Guild Wars 2

It’s NOT optional if he is trying to complete the map, or complete all maps, which is a requirement to obtain those two thingies that count if you are going for a legendary.

My old lower spec computer failed completely on jumping as the screen view was awful most of the time, since I got the new comp it’s better but yeah being an older gamer doesn’t make it fun to try and do these puzzles- besides which, I thought jumping games were pretty much covered by Mario on a handheld and we had moved on from platform games?

Make the drops from all dungeons including fractals tradeable and a lot of the complaints would disappear.
Why they make this stuff account or toon bound is beyond me, other than to FORCE you to do the content that you don’t want to do in order to obtain the items you DO want.

Don’t know where are usual crews were on FSP today, were badly outnumbered in our keep when I was logged in – I think we had about 8 against 20+ at the time.

Good fun though, I enjoyed taking a few down and dieing, waiting for timer and repeating:-)

Op. No. Doesn’t need a nerf. So many ways to avoid the damage or remove it, so many group skills remove it. You can even attack with it on and kill the mesmer if you know what you’re doing. Decent groups will target the mesmer if they meet them a few times and the mesmer does the same thing every time.

When I’m on my mes I run two glamours, one of which is null field- very underrated skill, still sooo many mesmers prefer blink in group fights, or dual clones, etc.

There are far worse things that will kill a pile of players than confusion- like a might stacked invunerable warrior for instance.

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It’s the class mechanic, and once the people who hated pet classes dropped ranger, I think the forum became a lot more positive, at least, it seems like it now.

Nope, they just gave up as it became clear ANet could care less and there are so many issues with the class that have all been raised and discussed to death.

I had a good laugh at the ‘running sword/dagger and cats and loving it in wvw’ too..pets are stupidly easy to avoid being hit by, and by the time you have closed the distance to your opponent to use your melee weapons you should either be at half Hp or less or your target deserves to die from stupidity. Any sort of aoe in between your target and the pet, especially anything that cripples such as glamours, barrage, traps, etc etc and your pet just became so much wasted traits as it hobbles around being useless. Good fun build for 1v1 though against certain classes.

When I do play one of my rangers it tends to be LB/SB with high crit rate and I’ve cut the toughness as I found it made almost no difference to my deaths (mainly culled zerg death, where by the time they appear your dead and so is everyone else, or caught completely out of position). It really depends on the server and time of day that you play as to whether your ranger can be effective.

I’m currently mainly playing mesmer as the glamours are coming in handy and I tend to run towards 2-5 enemies rather than away from them.

The devs all play d/d ele or thief, so they aren’t even aware there is a ranger in the game to fix, and no nerfs will happen to the aforementioned.

The above is about as likely to get a response as the other 1000+ posts on this thread, i.e. no chance.

Disagree with making NPC’s stronger- wvw doesn’t need any ‘boss’ fights.

Agree with the siege and oil manning NPC’s though- or even just making siege and cannons etc fire automatically when enemies are within range (like an ascolonian ghost type NPC) which can be taken over by humans. Remove trebs from the game at this point (mobile cannons instead, only allowed outside of towers and keeps so can be reached and destroyed by the opposition and can’t be stored away).

Make the fire rate 50% of the normal when a NPC is firing so there is an advantage to having a human firing it.

Could actually make an interesting dynamic to the game, as well as making even a well defended camp with a couple carts and a bally a good battle instead of a steamroll if no one is there to defend.

1. Coverage is king. The server with the best night capping/early morning presence wins most match ups, as clocking huge points every tick from 4am to 2-3 pm is what wins when primetime is even remotely even.

2. Being on the deserted server will get very old very fast. You and your 2-4 buddies will go try cap the nearest camp (fully upgraded) and the scout left there on someone’s alt account will report it in the other server’s ts/vent/whatever. Within minutes you will be over run by 10-30 enemies, who will then hang around at the entrances to your spawn point in the hope you will try and come out again. You might get the odd dolyak or even a camp but it won’t last long.

3. Easiest class to ‘learn ’ for wvw- thief. Go roll one, learn the instawin combo, set your macro up and start clocking up the kills against the lemmings and people that are asleep or don’t notice you due to culling, stealth, etc. Pop stealth and disappear into the distance if it goes wrong, similar to d/d ele running off fast but in stealth! The other classes people mention actually take some skill to learn to play decently in wvw, as a bad mesmer throwing clones out is so easy to spot it’s not even funny.

