Guild Wars 2

zerker/valk/knights maybe

Depends on the ele…

The only sort of Ele I can’t win against is cele d/d… Every other ele drops just as fast as a zerker thief/mes

My guard build is 21614 – blind spamming mediguard.

I’ve never has an issue with this, always worked for me.

Svarty.8019:

Perhaps re-skinning the siege models could refresh our perspectives?

Here is an existing skin currently in-game as a Seraph Catapult in Gendarran Fields.

I believe that is a treb, but I don’t PvE enough to know for sure.

Either kill them and deal with the abuse from a server mate who lives in buttkittenville or respect the man from buttkittenville and move off and find another to kill.

Could be multiple reasons for asking you to leave.

- You don’t have the correct build.
- You’re an uplevel
- You are not connected to TS
- Guild only + friends most likely using TS
- They don’t recognize you and may think you’re a spy (you mentioned short break)
- They may not like your class.

As to the points you made:

- It’s an world event map, not a guild event map. You might want to run it as such but it’s not designed to be. – Exactly, it’s open world, go explore, have fun and flip a few camps instead of focusing on what a guild does

- Your commander tag effects the entire map, not just your guild. Tag down if you want to play with a select group. – it does effect the entire map, but it doesn’t mean you have to follow it, as you said it’s open world, explore or follow a different commander who has the militia on him and is most likely using the guild commander tag to keep location on ally groups around the map

- Why? The closed raid groups I encountered were playing like any other zerg, who cares if people trying to enjoy the game and want to contribute to their server join in? – No one is stopping you from contributing to the server, killing enemy yaks and taking camps can be just as effective as taking a tower.

Sorel.4870:

By the way Rune of the Traveler is only used by builds with terrible mobility options, since you basically waste your rune slot to take it. I doubt you really have trouble to catch up with a mesmer or a meditation guardian. The biggest offender of the cowardly retreat tactic are thieves (but you can push them out of their SR at least) and of course GS warriors, or worse, sword-x/GS warriors.

WHAT!!!!!!!!!

Mediguards are just as agile if not more so than a thief……

If you can’t faceroll your way out of the zergs path then you’re doin it wrong.

Stab issue effects manipulation/shatter mesmers pretty bad…

Arcane Thievery is the main skill caught out by the change, no longer can you soft CC a ranger into using his ult to steal 20s uptime of stab/fury/swiftness… Now its a short 2-3s worth of stab, same goes for tryin the same thing on necro elites

Null Field is just as useless too…. you cant strip them of boons as with changes to elites they just restack, with null field stripping stability at the same rate it’s applied, it’s completely redundant unless you use it for condition removal only

Yes lets nerf burst so we see more 1 button condi spam builds, game too hard to play plz halp

I stopped reading when you undermined yourself with:

Someone queues in ‘fortify keep’ instead of starting the upgrade queue for a waypoint.
“Why is this even a troll, you get a free upgrade…”
No.
What this does, is:
1. Steadily drain out supply in the garrison because of upgrades

Last time I checked, the waypoint upgrade uses supplies aswell…

In most cases I find, it’s down to personal preference… I too would start fortify before waypoint, but then again I have no issues with applying swiftness and going for 10s AUTOrun

start off not meta > get owned by meta > be turret engie.

All I do is soloq….

I noticed different time zones have different types of players too…

3-6 pm I fight mostly power builds and pewpew rangers
6pm onwards changes to regen bunker condi builds and turret engies / PU mes

My Mickey Mouse and Sephiroth

I been seeing this a lot too…

My theory is, they go below the map… Using a skill that locks onto target (rapid fire) will cause you to start shooting at your feet or behind you on the ground or from what I have seen anyway

For myself I don’t pugmand anymore…..

When you get into a WvW guild that raids, you’ll notice that everyone stacks up, everyone has builds that supports one another and people don’t run away chasing after a perma stealth thief and his PU mesmer friend and everyone is on TS…

When you pugmand: 20 people on you can’t build 1 superior ram but are active enough to drop every field / attack ever made on a reinforced gate, a thief comes and half your zerg chases him, then they bail to a local camp and while they are there an enemy zerg rocks up and slaughters you, you take a tower and say clear siege, everyone runs to lords and gets farmed by ac’s and so on…….. then theres uplevels and backseat drivers who throw useless siege everywhere and tell you to take kitten for map completion and what not…

Good idea but maybe the top 6 instead of the top 9?

