Guild Wars 2

I must say HoD; your golem army against bay tonight was amazing. How many golems did you bring? I counted atleast 10. Sorry you lost them all =[

Casia.4281:

yeah. A cursory look at the roster, I don’t see anything that would link those names to someone in TA. Greater HoD, there is no way to know.

I’ll bring up the matter with an officer, who might be able to look closer, and have various guilds check their lists to be sure.

I am not an officer, but I can say, TA does not condone that behavior, and does not allow it.
I did log at 1230ish, so if it happened a bit later, I wasn’t there for it.

I will say, if an opposing team is streaming, we might watch it. (smartmove is without voice and on a good 10min delay of course) Certainly fun to watch wvw streams while in queue.

Random people building flame rams to waste supply, shouting down scouts, and giving misinformation is something we have seen been happening on HoD for several weeks now. I think SBI accused us last week of it as well. Amusingly, someone had been doing it to us that very night too. odd tactic, but seems people are doing it.
xfers really need to be locked.

It’s funny you mention the flame ram and misinformation thing, been happening to us ever since we got paired.

Guy’s name is “Victor Bon Azzkik” According to my block list their battletag or whatever GW calls it is “Victor Bon Azzkik.6729”. The guy’s name in TS was “TS User3”

Link to the livestream: http://www.twitch.tv/mmorpgcom

According to the livestream profile the stream belongs to “Grakulen” but that is not the toon who was in game which was on the recording of the stream.

We noticed this during the time when we were fighting on bay outer wall. Around the time you guys setup the 4 ballistas inside the wall and we snuck a memser in to clean the siege up. A screenshots says it was around 01:30 EST.

After the guy was kicked out of comms he started to spam our map/team chat with “Come back to Bay; Why aren’t you coming back to bay; The wall is down, we stopped repairing, come back.” Among insults and general trolling.

I am happy to see some acknowledgement from HoD. I have great respect for your tactics despite my utter hate for you guys last time we fought.

The screenshot attached is well past the livestream discovery. I tried to pick the best SS with chat content, this SS shows the guy telling us to take the keep and then another member acknowledging he has been spamming chat.

There is no hard evidence that I can prove that a specific person from HoD came to JQ to livestream with the intent to spy on us for the main HoD group. The only thing I have to go off is prior to the discovery of the livestream was numerous “perfect arrival” counters to our troop movements/seige attempts. Then once the livestream was discovered it showed our fight at bay with this guy standing on the back lines watching us all fight. Pieces put together shows a pretty clear picture. Since it seems the case is not shady tactics I apologize for assuming it was in my initial post above.

If anything I would like to raise awareness on this issue for all parties.

Is there any way to track this guy’s origin? In a game with daily server transfers and multiple guild memberships I am not sure if we can. I will however report to the other JQ commanders that HoD does not condone this action and it seems like it was the work of an individual rather then shady tactics.

Oraxis.9705:

Edewen, you can return fire from the rock at the Northern wall of Bay.

Can trebs at bay hit trebs at the top tier of garrison? Garrison has a huge height advantage on bay.

Edewen.8304:

Every week, my guild fights for the Bay keep in borderlands, and every week, the garrison owners continuously bombard its walls from the garrison cliffs completely unable to be countered. I don’t know if we should be reporting, or just giving up on a pointless fight. Has there been any official word on all these off the wall treb placements because it is really frustrating to be completely unable to counter these placements.

To be clear, taking garrison is not a counter to an indefensible siege placement.

Place a ballista on the ground at the base of the cliff the trebs are on. Target treb and fire. Ezday. HoD did it all night to us

They aren’t going to limit the time you are allowed to play. They just said in the night capper’s response that no player’s time is more valuable then another.

I would like to see a grace period. Sometimes the client crashes and has nothing to do with internet connection.

Binafus.8153:

Don’t live stream your battles:)

Oh we don’t, the guy streaming was someone from HoD who came to JQ to stream our battles. This person was kicked from comms and reported by the entire boarderland.

Eskimoobob.9602:

As a SBI player, I think that everyone from our server just sort of gave up. We tried our hardest last week and was leading by a huge amount but when the work week approached and people had to go to work it seems like HoD has an inexhaustible amount of players. We came home from being 30k ahead of HoD to 10k behind them. Unless JQ can step up I don’t think there is a server out there with the numbers to put up with HoD.

