Guild Wars 2

Valenna Tiefling.5806:

shochinhwa.1648:

Valenna Tiefling.5806:

Oh man… This thread has promise. I think the next thing y’all should do is assure each other how your tier is stable in the long-term and won’t change. Of course, if anyone dropped even one tier, you would literally become henge… literally. I’m sorry, I shouldn’t interrupt, it’ll ruin it, please continue.

The fate of HoD/ET are true stories mmkay. Once two outstanding strong servers now the lowest in their respective tiers. It’s real and it could happen to any server. Get used to it!

You don’t say. Please tell me all about HoD and ET, I want to make sure to write it all down so that I don’t forget.

HoD is ancient history…and ultimately, irrelevant.

Solori.6025:

mavet.3047:

:( Welcome to SWTOR all over again… This game is REALLY turning into one stinking piece of garbage…

……………….and you necro’d this…why?

Because he felt like whining? Got to love all the drama queens in this thread though, lol.

Lightsbane.9012:

any reason i’m seeing a crapton of staff sword/pistol mesmers lately? did this incredibly predictable setup get a buff or something?

I’ve used that setup since halfway through BWE1. It took me half the BWE to settle on a combo I liked, and I fell in love with Staff + Sword/Pistol. The two sets have great synergy, and you have an offensive and defensive option…making that setup more adaptable. Maybe more people have discovered it? The better question is, how many of these players actually use that setup to its max effectiveness?

AmagicalFishy.6935:

AmagicalFishy

No, he has a problem with a person’s IRL income directly affecting their status in an in-game world. He has a problem with people having more immediate access to the aspects of a game he bought—not because of anything they did in game, but because they shelled out a bunch of cash. He has a problem with ANet advocating the dissolving of a separation between an in-game world and IRL economic differences.
I can go on and on, but I’m sure you get the point. It’s silly that people can just throw out a bunch of cash and get whatever they want. I’d be glad to explain more if you genuinely don’t understand the idea behind wanting to buy a game—and have equal access to that game that everyone else has, regardless of whether or not your personal income is more or less.

I think the childish part is seeming totally oblivious to why people dislike being able to trade IRL cash for in-game progress.

Actually, you do have equal access…you’re just required to grind in the game for it. Honestly, at the end of the day, I am not NEARLY fortunate enough that I can buy that amount of gold with real life cash, but I won’t discriminate against those that are. Ultimately I have one option, grind it out…but that doesn’t mean I think that should be the ONLY option. Live and let live man.

MacLeod.5386:

The TP is a joke for the most part.

Between the 15% tax and the imbeciles that list items for less profit than if you just sold to a vendor, I don’t even bother with the selling side any more either.

Yeah, what’s with the listing fee? Does it simply exist to prolong the grind or something? Couldn’t be that though, Anet doesn’t make grindy games. >.>

Destroyer.1306:

JQ has deadly players and brilliant leadership. Their only shortcoming is coverage. I am certain that anyone who joins JQ will not regret it.

Good luck with the recruitment drive, JQ. See you on the battlefield.

One of the best aspects of JQ is a lack of scrub zerg guilds, like Tsym, for instance. So, if you don’t like scrub zerg tactics (but is zerging a tactic?), come to JQ…if you enjoy that sort of thing, go to SoS and join Tsym. <3 In all seriousness though, we do fight against the odds and overwhelming numbers quite alot…good times.

Narkosys.5173:

crewthief.8649:

Latorn.4209:

Legendaries are supposed to be the highest achievement a player can get, a culmination of all their hardwork, and yet it’s purchasable with actually money (regardless of how much)? Terrible decision in my opinion.

Regardless of whether or not it’s horizontal progression or vertical progression, buying legendaries off the TP is Pay2Win.

What are you winning if you purchase a Legendary off the TP? A fashion show? Don’t be ridiculous, anyone who would have the gold to afford a Legendary, most certainly earned it.

