Guild Wars 2

StormWolf.7645:

kenshinakh.3672:

So you’re implying that more than 300+ people will report each and every player o.O? Bots gets a ton of reports each day by just farming, at least in high traffic areas. People are way more likely to report bots because they know what it is. On the other hand, do you really think it is easy to convince random people in WvW to report a person, much less a guild? It would ruin your server’s reputation if they did a mass-scale report on a single guild in WvW. That’s why it is highly unlikely. Fyi, you can estimate that at least over 300-500 different players cycle through a leveling zone a day on busier servers. They’re bound to report the same bots several times over a week. I’ve seen bots that lasted like 3 weeks in densely populated areas. Those bots alone must have gotten at least a thousand reports already.

2 things: Bots farming will get a lot of reports…over time. They won’t get 300+ Reports because 300+ players passed them…over the span of a day or two, sure. But most people who pass bots do just that…pass them.

In WvW…they get a massive number of Reports instantly. In the span of a few minutes…THAT is what seems to trigger the “Auto-Ban”.

Quit while you are ahead, a dev posted in this very thread telling everyone there is no autoban system.

Nokaru.7831:

MikeFerguson.8921:

I want to clear something up here, we do not auto-ban people without investigating the account first. Our CS staff reviews reports that come in and if they find questionable activity, they take whatever action they deem appropriate.

Questionable activity can actually be as simple as a guild mate sending 30 gold to another in a loan.

There have been more and more reports of people with high playtime being banned in WvW for “botting.” If there is no automated system in play, then many mistakes are being made repeatedly. It is just a coincidence that these bans are correlating with the rise in guilds being aware of this activity and using the report feature?

I’ve mailed 100g to my wife, and I farm all the time, so could mistakingly be thought to be a bot, especially since I’m a Ranger.

I’ve never been banned, so chances are those who’ve been banned, are also lying. Take what they say with a grain of salt.

Plok.6145:

jkctmc.8754:

I need to thank the GOAT Warrior I just fought now; 10:53 central. I bowed to you after downing you, chose not to finish you off, ran over a hill into the rest of your group hahah….. Was a good fight brother, thanks.

We have warriors? who knew.

He had a Greatsword, and all!! Not kidding here, he was a Warrior. O.O

The Necro in the group actually hit hard, harder than any I’ve had the pleasure of meeting thus far.

I need to thank the GOAT Warrior I just fought now; 10:53 central. I bowed to you after downing you, chose not to finish you off, ran over a hill into the rest of your group hahah….. Was a good fight brother, thanks.

osif.8673:

jkctmc.8754:

You’ve never offered me any direct 1v1s brother, because if you had, I would have accepted. I LOVE 1v1s, win or lose.

Great. Now that you know that I have offered in the past and present, we can have our duel. Name a place and time tomorrow afternoon (I think I’ll be around that time) and you can have that fair fight with a PAXA member that you have been desiring for so long.

Well here, I’ll help you out. I can’t make that time because of work, so go ahead and make your inflammatory post as to why I didn’t show up.

Would be nice to have your vent info, and who you are on vent for easier communication when I’m home from work considering the last two weeks I’ve worked over 60 hours each week.

As for my desire for 1v1s, it has nothing to do with any particular person, or guild. I do them to iron out my builds in WvW. Sucks sPvP has different rules and nerfs in comparison to WvW, because I sure as hell would be dragging people in there for 1v1s.

osif.8673:

jkctmc.8754:

osif.8673:

@jkctmc

Anyone who’s been reading the forums between AR and NSP knows that I offered you a duel at the fight club (or whenever at your leisure for that matter) and you avoided every offer. You’ve always trash talked PAXA and pulled nonsense our of your rear. Keep hiding in anonymity, forum tough guy!
The guild you’re thinking of is NEWL, they’re another good guild that I think we’ve lost some even fights to. I think I already addressed Rinzler’s claim as well. Keep living in your delusions though, I find your stories to be good reads.

You might want to go back and reread who you were talking to in the past brother, it wasn’t me. <laughs out loud> This right here throws out any credibility you have ever had. You were not at the event when I was brother.

I’m not THAT person.

Quote your response to Rinzler, I missed it.

What is your vent info? I will meet you when I’m not working for that 1v1, even though I’ve had issues killing Mesmers on my Ranger, but I need the practice.

Oh, since you think I’m hiding, I’m Renno… I think my last name of my Ranger is Tojack, and I’m a 80 Ranger in Syndicate of Shadows. I almost always run solo. Most recently if there is no action, I’ve been leveling my fifth character, a Mesmer, his name is Aece the Face.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/11-13-Kaineng-vs-Shiverpeaks-vs-Anvil-Rock/page/8#post1210196

You’re done.

