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Last patch ruined Fotm Chests esplly Jade Maw

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I have been getting much the same loot from FoTM, rares cores and the occasional lodestone, even exotics. I think you are just on the RNG naughty list as of now. It has happened to me as well. I salvaged 19 rares to get 1 ecto with BL kits the other day.

I hope you are right, I’ve hit level 10 2 weeks ago (currently on level 13) and I’ve been doing 10 for the daily, but I still have not seen a ring drop or any fractal weapon skins…

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3/1 - JQ/SoR/BG

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To be honest, I could care less about what anyone else on another server has to say about it.

then why bother with the wall of text post?

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3/1 - JQ/SoR/BG

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Blackgate never bought guilds, It simply helped with the costs of a few guilds that decided on their own that Blackgate is where they wanted to go.

lol,

You really are trying to spin that? C’mon, just man up and admit it. Until Anet make it a rule against these kind of recruitment, it’s fair game. To say there’s no communication between those SoS guilds that transferred to BG without the mention of any form of “assist” is just being naive or deceitful.

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T1 server lag = unplayable

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Bloody pathetic Anet. SO many other developers can do this better than you with less hype.

My sentiments exactly.

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Will World XP and Titles be retroactive?

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Wow, some arguments are just too mindnumbing to endure. For the record, I do WvW every single night and have done so for months and I’m against retroactive credit for titles/abilities. I think the idea is simply ludicrous and overtly greedy.

I think it’s about fairness.

You know how to recognize a dedicated WvW player?

He has no legendary weapon and no ascended gear. And his exotics are probably from the karma vendors in Orr.

I have tons of achievement credit for things like supply used, dolyaks escorted, etc, but while PvE players have reaped rewards, I’ve got nothing.

Seems unfair that now, after PvE players have gotten everything they wanted, they can join WvW and start on equal footing with me and my 2000 dolyak escorts and 15,000 supply used which will count for nothing.

I certainly can’t switch to PvE and suddenly be on equal footing with them.

+1.

Anet should at least be fair and take into account the hardcore WvW players achievement that they’ve achieved so far, convert them to % to the new measurement they will be using for the new stuff.

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2/22 -JQ/SoR/SoS

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Well as a member of SoR, I would like to extend a open hand to any guilds that may want to join our server as well. Specifically HB from Kain, I would really enjoy an outstanding guild such as HB to fight side by side with against JQ, BG, SoS or whoever else comes to Tier 1.

please HB, please?

maybe after Kaineng take our spot in T1 and face the reality of fighting two stacked servers, a discussion about merging the two servers can happen. As individual servers, Kaineng or SoR really have no chance against JQ and BG’s coverage.

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2/22 -JQ/SoR/SoS

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They posted they would stay on SoS “as long as it’s in T1.” They won’t be in T1 next week. It was very clever of Tysm to leave that particular clause in there imho.

I’m rallying up some donations to help them rebuild influence once they are done xferring, please post on server forum if you would like to help.

indeed, very clever of them, nice little way to exit the stage without looking worst than the other guilds that left SoS earlier.

Now all we need is Kaineng and SoR to merge to have a true epic 3 stacked servers in T1…

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[WvW/PvE] The "Healway" Guardian

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hello,

which laurel amulet would be better with this build:

Amulet of Protection (defensive infusion slot)
Salma’s Diamond Jubilee Necklace (offensive infusion slot)

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2/22 -JQ/SoR/SoS

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Come to think of it, if SOR continue to dominate JQ in NA timezone, and BG dominate JQ in OCEANIC/EURO timezone and heavily negate JQs SEA presence then it may actually be a close match across all 3 servers, however time will tell.

These past two matches haven’t required our NA to really push it. When we did (saturday) we held a solid 400 ppt all night. When the match is already 60k leads by monday night or what not there isn’t a need for us (JQ) to continually burn siege and tons of gold for a 6hr window of a 24 hr match.

So is that why you were just ticking below SoS (120) during NA primetime about a half hour ago?

