Guild Wars 2

I prefer this model. Let be honest mmo players usually devour content. Think if 6 months of living story content came out at once, me personally would probably devour it in a week or so. Then i’d be left with 6 more months of waiting for more content. This two week model allows me to get new content but then after I finish it i get the feeling of “oh that was awesome, wonder what will be out next, only got to wait a week or so!”

I agree with the OP, me and my guildies did the path last night. We went in completely cold turkey so we had to figure everything out. Man we wiped so many times lol. And we were raging so hard. But holy crap it felt so rewarding at the end to finally pull it all off. I’m really glad the boss fights had actual mechanics instead of just dps sponges. Don’t listen to the spoiled faceroll players that aren’t even taking the time to figure out a boss fight with a specific mechanic.

Klonex.4562:

on the last boss, besides the massive 5x aoe stomp that he does in the beginning and towards the duration of the battle. he’s pretty easy to kill. he gets stacks of armor or gear or whatever he gets stacks of. i really advise everyone to go range towards this battle. bring the holograms and bow it up close to him to get the stacks of armor the he gets from time to time.

- make everyone go range
- if you don’t go range then it’s a little harder because he tends to grab you and throw
you in the middle filled with electricity.
- going range makes it easier to avoid those cogs that he throws out and tickle your
feet until your player passes out

After doing this last night, i have to say going range is the worst possible method. Yes you can dodge the cogs but he throws them out a lot more if everyone is ranged making it harder to move around the room. Also the cogs get thrown out at 2-3 at a time and they are targeted directly at the player so you can sometimes burn both dodges on those and then you are left wide open for the aoe smash attacks. Here’s what we did..

Upon entering the room we went straight for the boss as he is vulnerable out the gate (or at least after we wiped multiple times ). Dps him but while you are dps’ing him constantly strafe in circles to get behind him, his single stomp is directional. There is a stomp that he does that will immobilize and sometimes its hard to tell which is which (directional stomp vs immobilize stomp). I just always positioned myself behind him and then dodged, kind of a double precaution. Ok so the second his armor stack starts, call it out and stop attacking. Have one party member, “the puller” go tag the nearest holo dude. The rest of the party needs to stay on the tree in melee range. If the tree has aggro on the puller just follow the tree as a group. We just literally ran circles around him. The key is to stay as close to him as possible so he won’t throw out cogs. Once the holo is right next to the tree, burn the holo to drop the armor. Then burn the heck out of the tree.

If the armor reaches 30 stacks, pop stability if possible, and save your dodges for the first impact. His massive multiple knockbacks he starts with one hand followed by the other hand. If done correctly a double dodge will prevent the knockback but you will still take some damage. Surviving that is the hardest part. After that go back and stack on him and dps him because right after the massive attack he is vulnerable again.

One thing to note, if you don’t get the armor down multiple times in a row the floor starts becoming electrified (when the holos blow up it stops the floor from becoming electrified). Once that starts happening the fight becomes extremely difficult. We noticed one fail on the armor is ok but after about two fails on the armor we were screwed.

Hope this helps some folks

+1 aside from the bug here and there that can be annoying, the path overall was awesome. I’m glad the boss fights have actual mechanics to them instead of just boring dps burns with a couple dodges thrown in there. We died so many times…but it was def a great time.

I experienced the tidal wave for the first time the other night…holy crap that was more epic than the fight itself lol

I main d/d with d/p as my secondary. However I always carry a sb when i decide to zerg, for the reasons listed above, multiple tag, aoe’s mainly, blast finisher, and on occasion the cripple skill.

Sororita.3465:

Its reset! GO GO GO!

wow that picture just gave me nightmares and it’s not even bed time yet

I don’t understand these folks that choose to duel literally right outside one of smc’s gates on EB and then get mad when it gets interrupted….that’s like trying to duel in times square. Go find a windmill or something jeez

it happens, i just report and block then carry on my merry way.

I have a human ranger, and I feel like most of the armor sits best on a human. That being said I didn’t want to make a human thief as I feel that I see human thieves the most. I rolled a sylvari thief. Their T3 cultural looks awesome.

