Guild Wars 2

Ergh I hate being an Aussie when these posts come about…

“Only Americans can play with all access on NA servers”
“Only EU can play with all access on EU servers”

All of these threads are the same, basically telling everyone who is not in those countries or who are in those countries but are busy during prime time due to a job or other real world obligations have to be restricted for the sake of “prime time”….

Can collide with allies like you can against mobs and enemies

(can you imagine everyone in the center of the blobs complaining about getting killed cause they couldn’t escape with everyone blocking them off lol)

Heizero.9183:

Has GoM gotten a lot of transfers? Or are the other servers in taht tier just losing population? When I was on GoM WvW was nearing extinction on that server.

RISE and RUN came back to GoM, you should come back too shadow !!!

Dabrixmgp.4758:

Was on my Ele in a group with 2 warriors and a Guardian. We went up against a blob of like 40. I was never downed once during the fight.

This…. 4v40 I have to see.

Hule.8794:

Next week is probably the last chance for a long time. As in season 1 they did not added any features to wvw,only living stories. I guess they will do the same woth Season 2.
And Season 2 will end in 11 weeks from now.

Because Season 2 will start in 2 weeks and we have only informations about transfers and tournament style, i dont think we will see Acocund bound WXP or different commander colours sooner than 10th June.

/ragequit

Solstice.1097:

lol >.< yea I was mostly serious.

When I first rolled condi warrior I facerolled noobs for awhile just spamming skills.

But against good players it’s wayyy different.

hint – after I swap to sword I can’t remove condis for at least 5 seconds unless I hit you with flurry which is melee range. Hint #2 if I don’t have berserker stance on and I use flurry or combustive shot, I can’t remove condis for several seconds. Hint #3 after I use sword #5 I have no way to block damage except to dodge (or blind you with longbow 4).

The ones I’m seeing that I folded into using has been apoth gear, shouts heal, soldier runes. Condi doesn’t do anything running vigerous shouts ontop of it and cleansing ire.

If you arguement is to remove to avoid grinding then also make ascended gear bought with badges even though that is technically grinding aswell…

Also remove all ram masteries and get rid of WxP ranks all together cause what a shock, I have to grind out max AC mastery and siege might too…

I have the ranks yes, and personally I would be pretty kittened off about grinding for it to be removed or taken away from me.

There is so many other things needed in WvW like bug fixes that should be a bigger priority instead of “nerfing” players that attained skills/gear/traits over the ones who couldn’t be bothered doing it themselves.

I usually start off with roaming, get an idea of enemy numbers, build 2 superior arrowcarts in all the towers, then go back to keep, tag up, tell people I’ll be leaving keep in 30s and then start gaining momentum..

Start off with camps, more people will catch up or will want to be involved with taking things, when I get 5 or so people ill +5 a camp, drop some guild catas and start taking a tower…. people will come again for tower exp…. and just keep momentum basically…

Reason for scouting before starting is to pick on weaker server first to build a zerg.

Reason for building my own siege in towers is cause I hate getting to a tower under attack and not having any supplies or siege inside already built and if I can stay on the assault and have 1-2 people man the ac’s and a)Hold off zerg for a while or b) fend off the zerg completely then I can keep building momentum in what I’m doing on the enemy side.

Happened just then…

4 of us took a golem to Kaining Keep at overlook, busted down the doors and let them cap it back off AR… We then decided to troll kain, running circles in the keep, getting a few kills making sure we stomp in quaggan form then running away again… once they realised the last of us were at the cliff they all came around the corner charging like maniacs…

So we saluted, transformed into quaggans and had a quaggan suicide…. bout 6 Kain followed us to their deaths

dylan.5409:

Remove from soloq pls
ty

+1

played my usual 10 games today, 7 were skyhammer.

Ok currently getting matched up against wars that have condi bunker builds… and I don’t mean 1 or 2, I mean like 4 on one team will be wars with this set up, and it’s a steamroll..

Why bother playing any other class, since I have joined in I rarely die, I can stand on one spot and not bother to move and laugh at any other class that tries to do anything..

And the best part? I’m rank 26 and killing rank 50+ without even trying (unless they are also a condi war)

When I used to play warrior I was scouting at the cliffs of ANZ area looking at Overlook..

