the people to queue more than one map during NA primetime. We need to be able to queue up more maps to take and defend multiple borderlands. Some are burn out, so they are using this week to relax. Still we took SM during that 3-way and lost it 30min later to a FA mesmer. 20 people were looking for and could not find it.

Their are population caps on maps. Some servers do not have wvw that play during some time zone so opposing servers can just player vs door most of the map. The higher up tiers still have coverage issues during some time zones but not as much. Tier 1 being 24/7 wvw and all tiers below it have less and less coverage.

1. Refreshing siege could use some type of visual indicator or have some of the more expensive siege (trebs/golems) not despawn in 30min but 1hr.
2. Trebbing wall forces an enemy to react to you. If you could treb a wall fast then everyone would just treb. If trebbing a wall is taking to long build more trebs.
3. Have your commander ask people to group up before you do /supplyinfo it range is very limited but it still serves its function.
4. Upgrading keeps- I want some of the other upgrades to be more worthwhile than wall/door/worker/waypoint.
5. Yea past siege should be easier than only dropping siege in wvw.

We need more EU coverage to help so our NA guilds will not have to deal with t2-3 towers/keep. We need more NA guilds so we can queue up more maps and hopefully stay up long enough fro the SEA guild to get on. Still a very close match everyone is within 5-6k pts most of the time.

It is the same reason why they force me to do PvE. Try finding a group for CM and CoE now. It will take you awhile.

I play on a low end computer and since this patch I can play without crashing in keeps. Just lower your settings, turn off shadows/FXAA to increase your fps even more. Also, check to see how much fps you have on the options menu to see how much you will have to lower your setting.

Stego.3148:

Ulion.5476:

7-15g per hr from Cof speed runs

Estimate is very wrong. Your make believe farming data is so wrong that it makes me believe the only per hour you are dealing with is how many times you can charge your parents cc per hour.

The 7g per hour was the average amount of money I made per hour when I did CoF. The 15g per hour is how much my friend saids he makes with his 4warrior 1 mesmer group. The faster your CoF runs to more money you make and gold buffs help too. Also, he uses the dungeon tokens to buy and salvage the rares for ecto.

~2500g current TP value of items equipped but I spent 1900g. ~200g on me, 200g on TP in some from. The amount of money you have depends on how much time you have played and your farming methods: ~5g per hr from Orr, 7-15g per hr from Cof speed runs, or 1-35g per hour from TP. Trading post is not always profitable but when it is you can make alot.

The total dps of arc lighting is like someone spamming dragon tooth every 6sec but arc lighting does not miss. It is nice to hit 3-5 enemies with it. With this changes make all air attunement weapons have the highest auto attack damage against multple opponents.

The price increased because of the drop in supply. Was only 4 storm on TP when the price increased to ~350g. The player putting up new storms on TP will not drop the price by much. http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/29176

Well some people are expecting some of the legendaries to finally get upgraded this patch. But the real reason is the supply of Storms on TP has decreased from ~15 to 4. A price increase from the drop in supply is expected. http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/29176

Of course people will feel like that are lose something when they log in and see most of their achievement points gone. But what items do you gain from achievement pts? Nothing.

The players who have high agent of entropy achievement points are using it to make money. The only thing that agent of entropy does now is show other how much money players have made with it. Easy to figure out that you can make money salvaging some how, with agent of entropy giving infinite points and being in trademans achievement window.

Flip items that cost 85% less then the average price. Use buy orders to get items and sell the items for 120% more then that buy order to profit. Sell stuff based off of your estimate profit percentage.

Start out with the precursor first. As you are farming and saving money for the precursor, you are still getting mats for everything esle you need. Then start on mystic clover, lodestone and finally icy runestones. The players that are having issues with the legendary are the ones that only have the precursor to farm for.

When money is the only thing left to farm for you get dishearten. When you are farming for the precursor first you are still making progress with the other mats you need for the legendary. All of the players I know of that have not completed their legendary gave up when they realize then need 400-600g for a precursor. The precursor is 1/3 of the cost for the most popular legendaries.

Jski.6180:

So from what i seen last week and the start of this week TC and FA are well matched its Kain that seem to be the odd one out maybe they should be in T1 though i do not know how the other T1 are like.

Kain lacks the coverage to be in t1. We would need transfer to make up for that coverage gap. Still t2 is better since it is not 24/7 pvp it is more like 20/7 pvp with each server have 1 or 2 timezone gaps.

Not much you can do to balance t8/9. The wvw population on those servers is the lowest compared to the tiers above it. I would suggest transfering but I am sure you are in a set guild with guild mission or close to that upgrade. The march update will hopefully find a way to bring more players from a PvE server into WvW.

Interesting chart assuming power is constant every 5% crit (~105 precision) increase damage by 2.5%. In comparison; ascended gear 84stat ~9%crit damage, 68sta ~8%crit damage Exotic: 64stat ~5%crit damage or 48stat ~3% crit damage. You tend to get 10% crit damage for every 5% crit. The damage increase for crit damage is more complex. If you are going for crit damage it can increase your damage anywhere from .3%-5% depending on your own crit rate.

Assuming that you have 30 air traits, precision runes/sigil, and valkyrie/berserker gear (max crit damage) you will be able to have around a 30-33%crit or 1.5% damage increase every 5% crit damage. With a constant fury(aura) build you will have a 50% crit rate or a 2.5% damage increase every 5% crit damage. Still all of these stats do not take into account that most of the gear with crit damage have power as a main stat. So finding the best dps gear for your set-up is difficult. I would just use http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator and swap out the gear you are thinking about upgrading to find the effective power.

Well can only fix so many players into a WvW map and have everything on the server run correctly. Also, it is reset night, so you should expect queues in the upper tiers servers.

Energetik.6471 most of the active wvw guilds on SoS transfered to BG.

http://calculator.bravevesperia.com/ give you an item list for the legendary you select. Understand that the most expensive legendary cost ~1500g and the cheapest ~700g. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Legendary this website shows you how to combine the mats. Making a legendary will take you around 400-600hrs depending on how much gold you can make per hour. This is assuming you are spending around half of your time farming for it.