Ahh I kid i kid but I agree your NA is very solid. It just doesn’t have the endurance SoR’s NA has and I don’t blame you guys since you can just go to sleep and wake up with the whole map and a 50k+ lead. Lets just put it this way without your asian/europe zerg your NA crew wouldn’t do as well. It takes us awhile to take back all those upgraded keeps If we are strictly talking about NA vs NA and excluding other timezone zergs SoR takes the cake until I see the beast that has become blackgate.

no matter how strong our NA prime force is, facing the new BG + JQ will diminish any points we can gain during our NA prime time. I know most of the SoR players here always go on and on about the “we play the game for action, not for points” but I personally believe you need to strike a balance to remain competitive in T1. And of course, SoR need some new guild transfers to fill some coverage gap to compete with the two stacked servers in the upcoming weeks.

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Consider Transferring to Kaineng

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How much are you guys paying? All the cool servers pay guilds to join now.

sadly that is true, I heard some BG guilds paid for the transfer fee for few of the guilds that recently transferred from SOS to BG…

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The departure of ND, MERC, & VOTF from SoS

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I just hope these SoS transfers don’t flee BG if BG ever does poorly. It seems that quite a few SoS guilds have left, but I haven’t seen this happen to JQ, BG, Kain, etc. Those servers gained guilds, not lost. That’s why I asked how many of the guilds that are transferring now were transfers to SoS when they were #1 vs how many of those guilds transferring now were on SoS at launch. My guess is the ones transferring now were not on SoS at launch and just transfer around to the server that they think will be victorious server at the time.

Exception – I’m fairly positive MERC was always on SoS but with Jedahs leaving GW2, I get the feeling it was kinda Jedahs that kept MERC on SoS, but since he’s gone, this is what happens.

I doubt BG will do poorly this time around in T1. If SoR continue to sit around and do nothing to try to convince some new guilds, they will be the 3rd wheel in T1 fighting for leftovers.

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2/22 -JQ/SoR/SoS

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I wouldn’t get at all upset about it. The guy openly refuses to be a part of the community that he has played with since the beginning. He has only his frame of reference and not that of the community as a whole.

He’s one of few people that believe the way he does.

It’s not so much “refuse” as I never had an interest. The first time I heard mention of the JQ community site way back in September there were only negative connotations. It was always a “did you see that thread on the forum about so and so?” or “Oh man people are totally angry about that yada yada”. I had no interest. Perhaps it has changed since then, but I just chose to stay away.

I am talkative in the TS with my guild, and with others, when the need arises.

But you’re right, I only have my “frame of reference”. I’m not trying to speak for my entire server, it’s just my opinion. I can understand that it can be rough on a server with zero population in WvW to try to be active. I can understand some very early transfers from servers after it becomes clear that certain servers just don’t have a significant presence. However, to flip back and forth from servers that are all active in WvW, just to varying degrees of “coverage”, is in my opinion a bad idea. I would never do it, and if my guild wanted to do it ([FIRE], and I am fairly confident they never will) I would not involve myself.

You could even make the argument that until free transfers ended it was “fair game”…I could be somewhat convinced of that. Now though, with paid server transfers, to transfer an entire guild is just silly in my opinion, and doesn’t paint a very positive picture of the guild.

I gotta give you credit for having the cojones to speak your mind. While I think there might be more players that feel the same way as you on JQ, but they wouldnt speak up about it, but would rather pretend to like the bandwagoners going to JQ, as long as they keep winning by a wide margin in T1.

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The departure of ND, MERC, & VOTF from SoS

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Am I the only SoR player that is watching this like it is a tennis match? Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth between SoS and JQ.

SoS guilds that are leaving, throw some love at SoR will ya???

no kidding, I dont understand why SoR is being overlooked in this mess… But I gotta give credit to BG, they are just better at recruiting, even when both SoR and BG were in T2 for months.

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2/22 -JQ/SoR/SoS

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yeah those 15 new guilds JQ got a few weeks back has NOTHING to do with why they are winning now. Nor the fact SoS has lost some.

Remember when SoS was all happy and proud of itself because they successfully trolled with racist comments a guild leader of a well known asiatic guild?

Some can say that karma is a kitten sometimes.

It’s not a secret that guilds wanting to move from SBI never took in consideration SoS. And all the crying now only makes it look even worse.