If they could factor this into the overall score it would be a good idea, as well as scoring points for successfully defending points. At the moment the winner is decided by whoever can score more points when the other servers are asleep or at work, as they can clock up 400 points per tick from 4am to 2-3pm and then it doesn’t matter how much you dominate during primetime they will just come along later, take it all back pvD and then watch themselves build up 10-20k lead before it’s primetime again.

They would need to get the balance right and that would mean changing scores for other objectives- such as escorting a dolyak, taking/defending a checkpoint, taking or defending or destroying nodes, etc so that EVERYTHING that your side does contributes to your score in some way.

In short, a complete overhaul of the wvw system which probably won’t happen.

While they are there they could remove trebs and introduce the mobile cannon idea, as trebs firing on 4 towers from SM which cannot be touched short of taking SM is such a bad game design…

Perfect World managed 80v80 on multiple maps at the same time without any culling issues and little to no lag 99.99% of the time, maybe ANet should go ask them how they managed it and buy the software and hardware to make it possible.

Placing a bally behind the pitched battle and asking for supplies to complete it in all forms of chat, being ignored until the enemy pushes the lemmings back past the bally AT WHICH POINT they start to try and build it as it gets nuked….and then they complain no one told them about it!!!!

Whenever you make an item in a game ‘rare’ so that a small or limited amount are available, the market manipulators and gold buyers and sellers will focus on those as they are the easiest items to do so with. Also with the current TP system it is very easy to list multiple fake buy orders, together with your buddies doing the same thing, and if anyone tries to push the price down by listing an item at below the current price they will just buy it and relist at a higher price, as in the overall scheme of things this costs them nothing.

What we are seeing with precursors is exactly this. Maybe ANet are playing it smart, waiting until the price hits 1k per, and then changing the drop rate so that all of a sudden they are 100g or less each and the gold buyers/sellers and speculators get badly burnt. But don’t hold your breath.

Until ANet wake up and deal with the issue, the prices will continue to be driven higher by a combination of stupidly low supply, no method of making them, and market manipulators.

It’s not the first time I have come across this sort of thing for veterans (I’m in the RBL) and maybe one day we will be able to persuade a Government to do some research into whether this could be part of the overall package of treatment given to people in the OP’s situation. Being able to participate and join in with others can be a very healing process and it’s a lot easier to do on a game than it is in real life sometimes.

If it helps even one person get over PTSD then it will have been worth it.

Quote: for example. i have a thief as well

I think the Op has been spoilt by playing the broken instawin burst class and has now tried warrior which actually requires skill and is stuck.

Warrior is great in pvp, especially wvw, but you have to learn to play it, and not expect ‘steal/mug/one skill/cnd macro’ 1.0 seconds player down and if not I’ll stealth away and try again later. Playing thief tends to make players sloppy as when they make a mistake it’s easy to escape and come back. Make a mistake on most other classes and you will be facedown in the dirt.

Of all the classes, warrior is the one I swop weapons on the most as circumstances warrant- and most of the time I have to decide in advance whether I’m about to go into battle with sword, shield, axe, double axe, horn, hammer, and ofc carry a rifle and a bow for shooting up onto walls. Knowing when to commit and being on vent/ts/mumble or whatever is also fairly important so you can time your leap/burst/aoe/or whatever with your teammates and wreck havok on the opposition.

Sokar, necros can be very effective and can take down warriors – but they aren’t going to burst the warrior down (well, not quite..), but they can beat them, pretty much like any class v class if played well when the other player isn’t as good.

He is most likely one of the players who doesn’t want to have to have to PvP in any of the WvW jump puzzles…..

Nope, I don’t complete the JP in wvw for badges, I kill people, cap camps , kill tower lords etc in wvw for my badges- never completed a wvw JP (went in one with guild group..but left as a call went up for people to defend a keep we held).

For the dev:

The problem with JP’s in wvw is they take up queue spots for people who want to do wvw and help their server win the wvw. Jp’s contribute nothing to this, especially when you get an entire pve guild playing around in there for hours ‘having fun’ and being rude to wvw players who are politely asking them to leave so we don’t lose fully upgraded t3 towers, camps, garrisons, etc.

When you have spent piles of gold and hours of time as a guild and a server in upgrading and defending in wvw only to see EVERYTHING lost as a result of 30 people being in the JP and laughing while the map turns the enemy’s colour then you will understand why there is so much friction between wvw players and JP campers.

