Guild Wars 2

I play pve on desolation(EU) server.

The auto attack of guardian staff looks too silly for me to use

GS is not that great in pve, it’s nice in wvw but against champs it’s like tickling them to death. Sword/pistol and sword/focus, sword/sword is more damage. You do have some cooldown problems there.

Tywele.7812:

aspirine.6852:

I wish these things came with stats on them instead of just skins.

This would be horrible as we would need transmutation crystals to actually use them with the stats we want.

Meh, chest like ascended items. Problem solved. I have more problems finding a backpiece than any other item in the game.

Tom Gore.4035:

aspirine.6852:

Tom Gore.4035:

Remove all reward from WvW altogether, standardize equipment as in sPvP. Make upgrading keeps&stuff require supply only.

Basically, make it sPvP in a grander scale.

Oh and remove all achivement points from both WvW and sPvP.

Then and only then we will get rid of the PvE scrubs running around with the zergs and being absolutely useless.

Well I hope you are not in the gaming development. In your case there would be perhaps 3 wvw servers :/

I would take 3 serious WvW servers over having 20 servers full of people around me that are about as useful in a fight as a stepped-on slug.

WvW is the kitten child of GW2 anyway. If the only reason people play it is to get loot, the design is seriously failed.

I’m willing to be if and when Camelot Unchained is out, GW2 WvW will be dead for good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=cWy7q6UnNDQ#t=208 this will get you to stop playing gw2? wow.

Ryan.9387:

You should be fine in pvp as long as you are willing to give up your honor to run meta builds. For wvw, you are paying one of the worst classes for the format. Since Rangers rely on their pets for damage then you will underperform compared to non pet classes. You can be decent at roaming though, but there is terrible balance with runes of perplexity killing everything.

Perhaps, I still like my ranger for wvw. LB/GS is fun for me, and i do not need to be the same performance wice with other. I need to have fun

There are devs roaming the profession forums? wow.(surprise, not the actual game)

Just a tip, I love comments from top players, but like Sol said if they want to provide it give some of the builds they are using. I also prefer to see footage of them play.

The #1 on sword for a ranger is probably the worst I ever used. With the skill lag in wvw keep taking, you might aswell just jump straight out the window. I do not see anything added for me in wvw with all the hopping and dodging.
I do not understand the pounce either, it’s suppose to make you leap at your foe, but you just leap right over him? :/
Might be a l2p issue here.

Even I go all slow and do not try to trap anyone I usualy am in the top 3 or win. The people who go out and do everyting to hurt other players usualy fall down or get trapped themselves.
I still like it, of the daily activities it’s my favorite.

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

aspirine.6852:

Why the hate for wvw, what’s so bad about it?

Simple. Because there are people in it who kill me while I only want that POI that is a fraction of a second away from being filled. But they won’t allow me to get it.

You’re with a group of 3+, and you are standing on top of a POI. You see a person (alone) walking towards you. No weapons drawn, just running towards that POI.

You:
a) Kill that person before he has a chance to get the POI
b) Let the person get the POI then kill him
c) Let the person get the POI and then get away again.

Chances are most people will go for a.

And that’s why I dislike WvW.

I do not like to group up on loners(thiefs not included I hate them). But I would stay in the area, I’ve seen too many people suckered into a thief trap. I do not care about one person doing anything unless he is attacking me/us. Then he has a death wish or likes impossible odds.

But if you are on a higher tier server you can always find a few people to run with you, or on a lower tier you can get almost any point yourself. I did solo al BL when I just started wvw and encountered a few problems.
In the end I was there for map completion and stayed for the wvw, so much better than pve mobs standing still to get butchered.

Tom Gore.4035:

Remove all reward from WvW altogether, standardize equipment as in sPvP. Make upgrading keeps&stuff require supply only.

Basically, make it sPvP in a grander scale.

Oh and remove all achivement points from both WvW and sPvP.

Then and only then we will get rid of the PvE scrubs running around with the zergs and being absolutely useless.

Well I hope you are not in the gaming development. In your case there would be perhaps 3 wvw servers :/

Uvatha.5476:

I hate WvW and would have loved to have a way to opt out to get my gift of exploration. I would gladly pay 800 gems per map! I suffered through it though and eventually got 100% map completion. I thought the gift of battle was going to be a horrible trial to suffer through then, thankfully, achievement chests came along allowing me to purchase 2 gifts and give a big middle finger to WvW for the rest of my days.