When did this successful racist comment happen? I would like to see proof. Racism is NOT acceptable in any form, most definitely not in this game during my fun time, and especially not on my server.

yea,

I am curious how any racist comments can be “successful” in any form without being negative, someone need to show examples of it…

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What did you name your mesmer?

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Mind Smack is my mesmer name.

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best skin for gs in mesmer:)

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Go Sunrise! Everyone has Twilight. Twilight leaves pools of kitten on the ground, but Sunrise leaves pools of epicness. Sunrise is cheaper! Sunrise has much nicer colours.

if you mean epicness as in sperm stain, sure I can agree with you…

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2/15 JQ/SoR/SoS

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Ehh…this is because most of our players would rather have open-field fights than point posturing. I’ll agree you guys have the ppt down to a science, and are very good at strategically fighting for that, a lot of us just don’t think that’s what makes W3 fun. The points are a necessary mechanic of the tier system, but it’s not what keeps us coming back to play. We play because of the epic battles that can only be found here.

It’s not being “macho” as you put it, or a trick, it’s simply wanting to play W3 for what it can offer us: a large-scale pvp zone where solid teamwork, sound leadership, and field tactics are at a premium.

Playing for points is boring, just my opinion though. :/

in my opinion,

if we want to hang around in T1 longer, we need to adapt and evolve to learn to “care” about playing for points. I dont see why doing so would mean less epic battles or open-field fights. Keeping the points relatively close enough can be good morale for our players, more people joining WvW will always help to contribute to more epic battles or open-field fights, that’s just how i see it.

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2/15 JQ/SoR/SoS

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@Tarin Twisted.4183,

having fun is highly subjective, someone like Covenn might enjoy the tough challenges in wvw vs server with more population / coverage, but it might not be fun for someone else. It’s easier said than done to just tell us what we need to do. SoR’s been through it, we did fought BG for months and stuck in #2 in T2 for a long time.

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2/15 JQ/SoR/SoS

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It’s not a holiday issue with SoR, our fairweathers are crumbling in this matchup. We’re outmanned on all 4 maps every morning now.

yep,

not everyone goes on a vacation or take a trip during a long weekend, most tend to play more when they have an extra day off. I think the fairweather wvw players is just demoralized or looking into other “options” such as transferring somewhere else…

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Female WvWers

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I think Anet should have a WvW babe of the month contest

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Why is everyone complaining about guardians?

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My biggest issue is the lack of mobility/snares which are needed for any offensive build that doesn’t rely on AH/EM (which just means you’ll die slowly while you chase enemies). 3 gap closers in the entire profession is not adequate. Having 1 reliable form of cripple/chill is not adequate. Having no passive movement speed increases and barely any forms of swiftness is not adequate.

I’ve resigned the fact that ArenaNet either doesn’t see this as a problem or doesn’t have it as a priority that will be addressed anytime soon.

I agree with you. To add insult to injury, with the class lacking mobility and snares, we have scepter as the only viable range weapon. If that’s the intend from ANet, at least make scepter’s orbs travel fast to target to compensate.

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A thousand hour review of the guardian

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Brutaly’s analysis are always worth reading!
I agree for the most part but I’m not so drastic abouth the changes needed. To me we are mainly a defensive melee profession, so having low mobility and poor range options it’s natural (as far as we are the best in melee, clearly). For the same reason it’s imho correct that we give our best focusing in honor and valor and not in an offensive line like zeal.
That said I think that every trait should have its purpose, so a few tweaks in zeal and radiance are indeed needed.
Another good point of Brutaly’s analysis is the one about weapons: GS is ok and funny, Hammer is OK stat-wise but spamming 1-1-2-1-1-2… is not funny at all, and staff is a set of random skills (I use very rarely 1-handed).

I cant accept the poor range options just because we are being categorized as "best melee class. Scepter skills need some improvement, if that remains to be our ONLY range weapon. I’d love to see some staff skills being reworked to offer range attack instead their current state.

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Upcoming WvW Updates:

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Still no announce about the reasons why the capacity of players in WvW maps has shrunk so much since the last patch ???

perhaps players are leaving the WvW aspect of the game (or play a different game entirely) that doesn’t get enough of ANet’s attention to fix critical bugs.?