Um I dont think so. It means you payed money for gems or bought from goldsellers. Maybe they exploited and have 10000g in their account. Now some have earned that much legitimately I dont think that is a large %.
So no I dont think they earned it. Using money shows what exactly? It doesnt mean they were dedicated or skillful or finished some herculean task to obtain it. They used their CC. (Not all of course but I would wager a majority).

And what you are buying is a BIS weapon that will be perpetually bumped to BIS no mater what forever. I suggest you look at Lindsey Marshalls post. It will be a grind free upgrade no matter what content is released. That is a huge advantage alone and a must for any long term player.

So if they bought gold through gems they didn’t earn it? You consider grinding in a videogame more work than actually working in the real world and earning a paycheck? Who are you to make that distinction? Get a job and come get back with me. Anyone who could afford to purchase that much gold with real world currency most certainly ‘earned it’, to be honest your opinion sounds very childish. It is an unbelievable time sink that some people cannot afford to indulge in.

Latorn.4209:

Legendaries are supposed to be the highest achievement a player can get, a culmination of all their hardwork, and yet it’s purchasable with actually money (regardless of how much)? Terrible decision in my opinion.

Regardless of whether or not it’s horizontal progression or vertical progression, buying legendaries off the TP is Pay2Win.

What are you winning if you purchase a Legendary off the TP? A fashion show? Don’t be ridiculous, anyone who would have the gold to afford a Legendary, most certainly earned it.

Ivonbeton.6814:

Charismatic Harm.9683:

All I see is….

“Boo hoo. Poor me.”

……over and over and over again.

What does it matter to you if someone can buy their Legendary from the TP? Does it matter to you because you chose to EQUIP yours instead of selling it and now you see how much money you could have made? Is it because you truly believe that it’s MORE “legendary” to have crafted this item than having bought it?

Who should be rewarded for crafting a Legendary….the owner or the crafter? Either way, the CRAFTER is being rewarded….either through being able to “show it off” or by receiving a great deal of money for it.

For those that will argue and quote a blog post by Arenanet, it makes NO DIFFERENCE who OWNS the Legendary. The person that crafted it HAD to accomplish a great many things in the game in order to acquire the pieces to craft it. Those crafters that chose to SELL theirs instead of equipping them CHOSE to allow someone else to have their “pretty shinies” shown off by another player in exchange for money. Good for them. That was THEIR choice!!!!!

ArenaNet has said a great many things. Some of them have been taken as misrepresentations. Some have been misunderstood. Some have shown they may take a different view of an original opinion.

ONE stands out to me though. ArenaNet has said from the beginning that they wanted the players to be able to play the way they want.

If one player chooses to make money to BUY a Legendary, rather than craft it….that’s their choice.

If one player chooses to craft a Legendary to EQUIP it…..that’s their choice.

If one player chooses to craft a Legendary to SELL it…..that’s their choice.

Who are we (you) to tell other players how to play a game that we (you) did not create. THAT is the job of ArenaNet.

Stop telling ArenaNet how to do their job and you do yours. Your job is to play the game. If you REALLY don’t like the way they do their job, stop playing the game.

I have no problem with people selling a legendary, because it doesn’t even make sense. What would u even do with that amount of money? I have a problem with the fact that some people seem to have that much money to spare while most of the player base has to save a lot to get a precursor and for some more casual or not tp-playing people it’s even something seemingly impossible.

So my problem is that the gw2 economy is rather crooked and out of balance due to either people who profited of glitches/bugs or used the ‘black market’ to gain an advantage. This is rather disheartening and dissapointing.

And tbh, I could only imagine people selling Twilight for the sake of gold-selling. Or am I wrong here?

So, you have a problem with successful people who earn a good living spending their money the way they want. Interesting.

Chuo.4238:

Seeing Legendaries on the TP has removed any incentive I had to craft a Legendary. They’re pointless now, because they can just be bought with gold (or real money!).

Now when I see a person with a Legendary, I don’t know if they actually earned it, or just bought it. So, to me, having a Legendary is a waste of time and money. There’s no proof that “I earned this” at all.

