Guild Wars 2

You lose all the benefits of your gear and weapons when you equip those planks, meaning you can eat a huge crit if you’re not careful.

I, personally, have never used planks in WvW, but you can get a similar item off the tree creatures in Eternal. It’d be a shame to have fun items removed completely because one guy used them to spam/troll people. Disgraceful ele. We’re hated enough as it is.

I want a scoreboard that shows me more detained information of what my team is doing; whether it be flipping camps, repairing, or gathering carrots.

You could break it down into guild points for the map. That would really be nice to see your guild at the top with 1000 points for all of the WvW specific tasks you’ve done on the map, with a trailing other active guild with a meager 650 points.

The overall rankings don’t mean much to me. And we can’t exactly link our achievements from our stats page.

An Update: LOL!

Here’s our oceanic presence: Our boarderlands, and Eternal. Only they aren’t oceanic players. They’re NA players than happen to play in the day time. All 30 of us for both maps. This lasts for 8 hours or so at a time. With breaks to do pve, because we’re used to being out-numbered to a point where it’s not worth wasting time, and money, on the match at that hour. That’s it in a nutshell.

Hopefully FA gets to fight Kaineng so they know how ridonculous the oceanic presence can get over here. It totally defeats the purpose WvWing.

We’re up kitten creek no matter what we do because if we stay in this tier we get slaughtered, and if we go down a tier, we dominate. We haven’t had an even match in months.

I don’t know what all this chatter is about on the forums. It’s the same thing forever: “I beat up 3 of you guys vs just me. LOL”, and the counter “Look at the score. LOL”.

Kick it up a notch: “I spiked you as Dolyak and here’s the pic/video!”

Maguuma players play for the comic gold (stolen from Ari, I think) moments. That’s it. It’s really only the people that buy the upgrades, or play until they’re too tired to play anymore, that get angry about the game. I mean, those are the only times I get grouchy. (And lag spikes.)

yay. another week of huge oceanic guilds in NA brackets. lfm fractals

Our server does the same exact thing when we have full map coverage in a match.

If you click on each item in the recipe on the wiki it will tell you where to get it.

Open beta testing to players.

WvW matchups shows them at -8 while maintaining the lead.

The system is completely bonkers. Just as it was starting to even it self out, we have to fight teams that are likely making people not going to queue for another month.

Oceanic guilds transferring into NA to help teams advance is rather annoying. People don’t queue right now because of that. I would hate to play in the top 6 where it’s culling forever, but it’s like that in the lowest tier now, too. One team will have 20 players to defend, and the other team has 60 attackers. The defending team won’t have outmanned buff. Garbage.

Resetting the matches before the update was a terrible idea.

I don’t know what MaXi is talking about. All of those things he listed naturally occur in WvW if you’re actually trying to make your team points.

I’m not apposed to this.

There are probably a lot more people who don’t like spvp than dislike pve. The pve dailies are practically pvp ones anyway. Dodge stuff, gather some random plant for a chance at a dye drop, and craft something with chef with the same plants. Easy to do in WvW.

I think I’ve played around 40 spvp matches since release, but I would play more for laurels since, like many, the cat tonic is the first thing I’m going for.

Can you add a goat pet that will run to corpses and take the loot off them for you in pve?

Will this make us into the von snuffles cat, or a random type of cat every click?

Scoured Google to no avail.

I’m in WvW everyday and I still made the backpiece and recently got a ring in fractals. I’m level 11 fractals and barely do any. Why do fractals suck? Dungeons suck. Fractals give you tons of yellows. Dungeons give you blue junk.

I was fighting a mesmer in WvW yesterday and neither of us could kill each other. I had full invaders, pvt ascended backpiece, pvt daggers, dolyak runes so my damage was mediocre at best. I had 2 other 80s show up to try and help, but he kept slipping away. I got lucky about 15 mins later by downing him in stealth. He was LoS at the time. I think a mesmer has a lot better escapes than RTL gives us. Stealth/clone/portal, etc. The fight was at north camp so he had plenty of LoS to work with. He also had a thief buddy that showed up twice, which I managed to stake both times without any help from npcs, etc.

