Guild Wars 2

dreztina.4820:

I find it somewhat humorous that the only guild I’ve found in this matchup with skilled players is being accused of hacking to compensate for skill.

Quote for truth. I’ve been in some great fights with Yarr.

I’m not sure why people default to accusations of hacking so easily. If I die I was either focused, outplayed, or outnumbered.

crestpiemangler.7631:

arKRazor.8654:

My friend would beg to differ – note the blue name in the middle of that kitten-storm. He stayed in there wreaking havoc for a significant amount of time and escaped to rejoin our front line.

I’ve done the same. WvW is a disorganized chaos as it is…

All it takes is one person to interrupt transfer, or one invisible AoE, or one fear from an enemy necro and you’re nothing but jello.

If you think a necro is survivable as a engineer, you’ve never seen a good engineer, not to mention that engineers have a condition immunity trait (although necros get that lovely removal/healing) .

Try to kill an engineer with the aforementioned alone as a condition spec necro and you will see what true survivability is.

Not arguing about which class has the best potential tank, just pointing out that necro can be played with tank/escapes and still be effective.

To fair though, mileage with any character in wvw will vary greatly based on your competition.

Raven.9603:

crestpiemangler.7631:

Like others have stated, Necros are not very survivable due to innately low armor, a complete lack of vigor and the extreme nerf to DS. It is, however, satisfying to fear lock opponents and have at least two default interrupts/ccs. It is also a lot easier to play than the engineer.

crestpiemangler.7631:

Like others have stated, Necros are not very survivable due to innately low armor, a complete lack of vigor and the extreme nerf to DS.

crestpiemangler.7631:

Like others have stated, Necros are not very survivable

crestpiemangler.7631:

Necros are not very survivable

My friend would beg to differ – note the blue name in the middle of that kitten-storm. He stayed in there wreaking havoc for a significant amount of time and escaped to rejoin our front line.

Whether or not you feel wxp, ranks, rewards, and abilities to be a useful/enjoyable addition, they do in fact represent a dev team interested in improving our experience.

When you come right down to it, not everybody in PvE enjoys their new content either. In fact, you’ll hear a great deal of moaning and QQ over some pretty ridiculous things. It’s difficult to craft content that everyone will enjoy and nigh on impossible when you must consider game performance, balance, and the reaction of an extremely passionate group of players.

There are of course gripes, glitches, and balance issues that have persisted for far too long, but don’t accuse them of being idle or disinterested.

Nightwrath.1679:

arKRazor.8654:

Nightwrath.1679:

Ah this might seem like a nice match-up still figuring that one out! Sorry to the Dr condi necro that killed me by Sm but later lost to me by AR keep got killed I told those guys to stop.

Do you remember the guild tag by any chance?

Umm I saw your sig guessing your in the Ohai or something like that. Don’t think the necro that got killed by our keep was in that guild it was a asura thinking female with the full t3 red. But some people from ohai killed me at dane last night with 6 of them >.> then having one add me to party saying am a good nero they remember…. But alas I got bored always running into your mini guild zerg having to 5v1 me when I did nothing. But would love to 1v1 some members from your guild!

You! You are the the [exo] necro! We certainly took notice of you. The compliment was real.

If you want to arrange duels I’m sure most of us would be happy to oblige.

Nightwrath.1679:

Ah this might seem like a nice match-up still figuring that one out! Sorry to the Dr condi necro that killed me by Sm but later lost to me by AR keep got killed I told those guys to stop.

Do you remember the guild tag by any chance?

Thesilentflute.8761:

We have champ bags now they are much better. I have not really noticed a loot diff otherwise, but It would make sense with the addition. Also a good step to put a damper on kill trading.

You may be the only person I’ve run into that believes GvG to be some sort of loot/kill boosting rather than a competitive event.

Feel free to debate the value of GvG on its merits but there’s no need to paint the activity as a subversion of fair play.

I make it my mission to kill anyone wielding a legendary greatsword on an opposing server. Call it childish but I always want to test to see if they’ve earned it.

RashanDale.3609:

stealth-stomping is just lame cause of how easy it is to get stealthed for thiefs/rangers.

Everything else is fine, since you have to blow a skill with a reasonably long cooldown for it.

There are numerous aoe knockbacks that you can use if you suspect a downed ally is being stealth stomped. As far as downed abilities to protect yourself from stealth stomps, mileage varies wildly by class.

Shanks R Us.2489:

Aaron Starfire.6980:

cheshirefox.7026:

congratulations to the players who camped anvil north supply camp tonight
more accurately to say ‘spawn camped’ and as if this was not enough to gauge your intelligence, or lack thereof.. the few who messaged me provided conversation that can only be described as beyond idiocy

First, I would like to apologize on behalf of the DR caravan of rams that had broken down while travelling past the “only” route out of your citadel. We set up arrow carts to make sure that our repairs to the rams would go unhindered and we could get on our merry way. Also, in case you didn’t know, those were our rams. There are many others like them, but those were ours.

Happy hunting this week.