Why the hate for wvw, what’s so bad about it?

I dont think I’ve ever seen so many ac’s when we tried to take vabbi keep yesterday evening. There literaly was not a part of the map not being a red circle.
And in the meanwhile wsr was laughing their kitten of and taking half of EB.

I dont get the identical BL maps either. But I understand the wvw part of pve. Most people would not try wvw because they do not like pvp or are biased about wvw. I know I was and was only there to do map completion. But since I went there I do wvw every day, it’s so much fun but you have to try it out.

Mirsa.1628:

I received an ascended ring from a rank 51 chest this week.

Lucky me?

Lucky you indeed. Not even a rare for me for my 3 chars I play wvwv with. Just a few badges and a silly green.

It’s so annoying with my necro and ranger.

Heiltdo.2891:

Getting anti-stealth mechanics is the best thing to ever happen to us, finally we can get over with the “stealth is op” thing, and get a real class mechanic.

Well if it’s not OP, you would not mind giving it up right?

Rebound.3409:

If u don’t give loot of biblical proportions for doing this event, it will transform into a karka queen nobody cares about and everyone can happily live their lives without ever caring or knowing about.

Glhf with rewards….rest are details.

On desolation karka queen is almost always an overflow event. And it gives fine loot.

Laxus.3062:

I would like to make the comment that i really was waiting for this matchup.

now we can be truly sure we improved alot since the last matchups we had :P.

we’re not getting crushed as bad xD infact i think we’re doing okay.
vabbi has somewhat dissapeared from the scene idk why but its good to see we dont get wiped in every border anymore alone standing against fow.

keep up the good fights in the wsr border and even though the organised guilds of fow doesnt do it, when we were outnumbered 2:1 at a camp fow thought it would be necessary to keep us away with 4 balistas , i openly challenge to openfield battles but the siege ruins alot of the fun :P making it just a push and keep out the range of the siege game.

and whoever kept trying yesterday in our homeborder :P you guys dont easily give up having some great fights there.

Had some great fights against wsr yesterday, we even got outnumbered a couple of times sunday evening.
Also ran into some wsr camp roamers in our BL that I wish I had not. I think both were bronze legends and they showed me why.

Stupid question but, have you tried sword shield? I’ve never seen a warrior that could not reach me no matter how hard I can run.

I like them all, great finds all these above pics.

SFR or Vizunah might win, on the lower tiered servers you actualy get to play wvw instead of queuing. :/

Should work in big zergs, small 2-2 or 1-1 you are probably toast unless you can run away.

I expect a fail for the first time we go there on my server, people will not know what to do and just start autoattacking the dragon. Even worse if you have the bad luck to spawn on the overflow.

MrIllusion.5304:

I don’t really understand the draw of Cantha as a region.

I’m not sure if Cantha is popular because of its supposedly Asian influence, or if it’s because of the nostalgia factor.

For me it’s the areas. Not the campaign factions itself, that was not very good imo. I hated master togo and his slow pace walk and him getting stuck behind a crate failing the mission.
The starter island was great, the city was terrible, one of the worst placed I have ever seen in a game. But the jade sea, and the echovald forrest are pretty kitten good.
The Elite dungeons were fun and very well designed.
And it came with 2 very strong and popular classes, one with the most moronic skill ever created in a game, but that’s another thing

Konrad Curze.5130:

stun warriors are twice as OP as thieves are, while at the same time being half as hard to play

dear devs, nerf them into oblivion please

Hmm atleast you can see them coming and not backstabbing you.

That’s why people like to know the own servers rank I guess. You can see the enemy ranks but not your own party.
Most commanders on FoW that I played with I have no problems with.

Maybe be atleast veteran to allow you to wear the commander tag.

Anyone from FoW found people from [SOD] Sect Of Dishonest?

So you got them and thought lets not be selfish and ask for a title that does not concern me at all……

colesy.8490:

Gotta love the people accusing the OP of kicking people before getting to the end. You do realise that there are players who are actually competent enough to clear these paths themselves right?

Because kicking from dungeons never happens right..

Weapon swap is not the same as weapon set. You already can switch weapons when you are out of combat. That does not make any sense, you need them in combat.
You cannot just be a great hammer war and a great “insert other weapon” type, you need to retrait for that.
I’m not saying it wouldnt need balancing, but it would sure be something to have in pve. I would not dare touch it in pvp.

