Guild Wars 2

Ninein.4782:

Old FA would’ve been perfect with DB and Mag.

Not sure if this would be true. There just would have been more even pvdooring. Mag/DB would divy up the daytime points, NA prime would be competitive, overnight FA would pvdoor. That does not sound more fun, just more even points wise. FA could really make a push in T2 if we could get some of that sweet, sweet daytime coverage you’all got on your server. How did you get so many transient laborers onto your servers?

How is it possible that they can answer a question about bank npcs in the map within an hour but cannot tell us something as simple as how many players are in a map?

It would simply be nice to know the numbers. The way a map is played depends greatly on how many people you can get in there. If for instance there can only be 60-80 people on a map, then zerging becomes much less effective. What other game expects you to develop a pvp strategy while at the same time not telling you how many people you have to work with?

Lets keep this thread civil but bumped to the top. I think we all want to know what the current map population limits are. This greatly effects how we play the game, keeping us in the dark is not helping anyone and is aggravating the population base.

Just want to say GL to all three servers, we had a great matchup with Mag and DB last week. Show Kaenig what T3 is all about!

I only have 1 thing to say:
Nyspar, I’m coming for you. I’ll be roaming the maps looking for that warrior trailing black footsteps, can’t wait to see if my pvp skills have evolved in any way.

Folk.2093:

hi Drtoph! ^^

login and guard my siege?

kidding, kidding…

quite the dookie storm I stirred up there, eh?

Is anyone else from FA thoroughly amused that we are the zerg server now? So long in this tier and we finally reach the pinnacle of T3, being the server that the other two servers complain about for being too zergy, while we sit here and try to justify our skill.

My thought is this, the meta is stupid, go look for fun however you find it, do that for a few hours then log.

crystalpink.2487:

drtoph.4857:

Dylninja.4216:

Thats why i play necro.
i’m useless

Could be worse, you could have rolled ranger

I’m a necro and a ranger, so I guess I’m super useless. Yay! \o/

lol, now I really feel like a donkey.

Dylninja.4216:

Thats why i play necro.
i’m useless

Could be worse, you could have rolled ranger

Foss.4830:

Tell your commander to learn how to counter trebs. Its fine to be asked to do it for a few minutes while they go and take it out. 30+ minutes though i would just walk away and blame the commander for being incompetent.

You do realize that if for instance you are trebbing hills from the NE supply camp that there are places the enemy can put trebucets within the Hills keep that you cannot counter, don’t you? If you are for instance, interested in taking a fully upgraded hills from that position, you will first need to drain the keep of supply, then break the fortified wall, all the while having an ele rotation protecting your trebs. This is just one example where the commander is not incompetent at all, but still would require ele’s to sit there for a long while.

The idea that it takes an organized group to do this is ridiculous. We often have 3 eles from 3 different guilds spontaneously pick up the rotation. Its not that tricky, and can be accomplished by any pug army. The hostility that this has generated is quite hilarious to me. Of course, i must be a no-talented hack job player incapable of understanding how to play my class, in order to suggest something like this. Bottom line, its boring. However, I am not going to gimp my team by failing to do something that gives such a great advantage. Either give the ability to other classes or get rid of it. Equating this to mesmer portal does not fly in my book. First off, good portalling requires skill. Secondly, you can use other means besides portal to flank groups.

kerona.3465:

Just don’t do it if you don’t want to. Nobody’s holding a gun to your head.

Some ele’s enjoy being useful to their team.

If you think this is the only way to be useful to your team, I feel bad for you. Of course you are right, I could just not do it, and then let our treb/wall/cata/etc fall. Given those two choices I will most certainly make the decision to sit on treb duty. I am simply stating that I would rather not be put into the position to have to make that decision. Either nerf it, or give the ability back to guardians as well. It was not that long ago that they were the ones forced to babysit trebs, I say let them have all that glory back.

I say this as an ele, who has to sit baby sitting walls and trebs far too often. Please please please Anet nerf swirling winds. It is boring as kitten to sit and hit 4 every 30 seconds for 30+ minutes. I think all my elementalist friends out there would agree we would rather be fighting.

Look everyone, the only thing the score has anything to do with is population, shocking I know. Given that stop worrying about the score, go out and have fun with your guild. The only measure of skill you can possibly have is how well you do on campaign nights when you are rolling with your crew. Its those great battles that I play for, not what the board says at the end of the week. IF we could get GvG then we might have a metric to compare skill, but when there is no population equalization we are talking about numbers pure and simple, trying to make it look like anything else just makes you look foolish

I love this forum, its the only thing that keeps me entertained all the day long, while crunching boring numbers.

