This better be PvE exclusive gear and not allowed in Wv3 b/c this is going to be terrible: forces me to do PvE dungeons just to get back to competitive levels. Not looking forward to that. If they are going to do this, they had better allow us to get this gear as Wv3 rewards. Forcing PvPers to do PvE content to play is wrong and goes against EVERYTHING that ANet has bodly stated.
Dang, I got beat by that guy b/c he is more skilled….
After Ascended gear?
Dang, I got beat by that guy b/c he had better gear…
Very very low yeild using forge. 600k+ karma might, just might yeild a couple gold. Not really worth the effort considering how long it took to make that much karma.
I guess you can out right fluke and get a precursor (win the RNG lottery) but that would take well over couple mill karma knowing my luck if I even get one.
Anyways, pretty sure this is unintended combining karma weapons/armors in the forge. They removed ability to sell/salvage them so this one will probably get nerfed too.
We go to umber and have to push IoJ out (again). So then our guys naturally go up to the Ogres in which many people are shouting, “Don’t go to Pang and mess with IoJ, not in our best interest.” Which is ignored and they all go to pang, hold for while, and then IoJ slaughters them. Then IoJ goes up to Ogre, takes umber, and either takes Durious and or Brav. SoS, of course is taking QL/dan/langor/valley cus they are opportunists and always has a full team to do it.
Then SoR has to call in people from other BLs to help the 5 of us left (who didn’t immedietly leave after getting killed once) and try to take our stuff back. Then SoR all go back to BLs once SoS zerg gets into high gear and leave EB undermanned….
Last halloween taught me that if you don’t have gems, you won’t be getting anything really cool or fun; it’s pay to have fun so that is why I need gold in preperation for future events.
If I could convert karma directly to gold, I would. Karma is worthless to me until then.
Fairly certain armor/weapon design teams are seperate from the ones in other areas so hopefulley at some point they fix graphical errors…like say almost everything you put on an Asura.
Most helmets are all one shade or more too dark compared to other pieces. Makes it very difficult to have a uniform, one color look. OP screens is a perfect example of this.
But could be worse; I spent 20g for light armor T3 hat and then noticed that 1/2 of it is a color you cannot change. Wish I knew that before I blew all my gold. I would have thought such expensive pieces would have at least 4 color bars to change.
I play on SoR, which is usually high…I went 6 hours other day and did not see a single non-bot player nor did any event actually trigger either. When I leveled my first toon…there was 100s of players every where and DEs were popping every few mins…now it’s dead.
Super hard to level now.
Unless they offer something like heirloom gear: I won’t be leveling any alts and will stick with one char until I stop playing.
Went and bought 100 or so karma weapons from orr and combined them in the forge; at the end and all I got was 4 rares. Which I combined in hopes of getting an exotic but I did not. So around 139k karma turned into 1 ecto (13-20 sil) after using a BL salvage kit charge.
Won’t bother with that no more, lol.
Karma is more or less worthless unless you are going for a legendary.
p.s. using karma items to combine in forge is more than likely not intended so it will get ‘fixed’ eventually.
Nah, I don’t bother with events no more. I go find a quiet corner not infested with bots (hard to find!) and kill 5-10 mobs at once by myself. Might not be as profitable but it is much more enjoyable than helping people who are using full MF set and leeching off players who are not wearing that type of gear.
Hoping they send gem cards to canada one these years, then I will simply pay RL money and get gold that way.
So I came across two thieves last night and before engaging I thought of this thread; I should automatically win, right?! I lasted maybe 30 seconds. They knew how to fight an ele; cycle stealths/stuns/immobilizes ftw. They made sure I could not dodge and blew me up.
I find it hard to believe the OP, personally. Must have been sub 80 and or junk gear using bad specs perhaps. Only explanation I can give.
Fight a thief while using a staff and tell us how it goes.
Oh you mean PvE….uh…spam buttons…/win?
Still think that S/D and D/D are much better over all. Staff only really shines with AoE/group support. DPS wise, other weapons sets blow it out of the water if played/specced right.