Some will argue that the siege they obtain from the end chest ‘helps the server’ but in reality most siege is bought and used by the commanders and their guilds using badges/gold obtained from fighting in wvw. If JP ‘rs really wanted to help the server they are on, then their guild leader could collect all the siege from his members, and meet the commander and pass it over to them. The funniest argument from JP campers is ’we’re helping by preventing the other server getting free siege’. Really? Allowing them to get badges from cap camps, towers and farm badges from the outmanned wvw players which they can turn into siege..that’s helping?

In tight matches (before server transfers became costly) it wasn’t unusual to see a guild or several suddenly pop up that you hadn’t seen before and fill a JP with 10- 20-30 players and then remain there all day while your server loses points and loses the whole week’s match up, and then disappear again and never be seen again.

The design of the JP’s mean that before they removed siege from being able to place in them you would have a small team from one server that could hold the chest spot forever, especially if they build the siege on top of the chest, meaning it would take people even longer to complete and hence fill up even more space that could be better used by a wvw player contributing to the battle.

By all means keep the pvp element of the JP’s that are in wvw, but remove them to a separate instance please! I’d even be tempted to go in there as an alternative to wvw on occasion, knowing that I wasn’t harming my server’s chances in wvw by being in the JP.

I guess it comes down to this in wvw: are you selfish and just out to help yourself (grab JP chest, grab badges, don’t contribute to server but be happy with the world buffs) or are you in wvw to join with the community and help fight the enemy, and realise that helping the server and having fun and some epic battles/solo fights/whatever helps the server is what wvw is all about.

In fairness dev, I’m sure there are plenty of people that find enjoyment in the jump puzzles you create, so carry on, but try and keep them as an alternative rather than something that has to be done, and let’s hope the other teams that are working on the wider issues can get things done too, otherwise from an outsiders point of view the ‘new content’ will seem more jump orientated than it actually is as people wait for fixes to the other areas of the game.

Quote: Your just being silly. Jumping Puzzles are a peripheral activity that is only there for those who want to do them. The dev team has devoted probably less than 1% of their time to creating them. As I said above, there WERE a few slip-ups where vistas are too hard for those who hate jumping, but on the whole GW2 is not about jumping at all.

If they are OPTIONAL, then remove them from wvw as they have no part in it, block real wvw players from getting in and are the cause of a lot of friction between JP2 fans and wvw players.

Hell, take up my suggestion from months ago and take all the JP’s OUT of wvw and make it it’s own area with it’s own queue system and I’m sure the fanboys here would all love you for it (and the wvw community would love you for it too). Imagine a whole instance full of your favourite JP’s in a pvp area!

For something that less than 1% of devs time was spent on there certainly seems to be a lot more of them and even more being developed while it been X months and most if not all of the wvw issues still exist.

Maybe the JP team should work on wvw and the wvw team can play with designing JP’s, then we might see some results on wvw.

but on the whole GW2 is not about jumping at all.=== so then they didn’t appear in Xmas event as a major part of it, or most other added content doesn’t contain at least an element of either ‘jumping’ or a ‘puzzle’? Fractals has at least one where jumping is a major part of it- of the 3 I saw there was plenty of jumping and opportunities to fall to your death.

I’ll stop being ‘silly’ when you start being ‘sensible’ in your replies to a customer.

None of them. I didn’t realise I had bought a Nintendo JUMP PUZZLE 2 game, but apparently this is a platform game with bells on it.

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What I can promise is that moving forward, as I make new JPs..

Conclusive proof that this is actually JUMP PUZZLE 2 and nothing to do with the far superior GUILD WARS (1).

That and he let slip there will be more JP’s in wvw if I read it right when the new wvw supermap is completed- so instead of listening to the majority of wvw players who want them removed they are going to add more…..

Dev, take this to the head dev: the VAST MAJORITY of wvw players want JP’s REMOVED from wvw- make it their own instance, whatever, don’t care what you do with them just get them out of wvw and stop screwing up the queues for people who actually want to participate in mainstream wvw.

If I had wanted a platform jumping game I could have bought one of 200+ Mario games which are all basically platform jumping games.

Mug made into an elite with a 240 second cooldown, so steal and mug no longer work together, either you steal a skill OR you can use mug to cause a reduced 4k crit damage hit.

Heartseeker made into 6 ini, 15 second cooldown skill.

CnD cooldown increased to 30 seconds.

