Guild Wars 2

Coming from a background of doing competitive WvW since the Pre-release I see WvW players getting snuffed out again. I have 106 achievement point in my WvW category and though I play PvE a lot I know that many people in my guild do nothing more than WvW, and miss out on being top leaders of things like this. I notice that nobody who’s got more than 7,000 achievement points and has posted their account screens has had anything more in the realm avenger achievement than the tier 1 shield. I’m severely disappointed yet again that ANet’s design for another newly implemented game system has turned it’s back on fellow DubvDubers.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Doing something fun on April 1st is a good idea, hmmm…

I would laugh so hard if you announced that you were going to start introducing mounts, flying mounts and mounts with speed boosts on April 1st. It would be so cruel. And so funny.

This topic has been beaten over and over and for the most part I concur with the majority of people who oppose mounts. I do, however, like ArenaNet’s cosmetic mount (the riding broom) and wish that they’d add more of THOSE types of things, perhaps unavailable to the cash shop for people to have some sort of end game besides dungeons and legendaries to do and work for. Little things like these /cosmetic/ items that ANet likes to add to their game would be fantastic by my standards. Having already gotten my legendary I no longer have anything to do with my main besides wait for the weekly reset on guild missions to slowly work towards my ascended earrings. I’m not asking specifically for cosmetic mounts, but rather something along these lines that progresses my character. (Being forced to be an altoholic isn’t my game. I’ve never made alts in any other game because I like to invest in my one main character).

To sum it all up, mounts are a no, and will never be added. However, perhaps ANet will see that this is just another cosmetic option that gives us yet another thing to progress towards that offers nothing but cosmetic items to show off.

This must be a universal thing. I was just about to do a guild bounty and “lost connection”, getting an error that was telling me that a transaction was in progress, now it’s saying that my firewall’s blocking it, which it’s not :P

Please. Dead horse beating still infringes upon the animal’s rights, even if they don’t have feelings.

As a warrior main with a mesmer and guardian alt I approve.

Is actually love to see this. Having tried out the engineer two days ago and leaving with a sour taste in my mouth over its unimpressive combat being forced to be purely ranged (aside from a couple toolkit skills). I’d love to see this thread stay alive, unlike most threads in the suggestion sub forum. Sorry to say, ANet but I don’t see this idea getting any negative feedback from the community.

One word: NO.

Ill not have ArenaNet replace the warrior a second time. I’ve said this time and time again but in the Dervish returns in GW2 ill quit.

Looks like this has been used on http://dulfy.net/2013/02/27/gw2-guild-bounty-guide/ for your consolidated enjoyment.

Hey guys, just thought I’d post this out there. There’s a funny quaggan running around kessex hills named Poobadoo, seen in the first screenshot. He has a guild bounty icon above his head so I’ll assume he’s a target.

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

The second shows his dialog when you click on him. I’m assuming that he licked up the wrong alley and got on someone’s bad side, and it’s your guild’s job to capture him, or something to the affect.

http://i.imgur.com/qPRo92v.jpg

And thirdly, thanks to the lovely Lady Alderea for taking these screenshots and following him all the way around his loop in Kessex hills, I present you his entire loop. Hope it helps!

http://i.imgur.com/FOarZ9l.jpg

Well, I’ve completed the patch but now I’m stuck loading into Lion’s Arch.

I only get these lines in certain locations in the game and on rare occasions at that such as the first graveling defense with Hodgins in AC.

I’m running an nVidia Geforce GTX 650M.

SchuMidas.4782:

Happy Lunar New Year/ Chinese New Year to all.
welcome Kaineng

We at Kaineng refer to it as Canthan New Year!
:D

Jayne.9251:

Viking Jorun.5413:

Smokee.1754:

Viking Jorun.5413:

Smokee.1754:

First HB video up from tonights reset, showing some fights during the first hour in BG bl @ Bay vs. TL and others. Second video from a guardian pov with more fights will be uploaded within 12 hours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2rG87SOpn4

Upload the footage after we moved you out of DB.

You moved us out of DB? TC attacked garrison, so we had to go back and defend it. Less than 15 made it back into bay before you recapped it. But dont worry, the next video will show that fight

You sound a bit down, but you shouldnt. Mistakes and defeats is what teaches you to become better. We had alot of fun fighting you guys tonight, I hope that you had some as well.

