Guild Wars 2

Don’t worry they will add new skills soon enough.

In the meantime, quite honestly just ignore the system altogether. Personally I see it just as some extra silver and a few greens now and then.

Mesmer pull is an incredibly powerful tool in any organised forces kitten nal. Timed together with a wall bomb it is lethal to most foes, lets your group diminish the enemy numbers before entering a structure and decreases pressure from walls.

In my opinion it should definitely stay as part of the mesmer kitten nal unaltered.

I for one hail Latinkuro our new lord and saviour whose word is law. Go forth and fix wvw oh great one.

Well, not sure about bad loot, got into a hardcore Gold pavillion farm the other night and had 40 Gold chests in 4 hours. Event kept finishing about 4 minutes before timer end and the donating was fast (admitedly I did donate 20s every try so there’s that). So 400 champ bags in an evening I find quite decent. Oh and them festival things I exchanged for t6, 3,2k of those got me 10 resource bags.

Well, some guildies of mine were noticing the gem price being screwy after patches involving TP. Might be resetting the ratio somehow each time they do. Or just the shown price, not sure was never able to test it properly.

Best update since culling end. Seriously, logged in just to comment on it.

Personaly I hope Deso does not go under to silver league again, they are a lot more fun to fight against than say Vizunah of old, more open field, less siege and scouts, although the nightcap team appears to be about equal. I was hoping Gandara would manage to enter gold and be 4-5 or so for matchup diversity and a third international server to finally stop national server domination in gold and let a healthy transfer spread for matchup balancing, don’t look like it’s gonna happen.

I did not like the way BB fought during the season. I’m talking pug commanders. It wasn’t doubleteaming per se, but rather the fact that they chose to avoid most engagements with SFR unless PPT was involved that made SFR fight Deso, was simply more fun. Believe it or not we like good fights as much as we like winning. Smart tactic for the season PPT awfull bore fight wise, good thing Deso didn’t avoid fighting.

How did Riverside get equal place with Deso and BB again? Baffling tournament system.

MFed 2 Dusks and a Dawn, grand total of 400 rares thrown in the forge. My friends hate me as a result. Oh well.

For some reason this thread made me incredibly sad. Remember how pumped up we all were before Season 1? Now look at this..

Well at least the game’s free. Amirightguys?

Shadow.3475:

Valdemas and the you woke up or?

Yeah, I woke up and had to change my soiled sheets.

We are getting a patch preview tomorrow with new combat focused masteries, new incentives to defend keeps and a promise of a new map added to the PPT battles.

-Wakes up.-

1 favor out of 500 Chances. Guess I should have checked forums on the drop rates before hand. Hah.

Any idea if the Chances are different if gotten from t3 boss or t1 boss?

I doubt most pvpers even have lvl 80s to wvw on.

There was a datamine a while ago about a mastery that would force release killed enemies. A game changer to wvw as we know it. It would shift the balance in favor of guild raids when facing pug map blobs. No more killing ten enemies just to see 20 rush to resurrect them while the other 50 force the guild to keep moving, slowly chipping away at the guild. God I hope it will be implemented.

Well held that Bloodlust Deso, SFR is probably one of the worst servers at keeping it, too few people running roam builds or commanders willing to force the zerg into ruins. It’s a kitten good source of points especially if you can’t match the enemy numbers on all maps.

@Serooo Hope the mods don’t decide to close the thread because of external forum screenshots like they did in the past. That selective quoting, using spy accounts and all that jazz brings back memories of match up threads with Vizu. So much nostalgia.

You are kidding yourself if you think the biggest majority is in WvW. Just go do a GM on a Sunday to see tons of guilds with astonishing amounts of members that you have never ever heard of or saw while running the borders.

Now don’t get me wrong, that does not change the fact that more and more WvW guilds, especially multi game, are stopping or freezing their GW2 chapters. It might have to do with GW2’s nature of “pick it back up whenever you want”, new MMOs releasing or simply being the same content for ages. I just hope the developers have a plan to expand and not just reap the benefits until the source dries out.

FearedbytheGods.8617:

I’m enjoying reading the EU rants, it makes a nice changed to the NA ones

As an outsider I’m curious what happened to Viz. Most of you predicted them as #1, what happen?

The driving force behind the server left for another MMORPG. Without clear leadership and internal strife between PPT and GvG mentality the server got caught off guard in the league, resulting in a chain of transfers/game quits and falling down the ranks, a vicious circle.

Then again I am not from Vizunah, I’m sure there are other reasons, just posting the ones that were clear even from the outside.

