Guild Wars 2

Maidah.2539:

Can it be watched now though? I’d like to watch/listen to it.

Here you go:
http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/b/676919106

This stream was a good example of how a real WvW guild group might use the map.

my god nothing is happening in that whole vid? I stopped about 3 quarters all they did was a typical eotm train, now with more pve in it……

hahah I love it, I would rather see a all one profession day in whole wvw than the current plans to make a golem week.
Also dont kodash have any roamers? All you see is the same blob group all the time

DonEllz.6312:

AllIsVain.6409:

Thanks for the copy-pasta, was about to do it myself. Current feed back from reddit seems like most of these ideas are supported, with the exception of the removal of trash mobs; with people preferring the increased respawn time as the solution.

Trash mobs are fine to an extent.. but that giant beetle though..

I dont think they are fine, there should be less imo not more than the current.
why not make them neutral? if I want to kill trash mobs there is plenty of room in pve:/

[edit] stupid dog tranformations, terrible, just terrible. leave these things in pve [/edit]

I went to other way around mpascoal, and let me say you wont like it in the lower regions. Roaming is terrible and more than once you will just logout because there is noone to fight. And the roamers there are not very good. Silver leaugue like Aurora or gunnars might be a better idea.

Nice stress test when there is almost no-one around

Kyosji.8961:

It’s not like a ranger will use it twice in a single pvp fight anyways using the old timers. How often does a Ranger last longer than 30 seconds in a fight in WvW continuously?

With the old cooldown I could keep up my speed from the trapper runes, with this I cant. And it feels terribly slow without.

I have no idea why they felt the need to have such a long cooldown on this trap.

Luclinraider.2317:

I dunno man,

One of my main PvP chars is a P/D Thief, and I actually feel like we do more damage now. They made the lethal arts tree add so much poison damage that my poison is actually like a second bleed now…..with a little bit of torment thrown in for fun.

I will agree that some of our trait lines are kinda bleh….and I will also agree, we do have a decent dead timer, meaning once we blow our rotation….we dont have much left but sb spam.

But for the last 2 weeks ive consistantly been top player on spvp, and still am a brutal roamer in WvW.

The biggest difference I see is that I actually think we are EVEN STRONGER 1v1…..and we are now a little weaker 1v2+

My suggestion….run the move speed signet. At the start of this build I was also having some trouble surviving. That 25% move speed somehow fixed it. Just being able to get that extra 1/3 distance while stealthed was the diff between being caught out of stealth in leap distance, and being home free for my rotation to come back up :P.

Very interested in your build, or if you dont want to share it in a vid of you in wvw. I’d like that a lot since I am leveling what is suppose to be a condi thief

Jayne.9251:

SFR brought about 25 omegas to Hills one match in a four hour period — and all 25 died before they hit inner.

It`s actually good practise — conditions on golems wipe them super fast.

And now imagine they bring them all 25 at once.

prediction: Next week the lag will be epic.

BrickFurious.7169:

Tofu.1978:

I’m against anything that would encourage people to run away from fights when out manned. If you play wvw for the fights I’m not sure a straight ppk system would actually benefit you. Maybe award some points for time spent in combat and also for kills. Seems exploitable but straight ppk doesn’t seem to motivate properly.

I also regularly see troll upgrades and have someone taunting in map chat how they are reporting our tag movements to the enemy servers (which is stupid because you just send the tag somewhere the main group isn’t going). Would we have suicide squads on second accounts with ppk? I don’t know.

This. There’s a lot of potential unintended side effects of a pure PPK system, especially in a game mode that frequently features imbalanced fights. That’s why we don’t have one.

If anything, I think they should fix the PPT system to make it more interesting. A tick every 15 minutes is just boring, and makes groups care less about defending a recently taken objective unless the tick is imminent. Make ticks happen every 1 min instead. Even better if each objective has it’s own unique tick clock, instead of the global one we have now. There could even be a counter at each objective showing how many points that objective has accrued since it was taken. Maybe objectives that are upgraded should earn more points per tick. There’s lots of other ideas.

