There is a cannon on Hills (iirc) that can only be hit by a ranger’s LB, and healing spring is kitten useful when I drop it on the flame ram crew when they are being hit by aoe.
All the trolling in this recruitment thread is pretty sad and disrespectful. Anyhow the comment about SOR turning guilds away is from an old match up thread where it was mentioned that a NA guild was thinking about transferring to SOR but since usually most if not all maps are queued during this time zone it was recommended they look elsewhere.
The 2% of servers who have more OC and Asian wvw guilds than SOR are called BG and JQ (and SoS iirc) which SOR faces regularly and they outnumber SOR by a lot. Recently the RNG gods have finally shaken up tier 1 and both DB and TC have come up to face SOR and BG and the ppt during these time zones have been pretty equal between SOR, DB and TC. The difference is during EU and NA.
This thread is for the recruitment of Oceanic and Asian wvw guilds to SOR, not NA or EU. We love our current crew and do everything we can to support them from staying up late to help with numbers to planning ahead and making sure the NA crew places as much siege as possible before logging off. SOR’s main strength is organization and has risen through the ranks through this and a very strong NA (and recently EU) force and we can offer this to any Asian and OC guild that joins.
I have no issue with “night capping”, PPT earned outside of NA is fairly earned. Especially in T1 where we are all supposed to have decent coverage 24/7. What irritates me is the side effects of logging in and having to dig BG mostly out of their fully upgraded and sieged keeps and garrisons all night long. It’s not BG’s NA crew’s fault, it is the smart thing to do. I’ve switched to my staff necro full time because it seems all I’m doing is clearing people and siege off walls for hours on end while dancing in a rain of arrows. This weekend after reset was hella fun because of the constant open field fights and most structures were paper or near paper. The number of siege allowed per map seriously needs to be lowered.
edit: I’m using still rocking an nvidia 550ti from early 2011 and have never had any real issues with lag other than massive 3 way zerg fights in sm or garrisons. Maybe you guys need to scan your computer for malware or viruses.. I’ve played on lower tier servers before.
I’ve run with WARD as a puggie on SOR, they know what they are doing. Definitely give them a look if you a Rallian looking to get more serious about wvw.
Superior Sigil of Blood : 30% Chance on Critical: Steal Health (This effect cannot trigger more than once every 2 seconds) Superior Sigil of Restoration : Gain Health on Killing a foe. Omnomberry Pie : 66% chance to steal life on critical. Vampiric : Siphon health whenever you hit a foe. Vampiric Precision : Siphon health whenever you critical hit.
Does anyone know if equipping both those sigils on main/offhand share a cooldown, and if it is possible or worth it for a necro to try some sort of life steal build for wvw?
To be honest TC doesn’t really need to decide anything, BG’s oceanic, sea and asian time zones is stacked, now that it isn’t the weekend, BG is gonna tick massive ppt during these time zones.
The PPT from “night capping” isn’t the issue, NA off hours is Asia or EU’s prime time and their points aren’t worth any less.
I am sorry but those PPTs should not be worth the same….The fact that everyone is so worried about “equality” in terms of timezones, is one of the leading factors that is stopping us from having better matchups. In this current system you can have 1-bad day, and it ruins the whole 7-day match.
I know it sucks but you are getting owned during that time period so the points earned during that time is valid. The real issue is that during the non-NA time period the keeps and fully upgraded to T3 and siege is placed everywhere so when NA rolls around the defenders have such a massive advantage that it can’t even remotely be called fair.
Seriously, please remove burning. Torment is the only new condition my necro needed and some sustainability like being able to heal through DS, or (heaven help us), some sort of access to stability, protection, aegis or vigor or having Dark Path be a placable teleport like the thief’s SB skill. Burning is hella fun to be sure, but the problem with the necro class was our inability to stay alive when faced with more than 1 or 2 players, not our offense.
I can only speak from a wvw perspective but Necros are a strong class when they aren’t being attacked, the amount of aoe condition pressure we can put out is pretty scary. When left alone we do silly amounts of damage, but the moment we get focus fired my multiple people we don’t have many options to get away and we just die.
The devs say that we are supposed to rely on our innate toughness, high HP and death shroud mechanic to stay alive, but in reality this just means it takes a few extra seconds in order to die. Other classes have various methods to escape from a fight from boons, blocks, teleports, leaps and invisibility. My necros on the other hand can only hope those extra seconds my HP and DS give me enough time to get to friendly forces before I go down so I can be power rezzed, I use DS to absorb one big attack, or to jump off the nearest cliff and use DS to survive the fall and get away. The last patch removed the last two options for the most part.
