Guild Wars 2

Straegen.2938:

DivineBeing.2086:

Their incentive for Pvding is an uninterrupted karma train. Why leave when you are getting massive amounts of free materials for Ascended gear.

That has to eventually get boring doesn’kitten For me it is cathartic after a really tough matchup but after a couple days much less weeks or months, I would have to move somewhere with more balanced fighting.

sephiroth.4217:

TLDR: Some of us enjoy small scale combat over 60 vs 15.

DB and CD can both field a 50+ man zerg in the NA morning. Iokittenore balanced in my experience. They have an oceanic presence but aren’t defined by them at least at this point and time.

I am not condemning people for stacking on mid-tier oceanic servers as that is their play choice. I do wonder if going down this road is causing less overall fun for everyone though.

Those match ups happen though and being on IOJ fighting against CD and DB I can definitely say it wasn’t just their night crew that smashed us through out leagues, we were outnumbered at any point of the day due to the coverage all round… So did BP, would it be fair for us to ask the same of BP to transfer off the server cause you guys beat us?

Roll a ranger……

Straegen.2938:

Why do some oceanic players stay in the middle tiers on the US servers? There is no competition to speak of during those hours in this range. Even if a player likes PvDoor, I would think eventually it has to be pretty boring. The worst part of it is this overnight PvDoor activity frequently condemns the entire week to PvDoor for all the servers in a matchup.

I believe everyone pays the same so they should be able to play the way they want. That said, it seems encouraging strong Oceanic guilds to migrate to more competitive servers would be a good thing for most players.

Speaking from the point of being oceanic on IOJ I really enjoy the small combat that is constantly happening around on any map, personally I find it more enjoying to be in a 5 man group fighting other 5-10 man groups instead of being in a 50 man blob smashing 1 as I trample over 15 people, while everyone says it’s nothing but “PvD”, it really isn’t as simple as that, it can be quite hard to take a reinforced tower off another 5 or so people who have arrowcarts and assortments of siege, it’s where the little things like a mesmer focus pull to pull people off the tower before entering to thin out the enemies inside can make the biggest difference instead of melting a door in 5 seconds then smashing 1 repeatedly in hopes of tagging something for some loot.

TLDR: Some of us enjoy small scale combat over 60 vs 15.

Solstice.1097:

sephiroth.4217:

Solstice.1097:

sephiroth.4217:

Ynot.8397:

Spicyhash.7605:

gotta say, fc has some of the worst roamers i’ve ever fought. zerg on.

That sounds like a challenge. Sadly I have not found any IoJ roamers worth a kitten either(except those buns jerks). Those zergs seem to be getting in the way.

Well a 5 man party did this to your EB ontop of getting the gates reinforced at brav and duri and only dying twice to the 15+ man FC zerg.

(our zerg was in DH area all night)

that was our drunk crew (it’s our version of night coverage)

You wouldn’t happen to be a thief by any chance, asura?

nope i wasnt there my only asura is a mesmer

Ah true, well an asura thief from your guild gets some credit for not giving up on trying to get umber from us

Solstice.1097:

sephiroth.4217:

Ynot.8397:

Spicyhash.7605:

gotta say, fc has some of the worst roamers i’ve ever fought. zerg on.

That sounds like a challenge. Sadly I have not found any IoJ roamers worth a kitten either(except those buns jerks). Those zergs seem to be getting in the way.

Well a 5 man party did this to your EB ontop of getting the gates reinforced at brav and duri and only dying twice to the 15+ man FC zerg.

(our zerg was in DH area all night)

that was our drunk crew (it’s our version of night coverage)

You wouldn’t happen to be a thief by any chance, asura?

Ynot.8397:

Spicyhash.7605:

gotta say, fc has some of the worst roamers i’ve ever fought. zerg on.

That sounds like a challenge. Sadly I have not found any IoJ roamers worth a kitten either(except those buns jerks). Those zergs seem to be getting in the way.