/Salute

I’m not down Just had to leave the fight. You guys were a real wake up call to a lot of TL recruits who’d never been in t2-t1 and we thank you for that. I hope there’s more fights to come, just TL and HB. None of that Kaineng Meow or BG LotD to interfere. Haha. Ill have you know that TL had a blast fighting you guys. And to be honest we were all under the impression that you guys fell back to garrison because DB looked like Swiss Cheese. ^^

May there be more to come!

That’s better! Cookie for you!

Wewt!

Smokee.1754:

Viking Jorun.5413:

Smokee.1754:

First HB video up from tonights reset, showing some fights during the first hour in BG bl @ Bay vs. TL and others. Second video from a guardian pov with more fights will be uploaded within 12 hours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2rG87SOpn4

Upload the footage after we moved you out of DB.

You moved us out of DB? TC attacked garrison, so we had to go back and defend it. Less than 15 made it back into bay before you recapped it. But dont worry, the next video will show that fight

You sound a bit down, but you shouldnt. Mistakes and defeats is what teaches you to become better. We had alot of fun fighting you guys tonight, I hope that you had some as well.

/Salute

I’m not down Just had to leave the fight. You guys were a real wake up call to a lot of TL recruits who’d never been in t2-t1 and we thank you for that. I hope there’s more fights to come, just TL and HB. None of that Kaineng Meow or BG LotD to interfere. Haha. Ill have you know that TL had a blast fighting you guys. And to be honest we were all under the impression that you guys fell back to garrison because DB looked like Swiss Cheese. ^^

May there be more to come!

Smokee.1754:

First HB video up from tonights reset, showing some fights during the first hour in BG bl @ Bay vs. TL and others. Second video from a guardian pov with more fights will be uploaded within 12 hours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2rG87SOpn4

Upload the footage after we moved you out of DB.

I’m disappointed in [HB] and their GvG challenges. Once TL figured out your one tactic and the 25 of us that could make it into the map stomped the 50+ of you you couldn’t let go of LotD, could you? Great GvG though it was funny seeing you guys use LotD, a 40 man group, as bait to kill TL, a 25 man group after we completely destroyed LotD. I guarantee if the culling was better TL may have fared a little better when your portal bomb hit the camp.

Keep it up!

P.S. Why do you guys seem to kill everyone but the glass cannons?

One legendary? No. Everyone and their mother seems to be roaming Lion’s Arch with one. TWO legendaries? I’d say that’s impressive.

Personally I like the system as it is. If you have a commander icon and you’re a bad commander, we tell you to turn it off so that better commanders may lead. If they refuse, we learn to ignore them and they eventually turn of their icon anyway. We know who the good and bad commanders are. We don’t a system that’s prone to exploitation to tell us that.

This would fit in great with the lore since killing Zhaitan weakened the undead and stopped the mass production of the risen. It could be like a push to cleanse Orr.

If a tree falls on you and you blind your enemy does it harm you? Of course not.

These are all I need for my legendary and I can say I’m all for increasing the drop rate.

I don’t think it would be that great if this happened. I’m used to my longbow skills and if this were implemented, when I got Kudzu I’d have to learn new skill rotations and if certain skills were to be eliminated from Kudzu such as the snare my entire build and the way I play it would have to be reconfigured around my legendary.

Avalon.6418:

Sorry about that I wrote it and then when I saw your edit I edited myself and it got complicated.

No problem. Glad I could help! There’s a lot of little-known things like this in the game.

Avalon.6418:

You mean this : “ALT+Mouse1 on the map opens a context menu for adding special order waypoints, to mark locations for attacks, defense, and rally points. These special waypoints are visible to squad members.” ?

Yep. Just make sure you use the squad function that commanders don’t use.

Hold alt+right click your map. You’re welcome

A little menu with squad attack, defend, move, etc orders should show up. Make sure you’re clicking your map, not your minimap.

keln.6051:

I do agree with the point’s, but WvW doesn’t have the environmental effects to really give any depth of tactics ie. no flanking damage if I shoot you in the back you take the same damage as in the front, No terrain buffs like if standing behind or on a wall there’s no toughness buff, tho there should be as you are “entrenched” as it were. WvW as it is without these terrain modifications can’t really be brought to with tactics as there is no difference is you attack from the front or flank.