Zias.2493:

drtoph.4857:

You guys(TC) are upset b/c for the first time in a month you are having to deal with what YB, CD and FA has had to deal with the entire time. We have all had both opposing servers in our backyard for the last 3.5 weeks. Its easy to talk about superior defense when no one is attacking your shizz, not so easy now is it? Get used to it, I’m gunning for you TC. Before you say it, no its not because I want to move up a tier, its b/c of all the mess you have been talking on the forums the past few weeks. Look forward to seeing you and all that superior defense, I imagine I will be wiping that smug smile off the bottom of my boot.

Do you even read the posts before yours before you spew this babble? FA where all your conspiracy theories, hypocrisy, and alt f4 dreams can come true! Oh and last I checked you’re still in 3rd

So you deny the fact that for the most part during the last 3.5 weeks you BL stayed green with the exception of a supply camp here or there? I am not suggesting that any of that occurred due to any kind of alliance, I am just saying that you have not truly had to play defense for the last month. Anytime that one of the other servers waltzed into your BL they would pay for it by having both of their enemies in their home BL rolling in force (rightly acting opportunistically). However, for the first time in a few weeks you get to experience both servers hitting you on your BL, as our servers have less population this meant that that was the only BL where we(FA and CD) could be hitting during that time and we could feel relatively safe doing this. Hence, both our respective BL’s remained safe from the opportunistic attacks or potential 2 v 1’s.

But I digress, my point was that for all the big talk that has been bandied about on these forums about how superior your defense is, and how marvelously awe inspiring your tactics are, that superior defense and amazing tactics saw you pushed back to your spawn. As I said, it is not so easy when you have both other servers pushing in your home territory, this is how YB, FA and I imagine CD have all felt in the recent match ups.

You guys(TC) are upset b/c for the first time in a month you are having to deal with what YB, CD and FA has had to deal with the entire time. We have all had both opposing servers in our backyard for the last 3.5 weeks. Its easy to talk about superior defense when no one is attacking your shizz, not so easy now is it? Get used to it, I’m gunning for you TC. Before you say it, no its not because I want to move up a tier, its b/c of all the mess you have been talking on the forums the past few weeks. Look forward to seeing you and all that superior defense, I imagine I will be wiping that smug smile off the bottom of my boot.

I would just like to point out, to everyone who has been saying that TC is some unstoppable force, THEY AIN’T. TC has been able to win the upgrade race at the start of every match, they have been able to field unholy numbers of people through sunday every week and due to this they have forced #2 &3 servers to duke it out between themselves, because those were the only two borderlands where they could take things due to the fact that those towers/keeps did not have fortified walls and were not bristling with siege. This resulted in TC having an amazingly fortified BL, as well as their 1/3 of EB and the other two servers fighting not only each other, but also TC whenever they decided to hop around the BL maps. Now that the shoe is on the other foot and it is TC who is forced to defend from an inferior position we shall see how it plays out. All I am trying to say here is that none of the servers in the matchups YB, CD or FA, should ever think that they cannot push on the first place server. Sure, did it take a huge effort to bash down those fortified walls all over the TC borderland? Yes. But as a result there are now possibilities to take things on all 3 BL maps and in EB. Great job last night CD and FA!

It feels like an early christmas when I wake up to this.

Just wanted to put things in perspective for everyone complaining about how untouchable TC is. Right now they have a 20k lead, 20k is nothing. Has everyone already forgotten all the weeks where it was common to see a server end Sunday with 100k+ points on the other two servers? Heck, last week we came back from a 15k deficit to beat out Yaks for 2nd. A few weeks ago we made a decent run at coming back from a 100k+ deficit. All I am saying is this is still anyone’s game. This match is close, its close enough where we could all still give TC a run for its money. So, why don’t we do that, or am I the only one getting tired of reading the condescending posts by these TC forum jockey’s about how they have out grown this tier and we can all learn from their shining example?

The part that is the most annoying is not that the thief and necro whine about ele, that is expected, its the fact that the freaking dev is sitting there nodding his head right along with their qq. None of those people even main ele’s. If you are going to take advice from someone of balance, why not ask a top player who actually mains an ele what they think. Instead of the button spamming thief.

I would also like to throw my name in the hat. Any member of FA who has any questions at all in WvW please feel free to send me a tell. I am always happy to help. We are all out there to have fun, the better prepared that our players are, the more fun we are all having.