Such a waste. I feel bad for the people who actually worked their butts off so they could have a prestigious Legendary. Their accomplishment has been cheapened.

My suggestion to ArenaNet:

1) Make all legendaries soulbound upon being created.

2) Get rid of the gems-to-gold conversion on the TP. It’s just not right that people with disposable income can just buy anything with real money, and take away the pride of accomplishment that everyone else would have had in acquiring rare skins.

So, if someone works a full-time job and doesn’t have the time to grind and grind for hours on end, they shouldn’t be able to convert gems to gold if they so desire? Let me clear something up for you here…not everyone has the time that you apparently do, and for alot of people, time is a more valuable resource than money. You somehow believe that sitting in front of your computer grinding for hours on end means you earned it, while the guy that bought the gold spent hours and hours hard at work, but he didn’t earn it? Stop being so selfish.

Yeah, this really does seem to be something that would be a basic feature on the TP. In a game where appearance is a primary motivator for gearing up, I have to open GW2 wiki and search items so that I know what they look like prior to purchase.

KensaiZen.3740:

In terms of WvW, yes they are.

WvW turned into a ranged war between all the classes. Now warriors and thiefs get some nice buffs for speed and attack speed. Guardians who already had low mobility can’t chase, can’t shoot back. The only thing we had going was to survive bursts and stay alive for a s long as possible to try and chase down other classes.

We got no mobility buffs but got nerfed for survivability instead. Somehow it doesn’t seem right. It’s forcing guardian players to run in zergs. in small skirmish or 1v1 combat we will get destroyed.

See a Guardian, get out your bow and kite kite kite kite.

Perhaps their intention is to not have everyone play bunker builds. Well kitten, if we weren’t so bad at everything else. Perhaps we wouldn’t have to.

We aren’t obsolete in WvW. Stop being so melodramatic. I push and collapse the enemys’ front line on a very reular basis, playing one of the only classes that are even capable of that. I understand you don’t like the changes to Vigorous Precision, neither do I…but to completely disregard the class altogether, is disingenuous at best. If YOU feel completely outclassed in WvW, perhaps you need to reevaluate your playstyle.

KensaiZen.3740:

I don’t think the nerf would affect PvE’ers that much. But its game breaking for WvW and PvP for guardians. Especially those with AH builds.

Guardians before patch – Decent melee damage, great defence, great survivability. The only draw backs were its speed and lack of range effectiveness.

Guardians after patch – Decent melee damage, great defence, ok survivability. The draw backs are, worse speed in game and lack of range effectiveness. All other classes can kite the kitten out of a guardian.

Sure we have wall of reflection, but all they have to do is not shoot you for 5 seconds or AoE you then kite you some more. WvW is totally broken for guardian. Guardians can only take the role of Siege commander. Every other job is pointless. Even then, all the enemy has to do is stay at range and shoot you on the sieges. Cant catch em now and they don’t need to come get you either.

Im not too bothered about AH changes in PvE. I think we were a tiny bit OP before being able to face tank bosses. But the game is now turning into PvEwars2.

Though I fail to see the logic in this.

Lets build a guardian. He should be tanky and have high survivability so lets not give him high burst damage. He should be good at melee because he is a soldier class so he has to be rubbish at ranged. Ok lets give him healing and boons as his ace card.

People are complaining about guardians…what do we do? well…. they are pretty mediocre at everything else.. anymore nerfs there would make the players more kitten off. I know, lets nerf the one good thing about them.

Well done, coupled with the other BUFFS to other classes (didn’t really think they needed them anyway) Anet has now made the guardian an obselete class.

Obsolete class? Seems a bit extreme to me, in fact…it seems completely extreme.

Harbinger.8637:

crewthief.8649:

Glektor.2934:

Bit off-topic, but:

I’ve seen the basic photo on the net of Infinite Light, and it looks great.
My question, though, is, does Infinite Light have any type of graphical effects? Other than the glowing runes on the sword?