Wanderer.5471:

i was talking about regular people attacking you whilst downed, not downed vs downed – as was caffynated as far as i can tell, he gave no indication to the contrary

It was downed vs downed.

The very first line was "So I’m in downed state and kill someone while in down state ". Clearly we were both downed. He healed for 50% in downed state. They removed the healing of vapor form in the last patch, so I was defeated because I used it.

The only thing vapor form does is help you try and LoS so someone else can rez you, or you rez yourself. You can’t finish anyone off anymore. I dislike our downstate.

I recently bought a named set of gear so I can hope to heal like a boss now.

The duels have concluded.

Today’s winner will receive the gift of Kool-Aids. Now available in all 5 food groups: Red, urnge, green, blue, and turkwise. Because you always need more Kool-Aid.

I don’t like foozeball. I’ll watch it later. I was listening to rap music and doing jumping puzzle achievements.

So I killed 4 Kaineng in the same guild at Rogue’s Quarry in Eternal and they invited me to group while I was killing them. The first one told me off, and then they proceeded to discuss things about me, calling me a hacker, a bot, a dev playing their in-game character, etc. That’s when I left the party.

Classy.

It wasn’t underwater and he had a bear out.

It’s as if the game told the player he was out of combat when I vapor formed, allowing him to heal 50% until vapor form wore off. At least, that’s how it looked on my screen while I was staring right at him spamming 1 waiting for vapor form to end. It was ridiculous.

I love that there’s a lot of solo content. After world completion (solo), I started doing the jumping puzzle achievements. Just finished them all today. Next I’ll do the diving/exploring ones.

I don’t like doing dungeons, and in WvW I mostly just roam.

When you relog your character it wipes guild chat history, but it will save all of map and team chat.

Can you fix this?

It was a ranger.

So I’m in downed state and kill someone while in down state putting them in down state. I’m damaging them down to about 30% while I’m at 10% and decide to hit vapor form to cancel some of the damage. My target heals up to 75%???, and I’m right back at that 10%.

What just happened?

How does someone else get a free massive heal in down state when I use vapor form?

Too used to my ele to switch now. But whenever I play my mesmer (level 16) I have fun with it. I use s/f and staff on my mesmer, I think. I made it to portal people, that’s pretty much it.

Post videos. Ain’t nobody reading all this crap.

The Siegerazer practically gives a team the orb bonuses and then some.
The orb allowing people to out-gear (stats) the entire other teams is truly OP this far into game with all the ascended stuff, and the huge zergs/blobs.

Bringing back the orbs would be fun. Bringing them back with the old benefits would be bad.

A WILD IDEA HAS APPEARED:

You could add an orb to a keep that has the full 1700 (supply worth of) max upgrades, and have the buff isolated to that keep. This would eliminate having to track down all the people who claimed a keep that aren’t keeping buffs up. If the orb buff is up, the keep claim’s buffs drop off. That claim can then be used elsewhere on the map. This would make defending and spending money a lot more satisfying, don’t you think?

I’m soloing all of you.

WvW expectations:

How do you proc fire 3/4, earth 3 combo now? Mine doesn’t do anything. Do you have to hit it twice to proc?

Halo.8976:

Maguuma’s golem rush in EB: http://youtu.be/9RqVIqG6bKw

It makes me sad, embarrassed and kinda happy at the same time. Stay classy, EB.

Laugh my kitten tail off.

If I can replace teleporting with Earth 3 being timed perfectly every time after an Earth 5, then I can use something with damage on it in that utility slot. That will be worth it. In PVT gear the leap finisher only does like 250 damage. If I could slam burst on top of that, it’d be a sweet combo.

Volatility.6729:

Does Mag roam with anything other than FOTM D/D eles?

I’m sorry you couldn’t defend that camp I was taking. Don’t feel bad. No one else on your server can either.

