Guild Wars 2

No I mean if you throw Feedback on a necro then move out of LoS of the necro before he casts Dark Path, will you still be teleported?

Example
We were fighting a zerg that was inside the Lord’s room in Hills with our zerg just outside the door an on the bridge. A couple of times I did cast Feedback and got teleported into their zerg and killed. After that I did try casting Feedback and then ran around the outside out of line-of-sight and I don’t recall if I got teleported or not. Maybe the necro didn’t cast Dark Path while my Feedback was up. Or maybe because I was out of LoS, I didn’t get teleported?

You can also go Runes of Air or Runes of the Centaur. I used to use Air but switched to Centaur for more uptime on swiftness.

Anyone know if the lack of line-of-sight (LoS) stops this from happening?

Great job to my fellow Yaker’s in defending SM last night against both DB and Mag at the same time. With DB in the NW entrance and Mag in the NE entrance to the Lord’s room, it was very ‘Lagolicious’. I’m not sure how long we held you guys but it seemed like an eternity until DB pushed us out. So…so many loot bags.

Good times!

So far, I have two Ascended Cavalier rings (power/toughness/crit damage) and I may get my first Ascended Accessory tonight. The concern I am having is the further reduction in Crit chance as I replace Knights pieces (power/prec/tough) with these Cavalier ascended items.

A decrease in Crit would also mean a decrease in Vigor for more dodges.

Coming from WoW, one of the first things I noticed is that the targeting mechanic in this game is terrible.

Dodge nerf lols. Get a grip.

I thought I saw something where transfers are now free to lower tier servers. Was I dreaming this?

I think have more rewards in WvW is a great thing but we need to fix the foundation of wvw first.

Really?

Also, what guilds/servers have truces with Yak’s Bend? Inquiring minds would like to know.

In my eyes it would continue to reward winning servers and zerg mentality.

It would only reward those that DPS and not those that play more support roles. It wouldn’t reward scouting. It wouldn’t reward defending. It wouldn’t reward repairing structures or building siege. It wouldn’t reward upgrading structures or camps. The reward would be smaller for smaller groups (e.g. 5-mans). It rewards zerg-on-zerg tactics.

This is totally the opposite direction of where most players want wvw to go.

The better golfer can be beaten by a worse golfer even if that better golfer has less strokes. How? it’s called ‘Handicap’. Likewise, servers should have handicaps that allow any server to play any other server with the winner determined by both performance that week and handicap.

Whoa did I miss something?

Reset says 4 hours from now (17:00 CST). It used to be 19:00 CST.

is this correct? Why two hours earlier now?

ethereal all the way

Did anything in the last patch impact this build?

MH Pistol. We only have 1 MH 1-hander (Scepter).

I used Arcane Thievery on Half-Baked but it never removed his stability.

You should be might stacking before you portal.

Enjoyed the podcast.

Esplen.3940:

Eucalyptus.9784:

Esplen.3940:

….. to reroll as an Elementalist or Engineer because then you WON’T weapon swap. That is the only way to effectively do it…..

Weapon Swapping is the same mechanic as Attunement Swapping, and you do it twice as much on an Ele so…

Troll of the day.

Congratulations, you’re 7 days too late to say that. Also, attunement swapping isn’t the same, as you’re still wearing the same weapon, both aesthetically and in terms of relativity.

Attunement swapping is way worse.

It’s posted on the first page.

CreativeAnarchy.6324:

I disagree with removing the AOE cap unless there is a very large reduction in damage or serious modification in how those abilities work. If you remove the cap, a team of elementalists would be able to wipe a zerg, or any other class with strong AOE would be able to wipe a zerg and it would just make them way too powerful.

I understand and agree with the arguments that AOE should hit more people but I disagree that this would be a good idea to implement without serious modification of AOE abilities and I like how they work now.

Learn to move out of AoE. It’s that simple. Right now with the current 5-man AoE limitation, you are safer running ikittenerg.

Yup, Yak’s Bend has done this. Here is a pic going back to February.

1. Remove AoE cap.
2. Give more points to smaller groups for taking objectives. For example, zergs should not get more points for killing a Dolyak thakittenman group should get.
3. Give more points for defending objectives
4. Give points for dropping/building and refreshing siege and repairing gates and walls
5. Give +WXP for upgrading camps, towers, keeps and garrisons

And by points, I don’t just mean score (PPT), but include gold, karma, experience and +WXP and rewards as well.

This might help to lessen the size of zergs on the map and make smaller groups just as effective.

Wow this is so fail. Please stop talking.

Incarmine.1953:

They appear to have fixed aquatic spear #1. Can anyone see if they fixed WvW clones appearing without weapons?

I believe that was fixed weeks ago.

Grimms.9016:

update – [03/23/13]

Uploaded a video of a scepter + torch, confusion game-play. Probably the most fun I’ve had playing a mesmer… confusion is just nasty… nasty nasty nasty…

…nasty.

Hey Grimms,

Other than Scepter, what armour, runes, sigils, traits, etc. did you change when switching to Scepter?