Funny part is HoD got caught with a livestreamer in red boarderlands last night. They had a guy in our voice comms and streaming from the JQ POV of the zerg/battles. Way to many times did HoD just ‘show up’ at the perfect moment to counter stealthy operations. Even with doing this we are still only slightly behind them.

I would really like to see an HoD commander(who was in red last night) to respond to this issue. Hopefully this isn’t a common tactic and it was just the individual’s effort of being a spy. If this was EVE I would give you a medal. If this is common practice, well then… until this is frowned upon by ANET expect us to fight fire WITH fire.

@Eskimoobob
I really hope your world can rally up. While I do not wish to see an alliance or a NAP between our worlds, I do want to see HoD brought down by having to fight us both at the same time. This will is a war of attrition with HoD.

This morning as of this post:

@SoPP

I think you are correct.

Anyways HoD got caught with spies in our server voice comms and had livestreams going in all of our battles. Good job HoD and you still can’t stop the JQ team.

Do you have to complete the “Explorer” achievements to get 100% world explorer?

I got 100% poi/wp/heart/vistas and did not get credit. Got the title too.

Thanks for this.

+50 DKP!

/signed – add immediately!

SemiProBBQ.8946:

PuffyWiggles.2180:

Dear Anet, The Fire Elemental in the level 1 Asura zone is 100x harder than the endgame event Dragons. Please fix. Thank you.

By Fix I mean don’t make Dragons sit there while you press 1, maybe make them harder than cutting down a tree. You killed all sense of epic that the artists worked kitten with your very bizarre design decisions while also showing that you are capable of difficult encounters as shown by the Fire Elemental. The PvE design decisions make zero sense.

This guy has a good point, that fire elemental was good times, I wan’t all my epic boss fights to be good times. :c

Totally agree. My best “event boss” experiences were indeed during the early leveling zones.

Godzillathon.8052:

I have a pretty good rant about this in another thread, so I’ll just sum up my concern here. The reason this stuff happens is that none of the higher level zones were ever offered in the public betas. Nothing over level 35 was ever tested. This has resulted in a number of zones that were not ready for full-scale use and are now broken.

It’s a common oversight throughout the entire MMO genre of games. They don’t test stuff at the proper level, they release it anyway, it breaks, they fix it, life goes on. Is it frustrating? Yes. Is it annoying? Absolutely. Is it expected? Unfortunately. I’m not gonna necessarily defend this kind of thing, but I understand it. The alternative would have been to take another 6 months to a year to finish the testing, either through more BWEs or a full, ongoing, open beta. Then, we would all have been complaining about that. No win situation there.

That said, just keep reporting the bugs where you find them and they’ll fix them as soon as they can. ANet’s a pretty good bunch of people, as game companies go, I’m sure they’ll figure it out soon enough. If not, well, there’s no sub for this game. If it gets too unbearable, one can always just go find something else to do for a while, and come back in a few weeks/months when they finally get it all fixed.

Hmm… my summing up became another rant. Oh, well, doesn’t change the idea. Once I start voicing my opinion, I have a hard time stopping myself. Character flaw I guess.

Anyways, that’s my thoughts. Just my opinion of course, your viewpoint may vary.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

Pretty much sums it up.

Another reason you see this is when games restrict content during beta. I wasn’t here for GW2 beta so I do not know what the level cap or the extent of beta was. I do know they had people with legendary(s) in beta so I’d assume they allowed max-level testing?

As a ranger I find it is required for me to spec traps and memorize the spawn locations. The mobs die instantly after being seen and if you start to AOE as soon as you see them you don’t get credit because you are watching their death animation as soon as they spawn.

So as a trap ranger for DE’s I setup my traps, my traps go off as soon as the mobs “spawn”(not yet visible) and that is my cue to either do Whirl of Axes or Barrage on top of my traps. Doing this I get credit for every mob per spawn. More hits = more loot = more gold/hr.

Does it suck yes, I hate already having to switch my entire set of equip-able items to MF gear to get anything worth doing the events, then on top of that I have to switch my traits so I can be good at traps. In the current state of the game that is what it takes for me to be able to get credit and loot during DEs.