A three man thief squad came and ganked me, I used my stomp skill, 2 instantly went off the edge and died so I thought I could kill the last one, I use my gs4 rush at the thief but instead went past him and off the cliff myself… I’m not sure what the last thief did but as I landed on the ground and died, that last thief landed ontop of me dying himself leaving all 4 of us dead at the bottom of the cliffs… Instantly one of the thieves popped a guild flagged and myself and another popped one aswell…

Also meeting enemy quaggan zergs that let me join them is always fun

BoB.6082:

You’re not that good. Mesmer is one of the worst spvp classes atm.

Not keen on rolling condi bunker warrior, minion mancer, bomb engie or spirit ranger.

Tried out guardian for a while but no one ever helps home in solo que when you say there is 3, I’m a horrible thief and ele aswell…

Valinor.9647:

applied fort and applied strength need to go if they are going to go account bound.

Why?

Sorry to use your thread but it’s just to save topic space.

I would also like a team.

Mesmer: Stunlock shatter build
Rank: 25

Can also play spirit ranger.

Chaith.8256:

SonOfKrypton.4357:

I’m absolutely sick to death of players who don’t know what to do in PvP matches.

They fight off point and clearly the capture points part of the game is lost on them.

I feel like I’m the only person on my team looking at the map icons, seeing where players are, playing strategically.

All I want is my Champion title and I’ll be goneski from PvP. It’s disappointing that my success in achieving this goal is dependent on players who have no idea what they’re doing.

/rant

Every Hotjoin/SoloQueue/TeamQueue/Battleground/Warfront/Warzone/Arena across all MMO titles have teammates in which directly influence your win or lose.

Rant noted. But there’s only one actual helpful way to remedy this problem, and that as a community, we become – on average – better educated players about the conquest gamestyle. It’s an extremely, extremely difficult concept to master due to the very different, dynamic circumstances that enemy rotations can put you under.

I feel that anet should add some how-to videos on their twitch channel documenting on how to rotate properly and manage their behaviour/positioning in teamfights properly.

There are basically zero resources that I’ve seen on how to play conquest..

I like this guy… Like the one in a million who doesn’t say "YOU"RE ONLY RANK 27 GO BACK TO HOTJOIN FGT AND STOP USING CHEESE OR META BUILDS L2P B4 U Q YOU FGT"

Ok…

I started as a PU mesmer, my team raged at me for not holding cap points while in stealth, fair enough…

Changed to illsuion/shatter sorta build, enemy team told me to take “my meta build back to hotjoin”

So changed my build again to condi, again enemy team thinks "that my cheese build is all I have and I should l2p b4 q and go back to hotjoin…

Now I’m using a zerker lockdown build with insane amount of stuns and boon stripping and both the enemy team and friendly team think I’m using a “broken Build that takes no skill”

What build can I use to shut everyone up? (not keen on blocking all chat either)
Gets a bit old that every match there is someone constantly crying about something wrong with a mesmer build….

I’m rank 27 so I’m not a “pro” but I’ve had my mes for over a year as a solo roamer in WvW so I know my class well enough to know how to fight other people.

Silent Shino.7239:

Moopy.7908:

I’ve got a great idea and it’s called proper punctuation because without punctuation your post becomes an unreadable mess that I have to re-read 4-5 times before I understand what it is you are trying to say; so please try this again with some commas and periods here and there so we can all understand what it is you want us to understand.

Thank you.

I fixed it for you.

loooooooooooooool

Is it lag that causes the bugs where you can’t rez people?
Like, you stand on them, says to rez, you press F to rez but your toon just looks at the person clueless…

I would be fine with this if they added something to help defenders aswell…

With all the offensive WxP masteries, tower gates are melting way too fast for a zerg to respond, the white swords take too long to pop then zergs still have to get there to defend the objective and the only thing that can delay the cap could be a Battle Standard from a Warrior…

Ideas to help defending servers if they implemented this:

1. When a towers fortified upgrade finishes, the gates also fortify.

2. Watergate at garrison, inner gate: Never reinforces at all.

3. Change the Lord Supervisor in keeps and towers to match those of Edge Of The Mists. (The ones in there can’t be solo’d and are actually pretty tanky, don’t die easily.)