I wish we(fow) would stop hitting on vabbi and more on wsr though :/

Tamaki Revolution.3548:

From a WvW standpoint, I think it’d be a nightmare to deal with, balance wise. For PvE, I just think they need a switch build option at this point.

Going totally OT, but please don’t start a topic that could be explored in great detail with “Wat” when you mean What is, or What’s. (I came to this thread because I figured it would be a cool discussion, but “Wat” almost turned me away).

Why is there a problem with balance in wvw? Since everyone can run them I do not see that problem. It would need some fine tuning that’s for sure.
How many times do you not see warriors defending a keep against a large zerg standing there, not being able to do anything for instance.

I love weapon swap, should require some adjusment to the game but it can be done.

Give other starter areas the same amount of champs perhaps?

Useless, I throw them away.

I’d rather see a wvw locker, but that would be the same huh

And stealth needs to go….

He is griefinf, report him through a support ticket and let him enjoy the time off.

Neandramathal.9536:

How big is Jd these days? Raid implies you’ve grown fairly large?

Nice to see FoW rising up though, is it organisation, gained numbers, opponents lost numbers, or a combination?

Anyhow, Keep it up.

fow rising up? Lowest tier is not exactly rising up.

The fact that it even has a skill called backstab should say enough.
Enough with the OP stealth, there is no way any other class can take on 3 persons at the same time and be invis after every kill. Or even invis finishers? come on who thought of this stupid class..

Oozo.7856:

Every game, except this one, actually gives the players abilities that counter stealth.

SWTOR – Stealth Scan
WoW – Hunter Flare
DAoC – True Sight

and, so on. Need I say more?

Now don’t go all logical all of a sudden

Advent.6193:

Meh. You lot have reasonable complaints, RE: Stealth. I personally run Evasion-spec on my own Thief, because I’ve got a couple issues with how it was implemented. However, to “bring down” Thief Stealth, you would have to enhance either their Health, access to defensive Boons (Prot/Stability, for instance), and/or their overall Armor level. Let alone how changing Stealth impacts the Shadow Arts Traits.

The “big” issues on Thief Stealth are honestly minor:

1. TBH, hitting an opponent’s Block should de-stealth you. If only because you have physically contacted their body. Who wouldn’t notice being struck?
2. Assuming full “Troll-Mode”: it’s too easy to chain Stealth abilities. However, lowering that ability goes back to my mention of why it’s set that way on Thieves. Stealth and Evasion are the twin pillars of Thief defense. We can’t honestly “nerf” one without doing something positive to the other.
3. As many posters have mentioned in past threads of this nature, this is probably why the GW1 Assassin focused on movement, as opposed to “Ninja-Vanish!” abilities. Too hard to balance multiple Stealth routines and keep it fair for both Stealth-User and Stealth-Victim.

TL;DR:
It’s A-OK to have an issue with Stealth in specific, or the focused variant used by Thieves. But, any change to bring Stealth’s power down WILL have troublesome consequences. Especially when one considers how many Traits Thieves utilize that directly involve Stealth.

Agreed with almost all. I think it’s not ok to have stealth in a player vs player game. Call it pve but it’s still more players vs players. And if one of those can do stealth and choose unsuspecting foes whenever they want, I call that bad gamedesign.

Norn elite, go catch that warrior

Damien.3796:

Nice matchup, thanks for good fights and fun

Ah really? What fun would that be then.

\o/ you’re famous. congrats.

Khados.8147:

I think that’s a great idea. Not much more to say, simple color coding would make it alot easier to track what commander is leading what.

Also in wvw, where multiple commanders sometimes work against eachother.

Kimhyuna.1035:

lordkrall.7241:

WvW is supposed to be WvW, not GvG, this have been stated by ArenaNet several times, and thus GvG in WvW won’t be supported.

Its not like your borderlands are qued 24/7. Most GvG occur when there is downtime during the week, normally when there is NO que. I dont get the moaning against GvG, most of those guilds are the hardcore guilds that, I dunno, carry the server?

That’s a problem on it’s own, people wanting to play but cannot because of a que. That is unacceptable in my eyes and should be fixed asap.

Vaugh.7193:

You all blame blacktiders for running in large zergs. But explain to me how else we should take down doors, if not building a treb?

Blame, I dont blame them for doing it. It’s just something we see, you never seen small group or even 1 roaming the fields.
Unlike RoS where they do have small groups, mainly thieves.
Because ros never ever zergs, it’s just BT and FOW