Guild Wars 2

Just let your lvl 80 char learn all the professions.

I am usually running with hammer+sw/wh and also have a hard time killing mesmers, usually because its hard to target the real one again, once he creates another illusion.

If i can, i switch to rifle because like already mentioned, the kill shot still hits stealthed targets and the auto attack doesnt switch to the clones when they are greated but your targets keeps on the mesmer.

Go to past broadcasts, it is actually 4 small clips because the game froze 3 times and the stream had to be restarted.

He shows you what the wvw siege traits do when maxed out and how to use fly hacks.

Just kidding on the 2nd part.

My MF gear probably paid for itself many times over.

ilr.9675:

You just haven’t found the Elonian Cork Screw yet… keep looking then you can drink it.

….the COLORS….

I found the cork screw, its called “right click→consume” or alternatively “double click”.

It doesnt add any colors for me. Maybe its broken and i should file a bug report.

peter.9024:

There is a celestial amulet…

Yeah, i know, but is there celestial armor now as well?

I wanted to try, if there is a viable celestial build for warrior and thought i might try it the cheap way in pvp.

Anybody knows why Bottles of Elonian wine are consumables and not trophies?
Nothing happens when you double click them to consume them.

Hi Guys,

i dont play much pvp so i was gonna ask if the new celestial armor is available in pvp.

Maybe he vengeanced and had runes of infiltration which gives you a couple of seconds of stealth. I used those runes (in pve a couple of months back) and they were quite buggy. Usually stealth activates at 20% health i think but often they activated after i was downed.
Also runes of vampirism gives mist form i think.

i usually get a ROI of 50-75s per skill point. I wont tell you how for obvious reasons but it doesnt involve an investment of alot of skill points or money.

Usually i invest 40% of the gold that i get in return once i sold the item.

i checked out the spot and i dont think its productive farming because the respawn rate of the mobs is too long. I spent 20 minutes there and got 4 armored scales, 1 powerful blood and 1 unidentified dye.

Crafted staves are usually more expensive than the drops from wrold bosses which go onto the tp.

I never was into wvw or similar stuff in other mmo´s. In GW2 I only went in there to get map completion first and then my 500 badges for my gift of battle. After spending more time in wvw, I started liking it and now play wvw more than 60% of my time.

But when I started out, wvw wasnt as competitive as it is right now. These days its harder for new players to get a foothold in wvw without being screamed at for beginners faults.

I think the wvw community can do alot more to make new players feel welcome and important. For example, experienced commanders can offer weekly training events where you take 10 new players to a borderland and do the breakout event. If you focus on explaining alot instead of rushing to the next objective, they will have a way more exciting first experience and might stick around.

Not using it would mean a constant uptime of +15% damage from Berserkers Power.

TheGuy.3568:

Puandro.3245:

TheGuy.3568:

Simple answer is no no buffs to mobility. Warrior can not out run a thief unless they run S/X in both weapon sets.

For any warrior who think they are the ultra mobile elite.a a good thief will have shadowstep and bow or dagger. Factually if a thief just want to keep up with you its entirely possible because they have the gap closing mobility to do it no matter your set. There is no way around it. If you ran fro ma thief and got OOC the thief either blew their cool downs and you didn’t or they simply sucked.

While Warriors need Sword and GS with perma swiftness to outrun a thief, they can very much do so.

Sigh..

Bull’s Charge = 900 Rush 1,200 Savage Leap = 900 Whirlwind Attack =450

Total distance = 3,450
Total application time = 4 seconds

Shadowstep = 1.200 steal = 900 Infiltrator’s Arrow x 2= 1,800

Total distance = 3,900
Total activation time = Anywhere from 1 second to to 3 seconds Fast cast ground target could theoretically make it nearly instantaneous.

This is all assuming the thief doesn’t have any initiative traits. If he has base of 15 instead of 12 then you can get a Infiltrator’s Strike or a Heartseeker for an extra 600 or 450 range respectively. Even then at base iniative rechange of 1.33 seconds per point you could still get either one of these moves off in the time it takes for the warrior to complete his running way combo. CD reduction on warrior skills on GS would not effect the sprint portion of catching up.

Also note this does not factor in Infiltrator’s Signet, Roll for Initiative, Withdraw, and Scorpion Wire Wire acting as additional movement skills and gap closers. And does not factor in the use of Sprint for warrior.