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

I’m in the same boat as a few folks on here, I run d/d and had runes of divinity. I ran signet of shadows just for the speed, never popped it or anything. Switched to travelers and now run assassin signet for extra power. Doesn’t feel much different in terms of running speed. Go with the travelers if you use signet of shadow a lot. I looked at my stats before and after and i only lost a little bit of toughness, vitality, crit damage (100 down to 94). But i got more power so i’m doing more damage overall.

So far some awesome fights, pretty zergy though, if you see two roaming quaggans don’t kill us

whenever i got to FS i always see at least 10 or so folks running it. I’m on Crystal Desert. Pretty much if you stand at any of the waypoints within a couple min they pop up.

i’m interested as well, depending on how the ranger stealth reveal thing goes we might be seeing more of these builds popping up more frequently…

I’ve suggested a similar idea, based on population but I like your idea much better because it actually goes off of the raw wvw performance. I’m all for this. I would even make the gem difference between each tier more to help promote transfers.

someone make the third guild and have the guild tag [TACO]…i love tacos mmmmm..

i would guess acquiring is permanent as the teq fight is a permanent addition. The boss week achievements and wings reward however is probably temporary.

wish.1027:

I dont understand how people can say D/P thieves beat them when theyre on D/D. Ive never lost to a D/P thief 1v1 on D/D, ever.

This is a legit L2P issue. D/D should crush D/P every time.

The thing youre all doing wrong is the same thing most people do wrong when you fight a thief. You play their game, and then you lose. The trick to fighting thieves is to not do what they want. They wanna drop a smoke field and fight you in it? Dont, just walk away. They wanna stealth? Thats fine, just leave. They cant keep stealth up and chase you, make them pick between the two. They wanna follow you around and HS in smoke fields for 20 minutes? Thats fine, walk into a group of mobs, train a ton together, then CnD them til he gets bored and leaves or moves into them to fight you (which will cripple him and give you an insane advantage as your stealth is now better and his is far worse)

With these simple tips you should now be able to crush D/P thieves like every other D/D thief! Especially since they mostly run all berserker gear and die in 1 cnd > mug > BS chain just like every other bad thief.

solid tips, after playing d/p some i’ve always thought "to prevent that stealth you gotta get him to hit something while doing the bp+hs but then you are blinded. Never tried the random mob chain tip. Good stuff

for me i’m 0/30/25/0/15 d/d is my main weapon set, shortbow secondary when with zerg, d/p secondary when roaming. Still open with d/d as the burst is more. But I will apply might with d/p and use it to escape if needed…also if i come across a d/p thief then i switch to d/p.

to the OP here is what I do everyday to get into main, it might work for you and it might not, all I can offer is a couple tips. I get off work at 5:30 central time, and get home around 6ish. What I do first is log in and go to the map. Usually teq is in progress and i’m usually immediately dumped into overflow. It’s cool I was expecting that. So then I port to the maps entrance but in a DIFFERENT map and wait there. Once teq ends on BOTH servers (main and overflow, i know it’s finished on main because ive got the event timers website open) I simply enter the map and exit the map until I get main. Usually with an hour before reset people will quickly port to LA to prepare for the reset fight and usually that gives me the window to get in. Once in, i run around the map gathering as I don’t want to get kicked for being afk.

If this method fails, which it can, I simply hop on our servers Teamspeak (most servers have one) and ask for a ferry. If you are going to do the ferry method do it ASAP after the teq fight ends. Example: yesterday that map was “full”, and i partied up with someone on main, one click and I was in. Sent a whisper to my friend about 5 min later to get in and it took him 3 attempts to get in. 10 min later whispered another guildie to get in, and he couldn’t.

Manuelito.6081:

junglizm.5843:

Khalic.3561:

You want to have a look at the ranking of all of those matchups?

T1 – 1/3/4
T2 – 6/5/2
T3 – 7/12/11
T4 – 14/9/8
T5 – 10/15/17
T6 – 18/19/13
T7 – 20/22/24
T8 – 16/21/23

This view of the matches is part of the problem.

THERE ARE NO TIERS!

You still have SEA/EU guilds going to top 3 servers thinking they will find good fights consistently. Your GMs need to read up on the system. Once the league starts, the consistency of ranks 1-6 fighting each other week after week is done. You will have 1-2 good matches against other rank 1-3 servers, 1-2 partial blowouts against ranks 4-6 and then you will have 3-4 weeks of guaranteed PvDoor all though Oceanic, SEA and EU time.