The PPT from “night capping” isn’t the issue, NA off hours is Asia or EU’s prime time and their points aren’t worth any less. My issue comes from having to log into fully upgraded T3 keeps and enemy siege placed everywhere when very few people are on and the enemy server has little motivation to do anything but sit inside their buildings. WvW has become a slow slog of assaulting T3 keeps every night. It becomes a vicious cycle where by the time a few things have been flipped, people have to start logging off for the night. The meta has become chaining time zones together from dominating an empty timezone leading to easy mode defending with seige during NA and massive PPT blowouts.
My server has done this to others and others have done it to us, there needs to be some sort of natural decay to siege weapons, a limit to how many times they can be fired or a massive reduction in the amount of siege that can be placed on a map.
So this was done in response to a SPVP tournament… I don’t want to be disrespectful, but screwing over your 2 larger playerbases (PVE and WVW) really doesn’t make sense. Please just split the skills.
In the “Current state of the meta” thread in the spvp JonathanSharp describes the necro as bringing more condi pressure and boon manipulation than the engineer with the trade off of being squishier and having no escapability. Getting over the fact that necros are apparently supposed to be condi glass cannons now instead of the tanky attrition caster, the fact is that dead dps is 0 dps and no one is going to take a necro who is always going to be downed/dead and a free rally for the enemy. All that aoe condi tagging becomes a liability when the moment a necro gets planted in wvw, half the enemy downed gets rallied.
My favorite zergling build is 30/20/10/0/0 with the last 10 points being optional, taking close to death in spite, and terror and ground targeted wells in curses and finally greater marks. I run his with staff and scepter/dagger, all rampager gear and well of suffering, wel of corruption and epidemic. Sometimes I take well of darkness too depending on the situation.
Pretty much spam everything you have into an enemy Zerg and collect your bags.
I run pretty much the same build, 30/20/10/10 in full Rabid gear and accessories (I play on a zergier server so I need to be tankier), the last 10 points really is optional and I’m considering where to place them. My weapons are staff + sceptor/dagger with the Superior Sigil of restoration on both staff and scepter, and stacking sigil of some sort on the dagger (usually corruption). My utilities are well of suffering, well of corruption and the 3rd is either spectral walk or wall.
I get tons of bags in WvW, almost as much as my staff guardian but I’ve been thinking about mixing in some power into my gear to be more of a hybrid instead of being pure conditions.
Why should you secure your home borderland when 15 minutes after ATM logs the whole EU force of SoR comes for knocking on doors?
The same thing SOR’s NA does when we know JQ and BG will be taking everything not long after we log. We seige cap everything and do our best to give our outnumbered forces the best chance for them to defend against much larger forces and let them know not to stress the 2vs1. If they have to pull back to only 1 or 1.5 maps it’s ok and not to be discouraged if we get pushed to under 100 PPT as long as they work hard to keep the bleeding to a minimum.
You know, the sign of a community that is actually strong and not run by temperamental children~
I don’t think I’ve ever facepalmed harder at a post in this forum, this kitten forum! Truly amazing. Join our server, instead of showing how organized and resilient we are by bouncing back we are going to 2v1 an enemy server in their weakest timezone and try to destroy them. You should totally join our not-toxic server nao xD
SOR definitely needs a few more asian and oceanic wvw guilds, but is certainly stacked in both NA and EU and needs no more guilds in those timezones. I hope even the BG and JQ trolls can agree on this -__-
None of the legendaries really work for me. Personally I like the pink/purple misty effects for my necro so I use Spirit Links for my focus, Abyssal Scepter, Reaver of the Mists/NIghtmare Axe and for stakitten I have both The Crossing and Final Rest. I still need to get a good offhand dagger though.
I’d say level with power builds instead of condition because it scales a lot more during the early levels. Some people like wells but I used 2 minions, the run speed signet and the flesh golem for my utilities and elite. I like having pets that constantly due damage instead of having to wait on well cool-downs. I used staff and dagger+ dagger or focus because the dagger auto attack is very powerful. Lay down your marks from range then stab mobs in the face with your dagger to finish them off. When facing multiple mobs just lay down your marks, go into death shroud and use #5 then #4. Pop back out and finish them off with any other aoe you have + your dagger auto attack. It is pretty easy.
SOR is ticking 70 right now, overstacked 24/7 coverage my foot. When posters from other server claim that SOR has comparable coverage to BG and JQ during the asian/oceanic time zones I giggle so hard, that is why all the qq about EU is so hypocritical and funny. IRON and KISS pretty much negate most if not all the point gain from earlier in the day and this drives BG nuts~!
Lets take a break from the very entertaining but hypocritical qq about SOR’s EU coverage and lets get serious for a moment. I just read a qq thread in the wvw forum about why the State of the Game podcasts where spvp representatives directly ask the devs questions doesn’t include any wvw questions. Ignoring the facepalming idiocy of why spvp players don’t bring up wvw issues, why don’t we have wvw representatives on the show?
Apparently back in March GW2 Guru put out a call for wvw hosts to be out a call for wvw hosts but it doesn’t look like anyone responded. I know there are a ton of very passionate and knowledgeable wvw commanders and players on the T1 servers. Any of you guys and gals want to stop trolling for a few hours and step up? For many GW2 players wvw is the end game but it seems like we are the most neglected.
I’ve watched all of your previous “interview” with the developers of GW2. Firstly, you and your guests are terrible at asking questions addressing problems within the game. State of the Game usually meant the whole game but all I’ve ever notice from all of the interviews were SPvP related.
I stopped reading right here and just started laughing. The host of the show has stated in other podcasts that he rarely if ever steps outside of the mists, I honestly wouldn’t want him to ask about topics he isn’t familiar with like wvw. What is next, you want SotG to ask devs PVE questions about how current dungeon meta only wants guardians, warriors and mesmers?
That being said, I would love a wvw version of SotG but someone needs to step up.
Or please make different tags for WvW and pve and have them obtainable in different ways. Commander tags are very useful for large guilds when doing guild missions and events.
Could one of you titans of wvw knowledge and wisdom educate us plebes and militia on the difference in tactics, composition and general play-style of the major guilds in this matchup like TW, RG, AGG, BT ect. I see some differences but I’m sure I’m missing most of it.
Try pulling a SOR and have half your wvw guilds take the week off or barely show up so the PPT is much closer than it should be. Also run guild groups of nothing but upleveled necros and mesmers.
Well SOR’s meta includes spamming 1 and wearing out the strafe left button because some madman in TS keeps on screaming “Shift left shift left SHIFT LEFT!!!1” That is the server’s secret sauce :p
Same here, my gunglinger wouldn’t carry the ball and no one expected me to so I just hung around the rafters and sniped nerds. And my vanguard just trolled people by pulling them into the fire/poison pit, stun then laugh as they died. Ahh the memories..
Probably a staff elementalist. You just add big damage and big heals to everyone and you can’t have enough of that.
In the higher tiers, if you don’t have enough of a “front line” force of warriors and guardians to protect your “back line” of ranged classes, all the static fields and churning earths in the world won’t save them when the enemy melee pain train stacks stability, sticks tight to the commander so the aoes only hit 5 people and double dodge rolls into the back line and wrecks them.
So OP, play whatever class you want. If you are hardcore about wvw you’ll have multiple characters to fit whatever your server needs that day. Just keep in mind that classes like ranger, thief and maybe engineer are far better as roamers and don’t bring as much to a zerg fight as other classes. And if your server isn’t organized, running into an enemy zerg as a solo melee warrior/guardian is just asking to die instantly and you’d be better off running a ranged class like staff ele or necro.
So… i’m quite new in T1 but i was just wondering. Does everyone dance/laugh on your corpse or is it just most people?
I’ve never understood the appeal of this, I’m usually too busy trying to find all my bags. lil kittens are always scattered all over the place. We’ve all wiped and been wiped, it’s no big deal.
It really isn’t a good thing when I’m getting flashbacks to playing those grinder Korean MMOs when playing GW2. I remember farming for my Wind IV spirit pet in Aion from the only mobs that drop it for 5 weeks straight, 2-3 hours a day and more on the weekends and got nothing from the RNG Gods until finally one appeared on the AH where I spent 90% of my money to snatch it up. It was worth it for not having to spend another weeks with no guarantee.
I’m getting the same feeling here, the stubbornness is settling in. It has barely been a week yet and I’m not sure if I even want the weapon ticket anymore, I’m starting really resent Anet and GW2. If a new big name non-korean mmo were to launch right now I’d already be gone. If only RIFT’s combat weren’t so terrible..
There should be some limit to RNG, if after the 4000th coffer just throw me a freaking bone.. I’m not too far off..