Well a 5 man party did this to your EB ontop of getting the gates reinforced at brav and duri and only dying twice to the 15+ man FC zerg.

(our zerg was in DH area all night)

bokkieskitten.8023:

Sororita.3465:

GladConcept.4650:

Starlight, aren’t you on GOM? Did you transfer to IOJ?

We dont talk about GoM except in curses.

Such a despicable place! SO glad to have such a strong and loving man that whisked us away to IoJ all those months ago. -Bats lashes-

You’re welcome

hehe, it’s ok though, it was all our fault for GoM’s status at the time regardless if we left and one of the servers most dedicated guilds left after us in the same week before leagues were even announced :P looks at RISE (although can’t speak for their reasons on leaving)

Banzie.5248:

sephiroth.4217:

oZeppy.9028:

[RUN].

Give me back Nebakanezer.

Sincerely,

ALL OF FUN.

Never >:D

He is a well appreciated member and moving up in the ranks of [RUN], once started off as a Ninja Ferret and has recently aqquired the rank of German Weasel!

yes, our rank names are animals :P

Maybe you guys should come IOJ and merge with us???

We should make a poem about Fun and Run to try and entice them! Maybe include neb in it somewhere.

It’s fun to run with run when run makes fun run for fun on it’s fun run.

Neb.

…… ok, so it’s more of a tongue twister but meh

oZeppy.9028:

[RUN].

Give me back Nebakanezer.

Sincerely,

ALL OF FUN.

Never >:D

He is a well appreciated member and moving up in the ranks of [RUN], once started off as a Ninja Ferret and has recently aqquired the rank of German Weasel!

yes, our rank names are animals :P

Maybe you guys should come IOJ and merge with us???

Casey.9687:

sephiroth.4217:

Shirk.6421:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Tear.3617:

“The thief has a better short-bow and the warr has a better longbow.” it’s funny cause it’s true.

The Warrior Longbow? Absolutely. The Thief Shortbow? I laugh in your general direction. Barely any damage to the thief shortbow. #1 ricochets, #2 just explodes or can go into multiple explosions, #3 is the same as Ranger SB #3, #4 is just a poison field, and #5 just lets you teleport a distance. It’s crap compared to the Ranger SB in terms of damage.

A weapon doesn’t have to be a pure dps weapon to be good. The shortbow offers nice movement, poision fields and blast finishers. It’s a gimmicky AoE weapon.

What…

Ranger short bow has poison, cripple, dodge, stun/daze, bleeds without needing to crit and a fast attack speed.

As to the OP, one of my rangers is strait up longbow and aze/warhorn for zerging running PVT/Valk gear 30/30/0/0/10 traits and using those traits I have piercing arrows and opening strike refreshed every kill, opening strike 100% crit chance with 90% crit damage at 3600-4400 attack depending on might and bloodlust stacks.

Also ontop of that build with sigils of force, flanking traits and the 20 vuln that can be applied just with rapid fire (opening strike stacks 5….that is refreshed when someone goes down) all up im looking at +60% extra damage.

I think people need to learn builds a bit more, even after a year of ranger and the recent patch I can now self stack 24 might but that’s by using the right traits, sigils and runes.

Go home seph your drunk…..Gotta love that 0 condition removal on that build any condition based bunker class would destroy you in seconds and guess what…..those are everywhere! Have fun fighting a longbow warrior who none stop stacks bleeding and burning on you, who also regens 500 hp a second before rengeneration is applied. Your longbow has barely any defense to it which is its stealth after that your screwed. Your axe/warhorn has no surviability what so ever. Apparently you are the one who needs to learn builds my good sir.

Apparently you need to read is the case, I said that was my zerging build…. where im surrounded by guardians….. and healing springs…. and signants of renewal…. wait for it this will blow your mind BUT light fields everywhere and everyone randomly using whirl finishers ontop of every other condition removal possible!

…. Conditions are worthless in zergs.