Using any attack reveal you and you cannot restealth for 5 seconds, any attempt to do so with waste that skill and put it on cooldown. Includes all weapon types and skills.

You are revealed when with 400 range of any player and remain revealed until out of that range.

Any attack that is dodged/blocked causes your stealth to be disabled for 5 seconds.

Now you are like most other classes that have long cooldown on their main attacks.

Cannot attack more than twice per second.

Make the above changes and I’d actually want to play thief in wvw as it would take skill to play well.

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Backstab: requires positioning and if you dont expect a stealhed player to come from behind, you have l2p issues.

And steal ‘only does damage if traited’ ..yep, only 6-8k in one hit as part of a 1 second macro that 3 shots players…..

Yes, and I can tell exactly where that stealthed thief is to ensure he isn’t behind me HOW? Oh I know, throw down my endless stun locks (that I don’t have), or my endless aoe (that I don’t have).

Twirl in a circle and hope he can’t run around me faster than I can rotate (or just stop and wait for my back to face him and bang).

Ahh, yes, use my detect stealthed players potion! Oh wait, devs forgot to include this in the game….

Gotta love some of the lame rubbish thiefs come up with to try and stop the devs from fixing the broken class.

I’ve got to the stage where I just log on to complete the daily for the laurel, then it’s either queue for the one BL that has any players in it or log off and play something else with my valuable time.

Numbers on the maps seem to be lower and lower – wasn’t it supposed to be 500v500v500 when it first came out? Now it seems we are down to 60v60v60 judging by entering a ‘full’ BL last night.

Devs need to recruit some real players on to their team that is steering wvw and get a full size test server to test changes using real players – there are loads of players that will happily test any crazy idea you might have and give you honest feedback of what they think about any new reward system , etc.

February pushed back to March pushed back from December pushed back to June 2013 – it’s quite clear wvw has not been allocated the resources it needs and now they will be struggling to get anything ready even for March other than cosmetic changes and a new reward system (that can be plastered over the existing one, no great amount of coding required).

I chose wvw as it’s where I prefer to spend the vast majority of my time, and changing toons to get a daily done isn’t a great idea if you want to get back into wvw on a fairly full server during prime time.

I have levelled quite a few toons in wvw and have noticed that there were certain break points where you got weaker as you levelled and then stronger again as you replaced armor etc with the next set up. Being level 4-10 on some toons gives you huge HP!

The problems are crit rate doesn’t scale at all well, toughness tends not to either, which means you won’t be making many crits which makes your damage look weak. Certain classes are also much more dependent on their trait trees than others and will be a lot weaker in wvw because they don’t have the necessary traits.

There are so many ways you can be useful in wvw and clock up karma etc, especially as a staff ele in defences as you should click karma every 3 minutes in long defences.

Here’s a quick guide to completing your dailies (yes, they are annoying, and yes, it does take time away from doing what you actually wanted to do when you logged on):

Healer: 10 resses, no problem. Go to Diessa Plateau and find the town waypoint with the crossed swords where the champ boss is roaming around. Res 10 of the NPCs, job done (It’s also near the refugee path for the ‘living story’).

Dodge: go to wvw. Option one: run into an enemy zerg and dodge, you’ll most likely die but it should complete if you don’t get rooted before you dodged. Option two: find a tower or keep with a cannon being fired and dodge the cannon shots/aoe, dead easy and doesn’t generally result in death.

Gatherer: You should meet this one every day without even trying, if not, then shame on you for being so lazy that you can’t be bothered to collect materials.

Crafter: Use the collected materials as above to craft nuggets or bars or something, only annoyance is having to go to a crafter to get this done.

Underwater mobs: go to wvw, jump in the lake, kill 25 and hope for some decent drops (they drop rubbish it seems when you have the daily…).

Events: Go to wvw and chase down 5 enemy yaks, Congratulations, you accidentally helped your server too. Or take the lake nodes by killing mobs, which kills two birds with one stone. Or maybe, or join the zerg, or take a checkpoint. Five events is the easiest one to complete.

Veterans: go to wvw, kill checkpoint guards or aoe a set of camp NPC’s , 5 down.

Out of all of them dodge seems to take my the most time….

Of course, this will increase queue time for wvw as pve’rs stack the wvw so they can complete their dailies then hang around, but that’s just tough for those who enjoy wvw and want to get their guild event going.