If anything a ppk would help you more against imbalanced fights. Imbalanced fights will just take all you have, but with few small groups/roamers you can still get points by killing parts of their group.

Jski.6180:

Notsoperky.4291:

Jski.6180:

aspirine.6852:

No it will kittening suck.

Then take a week off? Or better yet take a week off from ppt and give wvw’s gvg / 1v1 seen a shot.

gvg’s will be off for the week- people will troll them with golems. People line up to wtach in their golems, half way through suddenly and omega fires off at a bad time for one side and boom , gvg result broken.

It’s going to be a karma train, at best. At worst, some more of the few remaining veterans will decide to find some other game to play.

And don’t forget the revenant weekend this weekend, where pre purchasers can roll a revenant and play in wvw (I wonder how many upscaled revs will be ruining wvw that weekend..)

Golems are still golems and they are super slow. Even with the +100% dmg to players you can kit them all day long with out any real problem.

Look at it this way ppt is shot for this coming week in wvw ppl say ppt is not important to them so lets see who realty can stay with there worlds.

“All siege golems in WvW will move at 100% additional movement speed.”
Well there is this..

Zetsumei.4975:

Think we should all take this moment to say why the hell isnt PPK implemented as a permanent thing yet..

This, ppk should be one of the core things of wvw.
If it cant be permanent I would like to see a ppk week very much.

Jski.6180:

aspirine.6852:

No it will kittening suck.

Then take a week off? Or better yet take a week off from ppt and give wvw’s gvg / 1v1 seen a shot.

Of course I will take the week of, that’s besides the point of complaining. When I ask for some more attention to wvw I tend to think not about siege, and in the last fact those stupid kittened up golems that ruin fights already. Why the hell would I want more of them running around.

No it will kittening suck.

Stupid, insanly kittening stupid. I cant even say it on the forum without getting banned. Persons responsible for such an idiotic event should not work on this game mode please…

Morwath.9817:

NAGASIRENBEAST.5937:

Ranger is too weak ! I dont understand what ANET has against this profession, the june patch made the profession completely useless everywhere…I think ANET failed at making this profession viable.
I will be going back to gw1 (the reason I posted this) if anyone wanna join me contact me my IGN is “Hard as Kruppstahl”

It’s matter of design:
-> Thief got Preparations instead of Ranger.
-> Warrior got Pin Down on his LB instead of Ranger.
-> Pet is mandatory, even when majority of Rangers in GW1 never used pets in PvP.

I almost never used my pet in pve gw1 either. Just for gimmick team builds where all of you and your heroes used pets. Stuff like that.

Eotm and silverwastes……… Just go power, leave condi to pvp and wvw.

Even during leveling I keep on getting the same stuff over and over.
“This armor is unusable by your profession” "This weapon is….. And so on.
Even in the personal story all the loot I get is total crap.

coglin.1867:

Svarty.8019:

coglin.1867:

Svarty.8019:

Omegas need rebalancing, but on the evidence I’ve seen since launch, the development leadership are interested in implementing new things but not fixing broken stuff.

Well, the problem, as I see it, is when you do as you are here, and confuse your subjective opinion, with that of objective fact.

Simply because you, personally think something is broken, doesn’t make it true. Simply because they do not change the game around your personal judgments, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t implement new ideas.

While I agree that evidence is the key element here, I believe that the vast experience of the OP with Omega golems qualifies them (as most WvW regulars) as an “expert witness”. As such their opinion should carry considerable weight. Frankly, dismissing them as “subjective opinions” is both unfortunate and insulting, to me.

My 2000 hours as a commander on a tier one server, plus my 1000 hours playing with out my PIN up, following others, suggest he isn’t using them to the full abilities and benefits that many of the rest of us are. Which makes it difficult for me to consider him an “expert”, but that is subjective.

I simply feel he is wrong, based on his statements, as they suggest to me, he is using them in a very limited fashion.