I’ll fight you on my warrior if you’re really that concerned about my mesmer.

P.S. I’m not your brother, guy.

That is freaking hilarious because you were talking to JEDA, go read your first response, and I interjected myself into your argument, with a little sarcasm, and never went back to look for a response.

I don’t expect you to admit to your mistake, but come on man, that is absolutely hilarious that you mistook my post, as a post from the other person.

I’m not worried about your Mesmer, it was sarcasm, even though I have issues with Mesmers, and yes I’ll duel you. Can’t believe you took that as me saying I didn’t want to duel. How hilarious. I’m sorry I work, and can’t respond to everything on the internet in regards to me.

Thanks for making my late work night brighter. I needed the laugh.

osif.8673:

@jkctmc

Anyone who’s been reading the forums between AR and NSP knows that I offered you a duel at the fight club (or whenever at your leisure for that matter) and you avoided every offer. You’ve always trash talked PAXA and pulled nonsense our of your rear. Keep hiding in anonymity, forum tough guy!
The guild you’re thinking of is NEWL, they’re another good guild that I think we’ve lost some even fights to. I think I already addressed Rinzler’s claim as well. Keep living in your delusions though, I find your stories to be good reads.

You might want to go back and reread who you were talking to in the past brother, it wasn’t me. <laughs out loud> This right here throws out any credibility you have ever had. You were not at the event when I was brother.

I’m not THAT person.

Quote your response to Rinzler, I missed it.

What is your vent info? I will meet you when I’m not working for that 1v1, even though I’ve had issues killing Mesmers on my Ranger, but I need the practice. You’ve never offered me any direct 1v1s brother, because if you had, I would have accepted. I LOVE 1v1s, win or lose.

Oh, since you think I’m hiding, I’m Renno… I think my last name of my Ranger is Tojack, and I’m a 80 Ranger in Syndicate of Shadows. I almost always run solo. Most recently if there is no action, I’ve been leveling my fifth character, a Mesmer, his name is Aece the Face.

Rinzler.8072:

Real talk here. How many of you people dont have jobs?

I sometimes wish I didn’t have a job. Does that count?

I still would love to see someone run a full group of Rangers. Every time I try to get a full group of Rangers, they think I’m psycho. <grins>

Jscull.2514:

@jkctmc.8754

We have lost EVEN (Even in english = same number of players without adds) fights to the following: AD from Devona’s, Btsy also Devona’s, MAN beat us once with similar numbers not perfectly even, VS seems to think the other night they had zero people add around them in their fights against us as well.

We give credit to solid impressive players that give us a great challenge whether we win or lose. No one ever says we don’t lose fights. A couple PAXA guys have given numerous players from select guilds props for their play style. We will NEVER give respect to someone in a zerg guild who cheers on a PAXA kill with 20 other mates around him.

Is it ironic that the only ones you’ve admitted to, are the only ones who actually fraps? What about Rinzler’s claim? You know a Six/SoS member? You’ve been silent about those incidents.

I have never seen you admit to any loss that potentially might not have been caught on fraps.

Oh, and I run solo most of the time as a Ranger, so save me the zerg this, zerg this nonsense.

osif.8673:

jkctmc.8754:

Rinzler.8072:

Sorry just been readin through this thread.

Why all the Paxa hate?

1. They are doing what they want and having fun
2. They arent hacking (i havnt seen it at least)
3. They run from fights that they dont have the tactical advantage, sounds good to me.
4. They have made imprints on you guys (oh kitten its paxa!), thats gotta count for something.

Sounds like a fun guild to me.

On that note tho, fought u guys a couple times last night, was that your B-team or will you trying something new? Took you guys down a few times even when we didnt have significantly more numbers than you.

The only issue I have with PAXA is their constant rudeness, and how they refuse to mention loses, case in point. I seriously doubt there will be any recognition about these fights, yet they’ll constantly tell us how bad AR, and BP players are.

You know I run around a lot solo when ironing out builds, especially on my Ranger, so my irritation with that guild has nothing to do with them beating me. <grins>

Oh, you’re the guy that complains about getting rolled over by 5 of us and when we offer you a 1v1 you are too cowardly to even respond. Right. You sure do like to drive that complain train against PAXA. We give credit when credit is due. Just as we don’t expect props when we roll over someone 5v1, we’re not going to give credit to zergs that kill us. For example:
3v3 with VS and they run away until ALS zerg comes. We’ll give props when either of them decide to finish out the fair fight, win or lose if it’s a good fight.