I can see why it gets reset but hey, if i just knock 2 doors down you would think “Why can’t I keep your metal walls”

Because this is a F2P game and in order to make profit and keep the game running for free, ANET has money sinks everywhere to encourage you to buy gems for gold.

Today I was in Cursed Shore farming only Penitent and Shelter’s camp defense DEs. After 14 minutes I went from Yellow/Green/Blues to junk, whites and hardly any loot drop at all. Re-logging did not resolve this for me. I went to trolls in frostgorge and still did not get a single drop until I relogged once more at the farm site.

NoizeMaker.8367:

What goronmon said. You know you have a zerg all day around. Why lie?

Hey I don’t deny the fact that there is a legit zerg. I would say typically we have at least 30-50(and more at times) people doing something zergy. The nights where we had 8-10 was when we split up our forces to ensure the south stayed ours while the main force took the north.

NoizeMaker.8367:

Zierk.4289:

I shall simply attach a screenshot of my server holding 100% of WvW maps and leave it at that. We are very organized and very efficiently lead. Ignorance is bliss.

Oh and Ignorant: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ignorant

SO because your server has 5 times as many people active in WvW you think your good and organized. Your commanders and pugs have already admitted to being very unorganized in WvW. All you have is numbers and yes while that is a legit tactic, its a poor one and wont win you any points against the tier 1 servers that have numbers and organization. Either way JQ will end up QQin for their lives once week 3 is set in place. Enjoy the out zerg by the big servers.

As for CD and DB. Good job guys. Ive seen CD actually try and stay organized and it was awesome. You were a much better fight then JQ was when I was in WvW these last few days. Enjoyed it much better then porting into a JQ zerg of about 150 and just demolishing them.

The only tactic you guys seem capable of is using trebs in your citadel to siege towers.

The original comment I made was in reference to JQ being outnumbered 3-1 and both CD and DB seem to disengage as soon as you start to lose people. I’m not sure how we have 5 times as many players then you. Nor have I ever seen a 150 man zerg on any team. Your comment would mean that you only have 33 people on the map which I know is false.

But yes I will enjoy fighting week 3’s match up and I hope you enjoy trebbing people from your citadels. Win or lose isn’t really important, but at least I know next week’s lineup will not run away and use exploits.

celeron.3469:

Zierk.4289:

I shall simply attach a screenshot of my server holding 100% of WvW maps and leave it at that. We are very organized and very efficiently lead. Ignorance is bliss.

Oh and Ignorant: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ignorant

O…k? What did you prove exactly? All I can see are a population imbalance and somebody “uninformed; unaware” that his own server has the problems that he says the other servers have.

Simply, for you; I am saying that we do not have those problems.

The team who was crushed and demoralized would blame server imbalance. It’s ok though, it will all be over tomorrow and you will have another world come in and show you what I was trying to say. It’s ridiculous to say the world that owns 95% of the map(at the time of this post) has problems with coordination and managing their team.

This thread should be closed, the week is over, you guys refused to make an alliance. There is no further reason to post here.

@ANET: Can we get this ability to stop auto-targeting the nearest target-able NPC and auto-attack? I play with the automatic target feature enabled but is it really necessary to have a buff target and auto-attack?

Yes pls. We need a way to sort people based on activity. It’s hard to manage inactive players. Because we can’t tell who is inactive.

@Furiousbeard

I think he’s making a pun to the so called “nightcapper” fad being complained about all over these forums =]

Shoryuken.9435:

Back with some more input. Now I’ve used longbow for the duration of the week with the traits put into power and range. My conclusion, after making a lot of dps and tactical tests—Longbow is rubbish. The only thing it has going for it is the #4 ability push back. And the #5 ability cripple in dungeons.

Try it, do some numbers for your selves. If you want mobility and higher dps go shortbow, the only thing you have to do is move in 300 yards. That is if you’ve put a trait in range, otherwise is just the same 1200y.