Gensokyo.1528:

Honestly the reason deso keeps losing to bb in matchups with sfr in them is because deso is unable to make any points during the bb weak hours due to sfr being too strong during primetime and morning where bb are very weak. Deso cant capitalize on these hours and bb are by far the strongest server during late night hours they have insane numbers much more than deso or sfr have and they focus deso heavily during these hours. On the last day of the matchup bb and deso are very close to eachother in points and bb make a huge push because they have much more desire to take second place in this league than any of the other servers fighting for that position which is also how they beat kodash last week but everyone is underestimating bb’s desire to win and assuming it must somehow be sfr’s doing. Same thing will happen this week atm deso are 1k ahead of bb but on the last day of the matchup bb can make back 10-20k points if deso don’t give everything they have to stop them because sfr sure as hell wont be going all out on reset day when we are 50k ahead in points to stop bb pvding everything a few hours before reset but last time deso’s pain train blob thought having 4k lead was enough to win and started farming sfr inside our garrison while bb capped everything and then you blame us for losing hilarious.

QFT. Whoever wants it more gets it. I’m sure BB people are putting in a lot more hours than they usually are simply because they see a chance to get 2nd in league, maybe even first, which no one thought possible at start. Server morale is what drives wvw, Vizunah used to make up 20k point differences during a night simply because Troma and grand cross managed to fan the morale.

Too bad match up threads got closed, in a way they were driving server morale, making people actually care about who wins, making the fights worth fighting. Now? Meh, does not matter at all.

Offair.2563:

Theyre working on it, been said 8-9 months ago by devon arrowcarter.

Will be done end november 2016.

Oh god I hope they don’t rush it. They should take their time.

On the other hand it never gets old to wipe half a zerg with a nicely placed AC/Oil.

To the people doing all the necroing, I salute you. I really wonder what the devs think seeing their own posts and assurances with a year long gap in between. Probably the higher ups still don’t see it as profitable to invest in wvw, which quite frankly makes me wonder if I should stick to the project or start looking elsewhere.

I love the concept of this game mode despite the bugs, I’m an avid WvW player since day one, but the execution is failing – the time the developers had to improve the situation was misused and the content provided turned out to be mostly a flop, think Tournaments and EotM. I’m sad that mot of my friends with whom I started off playing left for other projects, taking their money with em. Money that will not be spent on improving WvW or GW2 and Anet/NCsoft have no one but themselves to blame.

EotM is where you go if you have the need to wipe a 50 man zerg with one normal AC or your trusty pot of burning oil. Never change EotM, never change.

On a side note, I wish there was a reason for the three sides to be serious in EotM now and again. Maybe have one instance of EotM during reset give points to servers and allow only the appropriate servers to join? It’s a fun fresh map that is being wasted on karma train.

Is it that time again?

You so cruel. Q.Q

I’d imagine watchwork sprockets coming back with queens pavilion again. And they did say it might come before yearly cycle.
And the new vendor should be selling sprockets and spores at least.

Lag is Eternal.

You always can give him mean stares.

Got it after killing just one Assaulter in a bugged map, didn’t get a chance to fight scarlet, but I think it was worth it.
I HATE achievements where they force me to rely on the competence of people I don’t know and have little way to influence. All achis like that should be called “Got lucky”.

Case closed everyone, thank you for participating.

Tactic for the greatest masochists out there. Nothing beats tagging a keep for 5 hours straight till the enemy stops bothering. Then solo building a ram. On a t3 keep. And breaking down the gate.
Of course the kitten commander failed to use the opportunity to take it. “Treb manned behind door, commander”. “Everyone move into the poison and build rams.” Followed by “What do you mean we ain’t got supply?”. ARGH.

Got a ticket from the bags, went there and saw it’s more of a boat than a ship, annoying to navigate at that. I do believe you pirate wannabes can have your crammed box. I intend to stay in the royal terrace with the rest of the glorious master race, drinking wine and taking quips at the dirty peasants that try to get past the bouncers.

The material needed to craft it are just way overboard, to an even greater extent with the str/cond variants. 1 t7 might be fine, but 5 of them? Aimed at zone blobs perhaps?
Not to mention making them 1,5 hour whereas food is 1 hour. Shady everyday market practices brought to my MMO bother me more than they should.

nirvana.8245:

clint.5681:

Sanduskel.1850:

nirvana.8245:

EoTM is not WvW. It is a more casual game mode that will replace WvW if no changes are made.

lol. how is it not wvw? just because you don’t like it?

Pretty much. I think we both know thats how logic works on these forums.

What I have found thus far is you go in with a guild. Farms pugs and bad players. Full cap the map and get bored. There is no defending and no point in doing so because any organized force will wipe the map just like my guild and other guilds I raid with do. Something we rarely achieve in WvW. Because the people in WvW are organized and fight for PPT. EoTM is just a casuals/PvE/PvX zone. Good farming though.