Well, according to Wiki it leaves some sort of trail of gold dust…if I interpreted it correctly. Perfect Guardian sword if you ask me, possibly moreso than Bolt.

Infinite Light + The Flameseeker Prophecies would be an amazing combo. Love to have it on my Guardian….

I can dream.

You and me both! Man, that’d be an awesome combo.

Heartnet.5340:

I intended to go for Infinite Light at first but that was WAYYYY beyond my budget. So I ended up getting Firebringer. Nice blade. Can be crafted for less than 50G I believe. Took me a couple of weeks of farming for the orichalcum.

Nice man. Yeah, i’m in the same boat…Infinite Light is just out of the question for me at the moment. I’m wondering how Firebringer would look on a Guard. HAS to be better than alot of the plain looking Longsword designs.

SoPP.7034:

@ Jahva

Your grub is not the problem.

JQ came within 4k of 1st so SoS will make a point of keeping JQ down, concurrently SBI will want to ensure that they stay t1 so they will hit against JQ to maintain that. This will continue for the rest of the week unless significant changes occur and SBI creates an unassailable lead over JQ in 2nd. Most likely next week it will be SBI getting doubled teamed.

I wonder if anyone at ArenaNet is familiar with Games Theory. If they did they’d recognise the pointlessness of ‘outbreak’ it’s a small fix to a much bigger problem.

You can’t stop human behaviour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

Oh, because in prior weeks SoS has gone easy on JQ? LOL. Nice theory, not much truth however. 2v1 scenarios pop up all the time, to all three servers…that is nothing new. My guess is alot of peeps are doing this Wintersday event thing, or maybe just taking a breather. It’s been a good 3-4 straight weeks of tough fighting since SoS came to T1.

Glektor.2934:

Bit off-topic, but:

I’ve seen the basic photo on the net of Infinite Light, and it looks great.
My question, though, is, does Infinite Light have any type of graphical effects? Other than the glowing runes on the sword?

Well, according to Wiki it leaves some sort of trail of gold dust…if I interpreted it correctly. Perfect Guardian sword if you ask me, possibly moreso than Bolt.

Ganzo.5079:

crewthief.8649:

Ganzo.5079:

crewthief.8649:

You don’t have to run a staff. Get Knights gear, mix in some Valkyrie for +crit damage and + vitality, pick up Empowering Might, get some Omnomberry Pie, drop a Superior Sigil of Blood in one or both of your weapons. You’ll be fine. You have to change up a bit, sure, but you do not HAVE to run a staff in order to run an AH build.

You know that every class can use this?
Omnom berry pie and sigil of blood have nothing to do with AH build… you dont need AH to run this combo so its not a solution to the problem.

Of course I know any class can use this. The sky isn’t falling down Ganzo, take some meds or something. I’m offering a work-around to the player stating that he doesn’t want to use the staff. You’ll note, I also included Empowering Might in my post…or did you just flatly dismiss that part?

But you cant say that AH work fine, and suggest a combo that have nothing related to AH.
For empowering might, its good indeed for the NON hammer builds but take a master honor trait on a non hammer build can have a negative side.(honor is the HAMMER traitline) When with vigorous precision, the combo was on the same traitline, so after maxed valor, you can choose you own build.

If VP + AH is OP, i have no problem with a nerf, but not a Mindless nerf that maybe will be “fixed” the next Month.

I dunno, I was running AH, with Empowering Might, Hammer build before the patch, built defensively (Knights gear w/ mix of Valkyrie), i’ve not noticed much of a change in my survivability. And I generally don’t run the staff. I agree, the change to VP was probably a bit much, but at the end of the day, an AH Hammer build is still exceedingly viable and one of the better builds Guardians have.

Ganzo.5079:

crewthief.8649:

You don’t have to run a staff. Get Knights gear, mix in some Valkyrie for +crit damage and + vitality, pick up Empowering Might, get some Omnomberry Pie, drop a Superior Sigil of Blood in one or both of your weapons. You’ll be fine. You have to change up a bit, sure, but you do not HAVE to run a staff in order to run an AH build.

