Guild Wars 2

Zenyatoo.4059:

Again in short:
The only team who should be getting 2v1’d is the people in first. If this isnt happening, then some team is playing stupidly, and by god i’m going to point them out and ask what the heck they think they’re doing. ;p

Completely wrong. Mainly because there are many other reasons to attack, eg. the team is already being attacked, they lack the manpower to defend so it’s easier to take, or the zerg is simply in full zerg mode and hits whatever they see. Your also forgetting this is a game on 4 maps with there own battles going on. If one server is trebbing another server, it makes zero difference what score the server has, they’re going to attack where that treb is period. I honestly don’t know what your expecting. This isn’t 1v1, its 1v1v1. By definition, every server is fighting 2v1.

Current score update:

“What can we do about it?”

You want an honest answer? Ok:

(1) Stop using turtles. You can call it a “tactic” all you want, but it exploits the game’s AOE cap. Thing is, I haven’t even seen it help much as far as actual gameplay goes, since you can’t exactly siege with a turtle, it’s more annoying than anything. The people who do it seem to just like the satisfaction of standing around being immune.

(2) Stop talking about 2v1. Seriously. It makes you look very new. JQ and SBI have been rivals forever, we’ve never had nor will ever have an alliance of any kind, because we both want to win. Server’s usually attack the other server that’s weakest, being attacked already, or has more points. It’s how 1v1v1 is played.

(3) Stop calling yourself Beastgate. Honestly it makes you guys look like you’re 12 years old. All the chest thumping and egos do not help people to like you. Just play the game. If you win, show respect to your opponents; if you lose, show respect to your opponents.

While I prefer the orb removal to the orbs staying as is, I agree with the general sentiment that there needs to be more to WvW. I wasn’t in the betas but if it’s true that no WvW content has been added in 6 months then that’s really depressing, and it makes me wonder what exactly are the devs doing? Maybe I’m mistaken in expecting new content like that because we don’t pay a monthly fee? But WvW really needs some new elements to shake things up and keep it interesting.

I agree with the multitude of people here that think the orb bonus and the outmanned bonus should simply be switched, problem solved. Why isn’t this being done?

People seem to hate the time limit huh. I barely do jump puzzles in general but I found the clocktower fun BECAUSE of the time limit. Believe me I gave up at first too, but I went back later, put a few hours into it, and the thing is positively easy now. I beat it 3 times in a row before I stopped. Now I want a much harder puzzle, with even better rewards of course :)

Congrats! You guys are gonna give Kaineng a run for their money!

So… an entire guild can transfer to the winning server, they just can’t do it more than once a week? Don’t really see how this changes much since WvW is weekly.

^I believe a more fitting background song for that video would be “Overkill” by Men at Work.

Score update for the curious:

Setsunayaki.4907:

elderan.2638:

If (requestedTransferServerPopulation > currentServerPopulation) {
transferStatus = “Denied”;
} else {
transferStatus = “Approved”;
}

There I fixed it.

…and this is countered by a player simply transferring to Kaineng and then from Kaineng transferring to a Tier-1 Server.

Huh? That makes no sense. The person would be able to transfer to Kaineng (high population —> low population) but they wouldn’t be able to then transfer from Kaineng to a Tier-1 server (or any server for that matter if Kaineng is the lowest population).

9pm PST and no queues on JQ at all, even into EB instantly… that makes me sad honestly…

That’s your opinion, hardly a fact. From my personal experience, there have been very few times that I’ve logged in off hours and been able to say “Hey look we greatly outnumber SBI, lets take all there stuff!”, but there have been quite a few times that I’ve been wondering where the heck all our players are because we’re losing upgraded stuff we should have been able to hold.

I find it hilarious that SBI says that we have superior coverage and that’s why we win because we take things overnight… and then overnight SBI takes all 3 orbs. Ah the irony.

First, you guys are kidding yourself if you think that no bandwagoners have transferred to your server. Second, there are plenty of times on JQ where we have no queues at all (right now I just got into our BL instantly, and its prime time in the US) so the whole idea of countless bandwagoners transferring here creating 24/7 queues is greatly exaggerated. Third, be serious, you want first place. Everyone does, it’s human nature.

kidbs.8920:

elderan.2638:

kidbs.8920:

Actually Raven, JQ has the superior coverage not the superior talent.

Whatever you gotta tell yourself.

Blackgate is coming hope they close transfers soon or all JQ bandwagoners will come to us ….

Bring it.

Enjoy the Halloween event while it lasts. JQs days are numbered as SBI was proving prior to the Halloween event kickoff.

So… you’re basically saying that all the SBI WvWer’s decided to costume brawl and mine candy corn, that’s why you lost this week? I gotta say that’s one of the funniest, and lamest, excuses of all time.

kidbs.8920:

Actually Raven, JQ has the superior coverage not the superior talent.

Whatever you gotta tell yourself.

Blackgate is coming hope they close transfers soon or all JQ bandwagoners will come to us ….

Bring it.

