scrapper is pretty good in large fights.. i just started to mess with one but still not that great on him but i do dive into large numbers and make it back out in 1 piece.. sometimes lol.. its good for baiting and running through all them skill spammers :P
Scrapper arguably has the best survivability of any class now and with the hammer has good dps. I’m using it in frontline now as well in preference to guard and rev.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
It seems like my change didn’t make it with this build so it will be going out soon in a hotfix. Also Crusader will be removed at the same time.
So what are classes without much inherent sustain supposed to do when you have classes with a lot of sustain combined with dps? You are over compensating and limiting build diversity in another direction.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Honestly, I’m liking T1 lately. The fights regardless of what server YB, BG, JQ are fun. The little political games are quite pathetic and I wish some servers would be more independent. YB gets hate IMO because they don’t play nice with BG and JQ little circle of commanders. YB takes whatever, whenever with no agenda, they want it they take it. I’m hoping the rumor is true and JQs guilds continues to blame each other within so they go away and fall. Bring up independent Fort Aspen, at least I know they’ll fight anything in sight with no allegiance.
You realise if that happens you’ll end up with a server with far too little population and it will essentially be BG vs YB. Why do you think Malevolent and Indo wanted to keep JQ in T1. The phrase be careful what you wish for springs to mind.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Ahhh yes the little lap dog BG. JQ says jump and BG says “how high???”. I hear there’s inside drama on JQ though, the blame game between various guilds
Thats really funny considering the history of the 2 servers, you realise they basically hate each other.
At the end of last week BG and JQ were close in terms of the “score” and then they decided to focus the kitten outta you guys (for the 2nd place? lol) and ended up being successful. Please explain your point again.
Point is obvious, there is no overall 2v1 against YB, in fact the idea is laughable.
was fun though so keep the 2vs1 coming we barely had to leave our side for 3 hours
You’ll note I wrote ‘overall’, of course there may be some instances when a natural 2v1 arises.
and “overall” yb doesn’t sit on siege all day and just ppt yet that is all everyone ever says about yb
Overall? Most of the time YB does sit on siege and backcaps, avoiding fights in my experience, of course there are some on YB who don’t but its been the complaint of every server coming up against YB from T4 to T1, they can’t all be misconstruing how YB play.
yea yea and bg sits on siege in towers and backcaps.. same thing that jq does.. see what i’m saying?
With JQ and BG its not the majority of the server, its not part of their server culture.
blobbing on 1 tag in EBG is part of both servers culture though
Yes I will acknowledge that is true even though some guilds don’t.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Ahhh yes the little lap dog BG. JQ says jump and BG says “how high???”. I hear there’s inside drama on JQ though, the blame game between various guilds
Thats really funny considering the history of the 2 servers, you realise they basically hate each other.
At the end of last week BG and JQ were close in terms of the “score” and then they decided to focus the kitten outta you guys (for the 2nd place? lol) and ended up being successful. Please explain your point again.
Point is obvious, there is no overall 2v1 against YB, in fact the idea is laughable.
was fun though so keep the 2vs1 coming we barely had to leave our side for 3 hours
You’ll note I wrote ‘overall’, of course there may be some instances when a natural 2v1 arises.
and “overall” yb doesn’t sit on siege all day and just ppt yet that is all everyone ever says about yb
Overall? Most of the time YB does sit on siege and backcaps, avoiding fights in my experience, of course there are some on YB who don’t but its been the complaint of every server coming up against YB from T4 to T1, they can’t all be misconstruing how YB play.
yea yea and bg sits on siege in towers and backcaps.. same thing that jq does.. see what i’m saying?
With JQ and BG its not the majority of the server, its not part of their server culture.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Ahhh yes the little lap dog BG. JQ says jump and BG says “how high???”. I hear there’s inside drama on JQ though, the blame game between various guilds
Thats really funny considering the history of the 2 servers, you realise they basically hate each other.
At the end of last week BG and JQ were close in terms of the “score” and then they decided to focus the kitten outta you guys (for the 2nd place? lol) and ended up being successful. Please explain your point again.