Amen brother. If there is one mistake ANET made with EotM it is being able to pull in your friends trough the Overflow system. We pull our 30-40ish people in. We decimate the enemy. We farm the enemy. All the people on an enemy commander who don’t know we’re on the map yet? They die faster than I can tag most of them. Enemies left the overflow after wiping 2-3 times? Switch overflow, rinse and repeat. Hell just get into the enemy keep, leave the wp open and may the farm begin.

There is NOTHING to stop us. There is no reason for the enemy to try stopping us. In EotM atm there are two kinds of people – the farmers and the bags. Why would I stay in EotM as part of an unorganized force facing a guild or a server group in TS? I won’t kill anyone and I am not helping my server defending keeps in EotM against overwhelming forces. Spherical “fun” of defending? Have fun spending half an hour solo sieging up a keep in EotM, pouring a lot of your own money into it on the way and even then you will only be able to stop a PUG group, with luck.

I don’t see roaming as an option either. I am not talking about glorious 1v1-duels-look-at-my-youtube-video roaming. I’m talking scouting, cutting supply in the enemy back lines, destroying siege in towers with your well placed AC or even treb, supply trapping an advancing enemy blob. All the dirty tricks a roamer has to make the enemy blob commander start cursing in his TS. There is too little space and most of the places are too narrow to avoid getting caught by a large enemy advance . Not to mention you can’t cut the enemy supply since there are no cows and the enemy keep supply camp is behind the first friggin wall. So yeah. No real roaming in EotM.

Take away the ability to join up a friends overflow, make it real pug land. Then and only then EotM might become something more than a bag farm.

Did they? I must have missed it due to the rush of people joining t1 servers.

At least they didn’t put the front runner servers to fight the very first week to coincide with the achievement and “new content” rush. Beta testing the league like that would just have let the league winners be decided by the new to WvW player blob and skill lag at week one. Good move making the loot not matter league wise and not telling that beforehand, we could have people joining lower leagues and spreading out the players – less epic blob fights and time enjoying the PvE aspect of the game while waiting in queues. Thank god said queue system was looked into before truly competitive WvW started, would have been rather frustrating otherwise. Finally we WvW players are getting what we always wanted – attainable achievement points to get our shiny armor/weapon skins. Said achievements also contribute to spreading out the blobs – the amounts of sentries/ruins/mercenary camp captures needed makes sure the commanders can fight with small and easily manageable groups following them.

All in all I already can’t wait for season 2, now that everyone has their JP achievements from this season we might get new ones in the borderlands, maybe even add a new one to EB, would spread out the blobs and encourage more players to be part of WvW.

I must say the NA match up forums keep me entertained at work and while waiting for guilds and assorted enemies to actually leave EB or other borders and stumble into our welcoming arms, albeit just to re-queue for a greener pasture half hour later. European match up threads just pale in comparison, really.

Thankfully it looks like the point difference is high enough to allow us to go hunting for enemies in other borders for the rest of the week. Hope to fight you soon!

I was following Candy Corn for quite some time without having any investments in that area, curiosity really. Last year during the events the Corn was dirt cheap, we are talking single digit copper cheap. As expected the price very slowly rose during the year. Then weird things started to happen.

Anet announced they will be adding a personal Candy Corn node before patch. There was no official notice that the drops/world nodes will be far fewer this year. I expected an abundance of Corn personally. And yet about two days before Halloween hit the supply was not just bought out. It was bought out from less than 30 cc to 60+ copper a piece. People kept arguing at first the supply will increase and prices will drop since it’s driven by the “gimme the mini pet right naw” factor. And yet half way trough Halloween the prices are still in the 60 copper a piece area and the second LS update didn’t add anything to drops of Candy Corn.

Just another story in this thread, really. Did I earn my tinfoil hat yet?

There is a bunch of runes/sigils that need sprockets and the supply seems to be finally dwindling despite Scarlet invasions. That or someone expects great things from next patch -puts on tin foil hat-. After what happened with Candy Corn I personally have no idea what to think anymore about the event restricted mats.

I wonder how much this will influence gossamer prices once ascended armor hits the fan. Looks like that market took it rather calmly.

Ninestrings.2815:

Hello everyone,

I want to thank up to now to Vizunah and Piken. As it may seem, this match up, may look bad for us, but it doesn’t mean that we are giving up now, or in the future. We will show our strength and we will show our spirit.

I want to make sure that both servers know that we have a lot of respect to you, and as much as it seems, we can’t control everyone .

I urge people from the community to avoid posting hatred posts , e.g. posts that are negative and contain flames and accusations.

There are many factors for the reason we are not at our best, but overall, it’s the best matchup EVER. It’s a match up that we can’t slack and can’t tick high, it’s a match up that requires us to micro manage , to move troops and hold keeps, to strive for a better fight and win for glory .

