Guild Wars 2

Here’s a funny quote.

Xsorus.2507:

Calsifer.6079:

Crystal Desert (T4) is putting up a tough fight against Yak’s Bend (T3) and Kaineng (T3).

All scores are within 1500 points of each other. CD seems to be second during NA and second during Oceanic/SEA.

http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/map/731

CD is already losing by 4k and the weekend isn’t even over..

Its bloody obvious CD is going to lose that matchup

Personally, I prefer to listen to this while I WvW on Crystal Desert.

Le Rooster.8715:

I forgot to add mine

Sea of Sorrows-US

Crystal Desert
Kaineng.

Miss us already?

What is the “Save the Rallians Foundation”?

All it took was sacrificing SoS to TC and sacrificing SBI to DB to get a good match-up. I am okay with this. Does that make me a bad person?

Quikmix.2518:

This has been a fun weekend. Really happy that CD is keeping things close!

We are Nom Nom Nomming all of Kaineng’s Glicko points.

Warlord.9074:

I would love to fight other servers besides BG and JQ but you guys let free transfers ruin your game, despite everyone telling you everyday to make them stop.

Free transfers weren’t the problem, despite free transfer ending awhile ago there are plenty of guilds who continue to transfer from lower tiers to higher tiers. Just look at how much Dragonbrand has been stacked, all during paid transfers. The problem is people like to win, and the easiest way to win is to transfer to the winning server. Currently there is no incentive in this game to play on a losing server, so you have the situation now where there are only a few ridiculously huge servers that will absolutely dominate everyone else.

It could be fun if Anet did something like making 1 day a week where special WvW rules apply such as servers are only allowed to place flame rams, or balistas do 200% more damage to let players mess around with bizarre strategies. It could also keep WvW interesting and fresh without creating match-ups where servers get absolutely smashed :p.

luwe.1496:

So did anyone see the new siege tactic from Kaineng? We like building point blank trebs on towers now hahaha. Someone made a mistake of dropping one down in front of Anzalias and we ended up building it.

Point blank trebs are actually quite an old tactic. You can see them being used in this promo pic for GW2 WvW (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:StonemistCastle-center-keep-600x375.jpg) posted on the wiki in Feb 2012, about half a year before the game was even released.

This post is pretty hilarious coming from SoS. 24 hours into your current match-up and the score looks like this:

FA – 32.5k
TC – 39.2K
SOS – 20.2k

So it looks like TC has almost twice your score, and you decide that WvW is stupid and are going to quit playing for the week. Want to know what the score was 24 hours into your last match with CD and SBI? Here it is:

CD – 23.8k
SOS – 44.0k
SBI – 20.3k

Yeah, SOS has over double the score of third place and almost double the score of second place. Not to mention you had that match-up for 2 months and apparently found nothing wrong with it. If you’re going to quit playing every time you lose, you should transfer to SoR or JQ because you won’t be guaranteed easy wins for weeks on end with the new ranking system.

I think Maguuma is a cutie pie.

One time I was chasing down an engineer with 2 team mates in open field with no NPC mobs nearby and somehow the engi managed to rally 4 times each about a second after we would down him until finally his downed health was so low from repeatedly being killed that he just died on the spot the next time we downed him. This makes me think that there are hacks to let you rally from downed, although the ele you fought could have tagged people previously and got a luck rally. Personally I don’t really care for downed state because in small group roaming play about 80% of players will be thieves and every thief has shadow refuge to stealth downed allies making stomps completely useless.

Deathdom.8250:

I really really hope the chaos happening in the EU tiers right now make it to us. Everything would be messed up but it would be fun.

I agree, I saw some post about the same server fighting in three different tiers. Don’t really care if we get matched up with a tier 1/2 server because the chaos would be too much fun.

I always thought it would be cool to have a cross-hair and make tab target the closest enemy in your cross-hair, because at the moment tab targeting is completely useless. Having to use the mouse to adjust the camera so you can maintain LOS with enemies and having to use it to target enemies at the same time is extremely tedious, especially in WvW.

Dirame.8521:

I think it should be brought down to 5 boons converted because, at most, people are only rocking 5 boons anyway and even if they are packing more than 5, you can be rest-assured that those boons won’t last long.

This is quite an interesting argument. You first stated that it is OP to be able to convert every boon in the game into a condition, and propose a nerf to only convert 5 boons. To support this proposal, you state that most people will only have 5 boons implying it will still convert every boon into a condition on most players (unless they are of course a Guardian using “Save Yourselves!”, aka You). It’s also interesting to note that you find an ability that can potentially cast every condition to be OP, but you think an ability that always casts every boon to be fine. You also seem to think Contemplation of Purity is fine despite it being the exact opposite of Corrupt Boon. Very, very interesting.

Do we really need a TLDR version for three sentences? What is this world coming too?

This thread is full of massive amounts of misinformation, is it really that hard to research a wiki?

Are there any plans to add dungeon armor skins for purchase with badges of honor? Because the current skins you can purchase are kinda… stupid.