4. Any damage greater than 2,000 in one hit applied to the tower INSTANTLY gets white swords so the defenders know there is siege placed, not 30 seconds later after 3-4 superior rams have a reinforced gate down to 10% already.

My personal opinion and concern is that all WvW has been reduced to lately is a giant karma train with friends, especially since Golems and superior siege were buy-able from the trading post and the introductory of WxP with masteries that specialize in taking things quicker.

Nuzt.7894:

Your not suppose to post screens or Vids of exploits, your suppose to report them, there is also matchup threads on the unofficial forums, which is the responce your going to get as this one gets shut down.

Yes, cause I’m gonna sit there a report all 15 people who were trying to do it

-____-

So basically it’s the title, would like math up threads back please…

My reason: Lots of exploiters, hacks and bots have starting appearing and usually you can take a screenie, post it in match up thread and the servers will take care of it.

normally if I see one person trying or 2 I think it’s just a bad apple, but when a whole guild is trying to leap through the door at jerries and getting a mesmer inside a fortified tower it becomes complete bull kitten.

ET one of your guilds tried this today and got wiped, then the tower was flipped 10 minutes later with no rams in sight or siege.

If you ever fight GoM, feel free to hit me up for some friendly duels

I’m always roaming around solo flipping EB camps and sentries, poking at enemy zergs n things for amusement.

If you see me roaming I’ll most likely be on a white Charr Mesmer with Sunrise in ARAH and CoF gear

Otokomae.9356:

Handin.4032:

I can confirm that tonics do not prevent people from being seen. It only helps with people who have not learned how to tab when looking for mesmers. Being a small asura, I hid once in Hills Lords room behind one of the pillars. I saw several people look in, but then ran out (my graphics were hidden behind a pillar).

The name tag issue should NEVER be cause to remove tonics in WvW, since the same issue is there for anyone. And it has a really easy solution: hit tab fairly often when searching for mesmers. Even a non-toniced asura hiding in a wall crevice won’t have name tags. Going to remove asura from the game for that? I doubt they’ll ever ban tonics in WvW, as it would cause a lot of outrage. There are a lot of players who like running around occasionally for fun using tonics, quaggan or mystery or dolyak.

I can confirm that TAB only showed me that an enemy was near enough for their info to show at the top of the screen; it did NOT bring up their name tag despite the fact that I was standing practically on top of them. I repeat, TAB DOES NOT HELP YOU FIND PEOPLE USING THIS 1, VERY SPECIFIC EXPLOIT.

Again, there is NO WHERE in this thread where I advocate banning any tonics from the game, nor banning Asura, as even Asura can’t use this particular exploit. It ONLY works for the Blue, Black, & Pink quaggan tonics for some reason. Honestly, just make those 3 quaggan tonics turn you to the same size as the Green Quaggan Tonic and PROBLEM SOLVED (yes, they are different sizes; spend 1 silver or so to buy all 4 and see for yourself.)

People have been using the blue quaggan tonics from Orr for nearly 6 months or more,
how is it a problem now compared to then?

Halo.8976:

You might as well ask to ban all asura.

Yes please, ban the Asura, it’s not fair you can’t see them in the zerg surrounded by Norns.

I’m sure it would make a lot of people happy if we buffed the damage on rams, took away every other piece of siege and denied upgrades to any towers, ontop of that if you own the tower a siegerazer defensive bubble would cover the area in a 3000 range wide essentially blocking off anyone wanting to defend and would have to wait to opposing zerg received that champion loot bag and karma.

Better yet, Towers and keeps have no gates at all…!!!

I like it, I don’t care where enemy zergs are, I care more about where the good roamers and good guilds are.

Only so much fun killing people set up for zerg support over and over before it gets boring

style.6173:

Mepheles.2087:

I didn’t use to see so much power creeping in wvw 6 months ago. but now all I mostly see are classes using corruption/Bloodlust with the top tier guard oriented wvw masteries. I honestly didn’t see as many people using these back in the day Guard leech and applied were rarely seen because you needed alot of points obviously). Is it the new meta, whether roaming alone/ with a group or with a zerg to be as bursty as possible? honestly most of the thieves I’ve seen are one-shot mug thieves who can crit 8-9k on heavy classes. They drop like stones of course, but that’s only if you can keep them out of stealth long enough and that’s near impossible.

