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A brief summary of this week’s WvW action:

hints.8036:

• Wiped Mag at hills again (~3 min)

Who’s the guy who kept going “YEEEARRR YEAAAAAHRRRR” and why don’t you mute him?

Warrior does not need an sPvP nerf. Two months ago Warrior was still considered to be a completely useless class in the condi cleave meta. Now they’ve been given the sustain they need through Signet and pretty nice condi management, and they pretty much hard-counter Necromancers, the kings of the condi cleave meta.

The metagame will adjust and the next flavor of the month will happen just as it always does.

That’s what the forums are for, silly!

And to a lesser extent, YouTube.

Zantmar.5406:

…warrior build which consist of soldier gear and stuffs with knight weapons and cleric twinklets.

Did nobody else catch this? Because it’s god kitten ed adorable and I’m going to start using it.

Caffynated.5713:

I kept waiting for Emo Oranges in the Silver League video. Very disappointed.

You weren’t that far off, I only had that song from the YTMND soundtrack. :P

Maguuma isn’t sure what league we’re going to be in so here are our two premiere videos.

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Only ‘monthly fee games’ have enough money to ‘speed develop’ ‘player demanded’ content. The sooner people realize this, the sooner they will forgive Anet for not being perfect.

I’ve been subbed to WoW for quite some time and I can tell you straight-up that collecting $15 a month does not make the devs work any faster.

Regen doesn’t tick if your target is at full health.

Frosch.7809:

robocafaz.9017:

Nice to see Yak’s still hates confrontation.

It was to be expected that someone from Mag would make such a comment.

Blah blah blah whine whine whine boo hoo.

I know, that’s why I said it. Gotta keep up the status quo.

Nice to see Yak’s still hates confrontation.

ParaldaWind.4523:

The only reason that Anet would add a stat bonus is to kill GvG, and it’s that simple.

Paralda, you’re not you when you’re hungry

Here, have a Snickers.

I’m looking forward to seeing it in action. More objectives to spread the zerg thin. Especially since it caps so slow and has a fixed rate.

I think they may be one of the first objectives in WvW where zerging isn’t the greatest solution.

She was successfully driven off in the mini-dungeon that takes place after the invasions. The invasions, win or lose, didn’t really contribute to the storyline beyond Scarlet just being a jerkface.

1. downed skills (the interrupt/stomp breaks) shouldn’t be player targeted. I’d prefer them to be ground targeted.

Whenever I get stealth stomped I know it’s coming and I know exactly where the player is. I could throw my Hammer at them and interrupt them no problem. But I can’t target them. So I guess my Hammer has to stay in my pocket. :[

Jscull.2514:

And retaliation? Really? Sorry, but were smart enough to see that and STOP what were doing until its gone. Good lord. There are actually a couple people that dont AIMLESSLY dps.

Devil’s advocate: Drop a single tick of AoE on a crowd of 20 people with Retaliation. 20 hits of Retal at the same time. Drop something like a lingering AoE field like Combustion Shot. You’re gonna get hit by Retals and you can’t turn it off.

Colin said a few days ago that QJ will be the last of the ‘festival’ content. The last piece they make with the idea of being able to bring it back every year. That being said, the upcoming content coming in the Fall should be much more robust.

I think the “Scarlet is Kiel” idea is a little farfetch’d but if it means we get to team up with Evon to kill Kiel I’m willing to suspend my disbelief! :P

It’s happened to me before, too. Oddly enough if they delete one of your clone threads it’ll probably delete this one too.

Really weird how it works.

As stated, kite and range him down. If you don’t have a large amount of escapes, save your last stun break for when he starts casting 100b.

stefanplc.5234:

sorry if this question is dumb, but do you get anything out of beating all of them? other than achievement points and some gold?

You get a mini pet of the final boss.

Mentioned this way back when the AC’s were buffed big time:

There’s already functionality for arcing projectiles (i.e., Warrior longbow ground-targeted skills.) Arrow Cart shots should be made projectiles with a very heavy arc so they can still go over the edges of walls and such, but not through walls and ceilings and floors and whatnot.

I didn’t even think twice about the misstatement. I knew what he meant.

But judging by some pretty angry ‘fan mail’ I’ve been receiving, I guess people thought it was a bigger deal than I did. :P

PoweredByRice.3517:

Thanks.

You’re welcome.

saiyr.3071:

hammer.9721:

Thought my point was clear play for points and not egos

That is a pretty bad point. Maybe you should stop playing for it.

8.8/10

Chuckled sensibly.

Daecollo.9578:

So basicly all 10 players could not do 70 dps each?

Warriors are the only class capable of breaking the 70 DPS mark. That’s why they’re the only class that is allowed to do dungeons.

For kitten’s sake, guys. You had a multi-page back-and-fourth about badges like two pages ago and nobody posted the video.

It doesn’t matter what ANet does, people will claim it’s just to get people in the gem shop.

Adding alternative ways to get event weapon skins? Ploy to sell gems.
Adding new permanent mini games? Ploy to sell gems.
Adding weapon skins that you have to finish a dungeon to get? Ploy to sell gems.
This post? Ploy to sell gems.

Signet of Rage healing too stronk.

Viking Jorun.5413:

No, it’s because Defektive won’t let us use our own builds when we’re about to start a match against the ranger SOAC tourny team and forces us to use greatsword when we hate the weapon and/or have never used it aside from unlocking skills in PvE.

