Guild Wars 2

Ran a full tanky regen engi yesterday using elixir gun and FT and rocket boots. Doesn’t do much damage but being able to stand under multiple AC and laugh was good fun- and generally the last man standing apart from our comm. Traveller runes:-)

Being able to troll a 5 man team and drag them half way across the map (until I forgot about the guard patrol- oops) was priceless- as they then missed seeing our zerg run in and flip their t3 tower:-)

Depends who you run with as to what build will suit you- personally i just love dodging the front of the train and then rocket booting into the back line and sowing merry hell, it just never gets old:_)

Depends on how good your positional awareness is when running with a zerg, but you can run traveller runes on zerk armor, and then grab some pvt rings etc and do some decent damage on LB/SB using 30/30/0/10/0.make sure you have a variety of foods – toughness bows help, aoe fire on crit on one weap, other prec. racial skill that gives you crit and might, qz- swopping utilities quite a bit too.

You will die to any thief that you dont see coming, but will wipe any thief that you get the drop on with a qz’d LB 2.

It’s not for the faint hearted but it’s quite good fun especially when your defending a lot.

Pets- tend to take one tanky one for camp capping (less than 30 seconds to kill all NPCs, a lot faster if u crit a lot and bunch them) and the regen one, sometimes take a couple of healing power trinkets. in zerg fights take a ranged pet and the regen one, and keep the regen one on dont attack so YOU get the benefit not whoever happens to be near your target 1500 range away…

Many rangers will now tell you just how bad this build is- and yes, there are much ‘better’ builds out there, this just happens to be the one I play some of the time – as I like dodging the melee train and wiping out the back line from as far away as possible, without being in their face and worrying about where to escape to.

For those with limited ingame time, Teq has become a no-go area. Let’s say a player gets online at 8.30 and has two hours available to him (a fairly typical working family man). He’s too late for the 9.02 spawn as overflows, etc are already full, and the 11.02 spawn is too late for him, so he’s never going to make it.

Let’s say someone logs on at 7.30- he can then decide to stand around until 9.02 to get the chance at failing Teq, after which his available leisure time is over. Does he feel he spent his leisure time enjoying himself? No. And that’s the problem with open world Teq.

Most players have better things to do with their precious leisure time than stand around not doing anything, or join artificial methods of defeating open world content.

Should it be challenging? Yes.

Tradeable on TP. Not salvageable. Sell for 4 silver. That’s what I’d like to see- then people with alts and no interest in ever stepping foot into fractals could get their ascended rings.

Xae Isareth.1364:

sirflamesword.3896:

Treeline.3865:

To be fair you also get 4 chests, loot, fractal relics, some infusions probably, pristine relic and possibly a fractal skin or ascended weapon/ring.

And doing CoF p1 twice you get 6 chests, a little loot, and a few champ bags(ascended weapon chance)

Not saying that the gold reward in fractals is good enough, but the non-gold rewards from other dungeons are nothing like the chest rewards from FotM. You get champ bags from FotM as well, and the chests seem to have a much higher chance at rares/exotics than a dungeon chest + new sigils and runes at 31+.

The demands of players never ceases to amaze me.

Try an hour of wvw- you will get various greens and blues and maybe one gold if you are lucky, minus armor repair costs- and if you’re lucky enough to rank up during that hour you will receive 20-30 silver and 2 greens. Subtract money you may have spend on siege, upgrades, etc.

For a server that ’doesn’t care’ there sure are a lot of you on EB at 2am- we got the outmanned tag up around 1am:-)

Was fun though, as no armor costs meant we could try and flip some of your towers and we managed to get one or two before 30+ steamrolled over our 10.

Been a fun match up so far fighting against big numbers, and fairly close, but for the rest of the week the night crews will determine the outcome.

Looking forward to more fights- and it’s been nice to give the alts an airing now that being on them isn’t a waste of time!

Next time they can just make it 30 wvw levels, nothing else, job done, or better yet leave it out entirely.