The irony in you thinking I’ve complained, and the fact you don’t see the irony of you guys actually complaining about zergs is comical. Yes, I’ve pointed out that I thought it was humorous for you to complain about zergs, yet you have no issue killing people 1v1. I also sarcastically said you guys are probably those kind of players who refuse to leave the safety of PvE until you have a solid group to travel with.

I have never, nor would I ever complain about PAXA, or any group. I have fought much better groups like AD, the group from GoM, sorry guys your name slips my tired, old mind, something like Newt, I think, among other groups when I was on Henge of Denravi at pre-release.

I am not from these other guilds you speak of, I’m from SoS, and I will 1v1 you any time, and have, when I can get any of you seperated from your group. When I went to the event for 1v1, not a single PAXA was there to fight my Ranger, of all classes.

Then after I log off, I was told you guys tried to crash the party.

I’m sorry that I’ve had to work a lot of overtime this week, and havn’t been able to play a lot, but I’ll be out there again next week to stalk you guys.

I’ll give you a hint who I am. I’m the Ranger who pops Snow Leopard, and escapes your group often, while trying to catch your group mates one vs one out of place.

Cool dudes.

Way to show case the Asuran racial ability Pain Inverter. It must be awesome to have a racial ability that does that much damage. I mean 3000-6000+ isn’t something to shake a stick at, and something that would flesh out pretty much any build.

I know, I know you say you’ve been effective with other utilities, but your videos are primarily with Pain Inverter, so in a round about way you’re showing us just how powerful it is because you use it over anything else.

They really need to revisit the other races, and their abilities.

The issue isn’t doing well with a Ranger. Many of us do well, myself included. The issue is that you can do better with another class, and playing the other class is also easier.

I never believed people when they told me this as well, until I rolled a Guardian second, next a Warrior, and finally a Thief. After getting them all fully geared in Exotics, I went back to my Ranger, and I couldn’t believe the difference in how much better, and more complete the other classes were. Then I rolled a Mesmer, and was floored with how effective this class is, and the awesome tools it has.

And I leveled all toons from 1-80 in WvW, so my experience at all levels are equal.

Rinzler.8072:

Sorry just been readin through this thread.

Why all the Paxa hate?

1. They are doing what they want and having fun
2. They arent hacking (i havnt seen it at least)
3. They run from fights that they dont have the tactical advantage, sounds good to me.
4. They have made imprints on you guys (oh kitten its paxa!), thats gotta count for something.

Sounds like a fun guild to me.

On that note tho, fought u guys a couple times last night, was that your B-team or will you trying something new? Took you guys down a few times even when we didnt have significantly more numbers than you.

The only issue I have with PAXA is their constant rudeness, and how they refuse to mention loses, case in point. I seriously doubt there will be any recognition about these fights, yet they’ll constantly tell us how bad AR, and BP players are.

You know I run around a lot solo when ironing out builds, especially on my Ranger, so my irritation with that guild has nothing to do with them beating me. <grins>

Very nice Sol, though I’m not sure I could roam without the 25% runspeed.

I’d love to find thieves like the one you were fighting, that did practically nothing the entire fight. Can you loan them to me? <grins evily>

Nice trap choice, and it was painful to see Lightning Reflexes not work for you, when you were downed once, which is painful to me only beause the stun breakers I’ve used with other classes work so much better, for instance on my Thief the “2” sword attack will teleport you no matter what is on you, including roots, and the Shortbow “5” will teleport you with roots on you as well, but our Lightning Reflexes will trigger without much, if at all happening.

I’ve always wondered how well Citadel Runes would work, but didn’t want to replace my current runes. Wish you could slot multiple runes in an armor, and choose the one you want, and such.

Arekai.5698:

Many, hundreds, of people already pointed that out before you.
Just saying. It’s nothing new. Everybody knows how kitten the Ranger is.

I’ve been playing the Ranger since pre-release, and have been saying a lot of this since then brother. No need to bust my chops for bringing it back up in the hopes a develepor is reading the forums on his lunch break.

A better course of action would be to add to what I’ve said, rather than try to shut me up. That’s generally how communication, and dialogue happens brother.

With 17 years of MMO experience, and a BETA tester for virtually every game to date, but GW2 (a mistake I wish i hadn’t made when I passed up the opportunity), I am a fountain of information, and reasonable ideas.

You should see what I’ve suggested on these very forums to improve peoples WvW experiences.

So please, add to the thread, instead of trying to quiet it.

As a person who plays a Ranger as his main, but also has a fully geared 80 Warrior, 80 Thief, and 80 Guardian I have never lost a fight to any single Ranger, and as a matter of fact, I’ve never lost a 2v1 against two Rangers.