Oh a post from our current community leader (or at least the man left in charge to manage the community).

Fine fighting on Vizunah border yesterday evening once again people, keep it up! The fighting spirit looks to be back, no more kittening in TS and map chat either.

Thanks to all the scouts and roamers who made the main push possible once again, lost our spawn camp only way past midnight and both tower and keep stood strong!

Much hate to that silver something vizu azura elementalist. I keep running into you too much, go to bed. :P

XRKUN.1782:

…..

and now dear fellow seafarers stop QQing about legit enemy tactics or bad bad random players…but get up and fight.

see you on the field

cheers

Oh my god… XUKRN actually being serious and talking sense on the forums? I am baffled. And there I was thinking very nasty thoughts about the person before.

Fine fight on Vizu border again! We ain’t going down without a fight and I’m loving it. Even after we lost hills and tower in the end there was no crying or whining in TS. People just went “alright take camps resupply and we push anew”. Look like people who couldn’t handle the fight slowly left or stopped coming to WvW.

I support this thread. My last guild almost disbanded because of the queue system Nothing infuriates people like waiting for two hours while a guild member gets in 20 min, you don’t know if you are bugged or not.

Thank you, jut trying to show our people we are still able to fight no matter the odds.

Spent Monday evening on Vizunah Border again, first part of the evening sieging and defending Greenlake, supporting our commander Cathi. Thank you everyone helping to protect the watercamp and giving fast and accurate reports. I hope you liked my counter-treb Vizunah, finally learned to counter the trebs up at Carver’s Ascent, I actually got bags there when some of your people got thrown off it. ^^

We achieved a solid backbone that made it impossible for Piken to exploit Vizu’s attacks and went counteroffensive. We got inside Woodhaven and started to kill off the scrambling Vizunah and capping when a Piken force run into the tower to try and flip it for themselves, which resulted in a three sided melee for a tower. Successful flip for us in the end.

Inspired by that we proceeded to pressure Garrison for a long while. Piken kept coming for our tower and camp, but good scouting and creative trap and treb use made them recoil a couple of times. We finally got into Garrison and Piken decided to get Woodhaven and join in on Garrison. After a while of skill lag and all sides contesting we decided to go for a full resupply to ensure the flip. While we opened the watergates Piken managed to flip Garrison.

Continued pressure on Dawn’s Eyrie afterward saw little Vizunah resistance at the beginning, but alas a couple of unfortunate turns of events halved the force on the commander and we were not able to reset it. Cathi had to leave and I grudgingly took over for my first PUG raid ever. Kept pressure on Vizu while trying to flip Piken camps, making sure Vizu had little time to regroup and upgrade before guild raids started acting. Sorry for getting you killed over and over fellow SFR. :<

In the end while tying again for Vizu Garri Piken got a golden opportunity in the form of a scout less Greenlake. A second try at upgrading the tower met another Piken force that flipped it while our guilds were fighting Golems and Vizu just north off hills.

Had to go to bed soon after while Hills still stood tall. Hours spent sleeping since reset – 22 and I’m loving the hell out of it. Most of the time. :p

I just hope next week will be as eventful, we don’t have the overkill backbone anymore and the fight just might be as intense as this one!

Edit: Accidentally some words.

This weekend is the most fun I’ve had in real deal WvW since… December? Only 16 hours of sleep since league start, alas workdays are upon us. I want to thank Vizunah for showing us an enemy worth fighting again, worth CARING enough to fight. Past months were incredibly bland.

A special Hello to the asura hunter and all the other dolly escorts on Vizu border, I had fun trying to keep your Garri empty.

Yours truly, the female human warrior who runs away most of the time. Please don’t chase me so much (especially with the blob).

@ Merlin Yup lot’s of people gonna be running champ trains waiting for queue pop.

@XKUNR Wonder if we will see the reemerge of the dreaded tug of war between lake and briar tower like in the good old days.

Here’ to hoping we see a return of last years dungeon. I found it amusing personally. The siege in wvw didn’t see a transformation either. I am disapoint

I’m not planning to get much if any wvw done the first week the league starts personally due to achi grinders. Just hoping we won’t be matched with other prime candidates for the top spots first week. Would suck if all the fights among strong opponents got made moot by simply not being able to get your best forces into the maps.

Yeah, I had this plan too when they came back on anniversary. Let’ jut say 4000 gems and one flame dye later I saw the error of my ways. No more gem buying for gold with anything RNG dependant. These rare dyes are a good or were good investment if you don’t like flipping much and just want to invest into something to keep up with inflation.

I’d say personal candy corn nodes would be an indicator of it being easier to get hold of. Then again as Buttercup said prices should be tanking steadily, I’m jut surprised it’s taking such a long while, is there really a high demand at current prices? People rushing to get their prince Thorne mini perhaps?