Guild Wars 2

I thought Mag strategy was to get a 15 man group and circle cap buttlust. Or maybe their karma trains haven’t figured out yet that they don’t actually get karma from capping ruins.

Rozal Knight.2315:

….. there is a [APS] Charr with volcanus that 1v6 us he was using a stun build. he needs to be nerfed.

Were the 6 guys afk?

Hey Mr. [APS] war, what is the name of the strategy where you get destroyed and then run away to reset the fight. I’m thinking about making a war and want to know what to avoid.

Comprissent.3856:

Waffler.1257:

Comprissent.3856:

Waffler.1257:

Comprissent.3856:

Waffler.1257:

Ark and INC seem inseparable… must be love.

Yeah it’s hard not to be separated when you’re fighting an entire server inside a garrison

Good thing you guys built those ACs to even up the odds.

I don’t see any ACs in this picture, care to help me out?

Enemy AC fire all over the wall on the left side, maybe it’s time for some new glasses.

It’s called barrage

We built catas, not a single AC all night

Must be all ranger zerg to have the entire wall spammed the whole time, good job and discovering the new WvW meta.

Comprissent.3856:

Waffler.1257:

Comprissent.3856:

Waffler.1257:

Ark and INC seem inseparable… must be love.

Yeah it’s hard not to be separated when you’re fighting an entire server inside a garrison

Good thing you guys built those ACs to even up the odds.

I don’t see any ACs in this picture, care to help me out?

Enemy AC fire all over the wall on the left side, maybe it’s time for some new glasses.

Comprissent.3856:

Waffler.1257:

Ark and INC seem inseparable… must be love.

Yeah it’s hard not to be separated when you’re fighting an entire server inside a garrison

Good thing you guys built those ACs to even up the odds.

Ark and INC seem inseparable… must be love.

All transfers to tier 1 are free because they will pay the transfer fee for you. Makes transfer fees based on either rank or world population irrelevant… for purposes of balancing servers anyway.

umad brolis?

Blanche Neige.7241:

Waffler.1257:

Something interesting to note:

- The difference between rank 1 EU (SFR r1966) and rank 12 EU (Gandara r1646) is 320 rating points.
- The difference between rank 1 US (BG r2153) and rank 12 US (BP r1510) is 643 rating points.

Now, it seems like the more even servers are the less leagues you would want to create because you could have competitive matches within a larger pool. But Anet says no, that’s silly, we will give the more even servers in EU 3 leagues, and the more disparate servers in the US 2 leagues.

There are 27 servers in EU zone, and you can only divide them in 2 ways : either 3 leagues of 9, or 9 leagues of 3.

Or one league of 27 ^^’ .

Or you could give the US 4 leagues to make up for the greater variation in their rating relative to EU. I mean it kinda was the topic of the thread but some people are slow I guess.

Something interesting to note:

- The difference between rank 1 EU (SFR r1966) and rank 12 EU (Gandara r1646) is 320 rating points.
- The difference between rank 1 US (BG r2153) and rank 12 US (BP r1510) is 643 rating points.

Now, it seems like the more even servers are the less leagues you would want to create because you could have competitive matches within a larger pool. But Anet says no, that’s silly, we will give the more even servers in EU 3 leagues, and the more disparate servers in the US 2 leagues. Also, WvW ranks will never be account bound because players love character progression.

spoj.9672:

Ill just repost my old suggestion for a GS/2H axe.

Vile Slash
Chain. Slash your foe.
Damage: 306
Life Force: 2%
Range: 130
Cast Time: 1/2s

Vile Strike
Chain. Strike your foe.
Damage: 306
Life Force: 2%
Range: 130
Cast Time: 1/2s

Vile Touch
Chain. Strike your foe and corrupt a boon.
Damage: 458
Range: 130
Cast Time: 1/2s

Order of Pain
Channel your dark magic to surround you and repeatedly strike nearby foes gaining life force per strike.
Damage (9x): 1,261
Life Force: 1%
Combo Finisher: Whirl
Radius: 300
Cast Time: 1s
Cooldown: 10s

Deathly Chill
Summon a freezing dark cloud that repeatedly damages and chills foes.
Damage: 105
Chill: 1s
Vulnerability: 6s
Radius: 150
Duration: 5s
Cast Time: 1/2s
Cooldown: 15s

Ravenous Gaze
Leeches life from foes in a cone infront of you. Gain vigor for each foe you strike.
Damage: 416
Healing: 250
Vigor: 2s
Range: 600
Cast Time: 1/4s
Cooldown: 20s

Soul Bind
Binds the souls of nearby foes, pulling them to you. Bound foes are blinded.
Damage: 356
Blindness: 2s
Range: 600
Cast Time: 1s
Cooldown: 30s

You are officially a nerd. Congrats.

DH has nice legs, so we allied with them. Please learn to shave NSP.

Did you really just define “irk” for us? Anyway, Anet is the same as any other MMORPG company, GW1 was something special but GW2 is the same old crap that is every other MMO in existence. Only game company in recent history I have respect for is Grinding Gear Games. In Path of Exile (their RPG game) devs will actually have conversations with players in game while they are playing. Never seen that in any other game. You can go read Josh Foreman’s blog if you want to see how Anet handles player communication.

Why aren’t there any necro nerfs in the patch notes? Everyone telling me I’m playing an ez mode face-roll class after I kill them is getting a bit old. I think they should make terror a gm trait, master of terror a gm trait, dhuumfire have a 60s icd, remove poison from scepter aa3, remove immob on shackles, reduce necro health pool to match ele, and make dagger 4 only transfer 1 condition. Sound good? Yes, yes it does.

Finally found a PD that wasn’t nut hugging a group of randoms, unfortunately he was mostly terrible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfFa0awGQqY

Holy kitten…

JahRo.6432:

I thought I’d summarize my week facing CD in an artistic fashion.

LET ME MINE MY ORE, YO.

I need to make a thief one of these days, I feel like I’m missing out on the CD experience.

Leveling and max gearing a char in GW1 took about 1/20th the amount of time it took in GW2 before they added ascended. This doesn’t like like something GW1 devs would do at all, just a lesser version of the monster grind GW2 has decided to add.

I vote no, the PvE bads will already die quick enough with ascended gear stat advantage. No need to humiliate them by forcing them into fair fights, they need self-esteem too!

WXP is just more grind (referred to by Anet as “progression”) added to the game to make your character more powerful, and when you do that players will, yeah you guessed it, grind. Anet has a stagnating game and their additions so far to keep it interesting have shown about as much creativity as a cardboard box. So far they’ve added more gear grind, wxp grind, more crafting grind, magic find grind, achievement point grind, laurel grind, and probably some other stuff I’m forgetting. I mean, if they wanted to revamp the borderlands map they could have added something like a massive jumping puzzle-esque tower in the middle with a flag at the top, and the team that successfully gets to the top, captures the flag, and brings it back to their spawn gets something like 500 points. Would involve interesting strategies, doesn’t favor zergs since a 50 man zerg would most certainly fail at a jumping puzzle, and with 500 points a cap it could change the gameplay dynamic a lot. Instead their revamp meetings go something like this:

Bob: “Team, we need to do something on the borderlands map to make it more fun.”
Jim: “Hmm, oh! How about… we add more cap and hold circles!”
Bob: “That’s very good Jim, but we already have a lot of those.”
Jim: “How about… cap and hold circles… without walls!”
Bob: “Genius!”

melodey.4652:

Lord Galwrath.9302:

Mallechos.9876:

Hard to find good 1v1 fights against CD – they all seem to turn into 1vX. Oh well. It’s good practice.

Conceptually speaking, generally rule of thumb is virtually, DH are bags, loot many.

Coming from the server that tucks tail and runs when they start losing people to numbers half their size. CD and SoS should have a dream date, you might find you have a lot in common.

Funny, I’ve never seen PD in anything smaller than 5, do you guys have any solo roamers? In fact, out of all of DH the most even fight I’ve found that you guys will actually engage in is 1v3 and have even seen several commanders turn their entire zerg of 15-20 around to chase me and only me. The only 1v1 I’ve had so far this match is with Mr. Camp-Hugger Pro here. Funny how he refuses to fight a 1v1 until you tell him he’s bad. Also pretty sure his PvE build and PvP build are the exact same thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUGhq1a-Zro

Did we lose yet?

Shiren.9532:

But can they do that while defending their towers and keeps on the map? If you are aggressively going after the ruins it means you aren’t defending a tower or keep.

The ruins are just an additional objective to capture on the map. A larger server will still be able to assign more players to each objective than a smaller server, so they will outnumber you no matter what. Now they get a buff in addition to outnumbering you, so they win because they have more players than you and then they win again because each of their players is more powerful than each one of your players. The sports league wannabe WvW competition is also rich, I’m sure basketball games where one team has 8 and the other has 3 would be wildly popular.

Ferguson.2157:

I had thought it was about playing the game safely in your home without clothes on.

