Guild Wars 2

iFocus.3781:

Thank you so much for contributing to the community with this super informative thread! Now, since no one seems to be as super smart as you are who apparently knows what to do without having to read anything, please do tell me how to figure out what to do without there being any good source of information.

Fight him IRL.

Atherakhia.4086:

90% of that avoidance comes in the form of stealth.

Disabling Shot, Flanking Strike, Death Blossom, Withdraw, Roll for Initiative, Hidden Pistol (Charr only) are all skills that Evade without having stealth involved.

Bountiful Theft and Vigorous Recovery are traits that grant you Vigor without having to go into Stealth.

There are a few Regen sources, but that’s not really ‘avoidance’.

Smoke Screen still blocks Projectiles even if you can’t combo Stealth through it.

Black Powder, Infiltrator’s Arrow, Shadow Shot, etcetera, they do blinds too.

Thieves have more than enough ability to stay alive without stealth in 30 seconds. You’re just going to have to adjust to a slightly different metagame.

Warrior heals aren’t that great. You have to rely more on keeping yourself alive through “burst” methods like Endure Pain and Shield Stance and proper dodging.

If you want to do a more supportive heal role, go all the way into the Tactics Tree and build around Banner Regen or Shout Healing. If you invest 100% into Healing Power, with food buffs, you can run a Banner Regen build that does AoE regen for over 400 per tick. It’s pretty nice.

I don’t think they nerfed it, I think they just fixed the tooltip showing the wrong information.

Healing Signet was actually more worthless than we thought, guys!

If you died because you triggered an anti-stealth trap, you actually did your team a great service. Your one death now prevented your team’s veiled zerg from getting exposed later!

So thank you, whiny thief, you are credit to team!

Bring back “I will Avenge You!”

Warriors are now indestructible in Zerg fights. :P

Siege and NPC skins would be cool ideas.

Admission tickets and queue priority tickets would not be cool ideas.

What are you talking about?

This entire thread appears to be mistaking “dueling” for “world PvP.”

A dueling system would be a mutual agreement between two players to fight each other and only each other with no player actually being killed.

World PvP is the ‘high-level players ganking lowbies to make themselves feel better about themselves’ stuff that nobody wants in the game.

Dueling = Good

World PvP = Bad

Other guy here, I was running 10/0/30/20/10 with full Zerker, but I was running Runes of Hoelbrak and reduced Condition Duration food.

I only run Berserker gear nowadays. I personally find any investment in defensive stats to be a waste of time.

But I’m dumb so don’t listen to me.

AlBundy.7851:

did you just link me a spvp match with each team comprising of all the same class? wtf

That was Sitting on a Coach gaming’s tournament from last Thursday where each team consisted of one class. I was the Banner Warrior in that video.

I’m kittening awful at sPvP, so if people think I did well in a Banner Build that night I can only imagine what someone actually good could do with it!

Brutalistik.6473:

Where’s the pressure? this is not a good way to show warriors potential. Shame on you this is bad.

What do you mean by “pressure?” I dunno how a 3v1 isn’t pressure. :P

nikkistar.1409:

Hey dere, sexah…

0/10. Boonprot knows the difference between a tie and an ascot.

I caught Kaineng guys using cosmetic hacks today. They were way more stylish than the game client normally allows you to. I’d post screen shots and videos but I won’t post screen shots or videos. Everyone knows you guys can’t color-coordinate so you have to rely on cheats in order to be fabulous. Good thing I can stomp all you guys in a 1-on-1 walk-off but every time I find you your entire zerg of people with matching hats comes and vogues all over me. Just goes to show how lame Kaineng is that they need to use an entire zerg just to out-catwalk me LOL

If any of you want to 1-on-1 vogue meet at the Fashion Club atop the catwalks of the Skritt tunnels at Northeast Mag BL.

Start with Knights until you are confident in your ability to avoid damage, then start transitioning to full Berserker.

There is no room for weakness as a Warrior! Go burst or go home!

… or banner regen. That’s nice, too.

jaycatano.6738:

Well we did wipe kain yesterday at the fight club because they were stacking up in the orchard and looked like they were about to attack, people don’t usually stack up when they come to a fight club. It was nice working with BV to wipe them, could have saved some for me though

“STOP RESISTING! STOP RESISTING!”

Did one of them record it? If it goes viral on YouTube the MGPD might put you on paid vacation.

… “MGPD”, I think I know what my next video’s going to be.