Then they can concentrate on fixing the current crop of achievements so they grant decent titles for each tier, and make them so they are achievable in less than 20 years…

Each wvw rank should reward achievement points, and to be even vaguely comparable to pve rewards each rank up should given a minimum of two golds, with a very good chance of exotics and 2-3g.

It will be close at the weekend as all servers have better coverage during the weekend.

After the weekend Gandara loses it’s daytime coverage and Deso’s coverage clocks up the points while we go out and work for a living, resulting in a Deso victory.

Been great fun so far with some epic battles, but the levels of pug noobishness exceeded my non-existent patience threshold yesterday during the day, so apologies to anyone who got upset by my pithy comments.

Now if only I don’t have to ask for siege to be refreshed constantly today without anyone actually doing it, I’ll be in a much better frame of mind- it’s amazing how much siege decays in our KEEP in EB even during prime time because people just can’t be bothered to take the 20 seconds to renew the piece they run past on their way to grabbing more Wexp.

It’s usually the same people that then moan about there not being siege in towers when they come to defending….‘omg why isn’t there any siege in here’ ‘because you let it decay’…………………

lordkrall.7241:

Ayarei.6912:

PvE event in wvw is fine, if they add WvW content into PvE as well
ex; Queendale was invaded by sever X !!
but that would never happen so no PvE in WvW pls

WvW however is part PvE.
Or are you suggesting that every single guard and lord is actually a real player?

I think you are deliberately misconstruing his answer.

What most people want removed is the pve content, ie anything that is not a guard or other npc that has direct relevance to wvw (debate is out on whether this should include hyleks, etc) and more especially the recent infestation of LS into wvw, which almost no one wants (or needs).

Changes dependent on what you are facing- I have four sets of armor for my engi and swop builds regularly, it’s one of the joys of playing engineer that you can be very diverse.

Personally I like running a damage nade/FT/rocket boot build as I’m quite good at positioning and will dodge the melee train and rocket boot into their necros and eles, sow destruction and choas (and more importantly put off their casting, etc) and then rocket boot out when HP gets low, using crit HP steal food as it’s just sooo good as well as precision food and prec rune (aoe flameburst on off). this is also good for defending/attacking towers, siege, etc.

You can run bomb kit condi/tanky builds too and run st8 through the melee train with piles of regen going.

I have found that running full condi build isn’t that useful from a damage point of view as most zergs wipe off your conditions so fast they barely tick at all (and throwing conditions on eles and necros is a waste of time- the necro welcomes your conditions, more the merrier). But it can be very effective against other groups that aren’t so organised or if you have good support yourself, when you can run front line with the tanks tossing bombs and nades to your heart’s content.

Engineer is one of the most flexible classes so try a number of different builds and find out what suits your playstyle best.

I would ask people posting up builds NOT to include ascended back pieces and rings and trinkets as these aren’t available to most when considering changing build and you might want to show the stats with exotics to give a better picture of what most people would end up with.

It all depends on your play style and whether you have the right skills on your bar when they come along.

If you are ready for them and have the right utilities on then they aren’t that hard to beat- although a good mesmer is a lot harder to beat than a good thief.

Peetee.9406:

I like the change tho I do have a concern.

The only reason I play my ele right now is because it has all my wxp, once ranks become account bound I will play only my warrior, along with probably everyone else.

Class disparity in WvW is only going to get worse.

Luckily most others feel exactly the opposite- it will encourage them to try different classes for different roles without having to worry about wasting W exp.

For instance, having stuck on my engi for the past few weeks and got him to rank 350+, I can now play my other loves (weird necro support build and sort of zerker LB/SB ranger being two of them) as well as swopping out to my other toons as required. If we need a mesmer, it’s now no problem to switch across (queues apart) as i won’t feel like it’s wasted time.

I’m looking forward to finding out how much difference the guard buffs make to my necro build:-)

Sooner or later they will realise that the true spectator sport is instanced gvg and will work towards making it happen- personally I used to love watching HoH matches and gvgs in gw1.

