Guild Wars 2

Thrashbarg.9820:

I just wanted to point out that TC isn’t a hive-mind

Guys, he’s breaking from the hive mind! GET HIM!

All TC is trying to do is to get stronger as a server. If that ends up with us being in T1, then so be it, but for now we are happy with T2. Don’t get so wound up FA, I thought you guys loved playing for kills and didn’t care about points? More tasty TC hogs for you guys.

I would like to see some more Kain this week though. I wouldn’t want WM to get too rusty after a week off. WM presence seems to have been near nonexistent this week. We miss you guys!

iCryptik.1496:

Haldunius.7864:

I don’t know Niim. TC is “growing”. They just gutted CD of three of its primary Oceanic and SEA guilds – Naga, ESF and Awe per the SoS/SBI/CD thread. I’d expect we’ll see TC’s reinforcements arrive this weekend.

Fare thee well balanced T4 and balanced T2. It was nice while we knew ye. To TC- I hope you guys don’t need to destabilize any other servers in your eternal pursuit of T1.

TC will always welcome any guilds that are not happy with their current servers WvW presence. While we may be getting some friends to help us with our night time coverage, they are not the first to come to TC from CD, and they may not be the last.

Anyone who likes to play hard and have fun is always welcome to the Coast.

Edit: Can a mod delete this? This accidentally got double posted.

Haldunius.7864:

I don’t know Niim. TC is “growing”. They just gutted CD of three of its primary Oceanic and SEA guilds – Naga, ESF and Awe per the SoS/SBI/CD thread. I’d expect we’ll see TC’s reinforcements arrive this weekend.

Fare thee well balanced T4 and balanced T2. It was nice while we knew ye. To TC- I hope you guys don’t need to destabilize any other servers in your eternal pursuit of T1.

TC will always welcome any guilds that are not happy with their current servers WvW presence. While we may be getting some friends to help us with our night time coverage, they are not the first to come to TC from CD, and they may not be the last.

Anyone who likes to play hard and have fun is always welcome to the Coast.

Yarrr lads, ’da week be not over yet.

Ye lubbers have a long week ahead o’ ye.

Yarrr, if ’dis be true, ’den rangers finally be good ’fer something in WvW.

Loken.9724:

OutspokenAardvark.9781:

[DIS] had a lot of fun on FA BL tonight! We’ve had our sights set on garrison all night and I’m not goin’ to bed until it’s ours!

And how did that work out for you guys

VK was not logging off until we had WP up in our keep and cleared our BL.

That was some great fun fighting all of you guys.

It be ended up workin out quite well ’fer us.

Unfortunately, I had to drop a merchant and it ended up crashing our commander (Haha!).

Fortunately, his que to get back on was only a few minutes.

Mace is better for support, sword is better for roaming. Chose whichever fits your needs, but carry both.

For WvW I rock 0/15/30/15/10. It works great.

Yarrr, havin a good night ’n ’da FA BL. Kain seems ’ta not be wantin ’ta play tonight, but we salty dogs be havin fun ’wit FA.

Sista.1925:

Gandalf The Grey.1058:

Please explain this DIS. Or anyone.

Odd that this mes would not be seen by anyone after capping at that angle…..I’m a mes and we don’t have the ability to be stealth long enough to NOT be seen in such an open and obvious spot. This was not a matter of Kain not sweeping properly……

From what I understand this was an accident with the mesmer skill blink. We are talking about it now, however, if you have any further questions, please message me or Rhyme.

JudgeD.5673:

Didn’t think you can get up there. Was it mes skill Blink?

Yes.

Edit: I am currently waiting que’d. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to message me in game. I’m bored.

Gandalf The Grey.1058:

Please explain this DIS. Or anyone.

Be more thorough in your sweeps. She was up there for a few minutes.

Yarrr, we on TC be usin ‘da boat as well. ’Wit me bein ’da captain, I’ve lead a few salty lads ’ta victory after pushin out waves of Kaineg ’ta repel us.

I be leadin ’da last stand usually Thursday nights or Friday before reset.