You know that every class can use this?
Omnom berry pie and sigil of blood have nothing to do with AH build… you dont need AH to run this combo so its not a solution to the problem.

Of course I know any class can use this. The sky isn’t falling down Ganzo, take some meds or something. I’m offering a work-around to the player stating that he doesn’t want to use the staff. You’ll note, I also included Empowering Might in my post…or did you just flatly dismiss that part?

Koga.7215:

crewthief.8649:

Empowering Might + omnomberry pie + Superior Sigil of Blood, is still very good survivability. If you haven’t tried it yet, it’s highly suggested. I’m just thinking that they basically made Empowering Might a requirement for maximizing an AH build now.

On a completely unrelated side note…why on Earth haven’t I levelled a Thief, they got buffed this patch! LMAO!

if your having a hard time surviving with this minor change, Thief would absolutely not be the class for you.

Um, i’m actually in this thread disputing those that are suggesting our survivability was severely nerfed with this current patch. I’m surviving fine. Thieves aren’t much of a problem for my build. But looking around at all the Thief QQ threads, I find it funny to say the least, that they got buffed. Survival on a Thief is easymode dude. Waste your time on something else, because you aren’t going to convince me that the Thief class is difficult to play.

Nike.2631:

snicker If anyone sells Infinite Light for less than 800 gold, they’re taking a huge loss just on the loadstones, much less the orichalcum blades and skill points invested to make one.

The offers up on the TP are absurdly low. Bad comedy absurdly low.

I’d certainly agree, they are exceptionally low. The lodestones alone are 957G if purchased off the TP. The skin is amazing looking though, have you seen it? I’m sure I couldn’t affored the price, that’s why i’m relying on my charming personality, LOL. In all honesty however, seeing as how Infinite Light is something of a more longterm goal for me, i’m thinking Firebringer could be much more economically viable. The concept for my Guardian is definitely heavily influenced by the D&D style Paladin, so either of those swords would look excellent on the character.

Azzan.1650:

Balthalzar.6243:

Because game-play always changes as something gets buffed/nerfed

Yeah but i hate this gameplay, it is boring to stand with the ranged class and watch the fight…

Gameplay doesn’t change ! It is only one gameplay destroyed, and forcing a player to play an other way.

You don’t have to run a staff. Get Knights gear, mix in some Valkyrie for +crit damage and + vitality, pick up Empowering Might, get some Omnomberry Pie, drop a Superior Sigil of Blood in one or both of your weapons. You’ll be fine. You have to change up a bit, sure, but you do not HAVE to run a staff in order to run an AH build.

Has anyone crafted either of these swords? There are a bunch of buy orders in the BLTC, but neither are actually available for purchase. I am not a crafter myself, but would especially love to get my hands on Infinite Light. Please PM me and we could maybe discuss a price.

Daedalus Palamaon.8934:

doomie.3928:

Any thoughts on any modifications/new builds now that AH has taken a sizeable nerf? Would a meditation-based Monk’s Focus build be better now? Or perhaps this makes Empowering Might crucial to maintain AH healing?

Yeah I was wondering that too. Was playing my guardian today and really didn’t notice that much of a healing difference as I know how to dodge out of the way. For me, standing there and just tanking it while dishing it out needed the nerf :/

Anyway I have somewhat switched my build a little to using this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUEQJARSlcgiDXFSLEf4ESWhVC7BGlRw31DICDbIA;ToAg1CnowyglALLWOskYt+Y8B

The empowering might still heals us, blasting combo fields still heals us – I really don/t think the build has changed much?

I agree. I think, if anything, the changes have forced players that want to just stand there and facetank to switch up their strategy. I was running Empowering Might before the patch, along with the lifesteal food Omnomberry Pie…noticing very little change in my survivability.

