Guild Wars 2

let me join the blob discussion this time:
(darth vader voice)RIVERSIDE: your blob in inferior to mine!

was alot of fun this afternoon and thnx for the good fights ^^ (and loot)
(I try not to be too much troll, but it was fun really)
http://i.imgur.com/2KO8Cyw.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/suM2SlF.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Nbnzv4j.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/8wgTx0i.jpg

we will meet again, Riverside, maybe not next week, or after that, or after that, but we will, and I’ll be ready!

and have fun ^^

(oh and a small thnx to the little bit of GH guys as well, though you were outmanned)

in the end, whatever your playstyle is, WvW is about putting flags in people…

vanash.2671:

It’s a bit disappointing to see how many people are keen to avoid fights until the odds are in their favour(thinking of an [FG] ranger in Piken BL earlier) or people that add to a nice 1v1. Are people that desperate for badges?

Worst of all is the TIA thief that needs to wait until someone has 3 guards on them to attack, you sir are terrible as you still managed to get downed two seperate times while i was fighting you + guards.

Bit of a grumble and yes I know it’s war etc, but seriously, man up a bit people

I challenged a certain GH commander (who is ex-piken) in EB on saturday, instead of 1v1’ing me he brought in his entire GH zerg and made orange swords on me (and all EB knew where GH was heading) (I will not include names but certain people from PS know who I mean)

I’m sorry, but why does everyone point fingers about who blobs when and why?
I run my guildraid of 10 to 20 people usually separately and I don’t say a single word about that we get roflstomped by the massive RS blobs or the GH zergs (depending on what name you prefer here) that at least have the double numbers of us, but meanwhile when I am not raiding, like last night, I still roamed around with the harmonizer (xp/karma/pain/fun) train, which you might call a blob if you want. (no offence meant, Harm), but everyone on each server has groups of 70 to 100 people, and every server has groups of 10-30 people, and I dont know anyone who hasn’t ever joined one of the blobs, even if it were to fight of the other blob. it just happens, no need to complain about it,

and when you are heavily outmanned and you get the attention of a blob, you must do something right, that they need that many people to get rid of you

wait… did I complain? I dont see where I complained… I said I had fun that afternoon while fighting while heavily outmanned… I didn’t complain…

and omegas? I dont know what you are talking of, but my golem rush only contained 6 alphas. there is no need for massive amounts of golems in my opinion, besides that, I wasn’t there when FG and INC fought together, because I always run my small Goodgame [GG] raid seperately (except when we are needed to take a keep together with [KA] for example which happened sunday I think)

also btw, great thnx to [VM] who gave us lots of fun earlier this week.

yesterday afternoon, I had about 20 people in RSBL, first we tried golemrush on Bay but since there was a billion ac’s in there we couldn’t get any further then getting the inner gate down.

after that we had a mass battle for greenvale and greenbrair. this battle was something like 20 vs 90, from which the 90 were of course on the rs side.

during this battle we took down brair walls and gate down for 3 times, after which we saw views inside like in the attached screenshot. (dat ac’s)

after a long struggle, we capt brair (against that 90 men blob), after which RS bunkered inside Vale and built 2 trebs to hit Brair, besides that they had about 5 superior arrowcarts and a couple of normal ones inside the camp, which was the reason they took Brair back. (I still wonder why not just ram the gate down with 90 people)

but it was great fun ^^

hello all,

since I am working on getting myself Twilight, I have been watching the price of dusk, which is behaving pretty strange.
I keep a close eye on the price since I am a WvW player and thus I pretty much have no money at all;
anyway, back to the topic of the precursor prices:
how is it possible the price is always the same?

I have seen Dusk price at 570g with 12 Dusks in supply (total supply that is), after which I saw the price of Dusk a couple of days later, gone up to 620g again with a supply of 20. (ofcourse the supply etc changes depending on times of day and day of the week);
is there anyone that can explain how the price of the precursor (I only named Dusk, but it happens to alot of precursors) changes like that, other than a group of people manipulating the price?

thnx Nuke, Sin, SCND and the other 2 guilds I dont remember the tag of, and all of your friendlies for the good fight in bay we had a few mins ago

the guild Goodgame [GG] is looking for loyal new members at the moment that are located on the server Piken Square, and prefer doing WvW.

besides WvW we do some dungeons and tournaments as well, and some other stuff, but our main focus is WvW.
at the moment our raid days in WvW are Tuesday and Thursday, and our tournament day is Wednesday.
we’ve got our own ts channel in the piken square public teamspeak, and we’ve got a website: gw2-goodgame.shivtr.com

you can pm me (Vayle.7964) in game for more information or to apply to the guild, or you can do it through our website: gw2-goodgame.shivtr.com

any questions can ofcourse also be asked here, in this topic.