You think THAT off all things need to be fixed? How about getting a buff to HP like a necro and a wider area of effect. The current tornado is pathetic and only good against group that like to hug ledges like baddies

IMO you don’t need to actually be hitting the gates with a ram, but you should at least have killed all the guards out front to contest the keep. And even them, unless the keep is constantly sieged, it should only be for 30 seconds.

Ruq.5396:

Furiousbeard.7602:

Jayne.9251:

Never get between a girl and her shoes. Just sayin’.

That said, if we can have one entire page of this thread without the usual chest thumping, insults, slurs, innuendos (no, not italian suppositories), and whatnot, I will post my super-fun super-silly personality quiz that’s guaranteed to get a lot of laughs out of everyone.

I’ll hope for the best.

Now everyone post an entire page congratulating the other team and you’ll have the quiz in no time.

Ok folks, not to jinx anything, but we are dangerously close to making Jayne cough up her promise.

Hurry and fill this page with funny comments and nice things

I love lamp.

I love toaster.

Hahahaha!

(10lulz)

Whitebeard.5172:

What a crummy turnout Easter Sunday for TC. It’s like they had families and stuff.

It seemed like outnumbered buff on the outlying BL’s across the board, couldn’t eeek out but 8 or so guild mates and then there was the magic box, oh how I hate you magic box.

No, just lack o’ Internet matey.

Because a precursor hasn’t dropped for me yet.

Drigan.7382:

iCryptik.1496:

Yarrr! A bunch o’ ye lasses need ‘ta check ye pants. Ye panties be ’n o’ mighty great knot.

I can’t ever read a single thing you write

That cause ye be needin ‘ta learn ’da ways o’ ‘da pirate lad. We be a surly bunch o’ salty dogs, and be keelhaulin ye boys that be not knowin which part o’ ’da map they be wanderin ’ta.

I be more then happy ‘at show ye ’da end o’ me blade when these Comcast lubbers give me some blasted Internet.

Yarrr! A bunch o’ ye lasses need ‘ta check ye pants. Ye panties be ’n o’ mighty great knot.

Yarre, still won’t be on till ’da Comcast lubbers get ’at me Monday. Good luck Pirate Coast!

Jareth.4813:

You guys realise that a game can’t actually blow up a graphics card right?

Games can cause stress that can push cards past there limits of they’re about to go. So while its rare, it’s possible that the stress put on the card can make it…blow.

My OC’d XFX 7870 has never had any issues. Sometimes cards give out after a few years, especially if oc’d or if the power supply is failing. I’ve seen failing failing supplies surge vid cards and take them out.

Also, AMD makes great cards, but you also need to get one from one of the better brands. XFX, MSI, and Asus tend to e the best. The rest are usually cheap for a reason. When it comes to raw power, my 7870 eats 660’s for breakfast, and they over clock like a beast with dual fans.

Those AC ghosts tonics are fun.

I have a ton of tonics that I use in WvW.

Why? Because sometimes we all need to just relax and have fun.

I just bought some PVT gear for my Guardian…Now I get the ability to by cool racial stuff for him as well. I wonder how expensive T3 racial will be? 1k badges?

Yarrr! On account o’ me movin I be not able ’ya complete me pirates tale till next week. See ya lads then!

The scene is set on a dark night, in FA’s BL. Alshazzar hears that FA keeps plenty of rum, wenches, and gold in their Bay Keep, and decides to take it for himself. He enlists the help of two landlubbers wishing to be deckhands, Rhyme and Mister Cheng.

“Ahoy ye landlubbers! Ye lads be ready ‘ta go on ’da mission ye be recruited ’fer ’ta capture ’da enemies Bay Keep? There be plenty o’ ale ’n plunder behind ’da walls, as well as a few FA wenches ’ta be had!”, says Alshazzar.

“Umm…Aye captain!”, says Rhyme, who wonders if he knows what he got himself in to.

“Pull up ’da anchor and set ’da sails Cheng!”, says Al. Al looks out over ‘da waters with a scowl. "I be lookin ’ta make ’da big time lubbers! Tonights plunder will be ’da greatest o’ ’dem all!"

“Sir?”, says Rhyme. “I’m glad ye brought us along, but what be our roles ‘n ’da takin o’ FA plunder?”