Pretty much sums up how many people transferred off of ET:

It’s already been crafted: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/World-First-Legendary-Eternity-Updated-with-recipe-and-video/first

As he says:

recipe is
Twilight
Sunrise
5x Piles of Crystalline Dust
10 Philosopher stones

You guys had that too? I don’t get the huuuge lag at SM. We were capping it the other day and the lords room was total chaos because of the crazy lag that made skills take like 10 seconds to activate. Strange thing is I’ve been in fights with wayy more people and it never lagged like that. Anet should check into it.

Collects.4261:

Please Anet if someone else links a precursor standing next to me and they have only tried 30 times i am going to rage.

People don’t need to try even once, all you have to do is buy enough gems to get one off the TP and your set. Remember, it’s not pay to win because you don’t get any more powerful with legendaries *sigh*

Nope why? /15char

If (requestedTransferServerPopulation > currentServerPopulation) {
transferStatus = “Denied”;
} else {
transferStatus = “Approved”;
}

There I fixed it.

I’ve done at least 100 lvl 80 rare crafts and about 180-200 exotic crafts (around 550-600 lvl 70-80 exotic weapons total), almost always using 3 random weapons + a mystic forge stone. I’ve gotten a tremendous variety of weapons, named and generic, but never a precursor.

Brennen.8051:

A wise man counts the cost first!

How can you count the cost for option 1, since like you said it’s completely RNG based, it could cost you 4 rares or 4000. That’s why people are complaining, if you decide to try to craft it yourself you could literally play this game nonstop for 5 years grinding for the mats to create weapons to throw into the mystic forge and still not get it if your luck is bad enough. And your friend get’s it on his 5th try. Is he more deserving of a legendary than you?

I don’t know how they should change it, but I like the idea someone suggested about receiving tokens for every craft you do at the MF. You can still get the precursor from the actual forge results but if you don’t for a specific number of tokens you can buy it. That way you’re actually progressing toward it even if you’re unlucky. Maybe the precursor you get from the craft is unbound but the token one is bound?

Anyone notice how the price skyrocketed for dusk and now there’s suddenly 11 on the trading post, where for most of the other legendaries there are very few or none for sale. Hrm, I wonder who’s deciding to unload all their dusks now that it seems the price as peaked *coughexploiterscough*

Archer.6485:

His second sentence reads: “I’ve had to buy mine off the TP with gems.” Assuming that “mine” refers to the precursor doesn’t that imply that he had already bought it?

Reread the sentences around it, hes talking about buying gold:

I have no idea how people are making tons of gold. I’ve had to buy mine off the TP with gems. To date I’ve spent over $250.00 on gems converted to gold.

If I spent $250 on a computer game and didn’t get the weapon skin I wanted I would probably rage too. I bet Anet loves this guy though.

Archer: Where did he say he got his precursor? Pretty sure he’s saying he spent $250 and hasn’t got it.

You paid $250 for a chance at a prettier weapon skin in a computer game? Wow, I just can’t comprehend that.

It’s nothing racist, Korean mmo’s are infamous for their RNG and heavy grinding. I’ve played more than a few of them, and what really strikes me as odd is that the grind in those games actually made some sense because the gear really was better but in this game its not. It just makes no logical sense to call something legendary if it has the same stats as an exotic.

Slic.2406:

It has to be 4 of the same weapon type, for that precursor type. And, I repeat for the millionth time, it seems to be about a 0.1% probability or lower, when I count dozens of players that have spend over 500 tries (4 weapons each try) and gotten nothing.

Celestea.4105:

Yes, if you want a dawn/dusk, you better put in 4 rare/exotic greatswords. If you use the mystic forge stone you can still get a precursor, however since the stone acts as a substitute, the item you get back will be random in type.

There seems to be differing opinions on whether or not it’s possible. Keep in mind I’m not talking about getting a specific precursor, when using 4 random weapons or 3 random weapons and a forge stone I know it’s going to spit out a random weapon. The question is can it spit out a random precursor?

Slic.2406:

Probably not, a screenshot of a PM from a dev is floating around, where the dev confirms there are NO OTHER RECIPES that yield precursors, aside from the combining of 4 weapons.

I’ve gotten level 80 named exotics of many varieties using forge stones, it seems strange they would single out precursors as something you couldn’t get.

Because they’re a bunch of hypocrites/liars that want to entice you into buying gems with dollars after getting shredded by their Korean RNG. Korean RNG is Korean. Anet is Korean. I guess we all should’ve seen this coming, fooled us, shame on us.

Mystic forge stones are bought from the gem store, so I’m not sure I get your meaning.

On another note, anyone know if precursors can come from 4 random weapons? Or does it have to be, say, 4 daggers to have a chance at the dagger precursor?

Where are the new rankings?

Still waiting for someone from Anet to answer my question about mystic forge stones. If I put in 3 level 80 rares or 3 level 80 exotics along with a mystic forge stone do I have a chance of getting a legendary precursor?

I’m wondering if Linsey or someone else from Anet can confirm whether or not you can get a precursor if you use a mystic forge stone as one of your ingredients.

