Guild Wars 2

imo a good commander is not dependent on the profession chosen. but rather his/her grasp of situation & ability to give clear direction while under pressure.

dunnberry.2964:

Would much rather follow a tiny asura engineer

I hv followed an engineer commander once (a Charr though), he is good at getting the group to work as a team by encouraging everyone to utilise respective profession skills to achieve main objective.

Heck, I will do Baby path just for lolz. Thanks for keeping JP fans happy

Seems like the main complaint against le me profession is inability to target us “99%” at WvW. Ok…

1) Thieves are generally squishy, so if we are to be revealed for a couple of seconds more, then at least make us more durable to last a couple of seconds more as well. Increase our base health & toughness to last longer in proportion to the length of time of us being seen.

2) Alternatively, if it’s not too much to ask from Anet, intro a WvW only ‘vision’ function (in add to ‘interact’ & ‘targeting’) where the player will be able to detect outline of those in stealth mode (appearance will be similar to ‘invisible’ drake egg thieves at Bloodtide Coast), the tradeoff for such vision is inability to cast skill or attack when in ‘special vision’ mode. The player is still unable to target the thieves, but at least you have an idea where the thieves are.

I will prefer 2), bcos those who know how to play will skip this ‘vision’ function as they are more likely capable of predicting how a human thief player will behave. In addition, it won’t break the fear inducing element of stealth, bcos if the target is unable to let go of visual assistance, he is unable to attack. This will force those who don’t know how to play to group together instead of running alone recklessly.

Meanwhile Anet can intro more NPC enemies who use stealth based attack to the WvW maps to compliment this new function. Just my 2 cents worth.

TigerDragon.4037:

I know I can’t claim to speak for the whole server, but I’d like to apologize on our behalf, regardless. Every community has a few egg heads, and some of them don’t run eggdrop on IRC…

Hey, you don’t have to apologise, it’s not your fault. Appreciate your effort to keep things cordial though

Well, this week has shown that having a strong Oceanic/Asian coverage has its advantage. I’ve seen how formidable Yaks & SBI can be when they have their main folks up, but the current scoring system appears to reward those who have better coverage around the clock. I hope Anet can do some tweaking to reward skill based achievements, i.e bonus points are given to how fast an objective is taken, or how long it is being defended from attacks. Imo Yaks are awesome at defending, while SBI is fast on taking objectives (my repair bill shows that T.T)

must. resist. the. troll. in. me. badges. arrrghh.

The titles have the word “Ultimate” in it, so one will need to go insane length to get them

bjchase.3074:

In reading your sig, what is a “surprise butts” build. And after reading that I don’t think I want to ask you about “pickle surprise”. On second thought, nvm. I fear the two are related…. lol

lol, I used to spend more time roaming, my modus operandi is moving behind an unsuspecting folk in stealth, follow by stun & dps attack. Imo it’s as nasty as ‘surprise’ rear hump for those who are receiving it :p

Anyway, now I’m more of frontline grunt, changing traits to improve survival while manning/defending siege (yes. a thief. manning ram on a couple of occasions.). Have to do my best to support the limited manpower resource we have.

As for pickle surprise, watch this XD :

As for me, I prefer not to update the score here as I feel it does not accurately reflect how hard the servers have fought, but more of who having more resource at its disposal to hold as many objectives as possible when the point tally is resetting at any given time.

I enjoy the fights these few days, all 3 of us still have fight in us & refuse to let the recent circumstances drag us down. You folks are AWESOME

Serophous.9085:

As a server, i think we feel like this:

lol, nice artwork!

I think we have quiet respect for each other as everyone give their all to fight a good fight

To me, any form of emote at jp & skill point is a sign of temp cease fire

Yea, I’ll bow to an opponent if the situation is not too hot, bcos I know how it sucks being killed.

runeblade.7514:

I never played a thief. Before this patch, I was scared of thieves and their daggerstorm due to their OPness. Cripple, Strong damage, reflect.

Lately, I notice I don’t fear them anymore. I just go up to them and smack them with my axe till they die.

To my best knowledge, Daggerstorm has not been nerfed during recent patch. Congrats, you have joined the rank of those who know how to play

Oglaf.1074:

This raises a whole bunch of creepy questions of just how exactly the Pale Tree could know how human genitals would look like…

Have you seen any public restroom constructed in Ventari’s Sanctuary during GW1 days?