I see what you did wrong there, being a karma train person yourself you are the opposite of the lower tier servers that do see the golems as a problem. How would you even know what problems lower tier servers have.

coglin.1867:

Svarty.8019:

Omegas need rebalancing, but on the evidence I’ve seen since launch, the development leadership are interested in implementing new things but not fixing broken stuff.

Well, the problem, as I see it, is when you do as you are here, and confuse your subjective opinion, with that of objective fact.

Simply because you, personally think something is broken, doesn’t make it true. Simply because they do not change the game around your personal judgments, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t implement new ideas.

And yet he playes way more wvw than any dev, so I value his opinion quite a bit.

Entenkommando.5208:

aspirine.6852:

Anet logic, lets make it worse and let guilds call airstrikes on keeps and towers…..

That’s just stonemist.
And atm it’s changing owners more often than sentries so some better defense is definitly nice.

Still doesnt make any sense but i see not a big problem with just SM. It changes 30 times a day like you said

Anet logic, lets make it worse and let guilds call airstrikes on keeps and towers…..

starlinvf.1358:

They don’t want you to buy skins.. they want you to buy keys for a % chance at a ticket scrap for a skin.

Almost three years lator now and still not enough scraps for a ticket myself, scam much?

ButterOfDeath.2873:

lordhelmos.7623:

Guardian/Mesmer will completely wreck a necro in a condition fight.

This is the sentence that spoiled you. The necro has terrible application, yes, but it should always win a condition fight.

Guardian stacks 15 burning on you > plague signet > instantly win.
Mesmer stacks 8 confusion, 10 torment and 5 burning > putrid mark > instantly win.
<class> stacks <tons of conditions> > putrid mark/plague signet/dagger 4 > instantly win.

All you need is one moment to target your opponent and transfer the condis.

Of course, if you’re condi vs something else, then you’ll do worse than another profession going condi as necro’s application is mediocre, that is a fair statement.
But as long as you’re against another condi user, you really should just win.

So not really condimancer, more like transfermancer?

I even heard a ridiculous rumour about AM. I’ve been told they have a roamer there.. Have you guys seen him yet?

If they are going to add staff for a thief they better add the bo staff skin for them

Doc is a nice guy and his stream seems pretty popular, not a very good wvw player but that does not seem to be important for this test. Chemso is a popular streamer and he know his WvW stuff. 2 pretty good choices so far.

Tich what’s this, you are giving up your tower?
I also see the difference since the time we were on place 11 and the guilds stopped fighting because they thought we were to high placed. But it kinda backfired, people left wvw or even the server.
I still have my GH account and login once in a while, but also made a second account to try the life on Gandara. And I must say it is no different there Tich. Other servers blob too much to upgrade single towers and keep them. Not saying gandara isnt trying but 2 blobs on your borderlands from fsp, sfr, deso will get some of those towers in the end.
EB is well defended but even then zergs/blobs will get some of your stuff.
I can highly recommend gandara as a server btw.

They were suppose to help less populates server, and they do just the opposite.

From playing against FSP and SFR I can easily say that FSP >>> Sfr.
Either FSP or Piken if you want top dog.
Pick Gandara if you want to be less blobby.

What do you think, of course they will.

Lavexis.5360:

A lot of debate going on about pistol/pistol right now, but after a lot of testing and practice I come to conclusion that pistol/pistol is actually really strong.

What a-net does is basically nerfing the AOE potential of p/p and boost its single target damage. I use p/p before patch and i do like ricochet. but,
no quarter/executioner/revealed training just give p/p a huge single target burst like none ever.

This set doesn’t necessarily work in 1 v1 (although i did win some duels , surprisingly..more than i thought it would), but this build is pure deathball in conquest.. just imagine ranger rapid fire with no cooldown.

I won 8 out of 10 matches with this set on ranked and unranked matches, its 10x more fun than d/p, s/d, d/d condi, p/d condi… This thing might as well be new meta, heck i haven’t played gw 2 in months and this build made me play the game regularly.