I’ve had another Ranger I downed down my Ranger at the same time, but I won, Rallied, and went about my marry way, but no Ranger has come close to killing any of my other toons.

Is the Ranger the worst class? Well, I havn’t played the Engineer, but fighting them, I would have to give that trophy to the Engineer as being the worst class. The Ranger and Necromancer are fighting for second to last place.

MaximeP.7524:

I’m only showing that AR are using BP attacks to capture NSP locations, instead of attacking BP to cut their points… It’s not a good tactic to try capping an attacked location when they could attack BP borderland which is not really defended.

NSP made a test to verify this: they went on BP borderland to take some camps, less than 2 minutes later AR came on and captured locations NSP just taken.

You’re ignoring one glaring fact behind this. If you take a location, turning it into a weak wooden fortification, a single group of five can move in, and take it without any issues, while you’re busy knocking on a fortified location, and actually take the place you left unprotected before your zerg can take your new fortified location.

It’s a great opportunity for a single group, or even 10 people to do something besides running with the zerg.

Protect your new investment, if you don’t want to lose it.

Mitch.4781:

tough on my warrior.

You might want to actually learn how to play the Warrior first, if you honestly believe this.

The Warrior is the best PvE class in the game, by a far, far, far margin, even better than the Guardian, you know the class many Warriors complain about? I can quadruple any damage you do on the Ranger, even if you’re in full glass spec with my Warrior, and my Warrior isn’t a damage spec.

And get this, the Warrior brings far more benefits to the group, being able to keep regen, fury, swiftness, and 3 stacks of might up permanently for his entire group.

The Warrior is the fourth best PvP/WvW class in the game, only behind Thief, Mesmer, and D/D Elementalist for obvious reasons.

<walks away shaking his head>

I ignore the issues people have with Guard, because I have an issue with birds not being able to fly over walls, or spiders not being able to climb over walls, et cetera.

Sheesh, I have to go hose off my boots after wading through all the smelly mud in here.

This one was called early. It’s too bad it came true.

I think it has been an exciting week, and hope once I’m done doing overtime, it continues to be an exciting week.

A lot of servers are asking for transfers if people are truly unhappy with this match up, which will probably remain the same for a month.

nerva.7940:

spirit rework. #1 thing rangers need. right now we have no way of supporting our team except for Healing Spring, SoN and warhorn #5

I have thought about spirits, and quite frankly I’m not even sure what to do with them because they’re so weak, it isn’t funny. First, and foremost they die way too fast, even faster than our pets, and secondly the abilities they grant are actually kind of weak in comparison to other professions.

Here is a shot as what to do with Spirits.

Nature’s Vengeance — Activated skills of spirits are cast instantly, are larger and trigger when the spirit is killed.
Spirits Unbound; Special Note: Combine this with Spiritual Knowledge, making them one single trait. — Spirits can move and follow you, while having a 15% better chance of providing their benefits.
Vigorous Spirits — Spirits have twice as much health, and take 50% less damage from AoEs.

Frost Spirit
- 35% chance to grant 10% bonus damage on hit.
- 35% chance to cause weakness 2 seconds on hit.

Stone Spirit
- 35% chance to grant Protection, 3 seconds on hit.
- 35% chance to grant Stability, 3 seconds on hit.

Storm Spirit
- 35% chance to grant swiftness, 8 seconds on hit.
- 35% chance to cause stun, 1 second on hit.

Sun Spirit
- 35% chance to cause burning, 3 seconds on hit.
- 35% chance to cause vulnerability, 3 seconds on hit.

Yeah the F2 abilities for howls, and breath weapons can be near impossible to land in WvW where EVERYONE is moving around.

Consumables are fine, they just need to buff some of them so that there is a larger variety of useful ones.

It is kind of stupid though, that crit builds give you more survivability, than an actual defense build that costs you some damage to attain.

I was hoping to see any kind of dialogue by now. Oh well, I’ll focus on overtime for now.

Quite frankly there are a lot of traits dedicated to the downed state, and I don’t want developers working on something like this when there is so much more they need to be doing.

SteepledHat.1345:

Downed state makes the game easier. There is nothing about removing it that would make the game any less difficult. Stop making assumptions about my abilities. It’s silly. It’s also silly that you’d hop into this thread and try to brag. Iirc, can’t pets res a ranger when it’s downed. No wonder you love it.

It’s not often I’m downed, and if you can’t finish me off while I’m solo before my number “3” down state ability is ready to use, then you do need a big can of learn to play.

Again, I’m sorry the downed state is hard for you, truly I am.

