Guild Wars 2

Armor of earth and switch into water mid finish so you also heal while being attacked.

You can also use aura mid finisher in air. Or switch to earth for even more protection. Either of which allow you to be in position to zip to the next enemy.

Also, your hp is low. Your crits and condition damages aren’t very good, so what are those extra vitality going towards?

Tornado is a waste of an elite unless you’re fighting near a cliff or knocking someone off siege. Edit: it is a break stun, gain stability, though. I prefer to use water or air elemental, with earth vs elites, and fire vs siege equipment or warriors.

I honestly don’t know what gear is required for staff to do decent damage. I have an invaders set, and a knights set. Staff is zerkers with a superior fire rune in it. The crits are all under 3k and hit 5 targets. If you are solo, you lose. No clue what to use for untilities. I remember before they nerfed AoEs I was having a blast with just auto-attack in Air attunement. Now I just use it to kill trebs and mortars. That’s it.

I feel that all of the spells are too slow unless you put 30 in arcana to use them all. Ideally you would want to just spam fire forever on siege and aoes. But you have to use all the attunements to set up combo fields.

The staff eles I see doing well are the ones who call out what they’re doing, with blast finishers, and have teammates who know to stand in the heals, and combo off of the, err, combo fields.

I tank better than a guardian.

Sol.4310:

Thanks for duels IoJ (RITZ Guild) was fun enjoyed them.

Nothing better to do atm apart from friendly duels.

^Yeah, this. Friendly bunch. That Engineer was bamf.

crem.2615:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=007yGL2Ps_U

y for the fodder maguuma.

Looks like fun. Those are the pubbies, though. Uplevels. Go to the boarderlands if you want to fight our roamers. Decent music.

Only a WvW player will sit alone in a dark room, for 2 hours, with a maniacal grin until that one unsuspecting invader enters the puzzle.

Only a WvW player will tab back and forth between treb shots to check for updates to this thread.

wonders where Dontain is

I’m still thankful for the SM guys coming over. They bring a lot of skill and organization to the team. Vocal players are the kind you want on your team.

Right now we’re in 11th pushing a 7th place position. I’m not sure what’s happening. What’s going on with these other T4 teams? Are we all wearing cloaks and wizard’s hats on Maguuma? Do we have massive unknown transfers filling our alternate maps? It feels like a slow climb in numbers still, and I still would like to see more presence in our Mumble. It would speed things up even more. I never expected to have full control of all 4 maps in this tier right out the gate.

I think we are excelling because we have a constant presence throughout all hours of the day. Not a zerg, but it seems we can form one, pulling people from here and there.

I just relaxing at crafting station with rest 100 man zerg (try level cooking so can halve advantage for once). Then BAMB. Lock from game. Some1 complain me.

I don’t feel that AoE damage plays a major role in incoming damage received. The only times where you get bombarded by AoE damage is when you’re that guy trying to use the burning oil, cannon, or other ranged dps from atop a wall.

If you’re engaging a group of hiding necros and staff eles all geared for AoE, then it’ll seem like a ton of damage. As it should be. If you’re standing in 2+ superior arrowcart AoE circles, you’re going to get wrecked. As it should be.

It’s the single target attacks that are doing excessive damage right now. Backstab, Kill shot.

I would think that it would be good to have 2 copies of the game. You’d get 5 free character slots instead of having to purchase gems to unlock more.

Your best option would be to return (with receipt) the one you purchased. There’s no real reason to own the box and cd when the entire game can be downloaded. Once downloaded, you can save it to a dvd afterward. It’s the same thing as having gone to the store and bought the game.

You could also give the won version to a friend.

Usually all contest related prizes are non-transferable, unless stated otherwise in the rules, for a cash equivalent.

I don’t get it.
I got it for inappropriate language. ugh
Why is there a filter then?
I wasn’t being serious at all. I was in the jumping puzzle complaining about lack of portals and some guy in the chat kept telling people to report me and move on. Then some other guy swore at me in an even more profane manner.

It’s the 3 days, though. Why is it so long for first offense? The rest of the week of WvW is out for me now. sigh That’s all I do in this game is play WvW, and I’m extremely surprised I could get reported for language in there. I normally just stick to voice comms, and now I always will, and ignore everyone who types.