Was a nice try though on your behalf, you just need to read the whole quote I gave next time. No way in hell I would small group work or solo roam on that build.

Shirk.6421:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Tear.3617:

“The thief has a better short-bow and the warr has a better longbow.” it’s funny cause it’s true.

The Warrior Longbow? Absolutely. The Thief Shortbow? I laugh in your general direction. Barely any damage to the thief shortbow. #1 ricochets, #2 just explodes or can go into multiple explosions, #3 is the same as Ranger SB #3, #4 is just a poison field, and #5 just lets you teleport a distance. It’s crap compared to the Ranger SB in terms of damage.

A weapon doesn’t have to be a pure dps weapon to be good. The shortbow offers nice movement, poision fields and blast finishers. It’s a gimmicky AoE weapon.

What…

Ranger short bow has poison, cripple, dodge, stun/daze, bleeds without needing to crit and a fast attack speed.

As to the OP, one of my rangers is strait up longbow and aze/warhorn for zerging running PVT/Valk gear 30/30/0/0/10 traits and using those traits I have piercing arrows and opening strike refreshed every kill, opening strike 100% crit chance with 90% crit damage at 3600-4400 attack depending on might and bloodlust stacks.

Also ontop of that build with sigils of force, flanking traits and the 20 vuln that can be applied just with rapid fire (opening strike stacks 5….that is refreshed when someone goes down) all up im looking at +60% extra damage.

I think people need to learn builds a bit more, even after a year of ranger and the recent patch I can now self stack 24 might but that’s by using the right traits, sigils and runes.

insanemaniac.2456:

sephiroth.4217:

well props to FC in IOJ BL for the good fights, cause of you guys it took me 2+ hours to get briar doors reinforced and no matter how many times you guys wiped you just kept bringing more and more all for the sake of vale regardless if you dont own a third of your own BL.

we had fcbl queued for a couple hours after reset… its not like whoever you were fighting had the option to just leave for fcbl.

…and you should know how annoying it can be to take a defended hills.

(and for the record i was in eb tonight)

It was about 5 hours after reset actually happened and if you are referring to our hills being defended today on reset nah wasn’t annoying lol, I was the comm who built trebs to hit outer walls and inner walls of hills

well props to FC in IOJ BL for the good fights, cause of you guys it took me 2+ hours to get briar doors reinforced and no matter how many times you guys wiped you just kept bringing more and more all for the sake of vale regardless if you dont own a third of your own BL.

caljay.8720:

Its nice to see that there are people like this in the game, that feel the need to steal golems and kill them. These golems were left at spawn, and were found in bay after we flipped it back, with next to no health, and they refused to return them to us. Im not blaming any particular server for this, but its just dumb and pointless

IOJ had a pair doing the same thing but they left about a day or so ago by the looks of it, we had golems saved in our Eb spawn just for the sake of reflipping our keep back but about 7 went missing due to a pair that went roaming in them cause “they found em”

Anyway, extremely stale match up but found some good fights out there anyway

Edit: Some good fights :/

I like the sky hammer map, I like the enemy camping it too with 2-3 people, means my team owns all the cap points and easy win.

As for the cliffs and holes everywhere, I like that too, just sucks sometimes when there is a longbow ranger sitting in the corner of your home cap point waiting to knock bock shot you when you come around the corner :/

Fortus.6175:

If they are using stability, then there is little you can do to actually stop it. Just to to stack AoE on it, hopefully that is enough of a deterrent. If they are rushing that then it also means they are not going for bases. Take the bases, have CC to hold them off, an elementalist can do a great job at that with staff, but make sure to protect him.

If this is solo queue then that was bad luck. If this is team queue then you might want to have some team synergy in there, or follow the trend and get one of the OP classes such as necro, warrior, thief or petting zoo ranger.