Used robot suit a few times while leveling up and every time I got owned by simple trash mobs. It’s incredibly weak. Only thing I can think that it is good for is roleplaying….for 60 seconds.
Servers are listed as full based on how many people are registered on the server, not how many people are logged on at a given time.
No, it’s all based on how many players are logged on the server currently. If a server drops in pop to high, then you can go there regardless of how many accounts are on it.
Maybe 50 sil an hour in Cursed Shore if I am lucky, but I am not since I can’t tag anything before it all dies while doing events. Usually its all dead while all I see on the screen is ‘invunerable’. I even play an ele which everyone says is the best tagger…no, the best taggers are melee who simply just spam 1 and 2 without even having to target; instant, 360 large dmg AoE that is spammable. My AoEs generally take 6 or more seconds to even begin and on long CDs.
Can buy almost full set from world karma vendors in Orr except (i think) pants. Rest you can get from one them dungeons. Also like to note you can get this full set outside of Wv3 with considerably less time/effort spent.
4.5k kills so far and 313 badges….not like I need any gear from Wv3 anyways; I got vit/power/toughness set in like 3 days doing PvE.
Bored cus I am always out manned and getting crushed all the time. I seem to make poor choices when I pick servers in MMOs I guess.
As to more on topic, nice if there was some sort of progression in Wv3 other than rankings. Most of the gear you can get here is more easily gained for way less effort outside of it.
This allows mesmers to be the only class that can attack without LoS with a targeted ability. Most other skills is subject to LoS rules except this one.
More and more every day I am seeing Mesmers abusing this to attack siege and players that no OTHER class can do.
edit. I just figured out how they are doing this: you can fiddle with and the pan camera just at the right angle while against solid objects and make walls/doors totally invisible, thus allowing you to use PB through them. Mesmer PB are NOT subject to LoS rules. So you combine the two and you have a recipe for exploitation.
Screen shot below is me hugging a wall and viewing out. This is partially how they are doing it and they can thus target and DPS anything inside a keep/tower that they can see. This is what is called “wall hacking” in FPS games.
Could be asuran; when I get close to a ledge on the wall: my camera goes in and out like mad. Makes me woozy.
Only way I can AoE off a wall is to jump up on to the ledge and risk getting pulled off which always happens, btw. I think I need some phone books to stand on please.
Elementalist cannot do this. We have to have a LoS to cast single target skills. Yes AoE goes through doors/hire elevations (it is not exclusive to Eles btw) but the range of them is no where as far as this. PB is a target ability much like say Fireball; the difference is that I cannot shoot through walls and hit people. I have to have LoS.
Mesmers can and with a bit of practice they are able to send PB through walls and often they will go beyond 1200 m when chasing the target.
That is the issue and I question if this is intended.
p.s. of course mesmers don’t want this changed lol.
Bug: they are to close to the body and clip into most clothing. Backpacks are also to close to the body.
Second screen is me fully clothed in the winged set with those two daggers in the first picture equipped. It does not matter clothing, majority of one hand weapons cannot be seen on Asurans and has been like this since they were introduced in beta.
Currently, these are not effected by line of sight rules that apply to most other skills of this nature and can go much farther than the skill is supposed to be able to. I believe all you need is a player/siege targeted and they can be casted through solid objects. They can go up walls too.
Other skills that have had these issues were quickly fixed but so far not with this one.
I am not sure if this is intended.
Anyways, here’s a screen shot of what I mean. The mesmer(s) in question were beyond the gate and sending them through the door/wall. Also note they can go farther than this.
While I agree SoS coordination is top notch and they are godly players who cannot be beat….you fail to see that it is boiling down to a pure numbers game. I guess it has nothing to do with being outmanned every day past 10 pm west coast time to 8 am when SoS caps everything with next to no opposition….no, not at all.
On the size of zergs, people love to exaggerate on the amount of forces they fight against to make themselves feel good.
I don’t feel good actually, everytime I play I have outmanned buff. Last night, at one point, I was one of the only SoR in EB lol.
Really really hope you guys make it to T1 and maybe then you can face servers who can field full populations 24/7. I think it might be an eye opener for SoS when they actually have to fight more even numbers.