Yep, that’s how the Pale Tree knows when they thought they had the big roots to cover them during their private time…

Charcoal skin & White hair, as a tribute to Pirotess

It’s the collar, it’s tickling my toon’s neck.

Columba.9730:

100% crit, 16k health, 3k armor and 2800 attack.

Can you ask your thief guildmate to list out his equipment, traits, food taken & buff from allies to achieve about stats? I’m sure every one who is rolling Thief will want to know how it is possible to get those delicious stats while in ‘perma stealth’ build.

The weekend was a blast Yaks hv shown its prowess, especially defense where we took HOURS to retake Bay in CD BL. Props to SBI last night (GMT+8), where they blazed through EB at lightning speed.

The upcoming weekend will be more dependent on NA coverage, as most of us at Asian timeslot will be celebrating Chinese New Year. Keep fighting the good fight everyone!

I beg to differ, it’s Jormag’s, Look at all the snow! (skitten)

On one of Pact’s storyline (‘Further into Orr’ if I’m not wrong), when approaching the Pact’s forward base at Orr, a Vigil crusader who is standing guard at the side of the entrance will shout “THIS IS… (somewhat softer) …Vigil” XD

It appears that CD & SBI hv better Oceanic/Asian timeslot coverage :/

Columba.9730:

well, 900 heal, 1800 tough, 2800 armor here, and I still die to thieves in a few seconds without ever seeing them. I dodge within 2 seconds of them stealthing, i use aoes, I have my pets protect me, I constantly move, I don’t knowingly expose my back to them. all to no avail.

Hi Columba, nice to see you making comments about thief here Is Anet ignoring your ‘feedbacks’ on Thief sub-forum, again?

Now the new Thief trend in WvW is trying out smoke screen to absorb treb/catapult shots XD

I need a better connection, or the culling issue is starting to rear its ugly head on me

By the way, good job Yaks for defending yr BL

Go TC go!!! Love your RP community when I’m guesting there ^^ Best of luck everyone!!

Alfthaton.6832:

Looks like last week really did SBI in. How come we were able to field a decent amount of people during the impossible match of SoR, but now we can’t field 10 people in a borderlands? Hopefully people come to their senses and start playing with us again in WvW soon! This can be a great match!

It’s still early in the week, I’m sure they will join in later

I just look at subtitle & do my own voice-over when it’s my toon turn ^^v

Blueshield.6291:

FateOmega.9601:

The monthly could be reduced to kill 1 rabbit and i bet there will still be people complainting.

Kill one rabbit? That’s too easy! Fix nau!

How about non-risen giant?

Ninya.3942:

Orange swords at the water gate after they were in, I zoned onto the map and saw orange swords at the inner gate then ran over there. Still no contested on the icon however.

Maybe it’s lag. I encounter such incident frequently when the map is busy.

Clap.1507:

Ok, point taken, the closer the score the more dynamic the “macro” strategies become…all you had to do was go to the few points they still held and engage.

Maybe the quality of some individual fights were good….but it is clear you outmanned your opponents in the majority of your engagements.

I’m playing at Asian/Oceanic slot (GMT+8 to be specific), usually at CD BL & EB (sometimes Kain BL when I was desperate to complete daily before reset :p)

Engagement wise, player counts on either side (at least at CD BL) had been pretty much balanced since Wed. We had fun & raved about our fights in our matchup thread bcos neither side had significant manpower advantage. We won & lost depending on which side was playing smarter.

I had the privilege to play against the more organised aspect of Kain’s force, it’s a treat and I’m thankful for what I hv learnt from them. I hope you can reconsider your conclusion about Kain until you have the opportunity to fight them, especially during later part of the week where most zerglings are absent :p

erza.2537:

I mean have you ever seen a thief blocking siege shots? lol

Come to CD BL/EB at most evening (GMT+8), where you can see one not-so-stealthy thief & one ele tag team defending treb/catapult fr incoming catapult/ballista shots during breakout events ^^

Neandramathal.9536:

A sort of mobile ballista in a way? Interesting.

This:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/How-will-ANet-honor-our-Great-Lord-Flame-Ram/first#post1328160

‘cos it’s the will of Flaming Ram

sinfulape.6301:

Really, I think Kain and CD should be married in some way since that’s what you do when you’re married – fight.

lol, I just imagine the first post of the thread when Kain & CD meet up again will be:

“HONEY!! I’m home~~ Get ready your flagpole for some quality family time!” XD

Jayne.9251:

Now I really want to see this happen:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Jan-25-Feb-1-SBI-TC-SoR/page/18#post1336581

This can be the new PvE content to replace the boring vet wurm or centaur culling.

Any server who has whacky sense of humor. Princess dolls parade anyone? XD

Thanks to Kains & Yaks for enjoyable battles during last two nights (GMT+8), it has become less of zerging & more of organised group fighting, where victory depends on the side who has better tactic & better at co-ordination. One word: FUN

Personally I prefer the term ‘community pride’. The server can change its name or merged with others, it’s the community that grows on you matters the most

AkiraZero.8514:

I’d like to say I knew what he was doing but someone said he was probably switching to shortbow and using (heartseeker?), whatever the skill is to get distance on us as soon as he stealthed.

Infiltrator arrow & heatseeker break stealth. Based on my experience, the group of you miscalculated where he is heading

AkiraZero.8514:

I’m a hammer warrior, didn’t matter what skills I used to lock him down nothing worked, he’d go invisible right in front of me, I’d immediately hit hammer skill 3 which is a stun and the next thing I know he was bouncing around miles away!

You must be part of the warrior minority who can’t stun a thief who stealth, as claimed by you, in close range. Or the other warriors I have met must be sPVP elites o.O

Deathdom.8250:

Braxxus.2904:

Deathdom.8250:

Yaks, are you guys scared of Kaineng? Would be nice to stop attacking us in EB.

So yaks are attacking Kain.
Attacking Kain means they’re scared.

wut?
does not compute

Rephrased for clarity. Nothing against most Yaks but am a bit annoyed at the ones that are attacking us when we have a common enemy,

Err… technically we are common enemy of Kain & Yaks too

We shall have the second mobile siege weapon, suitably titled “Great OVERLORD Flaming Ram”.

Shoulder carried by 6 quaggans, the player will follow closely behind Great OVERLORD , while being shoulder carried by a quaggan himself & holding a whip. Pressing ‘dodge’ will initiate an animation which the player cracks the whip at the quaggans, who will swiftly carry the Great OVERLORD to direction of player’s choice with an agonising “cooOO~~”.

An upgraded version will be titled “Supreme OVERLORD Flaming Ram: Champion Edition” – shoulder carried by 8 quaggans, with additional 2 quaggans walking in front of Supreme OVERLORD throwing flower petals.

Yeah, that will be the minimum befitting the Great Lord

PolishSausage.1279:

Just increase the timer debuff where a Thief can’t restealth, and force him to actually commit to a fight instead of getting cheap shots and running away all the time.

How many hit can a GC Thief take before being downed in an open fight?

Zerg falling off the cliff (with Golem on some good day) while travelling from NE tower to Hill in straight line. Every week.

Waffle.3748:

Clever mesmer from CD!

I’ve seen live demo of that by FA a couple of weeks back XD

“HAWT charr on asura action, every Tuesdays!!”

I’m sold

Deathdom.8250:

FYI, make sure you screenshot it if you kill any Kaineng commander from RISE. There’s a 39g bounty right now for a certain someone from there.

39g? Really? Skritt, I shld hv took pic of RISE corpses at EB keep last night

Knighthonor.4061:

on Crystal Desert I been summoning weapons on my ele for the team, but notice most never use them.

Is there a reason to this? Do people want Ele’s Weapons in WvW?

Most probably they are too busy to notice them. I love Ice Bow’s ‘5’ for repelling siege zerg ^^

Awwww… it just mean you will take longer time to reach tier 1

zhonnika.1784:

No siege in the jumping puzzle! That will be interesting

Great Lord Flaming Ram will not be pleased with this

Protip – AoE works on thief in stealth. Just bleed or poison them to death.

Nay, I love me 1 million+ karma. There should be more karma offerings in upcoming updates

MrKnieves.4162:

If you got a bunch of guilds from CD, good luck getting commanders to communicate, they pretty much do their own thing.

I agree. We tried a simple diversion trick last night (GMT +8) using breakout event and we reclaimed a tower without much resistance. There is an obvious communication lag between kain groups.

The problem will go away if Anet adds ‘crouch’ action button

“Say, do you fancy some tea, my dear dead nemesis?”