I posted about this just yesterday. The build I use and the armor/weapon set-up is described. Powerful aura’s is an amazing trait. If the group you run with is used to it, you can make a devestating frontline push if you throw in a couple of guardians, a banner warrior and a 2H hammer warrior. The enemy will melt in seconds. Here is the link.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/d-d-aura-share-WvW-elementalist/first#post875100

Doesn’t hit soft at all. Although you do need the fury and might stacks to really pack a punch. It quite easy to get 10-12 stacks of might up on your own, using burning speed, flame circle and earthquake +arcane blast, and of course the might from the attunement swap. But like I said this build definitely requires synergy from other classes to be effective. With my banner warrior and the staff guardians buffing I can get the 25 stacks of might up pretty quick and then hit like a truck.

I would note however, that the main purpose of this build is to push up and disrupt the front line of the opposition with cc, which you have a ton of air 5, earth 4, air 3, water 4, water 3….I think you get the picture. So the goal of this build is to get in there and break up the opponents. Then let your glass canon friends roll in behind you and get the killing started.

The point of this build is to run up on the frontline with my guardians and warriors in WvW and help facilitate our pushes. I think that this aura share build is pretty awesome for that purpose. Being able to apply shocking aura onto your entire frontline while pushing into a group of the enemy is fairly devestaing, not even mentioning the buffs that you give out when you do this (fury/prot/swiftness). Just wanted to share with the community.
The trait set up is in the link below:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhMmkblx5gjEAkHmcSJDFiEiowDlCzA
with 10 air/20earth/30water/10 arcana

For gear I run
p/v/t exotics in the armor slots
clerics in the accessory positions
p/v/t backpack with a carrion based jewel
For the armor runes I run the 2x Monk, 2x Superior Water, 2x Major Water
Weapons
carrion daggers
Sigil of Bloodlust
Sigil of Battle
carrion daggers
20% buff duration food.

This is a build which sacrifices some of the beaf-y-ness thatis currently the rage for d/d ele’s but it definitely gives a ton of options to your team play. You can still face tank loads of people fairly well if that is your thing, but you will be required to be smart about attunement swapping since you only have 10 in arcana. I’ll post a video when I am not so lazy and get something together. If you run with an organized group, give this a shot, your guardians and warriors will thanks you for it. If you run with them, you will et all your conditions cleansed and still be able to get your 25 stacks of might (particularly if you get the pleasure of running with a banner warrior). Any suggestions are appreciated, flaming….not so much.

All FA WvW’ers. These match ups are what it is all about. This is why we played when we won or lost by a land slide, this is why we played through terrible tiers, this is why we played when there were 4 other people on the map. There are literally people to kill everywhere you look these last two weeks. Objectives to take or defend wherever you look. If you ask me, this is awesome! If people want to double team us(not that I necessarily believe this is the case), why should we be upset by that? It’s simply more bodies on the ground after we roll on through. I for one am happy with where we are at and have had as much fun these last two weeks as I had in the headstart when there were battles to be fought everywhere you looked. Lets step up to the challenge and enjoy it while we can, before we know it we will be bumped up or down a tier and be in one of those landslide matches, which I do not believe anyone wants.

TC and Yaks great fighting this is definitely what WvW is all about!

great nerf something that makes it actually enjoyable to use the staff, sigh

I would not feel bad for anyone just yet. As someone who hops on late into the night on occasion I can say that although the transfers we have received have helped, I do not think that we have the same overnight numbers as TC and YB just yet. Should see some great battle raging around the clock this time around all the same.

To all the FA’ers who are already predicting we are going to lose the T3 match-up, quit your whining and put your big boy pants on. We are 1 day away from what has the potential to be an amazing match. It may be true that we do not have the overnight numbers we would hope for when getting this double rematch, but from what I can tell many guilds on our server have made some adjustments to run well past NA primetime to make up for the lack of late night/early morning coverage. We need to put in a strong effort Fri/Sat/Sun because our weekday crews can rock TC and YB. Lets see how well TC can RP a curb stomping shall we. Now hopefully I won’t have to come back into this post to harass the FA proletariat for maintaining a defeatist attitude before the match has even started.

To the DH and HoD players on this forum that keep saying FA does not have good tactics, why would we waste time using high end tactics on you guys, when we can so obviously faceroll into your gates without consequences.

Fort Aspenwood, looking great out there. Lets use this week wisely to get ready for the rematch we have all been looking forward to. No matter what any of the people on the forums say, we know that our comebacks are due to our improvement as a server, and getting our player base to actually show up in WvW. Yaks, keep the forum poo flinging coming, all it does is get us riled up and thirsty for blood.

Getting this same error, ports forwarded, AVG dissabled as suggested and still getting this error. Any help appreciated.,