I realized that some people will probably say that i lie and bla bla….soo i recorded some matches..

so enjoy

1. https://youtu.be/gHm0M-eQL0A
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1va3mnLPFIs
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-kQAtaP_6A

some of you probably ask " why not just use d/p and use backstab, since you will hit a lot harder ? "

the advantage of p/p is that you are hitting people from range !
unload with basilisk venom + steal ( daze )(mug) + unload is a 20k dps lockdown from range..

Nice bursts. I dont play pvp and I wouldnt know what the amulets and runes would translate to for other gamemodes. Maurauder is that something just for pvp and the strongest ammy?

Well now that gw has failed so completly in China perhaps we can get it?

So it’s for US based players only? Ok guys do your best and make us proud

How hard can it be to fix the grenade bug.

Sandrox.9524:

Vieux P.1238:

ah yeah, So…S/D thieves took a dammmmn hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbqVhz24tAE
can barely one shot heavies anymore.

Not sure if sarcasm but,I didnt say that I dont kill ppl and didnt said that it is gamebreaking,I can see from your footage and I doubt you dont agree that your dmg got lowered.
and pre patch I did 7k lac strike…

His vid looked pretty strong, but more important it looked like he was having a blast.

Just how many bugs can you create Anet, get a proper testing team or dont do these gamebreaking changes anymore? Just a thought.

Anet changed this, because the entrance was once just a drop from the top. Now it will probably kill new people and they will be annoyed as hell with it. Way to go i guess.

Trappers you say? So I might have some use for trapper runes after all since they got screwed for my ranger :P

skowcia.8257:

I agree that graphic is outdated, anyone who says otherwise never played anything outside of f2p mmos. But its okay..graphic is not everything. Howered when it perform like a crap with outdated graphic and then you see another mmo with even more effects, really beautiful graphic with little nice details you know something is wrong. And that is a bit sad for AAA game.

That game isnt even out is it?

AegisRunestone.8672:

Well, right now, I CAN’T change trinkets. XD I do like my celestial accessory as I said, but I’m willing to sac, but… I have 19 Laurels. Can’t buy ascended gear with that. I could try it with exotics, though.

I have tried in the Heart of the Mists at the training grounds with the golems using a different build.

I used the Thief runes. They add to condition damage, and I also focused on venoms. The golems went down really fast. I want to try it out in the open world to see how it works, but I dunno if I have the money for the exotics I need to test it.

As for Sigils, I’m willing to change those, I just don’t know which Sigils to use.

http://intothemists.com/guides/5894-vini_condi_build_beta

Here’s a beta build. The back piece changed as did the accessory. I’m not sure how easy it is to get back pieces (I chose the Quiver of Thousand Arrows and chose Valk back when Zerker was meta).

And yeah, I am not willing to part with my weapons. Other than that, I’m free game.

That link doesnt seem to work for me :/

It needs some work, but completely revert it is hardly the solution.

Had this on Diessa yesterday evening, and when asking in mapchat everyone was having major lag problems.
According to my teammate i was attacking invisible foes and the event I was doing was not showing up for him at all!

I just got my new pc and am running everything on highest possible. The game itself is awesome looking, the engine however seems to be having difficulties with high populated events. Shatterer will bring my pc with crossfire to its knees, and I dont think that should be possible.
Could be that it has no new dx support or something else, I dont know much about game engines and how to make them more powerfull :/

We kinda need less invis, not more in wvw :/

Is it me or do I see this working on gates too, I could not find anything about it if this is a bug or a new feature?

Lord Kuru.3685:

If you removed the incentive to k-train, the map will just be empty. We’ve seen it before when trains in PvE maps got nerfed.

The fact is, EotM is a spectacular fail. Which makes it so puzzling why so many of its features are being put into real WvW and the HoT map.

I dont mind being emtpy, it’s a bit of a fail for what it was suppose to be.

It’s awesomely empty in EU right now :/

Well there is this big backpack thing that is kinda the same.