NSP/Dark or who ever rolls T3 are having a bad enough time as it is

No we can’t see your footprints or anything, but we can see your minipet!

There used to be a time when legendary effects wouldn’t apply to mesmer clones so attacking the real mesmer was easy but that was fixed shortly after release

Hamster.4861:

yeah, sephiroth you deff missed out on a free xfer to T2.

Being able to pay your own way is nice, but we definitely had someone approach us and say, “we’ve got 80,000 gold, and we’d like to buy your community. Everyone.”

haha yer I literally found out about an hour ago that people were bought and offered gold to move about 2 weeks after we came up..

No love for the roamers, only big guilds

Hamster.4861:

sephiroth.4217:

Liston.9708:

It has been this way for months…. Poor nsp – ioj got pounded forever. Not sure if ioj was poached (think so) or just tanked to get out of that mess (makes sense) or a little bit of both….

IOJ wasn’t poached I don’t think… All it took was for a server to superstack itself into t2, destroying t3 completely and forcing many t3 refugees to move to t2 of which they say we destroy thier game mode by leaving t3 and further stacking t2…

STACKCEPTION.

IoJ was definitely poached. 4 guilds to FA, 1 to mag to revive PYRO and magswag.
~100 regular wvwders + 2 offhours coverage raid guilds bought up by T2, made the difference to drop us from T3 to the top of T5

I’ll rephrase:

How is it considered poaching if people decided to leave after months of broken match ups?
My thoughts on poaching is party A asking Party B to move with incentives added….(in terms of gw2)

T3 is broken, I was on IOJ and like the other 10 or so that met me in t2, they left because it was broken, not because anyone had poached, but because we all wanted a better experience… And we paid with our own money.

Buffy.9246:

Wanderer.3248:

Tseikk.9032:

Fact is population needs to be nerfed. I don’t even care how it would be done, but seeing some servers can afford having 10 man dolyak defending squads it’s quite ridiculous.

I’ve never seen that happen even when all maps were queued.

And a ten person yak escort sounds like ten bags waiting to drop.

Yaks bend does it all the time.

With ballistas

Liston.9708:

It has been this way for months…. Poor nsp – ioj got pounded forever. Not sure if ioj was poached (think so) or just tanked to get out of that mess (makes sense) or a little bit of both….

IOJ wasn’t poached I don’t think… All it took was for a server to superstack itself into t2, destroying t3 completely and forcing many t3 refugees to move to t2 of which they say we destroy thier game mode by leaving t3 and further stacking t2…

STACKCEPTION.

GreyWraith.8394:

WvW imbalance is not caused by the existence of PvE players.

According to DB it is… They have a full server.

Those new skins have been in game for 2 years under “Guild Blueprints”

azyume.6321:

sephiroth.4217:

I don’t think anyone here who has posted has actually played ele on scepter….

Wrong to assume. A question was asked and I answered accordingly.

Yes, scepter Lighting Strike and Blinding Flash can hit the target from behind in the same way as attuning for air. However, only way to do the same with the Dragon’s Tooth is if you are walking, in any direction, which probably need a fix. Yet many might complain because will invalidate the might stacking method of casting while walking.

If we are fishing for unintended effect here, the only one I see in work is the Dragon’s Tooth.

So to sum up, no bug on the attunement. You got hit by Electric Discharge and was lucky enough to proc the sigil of fire, triggering the Flame Blast. Possibly unintended skill effect, which if is the case and needs to be reviewed: Dragon’s Tooth.

It’s not just Dragon’s Tooth in fire, it’s also Pheonix…
Also I made my assumption as OP asked if Ele can fire behind them and it appeared that people only know about air attunement/fresh air…

But yer, nade engies can also spam skills behind them on the run, I dont see why eles cant either

+1 to the idea.

I don’t think anyone here who has posted has actually played ele on scepter….

Yes, there are several skills that can fire behind you (just like nade engies), Dragons tooth and Pheonix…. Air #2-3 can fire any direction aswell ontop of utilities and there is still a way to channel/damage enemies in Mist form…

Ele has some nice tricks up it sleeve, but that’s why it’s considered a higher level skill cap to learn it and it wouldn’t be fair to nerf it because you cant beat 7/7 of the other professions using yours…

To be honest, I’m not entirely sure why you have celestial in the mix, you could replace your 300 condi damage and add it to your 1800 power which feels extremely low to me…

On that subject, what do other guardians feel like a good power level is?
I try to sit mine at 2200-2300 with no stacks or might

Welcome to WvW matey!