“Well”, says Al, “Tonight ye lads be sneakin in’ta ’da bay after we open ’da water gate, and ye lads be goin in ’ta ’da keep, takin ’da guards out, ’n bring back ’da plunder ’ta ’da boat!”

Cheng, who has been silently rowing, looks up and asks, “So, Rhyme and I go in, take the loot, and come back. What will you be doing?”

Al looks sharply at Cheng and replies, “Well I be commandin o’ course!” Al then huffs and turns back out to the water. “Here we are boys”, says Al. “Rhyme, avast ‘n climb ’da rocks o’ ’da keep and take out ’da guards!”

Rhyme, as he was ready ’ta make ’da ascent, slipped off the boat.

“Rhyme ye blimey idiot! Now ’da whole plot be ruined”, yelled Al!

“I got this”, said Cheng. Cheng pulled out his staff and hit the guard with a lightning surge. Mister Cheng smirked as the guard collapsed and fell back into the water.

“Ok Rhyme”, said Al. “If ye expectin ’ta be a pirate, ye need ’ta act like a pirate! Now go ’n fetch ’da keys from ’da guard.”

Rhyme nodded and jumped in the water. The water bubbled around the boat, and as one minute turned to two, Al and Mister Cheng became worried. Just as Al was about to jump in the water to see what happened, Rhyme came to the surface.

“Yarr ye fool! What took ye so long ye blasted lubber?”, said Al as he was shaking his head.

Rhyme, shivering from the cold water, pipped up, “Sssooorrry captain, the water is ccoldd.”

Al first looks at Rhyme with scorn, but then with a smile, “So ye get the key lad?”, he asked.

“Aye captain, here it is.”, says Rhyme.

To be continued…

Yaaar ye landlubbers! I be comin ‘at ye bays ’ta make ye walk ’da plank! Don’t ye know that be pirate country?

Yarrr, I be ready ’fer a fight!

Al ‘n ’da pirate gang be lookin ’ta swoon some o’ ye ladies.

Jayne.9251:

Hickeroar.9734:

iCryptik.1496:

Yarr Hickeroar, just remember this be ‘da slow time ’fer TC, ye will receive some backups soon enough, but just ye be rememberin, there be a lot o’ TC that be doing other things.

We be not able ‘ta close ’da point gap with KA, ’n FA be not able ’ta beat us in points ’ta win 2nd, so a lot o’ people be galavantin, drinkin ale, ‘n playin with FA’s wenches.

Don’t worry lubber, ’da action be startin again around 7 est.

xD TSP doing WvW? Haven’t seen any of you guys in ages.

I think what they know is that if they can maintain a 400:100 (or better) lead on us for the next five hours before reset…they’re gonna take back the 2nd place spot. They’re probably a little more than enraged over the trash talking imparted in this thread this week, and looking for blood. If they manage, or almost manage to take it back…they’re gonna rub our noses in it.

And they’d deserve to. :-P

Unless something dramatic happens in the next couple of hours, FA has already secured blue keep for reset.

Aye, it seems as if KA be full o’ a bunch o yellowbellies that are rollin over ’ta give it ’ta FA this mornin. Those lads be usually out in force.

Hickeroar.9734:

iCryptik.1496:

Yarr Hickeroar, just remember this be ‘da slow time ’fer TC, ye will receive some backups soon enough, but just ye be rememberin, there be a lot o’ TC that be doing other things.

We be not able ‘ta close ’da point gap with KA, ’n FA be not able ’ta beat us in points ’ta win 2nd, so a lot o’ people be galavantin, drinkin ale, ‘n playin with FA’s wenches.

Don’t worry lubber, ’da action be startin again around 7 est.

xD TSP doing WvW? Haven’t seen any of you guys in ages.

I think what they know is that if they can maintain a 400:100 (or better) lead on us for the next five hours before reset…they’re gonna take back the 2nd place spot. They’re probably a little more than enraged over the trash talking imparted in this thread this week, and looking for blood. If they manage, or almost manage to take it back…they’re gonna rub our noses in it.

And they’d deserve to. :-P

Yarr, there be a few o’ us around causing trouble. I mostly be runnin ‘wit DIS these days, givin Rhyme trouble ’n teachin him ’da ways o’ ’da pirate.