WvW can stay for us ‘casuals’ and for when you’re not in gvg, whereas there is a big market for proper instanced gvg from 5v5 to 20v20 and Anet should be working on it.

Changed their minds about a lot of issues so hopefully this will be another one that they see the sense in.

As individuals, they are not that strong- the problem comes when you pool them together and they share buffs, etc and then add in OP passive healing and cleansing and the problems start to become obvious.

Not quite sure how they can ‘balance’ this without making them weak in other areas of play.

Maybe give Engineers and Necros a new skill/well called ‘stops regen’ where for 3 seconds anyone crossing the warding line has their regen (passive and active, but not foods) stopped for 10 seconds. Obviously would need tweaking but would be a nice way to stop the current melee meta. Might be a bit OP, but if it was just made into a condition it would fall off so quickly as to be useless. Water fields and blasts would still function so healing would still be there for the skilled players.

HOORAY! Finally, after pestering them since Wexp came out, they have seen the light.

Thank you Devon for manning up and admitting char bound was wrong and getting the devs to change their minds. Hats off to you!

Now if only I could move my just under 200 ranks from this account (and the two remaining toons- might have lost another 100 from the alts I deleted, but that’s life) from this account to my other one, along with all the gem bought items and account bound stuff (like the remaining 2.7m karma), I’d be a truely happy camper (some people are just never satisfied..).

Oh well, as it is this will net me around 100 ranks but the more important things is that I will finally be able to play my alts and feel rewarded- which was the main reasoning behind what we have been asking for all this time.

Now if we can get regular rank point resets, even from the gem store at 450 gems for 5 like boosters, for when people decide to change their toon, that can be the next step.

Thank you Devon, you have made my day.

Great fun was had by the small Gandara pug zerg in EB last night holding off XXX and Punk in SM for what seemed like hours. If you’re wondering who’s maxed out AC mastery that was raining down on you…thanks for the many loot bags:-) Not sure why guild groups are in EB at prime time- our guild groups are generally found in BL or arena if you looking for organised fights- but hey, play the game the way you want to.

Our new pugs are starting to come together a bit better and facing you guys is slowly teaching them the basics, although we still have a lot of players that throw down siege at gates and throw down normal AC when they should be using superior, etc. One day our piles of ranged players will learn to focus on squishies and downed players and get some positional sense- until then they will keep providing loot bags to melee train regen warriors.

Almost got your garrison on your home BL later with 9 of us, had the lord down and only some brave suicides from a couple of your guys prevented the cap for long enough for your 40 man train to come and wipe us.

No doubt deso will be rewarded for their league victory by getting to play against Viziblob for a couple of weeks:-)

I’m a big fan of account bound wexp, as is almost everyone except the solo thief players and a few warrior types:-).

The only people who don’t seem to get what a huge problem it being character bound creates is the devs- maybe if someone can actually get their attention on wvw for more than a second or two and point out the glaring inconsistency here they will sort it out.

And we need a ‘reset your rank points’ option on each toon say once a week, costs 500 badges.

I think Deso did adapt- they tanked to get into silver league so they could have an easier time of it and make themselves feel better about not being good enough for gold league (said in a coverage way, not as a statement on your average player skill level).

Gold league is all about 24/7 coverage- as anyone who has faced Vizi can tell you.

Deso are winning the match up purely on better coverage- grats to them.

Been a great week of fighting for me, been some great double teaming on us by Fs and Deso, and then fs and us on deso, and sometimes deso and us on fs – one team attacks one tower, other one attacks another one of the same server’s towers, it’s only natural that we/you try to take advantage of weaknesses.

Thanks for all the fun- EXG always get a special mention as I love fighting you guys. XXX and AoA clearly missed the message about the arena opening as they were looking for guild fights on EB. Click that new selection on your drop down menu for wvw, you will find all the deaths you crave in the arena:-)

The only attention I want is for the devs to take note of the restrictions they are placing on players by bringing in more and more time gating/char bound items and gears and the effect this has on players that enjoy playing multiple classes.