Empowering Might + omnomberry pie + Superior Sigil of Blood, is still very good survivability. If you haven’t tried it yet, it’s highly suggested. I’m just thinking that they basically made Empowering Might a requirement for maximizing an AH build now.

On a completely unrelated side note…why on Earth haven’t I levelled a Thief, they got buffed this patch! LMAO!

stof.9341:

crewthief.8649:

Thank you for giving everyone an example of ‘obtuse’. Where, exactly, did I suggest nerfing the class into an unplayable state?

Well, right here :

1, nerf all thief’s skills damage (e.g. 50%);

And to counter that, the thief needs to put like, 60 trait points into various trait lines to restore it’s damage to normal values? You just destroyed the class from level 1 to 70 and that’s not even checking how horrible the suggestion is for level 80.

Um…that was the OP, not me. Are you trying to doctor quotes using me as a scapegoat or something, LOL. Read the thread man, you clearly attached your ‘proof’ from another posters comment.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

crewthief.8649:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Star Ace.5207:

Hammer is good as-is, the “clunkiness” is part of its playstyle, and is very, very powerful in its “slow” guise. People shouldn’t be able to jump, dodge out of the ring (IMHO, not sure if the developers’ agree), but everything else is great with the hammer, in my estimation.

The problem isn’t that hammer is slow but that it’s slow and it sucks. It does crap damage so until that is fixed the hammer is pretty much exclusively for control. It’s kind of dumb that a pure control weapon has such an obvious flaw in its most important control ability.

There’s an easy fix though. Don’t use the hammer.

You obviously just don’t know how to use it. Please don’t use your lack of skill as a basis for wholesale condemnation. There are plenty of people, myself included, who have alot of success with the Hammer.

For what it’s worth, I just literally just AFK’d the CoF1 final boss with hammer. Walked into range, started swinging, made a late-night coffee and came back and boss was dead. So there is that I guess.

I think I could probably AFK that boss with a greatsword too though.

Well, that really is neither here, nor there. You make a claim on the internet, that may or may not be true. Fact of the matter is, I see alot of silly hate from you, on these forums, regarding anything that ISN’T the GS. And to be honest, i’m just not sure what the point of your crusade is. I get where you’re going with the GS, i’ve used it…it’s excellent for what it does, but it isn’t the weapon I choose to use on a regular basis. Call it play style, or whatever you like. I’ve found using and mastering the Hammer to be a much more rewarding experience, and from what i’ve seen, there’s alot more depth to it. Hammer is most certainly NOT an easy weapon to use successfully (in PvP), and I can see how some people may be put off by it when a much easier option, mechanically speaking (GS), is available.

Niim.9260:

crewthief.8649:

Mesmers have been ‘adjusted’, and so will Thieves, no two ways about it. Please, Thief players, stop being so obtuse and own up to some of this.

The problem is that these posts are not engaging and honest discussions of the class. They are generally uninformed drivel with little basis on reality, filled with suggestions that have no interest in a playable class as the outcome. You expect an honest discussion while throwing a mountain of trash on the forums to talk around. Surprise, you get trash posts in response.

I see little value in posting intelligent, well thought out views on what should be fixed with the thief class, both good and bad, when it is generally just a witch hunt.

Thank you for giving everyone an example of ‘obtuse’. Where, exactly, did I suggest nerfing the class into an unplayable state? Are you saying you wouldn’t be able to play a Thief well if they were brought in line with other classes in the game? Your class is overpowered, it isn’t a witch hunt…stop playing the victim here. Do you know what a noob tube is?

Aso.9624:

@OP

Exploit??? How can something that is working as intended be an exploit.

I hope you’re not referring to culling/rendering as ‘working as intended’.