How do I get “amazing healing” on my ele? Mine has 450 healing power.

I drop AoEs on top of myself if some melee tries to come at me.

Kodiak.3281:

Thunderbrew.7034:

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…but map awareness 100% and knowing when to run and where NOT to be.

This is pretty much the guide to surviving as any class but especially as Ele. I run full Berserker gear with Full Berserker Traits (30/30/0/10/0) and have no problems with survival because I keep map awareness (anticipating pushes based on map) as well as plan/think of an escape route in every scenario.

If a “brawl” happens (where like 10-15 guys are fighting 10-15 guys intermixed with each other) I tend to gravitate more towards the outside. If I’m unusually focused and in trouble (which happens) I draw the people attacking me out by backing further away from the fight so it’s clear what is hitting me and whether or not they’re willing to commit to chasing me for a kill. If it looks like we’re going to lose, I pull back. Dying and running back doesn’t serve the team as well as being able to spot and call numbers from a nearby tower (especially cause you still have the option to tele back to regroup).

Also don’t be afraid of your own power. I’ve had a lot of guys think a “A staff ele…free kill” only to suddenly get slammed with thousands of damage and flop over dead. Learn to use what tools we do have (Fire 4 is like a third evade since you evade attacks while using it) and gauge accordingly.

I would love to be able to play staff as you describe it. I don’t have any zerkers gear except the Zed’s gloves. Contemplating buying a set. I have used 100% zerkers with staff in sPVP and it was the most fun I’ve ever had with a staff. I didn’t use that zerker’s spec you use, though. That would be a learning curve for me. Do you have any videos of staff use in wvw?

I can’t think of any abuse. They already gimped AoE. A necro is the best ranged AoE now. All eles are in PVT, or any combination with Toughness on it and can’t run around in bursty staff builds.

Here’s the main reasons I want to swap:
1. Attacking tower siege, then defenders jump down to attack. Switch to D/D so I can’t actually do something.
2. Defend myself in the jumping puzzle.
3. Heal people.
4. Water slow.
5. Air Stun.

This is the only thing I want to do with a focus:
1. Block siege shots on walls and our team’s siege.

These are some awesome combos you could do with staff swapping:
1. Air 5 stun and combo field. OP? No. Other classes can already do this with utilities and regular weapon skills.
2. Fire: Lava font, meteor shower. Both are the best damage spells an elementalist has. Only thing comparable is dragon’s tooth with scepter (easily avoidable), and churning earth (dagger off-hand), which you need to teleport onto people most of the time.
3. Earth skills? No. They are all mediocre because they’re based on condition damage, and you have to be in a knowledgeable group to know how to combo off of anything. The cripple is useful sometimes. The best use is killing a buffed supervisor, and building might stacks.
4. Water has combo fields, with AoE healing comparable to guardians. As with dagger, it applies vulnerability, but it’s easier to apply with the dagger.

I would be happen with out-of-combat swap, too. So i can always use the items I want instead of searching for them. But that’s been said a billion times on these forums. For some reason they won’t do it. It’s code that is already available for other classes. Just change the parameters.

Cord.5371:

katniss.6735:

Maguuma doesn’t have a guild large enough to do what BT is doing in their video. BT is gimmicky resetting the fights over and over. I guess it’s a skill since it is effective. We’re in a giant channel together telling updates for important stuff, not telling people how to play capture the camp with advanced tactics.

Ommm nom nom nom nom!!!!!

Way to completely misread the context. lmao

Only WvW players get forum bans for making fun of the other teams.

Maguuma doesn’t have a guild large enough to do what BT is doing in their video. BT is gimmicky resetting the fights over and over. I guess it’s a skill since it is effective. We’re in a giant channel together telling updates for important stuff, not telling people how to play capture the camp with advanced tactics.

wads.5730:

stay on magurma if you wish to never win another matchup

i’m transfering to SoS asap

lol.

I do a lot of idling and crafting when I play. i think SoR could use my help with their queues.

