Guild Wars 2

we were using this since the first weeks of wvw. this is not a new tactic and done by many. Why people started to complain after 3 months.

The server claims to have better skilled players is the one who need ego nerf. Good players are everywhere, you can come across to them in any server not just high tiers. Individual player skill is irrelevant in these conditions of wvw. What matters are dedication and organization. BT is winning with quite high lead because noone expected us to be organized like this. Also, VS and BT had not meet eachother before. I am guessing, next week will be more fierce and more close in points.

I liked the dedication and “never give up” attitude of VS. They kept coming and fighting all the time.

I am sure sensible RUIN players are enjoying the match as much as we do. Result is not important, the Fun is.

invisible thief mechanic to use on cap prevention is a legit tactic, everyone who can use that will use it. Its should not be that easy to stay invisible when a zerg of people looking for you, those thiefs should be congratulated if they manage it. We were also targeted by this tactic last night and were annoyed quite long time. It is not our job to whine about it but try to find tactics against it.

I dont think BT will make alliance with any of the opponents. This 3way fight is much fun already. We are enjoying it very much. All three servers fight with honor and determination.

I have fought nonstop for over 3 hours. It was great fun, we had some awesome battles in blacktide borderlands. Thanks to Desolation and Vizunah

tldr

Vizunah used the pvd mechanic for so long that they do not have right to complain when other servers tried to do that properly. Sad truth is if your coverage is not good enough, you will fall from top place.

It is admirable how two servers developed a good measure of respect for eachother based on rivalry and mutual fun on fights.

is there a website where we can see the skin for all weapons

as weird as it is, darkones solution works. there is no overclock on rams just bring them to their normal speed. You may have a 1600mhz ram but it may be working on lower clock speed.

@pedrst
I respect people in SR but not expected such low insults from someone from there. I still want to meet SR in battelfield and have fun together without flaming. I like your fighting will.
I want to make something clear, its impossible to stay in high tier with wide tz coverage, I remember someone from SR told they have a US guild recently transfered, I do not have if they are good enough or not but without tz coverage its virtually impossible to reach high tier. People claiming not to have night/day cappers on high tier battles either liars or little bragging kids. Our old server was in the same tier you are in right now just few weeks ago and we lost horribly because of lack of will, caused by night capping.
I do not accuse any server of abusing nightcapping, I never do but this is a sad reality we must accept.

Blactide is truly unique with its tz coverage. Daycapping can be really powerfull if it is supported by decent primetime defence. We are trying to show nightcapping can be beaten without bigger nightcapping zerg, but Deso had a very big point lead during weekends, it will be hard to overcome that but I am sure about one thing, I will have great fun trying to catch up with Deso.

3 day matches will not solve anything if not make it worse. Weekend and weekday matches have completely different characteristic. Some servers are very good during weekends but have poor performance during weekdays. If you make it 3 day matches, win/lose will be heavyly dependent on the weekend/weekday ratio of the match. Therefore this will not be an indication of being better at pvp.

I am enjoying this matchup. We were able to keep the lead during the better part of evening. We had the lead during the most primetime of Deso and AR. There were some awesome fights and thanks for the fun moments you have given us. Will to fight in blacktide is admirable, I liked my new home already

I can say it does not work all the time. As we have many bugs this affect do not trigger everytime and you may fall to the mercy of bugmonster. Even sometimes you can get the boons but can’t have the effect (try with swiftness)

we should accept that engineer is the most hated profession of the game. hated by creators

I only care about the Fun, and it was most fun at the weekends when we had equal opportunity regarding game time. During weekends GH is very strong and can beat most servers which seems to better night/morning cappers and winners. I do not blame them, there is not a single defination of Fun afterall.

What GH lost was not points, it was the will to wvw and fight. This is happening for sometime, when we are winning players swarm the borderlands and when we are losing on a specific map they simply do not join or try to join the map we are winning. This is general trend, even participation rate on dedicated guilds decreases. We lose will to fight very fast. Because of this reason we could not take back Blactide assets fast enough. We did this when we were winning but when Blactide dedication increased ours declined.

