Guild Wars 2

Not even close. Compared to gw1 this is nothing.

Hmm somewhat. I just stopped that terrible living story crap and focused on wvw. But even there the zergs and blobs got me playing less and less. People are just lame and do anything for some virtual cookie it seems.

No Walking.6349:

It’s comments like these which lead MMOs to being total faceroll fests that require no skill and all grind.

Hard content is a good thing in games people……I promise.

Hard content is what made players stop gw1 in the first year. But that was about 75% in the game not in the first levels.

Lol your last vid around 10:40, those blacktide looked like they where made of paper the way your team went through them.

Somehow I just cannot get used to the staff guardian myself, the staff animation looks too silly for me

Wamgor.9347:

That is true, as for whining about it just stating facts of our server… maybe I have a less biased opinion than some people who always says enemy servers always blob but not their own.

Sad news is indeed all servers blob/zerg. Because some servers cannot have enough players to create what i would call a blob
Last night I saw three blobs from all servers so I called it a day, no fun for me there.

Condition damage does not work well in Pve, so make it even weaker?
I somewhat agree that it gives the squishy professions a fighting chance in small groups or 1-1. In zergs like 99% of wvw it is worse than in pve, because untill the zerg breaks up you do almost no damage. So now you say that power should rule zerg and small fights? Noway..

I’ll wait untill the usual friday blobbing is over I think.

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

MagiKarp.8201:

^ That,

Strategy > Numbers, you might not know this but clashing a small group into a zerg isn’t how you win.

Hit north bay, run away once scouted, zerg comes, go hit north hills, rinse repeat. Can’t count the number of times on SoS / BG I have been outnumbered on a map but been on the offensive simply because you break into diff locations over and over eventually taking them when the bigger force gets tired of chasing you.

Strategy is knowing your numbers and their limitations, often you can have a full map but still be no match for the other force on the map as it may be a full queue of guilds vs 1 pug blob, play smart, don’t rely on numbers.

Try this against vizunah square and you’ll fail. They have 1 scout + tons of arrow carts in every important building.

Wow and this scout is an octupus?

Ekense.5279:

Kidink!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX6-gZw2tog

Best EU commander.

kitten , I would leave TS in a second whith such an idiot commanding.

Danicco.3568:

I couldn’t think of any other pictures, and this one isn’t really that great, but the main idea is… we need more heavy, full armor in this knight-ish look, especially for females.

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For females you say….

One vote for you. troll of the year =)

Bash.7291:

I really wish I had the time invested into WvW to have guard stacks.

Did you read the wvw change from the devs yesterday?
because:

I’ll take this one then please, dhuum is nice, but grenth is better imo.

Done it once, never again.

Would look good on a human and norn, but not to sure about asura and char.

Thank you very much for listening to your players, that really means a lot.

Tsath.4527:

What servers are you guys from, and do you think you have the problem? I’m from Gandara and we definitely do have the problem.

I was on FoW earlier this league and now on GH. FoW did have nightcappers but nothing compared to lets say drakkar.
On GH we had this against desolation who have a very good nightcapping team.

Thareen.5471:

@ DanyK
You did read the Part about that one Mesmer was from Miller and the other one was me? So it was not us
And i am providing portals for those players unable to jump themselves. Not for the lazy ones.

P.s. /wave does not work most of the time. No manners nowadays.

Sometimes it does, few AM were in our BL puzzle tuesday and after a friendly wave we let them on their way and even showed how the puzzle worked.

Well one thing, he did show up. Respect for that.

@CattivoUomo, it’s not a bout breaking the zerg. I think that would be impossible. But it’s about giving the outnumbered servers a fighting chance. It’s allows small hit & run teams to start chipping away backline of frontline from the zerg to even the odds.
Will it work? Who knows but right now everything favours the zerg so we might want to try to change some stuff.

Valanga.5942:

Vayne.8563:

Guess you haven’t played any of the other betas. The grass isn’t always greener. You think this forum is dark, you should see the stuff being said about ESO.

Guess neither did you.
From Wildstar beta i can definitely tell you, yes, the grass is greener, way greener.

You got in? Besides the horrid gfx how is it?