Good fights tonight, AR and BB in EB. (last half hour before I post this).

was fun killing your blobs and after that getting killed inside pangaloss (however I think if my zerg would’ve pushed out of the choke point we could have won).

really good fights

ofcourse GG still remembers 60 BB including nuke stacking up to jump us (really gathering+stacking) before they attacked our guild only ninja party (15 man) last week…………..

Dawdler.8521:

Vayle.7964:

nice fight in Hills tonight, RG, was a really good one, GG

cya on the battlefield.

Did you eventually wipe them? I left mid battle, lol.

Was fun earlier outside the inner gate to run my Mesmer straight into them solo after harassing them up the hill, haha. I survived like 10 seconds running randomly about. Then I think someone got angry because the entire group suddenly went to stomp me

eventually RG wiped, they pushed in towards the bridge and GG came from behind, nice and epic fight

nice fight in Hills tonight, RG, was a really good one, GG

cya on the battlefield.

Wompage.4586:

Balzamon.1396:

I vote for letting BB win so that they can go to T2.

We finally get a server with solid guilds to fight, and you want to lose them immediatly?

in my opinion AR is putting up a better fight than Baruch Bay, Baruch Bay move with double numbers of us and we still wipe them, whereas the smaller groups of AR are much stronger, especially more fun now they have RG

Wompage.4586:

Balzamon.1396:

That nightcapping you guys do is just rediculus and i cant understand whats the fun with that.

Don’t you try and reset EB everynight?

Ireth is doing an amazing job there, if Ireth isn’t there, we would be reset every night, would you want the opposite?

Wompage.4586:

Balzamon.1396:

I myself enjoy fights and good defended keeps (its such a satisfaction if you manage to conqure it or wipe a strong enemy)

How many golems did you use tonight?

what would you do if the enemy doesn’t do anything, sit in your keep all time and fall asleep?

hey all,

today it happened that we reached the siege cap for flame rams, while there were not even 100 flame rams on the map.
quote from GuildWars 2 wiki: "This map limit is explained by Mike Ferguson of ArenaNet as “basically anything that is not a ram counts towards one ‘limit’ for the purpose of this explanation and each team can have up to 100 of these types of weapons out at any time per map. Each team can also have up to 100 rams placed on a map.”

it is not the first time this has happened, but this is the first time I had seen it.
is it possible that this siege cap is bugged or something like that?

in my opinion, a warrior is more of a tanky/dps class, whereas a guardian is more of a support class. guardians can be pretty tanky, however my warrior usually outlasts my guardian, however my guardian is a shout guardian with altruistic healing, and thus based on boons (but no boon duration), and its my first commander character (im a WvW player) thus it has a build that works best when there’s other players around you.

I’d say, play both, because I enjoy both.

I am a commander and always command in ts, and give only few commands in map or say chat, other than that, all people have to do is follow me, and I keep asking people to get on ts, because I cant type and fight at the same moment.

I did see some commanders from who you sometimes not only wonder what they are doing, but wonder if they know what they are doing themselves, but in those case I usually start communicating with the person through pm’s. don’t forget that there are international servers (like piken square, which is the server that I play on), and not everyone can speak english very well.

on the part of obtaining a commander’s badge on another way than with money, did you think of a possible way? 100 gold is quite some money for a badge, and it should make sure people who dont want to command wont get it. on the higher tiers (I play european tier 3 at the moment, been in tier 2) it is impossible to command without a badge.

than, as a third part, on people not following/listening: it is the commanders responsibility to coordinate and kill the enemy zerg, however it happens alot of times we buff might up, charge in, and than I have 30 people backlining and 5 people charging in, who die, and the backlining people get pushed back slowly, which doesn’t work, and there were cases in which I got blamed and people started swearing at me because they wiped, simply because they did not follow the commander, in which I just took a break because commanding can be frustrating.

