Thx guys for the inputs realy apretiated.
I tried to run with gs+s/d and it was a lot better, very good mobility and defense, I didn’t run LB ‘cause I think it’s broken, too slow and predictable.
I did 4 hours of roaming alone and with some friends, but no way I could kill a good thief, I think I’m missing something lol, I tried to aoe the place + auto attack + entangle only to find out he was far far away from me, maybe I just need more practice.
Are you guys serious ?
WvW has finaly became the pvp game we all dreamed of.. now the zerg not only farms towers/keeps but they also farm Champions !!!!!111!!! who doesn’t like a sane PvDvC ?
They say we have to wait untill the end of this kitten League ‘cuz they don’t wanth to.. I don’t know.. work ? .. but maybe is better to leave things like they used to be, last changes ruined the game.
OMG I wrote a long post but that awful error just deleted everything I wrote..
To sum it up:
30/25/15 is my specc. 10% damage, piercing arrows, 1500 range, 5 seconds vigor if hit by a crit, -20% cd on bows, first CC goes to pet
As utilities I use signet of the hunt, signet of renewal and protect me. As heal either healing spring in groups or heal as one for solo because I love beging able to instant heal up if I get dropped to under 50% by a thief.
So you have two stunbreakers, protect me is like a 6 seconds direct damage immunity and with signet of renewal you can transfer all conditions to your pet which helps in some cases when you get condition bursted.
As gear I use full zerker gear with melandru runes und lemongrass poulty soup food which offers good defense against conditions.
If you want even more defense against physical damage you can use the signet work for ranger trait and signet of stone instead of signet of renewal.
As Pet I like wolf/dog or bears if you play in zergs.
error 500 ftw !
Nice build man, I’m gonna try out the gs/lb with my PTH/zerker armor and some more survival traits, and with your tips on how to discover stealth enemys I hope I can finally stomp a skilled thief :P.
p.s. Why do you have piercing arrows ? are you also run in zerg with that build ?
Thanks for the replys guys.
@Arpheus . Nice and usefull tips, I did notice that rapid fire follows hidden ppl but never used it for this utility, also the auto attack of gs will help me. but which traits do you use ? I feel squishy with 30/30/10/0/0, even with 6 sec of immunity.
@Terkov. I’m sorry m8, I also have hard time posting on the forum. Any way, yes I can run from thiefs, but I’m too proud to run away.
The 6 man were not bad bro, how can you stomp an invisible thief ? as soon as 1 thief is down the other will go stealth and ress the downed ally, the only solution is aoe the target area and hope for the best, but in my experience 1 guy ressing>>>>aoe dmg.
And they also used to spike single targets —> stealth stomp —> next target —> spike —> stealth stomp —> next target —> and so on, how can you counter that ?
Hello fellow rangers, I’ve a question for you !
How can I beat a skilled perma stealth thief in WvW?
I haven’t figured out yet how to kill them, I tried almost every build/tactic available but nothing as changed, I can’t even dream to stomp them.
The mach usually ends up in 2 ways :
a) I manage to bring him around 20/30% hp before he stealth, he will full recover and try to kill me using another tactic, if they don’t try any weak point they will just vanish away.
b) they stealth/bs me to the Death, no way I can survive this, they can outrun me easy, and like point a) they can stealth to recover and try again if they are in trouble.
I’m oc talking about those thiefs that realy knows how to play it.
Like :
Yesterday I saw 2 thiefs taking out 6 players with little or no effort, I watched them from distance, it was almost pathetic, the 6 players managed to down both thiefs at least 2/3 times, but the thiefs could stealth ress each other so it was impossible to stomp/kill them. One by one the 6 brave soldiers died by those 2 thiefs.
Don’t you guys get it ?
This whole thing is a farce to gain some time to prevent the Exodus of WvW players, as it happened in sPvP before.
They don’t care of the tournament outcome, they only need some more time to finish this beta year.
Any way, if you don’t like playing with lag you should “just” move to another server, I know some ppl have feelings for theyr server, but we need to fix the game our selfs as best as we can, because if we wait for anet to adress the many problems of WvW we will just grow old.