Ashadow.6874:

Look at how the people there are responding to this:

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/loadNews/29245

They are either laughing at how stupid it is, or are offended by it. Thanks GW2 for becomming that one kid who pulls their pants down in public for a laugh. Not realizing everyone is laughing AT him and not with him.

It is embarrassing to say the least. This kind of silly marketing tactics would do quite the opposite to me. Drive me away from the game instead of trying it.

I would only use ranged like staff or GS in WvW not in pve.

Creating world servers would solve night/day capping. But create latency issues that nobody would want.

I think this topic should be a sticky. And sin should get his own forum avatar:

Put this one in the gemshop and I will get it in the split second it is avalable:
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080405071131/gw/images/a/a6/Avatar_of_Grenth_concept_art.jpg

Kitiara.2706:

What happened to them saying they would not change WvW during leagues?!

OMG

Hah good point, they already annoyed people enough with the toxic in every merc camp making it harder for a single of small force to do this fast before the zerg comes along.

This topic is pure gold. =)

Zord.6130:

aspirine.6852:

xandermander.4810:

aspirine.6852:

So is this a bug, an exploit or perhaps both? Whatever it is it does not look like it should happen.

Not a bug or exploit its just placing a cata on the ground at that spot

But there is no ground there. I doubt this was intended by Anet.

That cata must have surely been placed by the plague AM, who not only relies on blobbing to win, they also uses exploits and zoom hacks and pass through walls and spies and…

Ahh the old sarcasm trick, I get it =)
It happens to be that this AVA guild was the same one that tried to bug it’s way into woodhaven. But I suspect you will have quite the sarcastic reply to defend this.

kingcragus.6810:

OR you could learn to interrupt people.

That sometimes works, but when you are outnumbered like some of the bronze leauge EU servers(and I imagine US servers) there are so many in comparison that only some siege would work.
Even than combat rez could be disabled in Borderlands first to see if people would like it. I’m pretty sure some will hate it because it requires a different style of fighting in many cases.

Armor is kinda bad in this game untill now, i’m pretty sure the engine can handle most things but making a design for all races seems like a nightmare to me.

This topic is more interesting than anything else on the first page.

Was pointed at this topic about numbers in wvw per map. Anet says they cannot be more specific, but I seriously doubt that. That does not sound very professional.“we dont know”.

McWolfy.5924:

veteran title mean only 1 week of zerging
i miss titles what mean 100-200 days of playing

For you perhaps. I do not zerg much, I prefer not at all. I till do not have all of them because I hate the JP ones. Perhaps just as much as the merc camp one, because I hardly go to EB anymore.

xandermander.4810:

aspirine.6852:

So is this a bug, an exploit or perhaps both? Whatever it is it does not look like it should happen.

Not a bug or exploit its just placing a cata on the ground at that spot

But there is no ground there. I doubt this was intended by Anet.

Evernessince.8035:

Your suggestion would hurt small groups too, not workable.

It would, but it would hurt blobs more. Small groups do not run in all zerker gear afaik. Entire blobs on servers I have been up against run this because they can be instarezzed. Small guilds/groups know better than to run this gear.

mistsim.2748:

i hate dhuum because i feel torment is a much better suited condi for the necro, and fire just doesnt go with the theme. at all. id love to be able to stack 3x torment on crit. it makes perfect sense because necros survive through kiting more than any other prof, and would actually be much less OP. in addition, you would punish people for moving toward you, which adds more strategy to the game (do i chase and take more damage, or do i wait it out and let him gain some distance?)

Perfectly fine with that. Fire is indeed a weird condition to have as a necro. Chill would be much better but that way no-one would get away from us. Torment seems like a good replacement for it.

Lol I did not realize that the devs are not willing to give these numbers, I cant imagine why they would keep that a secret…..

Brando.1374:

Falcon.8713:

Brando.1374:

Falcon.8713:

Brando.1374:

this trait will proc as long as you have a decent crit chance.

there is no counter play to this, no amount of dodging skills or condi cleanse can keep up every 10 seconds on top of what we already can dish out.

We do not need Burning to help out damage. I have very little trouble with 1v1 and sometimes 1v2-3 all without dumbfire. in group fights you cant pick and choose who gets burning so its a waste 30 trait points. if you want burning you have a 15s skill called epidemic where you can spread 10+ seconds of burning +all conditions to 5 other targets.