Albo.7605:

Yeah, then why is it that every time I show up at fight club I get ganked by every DARP and DFND there; and when i run into a group that doesnt, none of them can kill me.

DFND here. We ran over fight club once earlier this week because people participating in it kept taking South South.

If you want to have your fight club have your fight club, but if you step on our Wub Wub we’re going to step on your Club Club.

Are you getting that from Millenium? Those scores aren’t updated in real time. It’s possible there’s a disjoint in report times on top of the yak scores.

While I agree this is a pretty major bug, as a fellow Software Engineer I don’t think it’s ever fair for someone to try and judge the simplicity fixing a bug or implementing a feature in a codebase that you have never seen.

Turamarth.3248:

If you want to use the longbow, you could use this guide .
It is great for farming badges.

Hey, that’s my guide!

If you’re not convinced yet here’s some footage from a few nights ago of me playing that build. (And banner regen in the second half of the video.)

Three guys accidentally clip through a gate that’s been bugged for ages? New metagame: accuse your opponents of zoomhacking!

Clearly Kaineng only lost their 20k+ lead because every single player on Maguuma is using zoom hacks and wall hacks.

Please, my Kainey friends, if you truly think one of our players is using some kind of hack, report them to ANet immediately by right-clicking their portrait. If you recognize their guild tag please contact one of their GMs (I think most of the major Maguuma guild leaders have represented themselves in this thread.)

We don’t tolerate hackers on our side either. Hell, I actually had my officer position in DFND temporarily revoked for posting a wall-jumping montage after it had been patched out. And this was before I was even in DFND on a completely different realm.

I recently bought a ring with laurels instead of a neck piece. That was an entire month of work down the drain, eh?

Don’t buy Ascended gear unless you’re well-rested! :P

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Predator

Lordrosicky.5813:

Gw2 = only game where you get near the top then are rewarded for not playing/playing very rarely.

Actually, SCII was like that up until a few months ago. And SCII was pretty much considered the pinnacle of automatic matchmaking in vidyagaemz.

If you own the southern towers you get extra guards. They’ve always been like that.

With a very specific Warrior build I can maintain bleeding for upwards of 30 seconds. That’s well over 25k damage from the bleed alone.

You know why I don’t run that build? Because condition removal exists en masse and makes the entire concept pretty useless.

Confusion on the other hand is bursty. You throw 5 stacks of confusion on somebody for 3 seconds and whatever they do in that 3 seconds will do hurt reeeally bad.

Just go for the Rubies. In PvE the conditions aren’t really crushing enough to warrant losing that sweet sweet Warrior deeps and, yes, someone else will likely be taking care of it for you.

Littlefeather.8623:

We shouldnt even be discussing this, both YAKS and MAGS know yall out number us. But were not mad, bad for PPT yea, but good for loots when we do wipe yall.

If Yaks or Mags outnumbered you across the board (Mags does now that the weekend is over just because our WvW guilds are consistent) the score wouldn’t have been so skewed at the beginning of the week.

Abraxix.7693:

what i do want to ask or is to seek advise on is…
when we’re faced with impending doom aka. a giant army running towards us or us running into a big fight….
how the heck do you know what you’re doing? is there something i’m missing: the fight begins and i’m dead…

I run a full zerker longbow set on my Warrior almost exclusively now (occasionally I’ll do banner Regen support.) If graphical lag isn’t the issue you need to work on two things: coordination and self-preservation. You can still run in full berserker but you need to know when to push and when to fall back. I, personally, will never use any of my defensive CDs unless I know I’m being heavily targeted. Then I’ll blow them and switch to my Greatsword to fly on out of there. Rangers are a bit more evasive than Warriors so you should be able to get the hang of this as it goes along.

As for Zerg fights, they can seem extremely chaotic unless you know what exactly goes into them. A lot of newer people don’t, which is why you see 18 topics an hour about how “zerg fights ruin the game.” I strongly disagree with this: there are a lot of factors that go into zerg battles that people don’t realize.

If you’re running with a zerg you should try and join them on voice comms, whether your guild have one or your server. Listen to your commander and stick near him. When an engagement is about to go down it usually happens in stages:

• Stage 1: Scout – When you realize there’s a fight about to happen.
• Stage 2: Stack – Gather your troops to buff.
• Stage 3: Push – Ideally, you should be the first group to move. Either directly to them or flank them from the side or portal bomb them. Either way, you want to keep moving until you reach the back of their zerg. Cut them in half with your troops and then burn them from the inside-out.
• Stage 4: ????
• Stage 5: Loot bags!