/Cheers and hope that helps

yer solo que and owning 2/3 cap points didn’t help us either :/

Thanks though

Hi… So, my situation is I’m only rank 17 and the last 2 games on spirit watch in tPvP the enemy has been using 3 ppl a combination of wars and guards only to rush the orb to a base, is there any counter to trying to stop this at all or is it a stiff kitten it’s broken sorta thing?

Yam.2891:

does anyone else get tired of reading the same posts over and over in these matchup threads?

Not really no, where has SPCA been all week too?

Can’t remember what guild before got called out for alt f4 but to the [Snow] warrior that alt f4’d right as I was downed in the 3v5 against you guys, thanks for the rally man!

We ended up dying being outnumbered and having to deal with AC fire but good giggles!

aaaawwwweeeee…..

NSP being so kitten cute right now in dane, you guys tripple our numbers and all you can do is sit in camp with your siege, so adorable!!!!

Good job on holding dane while you lost Anz, spel, mendons and when I started posting this you had swords on your keep

Cheers cam pretty much the answer I needed

glad I could get things rolling again lol

Should repost that video again

hey does anyone know if I transferred from NA to EU if I would experience more or less lag?

I’m from Australia and I’m not keen on spending the transfer gold to find out EU servers are unplayable due to lag.

Reason for transferring if it’s possible: I play EU prime time hours and having to 3 man an entire BL back cause WvW is that empty at those times is just getting boring to say the least.

Guild groups running together are just looking for some fun and organised group work, it’s fair to ask local randoms to either rally on commander or to join the guild (we got a small roster of 60 people now!).

Some people you just can’t help though, you let them tag along, spam the TS channel you’re in, they refuse to join then cry and call you bad on team chat and a bunch of other insults because they didn’t hear in TS about not chasing 1 thief to get killed…

So many randoms don’t understand fields and finishers regardless of telling them not to use any, so many times I have been in this situation dropping waterfields for rammers and having it over rided by a fire field :/

We always rez local friends though and chase off gankers, but if they die again within 10s we kinda just leave them and get back to our task (unless they have been focused by 3 thieves or something similar)

Hell, sometimes we be roaming in a group of 5 and a random that finds us, actually tags up and stalks us and tells us what to do ahaha, most days we don’t mind this, they are usually our PvE heroes that we can easily recruit and train for WvW.

Guild groups running together always do more than what everyone thinks, you might not know about it due to the fact that they have no tag and not shouting in map chat everything they do, but they do accomplish alot… Even the 5 man party guild raids can accomplish so much, example: When my guild 5 man roams, we take pang, supply up, get on hill at OW and ballista down all the towers siege then let the commander know.. (usually get raged at for “NOT BEING ON ME”, but some commanders are like that I guess)

Also after a year of WvW, I’m sure there are a lot of guilds who only log on to the game for their guildies and the raids they have together

Our last match up thread NSP/IOJ/CD got locked down too after 4 pages for some sort of made up insults at each other even though the 20 page SBI/FA/DB thread was just strait up trash talk lol

Either way, [RUN] had a lot of fun in NSP BL the last few hours at lake, best moment by far was stealing lake with 4 ppl off a 15 man upevel zerg, sorry to the mesmer commander at the time, I’m sure you were trying to tell everyone to not chase and get picked apart but props to the uplevels with man balls between their legs

I use my HTC mobile phone, turn on the wifi, get my PC connected to my mobile phone and play through that on the awsome 3G network in Australia…

6 hours a day between 4pm and 10pm I lag to the point of a slide show.

It was said in another thread,

But turn on the friendly fire!

Also: Jormag sweeps though WvW and blows up every wall and gate on every tower and keep.

I think it only effects the solo roamers at most.

Krumbotor.9064:

because there are no no-livers on your server that can play all night long

Cause no other time zones exist except yours and if another time zone does exist then the Online game should only be played according to 1 servers prime time.

Did I understand that right?

Let’s make WvW only playable between 5pm – 9pm Australian time essentially locking out any EU and any NA, or am I being selfish with that idea?

Personally I think they are awsome.