I don’t get what you mean.. First you’re saying you don’t use burning and afterwards you’re talking about spreading it with epidemic ? Or do you mean in group play ? It’s not like other classes will go easy on you with their conditions , so why are we ‘unfair’ ? Ever seen that big aoe fire field of warrior longbow burst ? That’s what I call a real painfull problem.. Not some random 4s burning.. Even if didn’t have burning, we could still stack lots and lots of bleeding with scepter 1.. So you want that they change that to ?

“a waste 30 trait points”

If you do not trait 30 points in spite.. Then how will you spread 10s+ burning with epidemic ? Or do you mean in group play ? But why would others be alowed to give burning but not the Necromancer ?

A good Necro does not NEED to APPLY burning to be effective. We spread it from other classes. A good Necro will NOT WASTE 30 trait points for a trait that supports mindless skill spamming in order for it to proc. ONLY BAD Necros rely on this trait to be good. Only Bad necros will see no other way to deal damage and sustain themselves without this trait.

I just dont understand why any decent necro or any necro that played before this patch came out supports this trait.
I see you have 1600 played on your necro (your sig) do you mind if I ask what you ran before this trait came?

I do not run with a group on my necro. I dont think it would be any good with such a group because there will be other necros, some of them will have dhuumfire and you cannot get it twice on your victims :/

So is this a bug, an exploit or perhaps both? Whatever it is it does not look like it should happen.

So I searched and searched(not on this forum search is kinda broken) but I could not find any official Anet telling how the numbers of people per map is calculated before the famous que sets in.
Anyone here got any information about how many people your borderlands, enemy borderlands can have? Is it calculated fair? Like can it have max 200 people per borderland and 199 can be the 2 other servers leaving you with just yourself to play with?
I am kinda surprised that there is so little information about this?

Lame fight in hills tonight, cant say anything else about it.

BeoErgon.9107:

Can’t really see why anyone is defending the Ascended gear… Seriously.
Ascended should only have been skins. Period.

As far as I know no one has come to the forums telling “Great! Ascended gear was exactly what I was looking for in this game and it was lacking!”

Really… I would like someone to come and tell us this and explain because I really can’t see.
- Either you want somethign to grind in which case skins would have worked just fine
- Either you want better stats… But why? Every one person defending the ascended gear is telling that ascended is not needed. So why better stats?

Really can’t understand.

Same here, I almost got all professions and cannot choose a main. But ascended armour/weapons kinda force me towards creating a main and let others go a bit. I cannot imagine any MMO wants players to ignore their alts.

Mesmer will be a veil bot, or for portal. I refuse to do that but some people aks me to do certain skills.

Teamspeak can solve this.

Monkeymonger.9235:

Sin.4130:

Yes, enjoy both that few hours deep at night when you can play as normal wvw servers. Someone says here you don’t care about score, lol.

Meanwhile we’ll continue with our abnormal practices, like ignoring commanders, praying to Ham and sodomizing our yaks.

Those poor yaks, they have feelings too you know. Use lubricant next time.

Cheating or exploiting is dishonarable. This weekend I saw some AM guild repeatedly try to get into woodhaven through the bug on the open side. And build a cata for the watergate for bay. No honor there.

Chuck Zitto.2367:

Man I would love to see downed state completely removed. Or if anet refuses to remove it completely atleast get rid of all the interrupts, mists and teleports basically every #2 skill.

Downed state is fine, how else are you going to get stomps? It’s the combat and instarez that hurts more imo.

Guess I have to spent some points on mastery and see if this is helping. Yesterday tried all day to get some, I got one point from doing damage to a gate as for the others I did around the same amount of damage but nothing.
15 doors, 1 achievement point. I hate this one as much as the merc camp and JP’s.

It only looks like they work together when really what they do is take advantage when we are fighting on the other side of the map. It’s the smart thing to do and by no means are they working together against us(GH)
Yes they sometimes let eachother run in our BL, but heck, I even let some of them run to get to the part where the big fight is. I suspect they are doing the same.
Millers is the best server I have fought against in a long time, they seem like an honourable bunch of guys/girls.