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Wall of silence.

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In other areas of this forums Anet staff are responding right away to recent patches, they indicate if its working as intended or if they are looking into it or require more feedback, WvWvW gets a major change and the community is making comments and there is total silence.

Please any word is better than silence. Please consider us, people should not have to open threads pleading for Anet input.

yep, there is a pattern here. On things they probably will make the change, Anet tend to respond in the forums. Remember all those threads made about item drop rate nerfed from few months ago? None of them got answered. Going by the same behavior, this queue issue is as good as dead, meaning Anet will NEVER address it.

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Blacklist for bad guild members?

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just because one person is bad in a guild, it doesnt mean he/she will be bad in the next guild. If you want this feature, maybe you should think about expanding the blacklist yo include bad guilds, bad commanders, etc.

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A thousand hour review of the guardian

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I also agree with what Brutaly said, I dont expect all of the recommendations by Brutaly to be accepted by other fellow guardian players or the developers, but Anet should take some of them into consideration. My biggest issues are: range weapon, HP (could be a tad higher) and limited viable builds.

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[WvW/PvE] The "Healway" Guardian

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I’ve never been able to get 1h sword to work for me, but I absolutely adore using GS + hammer with this build. It’s true that you loose out on some DPS and survivability with this change, but it is soooo much fun. I’m surprised by the number of Guardians that only run GS or only run hammer, and not both. When you jump on somebody with the GS, then switch to the hammer to ring ‘em and ping ’em, it’s almost like cheating because nobody expects to see both 2h weapons on the same character

good to hear, that’s my plan to use GS and Hammer. But why would you say this build lose survivalbility? Isnt the whole point have more healing power supposed to make u last forever as compared to AH build?

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What's wrong with WW?

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hi,

I’ve using 0/5/30/30/5 AH build using hammer, I bought a GS two days ago to test out GS, I think I share the similar results as OP. I think hammer hit harder, despite most GS users claim otherwise.

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Next set of armour?

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not sure if this has been posted, but Anet has replied that they will be adding the missing types to ascended items (knights, Clerics, etc):

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ascended-amulets-and-ascended-items-overall/page/4#post1342141

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[WvW/PvE] The "Healway" Guardian

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hi all,

I am currently using the AH build, but definitely want to try this build out. With limited gold fund and Karma, how much would this build suffer if I use scepter / shield instead of sword / focus?

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Hammer vs GS

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Note that speeding up animation =/= actually making the attack faster. You still attack at the same rate; dodge canceling was just for burning endurance and proccing roll traits. The nerf hits Hammer much worse than GS because GS can take the last 10 points in Honor (since Elusive Power is useless now) and put them into Zeal instead to offset the damage loss, while hammer has to keep them in Honor to keep Writ of Persistence.

sorry,

I’ve been busy at work this week and didnt have time to follow the changes in detail, what happened to Elusive Power?

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how will the reset really work?

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Don’t forget they’re also changing the math for how ratings are calculated. So take Kaineng for example, a T8 server with a sudden influx of transfers dominated T8 for a few weeks before moving to T7, and then dominated each tier only moving up 1 per week.

The goal of the new math is to make a server like that move through the tiers much faster. I’ll keep my fingers crossed and hope that it works and things don’t take a whole month to stabilize.

ok, sure that might make sense for Kaineng, but what about winning servers in top tiers that have sustained victory records, those dont count for anything? It’s just not fair.