Honestly, the chance of rank 1-3 facing each other more than twice is so minuscule, don’t kid yourself by transferring to “Tier 1” thinking your going to have 7 weeks of awesome WvW unless hitting +600 in 1 hour and gate camping the rest of the night is your idea of fun.

I would instead advice to transfer as much as possible to high tiers so that finally this thing can blow-up once and for all and maybe force Anet to re-think seriously the previous six months (!) of work in WvW.
OK I am being half serious here, but honestly…

i’m all for that except for one flaw, anet gets more and more money from all the transfers fueling the fire.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Super Kruegs.8967:

If i was new to this game I’d never WvW or be a zergling because of how far behind you are out of the gate level 80 full exotic. We’re trying to build a guild with new players to the game and before this last patch that was possible, but now when your sever is getting stomped by a T1/T2 US server with no bloodlust on your side it’s pretty hard to train a group up.

This is a huge problem. With no new players, WvW is doomed. Similarly, with no ability to change builds (without severely gimping your stats) burnout comes much easier.

The only argument i can even remotely come up with being the devils advocate here is wvw is considered by some players as endgame? I mean for me personally after playing some wvw on my first character I specifically rolled an alt, leveled him through crafting to 80 and then went into wvw. He has only touched the minimal pve stuff for some farming but for the most part he is my wvw character. I would never have brought him in below level 80

Tobbygnome.6793:

WvW is really good karma but it’s not ‘stable’ because of ‘off-peak’ times on certain servers, or a server is always losing and wiping to better servers. However small ops groups can be good for flipping camps/sentrys and yakslapping, but only if you can find a group like that.

Next would be Scarlet invasions, but again not stable and not constant.

Lastly i would have to say Orr events, yet on some servers it’s a dead zone, people caught on to Frostgorge Sound champ farming and left Orr for that, so i would have to look around and see which server is worth guesting to for this type of farm.

- Tobby

that’s a good point about wvw, maybe just find a zerg and follow them? at least on CD if i’m ever not in the roaming mood and more in the mood to farm some karma, bags, wxp, champ bags i just find the nearest zerg and tag all the things

gotta love op runes, made so much gold crafting and selling hundreds of these puppies….i kinda feel like an illegal weapons dealer…

Stormcrow.7513:

Errant Venture.9371:

Stop playing on machines from the late 90s. A 3rd gen intel i5 and a GTX 640 GPU will run Tequatl on max settings without breaking a sweat. The problem isn’t the servers or even the engine. It’s YOUR machine.

Source: Running Teq with no lag on max settings on a Dell XPS 8500 with a 3rd Gen i5 processor and GTX640 GPU

My system specs are in my sig.
I get 20fps in zergs and high pop events. It is NOT our systems, it is the crappy engine that the game is built around.

I’d try adjusting your graphic settings then, I have a very similar system (actually less than what you have) and I get around 40-50 fps in zergs and consistent 90-120ish out of zergs. There are certain settings to turn down to still keep the quality of the game up but the lag down (can’t member all of them, i know player names, character models, screen shake, are a couple. I googled for an hour or so to find the optimal settings)

I play wvw on a regular basis, almost everything you do in there is an event (taking towers, camps, keeps, defending, etc.). It adds up really quick.

For me I run Runes of the Traveler for the free utility slot, Plate of Truffle Steak for more power & precision, and Sup Sharp Stones for more power as well. My main weapon set is d/d + sb, but i carry an extra d/p with me to swap out the sb with if needed.

The community warned the devs on the outcome of the buff and the leagues, yet they still went ahead with the buff as if nothing was wrong and are still going to force us into the leagues. Currently in my matchup the buff hasn’t been an issue (each server is constantly getting a buff or two). However in a blowout match it’s going to have some effect. I do know there are players that aren’t even playing because of the buff, so there is some loss in numbers. Once leagues start i’m sure the servers at the bottom of both leagues are going to lose even more. Nothin like the devs causing their community to dwindle :/

Swamurabi.7890:

GavinGoodrich.1382:

Coming from a guy who’s more or less acting as a server’s personal trainer, without a guild of their own to be biased towards, this is so draining to see. The fault goes almost entirely on the fairweathers and people on the fence that just want a good classic close matchup. Unfortunately they stacked themselves into one tier to do it.