In ’da end it be just a game. Each side needs ’ta learn ’ta have fun.

’n ’ta ye yellowbellied landlubbers ’dat tried ’ta take our boat last night ’n bay, YARRRRR!

Yarr Hickeroar, just remember this be ‘da slow time ’fer TC, ye will receive some backups soon enough, but just ye be rememberin, there be a lot o’ TC that be doing other things.

We be not able ‘ta close ’da point gap with KA, ’n FA be not able ’ta beat us in points ’ta win 2nd, so a lot o’ people be galavantin, drinkin ale, ‘n playin with FA’s wenches.

Don’t worry lubber, ’da action be startin again around 7 est.

skinnyb.5920:

Battle of the Dreaming Bay Boat.

We will never forget.

3/14/13 – 3/14/13

Yarrr, they be mad at ‘da fact that too many o’ ’der fat charr ’n norn woman be not able ’ta fit on ’da boat.

It be all fun ’n dandy till Gods rocked ’da boat.

Dontcare Aboutnames.9284:

Pinko.2076:

Dontcare Aboutnames.9284:

Got a chuckle out of Mag’s amazing ability at clearing towers

I don’t understand your post!

Tis your tower and our ballista still inside on the front I applaud your sweeping.

Yarrr, ye give me a chuckle young landlubber.

Yarrrr, ye GOOMA players be a fun bunch o’ scalliwags ‘ta skirmish ’wit. Be lookin ’fer duels if any o’ ye be interested.

After leveling a…

Mesmer, Ele, Warrior, Guardian, Ranger, Necro, and finally a Thief….

[insert drumroll]

Thieves are fine as is. For saying thieves have a low skill gap. It’s true, much like a D/D Ele, or a 100B warror you can typically be mediocre and kill bad players easily. However, all classes have a counter to one spec of various classes and the get countered by other specs.

WvW is not just about what class you play, but also about what spec/stats you run.

If you get killed in one spec with one set of gear, have another set of gear and a diff spec. One spec/set of gear is not good for all things and should not be good for all things. That is not balanced pvp. Quit player checkers, when you should be playing chess.

Oh quit being so melodramatic.

They just released new items in the gem store, of course gems are going to be on the rise. As it currently stands, the more gold that gets traded in, the more gets traded back out, and the gold>gem conversion goes up accordingly.

Be glad you have the option to get the gems for free. The price is not going up so high it’s unaffordable, and if it did, it would go back down over time as lest people would be converting gems to gold.

tl;dr – Be glad you have the option to trade gold for gems. Go farm some dungeons if you’re poor.

MikeFerguson.8921:

Culling is absolutely a fixable problem, and as Habib mentioned in his MMORPG interview, we are planning to completely remove it from the game in march.

Why is it taking so long? Well, I think the best way I can describe how we’ve had to approach this problem is that it’s almost like changing a flat tire on a car that’s still moving. That’s a really rough analogy, but hopefully it helps illustrate just how difficult this would be in terms that are easier for everyone to understand.

Something like the way players render is extremely core to the engine and any change to that sort of thing could cause all kinds of other issues throughout the game. There are a lot of really complex technical problems that we needed to solve, then make sure that our changes don’t actually cause any of those odd side effects.

That being said, we’re confident that been able to solve those problems on the technical side. We still have a bit more testing to do, but we’re not expecting any major issues to pop up at this point, so we’re really looking forward to flipping that switch and getting rid of culling for good!

We’ll have a blog post coming up sometime in the next month to go into more details about the culling fixes and what you can expect.

So…you guys spend your time doing this? http://youtu.be/l2rC0EMQeS0

Why be ’da lass who be enticin us ’ta do it more.

Ye know, when ye make o’ thread o’ tears, it only warms our cold, cold hearts.

Magiofdeath.2745:

rhyein.6172:

TIMMEH.8106:

Wouldn’t TC rather stay in T2 on their own accomplishments, rather then be assisted by there current match enemy?

I realize that FA thinks everything is about them, but there’s no grand conspiracy to keep them out of T2, no matter what the people posting on your community forums seem to think. Even if that’s the case, maybe it’s a sign that portraying yourselves as a bunch of wannabe “serial killers” and belittling the servers and guilds (except the ones you’re courting to transfer over) you’re competing against isn’t having quite the effect you want to have.