Here’s an example: last night I was on my engi (rank 340 odd) and decided to have some fun on my newish necro (rank 35 ish), when deso and Fs decide to come calling at our keep- no problems, Ive got maxed AC mastery and working on treb mastery. Oh wait. I’m on my necro, which has none of those due to the stupidity of character bound wvw ranks (spvp ranks are account based, why aren’t wvw??).

As for laurels, they severely restrict players with several alts as you can only earn one a day. They also restrict being able to kit out your player in ascended items.

These are the issues I am highlighting. And I had a good laugh at the comment about making a post purely for attention and not believing I had actually deleted the toons- but thanks for getting out from under your bridge:-)

Why are grenades soooooooo slow? Try throwing them out at max range when you are running in a zerg and watch them explode at your feet- anyone with a speed buff can pretty much outrun them.

Halving the time it takes for them to travel to max range would be a much loved improvement.

The great thing about an engi is the sheer diversity that you can have without even changing your traits- there are many different ways to play (full healing build is just fun, you heal so much).

Personally i’m running a 30/20/5/5/10 build, mainly nades and flamethrower with rocket boots (best skill for a engi in wvw , esp against zergs), but have 4 sets of armor for him and will swap builds and traits a lot depending on what we are facing and what I am doing- when I remember on a treb waiting on a zerg to run into my fields I’ll throw on condi gear, etc. I’m not built for 1v1 but I do tend to charge in anyway even when I know I will probably lose.

With the current meta I found a full condi build pretty useless for anything other than tagging a zerg, as they tend to get removed very quickly.

Other tip for wvw zerg fights- unless ur running bomb kit tank /regen build, when u engage the enemy dodge roll left or right (or get ur positioning right as you run in) and immediately rocket boot into their back line, spam bombs or nades , then chase whoever is still standing with flame thrower. You’ll be amazed how effective this is at breaking up their train and wiping out their ele and necro support. By the time your hp is low, rocket boot out again:-).

Engi are very useful to have in most fights- about the only place they aren’t so good is gvg 20vs20 close knit melee train fighting, where it will be harder to pick off the squishy ones, and conditions are washed off so fast they are almost useless.

Zerole.7306:

So you couldn’t be bothered to…
- salvage the exotics and sell the mats
- spend the laurels and sell the goods (craftings mats or dyes)
- convert the gems to gold

… then move that mass of cash over the other account?

Sure you lost some stuff, but you certainly could have minimized this loss. Also, why the drastic measure? Why not, you know, just stop playing that 2nd account, it’s not like it would have any cost associated?

Did most of the above- but the ‘loss’ was still huge- but that wasn’t why I deleted the toons. I have a terrible habit of going back to old games and old accounts so to minimise the temptation I deleted most of them, liquidated what I could, and transferred what I could over- but of course all of the gem stuff is account bound so that didn’t help all that much. There’s still a pile of mats etc to deal with at some other time…those that aren’t account bound of course…

Two accounts were from my gw1 days- actually I had 3, mainly to do with build choice, etc.

Two accounts used here as they were on different servers for a very long time, and at the start of the game it was easy to keep all toons in exotics and have the end game gears. Didn’t need dungeon tokens to get the best equipment.

Then laurels came along, and ascended time gated account bound stuff, and then wvw ranks character bound, and after a while you realise that you either focus on one toon and try and keep it up to date, or you give up completely. I chose to keep playing and focus on mainly one toon (which is very much against my nature, which is to enjoy every class and learn all the mechanics). Hence the decision I made.

As to crying, far from it, just stating my reasoning in why I did what I did.

What do I want? An end to the ever increasing creep towards being forced to play one class that this game has done by bringing in all the above mentioned items and making them account or character bound, and making the game more alt-friendly again.