I bet you win a lot of arguments against grade school bullies in the shower.

saiyr, I think it’s time you disbanded Maguuma.

At the top of the hour (3 PM EST, 12 PM PST) Adrenaline Rising goes live with dungeoneer Dromar the Banisher to discuss Warrior PvE and the upcoming content patch! Join us at twitch.tv/soacgaming.

BioHaZarD.7904:

lol if they go against yak next week lets transfer to yak for a week to wipe them off maps again xD

Please do. It’s be nice to have a fight against Yaks that doesn’t end in them running away.

1v1 me irl paz.

Paz Shadow.9715:

Blah blah blah chest thumping blah blah blah I don’t understand #magswag.

You laugh because we Maguumies are different. We laugh because you’re all the same. Maguumies live on the edge. We don’t follow anyone’s rules. We shop at Hot Topic and listen to Linkin Park while we eat our Doritos marinated in Mountain Dew.

Now recruiting weekend warriors and various other tryhards to join our crappy troll server!

I’m okay with time gating, but I don’t like daily time gating. It causes people to miss out on too much if they have to miss a day and creates a snowball effect.

I like how WoW switched their daily dungeon run mechanic to have 7 ‘daily’ rewards available per week. While not all of the GW2 ones can translate immediately, I think it’d be doable with some tweaks.

For example: daily achievements. Have all the achievement types available every week and each one has 7 stages. Every stage you complete gives you a point towards a daily reward. Every 5 points grants you a daily chest. That way you don’t have to grind out 7 stages of a single achievement.

… well, it’s not perfect but you get the gist of what I’m saying. :P

Chris.3290:

Also…holy crap, is Maguuma unofficially the under 18 server or something? I knew you guys had respectable daytime numbers but that’s impressive no matter how you look at it.

All Maguumies are retired. We, as a server, started the Mag-in-the-Box restaurant franchise. After opening our second store in Centralia, Pennsylvania, the McDonalds Corperation bought us out for $6.8 billion which we distributed evenly amongst all the WvW guilds.

Iavra.8510:

And you know that when it would be base, other classes would need something equally powerful to compensate?

Ah, yes, the ol’ “Give Warriors a small buff and all other classes a huge buff” design paradigm. :P

Sounds like every patch ever.

Defektive.7283:

I’ll keep in mind that people want more dramatic videos without play by play or concepts about fighting a thief.

You’ve gotta get with the MMO video guide metagame if you want people to pay attention.

Try this approach:

“HEY GUYS ITS XXXXDEFEKTIVEXXX LIKE AND FAVE AND SUBSCRIBE AND I’LL UHHH SHOW YOU HOW TO AAAAH PLAY THIS REALLY AWESOME WARRIOR BUILD BUILD. Wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub ‘XXXXDEFEKTIVEXXXGUIDES ON YOUTUBE’ SO FIRST UH I’M GONNA TALK A BIT ABOUT THE WARRIOR CLASS AND UHH UM HOW I REALLY LIKE IT. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T PLAY THE WARRIORBECAUSE THEY THINK IT’S TOO HARD BUT I THINK IT’S PRETTY EASY AND REALLY VERSATILE. THIS BUILD REQUIRES A BIT OF GEAR FIRST SO MAKE SURE YOU’RE USING SPVP AMULETS AND UH. UH, YOU CAN GET AMULETS GEAR BY RUNNING TO NPCS OR KARMA TEMPLE RUNS OR CRAFTING. FOR THIS GUIDE I LIKE TO USE UHH berserkergearwithknightsrunesandiputtwentyinarmsmasteryandthirtyinkittensmackingthenyouwannawearalongbowandonlypopyourfearwhenyouregoingforakillingblow OKAY THANKS FOR WATCHING LIKE FAVE AND SUBSCRIBE IF YOU WANNA SEE MORE Wub wub wub wub wub wub wub.”

After another week hiatus (sorry, K-Pop and I had to save the Pope from a thief gank squad) Adrenaline Rising is back with sPvP hero Schwahrheit to discuss Warrior builds and strategy in tournament settings.

Professional do-gooder Defektive will also be joining us.

Join us today at 3 PM EST (12 PM PST) on twitch.tv/soacgaming for this week’s episode of Adrenaline Rising!

Maguuma has not and will not ever team up with another server. That is not #magswag at all.

Maguuma doesn’t play by anyone else’s rules. Maguuma is edgy and rides alone.

Mr. Gore’s hiney is holocausted more than mine and he didn’t even tank the Killshot!

GuardianOMS.8067:

Dancing and jumping on corpses is kind of a thing on Maguuma. It doesn’t have to do with thinking we’re awesome (though we are), we know it enrages players and coaxes them to makes posts on the forums about it.

SSSSHHHHH!!!

Don’t listen to him guys, #magswag is totally real and that’s the kind of people we are. We’re not putting on a show for kicks and jimmies, we really are internet gangsters!

Did you guys happen to catch this change in the patch notes tied into Rampage"

“Seismic Leap: This skill has replaced Stomp. It is now a ground-targeted, 2-second AoE knockdown with a 600-unit range.”

It will likely still not see much play, but it seems to be a good testing point. It seems Mr. Peters is listening~

My booty was ruptured.

Defektive.7283:

Defektivex
PvP
I play a warrior.

No scrubs allowed, Defektive, get outta here! Shoo!

I’m sorry we won’t see you there!

Your ability to play a single build does not accurately reflect your skill as a Warrior. That is what this tournament aims to do.