Nilgoow.1037:

Also check out my ELITE -=:420:=- 360noscope [MLG] 1v1 video from this week’s matchup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_9-mea1gh8

Finally a reason for reading this thread. Great footage. A necro roamer. Never seen that before.

I would suggest trying other servers to see how they play it. You probably don’t have the right crowd to truly immerse yourself into the game. If you’re not using voice comms at all, that would probably get boring and aggravating fast.

It’s a very small window to port in reinforcements on sieging. Disabling that window altogether would make the game less enjoyable for many defenders. Take into account that there are trebs that cannot be taken out without breaking into the structure first.

I don’t save any of them. Took awhile to get full invaders of everything. I still don’t have trident.

Whoever uses siege loses.

Oozo.7856:

Montage of some of this week’s footage. This one is more of an entertainment style movie. Some group versus group, some 3vN, some humor.

We had a one-man advantage in the group vs. group fights, so keep that in mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR2jER9aIV4

cool video. thanks for helping us (mag) take bp’s garrison.

Dear Arenanet, please move us to a tier with PVP players on it.

I doubt the mods even read this. I click on the pictures. That’s about it.

I love all the callouts from the ele. That’s very good synergy. +1

Shadowmoon [SM] Ehmery Bay. Knowledgable, tight-nit players. Small group. Informative and entertaining videos posted on youtube.

I’m on Maguuma and we have a lot of really good players, but we’re spread across many guilds, where none of us really stand out. [OG], and [GOON] get a lot of forum feedback, though.

I have teleport on a thumb button on my mouse. I’ll spam it to get out of cc and it won’t work. I don’t really get that. Is the game just really slow when playing an ele?
Yesterday I was playing around with a staff and I had to spam every ability because they wouldn’t go off on keypress or release.

After reading everyone’s suggestions I’ve compiled the ones I find that would help the most, and added a few of my own:

1. Profession symbols for enemy players.
2. Visible despawn timer on seige.
3. Have buying keep/tower upgrades give you a buff based on the amount spent.
4. Party kick option always available.
5. Condition damage on siege/doors.
6. The quaggans should always agro people attacking the nodes.
7. 30 min cd on breakout events. 8. Purchase upgrades with karma/ badges.
9. Allow call target when not grouped.
10. Allow claiming over another guild if the current claim has no active buffs running.
11. Raid frames (10-20 instead of just 5 player parties).
12. Move golems back to spawn points on server resets.
13. Add a “report AFK” feature, as well as a “report sabotage” for those building rams inside owned keeps/towers.
14. Outmanned buff should (also) give PVT stats.
15. Reduce WvW title requirements.
16. Fix the bug that drops you back down to 10 supply when you kill a dolyak while carrying 15 supply.
17. Have Superior Siege gain repair option when placement area isn’t under an attack event timer. This could be a 3s timeframe in a place like Stonemist, so it wouldn’t be too OP.
18. Make siege account bound.
19. World first and server first messages.
20. Change squad leader icon to overlap all other icons, and a different colour.
21. Show a % on castbars when using siege to help cast that amount easier (ie. 10-25% markers).
22. Add extra bandwidth in high-pop areas like Stonemist.
24. Nerf Siegerazer: Get rid of the pull ability. Nerf damage. Do not let him block portal entrances and move up to the keep lord.
23. More cowbell.

I like all of these things, but my personal must-haves are: 1, 4, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 21.

I’ve fought those high burst eles very infrequently and I had to take a step back. I didn’t lose, though.

I go to 34% crit when swapping and applying auras while in bunker build. I have an invaders set, and a knight’s set. I barely ever use knight’s. It was a waste of money. PVC would probably work a lot better. Max armor, a backstab can still do around 13.5k, so if you’re not one of those 18-22k health eles, you’re probably not a roamer.

I need more damage badly. As I add PVT jewellery it’s taking longer to kill elites in camps. I know there’s some bursty eles that can solo those buffed claimers. I cannot. I’d like to know what they’re using. It takes conditions to do that. Conditions are also what keep thieves from perma stealthing. So I’m using fire and earth on them as much as possible when they’re low, or they will just reset the fight.

Keep calm and chive on.

I want to see some “vs Mag” videos.
I haven’t lost to anyone in the fight club duels yet.
That clicking video says “This video is private. Sorry about that.”

I can’t do anything to anyone underwater. I have full WvW incaders gear with Exquisite Sapphire gems, and Dolyak runes.
It seems like every other class has high damage underwater and better escapes.

