You don’t really need a group for WvW, persay, though it is helpful. As long as you follow the commander who is in charge and read his instructions, you shouldn’t be alone too much.
Maguuma [PYRO]
Oblyth, Mes ~ Nadeshiko Naito, War ~ Hwertu, Gua
Evenree, Necro (M) ~ Ran Still Died, Thief
Explore other builds until ANet gets the necro’s kitten together.
Yes, I feel the necro’s need some TLC. Though I do wonder, do other casters spend a lot of time dying in WvW if they are not able to find a group?
-Mog
Necros are the tankiest of casters and can be made to be extremely difficult to kill. If you’re having problems running back on a necro, you’d have probably more trouble on other casters.
That said, as a caster, I rarely ever have trouble running back to a group.
I may be wrong here as you may and most likely are a better necro than I am currently; but having played a Ele as well, they are orders of magnitude better at escaping a zerg than necros from my experience.
D/D eles are the creme of the crop of all classes in movement speed and escaping, but if you snipe one with their buffs not up (non combat mode) or an immobilize, they will drop fairly quickly.
Necros are more of an outlasting situation imo. When I say tankiest, I mean sheer HP and (generally) toughness. Necros can have up to 30k+ HP depending on build/gear with an optional life bar (death shroud), and an HP increasing stability mode ‘escape’ button (Plague). As for other utilities, Spectral Walk (lots of haste) and Spectral Armor (prot) are great for running around to catch up with people.
Maguuma [PYRO]
Oblyth, Mes ~ Nadeshiko Naito, War ~ Hwertu, Gua
Evenree, Necro (M) ~ Ran Still Died, Thief
Explore other builds until ANet gets the necro’s kitten together.
Yes, I feel the necro’s need some TLC. Though I do wonder, do other casters spend a lot of time dying in WvW if they are not able to find a group?
-Mog
Necros are the tankiest of casters and can be made to be extremely difficult to kill. If you’re having problems running back on a necro, you’d have probably more trouble on other casters.
That said, as a caster, I rarely ever have trouble running back to a group.
Maguuma [PYRO]
Oblyth, Mes ~ Nadeshiko Naito, War ~ Hwertu, Gua
Evenree, Necro (M) ~ Ran Still Died, Thief
You know we have a guild named CAMP, right?
And all they do is CAMP the JP and troll. Before the seige ban, they used to build hundreds of Flame Rams, too.
They don’t need to put plants in your /f to know when to stun/smackdown the wary JP doer.
Maguuma [PYRO]
Oblyth, Mes ~ Nadeshiko Naito, War ~ Hwertu, Gua
Evenree, Necro (M) ~ Ran Still Died, Thief
Just to clarify on a few things brought up in this thread:
-Gears can be purchased just north of the Tunnels Waypoint in Brisban Wildlands. Once you use the gear, the #3 skill provides a short stun with no cooldown and a range of 900.
-There are invulnerable zones in both the SW and SE supply camps where players can stand and be immune to damage. A lot of players disagree on whether this is simply part of spawn or a most dishonourable tactic.
-You can resurrect a friendly player through a closed enemy gate due to the range on the revive ability. A mesmer can then portal a group past the gate into a keep or tower.
Arenanet has not commented on any of these, but they normally close threads that even mention what they consider to be an exploit. I’d expect all of these will be patched out eventually, but no word yet. Enjoy!
Well played. Are we aiming for 6 threads this week?
I’m kind of surprised that Magurmma openly announced earlier in the thread that they intended to spam gears like Christmas came early and people are still coming here surprised when they get hit by gears. You should value our honesty!
Maguuma [PYRO]
Oblyth, Mes ~ Nadeshiko Naito, War ~ Hwertu, Gua
Evenree, Necro (M) ~ Ran Still Died, Thief
I actually hate that thread. What is online gaming without kitten talking and name calling? T2 is too polite. Maybe Mag should pay that thread a visit…
They threatened to infract us and spam reported us last time we did… which resulted in no infractions because we didn’t do anything wrong. Gee. Time to return the favor.
Anyways, Tier 2 thread is boring. At least we highly anticipate each thread closing in Tier 3.
Maguuma [PYRO]
Oblyth, Mes ~ Nadeshiko Naito, War ~ Hwertu, Gua
Evenree, Necro (M) ~ Ran Still Died, Thief
I put a waypoint on the map (shift + right click) and say I will lay portal there. If they’re not there when 2 people are there, it’s their own kitten fault and they walk.
Maguuma [PYRO]
Oblyth, Mes ~ Nadeshiko Naito, War ~ Hwertu, Gua
Evenree, Necro (M) ~ Ran Still Died, Thief
No because the absence of ladder rankings does not mean you cannot create server pools by active player count and timezone coverage and then just do random match making within those pools. The absence of ladder rankings will remove only one thing – the fool’s notion that going up a rank means you are collectively doing better and going down a rank means you are collectively doing worse.
The more serious wuvwuvers have already transferred up in tiers during the existence of the ladder system. If there suddenly were no ladder system, most of the players in the higher servers would not suddenly go ‘welp, I guess I’ll transfer to a server with a cooler name or something’, nor would the mainly fair weather PvE players of the lower servers suddenly go ‘welp, time to WvW nonstop’. If a pool were created as described, matches would end up mostly being the same as servers are in the tiers they are in, with few exceptions, because of similar coverage, numbers, and motivation. When Kaineng, SBI, and IoJ settle to where they’re supposed to be, matches will be fairly stable until some large player movement.
DR and Kaineng’s rise should be considered atypical. DR Kaineng had a 1000+ member nighttime Korean guild move in from Tier 1. DR next week has the honor of fighting two freefalling servers that are the result of the movement to Kaineng and DR. Unless SF has had this sort of influx of large guilds, as well, it most likely will not be ascending far up the ranks. Kaineng/DR and SBI/IoJ are simply switching places as their membership did.
Maguuma [PYRO]
Oblyth, Mes ~ Nadeshiko Naito, War ~ Hwertu, Gua
Evenree, Necro (M) ~ Ran Still Died, Thief
I don’t undertand. Where are you coming with the terribly ignorant assumptions that SF wouldn’t win T7 at least? All history of T8 to T7 jumps point to the fact that T7 is no better if not worse than t8
Hah.
So once upon a time I was on Sorrow’s Furnace for like three and a half months. Then I converted to the cult of The Great Lord Flame Ram a month and a half ago and never looked back. Except when people try to call me ignorant for thinking SF would not do well in Tier 7.
Anyways.
Maguuma [PYRO]
Oblyth, Mes ~ Nadeshiko Naito, War ~ Hwertu, Gua
Evenree, Necro (M) ~ Ran Still Died, Thief
What I want to know is why ET and FC are so desperate to fight other servers in their current state. As you go up in tiers in the current system, each tier is exponentially harder than the one below it. There are even large discrepancies in power and coverage within tiers that are fairly stable. That is to say if ET or FC eventually did beat SF consistently and move up a tier, they would be back to being crushed in their current state. Even if SF got the points to move up, they would probably be crushed in the tier above them.
What ET and FC are calling for is basically a full server population reroll so that they can have a fighting chance, not a point reset.
You’re at the bottom right now for a reason. It’s not going to change with a point reset unless you’re actively recruiting large guilds before the reset.
It’s frustrating, but there will always be a last place, just as there will always be a first place and a middle.
Maguuma [PYRO]
Oblyth, Mes ~ Nadeshiko Naito, War ~ Hwertu, Gua
Evenree, Necro (M) ~ Ran Still Died, Thief