Then you all shouldn’t be saying DB and YB are throwing away the match. YB has had a low score since day 1 of this week. I’m not sure about DB, however, but the people I know on DB are not throwing the match either. No, we don’t think everything is about us – its just if you’re gonna say crap about our matchup, expect people from our matchup to say crap about this matchup.

Look forward to the possible fights next week Kain (and SoS – not sure if you’re lurking). Good luck BG in tier 1 – give them a run for their money! Good luck in tier 3 TC – sorry you have to drop a tier, but that’s what happens in ranked pvp. Be careful of Mag’s flame ram lord.

Now back to your daily scheduled tea/cookie/parades.

It be ok lad, we be back up in ’da t2 next week. ’dis next week will be a nice vacation ’fer us.

Aye, so basic summary be:

1. Ye don’t know much ‘bout ’da thief class, so ye be not knowin how certain mechanics work.
2. Since ye don’t know much ‘bout ’da class, ye call ’fer a nerf instead, since ye can’t deal ’wit em.

What ye need ’ta do is roll a thief, do some leveling ’n spvp, and ye be gettin a feelin ’fer them quickly.

I’m ok with this. It keeps higher tier server from just stomping on the supervisor then tearing down the next gate in their karma train.

xTiMeBoMBx.2863:

1. Norn Ranger’s elite allow them to stealth but that’s no issue because it’s a long cooldown and they have no burst damage coming out of stealth.

2. Mesmer can stealth through torch, 3 utilities, 1 trait, and an elite skill. No matter what build the mesmer is, they can’t generate a lot of damage coming out of stealth. Let’s face it no Mesmer is gonna chose all invis skills or trait for any build they’re running. Confusion Mesmer has no direct damage output and the torch is useless if the attacker doesn’t attack. Shatter Mesmers mostly use invis trait, decoy, blink and feedback, and/or mirror image. All of which which long cooldown even after traited.

3. Thief can stealth through weapon, utilities, and trait. All of which has such short initiative cost with relatively no penalty. When traited for initiative regen a thief can recover their used initiative very quick as seen in some videos in this thread. Hence, allowing them to constantly stealth. Couple that with culling an average player will only be able to spot a thief for 1 sec before it stealths again. They’re able to stealth at about every 3 seconds no matter the build.

Culling is not the only issue making thieves seemed OP. Thieves don’t seem OP, they are OP. No other stealth class can generate massive amount of damage coming out of stealth. Yeh they have low HP, so what? They have the ability to run away to regen and with this new patch they don’t even have to run away. They just got a HP regen buff so when they stealth they don’t need to run away anymore to prevent you from regenerating also. They’ll be healing in stealth while your heal skill is on cooldown. Stealth overall should be reworked because it is an OP system not just in this game but in all mmo even the ones with stealth detection skills. What Anet should have done is not allowing thieves to reenter stealth once they’re in combat. However if they want to reenter stealth then they have to run to get out of combat. That wont render thieves useless because they’re the class with great mobility so running away wont be an issue.

The whole point of various traits in their trait line is to generate massive damage out of stealth…

A mesmers stealth is more about defense.

Archer.1658:

iCryptik.1496:

jkctmc.8754:

iCryptik.1496:

All the videos I see posted are people posting vids on some of the most skilled thiefs out there, or posting vids of them losing to thiefs, when they are using a build that may be the weakest to fight a thief.

tl;dr – Different builds fair better against thiefs than other builds. If your constantly losing to a thief, rethink your build and use a different one. Or die, and deal with it.

Funny that huh. Xsorus posted a video of himself, on his thief.

I don’t get what’s “funny” about it. I’m not really sure what your insinuating really. A good thief is a deadly opponent, they are tricky to counter, but can be countered. I main multiple lvl 80’s and have every class except engi and thief to 80. I have learned over time that if I use X build on this class, I’ll have trouble with class A, B, and sometimes C, but not D – E – F – or G.

The point I’m making is that certain builds are strong against certain class types, while being weak against others. If you find yourself losing to X or Y class, use a build that strongly counters that class.