The 300 yards means I can hit you but you can’t hit me. In PvP that’s all that matters. I also have a knock back to ensure you stay outside your range should you get to close. I think it is personal preference honestly. I don’t bash the shortbow I just don’t perfer it. I don’t like getting in close with a ranged weapon. If i wanted to get in melee range I would have rolled a warrior. Yes it has mobility but the ultimate mobility is killing people outside their range to strike back. Should the need to evacuate arise, you already have a head start.

If shortbow works for you then enjoy it. I will enjoy my longbow =]

DesertRose.2031:

Irish Cowboy.4153:

True, but rate of fire increases as you get closer to the enemy. Your damage increases the CLOSER you are to your enemy.

I have tested it in the HotM; in 10 seconds from ~1200 range I shot almost 21 times, from ~100 range almost 21 times.
If the attack speed is affected by distance the gain is less than ~2,5%.

“almost 21” as in 20? Just curious. I will check this myself as well.

Nokaru.7831:

Sneak into their spawn and kill their siege. I grantee you they will be surprised and hilarity will ensue.

I am aware of a way to get into the citadel, but i prefer to keep my team exploit free even if the enemy is using exploits. We still own the rest of the map, one little tower will keep them coming back for more instead of wallowing in their own sorrow.

fractalKinesis.8569:

Igolbug.7295:

my friends convinced me to play panda

I’m sorry for your loss.
Come back to GW2 soon!

This makes me sad. Plz come back =]

celeron.3469:

Zierk.4289:

Honestly. I have to agree that most of the week CD has been off-page as you put it. Being on JQ I saw many many times where our forces were outnumbered 3-1 easily and after only a few kills you guys turned around and ran. I think the CD have a confidence problem or something. I would encourage you to fight it out til the bitter end. You have to commit to the fight if you want to win. Literally an hour ago this same scenario happened, 8 vs a ton of you guys at Woodhaven. We ran back a little, you guys followed, we stood tall and pushed back and you all ran away into your tower. I don’t understand it. the same goes for DB, many many times outnumbered we got in your heads or something and you all ran.

This exists on every server, including yours, acting like you’re exempt is ignorant.

To be more clear, it’s a problem with the pug/zerg mentality. They see they outnumber the enemy but they also see the zerg falling back, they don’t understand why but they fall back as well, it creates a wave and eventually everyone runs. All it takes is about 5 people falling back (out of say… 20) to cause this. Honestly, its the counter to the zerg itself. They grow in morale by outnumbering and rushing forward, but they also get easily pushed back thanks to its own strength.

I shall simply attach a screenshot of my server holding 100% of WvW maps and leave it at that. We are very organized and very efficiently lead. Ignorance is bliss.

Oh and Ignorant: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ignorant

celeron.3469:

Diablos.5201:

aww DB have you guys sink so low as to use siege exploits within your citadel’s invulnerable zones?

You do know, you can hit that…right? Just not with your unhittable ballista on top of cragtop. I’ve never seen a spot where siege itself is invulnerable, the players can be, yeah, but not the siege.

CD be doing that in their home boarder land as well.

OmegaAngel.2653:

Varathiel.9128:

Hate to break this to you, but from my experience in WvW this week, Crystal Desert is either incapable of strategic thinking or they are actively working to help JQ win. The nobler part of me wants to believe the former. I did notice the same guild tags on both JQ and CD a few times.

I only played on two of the borderlands and in both I noticed a lack of animosity between JQ and CD, so maybe it was different in the other border/Eternal. There was one moment where JQ was attacking the Bay keep for almost 30 minutes and they owned Garrison(in CD home turf) and CD didn’t take Garrison. If they made an attempt it was obviously a pitiful one.

What’s sad is that it is not a sever wide thing, really all it takes is for one guy to transfer servers spend a 100g on commander icon and then lead the troops to ruin all while conversing with his guild on vent. I certainly don’t believe that entire servers align together, but the way WvW is setup it only takes a few to ruin the day.

Again maybe CD just lacked strategic thinking and I am reading too much into that. Entirely possible that there were same shenanigans on DB as well.

