Guild Wars 2

Boose.6201:

Hey Mag how was that view from your spawn in YBBL for the last 2 hours?

You wanna talk about spawn camping?

Okay, let’s talk about spawn camping:

I don’t have the patience or the drive to adjust my playstyle to the metagame as it shifts so I’ve decided to re-focus my efforts on complaining about things on the internet.

On top of what the others have said: map pinging, drawing, and waypoints. No chat suppression.

Hexin.5603:

Middle isle – any BL. treb for the water gate… best counter starting from scratch?

Oh, I know this one! Walk up to it and kill it. :P

I personally only use Healing Power gear when I run a banner regen build (literally full healing power to get ~380 regen ticks on everyone.) Everything else I just go full Berserker.

If you don’t feel comfortable keeping yourself alive in Zerk gear yet, start slow with Knights or Soldier’s gear, transition to Cavaliers, then finally Berserker, once you’ve mastered dodging and defensive CDs.

I feel like that’s a bug and not a conscious decision. There’s no other thing in the game that removes two strikes of endurance. :s

PvE I feel strong. Group WvW fights I feel strong. sPvP and 1v1s I feel gimpy.

That’s pretty much how it goes. Warriors aren’t as adequate as other classes in small-scale fights but they shine in group activities.

Just like how Rangers are one of the best classes in sPvP but are extremely underwhelming in PvE.

Niim.9260:

Is that like the technical limitation that you said prevented NA and EU from having different reset times?

Probably. And like that technical reason it can be fixed. The question is: how high of a priority is that as opposed to, say, adding more sign-repairing quests?

;P

Rob.7624:

All those trebs. Either on Vistas in keep or 3rd floor SM can be ballista’d.

I honestly had no idea. I assume the ones atop SM have to be hit from the ground? The Red keep from that plateau near Anzalias? And the Green keep from the cliffside at Jerrifers?

Rob.7624:

You point to me a treb (SS it) and I’ll tell you how you can take it down free of charge.

How about atop blue keep? I can’t think of how you could get to that one, not that it’s all that useful.

Sista.1925:

So, Kain, a rallying cry is not enough…we need to use the strategy’s that we know how to….work together…..as a well oiled “machine”.

Don’t use that word. The machine is what left you alone to rot. You’re better than a machine. You’re a big Asian ghetto!

… actually that doesn’t sound good either. How about an Empire?

Rob.7624:

Flash superior treb. Commander can do it np.

Or trait into the AC line and increase is range. Then find an elevated point to hit said treb.

Can a treb from outside SM hit a treb on top of SM? What about the JP vistas in the EBG keeps?

They were going to do this like 4 months ago and the community through a complete kitten-fit over it.

I run a very particular longbow Warrior build and it just got buffed significantly this patch. If there weren’t an AoE cap I could most likely solo entire zergs on my own with proper positioning in choke points. And for that reason, I reluctantly support the AoE cap.

With regards to your situation, I agree with Rob.

… but the big problem is situations where those trebs are on top of vista spots or atop supply depots: places where you literally cannot kill them unless you break into the fortification itself.

bokkies, I don’t think that post was meant for this thread.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

hum i wonder if replacement models like this are affected by the lower quality settings for WvW models.

If not, this could indeed create some even bigger performance issues if used by an entire zerg

Oh god, the particle effects!

It’s like Fire Elemental. Every time he spawns I actually can hear the fans on my dual GPU’s going into overdrive!

VOLKON.1290:

Do you have one? Has someone tried them on a gate or wall?

They don’t change your collision at all, it just gives you a burrowing animation until you cancel it or enter combat.

But I agree, it probably shouldn’t be allowed in WvW as awesome as it would be to see an entire zerg pop out of the ground at once.

wish.1027:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/07/how-guild-wars-2-plans-to-survive
“. . . player numbers continue to rise during what would usually be a post-launch slump.”

Sweet, thanks!

Hnnng, yeah I kind of want to know what those barriers are if it’s not an issue of adding new currencies.

You’re not thinking of making them random drops off of Grub are you? I hope not, ‘cuz that’d actually be the best idea ever.

VOLKON.1290:

No, they didn’t up the timer. The timer was supposed to be 3 minutes, however siege (except trebs) would last a lot longer. Now they’ve been effectively reduced to 30 minutes for all siege.

I think you typo’d that first number.

So in short, siege expiration was something that always existed but never worked consistently. Now it works consistently and they upped the timer it originally had.

I guess I’m okay with that.

VOLKON.1290:

It would be so nice to be able to kick someone out of a golem you put down. There’s little more frustrating than some… kitten… taking golems you’ve built and jumping them off cliffs for the lulz.

I’m pretty sure you can.

Can’t you?