Not much anet can really do about it, except perhaps make the matches SHORTER, say 3-4 days with a break in between. 24/7 matches just don’t work as it is, when it comes to ALL their servers.

There’s only two ways to get people off the stacked servers.

1) Force them to leave by having restrictive map caps

2) Intice them to leave by making population and coverage irrelevent or a liability to who “wins”

they could also introduce tiered transfer costs. lower tiered servers cost less to transfer to, mid tier is a little more, t1 is ridiculous expensive or even closed to transfers

Only time I ever go there is after the zerg does (insert Orr Temple name here) and I spam map chat “lets do the karka queen next!!! they buffed the lootz!!!”. Works everytime.

Blix.8021:

Johje Holan.4607:

I’ve been on SBI from the beginning and I’m actually looking forward to fighting some of our old servermates on JQ, SoR and BG. Let’s get the party started!

Lol. Remember this post when you have 0 ppt and 0 orbs and eventually 0 people to play with for the rest of the week.

This

got into it tonight, joined a party in wvw, awesome sauce

Virtute.8251:

You can go at least as high as Dragonbrand on the NA leaderboard without experiencing WvW map queue outside of the first hours of match reset.

nope, on CD we’ve queued maps before not on reset night…usually during the weeks that don’t have a pve release lol

Blix.8021:

At minimum, it will be entertaining to see anet try to justify their massive incoming failure. Waiting for rank 1-3 vs rank 7-12. Can’t wait to see what kind of PR post they make to explain why those matches are actually fair and competitive.

i’m actually looking forward to this as well, got my popcorn ready for the show.

Thrumdi.9216:

The two months of League time is also an eternity in game years.

just noticed that the league starting is going to line up perfectly with the release of bf4, devs do what you want, ruin wvw, I got a new cool friend next door that has a bunch of shiny new toys.

want a dev response? don’t even think about posting in the wvw section, it’s like a land mine field over there for the devs

i agree with everything that’s been posted so far. For me, my biggest issue is the server imbalance and no system what so ever to help balance that out. Make transfers to lower tiered servers cheap, make T1 server transfers expensive as hell (if not closed). Do something that helps the situation…and adding +150 stat bonus to the bigger server is not something that will help the situation…..also leagues, having a 12 go against a 1 is not going to help the situation at all either. Honestly will the 12 server even be able to get out of spawn in that matchup? It’s ludicrous. Honestly i’m just holding onto this game until bf4 and eqnext come out, hate to say it but it’s true.

inb4 call for nerf

Crucify.1649:

Hello Northern Shiverpeaks and Darkhaven! I will be hosting a Fight Club and everyone is welcome!

*Location – Crystal Desert Borderlands under Champion’s Demense Camp
Time – 5 PM Server Time.

Standard Rules/Tips:
- /bow before each duel
- Duels end when the opposed is downed
- If an interruption divides a duel, please warn the player that an event is occurring and should be told to immediately stop interrupting. If the player continues the interruption, the opposed should down the interrupting player. Finishing a player is absolutely unnecessary and is not tolerated.
- Team Duels are allowed, if you would like to start one, each team must have equal amounts of players, and the duel initiates when all team players /bow. The team duel is finished when the opposing players are finished and the last person is downed. You may resurrect your team player if they’re downed, but not when they’re finished until the team duel is complete.
- Siege weapons and items from the “Traps and Tricks” outfitter is not permitted.
- No Stacks are permitted. ex. Corruption, Perception, Bloodlust, Life, Luck, Applied Fortitude, Guard Leech, etc.

I hope to see many people there as I have seen on the forums, hope everyone can make it!

If there are any questions about this event, please whisper me anything you misunderstand before Fight Club.

Fight Club will be starting in approximately 8 hours and 30 minutes.

I suck at dueling but i’ll be there to watch

I hate the bloodlust buff but if the devs are so dead set on it being in there i wish they would change it so each buff only applies to the borderland it’s on. That way a server could get the stomp buff and +50 stats while on THAT specific borderland. This would prevent servers from stacking all three for a massive boost. This would also keep EB untouched by it and more of a neutral fighting grounds….like it was originally designed.