Monthlies: don’t get me started on them, always something crappy in them like ‘do 5 dungeon runs’ or ‘do 7 fractals’ which involve doing something for a long time that you don’t want to do- so you either do it if you can (RL gets in the way for a lot of us) or you miss out on the monthly rewards.

My necro only ever loses to a thief if I am running looking at the map when I am attacked. One or two have managed to realise and run away, the rest go splat – wells and flesh golem (clue: golem has a wonderful skill!), or just wells, cripple, marks and of course into to spectral, count conditions on thief, out of spectral, heal based on conditions, watch thief put up tent, cast wells on tent, wait for downed thief to appear (or even dead).

D/d eles learn to run from decent necros very quickly- it’s not so easy when all your boons are gone…

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Ya’s need to stop factoring your pet into your damage and use them as CC …

Yep, stop using 30% + of your damage as per ANet’s explanation of the class mechanic (because they are broken).

Pet support skills are mainly a joke- 2/3 seconds cast time while the pet stands in one spot – useful if you like being run over, or up on a wall out of range of aoe, pretty useless in open field play where people tend to move (or stand still and die).

I actually felt so sorry for a BM built ranger yesterday (firing sb, here he comes switching to melee weapon ..leaps towards me and finds himself planted on his kitten by knockback, still makes me laugh every time) that I stood still and let his pet hit me a few times. It’s about the only time a pet ever hits you. They are so useless atm that I actually feel sorry for BM builds in wvw where there are any decent size zergs.

Maybe one day they will make pet’s F2 skills instant cast and cast while moving, then pets would be a kitten sight more useful than they are now in most of wvw.

2 hours in game, and seen one person or NPC that I could reach before everyone else to res and get it counted, purely in wvw: not a busy time of day for the server so no real zerg fights, and yet to be near any of the dead npc events.

Having to find people or NPC’s to res for a daily is stupidity- badly thought out brainless rubbish from the devs.

One day they might actually try ASKING PLAYERS what they think and trying them out in a few live servers themselves before throwing together a pile of rubbish that you now have to endure to complete the daily laurel.

Easy way to fix zergs- remove the aoe limit. Then there will be a disadvantage to running in a mindless zerg (and advantages too for the more skilled) and some tactics might come back into wvw.

Making people move slower would just be a joke when you think of what it would do to class mechanics, etc

Several guilds left SFR before the deadline for moving, including the main night defence guild. So now VS build a huge lead overnight, and less people are inclined to try and claw back the points during prime time when the servers were evenly matched until the recent defections. SFR is trying to reorganise without some major guilds and it’s not so easy when the pugs speak 10 different languages.

Starting Point: remove all JP’s from wvw maps, make it a separate map with it’s own rewards.

Bow wielding ranger. Decided to see how far I got without going out of my way to deliberately play with an NPC or a random mob.

After an hour of wvw, I had clocked up exactly one res (I wasn’t following the zerg) and 20% of my dodge target for the day, mainly because I didn’t meet that many players during my hour as I was off doing camps, etc.

Now I have to go out of my way, do something stupid like play with a mob, and go out of my way to find dead NPC’s, just to gain a ‘laurel’.

Soooo glad I have over 2m karma, wonder if I will ever find a use for it….

Sounds like another fine step in the wrong direction for ANet.

Fixed a whole pile of stuff no one even knew needed fixing and completely ignored all the things that people have actually complained about and that do need fixing.

Introduced another ‘event’ into starter areas to ensure those maps now have overflows for a couple weeks.

Skill fixes: nothing that matters.

There, that will save you reading the wall of text and feeling meh at the end of it.

Maybe next month they will address some of the issues that need dealing with.

Preferred strategy against all other classes 1v1. Run. If that fails, die.:-)

(For the dim, that was a joke, just cba typing long reply tonight)

‘popular’ ’dungeon’’ranger’. Three words you are unlikely to ever see together.

Unless you are going with a guild group or a group of friends, don’t expect to be picked up – they will take almost anyone else instead of you, even kicking you from group in favour of almost any other class if it becomes available.

Quote: You think of pets are taking away your damage. Well they are actually supplementing your damage, taking target off of you, essentially being an extra health bar, giving you extra utility, rezzing, buffing, and tanking.