You didn’t get the memo? Ranger are NEVER considered in updates. If they are ever mentioned in relation to mechanics, etc it’s ‘who cares? everyone plays warrior anyway’.

Well, it had to happen sooner or later.

Having asked whether it was possible to merge accounts or transfer toons, or even transfer account bound items paid for with gems, etc and receiving an unequivocal ‘no, and not any time in the future’, I had to make a decision.

Due to the combination of character bound wvw ranks, time gating, ascended items, laurel system etc I took the decision yesterday to concentrate on just one account and mainly one toon, and deleted eight level 80’s in full exotics, wasting 100’s of gold, thousands of gems and losing maybe 150 wvw ranks from those toons.

I left two toons on there as I couldn’t bring myself to lose another 200 wvw ranks as well a huge pile of items, skins – and maybe one day i might want to shift the account to another server for some NA fun as the queues in prime time for Gandara are getting very long and boring.

So this account that I am posting from now is basically dormant, caused entirely by the time gating brought into the game and the bad decisions to make a lot of items account bound that should be tradeable, such as all the ascended stuff, laurels, dungeon tokens, etc etc and of course the wvw ranks system as that is where I like to spend my time.

Summary of answers: there isn’t a ‘strongest class’, a lot comes down to player skill and whether the person you are facing is also built for 1v1. Then add in the fact that one party or the other will usually get the jump on the other one, and it comes down to skill or which class you are facing.

I’m by no means a great player and I generally run group builds on my toons rather than roaming, and I kill my fair share of roamers (and they kill me, a lot depends on who gets the drop on the other).

Play the classes you find fun to play- I’m stuck on engi (although my ranger and necro are calling me, char bound ranking system and time gating equips etc mean if I play another I lose out on my chosen ‘main’), which is fun to play as there are so many builds you can use- I have 4 sets of armor and weaps for it from an absolute regen tank to complete zerker, condi build and stuff inbetween.

canadez.5328:

Victory.2879:

Most PUGS join a team purely as they are used to joining one for champ farming/other pve activity, and have little idea of co ordinated team play.

I’ve lost count of the times I have either tried to form or asked for a team to go off in one direction flipping camps etc while we go in the opposite direction trying to flip something else.

As soon as the commanders go, a lot of BL become a milling mass of brainless wonders- it’s almost like the commander tag dropping switches their brains off, with the reports of sightings disappearing, etc.

Then of course there are those that form a small party or have people follow, run to the first camp left or right, get wiped, try the tower in front, get wiped, and then give up and cry about being unable to get anything as some massive zerg awaits them….try running out and heading north for a while, then flip camps, move fast, use superior rams and don’t move in an obvious clockwise or counter clockwise way so they don’t know where you will hit next.

Apart from the problems you mentioned. The game does an awful job helping the player to organize a large number of people (even a small group of 5+ people) and controlling a map.

The comm tag is plain bad in most cases it just makes a mess when there is more than 1 tag up and 100g is a lot of gold if you dont play often.
Then there is the fact that you see only friendlys in a small area around you which has an huge impact on overall organiziation. Its the main reason why alot of people run around “headless”, because the only way to tell where people are is either via comm tag, chat or any 3rd part communication. But on this large scale you can’t expect everyone to use 3rd party software and the chat becomes just a mess when 50+ player asking for directions and whatnot.

The game relys heavily on the player to organize to a point where it drives PUGs and non regular WvW players away from the game.

Im still waiting for the revamp of the commander tag.

Yep pretty much sums it up. I’m still not sure why green dots aren’t shown on the entire map and red dots within visual range- wvw just feels like it was a bit underfunded and an afterthought coming up to launch and not much has changed since.

Most PUGS join a team purely as they are used to joining one for champ farming/other pve activity, and have little idea of co ordinated team play.

I’ve lost count of the times I have either tried to form or asked for a team to go off in one direction flipping camps etc while we go in the opposite direction trying to flip something else.

As soon as the commanders go, a lot of BL become a milling mass of brainless wonders- it’s almost like the commander tag dropping switches their brains off, with the reports of sightings disappearing, etc.