I agree with both opinions posted so far, i like the idea of having them give non player stat buffs and I also like them being specific to their map and not wvw wide. EB was designed to be a more neutral map (all the spawns are at equal spots, all servers have the same amount of keeps, towers, camps). There is no reason a server should be buffed across all the maps for something that was done on a borderland by a few players. My main thing is to remove the stat buff. Tons of the community have said they don’t want it, yet the devs won’t listen to us.

Rob.7624:

UrMom.4205:

Torry.1576:

CD you have a bunch of brain dead zerg sheep.. u see a server has like 85ppt or less while another server has 225ppt or more.. why do you insist on beating a dead horse?!

also here’s a fun tip.. IF NSP GETS 2nd PLACE, YOUR RATING WILL GO DOWN EVEN MORE AS A SERVER.. ALSO GL IN GOLD LEAGUE.. YOU’LL HAVE FUN GOIN AGAINST JQ,SOR,BG,TC.. enjoy this for now.

psst Torry come close i’ll tell ya a secret whispers we don’t care about ppt, ratings, or leagues

psst Mom, -whispers- can we have fishNchips for tea?

sure, sounds tasty

Torry.1576:

CD you have a bunch of brain dead zerg sheep.. u see a server has like 85ppt or less while another server has 225ppt or more.. why do you insist on beating a dead horse?!

also here’s a fun tip.. IF NSP GETS 2nd PLACE, YOUR RATING WILL GO DOWN EVEN MORE AS A SERVER.. ALSO GL IN GOLD LEAGUE.. YOU’LL HAVE FUN GOIN AGAINST JQ,SOR,BG,TC.. enjoy this for now.

psst Torry come close i’ll tell ya a secret whispers we don’t care about ppt, ratings, or leagues

If they would just freakin remove the stat buff and replace it for something else. Jesus christ is it that hard to listen to the kitten community. FAK…..ok i’m done

Op, think of wvw as a varied aspect of pve. You can use legendary weapons in pve AND wvw so they wanted to make getting those weapons a part of seeing all aspects of the game. What I did for mine. Just watch wvw matchups each week, get on during off hours as much as you can and do your servers home borderland, your more likely to have friendlies around. Then go into Eternal Battlegrounds and get your servers corner (blue corner, green corner, red corner whatever). Once you do all that, through out the week make it a point when you’re doing daily stuff or events or whatever to just check up on wvw and see what bases and towers and keeps your server has. If you see your server has the main castle in EB then GO get the poi, vista, sp. Just do that until you have everything. When i first started on map completion for my legendary i was strictly pve and had zero interest in wvw…but now i’m a level 60 in wvw and it’s my main game mode of choice, i love it.

I don’t see why the devs mad the stat buff go across all maps for the entire server. If they were so set on the stat buff why not make the buff affect only the particular map that it’s on. So that way the team with the bloodlust would only get +50 WHILE they are on that map. EB would still be untouched stats wise.

Riondron.1069:

Good job of buffing the servers with the most population, Anet! Let the mass transfers begin….

lol who is mass transferring to CD? mass transfers in general? yes i’ll agree with that.

style.6173:

As I mentioned yesterday…. these types of changes really will prove a point. There is a huge disconnect between the dev team and the forum users. Very soon, we will find out which one knows what they are talking about, and which needs to learn to listen.

get your popcorn ready, its going to be quite entertaining

as someone who has been arguing against the bloodlust buff since they announced it i leave everyone with this… Seriously it was a terrible idea for the stat buff, everyone said they didn’t want it, we all knew the predictions, and yet here we are exactly what everyone predicted. Get ready for the leagues….rough waters ahead

TooBz.3065:

What if detecting an invisible enemy was a boon on the detector and not on the invisible person. So, for example, someone who is invisible would appear (to the detecting person only) like one of the assassins in COF p2.

The invisible person would still get all the bonuses from being invisible (condition removal, boon generation, etc.).

It would therefore, take some coordination to track down the thief. “He’s to you’re right, left, behind you, he’s running away”

this this this this. Really good idea, it would allow the attacker to get an advantage on the thief but it wouldn’t completely deny the class of it’s traits and such.