Point is obvious, there is no overall 2v1 against YB, in fact the idea is laughable.
was fun though so keep the 2vs1 coming we barely had to leave our side for 3 hours
You’ll note I wrote ‘overall’, of course there may be some instances when a natural 2v1 arises.
and “overall” yb doesn’t sit on siege all day and just ppt yet that is all everyone ever says about yb
Overall? Most of the time YB does sit on siege and backcaps, avoiding fights in my experience, of course there are some on YB who don’t but its been the complaint of every server coming up against YB from T4 to T1, they can’t all be misconstruing how YB play.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
BG/JQ are masters of “Excuse Warfare”. where they both claim that their, “In it for the fights”. to cover up their abysmal scores week after week. Although I will hand it to them both, they are great at fighting when it’s 3:1 odds in their favor.
Thats pretty funny considering your guild were running with FOW in a huge blob last night.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Ahhh yes the little lap dog BG. JQ says jump and BG says “how high???”. I hear there’s inside drama on JQ though, the blame game between various guilds
Thats really funny considering the history of the 2 servers, you realise they basically hate each other.
At the end of last week BG and JQ were close in terms of the “score” and then they decided to focus the kitten outta you guys (for the 2nd place? lol) and ended up being successful. Please explain your point again.
Point is obvious, there is no overall 2v1 against YB, in fact the idea is laughable.
You can try reporting them for botting but it probably won’t work. Nothing will happen until it gets included in the dishonor system but it appears from the lack of an anet response that they have shelved trying to include AFKers in the dishonor system. Any queries just get ignored which is a sure sign they aren’t doing anything about it.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Ahhh yes the little lap dog BG. JQ says jump and BG says “how high???”. I hear there’s inside drama on JQ though, the blame game between various guilds
Thats really funny considering the history of the 2 servers, you realise they basically hate each other.
At the end of last week BG and JQ were close in terms of the “score” and then they decided to focus the kitten outta you guys (for the 2nd place? lol) and ended up being successful. Please explain your point again.
Point is obvious, there is no overall 2v1 against YB, in fact the idea is laughable.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Ahhh yes the little lap dog BG. JQ says jump and BG says “how high???”. I hear there’s inside drama on JQ though, the blame game between various guilds
Thats really funny considering the history of the 2 servers, you realise they basically hate each other.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Its a support bot only, no damage at all, so no I don’t class that as fine
And ele was present on every team. Ele is fine.
There are classes that actually need help.
Only mesmer and warrior in terms of focus and revs in terms of needing a nerf, but that doesn’t mean eles are fine. Anet should be able to work on every class simultaneously.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
I would imagine defence is the main problem with such a build. For roaming I use a similar build to the PvP build. I can only find a use for FT in PvE.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
I don’t understand, what’s one aspect of this game that is challenging. I hopped into HoT a few days ago after a year break and beat the story in a matter of two days. Cleared all exploration in the next two days. There is nothing in this game that isn’t casual… Unless all you complainers expect free kitten.
Thats due to the lack of content, the story is way to short.
The story was only a tid bit shorter than the original story.
The 1-80 story? Wat? HOT is far shorter. 1-80 is a legitimate single player length for an mmo, the single player story in HOT is way way to short.
Thats due to the lack of content, the story is way to short.
the reason the game is not casual friendly is because its too short?
No him clearing the story in 2 days is due to it being to short, nothing to do with whether HOT is casual friendly or not.
oh and what’s that got to do with the thread?
Because the story is so short, Anet takes the path of stretching out the content by putting in loads and loads of grind…. which is what makes the game no longer casual friendly.
what exactly did he grind then if he completed it in 2 days. its either casual un-friendly or its not.
He said he completed the story in 2 days thats only 1 part of the xpac.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
I don’t understand, what’s one aspect of this game that is challenging. I hopped into HoT a few days ago after a year break and beat the story in a matter of two days. Cleared all exploration in the next two days. There is nothing in this game that isn’t casual… Unless all you complainers expect free kitten.
Thats due to the lack of content, the story is way to short.
The story was only a tid bit shorter than the original story.
The 1-80 story? Wat? HOT is far shorter. 1-80 is a legitimate single player length for an mmo, the single player story in HOT is way way to short.
I don’t understand, what’s one aspect of this game that is challenging. I hopped into HoT a few days ago after a year break and beat the story in a matter of two days. Cleared all exploration in the next two days. There is nothing in this game that isn’t casual… Unless all you complainers expect free kitten.