I would have to say that many members of CD just weren’t on the same page as they tried to retake garrison on their own borderlands. It’s improved as the match progressed, but I remember standing on one of the inner bridges of garrison, both of our northern walls were destroyed by trebs, and down below me were a group of 10 CDs trying to take down the Southwest outer gate. There was no one opposing them and they still couldn’t manage to finish building their ram.
When we leave to take AB or some other tower we will usually leave a few people to watch garrison to give reports. We don’t care how often you destroy the outer walls/gates. It’s not until a report of a sizable amount of CDs attacking inner walls with sieges that the call to drop what we’re doing and return to garrison is made. If CD can’t bring that pressure then you won’t stop the group from moving from objective to objective whether it be Dragonbrand’s of Crystal Desert’s.

I was there during the garrison retake. Sucks for JQ that most of our defense was tied up doing something else and were not there. But once we got back, we retook the entire map again. =]

Honestly. I have to agree that most of the week CD has been off-page as you put it. Being on JQ I saw many many times where our forces were outnumbered 3-1 easily and after only a few kills you guys turned around and ran. I think the CD have a confidence problem or something. I would encourage you to fight it out til the bitter end. You have to commit to the fight if you want to win. Literally an hour ago this same scenario happened, 8 vs a ton of you guys at Woodhaven. We ran back a little, you guys followed, we stood tall and pushed back and you all ran away into your tower. I don’t understand it. the same goes for DB, many many times outnumbered we got in your heads or something and you all ran.

Please don’t take my words as an insult or bashing, I have high hopes for you guys to stand up against us so we can have better fights. We literally let you guys take 20-30% of the map so we can actually come fight you and do something besides spawn camp. Seriously, our commander said let them have it, we will hold until they get a few things and then roll them. I mean come on, not very fun =/

then have your server man the night watch? it happens in real life war why is it different here? I personally like our night fights because it’s more intense then the day fights. Kinda the opposite for us.

It seems the bigger issue lies in your server losing everything overnight. That is your problem not everyone else’s. Like I said, man the watch or prepare to lose your claim.

i played for 7 hours today, 432 kills – 82 badges. Not sure if i’m lucky or what. it’s possible i missed a few loots during the intense moments.

just curious if this is legit or not. and I agree, pointless to even defend the NE tower.

should be something your guild has to research and work for instead of simply having individual players buy gems and pop out 10 commanders in a single night.

I’ve been seeing more and more whenever the home team loses the NE tower they setup trebs on the cliff right outside the citadel walls and it is impossible to get up to that cliff. Even when getting close enough to AOE or shoot range they are invulnerable. Is this working as intended?

I know that siege from the tower will hit that cliff but I do not know if it actually damages the home team’s equipment.

I would like to suggest having an equipment profile. I have a DPS set of gear, a tanky/protection set of gear and a magic find set of gear. Would it be possible to make an easier way to switch between weapons/armor/jewelery?

My favorite thing to do in PVP is spot a shortbow ranger and kill him. I am a longbow ranger and I out range shortbow, on top of Rapid Fire + Quickening Zephyr is pretty much burst down and dead.

The AOE is useful for taking walls, defending walls, skirmishing bridges, whatever.

The knock-back/interrupt is amazing when trying to disrupt an enemies movement. A lot of times it just knocks them down on their butt and ensures a kill.

I tried out shortbow but i personally did not fancy it. I will continue to run Longbow/Axe+Horn.

Dang I’m 59/60 also. Thanks for the source guides!

As a warfighter for JQ, I welcome your alliance. It’s getting kinda boring spawn camping you guys. This just in: (see attachment)

Skill Challenge at Ashford Waypoint, NW of Waypoint. NPC is not spawned. My server us Jade Quarry.

Glowing hair and vines =]

I went "avatar"ish with my toons color and build so I liked it. Ranger fits me nice.

Opal jewelry and magic find food buff.

Bugged on Jade Quarry also =[

Atlas Jackson.9480:

There are far, far too many money sinks in this game. I had been hoping the cost of porting would stay linear with regards to distance. Maybe encourage low-level players to avoid the waypoints and explore the map. Now I find myself running with the map screen open while I watch TV. It’s terrible.

You have to understand that this game is essentially F2P outside of the initial purchase. A way for ANET to profit from GW2 is to have people run out of gold which will prompt people to purchase gems and then convert it to gold. I honestly think this was intended in the game design. The prices for waypoint travel scales with level so it costs more the higher level you are.