also, a commander might/should have a better tactical view than the most other players. commander should know when it is possible to revive downed and when they should respawn and run back.

also, a thing people should realize is that a commander is totally different than a raid leader.

oh, and p.s. stop calling friendlies pugs, calling them like pugs is calling them scrap, or noobs or whatever I heard, because they are friendly after all, and also great players, something everyone should realize; is there a player which you notice is less experienced? try to help the person rather than treating it like a noob, help him/her getting a build etc, it works better, believe me.

mesmer overpowered? lmao XDXDXD best joke I ever heard;

backstab a mesmer, he’s dead, immobilize a mesmer, he’s dead. they may be able to do good stuff in duels and such, but they are squishy as kitten, and if they take a bunker build they cant kill anything.

1v1’d a mesmer today, throw bolas+hundred blades and he was downed… and its not the first one.

really, people should stop QQ’ing about everything they dont play and cant kill.

try this:
if you cant kill it, learn and change builds untill you can kill it. if it is indeed OP, once you succeed youre more OP than that class/spec,

as for 1v1: did Anet implement a 1v1 PvP into GW2? don’t think so, so its not a valid thing to complain about in my opinion.

oh wait, forgot to add: fear is OP because I keep killing people by fearing them off cliffs…
oh, as well as knockback,

and ofcourse the guardian CC’s are OP because they can block off a flank that has stability…

not to forget backstab thieves that can backstab for 9K crits (only seen 3 out of 1000 thieves being able to do it)… but endure pain can negate that damage so that is OP as well…

was great fun this week playing against AR and BB, and its nice that I now finally had a chance to face RG for a full week without having little time to play

great battles guys, was awesome, cya around on the battlefield tomorrow and Good Luck at reset

solution: create a lvl 80 warrior, run a signet build with ptv gear and runes of the dolyak, equip a greatsword and spam 1 and f while running through the enemy zerg…

1. if confusion is OP in 1v1 fights… why the heck do you do 1v1 fights in WvW? WvW is a place where you (should) work together as a team

2. I think (need official confirmation though) that the condition removal works same as it worked in GW1, the condition most on the right will get removed first (thus the one that was applied last time)

p.s. if you get confusion after you used your remove all conditions skill, maybe you should time it better

confusion DOES hurt alot when its being put on me. I mainly run a support guardian using runes of the soldier at the moment, however I dont have any problems removing conditions or heal up against it using my build with shouts, altruistic healing and as I said, condition removal using runes of the soldier.

also, you might want to run some food that gives you some nice heal, and shouldn’t run pure glass cannon in WvW (dont want to start a discussion on this one) whereas a tanky build can easily outsurvive a enemy using a confusion build with as high condition damage/condition duration as possible.

I dont run confusion builds myself, and I played Guildwars 1 for a long period of time, and in my opinion people should learn to look behind the known tactics and start to find their own way of fighting against stuff rather than complaining all the time stuff is overpowered…

is it a bug that when you invite an enemy to your party (press p and invite while having him/her selecter) and than waypoint to another place, to see the enemy name?

about the 5 op thing: I think I developped a guardian build than can be unkillable if you run in a party of 5,

on the other part, how would -condition duration work on this, since there are some armor stats that do this… since 0.8 or 0.75 seconds of immobility can be noticed merely as movement lagg…

and indeed, an internal cooldown could fix this in my opinion, however if you would make the internal cooldown the way as said before, would render the trait worthless in some cases, it should maybe have a 5 seconds cooldown on activation, thus the first second of the ac hit will only immobilize people…

just had an awesome fight in bay against both AR and RS, too bad we lost it

also, good fights, BOAT, was fun when we met you at godslore, great fight too

and @Endemonadia; I reported a player for hacking as well, but I dont see the point of placing that on the forums really

jumping on a spies corpse is mainly for blocking the view and making him feel humiliated so they respawn btw, lying dead around to spy is lame :P

actually a guild commander icon, only visible for a guild and that can only be given to people by a guild leader would be great