What about if i start with a 4 second fear or pop it once you caught up to me?
What about smart terrain usage and perma swiftness?
You also forgot our tsunami slash, how is your mobility under water?
Are you traited for fall damage reduction?
How good is your cc removal and stability uptime?

In the end, it all boils down to how good you can play your class and your build.
A good thief will catch 90% of all warriors while a good warrior will also be able to get away most of the times.

I actually think there might be some Warrior builds that could outrun a thief, even though it would need a skilled warrior and smart terrain usage.
It would also depend on how much stability/condition removal the thief has and if you can manage to get out of combat for a short while to switch around some weapons/utilities.
But that warrior build would probably only shine in outrunning thieves and nothing else in wvw, so nobody specs it.

I think, it depends on your build which one is better for you.
Apart from the heal, the surge also refills your adrenaline meter, while mending cures conditions. I think Warrior has alot of condition removal choices these days, so if you have enough from traits/utilities and happen to use your burst skills alot, surge might be the better option.
However, i gave the healing signet another spin the other day and i quite liked it.
The constant regeneration heals me for 200hp every second, even more if you got some healing power from celestial trinkets like me.
Within 30 seconds (the CD on Healing surge) you regenerate at least 6k hp without doing anything. Even after you have 2 full bars of adrenaline, healing surge will heal for less. So if you know how to avoid burst damage it gives the best heal over time without you having to do anything.
Also, the cooldown is way shorter, 20s (or 16s with signet mastery). of course, you lose the regeneration once you pop the signet but it might make sense, if you have traits or runes that give you boni, everytime you use a healing skill.

If you want a lower lvl alt of yours to get the skillpoints, cant you just get the one in Orr with your main lvl 80, then switch to your low lvl alt and do the rest of them in LA?

What is so good about the sigil of fire?
I have one myself because i thought the AoE Blast would be a finisher which it isnt.
Is the AoE burn really that good compared to +5% Damage?

Good Idea!

This is bugging me alot as well.

i think there is also another situation when this error message occurs:

IF you for example want sell a stack of items, lets say 250, to the highest buy order of 10 silver.
If there are 260 buy orders for that item for 10 silver but before you click the sell button, someone else already fills 20 of those buy orders for 10s. When your sale is being proccessed, the system realizes that there are only 240 buy orders left for 10 silver, so a message comes up that there was an error. In that case, ou will still sell 240 items for 10s but have to confirm again that you want to sell the remaining 10 items to the next highest buy order.

You have to craft items from the 25-50 level range now because items of level 0-25 dont give crafting experience anymore. Usually items in the crafting panel that are grey, dont give experience.

PetricaKerempuh.7958:

what if u want piece of siege despowned?

for example ram in the middle of lords room in garrison?

Did you ever try to use rams as defensive siege?
The fear of the #2 skill is awesome in a choke point, for example the top of a set of stairs.

simplesimon is correct, recipes for satchels/boxes of armor are made in the mystic forge, using the chest piece of the armor set that you would like to create, plus Bottles of Elonian Wine, Crystals and mystic coins, the amount of those items depends on the tier of armor you would like to create.

Be aware though, even if you have the recipe for crafting a full set armor, you will still need the same amount of ingredients to craft it as if you would craft each piece individually.

Azrexx.5469:

Hule.8794:

And about RoF players behaving badly, mostly those are PvE players that come to WvW only because we are winning. You can see it on every server,not only RoF. Regular WvW RoFers just took a break for a week. Or are dueling at Vabbis.

So you say regular or better WvW’ers from RoF aren’t playing this week, or are duelling with FoW’ers or Vabbis? How would you explain that we have that much map control? Because PvE’ers came to help in the fights. Don’t just say that people who play more PvE then WvW have a bad behaviour in WvW, I’ve seen good WvW’ers act childish too.

I am a regular wvw player on RoF and usually play multiple hours per day. The last time, we were matched up against you, i played for 2 hours after reset and didnt do any wvw afterwards because it was pointless, except running one low level alt around the maps for maps completion (Not your fault of course).
For this week, I just transfered out to Ruins of Surmia because they got a great matchup with Arborstone and Underworld. the 15.5G i had ot pay for the transfer i earned back with loot from wvw just over the weekend.

And i know of many other regular wvw players from RoF that did the same.

I cant believe they didnt fix this yet.