If removing the downed state wouldn’t make the game easier for you, there would be nothing to complain about, now would there?

Xsorus.2507:

jkctmc.8754:

SteepledHat.1345:

We’re talking about it’s effect on WvW. The culture it creates and how it molds combat. Anything to add on any of those points?

They removed healing, and the trinity because people cried about not having the skill to down healers, or groups with good healers.

Now you’re crying about the downed state. Come on guys, this is embarassing. How much further do you want PvP to be watered down to? They already nerf classes in sPvP because people can’t cope with a full fledged class.

The removing of the trinity i found rather silly, Just like the constant nerfing of Healers in Rift/SWTOR (Think warhammer was the last one I played where they usually ended up buffing healers)

However giving everyone incombat res with no cooldown and faster then you can down a player is just silly silly mechanics at play.

A person taking the time to rez is easy to kill, because they are not dodging. Throw in a few AEs, and they’ve just wasted thier time.

You’re a Ranger, switch pets for haste, and finish them off. For that matter if you have piercing arrows, you can position yourself to hit both, and gain two easy kills. It’s so easy, it isn’t even worth arguing the point.

There is no reason to make the game any easier than it already is.

SteepledHat.1345:

jkctmc.8754:

SteepledHat.1345:

We’re talking about it’s effect on WvW. The culture it creates and how it molds combat. Anything to add on any of those points?

They removed healing, and the trinity because people cried about not having the skill to down healers, or groups with good healers.

Now you’re crying about the downed state. Come on guys, this is embarassing.

I guess not.

I’m sorry the downed state is too hard for you, truly I am sorry. It just cracks me up, as a solo Ranger having zero issues with it, to see the majority who play Thieves, Mesmers, and D/D Elementalists complain about this mechanic.

I’ve watched PvP over the years get watered down literally because it was too hard for people to adapt, the most recent being GW2 moving away from the holy trinity, because the majority couldn’t deal with healers.

I mean my lord, this game is easy enough with so little each person can do, let’s not make it any easier.

SteepledHat.1345:

We’re talking about it’s effect on WvW. The culture it creates and how it molds combat. Anything to add on any of those points?

They removed healing, and the trinity because people cried about not having the skill to down healers, or groups with good healers.

Now you’re crying about the downed state. Come on guys, this is embarassing. How much further do you want PvP to be watered down to? They already nerf classes in sPvP because people can’t cope with a full fledged class.

People are actually crying about the down state? <falls down laughing>

I solo as a Ranger, yes a Ranger, that class that is subpar to many of you crying here playing D/D Elementalist, Mesmers, and Thieves.

I have zero issues with downing, and killing people. When you thought you’ve seen it all in any MMO, people bring you stuff like this.

Supersun.4603:

Trebs aren’t the problem.

Bad map design letting some places treb other places that obviously weren’t intended is the problem (Like Garrison able to treb Bay)

Or Stonemist being able to treb reds Overlook?

tiramisu.8706:

We’re small but most of my members like to WVW so we get together on weekends : )

I must have the luck of getting you when you’re all together. <grins>

Yeah, I don’t like trebs either. They make it very hard for small groups to defend.

tiramisu.8706:

jkctmc.8754:

StormWolf.7645:

The large guild Sekz left DR to join Kaining this week. DR, and/or BP might suffer when they get bumped down with the guilds they’re losing.

Reset night I actually saw that Guild on NSP…about 15 of them…

jkctmc.8754:

That’s why I shouldn’t do multiple things at once. I meant NSP.

Not sure if there’s another [Sekz] guild in NSP, but we’ve never even proposed the idea of transferring to Kaening. Also, we’re not a large guild. We’re just some no name, small guild that recently transferred to NSP. Whoever gave you the info, needs to double check before spreading the false facts.

Check the screenshot, I wouldn’t call that small. I was the Ranger that day who was luring you from the tower, stealthing with Snow Leopard, and picking off your stragglers as they went back to the tower after chasing those PUGs who volunteered to run back to the camp, and spread you guys out for me.

Check out my outmanned buff. To get that, with the number of people standing near me, you had to be pretty good size.

I’ve been leveling my Mesmer lately, but I could have swore I saw about 10 Sekz on Garrison, in a mass of Kaineng players. I’ll have to go join some of the zerg fights and see if it is another Sekz guild or not, as I’ve not seen much of NSP this week.

osif.8673:

Jeda, my offer is still on the table. I’d be happy to have a 1v1 with you. Since you like to run solo I know you probably like fighting even and outmatched fights. I like to do the same.