Personally, I thought it was hilarious. Here’s a better picture for you. I came a little late, but I had fun wiping you guys after 2-3 tries.

I was the cheeky asuran engineer on the AC in that pic.

Special mention goes to the KAOS crew that kept assembling at the altar. We had to keep choosing between dealing with you or maintaining a presence at the gate.

Also there was a human engineer of knight rank that deserves a medal for unflinching valor in the face of the odds. He routinely charged out alone to chip away at siege, regardless of how many times he was caught.

All in all it was great fun. I assure you there was no malice involved regardless of whether you consider it sporting.

Vena.8436:

MaLeVoLenT.8129:

>.< I know

In 150 or so total ranks across all the toons, I have at least two ascended and four so exotics. Lots of rares.

Then again… I’m also the guy who nets 10+ dyes a day.

twitch

TheObligatoryFifteenChars

Sounds rough. Doesn’t really mesh with my experience though.

Does this count?

I was just muttering about this problem to some of my guildmates. Would love to see it addressed in the future.

Channeled skills still track and hit. Whether or not you think this is reasonable it would appear to be the intended mechanic.

Dawdler.8521:

The rank should give you the ability to slap the yaks so they move faster.

I thought it was obvious.

I support this.

It’s difficult to combat human nature.

I’ve gotten two exo drops from ~160 chests. Those have been the highlights. The silver adds up though.

This could be useful in certain situations if it doesn’t have a minimum range.

Still sounds underwhelming though.

Is it possible you lose your power of the mists bonus to HP from your WvW crew while in fractals?

Elorix.7289:

Well it looks like Anets master plan for match making is finally starting to balance out. I think this is the closest game we’ve had since they started doing it. Looking forward to the rest of the week, so far it’s been a lot of fun.

After facing off against both servers separately, this was my dream match-up.

Neve.7134:

Well, due to the big lag I have only with World Champion Bosses and WvW I simply cannot play those parts even if I would love to. So, I cannot have any AP reward at all. Be happy with your Achievement Points

I’m sorry, did someone inform you that there is AP to be found in WvW? They were sorely mistaken.

1000 hours might get you around 100 AP.

That said, it’s a shame you can’t enjoy that portion of the game. IMHO it’s the real endgame.

If you’ve played GW2 long enough to consider pursuing a legendary, you probably have accumulated enough achievement points to get 500 badges from these new chests.

At least people will still have to give wvw a shot for map completion but I feel like badges should be the result of… you know… fighting the enemy.

It would probably devolve into endless griefing. This is the internet after all.

Euryon.9248:

There are a lot of absolute kittening kittens on this forum.

katz.8376:

Kano.3720:

Mickz.8356:

Zultz dont kitten about with his buffs.

This one has more O_o

holy kitten that’s a lot of buffs

I think I’d need a higher resolution display to see all that.

nirvana.8245:

Draygo.9473:

arKRazor.8654:

Probably more around 1k to tag and I’m reasonably sure you still have to be within the ‘in combat’ radius of the opponent when it dies.

Wrong and wrong.

‘Tag’ is less than 500, hard to stick an exact number to it without solid testing.

Credit is time based. You have to do damage to them within X time of dying. You can be anywhere in the current map when the target dies to get credit. lets say you die and respawn, you still get credit for the kill if the enemy dies soon after.

From my experience this is spot on.

Actually, yeah. Spoke without thinking on the leash distance. Have been plenty of times when I’ve been at spawn with bags.

I’d still say the damage is somewhere between 500 – 1000 but 500 could very well be the case. I’d be interested to know if it’s actually a set number of hits to tag rather than raw damage.

Probably more around 1k to tag and I’m reasonably sure you still have to be within the ‘in combat’ radius of the opponent when it dies.

Tukmolytes.3467:

Blackhat.9164:

Don’t feel bad about losing SM IOJ, we had a map qued zerg after it. You guys didn’t seem to have the numbers to defend it this time.

Yeah, congratulations. We are too busy fending of DR in our BL. Enjoy the castle.

And BTW, we don’t feel bad. We’re IoJ, we don’t lurk in the past, we bounce back.

We will just retake it later after we finish our problem with DR.

And also want to tell the guys who says we are taking your kittens. Please check this out. We will eventually retaliate later so please be advised not to cry when we take your keep.

I’m going to have to ask you to refrain from taking kittens.

Stewie.3549:

arKRazor.8654:

Stewie.3549:

How is this even fun for you IoJ? It’s 7 in the morning and you are capping everything against our skeleton morning crew. So far this whole matchup is battle of the night crews and who has more oceanics. You’re “prime-time” can’t take a fully upgraded keep from us so why not let your oceanics do the heavy lifting when they have hardly any opposition.

Listen, I love a close and bloody fight as much as the next guy. That said, however, you can’t expect people to forgo their favorite activity because resistance is light during their activity frame.

You can expect them to press any advantages they have, when they have them. We’ll be doing the same.

I don’t expect IoJ to stop I simply asked the question is this really a fun matchup when the oceanics do almost everything?