Niim.9260:

This shows how little you know about WvW, the area you are supposed to be our key contact on.

Fight him irl.

Josh.3759:

they lose more and more people every new pacth

I’d love to see the numbers you’re drawing that conclusion from.

I’m predicting anecdotal evidence and/or “lol u must be blind 2 not see it”

povV.5681:

we cut 14,000 points off kain’s lead today. … they sure seem demoralized

They’re bleeding out guilds left and right so I’d imagine their playerbase is not having a good time right now.

Hang in their, Kaineng. DFND understands your pain.

What’re you trying to show us in that first picture? I don’t see any indication of the arrow cart’s range in it.

Isaac.6041:

- But now you need to build siege fast or else the build site disappears in 2 min

I think it will only despawn if nobody puts any supply into it for two minutes. As long as some supply goes in it it shouldn’t despaw.

Does the change to Swirling Winds in today’s patch prevent it from blocking siege shots now?

Can’t check it out myself for a while.

Thanks in advance!

I support this idea only if the trait is actually called Omnomberry Pie.

First for #magswag.

Bas.7406:

I have a warrior, though I am completely horrendous on it haha!

Dude, me too. I’ve been maining a Warrior since the first beta weekend and I have never been able to consistently do well in sPvP.

But you don’t learn if you don’t try!

theMaker and I are gonna take home the gold!

I think the Warrior would be better suited to have more CC and in-combat mobility than pulls. Considering the Warrior is supposed to be the savage fighter class I feel it makes more sense for you to be unable to shake the Warrior off of you than be yanked around by him.

Yeah, I don’t understand what you’re complaining about here. Can you explain a bit further and then maybe I can help better?

Daecollo.9578:

robocafaz.9017:

Correct me if I’m wrong, but can’t you cancel the channel by stowing your weapon? I know you can with swapping but that’s not always a good option.

What does that have to do with anything above?

Your post discusses the problem where you can get stuck killing yourself due to retaliation because you’re stuck channeling something. So if you stop channeling you stop killing yourself.

ParaldaWind.4523:

Oblyth from my guild is a female and sometimes I make her do stuff. Does that count?

Mmm, girl, lemme get summa dat Swirling Winds.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but can’t you cancel the channel by stowing your weapon? I know you can with swapping but that’s not always a good option.

I don’t really mind the bag collection too much but I really wish they’d put them a few feet in front of you if you’re moving at the time of spawn. I hate having to do a 180 to pick up a badge if I’m not standing still.

I think a tanky commander helps a lot. Good servers tend to try and assassinate the commanders of their enemy zergs because it hurts morale and distracts the leader quite a bit.

Too Huge [DFND] of Maguuma

Ah, I see what you’re saying now.

Third day, actually. Brief (10-15) minute periods of the Login server being down, and any players who get caught changing maps during it got rolled back a few minutes.

Dunno why people are saying we’re getting stomped in T3. Considering how much we were rocking last week, nipping at the heels of DB for first place up until Tuesday. And this week we’re still holding on tight for second place despite the fairweather effect kickin’ in.

Sounds like people are trying to jock our #magswag.

They also said that WvW was going to be that “good wildly unbalanced world PvP” everyone wants.

Get over it and enjoy that thief who just one-shot you with a backstab!

Viking Jorun.5413:

As for my melee weapons I run dual axes. The mobility is far more than running a greatsword and the damage is on par, as well as being able to have multiple sigils. (Accuracy and Rage)

How, may I ask, does dual axes provide more mobility? Sure, you have the gap closer in Eviscerate, but that’s it. And you can’t use it as an escape skill really because it barely goes anywhere and has a recoil.

There’s only one thing that really needs to be taken away from the SAB, and I hope ArenaNet keeps it in mind for the future:

Fun things are fun.

I hear you. There have been many fights my server has lost because the pugs turned-tail and ran instead of pushed. But I hear the Dorito guy too. If the pugs don’t feel comfortable with the commander they are less likely to stick to them when the going gets tough.

sdsakuragi.8170:

Deany, the link is for 3/9’s video. This is the right link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI4GcLnU5uY

Dork :p

Crap, really? Dangit, that completely ruins the joke.

Everyone go watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI4GcLnU5uY

It’s way better.

Puddin Cheeks.8539:

Nice addition to the video was the cheezy porn soundtrack! :P

You, go watch the other video!

I threw my two cents all over the place there.

Strange, I feel the exact opposite. Running a Warrior full-time has made it so playing my alts is like a vacation!

That’s capitalism, boys!

declan.3968:

6 pages?

Don’t you guys have something better to do, I dunno, WvW?

Gotta chest-thump while at work. Hakittenag mag swag.

Speaking of which, check out these sweet highlights I got from last night.