I wanted to play Guild Wars 2 without wearing clothes and it did indeed let me do that. I am impressed, even if my room mates aren’t after gazing at my barren butt.

I blame Obama, ya’ll idiots should’ve voted Ron Paul. Now you got yourselves a massive ascended grind, good going morons.

Something about the name Chris…

Moved to new apartment and it’s unserviceable by my old ISP. GG crappy random wi-fi spot I’m stealing from somebody nearby. Hopefully Crapcast can set me up before we go back to 24/7 T2 blobs.

linfurong.9032:

Nice, Rama got every post removed where people trolled him for crying about the dolyak parade. That’s a shame, we were so looking forward to having your tears for breakfast.

Hehe, it looks like he got himself a temp ban on the forums after he successfully got 20% of the thread infracted/deleted. I think TC should make him their new official Community Representative! He would be very entertaining.

I made TC an epic picture in paint to celebrate their 9 gold medals, but Rama was angry and reported all my posts so they all got deleted. Now you don’t get to see the fruits of my labor

KamikazKid.4872:

You know what’s funny is a segment of us didn’t push CD this match up, because we didn’t want them to quit the map entirely unfortunately many didn’t get the memo or just didn’t care because they were bored & wanted to PvDoor. We’re sorry about your rotten luck CD, good luck in your next match up personally I’d kill for some good fights personally.

That sounds like a very… personal desire.

UrMom.4205:

Lol at the TC shooting mortars at our spawn today (central timezone 12ish). 2 or 3 of us getting shot at by like 5 to 8. If you want to kill us so bad come out and fight, we can dodge those mortars all day long.

Do you even dodge bro? Also, I like that you followed TC’s complaint format and included the time period

BlackBeard.2873:

How about rewards for “winning” servers that “win” by increasing their rating relative to what was expected. You might see people want to go to a lower server that doesn’t need much push to get lots of “wins”

This has been suggested several times, no response as of yet.

I love the “here’s the code to fix your game” posts. Always make me giggle.

Bredin.5368:

Just curious…do you all that support account build wxp also support account bound exp in general? so that once you get a level 80 character all your characters are level 80? If not, why?

How long does it take to get to level 80?
How long does it take to get to rank 10,000?
???
??…
?

Shrouded.6450:

..and quite a win you have in there. You all should be proud!

No, you should be proud! Look at all these gold medals! And after this week it will be 9! Wow!
https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/99317/scoreupdate_week_12_a.png

LampGhost.9658:

well it has the cannon mastery image, maybe some changes coming so that people may actually pick it? quite a lot of the other abilities seem nicely balanced to me since i always have a hard time deciding what to save up for, but cannon is far down my list.

still a shame the ranks aren’t account bound, now i have to save up on different chars

That or it could just be some generic icon that they use for mastery lines that they haven’t completed yet.

DevonCarver.5370:

I’ll also point out here that I am not involved in this system, outside of making sure the interests of WvW are appropriately represented as it is designed and implemented. If you have suggestions for different ways to handle this, you should find a more appropriate forum.

But if we make a thread complaining about ascended gear unbalancing WvW, Mr. Mod will move it to the WvW forum

Shrouded.6450:

I’m sorry it’s just so weird how you keep using the term “nerds” in a game full of wizards and dragons. I’m guessing FA is the “jocks” of MMOs who’s very popular with the scantily clad mesmer ladies eh?

I’ve been killing TC nerds and taking their badges of honor all week. The other day I came across some random TC nerd while solo roaming and he just stood there staring at me without attacking. So I sent a party invite and said, “Sit down TC nerd and give me your badges of honor!” and he did just that. Learn yourself nerd.

A couple weeks ago some guy tried to make a thread listing the undocumented changes from a patch on the general discussion page and his thread was promptly locked with a moderator comment telling him there are no conspiracies and to take off his tin foil hat

Mighty Ice Arrow.9268:

it’s so sad they have the power to do these changes.

You realize of course…. that they made this game… and they can pretty much do whatever they want to it.

Seigfried.5938:

eithinan.9841:

BS gear grind. Just like Anet said they didnt want.

Yea, I’m really disappointed too. I play multiple characters and each has a number of armor sets. Anet, are you discouraging us to play multiple characters and figure out the best build for our playstyle?

Saw this coming from a mile away. That’s why I just run rampager gear and base my builds around it. Pretty versatile gear set that has a little bit of everything… except defense, but if someone’s about to hit me, I just dodge.