This is entirely false. If you meet heavy resistance on your enemy’s front, falling back and flanking meets little to no resistance and you may be able to push the enemy Zerg out. Learn WvW.

In this aspect, legendaries with dyes are like Charr with capes. They both break the game.

If you were level 80 it would only show level 80 gear. It’s a gameplay mechanic across all game modes, not just WvW.

Catisa.6507:

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There were not enough "no"’s to satisfy my thoughts on this. Let me quote it again.

Catisa.6507:

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Adine.2184:

Sure why not . Make each piece of T4 cost Shards Ecto and Gold just like the original

Stack and a half of ectos, stack of obby shards, and 75k gold. They’d finally be bringing Guild Wars into Guild Wars 2.

Pecar.1236:

we only need easy fix see dmg when we hit thief in stealth so how can fight vs anybody if i dont see hits in every mmo when get dmg in stealth you get revelated or they see dmg on you

That used to be a bug and it severely nerfed the thief stealth to the point where you might as well have been an open heartseeker spammer than stealthed. Learn to counter thieves. They’re more predictable than warriors.

Pecar.1236:

Viking Jorun.5413:

Immobilize + nuke. Thief down. Problem fixed.

when use immobilize he use stealth and lose it so you never nuke him you can 1-2 hit but this dmg he can easy regen

They don’t lose their immobilize when they stealth. You just can’t see them. Hit in the spot where you immob’d them.

Immobilize + nuke. Thief down. Problem fixed.

This would be almost as bad as the current dirty T1 tactic of mass-reporting any enemy commanders the enemy servers see.

Step 1) recruit on enemy server

Step 2) mass-downvote said commander.

Herio.5890:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Tool-Build-Saving-system-Template/first#post1286935

Linking another thread tells me nothing except that others agree. The fact of the matter is that this needs to be implemented to please those of us who are affected by having multiple builds.

And quite frankly I’d like to think that my OP has a lot more ways of how to fix it and make it interact with the current game world rather than just stating “this should be added because it was in GW1”

To clear up any confusion, this is not about the 10, 20, and 30 traits that you can already change on the go. This is also about re-assigning trait points.

This is my take on what should be done about being able to save trait lines rather than having to manually write your builds down or take a screenshot so you don’t forget them.

Here are the current problem(s) with trait organization:

-No “save build” function to traits

-more may be added if the feedback suggests so, but as of now this is my only beef*

Here is what I propose should be done about this:

-Save trait build funtion, as in the style of GW1 build saving, adds the same functionality to trait lines in GW2

-As long as your build has been reset by a trainer you are free to change builds for that nominal cost.

-Name your builds to differentiate your different aspects. I have 2 glass cannon-esque builds so simply labeling them by damage type won’t do any good.

-quick and simple UI for it. All I need is a “save” button which I can press and be presented with a box where I insert my preferred name and hit enter. Then a “load” button with a dropdown menu listing all of my builds.

EDIT:

It has come to my attention that more players would like to be able to swap traits on the go. ArenaNet may not be partial to this because it discontinues the need to go to the trainers. Here’s what I propose:

-A Black Lion Trainer’s Manual, or something of the sort which could be purchased through gems, dropped from Black Lion chests, or obtained via map completion rewards which would be a one-time use to be able to swap your traits and trait points at any point outside of combat.

Let me know what you think of this and if it would help you as well.

Thank you!

dreztina.4820:

Too much talk about being nice. But I’ve got some good news. I’m going to be doing wvw more, which means posting more. I’ll see if I can’t get this thread back into shape for the pride of Maguuma.

Maguuma pride = insulting everybody and talking trash?

Oozo.7856:

Viking Jorun.5413:

Oozo.7856:

I still don’t think WM are botters but their guild leader is mentally unstable. He went into full nerd rage mode when I posted a movie with some small group fights against his guild.

War Machine is a valuable ally to us in Team Legacy and their guild leader knows what he’s doing from what I’ve seen in WvW. We’ll talk to him about the constant complaints from people saying they don’t split up but to be honest, I’ve never met another commander who uses Mesmer portals as profusely, and has so much control over their guild.

