Guild Wars 2

As much as I respect the members of Nine Dragon, I don’t think tranferring to the opposing server in the middle of the week is the right thing to do, just my opinion.

Other than that, good luck.

Yes let’s remove everything that I get disadvantaged from.

I made my necro 3 days ago, craft-leveled it by selling all mats I had for a legendary, and here’s my thought.

I love it. I serious do. I don’t know what all the complaining is about. I can roam around in WvW easily with the new speed boost, win almost any 1v1 battles (never lost yet), rush into a zerg, pop 10+ stacks of bleeding, fear, and life transfer back into our zerg like a boss.

Still a lot of thieves. Thieves everywhere. Smart thieves, who can actually kill decent pvpers have changed to P/D condition builds and such. The ones who aren’t so gifted in pvp… are staying D/D and being kited forever.

It’s already happening, 10 commanders on one map.

They should just make it harder to get in general.

Churros.7196:

actually both sides have invul zones below the cliff. But if you are attacking people there it is your fault for following them all the way to their spawn.

No. When you run around your citadel, you’ll notice that if you are at the edge of citadel border, you’re not invulnerable. Likewise, if you jump around right-side spawn edge, you’re not invulnerable. Obviously, you are supposed to be invulnerable until you jump down the cliff. Abusing that invulnerable zone was clearly not intended.

I’ll just leave this here.

Sorry, but I didn’t enjoy that video.

Stale, cookie-cutter build and zerg kills.

Looks like a PvE er who played sPvP for 2 hours just jumped into WvW.

Try using S/D or D/P and I would be more impressed, where you actually need skill.

Necros built properly can be a counter to every single ‘guide’ builds out there. Unfortunately I can’t share the build, but necros are a nemesis to glass cannons.

Simple answer would be no, and I main a mesmer.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Abusing confusion for roaming is all i’m saying. Those sword/pistol mesmers#4372587235 can’t do anything but log out or wp.

Thanks for your constructive feedback.

Nice, goofy looks from everyone! My asura necro is going to be the cutest necro of all, though.

lordlukas.5169:

hi!
the links seem broken, can you check?

Thank you

Try copy&pasting them into your browser :]

I’m planning to make a supercute female asura necro for my 3rd level 80 character. However, I have no idea how necromancers work or any viable leveling builds I can start off with. help!

I have lvl 80 thief and a mesmer.

Simple. Add an item that costs either gem or gold that allows the owner to trade the item once. Doesn’t work on legendary items or legendary components, or account bound items.

I understand that soulbound items are a gold sink, but some of us really want to sell something that we either equipped and regretted, or accidentally equipped it. Price it at a moderate-high price so that it cannot be used to unsoulbound every items to make soulbound meaningless.

My previous build if you want to have a look at it.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-NFRZ-FKWPV11y6wUV71;9;49T;0T0;0398;406AIok6-wl6sV2DsV2D4kJ

Hi. I’ve been reading the mesmer forums for a long time, but I though today I would like to make a little contribution to this wonderful community.

This is my build that I made from modifying and adjusting many things to my taste off Osicat’s Shatter cat build and the famous ‘Shantasm’ build.

First off, here is the build;
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-NFRZ-FKWPV11y6JV-71;9;4JJ;0T06-39;505AYok6-wl69cV197W34kY

Weapon selection(s):

Sword main hand: #2 immune burst damage, #3 gap closer, with the sigil of Rage, I can occasionally cast #2 on quickness which is even more deadlier than the usual fire or air sigil IMO. A solid weapon choice for burst damage, which is what I rely on.

Pistol off hand: IMO, iDuelist has the best burst damage out of all phantasms, and yes even more than iBerserker. #5 is a good solid initiator, with its 2 second stun and with sigil of paralyzation , slightly longer stun.

Staff: A very good defensive weapon, #5 etheral field and #2 leap finisher with #3 iWarlock with solid damage output. I use it to wait on the cooldowns of S/P burst.

I cannot give you a video of my gameplay because my laptop is not good enough to handle fraps and gw2 at once without massive lag >_< but I’ll tell you how I burst down enemies, right after explaining armour, rune and trait choices.

Traits: 20/20/0/0/30.
Domination line———————————

Mental Torment is there for obvious reasons.
Shattered concentration is a trait that I adopted recently after giving up the Duelist’s Dicipline, after removing boons is essential for fighting certain boon stacking professions such as guardians.

Dueling line———————————————

Blade training: I just like the cooldown reduction and the bonus precision that I lack for crit proc rate.

Deceptive Evasion is unquestionable for shatter mesmers.

Illusions line————————————————-

Precise Wrack for obvious damage output increase.
Illusionary Invigoration for little waiting time between bursts.

Illusionary Persona for obvious reasons, essential for shatter mesmers.

Armour/Trinket choices:

I use the soldier stat armour with P/V/T for maxium survivability and power stacking.

Full valkyrie stat trinkets with P/V/%C for survivability with a bit of damage increase.

Rune choices: 4x rune of the fighter and 2x rune of strength for power, toughness and might duration. You get a lot of might from shattering, look at minor grandmaster trait for illusions.

How I kill:
Lay down a portal first for escape if things get tricky.
iDuelist -> Magic Bullet -> Illusionary leap -> Swap -> dodge -> Cry of Frustration -> Diversion for vulnerability and confusion.

By now your enemy begins to kill themselves.

Then you immediately press decoy, swap weapon to get full endurance.

Chaos storm on you -> iWarlock -> Phase retreat -> dodge towards enemy -> mind wrack

By this time your enemy should be dead or close to dead. If not dead, repeat your burst or kite until you can burst again.

Thanks for reading, and I’d appreciate any feedback on my build.

I run it in Arah explorable, use it on downed people in lupi, they walk outside, come back in while other 4 people can still engage at the boss.

katniss.6735:

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.

We don’t need more PvE in WvW.

If you don’t have a screenshot or video supporting this accusation, nobody is exploiting even if an entire zerg is staring at the guy.

We cata’d it on the side wall and inner gate with 3 catas each. Thanks!

Vain.2081:

^
Makeover kits are now only usable while the character is not wearing any gear.

Well.. that problem was easily solved.

Any cultural armour equipped will change to the respective race cultural armour you change into.

Better fix.

It was bugged yesterday on SoR too, but today when i went back i just had to kill two normal sharks underwater and one more on the ground above.

Christos de Soufre.3802:

There are two ends of the spectrum, not just one. You are getting close to the other one. I deleted the post. I was wrong for complaining and I apologize. Please stop making CDS look terrifyingly self-righteous.

Edit: Score updates for those of us about to be stuck at school, please.

As an individual player, I was bothered by the tone of your post. Now that you’ve deleted it I’m happy.

Christos de Soufre.3802:

Agreed. Either breaks or people just don’t feel like dealing with the irritating generalizations being applied to our server pop.

kuora.5402:

Christos de Soufre.3802:

kuora.5402:

Everyone, pay attention. THIS kind of post we don’t want in this thread.

Don’t pretend anyone isn’t guilty of at least one similarly toned post out of the past few weeks. Get off of your high horse. Those kinds of posts are equally annoying and “roll your eyes” worthy.

In other news, where is SoR getting all of these points?!

So…. ‘everyone does it why can’t I do it’ is still a working analogy?

Yes, I’m using poor excuses. High horse. Still annoying. Stop. We’ve moved on.

@Xirin, we may have to wait and see what the deal really is. SoR is really pushing IoJ too, so it seems like more of an SoR out in full force thing…maybe this is just a good day for them.

I want you to read what you posted about an IoJ guild, and continue to do so until this post.

Who refused to move on?

Exactly.

Christos de Soufre.3802:

kuora.5402:

Everyone, pay attention. THIS kind of post we don’t want in this thread.

Don’t pretend anyone isn’t guilty of at least one similarly toned post out of the past few weeks. Get off of your high horse. Those kinds of posts are equally annoying and “roll your eyes” worthy.

In other news, where is SoR getting all of these points?!

So…. ‘everyone does it why can’t I do it’ is still a working analogy?

Score looks pretty tight, can’t wait to jump in in a few hours…. ! After I do some work on bolt :<

Xirin.8593:

In either case, ICOA needs to kick this guy ASAP. ANet needs to ban him. The rest of us need to just shut up and play the game.

That is all I want.

Xirin.8593:

kuora.5402:

I told you guys the most mature and efficient way to solve this problem, kick the mesmer off that guild and be done with. We won’t care if this is some random in BG doing this.

The problem was that iCoa had more than enough time to identify the culprit, get him warned or kicked. That is what a normal, moderate sized WvW focused guild would do.

Question: who is “you guys?”

I’m just a PUG. What am I supposed to do about? What can I do about it? PK him?

If ICOA is refusing to boot him, then that’s an issue. But how is “Blackgate” responsible for this? What can anyone except ICOA’s Guild Leader (who can boot him) or ANet themselves (who can ban him) do about it?

The answer is nothing, which is why all this ranting about “Hackgate” does nothing but make the posts look like the ravings of a lunatic.

I actually feel the worst for Tempest Wolves. I know if I was a member that I would be embarrassed at Indo’s posts.

Hi there, I never blamed the whole server, because whether you’re a PUG or the leader of a mighty guild, you cannot stop people coming to your server. You’re correct, blackgate is not responsible for this. Any more questions?

Oh, and ‘you guys’ is obviously blackgate, because they’re being flamed for one exploiter, and I’m sure you want to get rid of him and maintain your excellent reputation in WvW.

Xirin.8593:

Diashame.6328:

Part of the problem is all the BG members coming here with denial, excuses and no word of remorse. It’s all about image, for example SoR had a hacker they got him banned, apologized and showed how they worked to eradicate it. All BG members seem to do is come up with the same poor excuses and it wasnt me QQ posts. they show nothing of what they are doing to combat it. Hence why BG has a bad rep and SoR didnt loose theirs at all.

Incorrect.

Multiple BG people have apologized (not that they should, they didn’t hack themselves). Unless you just chose to skip those posts?

No, the reason why SOR “got off free” from their hackers is because no one on BG kept harping on and on and on about it like Indo, Sprong and Kuora (who ironically made this thread and said not to post about the hacks…and then did anyway. Scumbag Kuora meme?).

BG has been on the receiving end of it before when it happened in T1, so we knew what it felt like and didn’t do the same to SOR. It’s a shame SOR didn’t follow suit.

I told you guys the most mature and efficient way to solve this problem, kick the mesmer off that guild and be done with. We won’t care if this is some random in BG doing this.

The problem was that iCoa had more than enough time to identify the culprit, get him warned or kicked. That is what a normal, moderate sized WvW focused guild would do.

EDIT—

I do not want to point figer at anybody in BG, and I never blamed the whole server for this happening. The problem I had was that this has been happening for days, but no measure was taken to even try to stop this from happening.

And yes, I don’t want to post about hacking anymore. I’ve suggested the best way to deal with this, and I won’t be mentioning this anymore.

Hope you understand.

And Indo, we now know that this mesmer will be doing this until he has been banned or taken care of.

Let’s not get this thread locked again. I’m strongly against hacking or exploiting, but we don’t want this thread locked.

iCoa’s leader names: Guardian Joker
Original Joker

Go and tell them to kick the mesmer asap, for this might be considered as iCoa guild supporting this.

And to any BG reading this, you KNOW when a portal is an exploit. Don’t take it. Even if you did, simply walk out or die inside. That’s sportmanship, and has been displayed multiple times before.

If this cannot be done, I will have no choice but to assume that iCoa’s leader, Guardian Joker, who told me last night (http://imgur.com/a/V0JvA#0) THIS, has not kept his promise.

Please, for the sake of two days, if you find a hacker or exploiter in WvW, don’t post it here, it does not help. Screenshot or fraps it and send it to arenanet.

If the guy doesn’t have a guild, too bad. He was smart enough to take it off before doing so. If the guy was dumb enough to leave their guild tag on, find the leader, get the culprit kicked off the guild, find his/her username, banhammer.

Most of the major WvW guilds in every server are against these kind of behaviours. I’m sure they’ll try their best to cut the bad apples off of them.

Thanks, and keep inflammatory posts off this thread, please!

-el

Vodka.3958:

Nice video Smokee. As for ICoa, we believe in fair play and we would never encourage any Mesmer in any server to mesmer jump into the western keep. I can give you my word that we are currently handling the situation and proper action will be taken. You should never blame any guild or Server based on the action of a single person. We are looking forward to more competitive WvW gameplay and we wish good fortune to follow you all.

[ICoa] Hollywood Fiend
Founder of Imperial Coalition

We wouldn’t say anything if it was a single person. But you know what… there were tons of iCoa guild members who took the portal. I don’t know about your guild, but when a keep wall/gate is down, I would know, since I’m a huge fan of WvW and realised that reading team chat is important. A gate/wall doesn’t break down automatically. Someone does it.

Sorry, but I cannot help but assume that when an iCoa mesmer glitched through the wall, you guys took it without knowing anything, realised it was illegit, but took the keep anyway because why not. If this was not the case I apologise, but I doubt it.

Anyhow, I did talk to the iCoa guild leader and he said the members who were involved in this have been warned, he loves fair play, and make sure that this kind of thing will not involve an iCoa guild member ever again. And you know what, that’s all I need. I trust you guys because I had so much fun last week, and I’m looking forward to another week with you guys.

Hope that clarifies my opinion.

I’ll repeat, no flaming other servers, guild or people for anything. Make your own thread.

New thread. Keep this clean and we know what happened, so let’s not bring it up again.

Warlord.9074:

Its not fair to lay the blame on an entire server for exploiting. However there is plenty enough blame to go around it seems. Its also not fair to blame 1 player or 1 guild when multiple players and other guilds are knowingly participating. Don’t try to scapegoat BlackGate.

I dunno, there were a good healthy mix of different guilds and players who took the portal, majority being one of the biggest wvw guilds in Hgate, iCoa. I say it’s a pretty good anecdotal evidence.

Do not bring up the ‘omg this is just one guy he doesn’t represent the server’ NO. YOU KNEW THAT PORTAL WAS ILLEGIMATELY CREATED! Then WHY did the whole bloody iCoa guild take the portal?