Thats due to the lack of content, the story is way to short.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
I had a look at the current match and it has less than 4k viewers. the fact that viewers are being enticed with the possibility of winning some prizes just for watching…
It’s abysmal numbers
Yeah its what they consistently draw for the pro league, its really poor if its meant to be an advertisement costing a total of $400k.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Turret is best for PvP because its really good for fighting on a point but I like the gyro for WvW because its more mobile and the toolbelt skill is so good, mobile water field pulsing protection.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
We were killing The Mouth, there was no reason to kill the map, we had basically beaten the Meta!
Where you are in the meta chain has nothing to do with it. If the systems decides that there are too few players in the map it will close it.
You do get a warning though. Players are asked to transfer to a more populated map. If that popup showed up and you all ignored it and chose to keep playing then you did so with the knowledge that the map was going to close at some point.
There is a bug with the system, it sometimes closes instances that are heavily populated. There have been a lot of complaints about it particularly with regard to DS.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Does this mean soloQing to legendary will be even harder than in season 1? It does sound like it
It should be easier since your teammates will be of more similar skill instead of the team teams having player skill split between them. Imagine matchmaking as if it were trying to make a bunch of 1v1 matches by picking 5 players as similar as possible to fight another set of 5 similar players.
What is happening regarding dishonor being given for AFKers in a match? And I’m not talking about leaving the match but just going AFK at spawn.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
I agree with this. It seems like they got so focused on designing HoT as a vessel for fixing their economy, an economy largely broken due to the problems of horizontal progression and very little incentive to buy anything, that they didn’t really consider the full impact of what they were doing and just flat out neglected introducing anything that took the player experience into account and creating that feeling of “rewarding”.
This has been the problem with their reward systems for almost the entire life of the game apart from isolated instances like SAB when it was first released. There is such a overwhelming focus on the economy that they give no thought to the individual player experience at all.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
This is exactly why you don’t have a marketing degree.
1rst- HoT sales were not disappointing in away, had you watch the conference you would have known that NCSOFT was pretty please with the sales and their only contrition was the slow paced transition of f2p to b2p, which is your next point.
Of course the sales were disappointing if you look at the actual figures and looked at what market expectations were. The discussion about f2p transition smelled of being something of a cover fir it.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
This is extreme mode content for e-sports fans, not someone who games for a little challenge and to relax.
HoT wasn’t made to be easy and the final mission is no exception. I would not expect the final mission of a hard expansion to be “a little challenge”. However, that’s my perspective.
Its not about being hard or easy its about the fight being bugged, its about having to repeat the entire long fight again if you bug out and die die, its about having to do the entire long quest chain again if you have to repair your gear after bugging out multiple times, its about the updrafts being different from updrafts across the rest of the game and being hard to actually see, its about anet never even acknowledging the problems with the fight and quest………………..
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
I can’t believe people are arguing this is a reasonable grind. You’re talking a two hour meta gathering 40 ores if you’re lucky. For a full set of 7 that’s about 18 runs.
You think 36 hours of a timed event that isn’t always available is ok for one rune set that isn’t realisticaly recoverable?
That’s literally worse than Korean mmo gear grinds.
This set is a perfect example of what’s wrong with HOT and the gold/time sinks that are plaguing the game.
Spot on.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Wow, not even close either with druid still having 25% of his health left. To me it demonstrates how weak ele staff auto attacks are even in quite an offensive gear set.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
rumor has it that it will come in 6mths but since is anet we are talking about here, expect 9 mths
Since they mentioned it being delayed in 1 of their live streams I’ve been saying don’t expect it until September at the earliest. Close to a year after HOT when it was supposed to be their top priority.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Just a warning, on the salt forums the troll is threatening to resume presumably with another account might be on another server as well. Unfortunately the idiots on there seem to be encouraging him.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
re: penalty box – From what I’ve read, it looks like you’re supposed to wipe to get everyone back. But of course, seeing what happens when you die, the people left don’t dare die for fear of everyone being in the penalty box and the fight being lost. And to make it even better the updraft/gilder mechanic is weird/bugged at that point so there’s a much better chance of players dying.(and getting stuffed in the penalty box) It’s the perfect end for an expansion filled with glitchy, buggy, grindy, gimmicky, B.S. that isn’t fun.
And the fact that they refuse to even acknowledge there are problems is so annoying.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
What about the achievements, if I can’t get all four tiers done, will they be able to be completed next year? or can I only complete this years current backpack? I’m asking because I missed the first season as well.
Achievements have to be done over the 4 seasons this year.
Next year will be new rewards and achievements.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
lol.. its good for baiting and running through all them skill spammers :P
we barely had to leave our side for 3 hours