ViRuE.3612:

CRrabbit.1284:

I highly doubt the culling issue can be fixed easily since it’s more like a game engine problem. Therefore, skill/trait change sounds more doable to fix the unbalanced situation right now especially in wvw.
Main complain comes from thief’s benefit/risk ratio which caused by stealth.
How about this way:
1, nerf all thief’s skills damage (e.g. 50%);
2, change trait skills and increase trait bonus (e.g. 200% if you max it to balance the skill damage nerf).
So if a thief want to get the deadly power to burst someone down quickly, then he has to go for high damage trait, but consequently he won’t get out of battle easily. It’s more like an assasin-like build — you die or I die.
And if thief want to get out of battle easily, then he shouldn’t have enough damage to take someone down. So it makes thief-like build — I come and go when ever I want, but what I do is just annoying you but not killing you.

You just broke PVE, but whatever – I’ll bite, sure lets do it. But I’ll also want warriors HP pool, heavy armor and a couple of defensive cooldowns in to the bargain because I no longer have ways to avoid the fight or mitigate damage and we have the lowest HP in the game.

Then it seems only fair to throw in some more weapon options (dual wield swords and something that hits at 1200 range for a start) and fix pistols.

Finally to round out the class I’d like to be able to choose from new skills that can, say, create clones, drop wells, summon pets, blink etc. And something brand new too.

And THEN… I want to drink everyones tears when all the QQ merchants are still coming on here to complain about thieves whatever happens to them:)

Funny, under most circumstances, this post would be kind of cute I suppose, but not this time. Honestly, look around…there are SO many posts about Thieves in WvW/sPvP, it seems kind of ignorant to simply label it QQ. The amount of mobility (best in the game), survivability (give me an example of another classes survivability that rivals or bests the ability TO NOT BE SEEN), and damage output (among the best burst in the game), is simply too much to be rolled up in to one class. For those defending all of this, honestly, you really should try and look at this from an objective point of view. Mesmers have been ‘adjusted’, and so will Thieves, no two ways about it. Please, Thief players, stop being so obtuse and own up to some of this.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Star Ace.5207:

Hammer is good as-is, the “clunkiness” is part of its playstyle, and is very, very powerful in its “slow” guise. People shouldn’t be able to jump, dodge out of the ring (IMHO, not sure if the developers’ agree), but everything else is great with the hammer, in my estimation.

The problem isn’t that hammer is slow but that it’s slow and it sucks. It does crap damage so until that is fixed the hammer is pretty much exclusively for control. It’s kind of dumb that a pure control weapon has such an obvious flaw in its most important control ability.

There’s an easy fix though. Don’t use the hammer.

You obviously just don’t know how to use it. Please don’t use your lack of skill as a basis for wholesale condemnation. There are plenty of people, myself included, who have alot of success with the Hammer.

Was there ever any question? Thieves, for the obvious reasons.

Raven Paradox.1860:

I’m a Thief. I use shortbow in WvW and Daggers in PvE. Only time I use daggers is when we’re chasing an enemy and I’m losing my zerg because they’re chasing him too much, so I put an end to his life.

As for Daggerstorm… I use it when portal bombing. Get 5 thieves in a PB using that and GG.

Based on most of the posts you’ve made in the past few months, it makes perfect sense to me that you play a Thief.

Please. (Can’t get on at the moment)

Bump for current score…

Why isn’t this stickied?

Leal.4973:

Yeah don’t buff guards, I love being able to solo them as a ranger. Circle strafe, circle strafe, circle strafe, if only the US army learned of this technique we would have no problems at all with war!

I’m not even sure what your last statement means. Pretty silly to be honest.

Jedbacca.6297:

I may be quite hungover, but I do remember one thing I asked last night. “Can we leave Garrison open on the outer gates to have JQ and SoS keep flowing in? This is fun!” This was on JQ BL last night btw.

I was in EB last night, and the fighting around Pangloss between us and SBI was awesome. Constant “push/pull” struggle.