Here are some of my favorite zerg fights from my own personal video capping. Maybe they’ll help you get an idea. Most of them have voice coms recorded as well so you can hear us talking.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAQS_w0Wgw&t=1m45s
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAQS_w0Wgw&t=7m
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sePnBUbzlqE&t=40s
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2DOYiLSUdU&t=2m7s
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2DOYiLSUdU&t=6m15s
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9wy3wgcnTc&t=11m4s <— Probably our best one.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72aGiBome5A&t=10m11s
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72aGiBome5A&t=15m8s <— More of an example of knowing when to play conservatively. Also showing what happens when you let your enemies res.

I realize you’re an evil Yak and I shouldn’t be helping you for the honor of Maguuma but I like helping and subtly showing off my #magswag.

NO! You guys aren’t allowed to have hash’tags. Hash’tags are Maguuma’s. Bordered black and white! Telling my dad on you!

Yes, Gator, that’s what they’re doing.

Someone please post a score update and their favorite #magswag video.

Didn’t see it on page 1 so I assumed it just didn’t exist yet. My bad.

Let’s just get these obligatory posts out of the way first:

“This is clearly going to ruin the game!”

…and…

“How dare they expect me to adjust to a different metagame!?”

… okay now: discuss!

From https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/may-14-2013/

Introducing Traps in World vs. World

Traps are fiendish items that can be purchased from the new Traps and Tricks Outfitters on each WvW map. We’re starting with anti-stealth fields and traps that remove supply from enemy players, but in the months ahead we’ll introduce even more ways to spread mayhem in the Mists!

I turned mine in in Diessa Plateau right outside the Black Citadel. The NPC no longer had any indication of what he did anymore, though. He was a Charr standing next to the Living Story info guy.

When and where did it happen? Nobody believes you because you’re not saying anything other than “yes it does!”

Dude, like everything you listed was stuff that wasn’t added to GW1 until later updates… Nothing was removed, they just haven’t been added yet.

Contrary to popular nostalgia-bespectacled beliefs, GW1 didn’t launch with everything you see in it today.

I’d rather not see a leap on Axe 4. It’d just slow down the DPS of the weapon.

I think upping the DPS or attack rate of 5 would balance it out quite nicely.

So the outfitter was removed? Good, I’m not crazy!

Funeral.3604:

just wondering how you can do something like this cause it seems to be broken to me.

If the arrows were flying sideways he was probably targeting the wall on his end. AoE circles tend to cut through walls and such.

For example: I can Combustion Shot to hit people on top of a bridge from under it.

In group play: Elementalists or Guardians.

In roaming play: Thieves by far.

jaycatano.6738:

heres your score update.

Last week the biggest deficit we had to overcome was ~15k to get from 2nd to 1st. This week it’s ~18k to get from 3rd to 1st (probably going to be ~22k by the time our prime time hits today.)

We won last week’s matchup by ~12k. Let’s see if we can’t pull it out here, too.

#magswag

zastari.1730:

They are all terrible players and will never match up to the quality of top tier guilds like [CL].

Chile strong!

jaycatano.6738:

I got chased down by 10-20 of them and once they finally caught me because of my stupid 40 sec rtl they /laughed on my body…. what a cruel cruel world. Even had one guy /dance but i dont think that was an xf guy. sad times in eb today

Purely anecdotal, but in my experience the past 4-5 weeks we’ve been matched with Yaks, not many of them will try to take a fight unless they know they have superior numbers.

They seem to have a more conservative playstyle. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But you gotta take chances, make mistakes, and get messy if you want loot bags!

Anyone got a score update?

Tricare.2946:

you guys barley won…. why post this video?

Again, Maguuma: #magswag, chest-pounding, being stupid. It’s what we do!

People in fight club: if you capture south-south and then return to fight club don’t expect the WvW players to respect your ‘fight club agreement.’

That’s not cool.

C’mon, guys, you’ve been matched up with is for a little bit now. You know we’re all about that chest-pounding. It’s part of that Maguuma spirit!

First for #magswag!

Just checked it out for myself. The effect is Ichor. The icon is a purple/pink background with a white hand on it. It cannot be cleansed with “Shake it Off!” and it has no description beyond “Ichor”

You should join us on Maguuma and jock that #magswag 24/7.

Here’s some crap that will convince you: