Guild Wars 2

Score update 9:45pm EDT

Thundar.3910:

pot.6805:

Papaj.9035:

That’s unfortunate we lost SoR hills. Church and I dropped enough siege to wipe out an army in a few seconds. Only thing I could think of that could hit that for 19k would be Trebs, but that is a singular shot and not cumulative. Oh well, guess we can do it all over again tonight.

It wasn’t trebs, they had no siege built. Zerg full of some well known guilds came up to the North with no previous warning, took out all of siege on the outer within seconds, including cannons, arrow carts and mortars. All siege on that wall was taking cumulative damage from no visible known source and just kept going up and up until the siege was gone. That 19k screenshot was taken right before the arrow cart was destroyed by this. Also there is clearly no trebs hitting the arrow cart. Hopefully whatever is causing this is fixed ASAP.

Happened right after the patch last week as well, getting siege killed on NE Bay in SoR BL, nothing like 20k hits, a few 10ks here and there. Happened when both JQ and BG attacked. Couldn’t tell you what does the damage though.

Its most likely a bug with a Mesmer skill since it reminded me of the Mesmer cumulative skills. I’ve sent a bug report in, that’s all we can do at this point.

Papaj.9035:

That’s unfortunate we lost SoR hills. Church and I dropped enough siege to wipe out an army in a few seconds. Only thing I could think of that could hit that for 19k would be Trebs, but that is a singular shot and not cumulative. Oh well, guess we can do it all over again tonight.

It wasn’t trebs, they had no siege built. Zerg full of some well known guilds came up to the North with no previous warning, took out all of siege on the outer within seconds, including cannons, arrow carts and mortars. All siege on that wall was taking cumulative damage from no visible known source and just kept going up and up until the siege was gone. That 19k screenshot was taken right before the arrow cart was destroyed by this. Also there is clearly no trebs hitting the arrow cart.

Hopefully whatever is causing this is fixed ASAP. Regardless its been sent to Anet.

Boulderbolg.3460:

pot.6805:

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That is one creepy Asura, Mikey.

Haters gon’ hate! =P
Haha but no really, at least he isn’t the cliché white skinned cute Asura!

Tyaen.5148:

Liquid.9672:

It’s a fair question though. What can hit for 19k on a piece of siege placed at the back of a battlement?

Probably someone running (x) tiers of the Ballista WXP line

Uhh no, there was no ballistas in sight and I wasn’t actively being hit by siege. Also please tell me where you would even place a ballista outside that would those arrow carts, nice try though. This was a number that kept going up and finally stopped at 20k before the siege was gone. It was a cumulative hit ability, not ballista. And it was done to every cart/cannon on that wall so this wasn’t a random occurrence.

Nice deflection. But SoR zerg at North hills instantly killed all of our siege placed up there by hitting them for 20k.

How are SoR zergs instantly killing siege with 20k hits? All of our siege on that wall gone with 15seconds.

Yes it is fun.

DevonCarver.5370:

Victory.2879:

DevonCarver.5370:

I can’t make any promises, because nothing is set in stone yet, but that is something I would like to address, yes.

Seven months of people pointing out the sheer impossibility of obtaining any of the wvw titles in any reasonable timespan and it’s finally reached the stage of ’it’s something I’d like to address’.

I can’t speak to what has or has not been done in the past, but I have just started to improve WvW and I hope you can all provide me the benefit of the doubt. For at least one build, then you can return to the gnashing of teeth as usual.

Good point, give the guy a chance.

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I guess SoR is burnt out after their 2 week server wide push where their NA guilds played during Oceanic and SEA. We knew it wasn’t sustainable.

So this is like the 16th time the trolls predicted BG was dead and imploding and the 16th time they were wrong.

Low skill cap class

This would clearly break the games balance if it counted as a movement skill. The devs have said they have to be careful or warriors will be super OP.

Score update before bed.

Obviously this calls for a nerf to warriors and a buff to bunker rangers.

Warrior pain trains are so easy to shut down in WvW. Every zerg stacks necros now for this very reason, spamming conditions and chills.

Thanks for all the bags last night SoR and JQ. We did an open gate defense of a tower that wasn’t even ours (SW tower on BG BL) and JQ and SoR just kept funneling in. About 100 more bags dropped but it got pretty hectic and wasn’t able to take any more screens.

It is way too zergy. You either spend your time running away from zergs or trying to form a big enough zerg to fight the other servers map zergs. A full map zerg can easily travel anywhere in the zone and wipe your 20 man groups no problem.

Professor Munchies.8472:

Retaliation is the only way us Mesmers can compete against thieves and warriors and spirit weapon gaurdians. dont nerf/remove it

lol did you just mention warriors to justify retal on Mesmers? A halfway alive mesmer should have no problems beating warriors, with or without retal.

4 and 5 don’t work when fired behind you right?

You leave this game.