I think someone should make a video where they dress up like a thief, take a butter knife, and stab a wall repeatedly. Maybe then Anet will realize how silly this is.

It will probably be like the rest of the game where it’s possible to get it from WvW, but you will be able to get it 20 times faster if you play PvE. Just compare the amount of time it takes to farm enough badges to buy a full set of PVT gear in WvW vs. the amount of time it takes to farm enough karma to buy a full set of PVT in the zombie place. Or compare the amount of time it takes to get an ascended ring from rank up chests vs. the amount of time it takes to get an ascended ring from running fractals.

Tier tears?

First scenario:

Step 1: Buy stealth trap.
Step 2: Plant trap on top of dead mesmer.
Step 3: Wait… if thief tries to rez he will trigger the trap and get 30 second revealed so he dies. If he doesn’t rez and just keeps perma-stealthing then their team has 2 players doing nothing while your team just has you doing nothing so you still win.

Second Scenario:

Step 1: Stop being bad.

Drigan.7382:

Waffler.1257:

kitten.3178:

aesthetix.4832:

Not sure where all the “TC blob” hate is coming from.. Most seen blobs is FA’s: RET, RAM, HOPE and more (70+), and we still fought them with about half the numbers…

And hell, even if we are somewhat blobbing at times, atleast we have a reason to – to practice for our T1 matches.. You guys probably won’t be seeing those too often

Yeah HOPE/RAM bromance got too strong so we tossed the idea out as a joke and it became something serious.

As for the 70+ thing, I don’t event think that’s possible, both of us peak at around 25 members and RET was not even there, RET logs off way earlier than we do.

Also don’t claim you were outnumbered, we were running tagless so anyone that joined the fight on the FA side was just a random militia member who came to the swords, and I’m sure you had the same thing happening on your side. We peaked at around 40 ROPE and you guys had a pretty beefy map zerg in our BL earlier and EB.

Also there’s no way you were outnumbered with a force like this:
http://i.imgur.com/okZ29PQ.jpg

Did you…. did you censor the faces of your party members?

That is kind of sketchy.. whoever ROPE is, it seems they want their identities to remain hidden

That, or they could be incredibly ugly and are embarrassed about it.

Heeb.3178:

aesthetix.4832:

Not sure where all the “TC blob” hate is coming from.. Most seen blobs is FA’s: RET, RAM, HOPE and more (70+), and we still fought them with about half the numbers…

And hell, even if we are somewhat blobbing at times, atleast we have a reason to – to practice for our T1 matches.. You guys probably won’t be seeing those too often

Yeah HOPE/RAM bromance got too strong so we tossed the idea out as a joke and it became something serious.

As for the 70+ thing, I don’t event think that’s possible, both of us peak at around 25 members and RET was not even there, RET logs off way earlier than we do.

Also don’t claim you were outnumbered, we were running tagless so anyone that joined the fight on the FA side was just a random militia member who came to the swords, and I’m sure you had the same thing happening on your side. We peaked at around 40 ROPE and you guys had a pretty beefy map zerg in our BL earlier and EB.

Also there’s no way you were outnumbered with a force like this:
http://i.imgur.com/okZ29PQ.jpg

Did you…. did you censor the faces of your party members?

SykkoB.9465:

BladeBraverBureba.1052:

Mr Whodey.6591:

Don’t know why TC 60 man zergs need open field ac’s for 30 people…embarrassed that TC was the server i started on, that recruiting rampage TC went on really watered down their talent. I think you should recruit some more you haven’t completely killed tier 2 wvw yet. Loving my first couple days on FA by the way!!!!

I don’t see how our “talent” has been watered down, considering the vast majority of the commanders that were here from the beginning are still here and commanding, but hey, you enjoy the silver medal in FA, bucko.

T2 doesnt get medals.

Just sayin

Pretty sure he’s referring to this count.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/matchups/MOS-New-Medal-Score-Week-12/first#post2226227

I bet he even has it bookmarked.

Dual.8953:

Dunno what you’re smoking. Unless you’ve got blinded status you, there’s nothing stopping you from hitting a stealth stomping thief with an untargetted skill. Two things that make the thief bail are untargetted CC’s or high untargetted damage. And most attacks in this game are untargetted.

Dunno what you’re smoking. You can only attack in the direction you’re facing when you were downed. So unless the thief decides to stealth and stand right in front of you, it’s GG, you can’t do anything. Of course that’s assuming you aren’t playing a necro, where none of your downed skills do anything, line of sight or no, unless you have a target. I swear most of the people who try to give out advice on the forums don’t even play this game.