On that note I’d like everyone to stop judging our server’s tactical abilities solely on War Machine in EB. It discredits a lot of guilds who are extremely tight and coordinated working elsewhere.

I’ve seen videos of WM’s 10man gameplay fighting 30-40 man unorganized zergs. It’s really quite good. The discipline and coordination is really impressive. However, he has some issues. I understand to run a group and a guild the way WM is run takes a really intense personality but this guy makes Bunzy look like a schoolgirl. Examples:

“I am WM leader.

You declined a? fair fight with the same number of people when i respectfully proposed. And now cut out dozens of defeats and posted only your few favorable scenes.

I am very dissappointed to you. I’ll tell you one thing. We never complain disadvantageous battle even if it’s 10 vs 40. Just like today, ten of us beat your 40 down over and over(we have video of this for 4 hours). And all of the ten got banned. You cannot beat WM no matter how many of us. Shame on you.”

There never was a dozen defeats. We won every single engagement against WM when we had equal numbers (while I was present). AD doesn’t run with 40 people. Killing DR PuGs is not the same thing as killing us.

“I saw u dead by my sword many many times.

I know u have shield like lion(?).

Though u can? win sometime, u never can win to us when i am leading. We will upload 10wm vs 40devona, today story.

We will not say “too many zerg, too many enemy, can’t win” like AD in forum. And You already made AD look bad in forum and video. We decide conclusion that AD is not that we want to find worthy team.

I don’t need to talk with u anymore. It is worthless."

I never died many many times to his sword. I can only recall being downed once by his main group and I was revived. We did get wiped by a 50+ zerg of WM, RE, and Kaineng PuGs once while I was there but I have no clue if he is the one who personally stomped me.

“We decide conclusion that AD is not that we want to find worthy team.”

He tried to recruit us to come to Kaineng. We declined.

Lol. That sounds exactly like this commander back on Gate of Madness who, I swear to God, was roleplaying that he was a commander. He “lived for the kill” and so on. People like that make for great followers and listen to those superior to them quite well, though. As for his Grammar, all is lost in the world.

PS. Drunk Maguuma borderlands were great last night. Had a blast. Get your exotic underwater gear so I can stop owning entire zergs of you guys underwater :P ….drunk for that matter. /shame

Oglaf.1074:

What do I do in WvW? Leech off the Elementalist/Thieves/Mesmers that can actually have an impact there….

Pity badges.

We have a cliff boss trait bro. Warriors OP. Done deal.

Step 1) Get your cliff boss trait

Step 2) Make yourself an attractive target (commander icons work great)

Step 3) present yourself to an enemy zerg

Step 4) stability

Step 5) jump off cliff where you almost die

Step 6) Cliff boss, everyone that follows dies.

Step 7) ….Profit.

I feel like I’m the only person who uses axe/axe w/ longbow. I guess I do well in WvW because people expect a warrior to have a great sword or a hammer. I’ve come out of 6v1s with barely a scratch, and I’m no tank. People just need to learn the class and mix things up, make builds that fit their play style rather than getting them from online databases, and get creative. The class isn’t underpowered in WvW. It’s just predictable to most people. I can honestly say I’ve never been killed by a warrior in anything less than a 1 on 7. It’s not the class, it’s the people who play it. (For the most part)

P.S. When I share my build with the few people I’ve given it to, they hate it at first. It forces you to learn to use dodge and other game mechanics that are more complicated and learn the skill rotations, class combos, etc.

Oozo.7856:

I still don’t think WM are botters but their guild leader is mentally unstable. He went into full nerd rage mode when I posted a movie with some small group fights against his guild.

War Machine is a valuable ally to us in Team Legacy and their guild leader knows what he’s doing from what I’ve seen in WvW. We’ll talk to him about the constant complaints from people saying they don’t split up but to be honest, I’ve never met another commander who uses Mesmer portals as profusely, and has so much control over their guild.

On that note I’d like everyone to stop judging our server’s tactical abilities solely on War Machine in EB. It discredits a lot of guilds who are extremely tight and coordinated working elsewhere.

Thanks for the nice underwater play, Maguuma. Next time you should probably get your exotic UW weapons and level 80 masks. Team Legacy enjoyed swimming around Bay farming you guys.