Not in wvw. supplementing damage? doesn’t work from on top of walls or firing up at walls (unless you use lots of slots for a buggy guard. Taking target off me? not very likely, extra HP bar? How does that work? I don’t take damage until my pet’s HP bar is gone? Love to see how having a pet is ‘an extra hp bar’ in wvw- I can see what you are trying to say for basic pve, try it in any dungeon without micro managing your pet and see how long that hp bar lasts, rezzing, only if you have equipped the pet before battle commences or can take the time to swop off cooldown in the middle of a battle, buffs generally take so long to cast the fight is over by the time the pet STOPS MOVING, begins 3 second cast time, finally finishes, etc and yes they can tank in map pve but against anything that matters they are about as good as tanking as a 800 toughness necro who uses no skills at all.

Oh, and run into aoe fields and die or be crippled or fail to recall or run back when you try, and have a stupidly long cool down if dead and for swopping.

If they want to make pets useful, then eliminate the swopping time and down time on death- that would mean that we could actually fit into ANet’s definition of the ranger class of ALWAYS having a pet with them.

Pets get no benefit from your gears- maybe if they want us to utilise pets properly, they should look at the pet system in Rappelz and take a few pointers from that- like pets being able to equip weap/armor and affect the stats, pets that heal/buff effectively, etc.

Pets are pathetic at hitting anything that moves, especially with the F2 fail skill- I’m going to root a player with a 3 second cast time skill that stops the pet moving, whilst chasing said player? Ranged pets miss so often it’s not even funny. Want to make them miss? Step left one step. Miss. Step left. Miss. The only ‘ranged’ pets that work are birds, and they are ranged melee meaning they run through all that rubbish to reach the target (if they make it after being crippled, etc).

Try it. Get a ranger friend to equip a pet, and then duel him with the ranged pet trying to hit you

It’s been stated that pets are 30-40% of your damage, so they need to either fix pets so they work in dungeons/wvw/fractals or incorporate the ‘no pet, automatic +20% damage to BOW skills’.

Do I hate the mechanics of the class? Yes. Do I still play it more than any other class. yes. Do i wish they would fix the many problems. yes.

Here’s what happens: 1. you don’tspot him, and he can instawin with steal/mug/one skill/cnd 20k + hp gone and it’s pretty much over or

2. you spot him, his first skill misses, u hit him with LB 3, hit qz and charr racial crit skill, entangle and lb2, which will track him even whilst stealthed as well as do great damage due to charr racial, when he drops his tent drop barrage on it and when it ends, downed thief.

3. He is a proper pistol condi thief and anything you do won’t matter, as if he is half as good as you, your dead.

Troll unguent might be ok underwater but not a good idea to use it in open wvw where you will find one big heal will save you much more often than a heal over time, especially with so much burst damage around.

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On boss fights, switch to a ranged pet, or put on passive, and send in with the Attack my target command as needed, and pull back with the Return to me before the AOE attacks

I Lol’d. Pet are supposedly 40% of our damage, and the best solutions are all about putting them on passive, stowing them, or just using it for a buff that takes so long to cast you are 3000 range away by the time it activates.

If you have to do these the pet system is BROKEN, but my guess is ANet won’t bother to fix it as they don’t know how.

Remove JP from wvw, problem solved.

Play necro, as there aren’t enough of them in wvw right now and if you can figure it out, is actually a fun class to play in wvw (clue: wells, second clue, flesh golem) with a lot of survivability. Just don’t expect to get many badges in group fights, for some reason my necro gets less than any other class except my support guardian. Make sure you get into a group in wvw and stick together, this will increase your drops a lot!

The reason my guild (AoA) left was simply because of the crazily long queue times during primetime caused by so many joining the server prior to paid transfers. It got to the stage we couldn’t organise any kind of guild wvw event without starting to log in one hour++ before the event was due to start, and even then some couldn’t get in before event start time. Given most of us work, have families, limited play time, etc it was the only decision we could make.

SFR will remain strong in wvw when the influx get the TS details and get organised (and stop doing the JP on multiple chars clogging up the queues). I wish all those staying the very best of luck organising the influx and keeping SFR a force in wvw.

Hooray, we have transferred away from the tier 1 endless queues with the ‘leet’ guilds that like to fight each other rather than try to win for their server.

Down in tier 4, much more refreshing, straight in at prime time except EB (full of JP’rs sigh), I’ll leave you guys with much love to you all, had some epic fights in tier 1, gl to you all.

OP, try using TS – your server probably has one.

Voice communication brings the game alive- without it you might think nothing is being said and nothing is going on in wvw.