I agree it degrades the experience, and it’s certainly frustrating. There is nothing quite like being overrun by an uncaring horde without a prayer of defending yourself or the gains your server fought so hard for.

Some groups have already decided that the server scores at the end of the week are a moot point. They instead seek to find enjoyable fights when the opportunity presents itself, open field or otherwise. That said, people who only have the time to play when their server is grossly outmanned are certainly left out in the cold.

I just don’t know that there is a fair solution. Human nature will combat balancing attempts in most cases. I’d like there to be a solution, but I don’t truly expect one.

Stewie.3549:

How is this even fun for you IoJ? It’s 7 in the morning and you are capping everything against our skeleton morning crew. So far this whole matchup is battle of the night crews and who has more oceanics. You’re “prime-time” can’t take a fully upgraded keep from us so why not let your oceanics do the heavy lifting when they have hardly any opposition.

Listen, I love a close and bloody fight as much as the next guy. That said, however, you can’t expect people to forgo their favorite activity because resistance is light during their activity frame.

You can expect them to press any advantages they have, when they have them. We’ll be doing the same.

Ricky Da Man.5064:

morrolan.9608:

SandruDaniel.4386:

I believe that The Battle Of Claw Island is the most glorious battle in this game. Do you agree ? Is the battle for Claw Island, where your mentor sacrifices himself to save the rest of the army including you. Did all stories but didn’t find a more epic and sad battle. What you guys think? Saw better stuff than that ?

The most epic battles are in WvW. Nothing in the personal story compares.

True story.

Quoted for veracity

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Any pre-existing conditions will continue to eat away at the engie.

When you say crit build, how extreme do you mean?

Facepunch.5710:

First one is after she’s just woken up in the morning, second one is after hair and make up.

Slick bit of work there, very nice!

If you are undergeared for your level, i.e. still having the same gear as when you started leveling from crafting, you will probably be taking stat losses from downscaling. Just update your gear to blues or greens close to your current level and you should do fine.

My buddy and I

Dante.1508:

I would like a tool that harvests Gems, wow that would be epic.

I came to this thread to make this very comment.

A use for laurels – group photos while disguised as a tiger.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

In this video, Scarecrow runs around in circles while I do all the work. >:/

http://youtu.be/yyMpX-OUZnM

Quaggan stomp for the win! ^_^

MethaneGas.8357:

Alas, ’tis a new day, a new hunting trip.

I don’t exactly qualify as the faithful hound, but…

MethaneGas.8357:

bokkieskitten.8023:

-whispers- Tell me everything, Mar…..tell me all your secrets..

Can’t wait to see you again…..<3

-Whispers- Tell me everything Lilli, tell me all your secrets <3

p.s. your sista’ is next.
Love
-Marin

I wasn’t even aware this was one of the sisters, I just know my dear, slightly dead, Marin asked me to chase you.

Joey.2769:

Well now that guard abilities will reward stat increases I’d like my points back since that one greatly has the most impact map wide.

This, though I’d rather they remove raw stat boosts from the list of wxp abilities.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Quick shout-out to the guild-less DR bronze assaulter warrior (greatsword/longbow). For a series of constant stalemates, that was hella fun.

I’d lay odds that it was Theoden Warstar.

MethaneGas.8357:

Yay it’s GoM
Already had a few decent unofficial duels (unofficial as in… duel until his/her friend comes, then run).
Fun fights vs. [ART] Ranger, [BOSS] ele and [Deth] thieves …. for now. There will most likely be a video coming of at least some of those

Cameos from anyone I know?

Vol.5241:

juno.1840:

Vol.5241:

The new torment condition gives an unfair advantage to ranged classes. They should have just kept the way things are right now and stick with buffing confusion instead, since confusion is non-discriminatory among classes and melee/ranged

It will work both ways. A ranged class will take damage trying to kite you, just like you’d take damage trying to catch a kiter. I think we’ll have to see how it plays out.

The disappointing part of Torment is that it’ll be limited to thieves, mesmers, and necros. Two of those classes didn’t really need a buff by getting Torment. I think there were better choices including warrior.

A ranged class has the option of just standing still.
A melee class simply doesn’t (especially against any competent ranged class)

As a ranged class I spend less than 5% of my time standing still in wvw. A stationary target is a free kill in small man combat, looking at you longbow rangers on this one.

Ynot.8397:

“With the introduction of Tainted Shackles, we’ll also be adding a new condition to the game: Torment. This condition is designed to play around with movement, one of our fundamental combat mechanics. Enemies under Torment will take damage periodically; as they move, they’ll take even more damage. In looking to expand the condition diversity of thieves and mesmers, we decided to include Torment skills for those two professions as well.” Giving thieves more control in a fight? Good stuff. Just let us necros have it and be done ANet!

So to recap, they reduced the effectiveness of confusion because it ‘punished active play.’ They see no problem however, with punishing simple movement too?

Sororita.3465:

fun times, fun times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhdUlvSgVg8

An SF meltdown would be a disaster. We’ve enjoyed a close match up till now.

WvW and virtually nothing else. I’ll give living story content a whirl when it comes out but for the most part the novelty wears off quickly.