Night/morning cap is unfortunately a viable strategy but people can work against it. We all know Blacktide primetime presence is much lower but do we have will to take map back fast enough when we see their lead on the map?

Pukknub.7368:

What? :o
Explain please :o
Why remove 5 first points from alchemy? Bugged?

you need to max boon duration
%20 : Alchemy at 20 trait point
%15: 2 superior rune of water
%20: Potent Elixir trait
%20: Chocolate Omnomberry Cream
You get fast elixir trait too to decrease CD of elixir B to 32s
You will have about 22-23s of swiftness-fury-retaliation when you use elixir B.
When you are in a fight and your health decrease to %75 then you will get elixir B with the increased boon duration like the actual skilll.
You can have these boons permanently during a fight, with good timing of course.

I also feel I am being targeted a lot compared to other friends in party. I use mostly grenades and AoE spam is quite powerful. Even elementalists are less targeted than us. We do not make burst damage but total output dps over several mobs is quite high. I think mobs little A.I. is designed to target the biggest threat which is an engineer.

the only armor I can feel being engineer is asura cultural armor tier2. All others are too ranger or too thief for me. Its very weird that we have same type of armor with those professions

quite usefull if you can maximize the boon duration. You can actually have perma swiftness, fury, retaliation using this trait with the actual Elixir B skill. But it does not make you invincible.

I am not trying to debate over the legitimacy of night/morning capping. I am asking for fun aspect. In my case there are allways people to fight when I am playing. It is by no means 1 way battle. I am enjoying the fights we have when we have the opportunity, thanks for this, I also enjoy your battlereports. When Blacktide go to bed there is still Aurora Glade to fight. I do not see those hours but if we have domination during late night, it is not done intentionaly for the sake of nightcapping. We have lost to actual nightcappers quite a lot. At the moment Blactide main force and GH have just 3-4 hours difference for primetimes. If our people get assets without any defenders online its still not fun, the question applies to them.

Yes you are using your advantage. upgrade everything and enjoy the lead. Whenopponents become online in prime time you are more than ready to defend your assets with minimal force. I have no intention of accusing you of doing anything unfair, still its a legit tactic but I want to ask one thing. Is it FUN to win over undefended keeps?

Darkademic.2603:

http://www.darkreavers.co.uk/uploads/images/wvw/gunnars_hold_vs_blacktide_vs_aurora_glade.jpg

This is result of late night fights, not nightcapping by any means. However we face morningcapping by Blacktide. That lead in the link will dissepear in no time.
Morning: Blactide vs Doors
Noon: Blactide vs some GH
early evening: Blactide vs GH vs Aurora Glade
late evening: GH vs Aurora Glade vs some Blacktide
night: GH vs Aurora Glade
late night : GH vs some Aurora Glade
nightcap: no one

I love my engineer, just hate the bugs (sgil/stat kit is a bug for me)

This is a great idea. I feel very usefull in wvw, but others do not know how usefull an engineer can be. Mesmers are too valuable, and guardians for they reflection wall comes in second (I wish toss elixir U had some kind of trigger so I know how to cast reflection wall with that-but this is another subject) Every class should have a distictive speciality so we enjoy our game better, get appreciation from friends.

It is painfull to say this but underwater grenades were way op and had to be changed. Targeting greandes still making them op underwater but that much power we deserve when there are too many problems we face. I would not wan’t anything other than stat/sgil fix on kits. I am aware of the loads of bugs/problems on engineer but if they were gonna priotise something, that should be kit stat/sigil fix (i am sorry turret lovers).

Also grenades/bombs getting most fixes is reasonable while the majority of players using them. However this is the result of other game breaking bugs about engineer, we are forced to be grenadiers.

A point defender needs more toughness (knight set may be) and vitality. With this stats you should be very much mobile to stay alive but then it will not be a point defender by defination.
If you change jewelery to emerald exotics you can get 2k toughness also get more condi removal (if you do not have) because you have low health pool against that

Invader set do not have better stats but its more like a prestige armor like a guy mentioned here. When you see someone with full invader set you can be sure that he spent a lot of time killing people and supporting his server. I know there are problems on acquiring badges (sometimes unfair) but overall, its the indication of your pvp skill in wvw. Its more valuable than mere exotics. Personaly I am thinking about getting it for the skin only, I do not prefer stats.

I am a condition damage engineer using grenadier. I may be doing something wrong, I do not see base damages over 1k (in wvw) ever except the tool belt skill. my gear is condi, prec, toughness. I am thinking about knight set but still need info to compare it with my gear.

I would consider only ft build if you do not want grenades. I find it much usefull especially when you are not fighting on a siege. You can make quite good amount of damage to a lot people, most of the time it hits more people than a grenader can. During sieges you are as usefull as a grenader, you can flame the door, keep them burn during gate bottleneck fights.

Power prec toughness build is very much suitable for ft, I agree with mario.
I would suggest 30firearms, 30 alchemy for juggernaut and HGH then use this with more might coming from elixir B, you stack a lot of might, you can be a dps engineer as high as it can be for this profession. Also you will have decent amount of toughness and elixir traits which will give you a very nice tanky build.

The only downside is short range but the fun aspect of using ft covers for that.

I am not complaining a single bit. I was just stating the obvious, what I saw with my own eyes.
I am having great fun, actually one of the most enjoyable pvp fights I had was yesterdays Bay defence.
Just a remark but I see more clever tactical moves from AR while desolation rely on zerg in general (few exceptions).

I am experiencing this on engineer toolbelt and elite skills all of the time.

Garrison bug is terrible and every other server suffered from that one. If they are doing it intentionally, they deserve insults but you can not know if its intentional.
Also congrats for drama award you have just won

Teleporting golems over long distances requires a lot of skills and experience. If done right, you can blitz a garrison with this tactic or else you can be crushed and humiliated. The humiliation is very expensive in this case.

I have problem with getting proper swiftness. I am using medkit skill5 mainly which is not a random skill. I also use elixir B from time to time. Swiftness do not work sometimes. I have the boon symbol but its not working as intended. This is not a combat situation, I am ruinning to a place with my friends. When I am hit by this bug, any swiftness skill I use or ally casted swiftness do not affect me. I am only seeing the boon symbol with counting down but no speed bost at all.

Last night we defended the Bay for over an hour against combined deso&AR forces. There was literaly no fight on the map except this. So I can assume the whole zerg of two servers were there. The attack was nonstop, ar was attacking from one side and deso from the other. You could actually see them attacking to us on lord room while being very close but not making any agressive moves against eachother. They managed to take it after such a long fight, congrats for great coordiantion.

We all know who are teaming up against who at the moment. It was a good act however, keep it up tron. It is the nature of open warfare, I am not complainin about it but I have right to troll about it too. You well know that dependence of massive zerg is main motivation of desolation and winning against bigger forces is a dream for you. So please make us a favor and do not tell stories about glorious fights of yours.

I am afraid the drop rate is can be proportional to the damage you make. I am getting far less loot bags (which means less badges) compared to other people in our group while I was doing engineer aoe damage. I get lots of kills but less badges than normal

I play engineer in wvw mostly and I am always happy about it. I have a solution for every situation. I can be a very effective anti melee, I can be one of the best ranged AoE profession in sieges, I can run fast as long as I want, most of the time ahead of group. I can make insane amounts of combos alone within the same build.
What can I ask more
Well, bug fixes

elixir x is awesome underwater, but engineer grenades are already op underwater. when you use elixir X underwater and come to surface you maintain the underwater effect. Keeping that effect on surface skill would be a good change. It do not require a lot of work to implement, its already in the game in a sense.

I was expecting a “nerf golem” thread instead of this. I am shocked

A few golems can make wonders. try them and blitz a keep yourself Lohengrin

I am from gunnars hold and I was in wvw most of this weekend. I can say that your zerg with/without organization works good enough. I even saw AR & Deso combined attack on GH, I actually fought against Deso people backed by AR and vice versa. I am not raged about that(this is 3 sided open warfare, anythin can happen)
but this thing alone shows a good organization. good enough to combine forces with other server.