Then of course there are those that form a small party or have people follow, run to the first camp left or right, get wiped, try the tower in front, get wiped, and then give up and cry about being unable to get anything as some massive zerg awaits them….try running out and heading north for a while, then flip camps, move fast, use superior rams and don’t move in an obvious clockwise or counter clockwise way so they don’t know where you will hit next.

WTB 500 CM tokens to complete my Quip..oh wait, they stupidly made them non-tradeable….

Actually the easier solution would be to make them tradeable before first use- which would release all those trinkets people have collected from fractals onto the market as well as opening up a good farm for those that like to do fractals (which isn’t me, I did it once and will never return).

It might even make fractals less of a ghost town as there would be a reason to go there….

Great start and some seriously good fun in EB this evening- if the rest of the week is as much fun then bring it on!

Jski.6180:

Brando.1374:

Interfering in a fight in this new arena will be very noticeable due to the size of the area and where the stands are. also big gvg guilds have spectators from all servers to keep watch on interference.
Guild should PVE together. also [GF] does not pve often but we have our gear because it was needed to make our builds work. they wont work or have the same effectiveness in spvp with the amulet system.
My build would loose 5k+hp, close to 600 condi dmg, 40% condi duration
our other classes would probably get an even bigger nerf to out dmg and defense.

Look at it like this we have rune sets in spvp that show up in pve but we also have rune sets that are in pve but do not show up in spvp. What this means is that these runes are not set up like the runes in spvp. You can say the same thing armor types sigles food etc.. Its cool you have that type of build and its ok that you run it in wvw and or GvG its just you will need to take your wins there not as serous as say in more of an Spvp setting.
I still think that the true GvG we are going to get will be in Spvp with the Spvp settings. But this will be fun to run and try out new ideals.[/quote]

I really hope they don’t implement that spvp sort of system for a proper gvg league across servers. One of the reasons people enjoy wvw builds is the much greater diversity that is available to them.
Why should they take their wins ‘not as serious’ as some kitten pigeon holed spvp setting?

Looking forward to the gvg arena, let’s hope they expand on it and give us some real gvg like we had in gw1 across all servers and timezones, as well as some more interesting maps than a flat piece of ground.

The main problem for SFR for this league is that it got swamped by bandwagonners, the top guilds had no interest in even trying to train them, and then quite a few regular wvw players and guilds left the server as they could never get on and organising any sort of raid became impossible. Add in the glorious wvw achievements and the usual co ordination was shot to pieces.

Yes, please ignore the engineer wiping out your necros and eles as he dances around your melee train and plays merry havoc.

I love the current meta- grab a height advantage (there are a lot more then you might think in wvw) and blast away at the squishies, or just dodge roll out of trains path and blast away at the back, slowing/freezing them and allowing others to wipe the support, leaving the melees without the necros they need.

Going back to something someone said earlier- I’ll take the 48 others over the melee train provided the 48 know their class. Hammer train isn’t that effective when it doesn’t have anything large to focus on and it’s an open field- throw in a couple of fears whenever they try and restack and it’s gg.

I am loving defending things- before it used to be dangerous to stand on a wall blowing the opposition to pieces, now just watch for the occasional mesmer pull or ele shower..and attacking up walls is fun too.

NvN.4321:

Knackers.8562:

Victory.2879:

Great double team effort on our keep in EB right now- AM blocking off the spawn while AG is attacking the keep. 40++ AM, full AG blob. neither side attacking anything else anywhere on the whole EB. Don’t bother trying to deny it, lots of screenies taken.

Clear sign that they have agreed to gang up on us- so sad that you have to resort to this rather than try and beat us on your own?

You just lost what little respect I had for AG ankitten ow we know exactly what your servers are made of.

Enjoy your alliance, let’s hope Gandara guilds rise to the challenge and pop some points during prime time to offset this onslaught by both servers.