During our matchup with Vabbi and Fissure of Woe 3 weeks ago, we actually capped on those boni. Iirc 2 or 3 boni cap at 20%, the rest 10%, while you need a score of ~500k to cap in all of them.

But you will need the same rune on your breather, if you dont want to lose your 6th stat bonus on the set under water.
I realized it when farming sharks in Southsun, my magic find went down about 30% under water.

You cant make trays of food from dragon bash food items or any other food item that is not crafted, for example food bought with karma or gold from a merchant.

Liquid Storm.8097:

Ahhhh finally a great matchup! Good luck guys and have fun.

And a very special welcome to some RoF people who have moved to our server this week due to their server’s unfortunate matchup. Hope you enjoy your stay. ^^

Thanks for the kind welcome and the fun reset.
I blame Velocity for RoF´s matchup.
They are clearly bugged and need to be nerfed.

Caid.4932:

Well, the reasons for using it are fair enough i guess. Still think it should be retired and let die with a new guild set up for upgrades if it gets dragged out every so often.
The original idea of it was to take the kitten out of people blobbing and zerging. Using it to blob and zerg is just … silly.

We have a really rediculously huge group on our bl atm all following one commander and there was 2 of them there able to split it up and it would have been far better to do so (we need someone to cut supply). No siege in any tower or keep, no upgrades running in any tower or keep, no scouts in any tower or keep.

Using the yolo tag ever just makes people play in the most idiotic manner its possible to play this game. Its kind of sad thakittens pretty succesful atm.

Dont mean to kitten on people’s cornflakes and i dont mean to ruin pug players fun. But i really hate fighting against groups like that and i wouldn’t want to inflict a rediculous group like that on people either.

Thanks for the update on yor BL, we will be there shortly.

Zaxares.5419:

This is why my plan at level 80 is as follows:

1. After buying any desired Temple armor with karma, convert all excess karma to Orrian Jewelry Boxes for coin, chances at Lodestones and Obsidian.
2. Use excess Obsidian/Ecto in Mystic Clover recipes for T6 mats.
3. Store the mats for use in an eventual Legendary, or sell the unneeded ones.

This way, I don’t have to rage every time the Mystic Clover recipe gives me T6 mats, and the Clovers will slowly build up over time.

I think its cheaper to buy obsidian shards directly with karma instead of getting them from the orrian boxes.

Magic find does work. I have been farming sharks for armored scales extensively in southsun cove for the past 2 weeks. With all boosts, i get to 420% ,
When i started out, i only used the 200% buff from the settler and got 8-10 t6 scales per hour. With MF armor, trinkets, food etc on, i get about 25-30 t6 scales per hour.
But the amount of t5 scales i got per hour was roughly the same.
So it doesnt mean that you get more drops, just the chance that you get a rare drop instead of a common one is higher.
I also checked, if i kill more sharks per hour in my zerker gear and that is not the case.

I melt down ponds of sharks in no time with my mf build, which gives me might when hit and on critical, so i have 25 stacks after 2-3 seconds and i kill 5 sharks in 5-7 seconds. I kill roughly 400-600 mobs per hour, depending how much other people farm there. I actually spend more time out of combat looking for mobs than killing them.

Just buy more bag slots in the gem store!

The changes made to the built about 10 hours ago were still documented in the patch notes for the 5/28 update:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-May-28-2013/2149116

if you zoom out your mini map (to show a bigger area), your party members become blue dots again.

Matt Witter.6982:

A lot of bundle items have been turned off while within WvW since launch. If you think you’ve found a bundle item that should be added to that list feel free to post it in this thread, send me a PM, or send in a bug and someone from the team will look into it.

Gears, Skale Venom and Spikeroot Fruit have been removed, but you wont see the changes until the next build.

Hey Matt,

Is there a list somewhere that states which bundle items arent usable in WvW? Because I think, not all tool tips have notes in it telling you that it isnt usable in WvW.

With the last patch, all you need to do is go to the area, where he logged out and target it with arrow carts. He will not only be kicked from your group, his whole account will be transfered to WoW.

Looks like a nice match up that you got going here.
I predict a Dzago win this week, with a public holiday this monday and school holidays starting in some parts of Germany.