If you were anything but a Mesmer, I would one v one you, but as a Ranger, I can’t seem to do well against many Mesmers.

But hey, it’s not as if you’re a Ranger or Necromancer challenging one v ones or anything. Mighty brave of you. <winks>

Next time I catch one of your guys solo, and am beating him, since larger groups make you guys cry so much on the forums, try not bringing in your group to crush me.

Jscull.2514:

Just because we don’t fraps movies of us killing 10+ with 5 or 6 doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen SIX.

We run nothing but cloth and medium armor classes. Turtle?

Elementalist are the best defensive class in the game. Armor has nothing to do with it. When you’re primarily traveling with Confusion based Mesmers, Bunker Elementalist, and Thieves, you’re going to, no you should win 5v5s rather easily.

Now travel with a group of Rangers, and/or Necromancers and try to win.

Xsorus.2507:

jkctmc.8754:

Xsorus.2507:

jkctmc.8754:

I just realized you’re an Asura. I havn’t played that race yet. Pain Inverter (haha, the title says it all) is HUGE. What I would give to have that for my Ranger. You’re getting a 3k attack, on top of retaliation.

Wish they would allow for racial changes.

Still can’t figure out where the earth AE attack is coming from.

Sigil of Geomancy, on both weapon sets, Everytime i swap weapons i do a PBAE 3 Stack Bleed.

Also you can switch out Pain Inverter for QZ (For your Pet Mainly), Sickem or Sharpening Stones, I’ve ran all 3, and they work good for 1v1, But I prefer Pain Inverter just cause its PBAE

PBAE >>> Thieves.

That AE confusion, which damages them based off what they do, on top of the retaliation makes that one racial ability amazing to have.

I would use that on my Ranger, Guadian, and Warrior.

If your enemy hits you three times with that on them, they’re taking at least 4200 damage. Because the Retaliation is on you for 5 seconds, that one ability could potentially do over 6000 damage to some targets, depending on how fast they hit. That’s one ability is more damage than weapon set a Ranger has. I’m astounded that is even a racial ability, and a bit jealous I’m not Asuran.

And it has a 30 second timer. O.O

Yeap, you can be even more prickish with it and run Rare Veggie Pizza (I’ll do it with my Apothecary Armor) It makes the Confusion end up being 7 Seconds Long, and with that set my PI hits for a little over 1k a tick base.

That’s sick. If I had the time, I’d reroll my Ranger, and make him Asuran.

Xsorus.2507:

jkctmc.8754:

I just realized you’re an Asura. I havn’t played that race yet. Pain Inverter (haha, the title says it all) is HUGE. What I would give to have that for my Ranger. You’re getting a 3k attack, on top of retaliation.

Wish they would allow for racial changes.

Still can’t figure out where the earth AE attack is coming from.

Sigil of Geomancy, on both weapon sets, Everytime i swap weapons i do a PBAE 3 Stack Bleed.

Also you can switch out Pain Inverter for QZ (For your Pet Mainly), Sickem or Sharpening Stones, I’ve ran all 3, and they work good for 1v1, But I prefer Pain Inverter just cause its PBAE

PBAE >>> Thieves.

That AE confusion, which damages them based off what they do, on top of the retaliation makes that one racial ability amazing to have.

I would use that on my Ranger, Guadian, and Warrior.

If your enemy hits you three times with that on them, they’re taking at least 4200 damage. Because the Retaliation is on you for 5 seconds, that one ability could potentially do over 6000 damage to some targets, depending on how fast they hit. That one ability is more damage than any weapon set a Ranger has. I’m astounded that is even a racial ability, and a bit jealous I’m not Asuran.

And it has a 30 second timer. O.O

I just realized you’re an Asura. I havn’t played that race yet. Pain Inverter (haha, the title says it all) is HUGE. What I would give to have that for my Ranger. You’re getting a 3k attack, on top of retaliation.

Wish they would allow for racial changes.

Still can’t figure out where the earth AE attack is coming from.

What are you using to get the three stacks of Confusion that hits for more than 1k a tick?

As far as I knew a Ranger couldn’t get Confusion without Reef Drake Sonic Shriek, the Warthog Throw Gunk, without someone else around to create the ethreal combo field?

At 2:43 you use some AE earth type ground attack in the Shadow Refuge. What was that?

I’ll have to watch more of the video later when I have more time, but where are you getting these extra attacks?

Anet, thank you for taking questions!! While you are at it, some changes you might consider.

Guild Commander Tags – These are tags only guild members can see. Make them show as a gold icon on the map.

Camp upgrades – Allow for more, better upgrades for smaller guilds to defend camps, those guilds who can’t really afford to upgrade towers/keeps. Something like putting up easy to break walls, set up traps, or any number of things.