Double team? Thats not double team, thats taking advantages, you guys do the same, AM does the same, when we have wooden tier towers, you only bash on us, so does AM, when AM is ticking too high, both of us bash on AM, maybe abit kitteny cause AG stays away from GD towers alot? and today we actually attack. =/

This. Today we reseted Hills and Bay together with AM on Ag bl today. Cause T3 bay/hill is a no no in prime time. We saw Am go for bay and we went hills, then switched, then switched again. No real ganking (except a bit for weekend on EB, u mad?)

No, it wasn’t anything like the same.

Let’s spell it out very clearly. AM camped the EB spawn for over an hour while AG attempted to take the keep directly behind them.

They made no attempt to attack the south gate.

Their only purpose for being there was to prevent Gandara from reinforcing the keep defenders.

They didn’t even try to cap anything else for that hour, only after it was obvious that the keep attack was failing did a small team try and take something of AG’s.

The excuses spouted here for this action are hilarous.

The funniest thing was that 1. you totally failed and 2. you probably caused your server to come third in the match up when you could have capped half the map while AG were busy at our keep.

Try it again tomorrow, we can laugh at you some more:-)

Great double team effort on our keep in EB right now- AM blocking off the spawn while AG is attacking the keep. 40++ AM, full AG blob. neither side attacking anything else anywhere on the whole EB. Don’t bother trying to deny it, lots of screenies taken.

Clear sign that they have agreed to gang up on us- so sad that you have to resort to this rather than try and beat us on your own?

You just lost what little respect I had for AG ankitten ow we know exactly what your servers are made of.

Enjoy your alliance, let’s hope Gandara guilds rise to the challenge and pop some points during prime time to offset this onslaught by both servers.

No. They will use laurels or some other time gating, or laurels for the infusions, so the more alts you have the less likely it is that you will have the time or the will power to kit them out.

I have 18 fully exotic (some with multiple sets) toons on two accounts. Wexp being char bound has effectively killed off one account, and restricted me to pretty much one toon. Ascended weapons- got no laurels and not even finished one toon’s weapons and trinkets.

When ascended armor comes out I’ll need FOUR complete sets for one toon and still won’t even have the ascended trinkets done……

They need to make ALL ascended stuff tradeable before use (there is a tab to select it in TP already, so obviously at some stage they were thinking along the right lines), dungeon tokens tradeable, and make W exp account bound so that people with alts don’t feel like they are being pigeon holed into playing one toon – where most will then choose warrior as the current OP class (and soon more so with the new runes incoming).

That the 1v1 arena?

If that is meant for 20vs 20 gvg then it’s a sad joke. I’m not even sure where squishies would position themselves to avoid standing in the opposition’s melee train…

But I guess with the new runes soon to be released in fractals it will only be warriors anyway so they can all just run into each other without being able to down anyone, then after 10 minutes of 0 deaths everyone will get bored and leave.

Yippee- more stuff coming only from fractals.

I guess the numbers doing fractals must have dropped below a critical threshold and this is their way of increasing the numbers doing them.

As they involve doings things like jumping and puzzles I still won’t go in.

And again wvw is either forgotten or completely overlooked- or maybe Anet’s plan is to make warriors and guardians so hard to kill that people can’t actually kill the opponents melee train at all and people will just run past each other and /wave before flipping each other’s towers and camps.

No idea what my total rank is- 300+ ranks on one account, highest two are in the 90’s, no longer really using that account, and 400+ on other account, highest rank 285 since I decided to concentrate on one toon for a while due to the stupid char bound w exp system.

I think what people are saying is they don’t think the current system is justified and want it changed to account bound, like almost everything else in the game is. No amount of new info is going to change this simple fact.

Terrible idea.

The only viable option is to make it account bound.

Every time I feel like playing an alt in wvw I mainly don’t, purely due to the char bound w exp system. It’s an awful system and they need to go back and rethink the stupid decision to insist that they will never make it account bound.