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Hammer vs GS

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it is very difficult to actually land the 3rd hit against people with hammer #1, and if it did hit you probably took 1 or 2 extra hits because of it. the area protection seems good but its not-the area of effect is too small and in an actual fight the enemy will constantly be moving.
hammer #2 does good single hit damage, but gs #2 does more overall damage. hammer #2 has shorter cooldown but it can also be dodged/blocked/blinded for complete damage mitigation. gs#2 also combos well with gs #5.
gs #3 leap has superior mobility and damage, while hammer #3 immobilize can easily be dodged without the need to actually dodge if the enemy is not at melee range.
gs #4 does tons of damage vs melee. hammer #4 is a great knock-back but the enemy will be up by the time you run up to him.
gs #5 and hammer #5 are both great CC, but gs #5 has better range and actually does damage.

having said that, hammer is better in certain situations. one example is retaliation guardian vs any other guardian. a perma retaliation/protection guardian using a hammer will win vs any guardian that is using a greatsword. reasons being: hammer #1, #3, and #5 are easier to hit since its a melee battle. gs#2 is suicide against retaliation-you’ll be doing basically the same damage right back at yourself (more to yourself if enemy has protection up). gs#4 retaliation is not as effective vs hammer since its attacks are single hit bursts.

Edit: typo..

like someone already mentioned, Hammer’s 1 attack’s 3rd hit is actually a range attack. And I like how you tend to mention dodging/missing with hammer skills, arent most attacks can be dodged if you time it correctly or have endurance to do it (GS attacks included)? I just think it really comes down to preference and how much you have play with certain types of weapons. Once you know the shortcomings (or advantages), you work and adapt to a different way of offense or defense.

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January WvW culling & loading changes

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Whether it works or not, I want to thank Habib and the team for their efforts.

Why? After the failed trial attempt, they need to show us something that actually works, instead something they “assume” would work. Too early to cheer anything Anet has done about the issue, imo.

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SoS Vs JQ Vs BG 18/01-25/01

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Can we stop arguing? There are many fine guilds that have gone to JQ, SoS, or SoR from servers such as EB, IoJ, and SBI. Even PRX gave Blackgate a fair look. While I wish that some of those guilds would have chosen us instead, they made the decisions that they felt were best for their guild. No matter how the dust settles on the 28th, our community has a fire that will burn in the darkest depths of the bracket and your numbers alone cannot stop the beast.

I tip my hat to the countless guild leaders that I have spoken to over the past 2 weeks about Blackgate and I thank you for your time and consideration. I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors regardless of your final decisions. If you chose right, I will be there dying for God and Blackgate right beside you. If you chose wrong, well, I hope to see you on the end of my sword soon.

this is probably the fairest statement about the current situation in Tier 1 and Tier 2. People need to realize what’s happening to SoR in Tier 2 is similar to what happened to BG when they were dominating in Tier 2, it was hard to fight and recruit against BG. SoR got its turn at being a good target after BG moved up to Tier 1, and this is after months of holding on to being 5th place, fighting BG’s coverage advantage and recruit (and retain) SoR’s WvW population. What comes around goes around, sometime you get transfers that you need (like SoR’s ND to BG), sometimes you dont. It just so happens that SoR hit the lotto this past week. From our perspective, it’s about kitten time some positive turn of events happen to SoR, and there’s nothing wrong with having 4 top servers fighting for 3 spots.

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[Guide]30 pts in valor gameplay (Hammer)

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hello to OP and other seasoned hammer guardians,

my new guardian just became 80 earlier this week and I’ve followed this thread for weeks while leveling him. I’ve geared him up based on the recommendations and these are my stats:

Current Stats By Hammer: (Knight’s armor + berserker/valk accessories)
Pow: 1885
Pre: 1802
Tough: 1591
Vit: 1340 – 1468 (depends on which hammer I use)
Crit chance: 40% – 46% (depends on which hammer I use)
Crit dmg: 82%
Armor: 2802
HP: 15045 – 16325 (depends on which hammer I use)
Attack: 2906

my trait is currently 0/5/30/30/5 (before was 0/15/30/20/5)

but I have not seen my MB hit for over 5K. It has hit for low to high 4k when enemy is down, but before down state it usually hit for low to high 3K. My food buff are master maintenance oil and +100 precision and 10% dmg. So I am really curious are all of you hitting 5K regularly with your MB?

I mostly use hammer attack 1 and 2 with the occasional 3 to 5 depends on situation, and I am still learning about the animation skipping trick. Any tips and advice will be greatly appreciated, thanks.

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[Guide]30 pts in valor gameplay (Hammer)

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would the incoming AOE nerf affect guardian and this build in any way?

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Jan 11-18 | SBI vs SoR vs TC

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Come to SBI, where our queue is non-existant!
(wonder if we’ll have queue after reset)

SoR definitely started notice this issue, prior to this week it was all smooth sailing. The past week I’ve hit queue in every BL during EST prime time…

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Runes, runes, runes!

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What heals do Centaur Runes proc their swiftness buff on?

Dodge heals, AH heals, Monks Focus heals, regens?

I am curious too, any guardian with Centaur runes can answer the question?

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Jan 11-18 | SBI vs SoR vs TC

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Welcome to T2 [Hel], or I guess the new T2 since you were previously here i guess? I hope you are ready for lots of zombie attacks ;P I expect all tiers to be crazy until the 28th, then a couple weeks as the system rights itself, but the one good thing about an opponent with a huge lead is there is more time for Yak parades, dueling, and other hyjinx. If you can’t be gracious during defeat, you will never truly savor victory! And anyways, its still a pretty close matchup for second!

I agree, I dont think SoR will be the only server in tier 2 to be affected by the paid transfer announcement. Hopefully all 3 servers will get some transfers for even tighter competition after each reset.

SoS just got Never Die from IoJ recently. There is movement, and plenty of it will happen the closer to the 28th we get.

SoR better expand the PR team then, you snooze you lose

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Jan 11-18 | SBI vs SoR vs TC

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Welcome to T2 [Hel], or I guess the new T2 since you were previously here i guess? I hope you are ready for lots of zombie attacks ;P I expect all tiers to be crazy until the 28th, then a couple weeks as the system rights itself, but the one good thing about an opponent with a huge lead is there is more time for Yak parades, dueling, and other hyjinx. If you can’t be gracious during defeat, you will never truly savor victory! And anyways, its still a pretty close matchup for second!

I agree, I dont think SoR will be the only server in tier 2 to be affected by the paid transfer announcement. Hopefully all 3 servers will get some transfers for even tighter competition after each reset.

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In my opinion, paying transfers will create problems

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the paid transfer will ruin some servers, but it will also help strengthen some servers. This is a needed step to stabilize each server’s population , and any remaining low population or deserted servers could be merged and get a fresh start.

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Jan 11-18 | SBI vs SoR vs TC

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I have to tell you all, we came from IOJ, a server thats taking its last breath. We had offers to go to kaening, BG and others. We have a rep from being formally Totn. sanc etc.

We selected SoR because of the community on this server. They approached us to come over, we didnt approach them. They made a great pitch, we sat here on the server for a day with 2nd accounts watching the communication, the TS servers etc.

We put the vote to our guild, with all the offers we had and the guild vote was 100% to come here. It had nothing to do with placement or score. It was the best choice and best offer to us.

Bandwagon fans per say are those who just make a leap because someone or a team is winning, there is no thought behind it. We made a decision after emails and long talks with SoR.

We have made the best decision for us, sadly not so much for the rest of you

Be warned Hel is coming.
~Isaak
Hel(Helioz)
Commander

After being disconnected twice from SBI BL last night, I wasnt able to get back in so I ended up in TC BL. I followed the Hel crew around (with some other pugs in the roaming group), the Hel guys is definitely legit and effective. Welcome to SoR

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[MOVIES] Hammer Guardian in Roaming WvW

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I’m not entirely set on my build yet, as I’m trying different things out. This is what I ran with tonight. But this could change after I examine the footage I have.

http://www.intothemists.com/calc/index.php?build=-7s-Bx;0NFk40G3NG-90;9;5EJEJ;10;048-0;019c

The only things I consider a must have at the moment are vigor on critical, stability on virtue of courage, and refresh on virtue of justice on kill. The other points I’m shifting around and trying different things.

The builder doesn’t help with my WvW gear. I’m using a mixture of beserkers, knights, and valkyries. My stats are roughly as follows with food and stone:

HP 17000
Armor 2500-2700 (hammer/mace/shield dependent)
Attack 3000-3200 (3400 for 30 seconds after a kill with hammer)
Crit% 33%
CritDMG 85%

hello the link is not working, would you mind share your latest build with a link and gear info? What food buffs do you use in WvW?

thanks.