Aieo.2815:

Apparently SoS will be fighting TC and maguuma with this new matchup system…. Oh boy, our NA will get wrecked by TC.

That was an example of one possible outcome, the new system incorporates a random variable into the ranking calculation so you cannot predict who you will be fighting next week.

Sounds like a good update to me, most servers will have weeks with relatively even match-ups, weeks where they dominate, and weeks where they will struggle so they can experience all types of play styles (the exception of course being the first and last ranked servers which will always be winning/losing, just by a different margin). Also, there are some potentially very good match-ups like CD/SBI/EB that will currently never happen due to the ratings system, but with the random component it makes these matches possible.

rodadams.5963:

Signet of Stone, grants 180 Toughness.
For Felines, they have base Toughness of 1374, so this means Kitty can absorb 13.1% more DPS than w/o the Signet. (that’s 180/1374). Honey Bear, with 2061 base, absorbs 8.7% more.

This assumes that the damage reduction from toughness is a linear function, which it is not.

Elwin.2583:

yeah lol i stopped playing my R120main because
1) legend boss rank bronze invader is wtd
2) not worth now since will delay rewards even more

The logic is strong with this one.

Liquid.9672:

Junkpile.7439:

Point is that PvE heros got their rings without laurels. I kill enemies 7 months in www and won’t get rings without laurels.

Oh I see, you’re questioning why these will cost laurels at all. Well, the answer is they want these items to be gated by time, and the only way to do that without adding a new currency is to include an existing time gated currency to the cost.

Correction: They want these items to be gated by time…. unless you run fotm.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Over-70-asc-rings-and-nothing-to-do-with

Hurtappl.6405:

i did actually make a necro recently but i just cant lvl another character for some reason… im not very patient it is really fun tho and hopefully maybe i could someday muster up the strength to go through the grewling lvl system.. but not now .. and you are right NO thieves impress me except Alpha Bladie who still refuses to use stealth and sticks to pistol whip lol LOVE YOU BLADIE

Haha, I know exactly how you feel. Coming from GW1 where you could get a char to max level in 6 hrs, this game is absolute murder to level up alt chars. The interesting thing about necros is that they don’t have just 1 or 2 builds that are ridiculously powerful like other classes. They just have a bunch of mediocre builds, which obviously makes fighting other classes very difficult, but at the same time it allows you to be a lot more creative in how you build your character.

Hurtappl.6405:

Stopped PvP’ing at rank 40 a few months ago and i am actually getting bored of WvW atm…. SO! I would like to be challenged to step up my thief gameplay and stop playing easy mode.

Cool, do what I did and switch to Necro roaming in WvW. My main was a Guard, but I became bored of how easy it was to stay alive and simply win fights through attrition, so I switched to Necro for a challenge and was not disappointed. It requires a very active style of play and forces you to know the builds of the players you are fighting and predict their actions to win. Fighting multiple opponents is especially hard requiring a lot of kiting, flawless dodge timing, and micro-management of each of the opponents you are fighting against. Plus even if you mess up and lose a 1v1 against a class like a thief, it’s not like anyone will be impressed when the thief brags about killing a Necro :p.

Aww I spent all my laurels on the amulet and rings… looks like I should’ve bought the accessories. And so my endless pile of badges continues to grow.

Depends entirely on your build.

If you don’t enjoy PvP and the only reason you engage in it is to acquire badges (I’m guessing for your legendary), then you are correct, you should just farm the JPs daily.

One time I invited an invader to try to tell them that their treb wasn’t actually hitting our tower wall, but alas they would not accept and I didn’t get the chance to arrow cart farm them since they never opened up the tower before I had to log

This week’s thread is a juicy one! popcorn

Khayoss.2019:

Maybe instead of giving any kind of buff, orbs of power can be used to upgrade the keep lord that holds it to legendary dragons…? :O

Even better, the orb of power should spawn in a random location on the map at the beginning of each match and cannot be brought inside towers/keeps/castle… but whichever team is holding the orb of power will not be attacked by legendary dragons. Then you have plenty of open field fights and roaming parties to prevent their team from being burned up by dragon breath.

MM builds are pretty good for farming points, but they are hard-countered by Mesmer since they just need to cast Moa Morph on you and all your minions instantly die and will be on CD for a good 10+ seconds even after you exit moa form. I found a plain old BS thief is the best for farming points because you can do lots of damage to easily get tag kills, you have easy stealth with refuge so you can escape almost anything, and you have extreme mobility to you can easily get cap points. I average around 400 points a game with a thief.

Yoke.4671:

Not sure these are changes Anet done(maybe another money grab for gem-store repair canisters) or just oversights.

Yes, it’s diabolical. Anet forced you to be bad at PvP so that you would die a lot and feel compelled to purchase their gem-store repair canisters… muahahaha.

Iskandor.9415:

Waffler.1257:

I don’t know about you guys, but I will use these traps to troll everybody in the EB JP. Fountains can’t save you now!

You seem to have missed the part of the update where the EB JP is now its own map.

I didn’t miss it, have you tested and confirmed that traps do not work in the EB JP?

Rising Dusk.2408:

Waffler.1257:

I don’t know about you guys, but I will use these traps to troll everybody in the EB JP. Fountains can’t save you now!

Ranger traps already successfully do this and are free. The stealth you get from those fountains is removed when you take damage.

Yep, I play necro so I also have marks, but with the abundance of thieves they simply just stealth again, and again.. and again… and then they are gone. 30 seconds is more than enough time for me to kill a thief though, and saves me the trouble of having to keep re-casting marks since they last for an hour :p.

I don’t know about you guys, but I will use these traps to troll everybody in the EB JP. Fountains can’t save you now!

Phoenixfudge.5290:

In the early days of GW2, skill lag in WvW was barely noticeable. I don’t know what happened but it’s gotten much worse now, especially in T1.

When GW2 first came out, all of the players distributed themselves among the servers roughly evenly because there was no reason to prefer one server over another. Now… well you get the picture.

A large group of people felt like they weren’t accomplishing anything in WvW unless they were given some type of pointless progression system, and thus World Ranks were introduced.

VanysRonz.4061:

Nice tactic by CD for sending a guy to kill our golem in our citadel, great job

Park it near a legendary defender.

Longbow projectiles are the easiest to dodge in the game after guardian scepter, if you were killed by it in stealth then you were running away in a straight line. Stealth is a powerful ability, but it doesn’t mean you get to mindlessly avoid everything.

savints.6281:

I think the time it takes to stomp a player should be increased

savints.6281:

make stomping faster

Make up your mind already.

All you guys with your thieves and guardians and elementalists. I play a glass cannon necromancer in WvW… yeah that’s right, my balls are massive.

Khayoss.2019:

Essentially, what I want to know is in it’s current form, what does glicko give points for? How do we play this system?

1. Glicko gives points for your server achieving a higher score than is predicted given the relative glicko ratings of your server compared to the servers you are matched up against.

2. You play the system by getting the highest score possible. If one server has a much higher rating then it could be beneficial to try increase your score relative to theirs, but the predicted behavior of the third server makes this difficult to achieve.

Yeah, it seems that last patch introduced a lot of bugs. I’m also having an issue where skills won’t activate if you’re standing on the edge of a tower wall, and it’s not a line of sight issue.

Hebril Amolebin.9817:

little damage,but when you kill them, they rally your downed players giving you a number advantage….

Or you’re in a solo/small group fight and manage to down the other players, but then up-leveled players on your team run in and get themselves killed giving out free rallies to the enemies and allowing them to kill you. This has happened to me so much at this point that when up-leveled run into small group fights I just stay back and let them all get slaughtered first before engaging.

Cempa.5619:

WvW Ranger is the unbeatable profession the thing is people don’t know how to gear and spec or refuse to do so….We have seen players post that build with clips several times on these forums with SB/LB/Sword/ I mean come on whatever you want melee or ranged YOU CAN BE A GOD!

Its so OP I actually stopped playing it, you can not be killed by 1 and most times 2 players of equal gear and skill….Just cant happen.

One last time: Regeneration Power Toughness build, I like to play it as ranged with SB/LB, other play it with Sword its all good….The Regeneration is greater than any DPS of any single build in the game today while hitting you with over 2k Power for consistent DPS and the pet chewing chunks away…It even has a burst chain using QZ and pet swoop knocking 5k – 6k off at least every x sec.

In a way its good so many players refuse to wear Cleric gear, this away Anet will not nurf the build.

I agree, I don’t know why so many people think rangers are terrible while regen ranger builds exist. I’ve played against regen rangers and the only build I’ve found that can do well against them is a heavy boon stripping/cc necro and even that requires very well timed play. Playing a regen ranger in sPvP, I can survive multiple mesmer/thief bursts while playing half asleep as I just dodge around all while stacking 40+ seconds of ridiculously high regeneration with 3500+ armor. I would gear my ranger for a regen build in WvW, but this build is so good that I am almost certain it will be nerfed in the next 1-2 months so I don’t want to waste money on the gear.

I target whoever is the most out of position, doesn’t matter if they are up-leveled or not, they will go down just as quick.

Rising Dusk.2408:

shanmugong.6750:

The Engineer in Question has been kicked from the guild for speed hacking. Thanks for informing us.

Thanks for being upstanding.

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By the way, I am really excited for being red this coming week. I hope CD enjoys the grub!

We will. I hope you enjoy your invisible rock on EB JP stairs/random seaweed growing out of stone ramp/must jump off cliffs and land on roofs to reinforce OW red keep.

You also get points for capping sentry points, and because higher tiers have a lot more people, yaks will be killed and sentry points will be capped with a much higher frequency. In the lower tiers there are long periods of time where maps are a ghost town so only the point tally will increase scores.

The OP tried to HS spam through Sanctuary and found out that it wasn’t very effective.