I’d love it if you could actually enter fractals or dungeons as a solo player and get shard/ecto drops (oops, I mean fractal thingies and dungeon chits) as was possible with decent builds in GW1, but it seems we all have to party up to get anything done towards end game stuff in GW2, which alienates quite a few of the playerbase, especially given how long it takes to complete fractals/dungeons/story modes/ in pug parties (if you can even find one where people don’t leave half way through, etc).

As I predicted, the ending of free transfers has led to a huge influx of new players to SFR and new guilds, that are only interested in doing the JP and/or camping it, or who have no clue that a server TS exists and are completely unorganised, or think that running around solo in the hope they run into other solo ists like they did in whatever low tier they have come from.

Huge queues at prime time, then when you get in there no commanders to be seen as they can’t get in, no organisation on TS as 90% of the new players aren’t on it, and lots of people milling around aimlessly or heading for the JP’s. You see a small guild group forming of 5-10 players who stand in the spawn point for an hour or more and then head off to the JP….

Looks like the new players will do what VS could not in primetime, and drag SFR down to tier 2.

I’m short on time and patience atm, so logging into a game after 14 hours work to find I have to queue for 30 mins to an hour out of maybe two hours playtime to enter a map that seems to only have 20-30 of us on the main wvw map actually fighting isn’t worth it for me, and I’m playing something else atm.

Probably move servers too to somewhere less crowded before the cut off.

I have at least one of every class, with two mesmers and two rangers, all level 80.

The least favorites to be picked in a dungeon are necro and ranger, I’m told, as they fail badly in dungeons and pets are effectively useless unless you micro manage the hell out of them, which just isn’t fun.

Necro is fun in wvw and probably the least understood class in terms of the things it can do in wvw, which is why I love playing it every now and again.

For open world pew pew, love the ranger, and enjoy playing it in wvw precisely because it’s such a broken feeble class. Warrior is great fun played well in wvw (try it without a GS and you will learn how much more fun it can be) and does more damage with it’s rifle than a ranger does with a bow…

Depends on your play style, but if you’re a dungeon bunny then steer clear of necro and ranger if you want regular groups (guild groups will take you..).

Superior sigs give +10, not +7. Very basic error.

I lol’d during the fight description, it’s clear they are either completely clueless or very close to it. The closest target to you is likely to be the warrior running stability who gap closes on you and knocks you down then stuns you, gl knocking them back. After that it’s all over if the small group are anything other than terrible at their professions.

So many professions have condition removals, aoe condition removals, etc that any decent group in wvw that meets you will run you over in seconds and not even notice your conditions. The only exception to this is entangle, and that has such a short effective range that you MIGHT catch one or maybe two melee in it (if it connects).

Do players on the servers you play against really fail that badly that all of them are caught in one barrage? Where I play I count myself lucky if I catch two out of five players with one tick of barrage and that’s a QZ’d one.

Last I heard you were an elite staff elementalist holding back entire zergs of complete noobs who completely failed to even use a single decent skill, now you think you’re some sort of elite ranger with a rubbish (for wvw) build..

How does your head fit through that doorway with such a large ego?

Short answer: don’t. Roll something that doesn’t fail badly in a dungeon, like a guardian.

I have a thief, which i generally don’t use, and using a basic glass cannon type insta noob build and practically no time played on a thief I managed to run around in Hills for ten minutes with several people trying to kill me, netting several kills in the process and managing to ress two of our own players. Guards don’t look for you, only the patrols do and they are laughably easy to avoid, know your detection range and you can stand and wave at guards all day.

Did they manage to catch me? No. I got bored playing ‘run around the castle’ and logged on to a proper class.

condition/trap ranger is good for 1v1, spvp, but not really that useful in fluid wvw situations where enemies don’t have to kill you to take positions and really 1v1 means that at least one of you isn’t helping capture or defend points.

Just saw the ‘20k damage ’ claim. Against anyone halfway decent, half your rapid fire will miss/dodged/obstructed/etc. Barrage you’ll be lucky if it hits the same player twice in a zerg, and if you’re solo then GL getting more than two arrows to hit any decent player. Adding to this you have to stand still while casting barrage making you a favorite target of any gap closing class.

I love glass cannon rangers for the easy kills they give me- start your barrage, I QZ, charr racial, lb 3, lb2, and by the time you finished standing in one spot you’re either dead or nearly dead and I’ve just avoided your barrage. Using mesmer against it is even more fun- GS2, shatter confusion, glamour and watch you kill yourself if you fail to cancel your barrage fast enough.