Most fights I’ve had were ones I’ve lost because the opposing pressure was near instant whether it was condition or power. When I fought an enemy with little to no stacks, fights were longer than could go either way based on sheer luck. I just feel like if I don’t hop on this train I’ll be left behind but on the other hand I don’t feel it’s needed because I’ve been able to kill people just fine without the sigils. Does anyone have an opinion on this?

fyi not just thieves, but Elementalist, Warriors, Necros, Engineers, and even guardians using all these together.

I’ve never see anyone 1 shot anyone in this game. You’d have better luck with a good conversation if you didn’t say things so false. The closest skill to a 1 shot is a fully charged kill shot, but even that is a stretch.

I’ve seen a few 1 shot wonders, even created a rifle war for lolz to see what sorta damage I could do, all exotic gear btw but I normally hit for 17-22k killshots…
(1 hit a bronze footman for 19,300 damage)

Thats without guard leech too and without scholar runes so I know I can get higher but ruby orbs worked fine at the time

I hope it doesn’t, I got the tallest charr mesmer ever and I’ve been using the quaggan tonics from orr for months now just to be the same size as an asura when I hide somewhere…

I’m still sad I can’t watch GvG’s in town clothes from threads like these :/

Gotta love that floating steel chest in the air after dropping down near cliffside or something…. Long way back up to drop down and aim for it lol

Dabrixmgp.4758:

I cant seem to play anything other than my Ele. When I try another class I just get bored extremely fast and quit because nothing seems to be as involving. Pretty much every other class seems to be just spam the same 3 skills over and over again till you fall asleep. I always keep going back to my main because the constant attunement dancing means I use 3x the skills as every other class. Im always mashing something different which is fun.

Im looking for something different when I dont feel like running with a raid force. Would like to try maybe soloing, scouting for the main zerg, or running with a Havoc Group. I refuse to play thief. Thinking about maybe Engineer or Mesmer.

If you enjoy your ele so much you should stick to it and find a dedicated WvW guild that run in groups of 15-20, having a decent ele is a rare catch

phaeris.7604:

Always funny to see warriors justify their class.

Keep going though, the fact you do well is all you, all your skill, nothing to do with the class.

No really.

I know that’s sarcasm, but like seriously warriors ARE hard to play, I don’t follow the zerg but holy hell roaming on a warrior is hard to me, so is thief and engie… I can’t 1vX on any of those 3 classes

D/D ele is easy enough, Mesmer and Ranger seem to be the easiest and best classes for roaming.. To me anyway..

Put a warrior in a zerg tho and yes, immortality is a guarantee, only thing that can kill you is that thing called gravity

So basically I just want to know, why the trait Prismatic Understanding is so hated.

Is it the extra 1 second stealth?
Is it the regen, protection and aegis?

It’s good and gives a great advantage to who ever receives the supply drop on reset day for wvw… Reset day in a home BL the whole BL is pretty much starved of supplies from being double teamed by 2 servers for 6+ hours.

It’s a tactic, but sometimes it’s fun to grief by having it permanently contested for half hour to an hour just to see how many people can chase you, which is fun if you’re a thief.
Even then that is a tactic lol, you managed to get 10 people to chase you around in circles instead of rallying on their zerg to cap or defend.

If you are talking about the red keep in EB….
I was the mesmer who ported people into your keep twice in a row using the same hiding spot each time.
I also used the same AC in veloka after 3 caps on the cliffside cause no one swept it.

Then I chilled out with a few DR warriors at their spawn as a quaggan for a while

Fox Goes Ding Quaggan Goes [Coo]

Nope.

I was on IOJ during the leagues and having 15 people in EB to fight the 60 man SBI blob and the 60 man FA blobs at the same time was….. Ergh…

insanemaniac.2456:

Hule.8794:

Why anybody even expected acc bound wxp?
They never said when will they release it and almost everybody knows that it wont be up until March18th

dont expect it until they tell you to expect it its probably not coming march 18th. time is running out for that patch. they wouldnt give up the opportunity to hype it.

Off that basis we should have gotten it when EotM was released like they said it would.

Random quaggan guild zerg I stealthed into and joined

Dawdler.8521:

sephiroth.4217:

Please stop, just stop, the English language has been butchered enough by your hash tags and yolos, we don’t need definitions changed aswell to suit each others personal needs.