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Guardian Hammer Build

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what would be a good alt weapon set to go with a hammer offensive build?

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Jan 11-18 | SBI vs SoR vs TC

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My post was mostly with regards to people flock to who is first in a tier. No mention of the new SoR guilds, as I read what had been said, they were already planning on joining, so good timing for them, and hopefully it helps round out SoR’s great play and improves their coverage.

What I was really wondering, which is why I posted what I did, is how long it will take certain BG guilds to jump to another server, who is first in their tier, whether it is T1, 2, 3, etc.

There are a few guilds, that used to be on TC, FA and CD that I’ve seen on BG before the upward move, that bandwagoned (imo) so I posted wondering how long it would be before they moved on.

To be honest, I’m wondering the same. We at SoR were a victim of this with ND jumping to BG. I’m wondering if they’ll try to jump back at some point. I predict that if BG can’t gain ground over a few weeks we may see some movement from T1 to other tiers before the paid transfers kick in. This may not be limited to BG, SOS and JQ will be just as likely to bleed a few players who want a bit of a challenge.

if ND’s past decision to jump to BG from SoR is a good indication, ND would be looking at JQ or SoS to transfer.

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Jan 11-18 | SBI vs SoR vs TC

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Well fought SoR. You guys are clearly better than JQ. It is ashame that JQ is teaming up with SoS to stay in tier 1. Else JQ would be knocked off T1 very quickly.

If you SoR guys eventually make it up to T1 (which I am confident you will), don’t get discouraged if you loss. SoS and JQ will always work together, with some in between fighting here and there to pretend they aren’t. They are in the same TS server most of the time.

It is still too early to crown SoR anything yet. Saying SoR is better than JQ is not fair to both servers. We still need to recruit more guilds willing to transfer over to help with our oceanic/asia coverage. The fact that BG went up and get beaten with their current coverage and population is already a good indication how tough tier 1 really is.

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Jan 11-18 | SBI vs SoR vs TC

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What is SF’s normal play time?

Our team is international, so you will see tags from EU prime to Aussie prime. The US prime team sill stir until about 8pm CST. That’s typically when I finally decide it’s time to stop doing PvE or home related items.

Usually guilds like to focus fire us because we love our open field combat. It’s quite personally my most favorite part of the game. If these pesky walls and gates wouldn’t get in the way, things would be much faster for more funs!!

Ahh, thanks for the response, just wondering!

If only TC had Aussie coverage :/

I respect your stick-with-it over there on SBI, it seems like a lot have given up on EB. Which makes SOR the new BG! for now…

YOU WAIT UNTIL I TRAIN MY PUGS.

SoR is the new BG? Oh please, we haven’t done much PvDoor to get a victory, not even close…

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We don't want PVE in WvW.

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agree 100% on no PvE crap in WvW maps.

They can start with the Giant grubs and jumping puzzles, please just remove them entirely from WvW maps.

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Colin Johanson on GW2

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1.) Up the AOE cap to 10.
2.) if you’re thinking of the DAOC style RR/abilities dont think just mirror it. (like someone said getting to RR5 was easy mode but getting from RR9-RR10 took forever and the increase was minimal)
3.) when i say mirror i mean in every way.. you have to kill players to get points.. none of this RVdoor stuff.. straight PVP in WvW. I guess killing sentrys could give a small amount etc.. Also if you solo someone you get more RP’s then if a zerg ROFLstomps a solo.. IE solo kill =250RPS, 25 man zerg roflstomps poor smuck they all get 10RP’s.
4.)Why no mention of changing the downed state or rally? Rally is why zergs dominate…. eliminate it already.
5.) WTB A STICK BUTTON.. we have a guild leader AKA driver for a reason!!! so the rest of can be lazy until we here INC.

feel free to add to my list or disagree.. feedback is good.

agree on the points should be from killing actual players instead of PvDoor…

I disagree the new abilities should be something minimal that dont give boost to classes, if someone dedicates to level up the renown level in WvW, why shouldn’t they be rewarded? These abilities should be character bound instead of account bound, if not at least make it accessible to real level 80 characters instead of letting lowbie level 2’s able to roam around with those abilities.

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