As it stands SoR is out of luck in the Euro/Oceanic time frame.
Anyways, lookin like maybe we have to face you again…so unless we get massive amounts of euro/oceanic transfers; guess it’s PvE time next week. But that is unlikely, they are all mostly on SoS.
It stops anything being casted upon being applied (interrupt).
They also make it hard to actually cast while rooted which requires you to jam on buttons and pray they will actually go off which is really annoying.
Ele cannot spin or move while stuck; get behind ele and go to town with no fear of being attacked.
Many immobilizes cannot be cleansed and will go full duration. Some are up to 10 seconds!
Immobilize is also uneffected by the stability buff; the ultimate ‘lose control of your character’ CC.
And most importantly: ele cannot dodge while immobilized. No dodge = no evasive arcana trixs.
One immobilize at the right time is all that is needed to stop an ele bunker in it’s tracks. Literally.
I prefer fighting when I have some sort of chance, rather than none at all. But I get it, you want to insult me for no real reason other than to try to start a flame war. Have fun with that, I won’t bite further.
Getting better? Unless we get a large influx or euros/oceanics; people will move to servers that do have them like they are doing now. It’s not fun to play more or less alone and outmanned.
For those that disbelieve, this is all the SoR we had when SoS took valley (again) at their prime time. Under ten people….and btw, this is only 1/4 of that force in this screen. LOL!
W/e. Did have a bit of fun this morning; SoS were pwning IoJ at overlook, so I ran over and tried to help them by leading a merry goose chase around the inside. Did that for at least 10 mins. Pretty funny, actually.
Then an IoJ thief tried to kill me as I was harrassing SoS so I just ran into their 100+ player zerg as they capped overlook, died a miserable if not instantaneous death, and logged off for a while. I jus wanted to be frens with IoJ for a bit but obviously they didn’t want me around. Oh wells.
About to give up on SoR. Been here for 5 or so weeks and I ALWAYS have the outmanned buff when I play. Now I hear several major oceanic guilds have left the server. Game over!
Case in point, it was me vs 100 SoS at EB Valley last night. One player vs an entire world.
You call that fun?
Guessing people are bailing on SoR just like they did HoD now.
Shatter for around 3k ish. I have 13k hps due to usin +heal/power/toughness set and havin the lowest health in game as ele. So ok, maybe not as much as I said but they most certainly do NOT tickle despite what mesmers proclaim.
I can accept serkers doing tons of dmg but what I can’t understand is why mesmer clones are exempt from the ’don’t go through/up walls’ rule that applies to all the other classes with pets.
Mesmer is the most important figure in WvW, a key profession that any organized group NEEDS.
Forgot to mention that they can also have a ‘pull’ that can yank people off battlements and sometimes even through walls/doors right into the ravaging maw of a zerg for gooey, insta gib fun.
Well this guy figured it out. Went through wall and was kickin the crap out of me from around that range. I mean, ranger/ele/necro/gaurdian pets don’t do that; only clones do. Why the exemption I wonder?
Hum, mesmers are so strong despite what they say that they are weak.
So I set up a pult in Bravost on the back wall little while ago during a siege and this mesmer kept sending serkers at me non stop. They went through the wall, hit me for 900 × 6 with that whirly ability, and then it explodes. One serker seems to always drop me to 20% with 2.1k toughness in one move, so no…they don’t just tickle.
Anyrate, serker spam killed pult pretty quick. I then go look for this mesmer and he’s humping the wall sending clones through it at the few defenders there.
Pretty cheesy imo.
Kinda amusing to watch them go through walls and attack stuff beyond 1200 m, I admit.
Has to be a despawn mechanic since there is a siege cap and you can’t place any more until the others are gone. Like when people were using transfers to build tons of siege right by the supply depot in worthless spots so that you can’t place anymore.
Anyways, wish there was an actual explanation on how despawning seige mechanic actually works with also information on what the siege cap is/how it applies. Is it global per map and or is it by general area limit (ie tower can only have X siege in it’s area) is another question.