Penguin.5197:

So how did ranger become tier a/t2 all of a sudden? Is it that because of quickness change people cannot burst them down anymore?

They got a bunker buff and yes quickness nerf hurt a lot.

What meta? It is just a bunch of bunkers running around, engi bunkers, ranger bunkers, ele bunkers, guardian bunkers, necro bunkers and the poor warrior trying to kill them.

Rooting for TC! Also was going through my screenshots and found this from last time I was in T2. Some Kaineng…ahem….doing things to my corpse.

No, not happy with it from the warrior perspective.

T1 is like this as well and has been. Now its just even worse to finally be able to see the 80man zergball, so sad.

The removal of culling confirmed what I already knew, people are actually roaming borderlands with 50-70 people ikittenergball, how is this even fun or challenging?

This game is all about the full map zerg balls and world exp rewards this style of play. Not to mention the skill lag. Zergball Lag Wars 2. Time to move on….

What a sad joke.

Sami.1560:

As have I (long term player of Warhammer Online reporting in, for my sins). Still, nice thing about GW2 is that there’s no sub money burning away

Yup, best thing about it is that you can always come back for free.

Yeah everyone always justifies nerfs by saying it will mean they can buff other stuff. But I’ve seen this said in on the forums in at least 4 MMOs I’ve played and the “exchange for the majority of the weapons and utilities becoming viable” never happens.

Hockey.2417:

Not real hard to “make a comeback”, when BG and Sor are working together. Just a game of letting each other take their area, then take em back, back n forth. BG and Sor are working in coodination, as many screenshots have proven. Let alone, the bg spy on jq building siege in keeps, to max out siege. Nothing like 100 flame rams in a keep. <Must be real proud to have to cheat to win. Oh well, still fun kickin but for JQ. Do whatever makes you proud BG and Sor, real sportsmanship(cheaters hahaha)

Ahh yes, 2v1!

Fuzzion.2504:

pot.6805:

Were all 90 of you in a mega zerg ball or did you split up?

We all used our power rangers ability and became the megazord

Haha nice!

Were all 90 of you in a mega zerg ball or did you split up?

Teel.9036:

No one would ever have a 2nd account on the enemy server then use their own guild tag when ruining for that server in WvW, it’s common sense. This is just someone hating Choo trying to give them bad PR.

They also tried to give Agg a bad name.

I’d ignore obvious troll bait posts and report ’em.

Fixeon.5076:

Now that it looks like BG has locked up this week. I have to ask…. Do they have enough 5 hour energy to get through reset?

5 hour energy stocked up! lol but seriously, I think we all know reset doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. I’ll let other servers burn themselves out on reset for a measly couple thousand lead while I rest up and avoid the Friday night Queue Blues.

Annabel.5127:

Excuse me Michael! Just because Smokee isn’t here doesn’t mean you can slack off!
Oh & Score update

Haha. I’d say “pics or it didn’t happen” but….

I swear, 8 JQ killed me right before you got there =P

Didn’t someone say “this week is the beginning of end for Blackgate” a few days ago? Thanks for the motivation bruh.

Score update, 8:30pm EDT NA prime.

Pvp.2758:

pot.6805:

Rule 17 of WvW
When your server leads in PPT it is obviously skill. When your enemy leads in PPT, it is quantity over quality.

Gaining 15k points overnight while SoR has 0 players online is not skill.

You had lots of players overnight all week. Did you guys burn out?

Rule 17 of WvW
When your server leads in PPT it is obviously skill. When your enemy leads in PPT, it is quantity over quality.

I miss this thread <3

This thread has been really uninteresting this week, just a bunch of trolling, chest thumping and arguing about GvG.

Wow, finally something that helps defense and instantly people want it removed. As if attacking towers/keeps with mega zergs should be even EASIER!

Yeah man, nothing more annoying than this!

Great video, Lag Wars 2 indeed.

Nope, no concrete details except for the culling post you already mentioned. There is a lot of pressure on Anet with this patch, hopefully they can deliver. I only care about WvWvW (and spvp to a lesser extent). And WvW is super boring right now. It is just mega zergs (50-60) roaming around the maps now wiping 20man groups and feeling good about themselves.

Zerglings gon’ zerg – Ghandi

Suralin.3947:

pot.6805:

Reflections and Shadows are the biggest FPS killers in my experience. I turn them both off completely.

Shadows, yes, but the biggest impact on your FPS is Shaders and Anti-Aliasing. The FPS difference between Medium and High for Shaders is substantial, but so is the look and feel of the game. Disabling altogether will result in some crappy looking armor and buildings. Setting shadows to Medium will help, and setting to Reflections for Terrain and Sky tend to fair better.

However, depending on your card, you might be CPU-bottlenecked as well. So you might not see major increases in FPS when you mess with some settings.

This game uses FXAA anti aliasing which is minimal performance hit. I get the most FPs gain by completely turning off shadow and reflections. I don’t care about how pretty the game looks in WvW to be honest.