Try not to let “elitists” wreck your gaming experience, you are there to have fun and support your server and from what you have posted you are more of a valuable asset than most guild groups out there…

I have recently left lower tiers to join T2…

I love T2 for roaming, BUT solo roaming can be rough at times due to the multiple 3-5 man groups about….

cillard.3986:

Aeolus.3615:

i guess OP died thinking his zerker could AOE bag farm with 1 skill, nowadays this seams obvious by gw2 standards.

That isn’t a fair comment to some class/builds that have no choice but to AoE.

For example, I have seen ele’s not even running a piece of zerker gear blow themselves up or be forced to mist form with a single meteor shower or ice bow 4. I’ve also see it happen on a single static field drop with LR when not even trying to dps.

/shrug

Retal hasn’t hit that hard in nearly 2 years…

I’m currently playing full zerker 56021 s/d + staff ele and my meteor shower only hits me with enough retal to take away maybe 10% health at most which is completely healed just by switching to water…

Dhemize.8649:

sephiroth.4217:

Myself and many others just got to T2 over the last few weeks, T2 feels like it did in t8 2 years ago, it’s active 24/7 (australian so perfect), you have choices of roaming, small groups, guild raids and zergs…

After being on GoM>FA>GoM>IOJ>GoM>IoJ>CD>IOJ>FA over the years I’ve played this game I feel that the crap you guys a spewing is completely wrong… It is in no way or shape the communities fault or the players, in fact it’s not even Anets fault, the game will die out eventually as will any other game when people become bored of it or they have real life stuff or just a game that’s in general more fun.

Some of us (myself personally) only came higher up in the servers because in lower tiers the game is dying, you have a choice of solo roaming, 2 man roaming, 5 man roaming, zerging with a 20 man because that’s all that will rally to tag, yes we paid for a better experience, yes it’s our game and we most likely screwed up tiers and server population issues but at the current state of WvW unless it gets fixed magically then the game will continue to die as time goes on and people will continue to pay for a higher tier transfer…

Will Anet fix population issues? probably not.. Anet knows the game is dying, they also know people will pay for a better experience which is probably why they have not made any changes to servers as that is the only thing currently generating revenue from the WvW playerbase for them…

Bolded the part that confused me.

If it’s not the players, then who is it that creates such population gaps? Anet didn’t force anyone. Nobody magically popped into a new server. New players couldn’t possibly account for the massive gap (if they all went to WvW instantly when they finished installing). Old players leaving the game could dent a server, but only a select few?

It is 100% the players fault and it’s about time people hold themselves accountable.

I explained that with time, the game will die out like any other game… People will get bored, others will find another game they enjoy more, some might have real life stuff happening… Over time the game will gradually die out for various reasons and THAT is not the players fault or communities… During this process that causes a gradual loss in population, eventually people will miss the excess of enemies and move higher in tiers to keep the game active for themselves…

Myself and many others just got to T2 over the last few weeks, T2 feels like it did in t8 2 years ago, it’s active 24/7 (australian so perfect), you have choices of roaming, small groups, guild raids and zergs…

After being on GoM>FA>GoM>IOJ>GoM>IoJ>CD>IOJ>FA over the years I’ve played this game I feel that the crap you guys a spewing is completely wrong… It is in no way or shape the communities fault or the players, in fact it’s not even Anets fault, the game will die out eventually as will any other game when people become bored of it or they have real life stuff or just a game that’s in general more fun.

Some of us (myself personally) only came higher up in the servers because in lower tiers the game is dying, you have a choice of solo roaming, 2 man roaming, 5 man roaming, zerging with a 20 man because that’s all that will rally to tag, yes we paid for a better experience, yes it’s our game and we most likely screwed up tiers and server population issues but at the current state of WvW unless it gets fixed magically then the game will continue to die as time goes on and people will continue to pay for a higher tier transfer…

Will Anet fix population issues? probably not.. Anet knows the game is dying, they also know people will pay for a better experience which is probably why they have not made any changes to servers as that is the only thing currently generating revenue from the WvW playerbase for them…

Quite often I use catapults there too

Personally I agree, would be great to hear what someone says on our behalf…

Good luck Marmatt, I hope you’re not just a scapegoat for Anet’s future plans towards WvW.

MuscleBobBuffPants.1406:

I would be interested in new siege skins too! When I saw the Lunar New Year ones I stopped for a moment just to admire the new design, good job!