Cheers from tier8

skwas.9873:

Lucky you then, both WBC and TEO commanders have a Dutch public holiday too ;]

We have guild members from about 30 countries and about a dozen of them will have holiday on monday, me included. So I will have a look for WBC and TEO Tags

But also, school holidays started in some parts of germany as well this weekend. And in general, I think the average age on the german servers is quite a bit below those of european servers. Many older german players (like me) play on english speaking servers to avoid the young crowds on the german servers. So that holiday benefits their wvw time more than ours.

I also have to agree, I think WSR is a really nice server and I am also an enemy of theirs from RoF.
Their defense and general gameplay is pretty good for these tiers but they are lacking some numbers most of the time. I would welcome, if they would get a small guild or two in to make tier 8 a little more even.
You can have any kind of gameplay here, from solo-roaming, to small havoc teams, GvG and also some nice zerg fights once in a while.
This is also a nice place to learn how to play wvw or to try out new tactics for a more experienced guild. And if you are a good commander that likes to teach unorganized groups or invade enemy borderlands, you should consider WSR.

Greetings from Ring of Fire, hope to bash your head in soon!

Very nice match up so far, kudos to AS and WSR. Seems to me, like you also got a little better since we were in this tier 3 weeks ago. WSR is great at defending their stuff and AS is never afraid of open field battles, which makes it very interesting.
I am kinda happy that we dropped a tier since there is a public holiday again in Germany on Monday, wouldnt want to face Dzagonur this weekend.

The Grub ate them all.

Well, he cant stop you from using his portal, after another one pays for it.

Nymph of Meliai.6739:

I don’t want to start a flame war but just want to put out a suggestion… feel free to say, ‘no’ but I just want to assess what people’s feelings on other servers are…

Do you want rid of RoS? So that you can get back to a more balanced even match up? Or are you happy to have us around dominating the tier for large periods of time?

If you want rid of us… would you be prepared to take a small break from WvW and time your tick to keep you in the tier but basically let RoS tick a minimum of +500 for a week to help push us that little extra to move up and out of the tier?

I beginning to think that the tier above is manipulating their ticks to keep things static.

Anycase, I thought I would throw that out there because I expect a lot of people are thinking similar sort of things.

I, and my guild, are quite happy to fight the other servers if that is their wish. Just wanted an idea on what their views were on whether they wanted us to move up or whether they wanted to do their best to surpass us or foil our attempts at moving up a tier.

Certainly not. Why do you think the server replacing you wont be better than you?
And also, when I play, usually prime time and weekends, you are not that much better than RoF or Dzag and the match up is quite fun for me. The timeslots that you are usually dominating are the night shift, morning and afternoon.

The huge advantage in points you have is usually generated during those hours.
Maybe this sounds harsh but what should I care that a bunch of RoS gets bored of PvDooring at 7.30am?

Why dont you turn it up a notch and dominate prime time and weekends as well, so you tier up?

Because youre not good enough.

The GW2 designers steal artwork themselves.
The sailing ship with the red dots on its sails on the Frostgorge Sound loading screen was photoshopped from a picture of the sailing vessel Concordia.

I made a threa about it some time ago, where also the artwork of the Hounds of Balthazar was mentioned being “stolen”.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/S-V-Concordia-on-Frostgorge-loading-screen/first#post1832495

Here a link where the ship on the loading screen and the actual picture are side by side:

http://i.imgur.com/Pe7imz3.jpg

Every class has a build that seems op because the majority of other classes isnt running a good counter build to it.
I always had problems killing guardians as well, even though they didnt kill me either. After some time, I just left the fight with superior mobility as a warrior.
With the last update, Warriors and Thieves got the aforementioned “Boon-Hate” Traits and I tried it out the other day.
With Signet of Might giving me 3 unblockable attacks as well, those Guardians dropped pretty quickly, I hit one with Kill Shot for 15k once.

But in the end, that build is not very effective against other classes, so I wont be running it permanently because it doesnt fit my style of play.

Same problem on RoF. If I want to use those Karma Merchants, I always guest on Desolation server. They free those temples pretty regularly even though you propably have a better chance during the daytime.

With the May 14th update, the EB Jumping Puzzle will be its “own” map meaning those that enter there, wont count towards the population cap in EB.

I suggest, you move your duels over there to avoid regular wvwlers being stuck in a queue because of your fight club.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Southsun-update-May-14th/first#post1979178

Max number of players confirmed for 30 in EB. Spread the word!

10 players for each server and 90 additional spots for each server reserved for Anet employees so they can blob and zerg around.