Nothing to see here, just another group of locusts. All these team-stacking TA guilds hopping from server to server, “looking for a challenge”…they lack staying power, and that means something. TA was together on HoD for what, a month? If that? They spent an awful lot of time touting their “30-0 record”, which consisted of a multitude of 24 hour matches (some of these matches were even less than 24 hours), then spent the rest of their time in GW2 hopping servers. Not impressed. SoS, you should be fine, the bandwagoners were the least of your problems. In my opinion, the continued existence of these disloyal guilds that change direction with the shifting sand, are worse. If you’re bemoaning the loss of PRX from SoS, let me ask you a question; What about the players that originated on servers like HoD and ET, who were basically abandoned and left to slowly plummet down through the rankings, getting pounded week in and week out? The players and guilds that stuck around there, are far more deserving of respect, in my opinion.

And for those saying that these guilds are leaving because there “is nothing to do in WvW”; what about PvP? Honestly, if you aren’t playing WvW for the player versus player interaction, you’re something other than a PvPer. I’ll submit to you that these guilds are in fact frivolous, and chase the next shiny thing. This is good for GW2, it’s what it takes for the game to mature. Get rid of the pretenders and the ACTUAL GW2 community will develop and prosper. We’re getting closer to that every time a guild in the vein of Ruin, leaves the game. Good times ahead peeps.

I second what some of the other posters in this thread have stated, Omnomberry with 45%-50% crit chance is awesome. Throw in Sigil of Superior Blood for increased silliness.

Seraphim.7250:

Christos de Soufre.3802:

Big upgrade since my first post. Still unsure of the dye scheme, but here she is. T3 cultural w/ Fiery Dragon Sword.

Just wondering what that color scheme you have is. Been looking for a better Gold other than Antique Gold. I like that scheme.

Maybe give bronze a try. It looks pretty good on the Tier 3 cultural.

Tammuz.7361:

RavenWind.9283:

Tier1 isnt fun??!! Beemer(BMW) has no clue what he’s talking about. Tier1 is where the most active, most competitive WvW goes on. That’s why its Tier 1. Heck in his own post he talks about joining Tier 1 by knocking somebody out. Now at SBI we like that kind of spirit and we hope to see BG in Tier 1 one day. But that day aint today.

1) bandwagoneers
2) if your winning and your not SBI or JQ you MUST be “hacking” or “exploiting” and your server is a hacking or exploiting server
3) other servers putting bots in your BL to generate queues
4) smear campaigns on the forums
5) if your 1 big guild (WM) gets burnt out, you wind up getting crushed

why the heck would BG WANT to go back to tier 1 right now?

Ah, the tears of the defeated! You guys haven’t been up in Tier 1 for weeks, you really should let it go and move on with your lives.

I believe Hammer, when built correctly (Crithammer, AH build), gives GS a serious run for its money. Hammer hits extremely hard, and also happens to come with the best burst skill of any Guardian weapon. Hammer paired off with Sword + Focus/Shield, is extremely effective.

Can anyone post a score that isn’t 14 hours old please?

Peetee.9406:

You only feel you have poor presence because you’re playing against SBI and SoS.

You probably have the 4th largest Oceanic population behind those two and IoJ, besides your server is full and locked.

You obviously don’t know what you’re talking about, so why comment in a thread that doesn’t concern you? Full AND locked, huh?

Bump for JQs awesomeness.

I like Null Field for WvW, as it will remove more than one condition if you can manage to stay in it for a bit, plus it’s a combo field.

In my experience, Illusionary Leap/swap is very finicky. I pretty much wait until i’m on top of the target to trigger it, and it works for me MOST of the time. I sometimes use Pistol #5 to set it up. It seems to be much more reliable if you trigger it within melee range, or as close to melee range as you can get.

wads.5730:

crewthief.8649:

I’m just glad I stuck with Staff/Sword + Pistol and never really bothered with GS. With all the QQ regarding the izerker, you guys didn’t see a nerf coming?

this thread has been about the bug that was introduced with the LOS nerf.

Yeah, I got that…but there’s been quite a bit of off the rail discussion regarding the nerf. I’m certainly not defending our nerfs, but it definitely didn’t surprise me that it happened.

I’m just glad I stuck with Staff/Sword + Pistol and never really bothered with GS. With all the QQ regarding the izerker, you guys didn’t see a nerf coming?