Blob – an object, especially a large one, having no distinct shape or definition: a blob on the horizon.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blob

Essentially it doesn’t matter if it’s one guild or not, a large group of any kind = blob.

But you just proved yourself wrong. Its an object (well in this case a large group) having no distinct shape or definition.

Does not a guild zerg have a distinct shape and definition? You will immiedietly differentiate a 50 man random pug group running randomly after a commander, none of them on TS – compared to a 50 man single-tag guild group where all are on TS. They most definetly have a distinct shape and definition in terms of group behaviour. Thus, its not a blob.

The most obvious difference being the fact that a blob does not have a melee train. Its just a… blob.

I never said the guild group was organized

So no, I didn’t just prove myself wrong

LostAsylum.3018:

Anet, when will you be merging our WVW ranks so that all our toons are the same rank?

+1

Please stop, just stop, the English language has been butchered enough by your hash tags and yolos, we don’t need definitions changed aswell to suit each others personal needs.

Blob – an object, especially a large one, having no distinct shape or definition: a blob on the horizon.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blob

Essentially it doesn’t matter if it’s one guild or not, a large group of any kind = blob.

Ithilwen.1529:

I’d love to know how to blink through a tower door. I bet that’s a myth. My point is: when the match is so uneven, that a blob of enemy has time to sneak into your home spawn, it’s a sign that the game isn’t well set up.

blink trick that ele’s and thieves can do too… Is when SM is fortified and you are about to lose it, go to the north east stair case and aim your blink or what ever at the bottom of the stairs (inner stairs that is) it will blink you inside the wall thus avoiding being found during sweeps, to get out is another trick and to get in for SM only works on fortified for some reason…

Edit: deleted tower trick, left SM one, don’t want things getting too crazy. But you get the idea…

Bloodwort MacFangho.4638:

That is ace! GG CoSA!
@OP .. lighten up.. hats off to the guys that pulled that one off! This happens once in a blue moon and shows the sheer bloody-mindedness of the WvWer! Give them their dues for pulling it off!

It’s not that hard but neither is blinking through enemy tower doors with a port ready for everyone else, I don’t see the difference between the two tbh.

Nothing against PvE players, easiest loot bags in the game….

Would be fun to open up Queensdale and other PvE maps to the PvP side though, would love to see the reactions of people who PvE only getting farmed by the WvW play…. Oh yea, EotM!!!!!!

Some people take the game too seriously, just think what their lives must be like…. And then laugh.

Silent Shino.7239:

I’ve been thinking and have realised that there’s quite a few things that can be considered ‘cheating’ in wvw. Which ones do you think are cheating and if so, which ones should be bannable? which ones are just funny and not really that bad? (these are things that people genuinely do)

1. having a trebuchet in the spawn area that can attack the ne tower – No.
2. jumping into the citadel and killing merchants for the “lols” – No.
3. accidentaly glitching into an objective and then reproducing the glitch – Yes
4. transferring to another server and give information to your previous server No. But extremely cheap
5. transferring to another server and building troll siege. – No, But extremely cheap
6. destroying bridges in the EOTM just for the bridge buster achievement. -No, Anet wanted people to do it
7. inviting the enemy commander to a party loads of times to distract them/ see where they are. – No, Enemy comm can deny party invite
8. going into an enemy spawn area and start dancing (<ok, I admit it, I’ve done this before) – No
9. teaming up with an enemy server to farm the third server – No
10. luring the grub to attack the blue keep (<this is another one I’m guilty of) – No, the oak heart can be pulled into spel to waste red teams time and attract thier pugs thinning out thier zerg for 10 minutes or so

I answered the questions in your quote next to each question.

Substance E.4852:

sephiroth.4217:

it’s not a warrior.

Or guardian, or mesmer, or necro, or ele, or theif.

Or warrior. Press any button to win is a must have, a warbanner to look pro and a few shouts or stances to be a god. Or…………………….. A guardian to support said warrior.

Necros only remove boons to give warriors an easier time killing someone.
Thief will shadow refuge bad warriors who get downed till they succeed.
A mesmer will make warrior invisible for surprise but seks.

In theory – Must play warrior.

All classes support the warrior, and if he or she can not support the warrior to his pleasing then that class they play will be punished accordingly

it’s not a warrior.