Aren’t those “new” designs just guild siege blueprints with some red thrown in?

etrigan.4213:

Rimmy.9217:

It’s the players’ fault that they stacked. It’s also the players’ fault that overstacking servers is unstable, as can be seen on various servers over the lifetime of the game.

It’s the player’s fault that, to maintain that particular “solution” that it practically requires a constant influx of additional people, or the merging of other servers (depending on where you are on the ladder).

It’s the players’ fault that they don’t destack, too.

People, whether singly or in huge numbers, can transfer at will – that’s built into the game. It would be dumb to pretend that the consequences of the way players have done it haven’t had an overall negative effect on the game as a whole.

No one said that stacking didn’t have negative consequences for a lot of other servers, but blaming the players for a faulted gaming mode is ridiculous and short sighted.

You have an unbalanced game due to coverage wars, and you expect people not to try their way of balancing it…after 2 1/2 years waiting for ANET to fix it?

Now two of you want those servers to destack and spread out logically on their own??

How exactly would that happen? Who’s going to figure out who goes where to make it all balanced?

I mean screw server pride right?
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It was never balanced to begin with.

The smarter fix would be to introduce some sort of autobalancing mechanism to the game. There’s been tons of player solutions posted in this forum. I have no idea which would be the best, or if any would work at all…

I think population log in was the best I saw…

“match ups are decided by the total amount of players that logged into WvW the previous week”…

They’re also costly… If someone dropped 4 for a paper tower then that means he spent nearly 5g to take somethin with 0 upgrades worth nothing other than +10 PPT and even then I’m sure you guys flipped the tower back before tick which means that commander dropped 5g worth of siege for a champion loot bag.

The only reason for servers is to extract revanue out of the WvW population who pay for a better experience… Which T3 is currently generating a lot of.

TBH it’s been nearly 2 years since I thought retaliation hurt or witnessed a few stacks of confusion drop a whole zerg of auto attackers at a tower gate hahaha

pepper.6179:

Liston.9708:

Server loyalty died with megaserver IMHO…

yup megaservers messed up wvw. Almost all of the new players have no idea at all of what server they’re in.

And you could no longer go to LA and say “Hills being rushed need help” and have half your server show up to help

A good nerf would be rockets fire in a strait line instead of being thrown like its a kittenin basketball game, would completely stop them shooting over keep walls to hit siege and everything else

Lazaar.9123:

sephiroth.4217:

Lazaar.9123:

Oh sure, let’s just remove everyone’s commander tags that they paid gold for, that will go over swimmingly.

They removed 4/5 of my tags when they made it account bound, removing the last one wouldn’t bother me.

If you contacted them you were refunded gold. I’m guessing you didn’t do that?

I contacted them twice but nothing happened, I wasn’t holding my breathe either I expected as much… My experience with this game has been nothing but wasted investment.. I had 2 volcanus when wardrobe was introduced (felt sorry for people with duel incin), lost 400g in tags from another change and nearly made a full ascended zerk set right as they nerfed crit damage lol

I play both and as someone else said, it depends on where you want to be, frontline or backline…

Personally I enjoy Ele more though, the skill level is higher and that’s what makes it enjoyable for me… It’s also fun to forward strafe and watch those heartseeking thieves miss-miss-miss-miss-miss …

+1

As above.

Lazaar.9123:

Oh sure, let’s just remove everyone’s commander tags that they paid gold for, that will go over swimmingly.

They removed 4/5 of my tags when they made it account bound, removing the last one wouldn’t bother me.

The only reason for servers is WvW, in saying that, why would a business give free transfers or change one of the very few systems left that extract revenue from the WvW playerbase?

My support ele loves tornado…

FUN FACT: Ele tornado is a field. Try lightning tornado and let your frontliners leap through you

Full zerker in WvW lol

Only class I fully zerker on is a Raid staff ele, raid power necro or a pug longbow ranger lol

I remember when SBI spawn camped with 3 ballistas and 5 ac’s in s01 against IOJ…

Here’s the same advice SBI gave us: “there are 3 exits to use, not our fault you’re all baddies”

I had a thought on this the other day for a solution… Doubt it will be put in effect but:

matches decided by population log in:

at the end of each week, it tallies up how many people logged into wvw for each server then matches them accordingly.

- If guilds transferred then the match up is only a blow out for that week.
- PPT and matches would be more balanced in general