Longbows and traits can provide +20% extra damage to a target with vuln and piercing arrows always hurt if you are a zergling.

Water Field, 2 Fire fields, Ice Field, some leap finishers, a whirl finisher, physical projectile finishers and a blast finishers.

Can block attacks, reflect projectiles, pulls, lots of evades depending on weapon choices.

Can have 28s of stability but usually just the 20s with rampage as the usual.

Can be traited and set up to remove 6-8 conditions every 10 seconds + dodge rolls to remove blind and poison and gain protection.

Pets can play a huge part depending on what you are doing: Brown bear has 2 condi removals, red moa has AoE fury, hyena is double knock down and so on…

Not as heavy CC like warrior hammer but can still be an annoyance with cripples, chills, immobilizes and the general soft CC.

Has a few stun breakers like lighting reflexes, quickening zephyr ( I think that’s the name) and signent of renewal/stone should keep you good if it does come to chain stuns from a war if you’re not running the sword/dagger build for the 3 evades and 2 dodges, also rampage as one is pretty strong with all that stability.

Rangers are very versatile and at the end of the day it comes down to your build for what you are trying to do and how well you know how to do it to work with your play style.

To the [TDG] ele that was in the 4v1 against me, thank you for laughing and showing me how bad you really are.

Well after the 3rd zerg attempt on our fort pang, NSP has finally kicked us out, hope you guys liked our 2 omegas, 3 trebs, 4 ballistas, 4 arrowcarts and 10 rams we had

nekretaal.6485:

Have the WvW rewards ever been detailed?

I thought everybody was going to get the same stuff, including the mini dolyak, but the winners would get a special finisher.

Makes no sense to give the people who roughed it out on the losing servers nothing, unless the want future mass migrations and destroyed communities. Anet does make some money on transfers but the communities are why players stick with year old and older MMOs.

Agreed.

I only log on for my guildies most days now and so do a lot of people I know.

I’m after a chat with a [uA] Norn male mesmer if anyone can help me out please

Ergh….

Can’t catch a break in IOJ BL…

At first I thought NSP couldnt care less about thier BL seeing as it’s all green but why would you bother defending it when you could take IOJ’s BL to reclaim lost points…

Nice tactic too, also means we have to always defend against either CD or NSP, soon as CD rocks up NSP leaves and reclaims thier own BL, CD goes to NSP so NSP goes to IOJ….

Also, very good fight against XOXO male ele, had a lot of fun till you reset the fight and left me all alone wondering who would have won it

Hopefully Anet or someone can answer if we are getting Account WxP on December 10th patch?

It can’t come soon enough for me having 9 level 80’s all between 90-280…

Short and simple:

1. Increase the radius of /supplyinfo please.

2. Ability to change color of commander tag and to be able to set to Guild only so only guild members may see.

3. Ability to turn on some sort of block siege deployment from other players in a 600 radius – gets annoying when dropping a ram and griefers drop 3 trebs on top of it.

4. increase /supplyinfo radius

5. Increase /supplyinfo even more

6. Increase /supplyinfo much more.

All this focus from CD onto IOJ atm is kinda fun, annoying, but fun

Been a while since I seen a 1 hour assault onto a tower especially when it’s 20 v 60

Synd.7982:

sad thing is. this is whats going to kill gw2. ESO and eq next comes out in spring. saddens me. i was hoping a free to play game could actually stay good. but i guess i understand. neither one of these servers could have beat sbi without allying. Maybe it was their only choice.

Synd.7982:

sad thing is. this is whats going to kill gw2.

No. Just no.

What is going to kill Guild Wars 2 Is the player base…..
Leagues were a great Idea, allowing transfers from the time of announcement till leagues started was a bad idea.

Hopefully a lot of people learnt not to waste 1800 gems.

Also: If SBI wants to tell everyone about superior skill and dance on every body they zerg over the top of then just guessing the YB/EB/SBI match up won’t be the only match up where it’s 2v1 against SBI.