“DB took Kaineng’s Garrison with outmanned buff. It started as a joke and turned into a bigger joke. I feel sadness for Kaineng, and like you our main force appears in the middle of the night while we NA sleep. The difference between us is that we had the opportunity to learn with each new tier and opponent. This is your NA ’s time to learn.”

TL is doing fine in Maguuma Borderlands. Sure, the guilds we were paired with may not have been the best at WvW but we’ve been using plenty of great tactics to keep Maguuma out of everyone’s hair. Just today they had their entire map focused on the 20 TL we had on map because we were hitting Bay from every side. Thanks for stereotyping the server as a whole Appreciate it.

I know this. I’m asking if that transmuted legendary will have ascended stats when ascended weapons go live.

This is why I hated people who played warriors in Guild Wars 1 as well. ArenaNet never intended warriors to fall into the same niche they do in other MMOs where they play tanks. In Guild Wars 1, the warrior was meant more as DPS or knockdown support. In Guild Wars 2, however, ArenaNet gives you a metric ton more options for how you want to play a warrior. I have 2 builds at the moment. One is a shout heal warrior for commanding in which I use sword/mace and hammer to provide knockdown support for my allies and also heal them. The other is my main build in which I’m full berserker with superior runes of the eagle except for 4 ascended trinkets all of which are power/tough/cond. Try adding some toughness to your warrior and learn to use that dodge, and when your dodge is out learn to use that endure pain. I enjoy playing my warrior and have been commended on how well I play it both in sPvP and Wv3.

I’ll tell you this, though: If you go around making your builds based off of others’ builds you found online, you’ll never play it as well as the person who made it. You’ve got to figure out your play style, figure out what you’re good at and build your build around that platform, no matter the financial cost. sPvP is different because it’s impossible to mix and match your stats but a custom build in there is only a few lost matches and trials away.

We’ve all been hard at work on our legendaries and there’s one question that’s been burning at the back of my mind for quite some time now. If I transmute, say, Kudzu onto a bow with stats that are actually beneficial to my build and it retains its purple legendary status, will it receive a stat boost when all of the ascended gear goes live?

This is probably more a question for the dev team as they’re the ones working on Ascended gear, but hey. The community knows things too.

Team Legacy has been discussing this subject for the last two weeks and is in the process of potentially creating a new WvW meta for Kaineng. More info as we progress.

P.S. – If you don’t have full exotics, get them. Everyone we fight will have them. If you have full exotics, get ascended gear.

Just mapping Orr while I wait for a server that uncontests it. Make sure to post if you’re about to!

Caedmon.6798:

Skill 3 should be available instantly imo, when 1vs1 for ex and you get downed skill 3 is in instant cd,you can do skill 2 one time to interrupt him trying to fnish,and usually there isnt enough time to even use skill 3.If we are bound to die anyways ( like it happens 99% of the time when rallying ) Atleast let us rally right away after being downed to make it seem like downed state isnt completely broken and useless for a warrior.

You’ve got to time your knockdown correctly on the person trying to finish you. If you knock them right before they jump you’ll have just enough time for them to start again and then you vengeance and make a kill (guaranteed to rally if you’ve got the Sweet Revenge trait).

Ha. My entire sPvP and WvW build focuses on Eviscerate and the only “misses” I get are when a mesmer pops a clone in their place while I’m mid-air, which rarely happens. Combined with the bow’s pin down you’ve got yourself a great single target nuke.

Personally I have a huge problem with this. I rely on being able to hit enemy after enemy when rushing clusters in WvW. I run dual axes and a longbow, and though the longbow is unquestionable a utility the 3 skill acts as a great wall nuke. If they nerf AoE what am I going to do then?

I don’t know about you guys, but when I’m in PvE and there’s nobody around to help complete a group event I generally throw on my commander’s icon, send out a map-wide message, and within a matter of minutes I have more than enough people there to help me. The maps are just really big so it’s rare to stumble across players when everyone is constantly on the move.

As for Lion’s Arch, if you have to go into overflow it means that your server’s LA is full. Hence it’s not empty. Culling just hates you.

Tom Gore.4035:

When we will see capes/cloaks? Quaggan backpacks, COME ON!

Want to know why we don’t have capes/cloaks?

Charr. We break the game (and jumping puzzles).