Guild Wars 2

We won this match already. We just decided to farm presents instead. So enjoy, I guess. Event weeks are always bunk.

I don’t feel like doing WvW right now. I’ll be in the foyer doing decoupage if anyone needs me.

They need to resolve culling before this kind of mash-up happens. Because the lag from the region clash will likely make it 10x worse.

That scatman guy won’t be doing that to my ele. Just saying. But backstab is definitely OP. Thief is a very skill-less class in comparison to the muscle memory required to play ele efficiently. It is not easy to be a pro ele. For a thief you just need the gear/spec and done. That guy wasn’t even a good thief at all. A good one would not have died.

Hitting a full toughness character in pvp for 12.5k+ is what has to go. And, of course, culling. I would say 8k (from all classes) max hit against any class in full toughness would be reasonable.

Not being able to see your own team is what the current culling patch applied. A revert is much welcomed.

Increased ranks on dolyak. Each level of a camp adds a piece of armor to the dolyaks. More health. More armor.

Traps/Mines.

Parachutes.

Some rare spawns in the boarderlands would be nice. Like a shark in the lake around mid.

More chances to get bonuses to magic find.

Green/Yellow increased drop rate from the puzzle chests.

Farming nodes with the chance to drop siege.

Hire guards to patrol from one structure to another.

Just some random ideas.

I’ll alt-f4, re-roll thief instead.

edit: Breakout sounds awesome, though.

Also, please put the invulnerability walls facing supply depots at the top, before you jump down, instead of where you can just walk in and out of to be cheap.

I’m on Maguuma and I care about the score. Probably why my posts are depressing. I post in the morning before I play, and at night, before I log. I play too much. And there never seems to be a set time for peak hours. I solo camps. Buy upgrades. Flip stuff in every map, solo. Forever alone. I suggest things in mumble. Nobody does it. I go back to my quaggan friends.

I don’t know what happened to Mag tonight. People just did not show up. So little to work with. Bleh. I’m getting burnt out overall. It’s the same thing every game. Not enough players.

Phaxy is only seeing one side of every situation. I for 1 have never destroyed any siege that was used against the enemy from another team. That is counter-productive. I have, however, destroyed open field siege that made it easier for one team to defend a push against them. Like in the overlook courtyard area. I had a small zerg chasing me everywhere after that siege-breaker last night.

The population is completely randomized. I feel yaks has the most. And ebay appears to have more at times in the borderlands.

If you’re talking about that jump on the harpies, just have a mesmer portal you to the top. That’s the only way I can pass that part is to play fractals with a mesmer. I have only gotten to level 6 or something because of this bug, and I don’t want to waste anyone’s time. Especially my own.

My WvW story for the weekend:

“Green tower, blue tower”

Engineer grappling hooks! counter: unhinge
Rope ladders! counter: fire
Repair own siege.
Trebs never despawn unless the owner logs off/ switches maps.
Remove terrain blocking camera when operating siege. ie. Get rid of camera shake when you build a treb beside something and try to look around it.
Increase range of use on trebs similar to that of ballistas currently.
Fix lag issues when sieging SM inner. Dropping settings to Best Performance doesn’t help enough.
Fix wall jumping. Some older ones have been fixed, but not all.

I was killing everyone that left CD keep in EB last night, when it crashed and I couldn’t log back in. Conspiracy.

Remove the ability to spam emotes. Someone (on the other team) can flood your chat, and you can’t ignore the person.

Game crashed and can’t log in now. I was in WvW.

I though it was MaGOONa?

They can take our doors, but they’ll never take our bridges!

Daily Challenge: Pick a spot on the map that Maguuma can’t take.

kanderous.7512:

Getting badges from kills is fine, but in the end, it’s all about the World Bonuses.

http://i.imgur.com/Oi9hV.jpg

That’s really skillful to both out-number 2 teams, and get higher % of hp, healing, etc.
I don’t mind, though. I have more hp than the majority of warriors.
Have fun next week with 1% on everything.
:D

Do you guys use registered fraps to record with, or free one, or something better? My screenshots don’t really tell the WvW story. Rift had an in-game recorder that I used constantly. I want to record/upload in 1080p.

Phzt.9864:

Cain.9724:

I’m here to put this thread back on track..

http://youtu.be/SRLWgf-ZfRA

Nice video. Good example of CD tactics showing their superiority.

HAHAHA

It was entertaining.
I’m sad that most of Phzt’s responses get deteled before I get to chortle.
Nerf sticks!

zastari.1730:

Realpost time… how do you all have enough time to drop so many words on these forum posts. I mean I get a lot of time in between fscks to dump maybe a paragraph or two, but there’s an epic amount of care and essays going down in this thread. What kinda jobs do you all work with this sick amount of downtime and where do I apply?

LOL and then a word bomb landed directly after your post.

Some people just need a hug.. around the neck.. with a rope.