I’m such a bad mesmer, keep dying to 8 or so people chasing me around CD area while I’ve killed every single yak for the last hour or 2 heading into SM.

Maybe next time if you want a dance party you can do it while I’m alive?

Terkov.4138:

I guess I’m not the only one who saw sabotage in WvW. Killing golems on purpose (and sometimes openly admitting it!), turning trebs/mortars 180 degrees, etc…
We need something to prevent it, even if only partially. Right now I’m waiting for responce to my ticket about a guy killing 2 omegas, but even if ANet actually decides to punish him, it’s not a solution, as most players are too lazy to write a ticket, so such morons can destroy others fun and take no consequences.

We need some system. I don’t know exactly what, but something simple, like a window, where I can check who can use siege I place, with options: “Anyone, squad memebrs, guild members, party members, friend list, only me” could be a quick solution for this problem.

Any other ideas?

@edit
argh, error in topic name :s

Maybe like an option when you click on them to “kick from Map” resulting in a 12 hour ban from that map, after selecting that option, a little sub-window pops up in the corner somewhere to everyone on the map with “yes” and “no”. If 80% of players say yes then he’s gone, if anything less then that, then person can not be nominated again for another 12 hours.

I dunno

After those golem rushes I feel like a tsunami is about to hit IOJ from every side

Also nice work NSP on gathering that many people to defend that quickly

Tsath.4527:

Okay, so because you’d potentially have to move to EU servers to play WvW with some actual people instead of empty servers this idea is no good?

We’re trying to figure out a way to solve a hugely demotivating problem which impacts all servers in WvW and this is what stops it for you? Try to be a bit more constructive and imaginative :-)

If we could get ArenaNet to realize this is a huge problem for people we may even get a world transfer for free to better fit your time zone.

I personally wouldn’t like just playing WvW during night when most people logged off anyway.

(example only) Just because it’s 5pm in your local area doesn’t mean it’s 5pm for everyone else around the world.

You say go to EU servers, but what if the ping or FPS on those servers is unplayable? Talking from an Aussies point of view that is, are you saying that guild wars 2 should be restricted to Americans and Euros only?

What about the people in the Philippines?

Would it be fair to have night protection for Aussies too? Essentially closing down WvW for american prime time?

While yes it’s frustrating to lose towers because you have a lack of defenders on at that time, the other servers are in the same boat aswell. (lacking “prime time” during another servers prime time)

My personal opinion about leagues: Would have been awsome if they locked transfers between the time of announcement and 1st day of leagues starting, would have stopped a lot of guilds transferring/stacking to the top of spectrum per league.

Sororita.3465:

Natar.3671:

This is it folks, the final match up of the season. Who shall come in last? Will it be NSP or IOJ? Find out at the end of the match up!

We’re better losers than you <flails around>

That [June] Thief with wolf finisher is OP…. I’m strait up PVT with Sentinal gear, 33k+ health, nearly 4k armor and you kill me in 2 hits 0.o

I have never seen a thief hit so god kitten hard before

Tibstrike.2974:

Jay.7546:

FA class of the silver league. Since you continue to exhibit class and desire attention I figured I would post another screen shot of two members from “Gods” showing some class and some great dance moves as well.

Maybe you should join the IoJ commander and karma train like the rest of us instead of complaining so much.

I can see his frustration, deciding to fight a 2v1 then dying only to be danced on, I wreckon good on jay for being a ranger and still trying to 1v2 a war and guard instead of running away till it was a 4v2

Cheers to the FA commander in EB at the moment for letting people get their META done for SM this last 2 or so hours, also cheers to the 2-3 people who have found me but just waved and walked away (charr mesmer)

Fun fights all around in the arena, very exciting 3v3 vs [WB] and tons a fun!

Nuzt.7894:

This makes me happy for some strange reason.

Maybe it’s the bacon? No wait I got it, just guessing though, bandwagon superblob dance party is cancelled?