It’s made me stop playing on one account, and restricted my play to pretty much one toon, which is not as much fun as being able to switch between one of my many level 80’s to suit the sort of playstyle I want to engage in.

But since Anet has wvw as the lowest priority, I would be surprised if anything ever happens.

The more I play the less I care about thiefs. Yes, they will still get me rejoining my group in a borderland every now and then, but there are only one or two who can kill me on their own (like the AG silver veteran thief that I mention in our match up thread).

Yes, they can be annoying- but frankly I find phant spamming mesmers more of a problem than a solo thief these days.

Is stealth a broken mechanic? Yes, as there is no real counter.
Does it really have that much effect on the overall outcome of a match? No. Killing someone 20 seconds away from their spawn delays them by 20 seconds- run out the other entrance and be on your way.
Can thiefs be annoying? Yes.

Hats off to the silver veteran AG thief who managed to down me with 7 hits in less than 0.5 seconds including 10.6k backstab and ofc finished with a stealth finisher. I only wish I could hit buttons that fast without a macro:-) Maybe I need more armor, only 1.8k toughness atm…. I was really quite impressed, that’s quite impressive button mashing skill (if it’s a macro can you send it to me for my thief?). I’m obviously getting old and slow:-(

Seriously amazing co ordination! By far the most effective thief I have seen in a long while.

Some good fights against huge piles of the opposition today, match up has been quite good fun. Looking forward to the rest of the week.

I’m dreading ascended armor- first of all I gave up playing a second account, then decided to try and stick to one toon on one account, and now I’m going to be forced to choose between one set of armor out of the 4 I currently use for that toon….and if it’s dependent on laurels then that’s a bust straight away as i currently have exactly 2 on my account and still need 10 more to finish off the necro’s staff, never mind the other toons weapon sets and swaps.

The other mats aren’t THAT hard to get (the time gating at crafting IS annoying as hell though) but laurels are the most effective barrier to alts ever invented in a game.

There are only two groups of people who don’t see the problem: Anet devs (who don’t play wvw) and people who just play one toon (generally warrior/guardian).

Anyone who plays more than one toon knows that char bound wvw totally sucks, and sucks more the more ranks you clock up on alts or your main. Wexp liquid drops are a joke if they are meant to be helping alts- as you can use them on the toon that dropped them, so they don’t help at all.

People saying it will make upscaled too strong don’t know how the upscaling works (and they could easily code it so the +250 vit points don’t scale).

I’d like to switch toons – like when I notice we are short on necros, or eles, but at the moment I am heavily penalised for doing so which discourages me from doing so, hence restricting my enjoyment of the game.

I think we’re all wasting our breath here though, as it’s quite clear that wvw is lowest priority for the devs in the game and account bound wexp would be even lower downt the list than that.

And finally, why the hell can’t we re arrange our rank points in the same way as we can trait points??

Besides this we are stomp professionals due to our class, easy to stomp enemies but very difficult to stomp us, the average ratio per day in the Order is 15 stomps per each time we are stomped. Some Shadows get more than 50vs1 stomps ratio per day.

How do you measure that? I’m just curious- do you all keep score on pieces of paper and take videos of each other all the time to verify that people are counting correctly? is that unique kills each or if 15 of you all kill one person does every person count 1 to their score? Who monitors it?

It sounds a bit like people saying ‘I got 1000 kills today’ (which at least is tracked by the game)- but they didn’t do it on their own.

Given they give away ach points for almost nothing in pve, one flip of SM should be at least 2 ach points…

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. Just feels like a huge waste if time if I earn wxp on an alt though :-(

This pretty much sums up exactly why I feel constrained to play one toon in wvw- and have even pretty much given up on my other a/c (along with time gating of ascended rings, etc ).

Endless q for me at primetime 8-10ish pm this week has meant I have almost finished my personal story! pve…

Fights after I get on have been a lot of fun, with an epic try at FR’s keep last night which kept our stuff from being attacked for a long time.

Thanks for the fun.