Character travel time – I thought you had the right idea giving the Ranger, Necro, and Elementalist a full time 25% run speed, even though I didn’t think the Elementalist needed it. But you forgot the two slowest classes in the game, the Guardian, and the Mesmer. Please consider adding a more reliable movement speed for these two classes.

Orbs – These should be keep specific items that are captured, and moved to a keep to strengthen those who fight “inside the keeps”.

Guild buffs placed on claimed keeps – These should be zone wide for the guild only.

World vs world should be a FOUR SERVER MATCH UP.

Reward system: Defense reward system kind of sucks because you constantly see the timer tick to zero, while the enemy is still beating on the gate, and you do not get rewarded. This is the best place to reward PUGs, or give PvE players a reason to leave PvE, and defend keeps/towers thier server owns. To encourage more participation in a defense, a person should be rewarded every single time the defense timer ticks to “zero”, even if the enemy is still beating on the wall/gates.

UI Changes: I think the most important UI change should be putting a place where we store our consumables so we don’t have to open our bags to use them. Better yet, if you didn’t want to apply this UI change, allow for us to apply an “auto consume” feature on our foods so that once the duration has run its course, our toons automatically use the consumable again. We had the auto consume feature in Everquest II, and it worked extremely well.

Supplies, more importantly supply runs: The 15 supply buff from guilds should be a 20 supply buff “AT” supply camps, and players should be allowed to assist keep/tower workers in thier upgrades, allowing them to run to a supply camp, pick up supplies, and go click on the “structure” being upgraded inside the keep/tower. That alone would solve a lot of problems for guilds trying to do upgrades.

Road Marker “Banners”: These should emit a pulsing buff (600 radius) for 10 seconds of swiftness, instead of the need to click on them for a buff for 20 seconds of swiftness. This would require more to be used, and allow for a better synergy, with use. Also there is a major bug with these that makes them disappear too early.

A major class change I’d like to see;

Warrior I’m seeing fewer, and fewer banners in WvW, probably because they’re tedious. To assist Warriors out, I thik once they pick up a banner, it should put the banner on thier back, or the back of the person carrying the banner. Allowing for them to carry the banner, and utilize their weapon skill set. This is a UI change, basically making “F8” the banners special buff, like Banner of Disc’s “Fury Buff”, and making “F9” the Banners Swiftness buff. This would allow for one Warrior to provide multiple banners to be moved by multiple people in a large scale fight, without losing the weapons they’ve traited for. It would also be cool if the banners represented the guild the Warrior belongs to.

Jscull.2514:

Thank you AR and Kain for running ONLY in groups of 10+. Literally every fight we come across is 10+ people. How about tune your skills to be able to run 5 and win some fights…quit using numbers as your winning mechanism. Chumps. And that’s from all of us at PAXA towards your entire server.

That’s funny, considering I finally singled one of your guys out with my Ranger, only to get rolled by the entire group once he started losing.

I put the range, in Ranger because I’m running solo most of the time.

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StormWolf.7645:

Agreed…but as I pointed out before, the primary benefit of the transfers was actually not WM…WM is HELPFUL and very WELCOME…but the main benefit provided was the NA Coverage which Kaineng severely lacked strength in. Specifically there was little to no communication/teamwork/really anything. RE and DE got together and fixed that dilemma.

I just wish they would merge the lower three tiers, or make it so four servers compete against each other.

StormWolf.7645:

There was about 400…between all the Guilds.

WM also had about 400 members, but only their WvW group of 100-ish was transferring.

That’s still a lot of people when you consider servers from tier 6 down are lucky if they can field 100 on one map during prime time, and 20 during late night hours if it isn’t a weekend.

StormWolf.7645:

jkctmc.8754:

Actually they did. You don’t think ET, HoD, NSP, and others dropped because they all of a sudden got bad at WvW, do you?

Kain got probably 900 transfers just from three guilds, 400+ from one guild alone.

That makes a HUGE difference. But hey, it is what it is, and there is a thread on the first page where the deves have said they’re aware of the issue, and are discussing a fix to transfers that will prevent these issues in the future.

…Which Guild had 400+? Hope you don’t think it’s WM, they have a lotta folks, but not THAT many. I think it was maybe 100 tops?(Which is a lot, but they’re in the night-crew mostly with SOS…where we already had superior coverage.) RE?…Nope…they sure as heck didn’t bring 400+…they DID do a lot of recruiting though. DE?…Nah, they’re a splinter group from SE who did most of their recruiting from the PvEers who wanted to join in the victories. And those were the 3 true Transfers, only ones worth mentioning. Have we had a lot of randoms since then from each Tier we beat? Almost definitely. But please note that Kaineng “Population” is still only at “High”. What we have is a very high percentage of WvW vs. PvE Players.