I do it when people are lying dead spying on us during sieges, however when I respect something someone has done I usually bow to them

this mechanic can be used to spy on the enemy, see how many golems they got :P

and I once accidentally used a leap skill to get into enemy spawn on one of the borderlands (one of the side exits) which IS a bug

I came across this earlier, but didn’t write it here on the forums yet;

in my opinion, support builds are heavily underrated and under-rewarded in WvW, for example, I had a fight for about 2 hours inside Stonemist, but never got the full reward for defending it every 3 minutes, why? because the strategy we used lies in stopping them in the hallway, where my guardian deals no damage at all due to the lack of proper range damage, as well as I am all the time busy using my shouts to heal allies, buff might etc.
because I dont hit any enemy (except sometimes using wall of reflection, if there is no mesmer reflection or whatever in the way) the event just registeres me as a leecher.

in my opinion it would be great if there would be a mechanic that would also reward support classes running almost full support builds in events like those.

its possible to get into enemy spawns using some teleport bugs and leap skill bugs.

hey everyone,

I know that Arena Net is working on making commanders more usefull, and me and a guildie have been thinking of some stuff.

people tend not to join squads, while squads are very usefull because of the placement of attack and defence orders (I experimented with them and use them to show our attack and defence objective etc) and its more useful to quickly see how much supply you have.

I was thinking, maybe its possible to create a mechanism that the commander can activate a squad buff, that would add a bonus to all players who join the commanders squad.

also, I sometimes have a friend with me who watches the map etc, but he likes to see other commanders, so as example, give a option to show other commanders on the map but with a different icon/other color.

also it would be nice to have a small commanders interface, in which you can select what tower/camp/keep/castle you want to place your rally/attack/defence orders.

Ireth, you saving all the fun for when I am gone again I am highly disappointed

AR and RS can better stop trying to find a reason to QQ about every piken post and focus on the WvW match…
yesterday you both roflstomped us in EB, one half taken by AR, other half taken by RS and both pressuring our keep without fighting eachother, all walls and gates were down, and you capped it only once, we got it back, all walls went down again and you couldn’t cap our keep when roflstomping us from 2 sides… you just got farmed!
and piken is still ahead too

was fun in EB yesterday, and I even made more money than I spent on upgrading SM, keeps and towers this week :P great thnx

moraldino.6482:

Did anyone see any golems this morning?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71xrzRJQy5I

/Björnvarg

the golem army <3
31 alpha golems, we took AR keep as well as RS keep, so much fun thanks everyone who was there and to all members of GG who used their golems, as well as all friendlies who used their golems, and to FG who was there to lead the golem army to victory!

(now I will still have to edit my video)

can we please stop the pointing fingers to hackers? if you think someone is using hacks, just report him/her through the report mechanic in the game,

and that you ninja a place does not mean you use hacks, it can simply be done by placing catas at a wall out of sight and take the wall down or have a mesmer in just before it gets capped. (I could hide easily a couple of times being a guardian, and than suddenly your golems inside SM would be gone)

anyway, great fun before reset last night in the jumping puzzle… with a golem (yes, if you heard the rumors, they were true)

about the queue’s: keep in mind that the queue’s might be bugged. I sometimes had 45 minutes queue’s or friends with such long queue’s, requeue’d and got in after 10 or 20 minutes than…

this afternoon was fun in EB… still searching for my zerg though… it disappeared just before we clashed RS near speldan.

also the evening was pretty epic in AR borders with farming in hills, being farmed inside bay, and adding about 50 deaths to my pile of deaths… :P (I collect them)

and about yesterday at durios, was great fun, Necrosis, AR and RS.

(screenshot is yesterday at durios)

EB was a mess today, had 60 man zerg from Riverside attacking SM and at the same time a 60 man zerg at Keep. I had my plan but my psu overheated (again) but I am flattered that both servers hit with alot of numbers during my command, must say something
and the fighting against the AR zerg at ogres was fun (especially the flank with 6 people).

and beware… GG is going to raid again soon…

edit: please stop QQ’ing about QQ’ing please, its at least half as annoying.

just to get back at where this started:
1. if people will play alot, eventually the siege dmg will remain the same, people will deal 5% more dmg, and get 5% less dmg, no problem in there, and its not like this will increase the amount of damage you deal to players.
2. zergs hunting small groups? for real?
3. if you play WvW just for the WvW xp, please leave WvW and go get your PvE achievements. the ranks are nice and fun to have, compare to others etc, but when I command I dont chase of the enemy blobs just for the world xp, I dont cap stonemist for the world xp, nor the karma, I do it for the server, and most of all, for fun.