Ok, let’s say they didn’t know where that portal lead. You’re in bay now, you KNEW it was glitched, you are one of the biggest WvW guilds in BG, you should know better than continuing to take Bay keep.

iCoa you’d better have some good excuses for this.

I will be developing a server song soon too.

I used to run 5 man thief glass cannon squads before I switched to mesmer.

Another good run with [ND] tonight. Looking forward to a new matchup with BG next week, and I pray for no portal nerf

Papaj.9035:

Azaruil.3406:

lettucemode.3789:

Okay, who’s the bunker elementalist from SoS? Norn, looks like the Citadel of Flame set. He participated in the large attack on Stonemist Castle last night while we (SoR) held on for dear life.

This guy is unkillable. All he does is run around in the front lines absorbing huge amounts of damage, and everyone (including me) falls for it and focuses him. Also he gains boons constantly. At one point he gained like 6 including stability, I corrupted them all into conditions, then 3 seconds later he has 4 more. We managed to kill him once in like an hour, crazy stuff.

Whoever you are, my hat is off to you, sir. Keep on keepin’ on.

Does SoR still have the castle? I went to bed before the siege ended.

If it is the same norn ele that I am thinking of, then he is a beast. My guild-mates and I have encountered him on the battlefield a few times. Always good, tough fights.

As mentioned previously by several of my guildmates, that crazy near un-killable bunker Elementalist would be me. Fortunately for you folk, you don’t have to see me tonight because this fantastic game bugged on me late last night and kept locking up the client for 5 minutes at a time every skill cast; so now I’m in the midst of a fresh reinstall + CCleaner + Defraggler rundown to cover every basis.

Think of it this way, you folks on IoJ and SoR don’t have to see me again next week if you stop re-capping our stuff while our NA’s sleep =) If you keep forcing us to take back SM and the other maps, Blackgate might pick it up late week and you’ll be stuck with us yet again.

Would you mind sending me your build please? :0

Map and score update please? Because I’m pretty sure we lost AH by now with mindless TS/PRX zerging

Had fun pulling off PRX and pW people off cliffs tonight :]

New record of 8 people at Dawns, and around 6-7 at AH when I was hiding. Such good places to push and pull people off cliffs!

To everyone who thinks getting a precursor is related to your e-skills, you’re very wrong. Something had to be done about it, and personally, I think getting a legendary should require something more than 50%+ of the components that can just be bought. Hell, at this rate, we’ll see legendary botters any time soon.

Krag.6210:

Ranged isn’t super recommended for a shatter build though since Illusion Persona requires you to be at close range.

You don’t need to have that trait.

Didn’t do anything much today except for getting on my thief and supply capping everything around SoS BL. A bit disappointed that we got the same matchup tomorrow though.

To anyone talking about PRX and other militia guilds in SoS, you will have to admit that if you didn’t have PRX, FoE, etc, you wouldn’t have such a large lead, if there was a lead at all. That is why we say they carried your server. Carrying does not mean that they can do everything by themselves. If you think that, you will have to think again about the very meaning of that word.

Just wanted to clarify; we don’t think PRX could have done this alone, but if you didn’t have them, I highly doubt you would have a large lead, if any.

Mikitten058:

I am enjoying this match.

However I am starting to think that Anet should limit the amount of golems allows within a certain area. (Kinda like they do all other siege.)

SoR has both been hit by golem army’s, and used them in this match. Though even using them, to get our towers/keep back, I do feel it’s somewhat cheap that 8 golems can rip through gates in a matter of 5-15seconds.

It’s almost as if it makes it so easy to just mesmer portal chain an army of golems, that no other sieging is worth it. :x

Plus turtling the golems+ people, kills a good bit of the AOE damage. Add in Time warp, and reflects + people aoe’ing the walls.

I don’t know, I mean I like golems, and such, but I do see where it can ruin the fun of WvW.

This Match is basically SoS and SoR going at it at nights/morning with golem army’s anyways.

;) Would like to comment on this further.

I can see that some people may come up with an argument that mass golem army tactic is a valid one. It is indeed. What I see as a problem here is whether should they be accepted as a mindless one. Portal chaining and porting 30+ people and 10 golems as a mesmer on TS3 + 2 PUG mesmers was not very hard on tuesday when we took all of SoR BL using only 8 golems.

What I really did was find the spots where I can portal in order to be consealed, calculate portal range in my brain and look out for invaders. That is not very hard. Coordination and proper organisation should be rewarded, not 20 omega golems that cost somebody 100g. As I’ve said before, golem portaling is not very hard at all.

Anyone who thinks that sweeping a WvW map with 30g is a legitimate and smart tactic, you really should think again. And this, is why golem numbers per map should be limited.

Noooooo vale camp! We held it for so long and killed soooo many people!