Have you guys tried a memcheck since the crash ? I had the same problem and I had a damaged block of ram.
As i suggested here :
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Game-crashes-computer-since-9-3-2013-update/first#post2770245
I had a similar problem since friday, run a memcheck, you can use a live cd of Linux like ubuntu if you don’t know any programs, I had damaged ram and I could play randomly ( from 7 mins to 30 mins ).
Game crashes computer since 9/3/2013 update.
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Posted by: sminkiottone.6972
Try to count how many beeps your computer does, and contact your manufacturer/microsoft to know the meaning.
Example : 3 long beeps means you first 64Kb of ram are damaged.
I tell you this because that’s what happened to me, I didn’t had any beeps at restart but, my ram was damaged, and yes only gw2 was unplayable ( from 7 min of gaming to 30, and then crash ), don’t know if the ram was already damaged or what ( it had 10 days of life lol )
If this is the case you can run a memcheck to see if you need to replace them ( maybe you have 2 block of ram and only one of them is damaged ), if you don’t know any program you can try a live cd of Linux ( ubuntu is user-friendly )
@Tom Gore
My bad, I generalized a bit too much, I know every server has good and noob players, but I hope my point was clear : lots of people who don’t like pvp are in WvW just because it doesn’t require skill, you can also stand in the blob doing nothing but still earning points from capping, it’s crazy imho.
It sounds more Lineage 2/Eve online than Guildwars 2 to me.
Anet is never going to do it for the following reasons :
1. You are suggesting another type of game.
2. Guildwars 2 has too few real pvpers, most of them have already leaved the game months ago.
3. Lots of people like zerging, it compensate the lack of personal skill.
4. Most people don’t actualy enjoy pvping, yesterday I was roaming alone in Vizunah bl ( my bad I know.. ), I had hard time find some brave player, most of them just flee, even 2 vs me, luckily for me there were few good SFR on the map to play with.
I have the same exact problem, the game crashes after 7/30 mins ( seemed random ), I let gw2 verify them before restart the game but nothing has changed, it’s from friday that I keep crashing every now and then.
My spec :
I5 4670K
4gb ddr3 1600
gtx 760 oc
corsair 750watt psu
I monitored the hardware but everything was fine, both cpu and gpu temp where under 65° and 60% of load, even the ram had nearly 1gb of free space.
The game runs smoothly.
More than once I loged in finding my self without 1 or 2 exotic wapons, now I check the “buy back” option before log off :P
Maybe you should invest in an invisible bag… They’re not that expensive and can save a lot of trouble
I should look into it, my poor ranger thanks you
I also done the following things :
1. I bought the 2g manual for retrain my skills, yes it doesn’t work lol :P
2. I bought 800 gems to buy experience scrolls only to find out I could not use them for power lvl with crafting.
3. Sometime I try to escape the enemy zerg by entering the wrong tower/keep/garrison/sm, usually I realize it’s not ours only when I open the map to tp back.
4. I also forgot to equipe spectral walk before jumping off the Cliff.
More than once I loged in finding my self without 1 or 2 exotic wapons, now I check the “buy back” option before log off :P
Awesome video !
I think that we and anet should thank all the people who made all those funny mini games inside WvW and sPvP real, and of course all you guys who supported it from Vabbi to Seafarer’s Rest this whole thime.
thanks.
bazinga
you will never see it on WvW. go to tower and make arrow rain!
Make it rain bro !
Better stated, is WvW the baby left in the car while the parent goes shopping?
Eventually the baby will get taken away, or succumb…
This is getting old. I would gladly pay for a good WvW experience at this point. Too bad there isn’t one yet.
Hahaha that made me laugh, but you are forgetting the sPvP child, sadly for him its even worse :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-SMqzuNRU
We should go on strike, me and my friends are no longer buying gems untill the dev team wakes up.
1 – I disagree, imho Aoe is the real zerg problem, right now a necro can get 15/25 lootbags and around 200/300 wxp ( in my personal experience ) from a 60+ enemy blob, if that necro had no Aoe cap that drop would be like 50 bags and many more wxp, I’m not sure you see the problem here, but that’s a nice farm, that would for sure drive more ppl into blobbing, and kill any chance to discourage it.