the wvw ranking system didnt add much more… everyone following a zerg spamming 1 can get the final rank eventually…

Welcome, Devon…

now just dont drop the torch in the EB jumping puzzle dark room… unless you’re always using a mesmer…

and dont keep it too close to the upgraded SM wall… you might just burn the whole castle down :o

anyway, welcome

in my opinion it is not a mistake Anet did this and also I think you cant simply send people to the server they came from, lol

also, extra maps would be awesome, however it would mean that lower tier servers with low population will have even more trouble…

tonight’s EB was awesome fight in dredge. after we capt Golanta, we went to the dredge to cap speldan, but bumped into an AR zerg which we wiped, after which we bumped into a RS zerg, which wiped as well. I dont know how many times the zergs wiped/regrouped before we wiped, but it was enough to get my bags full and gave us a good fight.

defending SM with 40 people against 2 entire severs with them having trouble getting in the lords room is so much fun, and when we are overrun by a 80 man zerg with 5 defending, and after 30 minutes recapping it with about 10 people without AR even noticing it is so much fun.

AR, for real, golemrush on Klovan, while SM is from riverside?

Endemonadia.8593:

Vayle.7964:

btw, RS… please explain how you AoE inside our towers please?

Oh deary me… yet more accusations of RS hacking and cheating…

Will Anet ever investigate this?

I do NOT accuse anyone of hacking. if I would, I would simply report the person through the ingame report system, and NOT accuse them on the forums to create server drama. what the guy in the screenshot shouts is just random and his opinion, and I am simply too lazy to edit screenshots

today was a bit of an odd day, after sparta aquired SM, GG sieged it up massively (as was seen by AR and RS). we held out in the first battle for about 10 to 20 minutes I guess during a golem rush, and noted that our siege wasn’t placed 100% correctly.
after that RS started trebbing SM with about 6 trebs in total, from which I took down quite a few counter trebs with my own before it fell down, after which AR rushed to their trebs giving us the opportunity to take down the RS trebs.
after that, the inner north eastern gate went down, and we had a miraculoud fight at the lords room, having both the entire AR and RS servers pushing in multiple times and with minimum siege inside.
spamming our guardian skills, me and rahkesh and other guardians kept the lord alive for the entire 1.5 hour battle, after which Billy managed to repair the inner gate, and we had beaten the AR and RS servers, after a 1,5 hour server vs server vs server battle. (I would like to point out that the amount of skill lagg wasnt nice, and rumor goes that it even caused lagg in PvE?)

too bad, after this, AR and RS seemed to started doubleteaming us, after which we almost lost our keep in EB, but its still upgraded and still standing.

btw, RS… please explain how you AoE inside our towers please?

I only get supressed spamming teamspeak info, and people are complaining about me not commanding in team chat and only on teamspeak, do they really think I can actively type while fighting enemy zergs? especially now that AR and RS are not just zergs, but blobs…
would be awesome if there was some VOIP in GW2… I would rather have that than less supression, really

today’s review of WvW:
AR lost all keeps in their borders during the afternoon, which was really awesome, and this evening, I was in EB, and I noticed AR is really focussed on getting ogrewatch and RS is really focussed on defending it, however I’m glad to see AR found out they can actually attack RS instead of piken only, and we mainly outmaneuvered the enemy blobs.

still wonder if AR really needs to call in their entire blob to call in 4 people… (see screenshot)

oh, and btw, to the one who said “its WvW, not GvG”; its Guild Wars, not Blob Wars, and WvW, not BvB.

and PLEASE, stop focussing Piken on the forums all the times

funny how AR and RS are QQ’ing about piken QQ’ing and that RS actually thinks that a holiday is a reason to blob???
for real guys, do you really think its fun to “follow the commander and press 1” because that’s what happens in blob wars.
also the “what happened to the brave piken guilds” only Sin, B00N and RG moved to SFR, we still have more WvW guilds than I’ve seen on AR or RS this matchup, but why should you two servers care about guilds if all you care about is how big your blob is.