I’ll try it, I guess.

Because any time I use a staff, there’s no escapes. It’s completely impossible to get out of combat to switch weapons again. There’s no good reason not to let us have weapon swap in WvW. None.

You mention Maguuma not being able to match our own numbers. We are grossly out-numbered and handling it well. FA has noticeably better tactics with at least one of their guilds, and Dragonbrand is pretty much the same as when we last fought them; out-numbering us during oceanic. I’m not complaining about being out-numbered, but to put some numbers together I’d say 60 FA vs 30-40 of Maguuma in one part of the map, while FA still has a 20 man split between escorting dolyaks, taking camps, etc, while Maguuma was using 0-5 for that purpose at the time. Lots of culling, lots of stacking. BT guild on FA is the team we’re watching right now.

Maguuma was handed Tier 3 because last match the other 2 teams simply did not even log into WvW for more than an hour at a time. We belong in t4 with Kaineng and whoever else because we both have things to learn before we can function effectively in the top 3 tiers. Our commanders know this, but our pubbies don’t seem to know what’s the actual situation.

I’m very anxiously awaiting our battle with FA.
I’m putting on a fresh pair of socks.

We need proper punctuation in a Haiku.

And we need more hammer-spammers. Never-ending knockdowns is pretty OP right now.

I’m just afraid that Maguuma is going to be in poor form next matchup since we weren’t able to get much practice this match. We have a lot of new people in our server that don’t push, and don’t seem to know how to combo or play their class correctly. Very little in the way of support and control.

After watching that cool RG video someone posted, we’re a long way off that in organization. I know a lot of our commanders would kill for that kind of tight-formation. This week we can break off to solo and do whatever we want, but that doesn’t help in the prep work. We all need to improve.

For example: Might stacking. When you’re defending right up against a gate or wall, you want to stack that as much as you can before you push outward. I’ve only recently started practicing doing this on my own. I can get about 13 stacks up in my bunker spec so far. I used to just drop the fire field and wait to push out. But now I’m doing ring of fire, earth 4, 5, blast finisher utility, pushing out. I’ve been using a combo all the time now after learning it on the Elementalist forums. Fire 3/4, earth 3 procs a fire shield. I can switch some major traits around for group play that give us all the auras I cast on myself. I can tornado on top of any combo field for various types of aoe procs.

This week I found myself playing more sPVP so I can try out other types of stats and weapon sigils. Playing more with the staff, and sceptre. Basically I wanted to crit as high as I could without getting slaughtered. I found that staff let me do that the best. With the occasional churning earth in D/D.

Berserkers gear does not really allow you to play a roamer d/d (in WvW). I’ve been using knight’s in my bunker spec and it’s okay, but not as much damage as I want. I can solo camps in it without having to break, but it involves a lot of kiting and waiting for resets on water, and utilities.

Diary end.

Need more at fight club. So far it’s just a thief getting wins, but he left.
Mag BL behind windmill, s camp.

I just spvp’d to level 11. God, this is horrible. Is it Friday yet?

How do we get a matchup this high in the tier, and neither of our opponents log in?
I’m telling our team to let opponents have the towers so we can have fights. This is so boring. I can’t imagine playing this game without having WvW available to play. What are all these Tier 4 people doing now? Just transferring? I don’t even know what to do when I log in anymore. We have 99-100% of the map every single day without trying. We have 1-30 people playing on our own team because a lot of our pubbies are only playing WvW for the karma/ badges. The 1-30 are our die-hard WvW mumblers.

I’d rather be IoJ right now and have no towers so we are guaranteed to find people on the map to fight. Right now we’re just building trebs at the gates of un-upgraded towers because it brings some level of amusement. We’re wasting siege left, right, and center that we’ll definitely need next week vs teams with actual WvW populations on them.

Just start the siege event, break the gate, and don’t cap the tower. That way you have an elite that can 1 shot us if we go near it. No one cares about the pve stuff at this point. We’re not upgrading anything anymore.