At least we have our outmanned buff to help us (oh well).

Outmanned buff only gives you more magic find, xp, and karma, it does not make you stronger at all. It obviously SHOULD, but it doesn’t.

Well on ET we lost SM but gained some ground in the borderlands (and 2 orbs!). Shaping up to be a decent match. Strange thing is we are undermanned, it’s the freaking weekend and at this moment the only map with a queue is ET borderlands, I got into EB and the others instantly.

^I agree with bart. And badges you “need”, puhlease, you aren’t entitled to a single badge. I got over 75 badges today just from fighting so I don’t know what your talking about as far as drop rate.

I’m enjoying the matchup on ET. Last weeks match was rather boring but this is definitely more exciting. Storming SM castle a few hours ago was really fun. In all honesty we will probably end up 3rd because HoD and JQ are great teams but I’m just glad we have a true battle going on

What’s confusing? Wait for the computer to recalculate the rankings and see what it spits out, nothing else you can do. Most likely ET will rise to 3rd and SBI will drop to 4th, but if there’s not enough change in either server’s points then SBI and JQ could simply trade places, we’ll just have to wait and see.

I’m unsure what ET is winning by

Current score is ET 365k, IoJ 153k, CD 100k

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fgAQFARl4zioHSTlGZ9ICqCYHpHlWqtaleMbXosB;TkAg0Cno4ywlgLLXOukcNsA

Type: Pure and simple glass cannon/raw DPS build

Playing style: Pure range, focuses on keeping distance/kiting

Traits: Domination 30, Dueling 30, Illusions 10

Weapon: GS only, I don’t use a secondary (yes I’m probably a minority but I like to keep it simple)

Gear: Berserker weapons and armor, I actually slot with Ruby orbs because they are more consistent, Scholar is better but only if you can stay above 90% health. Weapon is slotted with fire sigil because after thorough testing on the Mist dummies it seems to offer the most DPS increase, because with the decent crit rate (50%+) the AOE attack happens almost as fast as the CD expires (5 seconds).

Skills: All mantras

Reasoning: Maxed domination and dueling gives the highest power, crit rate and crit damage (which is currently 103% on my mesmer), and GS gives the highest ranged DPS. Greatsword Training trait boosts that. Skills are all mantras to maximize the effect Empowering Mantras, with all 4 mantras activated I get a 16% boost in damage just from that. 10 in illusions was for Compounding Power, with Deceptive Evasion its very easy to maintain 3 illusions, so that’s an extra 9% damage there as well.

Conclusion: I just starting using this build so I’m not sure how effective it is, but my general impression is that it hits extremely hard (especially the crits holy crap) and stuff just goes down really really fast. Pretty sure you can’t squeeze more ranged DPS out of the Mesmer (if you can think of a way, let me know!)

I wonder how many of the people who are berating the OP are level 80 with full exotics and tons of gold in the bank. If you don’t have those, you still have a carrot to chase don’t you? I’m currently in the exact same position as the OP, and I don’t see anyone with a satisfactory answer to the question being raised.

First off, I never played WoW but I’ve played other MMOs, and I think we can agree that one of the main reasons people play is character progression, usually some goal to achieve. If this weren’t important why have better gear at all, or even levels and xp? Now I have nothing per say against a game like GW2 trying something different and putting a fairly easy to achieve cap on gear progression, but in so doing they removed a large portion of what would be considered “end-game.” But more importantly perhaps is why I even bothered to get exotic gear in the first place, there’s very little to do with the best gear. WvW maybe? The problem is that Anet removed the gear grind at level cap but didn’t add anything else to fill the void once you GET that “gear-everyone-has.” Also, I personally could care less about getting gear that simply “looks cooler”, to me that’s completely pointless. This is why it’s very easy, when your in the situation the OP and I are in, to get this feeling of “what’s the point?”

One other thing I will mention is that legendary items are a complete letdown. What’s the point of calling them legendary when they have worse stats than exotics (the three stats on the legendary I could get are a worse combination than what I have). The least they could have done for the massive amount of time you take to get one is make them fully customizable so you can pick the stats.

Pictish.3410:

prices of gems raised sharply last week from around 28 silver per 100 to upto 44 silver per 100 that is not freefall it is the the exact opposite.

He’s talking about the number of gems you could get per gold, not the amount of gold per 100 gems. It’s the same thing really, just the inverse of each other.

What I don’t understand is what is actually controlling “market” price, if it’s based on the amount of gems being bought with gold then doesn’t that mean the price will rise continuously since as the game goes on more and more gold is generated in the world?

Yeah I don’t understand why the trading post is down for this long this far past launch, it’s just unacceptable.

The answer is yes, it’s ripping everyone off. Especially with high priced items, losing 15% translates into a massive loss in profits. It should be 5% MAX, and only deducted if the item is sold, but that’s my opinion.

You beat me to it. I’m also very curious what these new recipes could be. Haven’t really used the Mystic Forge very much, is there a way to tell if a certain combo will work at all before hand or do you have to just randomly throw stuff into it?