I don’t have toughness on my trident, and the rune is for kraits. I’ll put battle on the pvt trident whenever I manage to get that.

I had fun with Ebay in the Eternal puzzle for a few hours. I made 40 badges. I went in with a group and Ebay had 2 trebs, carts, ballistas, etc at the top. We got up regardless, wiped it, and 4 of us farmed everyone who tried to do the puzzle for ages after. Thanks.

Annesse.1398:

Hehehehehe Had a fun couple of hours running round Mag BL flipping camps and sentries ……Maguma ended up having to dedicate 20+ zerg to stop just 2 of us ..a warrior and a Mesmer from creating havoc……..I was Rotflol seeing the over kill from Maguma just for 2 pesky Yakers

It’s funny how this guy has to try and mock what we on Maguuma actually do to them. Only that 20 man doesn’t succeed. Then we dance as dolyaks, and moose, with fireworks, on your corpses.

Lets face it: a warrior roamer = a dead warrior. The mesmer is the roamer carrying you.

I roam solo in my wolf shirt. When I see a mesmer with anyone else it’s annoying, because I can’t mark targets. I died once, total, yesterday; to 3 thieves and a mesmer at the side of east keep where there’s literally nowhere to kite. It was to Ebay. Yaks haven’t killed me once. Ever. You’re terrible.

Yak’s has more than enough players. Join Maguuma instead. We have a myspace.

If anyone else wants to preview their class’ death animations, meet up with me at Yak’s Bend BL. If you guys are going to camp the spawn, at least make an effort. I’m like 40-0. Some of them were Ebay, though.

Oh. This thread again. k.
Still solo. Still winning.

It must be a lie if the rank 1 WvW server says so.
People might not be leaving the game. They might (are) just be transferring up the ranks.

Don’t celebrate the best day of the year?
Get first place in WvW! Congrats Easterners!

I hate when we work hard at something and people decide to leave to go somewhere else just because of the points issue. sigh Go to bed. Don’t convince everyone to go to somewhere easier. That’s not the way of the samurai.

Jinks.2057:

2. Ebay isn’t here to fight Mag for you. Let’s face it the fact that Ebay and Mag fought eachother while leaving you alone basically set it up for an easy victory. With DB here you can’t get on the upside of the 2v1 that constantly occurred.

I don’t think Yaks realized this until this match. It helps also that DB can match Yaks numbers. I wish we had those numbers.

Mag still in the lead.

I’m drinking a glass of milk and going to bed.

I ran toward a guardian today while in my griffon potion, and he ported out.

Guardians fear griffons.

… for my male Charr?

I’m more concerned with people sitting around waiting for a rez in heated combat situations. The timer should be 2 mins max.

If you review Nut’s post history, you will see that he’s the reason the threads keep getting locked.

The trade-off for cc/damage on down, is mobility. I use a potion that gives me 160 power when I fall below 50% health (not sure if that includes down state) in the hopes I can actually kill someone who’s low health, instead of having to rely on vapor form when there’s nowhere safe to go with it. Because, quite frankly, there isn’t most of the time. People see a downed D/D ele, it’s like Christmas for zergs.

I was so tired yesterday I didn’t even get in voice comm. I missed some amazing fights. I’m proud of Maguuma. When I logged off last night we were making +340 per tick.

Posting when you’re tired and cranky isn’t the best idea. He’ll wake up and not even care about what he posted. At least that’s what I do.

Edit: And after reviewing, he hasn’t responded to anyone who replied.

Remove the ability to build rams inside your own keep/tower. If someone’s going to waste supply, at least have them make something useful, like arrow carts.

13.6k backstab on me before with 2600 armor. 9k+ kill shot from a warrior, too.
ele bunker is not defense so much as it is having the increased health and healing to survive openers. I like being a bunker ele, because roaming is more my style. Even if I’m not making as many badges as I would via grouping.

Not enough grub.

SniffyCube.6107:

Thieves aren’t op… just like killshot and hundred blades aren’t op… you just need to go to spvp and get some practice because you obviously have no idea how to fight them.

Yeah, go do spvp so you can learn how to die vs the 8 thieves on the other team every game for 10 years.

Dodge is the supposed end-all move you’re supposed to learn. Anything that reflects damage. Anything that negates opener damage. There. Saved you from the dullness of spvp.