Well, to put it in a nutshell, no Aoe cap = more blobs
3 – I agree, Orange sword, but also White swords are blob friendly, removing those sword would help decrease the blob efficency, and increase roaming/milita/scout groups effectiveness.
Some years ago when I heard for the first time about gw2 I was very exited.
I played gw1 a lot, it was almost perfect, yes there were lots and lots of bugs at first, glitch and so on, but they were fixed and the game became very enjoyable, the PVP part was the backbone of gw1 and anet really cared about it, the onyl real problem for me and lots of other ppl was the lach of a open world.
But with gw2 I think Anet made too many mistakes ( they probably didn’t have enough resources ) :
- No real pvp, and after 1 year it is still nothing more than the initial ( under lvl 20) pvp maps of gw1, lol ? did you anet forgot how cool was your pvp ?
- PVE-WvW-sPVP should be complitely unrelated, I should be able to buy only the WvW game or the sPVP game and play only them, and that would help you to balance the game like it should be.
- We like our bugs and we are going to keep them ( they never said that, but it’s what I think )… Why I ask, why would you keep those bugs ? it’s like to go to work unshaved, it’s not professional, you sure had a lot of time in the past year ( or better 5/7 years ) to polish a little bit you game, don’t make exuses please.
- Optimization, 20 fps with a 4670K and gtx 760 oc on a medium/big zerg with medium/low settings, ’nuff said!
- LAG, if the problem are the aoe skills, my question is why you made all those aoe skills in the first place ? think about it, if only few skill were aoe ( like meteor shower ) the blob style would partialy die with it, now you can get 4/5 bag by pressing just 1 skill, this is lame, and we ain’t stupid, we know blob is the way you get most wexp and gold, you made the game to be blob center all by yourself.
- GVG ??? I need to know why you don’t want to add it.
- WvW, like sPvP is at a embryonic state, a lot of work need to be done here, it’s like a beta of some sort.
- Stop ninja fix, if you change something, even if it’s small you should let us know.
- Cheaters, acknowledge the problem please, and let un know what you intend to do.
- Equip, Legendary ? Ascendent ? leave these thing to the PvE world, pvers love to kill mobs and leave shiny footsteps around the world, I would like a game more skill based.
I know you can do better if you apply yourself a bit more on certain aspects of the game like PvP and WvW, give us some real love for few weeks, kidnap the PvE departement if you need more man power, you can add a nice quaggan hat for the pvers as a present, or a tamagotchi, they will love it and won’t notice any differences.
Sorry for the bad english.
With respect.
Yes, I used to make lots more badges than now, they maybe boosted it too much last time, but now it’s too hard to get them.
I agree, I don’t get why spvp rank is account bound while wvw rank isn’t.
Example :
I play spvp with 3 different classes, I did like 6 ranks with my ranger and 1 with the other classes ( ele-necro ) , right now every char in my account is rank 7 ( and i’m more noob than any rank 1 with my necro XD ).
When I play spvp and see ppl rank 1 I just think " well, hes probably more noob than me, ’cuz im rank 7 ( not entirely true, but you get the point ) "
But when I play WvW with one of my chars ( my chars are 25+, one of them is almost rank 100 ) and I bump into a rank 1 it doesn’t mean I have more experience than he does ! he could be rank 200 as main, so he would probably have better knowledge of the WvW mechanics than I do.
Why is WvW so different ? it should be more like spvp than pve, WvW rank mechanic is misleading.
I think the best thing would be :ranks and skills are account bound, ’cuz it will be too easy to just roll a new char just to get the right skills ( Anet is implementing the “level scrolls” ).
I got all excited when I read the title:
World vs. World XP and Point adjustments
Finnaly account wide wvw, but no
Same here, I had to read it twice, still hoping it’s a joke, after many and many posts about this Anet came up with +1 rank for all char and a increased wxp,
I bet the increased wxp will benefit blobs on most cases.