Guilds: Rich, Koss, SOA are now attempting to use the same exploit. I guess they don’t care about getting banned. We know where to look and screenshot those doing it. I’m keeping you all updated so that you don’t get brought down by the initiator who doesn’t care what happens to their own character, let alone yours.

I would never post a video of how to do an exploit. Nice try.

Crystal Desert’s REDT guild is exploiting into west keep inner again. Only now, a mesmer portaled the QQ guild inside now.

We have it frap’s, reported, and screenshotted up the yin-yang. Do not follow exploiter portals or you will get punished along with them.

recent update:

Last 3 pictures are updated with the ranger exploiting into inner west keep. omitted 1 picture as a potential entry point.

@Saiyr: ask Tsarazi. :p

I don’t understand. Are people accusing me of being negative? Because my wall-of-text was constructive and described everything that happens to a T.

Mag will be getting more players again soon.

I don’t have a group, but I’m making more white swords on the map, gaining more karma than our “zerg”. I also have a few followers that will do what I suggest to do, instead of running smack into out-numbered forces that CD have. Reaction time is the key to winning, and I hate to say it, but Maguuma does not adhere to opportunities promptly.

I’m pretty sure CD hits the queue cap when they are flooding a particular boarderlands. If we left a skeleton crew behind with the appropriate siege, we could easily sweep another map, and all make it back in time to repair/hold whatever we had left. I feel that if I don’t post this, no one will ever do it.

Last night when we knocked down the wall in west keep, I went in immediately. I told people (I’m not a commander) to zerg because they (CD) had very few defense, and no counter siege, and no wp. This is when CD’s main zerg was up north. By the time I got back down there after dying, (because no one else followed me inside, despite having 8 or so people outside fighting guards by a gate: ???), they had moved most of their zerg into west keep to counter us. We didn’t get a treb up on the hill built, even with 20 of us on that hill. 20 people. That means more than 10 of them didn’t have 10 supply. So I release to garrison. I tell people get out of combat/release and port to garrison. Go to East Keep while their zerg is all at West Keep, and their WP is across the map. Typing this all in team chat while I’m heading there to scout. I get there, they have 2 defenders, regular gates, and no supply. I relay this info. 2 people come to help in the span of 30 mins. I just sit there farming guards and dodging the attacks of the defenders. Got greens, and blues, and 2 pieces of siege killing the guards. Teamwork does not exist here.

We had people in EB taking half of that map before CD broke off it’s numbers in our BL, allowing us to regain some ground again. It could have been so much easier. I went to EB shortly after CD’s numbers dissipated from our boarderlands, and we began the out-numbered process again. The plans there weren’t concrete either. Leadership, planning, scouting, sieging are all things that have slowly started to diminish on our server, and it’s very discouraging.

You cannot keep doing things the same way every time, and losing the same way every time. As in, stop losing the higher ground. Don’t readily give away sw tower, and ne camp. Push out. Use ballistas on the ground, not the walls. Build more long range siege, not arrow carts that any elementalist can destroy no matter how far back they are on the outer walls. 1 treb from inner will allow a push outward by our forces for a mass of aoe. Flip the camps more. I always see one team with 14 camps, and we’ll have 4 or something. You won’t be able to build, attack, or defend anything with those kind of odds. All those camps add up to a ton of points, too.

Now pardon me while I collect my loot bags.

I never logged out in pvp in any other game, either. The cost of repairs compared to the cost of purchases in the game is too much, imo. It costs more than a blue item drop sells for per rez at 80. That’s crap. The economy is quite bad, especially if you’re not on one of the zerg WvW pop servers, nor in a PVE guild. I’d never be able to buy those 3g+ dolyak runes if I had to pay for repairs constantly. I make so horribly low amounts of money in this game.

Disable in PVP. In PVE it makes perfect sense, since PVE is a rez-repeat most of the time unless people actually know what they’re doing.

Most of the time people just use their move at the end that wastes time, and the person dies anyway. People don’t like that people are getting rezzed, and that’s the real problem. The previous one is just an annoyance. I do like being able to mistform back into a door portal, but the amount of times I actually rallied after being downed is almost non-existant.

epicsmooth.7825:

I do it against thief for those rare moments they get me and only till they fix the culling.

Sorry I can’t see you then I’ll be logging out.

I agree with this. At least let us tab to the target. I’ll see bullets flying toward me from empty space. Bleh.

I usually log out every time there’s no one on our team around to rez me, and that’s 99% of the time. Get out of the keep. That arrow cart you just built in aoe range isn’t going to get you any badges. Those trebs hitting the walls down below 50% uncontested while some troll spams repairs after repeatedly telling them not to do it aren’t going to help you hold the keep. I don’t know what game you guys are playing, but mine is all offense. And logging out on down.

I’ve stopped using finishers to give CD’s zerg time to catch up and help their friends.

zazu.2836:

katniss.6735:

I log out on down about 100 times a day. It’s funny from my perspective.