If you don’t, then you deserve to be killed by a thief or any other class.

I didn’t realize I would have to retrait every time I ran into a different profession. Hell they should make a consumable that spawns a retrait trainer so I can just pop it in the middle of a field when I see a thief, and quickly switch to that build that will defeat him!

tl;dr Thief is Ez Mode for bad players, a good thief will never die, stealth is Op.

So…you’re saying that your 1 spec should be good against all players, when there are 5 trait lines, each giving you multiple possibilities against various classes, including the thief.

…right.

jkctmc.8754:

iCryptik.1496:

jkctmc.8754:

iCryptik.1496:

All the videos I see posted are people posting vids on some of the most skilled thiefs out there, or posting vids of them losing to thiefs, when they are using a build that may be the weakest to fight a thief.

tl;dr – Different builds fair better against thiefs than other builds. If your constantly losing to a thief, rethink your build and use a different one. Or die, and deal with it.

Funny that huh. Xsorus posted a video of himself, on his thief.

I don’t get what’s “funny” about it. I’m not really sure what your insinuating really. A good thief is a deadly opponent, they are tricky to counter, but can be countered. I main multiple lvl 80’s and have every class except engi and thief to 80. I have learned over time that if I use X build on this class, I’ll have trouble with class A, B, and sometimes C, but not D – E – F – or G.

The point I’m making is that certain builds are strong against certain class types, while being weak against others. If you find yourself losing to X or Y class, use a build that strongly counters that class.

If you don’t, then you deserve to be killed by a thief or any other class.

You completely miss the point. You said that people are losing to Thieves, yet Xsorus you know the original poster you insulted puts up a video of his Thief, you know him playing the Thief, doing the very things he thinks is overpowered, and you still believe it is because he died to a Thief, without watching his videos of killing Thieves on his Ranger, you know one of the weakest classes in WvW.

I mean seriously. I rarely if ever die on my Thief. With over 10k kills, I have less than 100 deaths.

How in the world do you die on your Thief?

1. Yes, I did say that players die to thieves. Players die to other classes as well.

2. Just because he thinks thiefs are overpower, doesn’t mean other players don’t.

3. Other players posted video’s of them losing to thieves. I’m more or less talking to them.

4. I never said that I main’d a thief. In fact, I only recently started leveling a thief. I do however, play a Ele, Necro, Warrior, Guardian, and a Mesmer. They all have builds that don’t work against thieves, and they all have builds that will destroy thieves.

Every class has 5 tree’s to invest in. Some have their pro’s, some have their cons. The problem is, people are so used to only using X or Y build, or X weapon set or Y, that they continually die because they never change their build, and they don’t adapt.

I always laughed at ele’s running GC with D/D.

Buy some knights armor, problem solved.

GC is fine, but now you need to actually time your attacks right and watch your cooldowns.

Just be glad D/D didn’t get hit harder.

jkctmc.8754:

iCryptik.1496:

All the videos I see posted are people posting vids on some of the most skilled thiefs out there, or posting vids of them losing to thiefs, when they are using a build that may be the weakest to fight a thief.

tl;dr – Different builds fair better against thiefs than other builds. If your constantly losing to a thief, rethink your build and use a different one. Or die, and deal with it.

Funny that huh. Xsorus posted a video of himself, on his thief.

I don’t get what’s “funny” about it. I’m not really sure what your insinuating really. A good thief is a deadly opponent, they are tricky to counter, but can be countered. I main multiple lvl 80’s and have every class except engi and thief to 80. I have learned over time that if I use X build on this class, I’ll have trouble with class A, B, and sometimes C, but not D – E – F – or G.

The point I’m making is that certain builds are strong against certain class types, while being weak against others. If you find yourself losing to X or Y class, use a build that strongly counters that class.

If you don’t, then you deserve to be killed by a thief or any other class.

All the videos I see posted are people posting vids on some of the most skilled thiefs out there, or posting vids of them losing to thiefs, when they are using a build that may be the weakest to fight a thief.

tl;dr – Different builds fair better against thiefs than other builds. If your constantly losing to a thief, rethink your build and use a different one. Or die, and deal with it.