The true jump-start for Kaineng was that all those people saw DR gone…So all those “New” people who came into WvW to fight DR and got crushed so quit WvW, only for more “New” people to repeat the process several times…all those people could finally play WvW. They aren’t -fully- “Fairweather” Players…they’re mostly people who never had the opportunity to learn and enjoy WvW who are finally doing just that.

As for DR…they were huge in T8 already, did they gain people since T8?…Some almost definitely, but not as many as you seem to think. The difference is we held them off. You could have done so as well at this Tier, but most of your people were dead-set on attacking without having any defense. I was here and watched the fights. This Tier gave up against DR without a real fight. I partially blame the Holiday…because I have been seeing awesome fighting spirit against Kaineng.

I’ll have to find the thread, and pray to GOD it wasn’t deleted. Before the lower tiers got major transfers there was a thread about it, and quite a few guilds made the transfer because they were unhappy with the upper tier servers, and how they were beig handled.

I just recall this one guild stating they had 400 members going to Kain.

Matt Witter.6982:

Draygo.9473:

Waypoints are currently the most powerful upgrade in the game but there are a few issues.

They are only inactive when the defense quest is active, are you guys planning on disabling them slightly longer than the defense quest to allow attackers to keep the defenders from spawning there just as the defense quest lapses?

For example under the current system I can count down on voip the defense quest and spawn in everyone right as it hits zero and before attackers can reflag the keep.

This is definitely a bug. I’ll see about leaving the rally points disabled for a few extra seconds after the event has completed. That way it just stays disabled if the event starts back up.

If you do that, waypoints will become useless. One person can set the timer on a keep/tower, and keep resettng it making it impossible to waypoint, ever. I hope you really think about this before you do it.

StormWolf.7645:

Godfather.8217:

@storm

I can understand the resentment towards the transferred guilds, perhaps the opinion is different because it was Kain’s server they decided to transfer to, which benefited you guys alot. My question is if Kain was such a great server in WvW, why were you guys down there in the lowest tier for a long time. You guys have a 900 man guild SoS i believe, that has been in that server since day 1 am i correct?, Now these major guilds transfer in and suddenly your all jumping tiers? Let’s do the connection here.

Remember DR?…They didn’t grow much at all from their time in T8. I fought them on NSP and saw their numbers…there was little different from what we were fighting while we were down in T8. That’s why we were in T8 for awhile. If all the Fergs people hadn’t left FC, they’d be the next Server rolling up this way as they weren’t far behind Kaineng in strength. I would put what Ferg -was- at equal to what I’ve seen out of AR so far.

Actually they did. You don’t think ET, HoD, NSP, and others dropped because they all of a sudden got bad at WvW, do you?

Kain got probably 900 transfers just from three guilds, 400+ from one guild alone.

That makes a HUGE difference. But hey, it is what it is, and there is a thread on the first page where the deves have said they’re aware of the issue, and are discussing a fix to transfers that will prevent these issues in the future.

Quite frankly, it isn’t fun for me to win by a large margin, nor is it fun for me to lose by a large margin. It’s a waste of a week because I never PvE, and sPvP is so watered down with nerfs, it isn’t worth the trouble. So the only thing I have is WvW, what I come to this game for.

The best fight I have ever had was pre-release while still on Henge of Denravi, and we had a three way fight at our Garrison that lasted six hours, which we finally won. But alas, once guilds got beat by Henge of Denravi, and the Titan alliance, by week two we had SIX HOUR queue times, and people like me left because with work, family, college, etc we were not able to play in WvW because the horde of transfers Henge of Denravi got.

Transfers have ruined this game for a lot of people, it just sucks they didn’t catch the issue earlier. I know some very large guilds who are down to 20 players because people quit, due to the issues revolving around transfers.

People actually lose to a Ranger? I don’t lose to other Rangers, on my Ranger. <laughs>

I’ve never lost a single fight to a Ranger on my 80 Guardain, 80 Warrior, 80 Ranger, 80 Thief, nor my 60 Mesmer.

I’m astounded by the lack of skill other players have, when I kill them on my Ranger.

SteepledHat.1345:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Wait…people are complaining about pets, which are some of the EASIEST things to kill in PvP? AoE kills them pretty fast people, it isn’t that hard to take out a pet.

Phantasams were easier to kill. Did you see all the crying they caused?

Phantasms did twice as much damage.