I think it’s funny you go all through this trouble to close the client log in, go to char select screen then WAIT for loading time, pick the map again…wait for loading time AGAIN and finally your server can get your help in a battle for you to be down yet again and go through the same process….I think the joke’s on you. You are not helping your server at all!

My server doesn’t have load times because none of the maps are ever full, and I don’t load in from Lion’s Arch. I don’t close the client. It’s F12, char select. Not Alt+F4. At the most it takes 30s. If you really think I do it 100 times a day: LOL. I don’t lose very often, and when I do, it’s because I’m in combat with another player, or mobs at the same time. Or I’ll go to use tornado, and it’ll turn itself off again before I even see it up. I do it because of repair costs mostly, and denying zergs/talentless (1-3 buttons) thieves free badges. If you looked at my stats page in WvW, you wouldn’t be saying I’m not helping my server. I’ve been playing WvW everyday. These last 3 weeks they have paired us against a zerg server that has won by over 150k points every match. It’s really pointless to take it seriously anymore, and I just farm badges/silver now if I even bother playing at all. I would say that 1/3 or less of my server’s wvw pop plays now, or is even still on this server. I only need 1 person to cap a camp quickly. Doing it on my own, takes too long. 5 mans are fun. Being out-numbered forever isn’t. Being chased by 8 people all around the map endlessly is hilarious. So is logging out.

Can you please add a castbar to this elite skill?
I’m constantly ending it early do to inconsistent timer on initiation.
The cool-down is way too long to waste it.

I like having full map’s worth of enemies to go up against. Badges never get old. It’s 1980 badges for full accessories alone. Just got my 2nd invader’s weapon, and I’m working on the accessories now. Should be done this week.

This thread is new and exciting.

I meant that I wasn’t going to upgrade/defend all of this coming week. It’s pointless. 100% pointless. Besides, I need my gold for runes.

So, umm. Yeah .

Totally not upgrading anything, or defending. Meet me outside with the big kids.

Terrible idea. Everything should have a counter. Not everything does. There are very, very, few spots that can’t be hit with siege and player AoEs. It is your own fault for not recognizing these spots and building your own counter-siege.

Sorry, I meant 200 times a day. Thinking of upping it to 300. Keep the paragraphs coming.

saiyr.3071:

katniss.6735:

We have people ordering upgrades during times of siege.
We have people deliberately avoiding WvW so that we go down a tier, instead of face the same 2 teams 3 weeks in a row.
We also have Maguuma veterans transferring out, and other servers coming in, causing a bit of mixed emotions in the fight for control.
Yeah, I can’t say this round is particularly all that fun. I find it incredibly boring.

You should do five dungeons with me instead. Yeah.

lol i still need 1 for the monthly

I would have left the server in a heartbeat. That was terrible. Multiple omegas, too. Ugh. Painful to watch.

I log out on down about 100 times a day. It’s funny from my perspective.

We have people ordering upgrades during times of siege.
We have people deliberately avoiding WvW so that we go down a tier, instead of face the same 2 teams 3 weeks in a row.
We also have Maguuma veterans transferring out, and other servers coming in, causing a bit of mixed emotions in the fight for control.
Yeah, I can’t say this round is particularly all that fun. I find it incredibly boring.

I’ve been playing WvW since release and still haven’t gotten a title. If they reset on me, I’d be really discouraged. It’s like “use 100000 supply” or so for one of them. Unless you’re wasting supply, that’s going to take a dedicated player half a year to achieve.

The ranks in sPVP can go up to 80 or so. I got up to 10 and am already bored of sPVP, let alone the ranking system.

Re-shuffling WvW rankings won’t help matters at all. It’ll just be zerg population face-rolling back to the top again. With a non-sub fees game, it’s better you stick with earning your way up the ladder, than to keep making it easier.

Titles need to be farmed. Geared needs to be farmed for the best stuff. Titles don’t matter. Gear, skill, fun, bugs, and population drops do matter. Farming tokens in PVE for gear, for a WvW player, is out of the question, but we get massive amounts of karma for similar gear. Getting exotic weapons and accessories take the longest to attain. Crafting is incredibly time consuming. Trading Post is only making the elitists rich. Ascended gear is forcing pvp players to pve to keep up. Fractals isn’t so bad, though. I just wish my game didn’t crash on one of the boards every single time. I will never be able to farm ascended because of that bug.

Bugs last a massively long time in this game. That is the worst thing in the game. There have also been a ton of population drops in WvW. The more people who leave your server, will just cause even more people to leave it. This effects the fun for everyone. Your team comes in last every week, and gets less world bonuses. If you’re farming to the fullest potential, you’re practically encouraged to leave your server for a better one.

The icon to spend karma on upgrades is there already. It’s just not being used. I’d rather use Karma than supply any day. And buy siege with karma. Even if it just reduced the costs. Karma to repair!