I like the new Phase Retreat. It is definitely less buggy than it used to be although blinking into stuff still happens occasionally. I also like the fact that Phase Retreat now teleports you away from your target. This is great if you are trying to run away from someone.

Working as intended (except for the buggy part).

I can’t do the Maw event anymore since the patch. I keep getting major lag and I disconnect every 15-30 seconds. I never experienced this prior to the patch.

I can do all other dragons, fire elemental, shadow behemoth, etc. although I also now disconnect randomly in Cursed Shore since the patch.

Also Yak’s bend server. I experience major lag and disconnected during the Maw event. I also experience lag in Cursed Shore. This has only been since the patch. The lag that I experiencing now causes 3-6 sec of nothing and usually a disconnect. Prior to the patch, everything was fine except the normal lag you get from so many people in one area. I never ever disconnected though.

I am pretty much guaranteed to disconnected on maw. Every time now.

Guesting has nothing to do with WvW.

It’s been around forever.

Phase Retreat always moves you away from your target so if you want to move forward just make sure your target is behind you.

Bah…was expecting a torch build too.

I saw a moose and a skelk working together. Let me know if you want a pic.

PS: YB has never had an alliance with any server. Ever. Ask Emhry Bay how it worked out when they asked YB is we would team up with them. (answer: We didn’t).

Grimms.9016:

Torch build
0/20(III,X)/30(III,X,XII)/0/20(V,VI)
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Are you sure you are using Dueling III (Retaliatory Shield) in your torch build? Seems that is a copy/paste error from the Sword build. I’m guessing you are using I or IV for Torch.

Has anyone gone Celestial for all their Ascended Jewelry? I’m thinking of doing this which will allow me to change specs easily.

Check out Seven Mirror’s Staff+sword/torch build. Works great. It is my ‘go to’ build right now for wvw.

Also Burn should be before blind.

People are screwing with the dragon timers on the website. Also, you won’t see those events if you are in overflow. Also, blame guesting as it is part of the problem.

Please fix, Torch is already barely a viable weapon when everything is working correctly with it.

Torch does like 50% of the damage that other offhands do. iMage is just terrible and often not even worth summoning to shatter.

With the latest patch, Mesmer clones no longer show any weapons. This includes underwater clones.

Please fix soon, this is really painful in wvw.

stinkypants.8419:

Straegen.2938:

CD’s oceanic presence hasn’t really been online in force for a couple weeks (not sure why). If Kome and other guilds show up in force, EBay won’t stand a points chance. CD beat YB a couple weeks ago because of that. CD has a lot of missing WvW players these days even after the last exodus.

Oceanic’s been on holiday with their New Year celebrations

Must be a long hangover.

EasymodeX.4062:

I figure that standing in the middle of 50 people with Blurred Frenzy and Retaliation could either be epic on a scale unimaginable, or it could be a colossal waste of time.

Edit: Or more specifically, Blurred Frenzy followed by Mimic followed by Mirror followed by Blurred Frenzy followed by blurred inscriptions signet followed by Distortion followed by a dodge followed by Blurred Frenzy followed by another dodge etc.

LOL

Skoteinos.4213:

Just found out that Dulfy (from dulfy.net) is a Mesmer!
http://dulfy.net/2013/01/07/gw2-fractal-of-the-mists-fotm-guide/#comment-759460664
and the build he uses is almost the same with this one I present here!
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Ng-Fc;0VPV1107BVV71;9;4JJ-O429-19;247Z

::)

Dulfy is female.

D W.5179:

Is this information provided, officially, here on the official forums?
If not, and this turns out to be true, then where should we get our news from in the future? I hope we are not expected to get our news from random twitter or other social networking sites.

It was a tweet. Anet likes to use social media to update their player community rather than post stuff on their actual forums.

So keep checking Twitter, Facebook, Redit and 4chan for future GW2 updates!

I think it is a step in the right direction.

The challenge will be to keep your ‘zerg’ at less than 25 players.

As well, how do Rangers (possibly Mesmers and Necros?) fit in? Right now, 4 players won’t cause crossed swords but 5 will. If 4 players includes a Ranger with a pet, it seems that the pet counts as a 5th player and causes crossed swords.

Again, not sure if this also applies to Mesmer clones or Necro minions but this needs to be fixed as every Ranger in your zerg could count for two players.

Archer.1658:

YB building arrow carts in the invulnerable zone behind southwest camp. Now, I realize it’s not an exploit to go back there, but building siege there..i’ll leave that to the mods.

Thought you couldn’t put siege in invulnerable spots. Don’t know that guild and they are not part of the Yak’s Bend Alliance afaik.

Archer.1658:

No I just call it as I see it, you want to claim victory on the fact you are “superior in organization” when in reality it’s just numbers. Since the last time we were in t4 we lost 6-8 guilds. How many did you gain YB? YB skill level is about the same as Kaineing Pugs, get real here.

We had lost a few guilds to the bandwagon servers (DB, Kain, Mag) that moved through us on their way up but we did gain at least 3-4 new guilds (at least two Chilean guilds, one of a decent size) since then so we have probably stayed the same or very slightly increased in population.

Scepter clones are shadder fodder, nothing really more.