Guild Wars 2

Virtsuoso.9761:

Vodka.3958:

Virtsuoso.9761:

Vodka.3958:

SmokeyNYY.7841:

Sunspots.9861:

Blackgate won last week. I don’t think they have anything left to prove.

Considering they won during a week where JQ got sabotaged hard I think they have a lot to prove.

Anyway awesome week of fighting guys

I am just happy that SoR has a chance of breaking BG’s undefeated streak against them

Keep up the awesome fights everyone!!

Blackgate got sabotaged harder but we didn’t say anything in the forums about it. Yeah nice job to SoR for beating Blackgates 13-0 streak against them, let’s see if they can do it 12 more times!

Can’t be sabotaged when you lose your keeps and the sieges get destroyed, just saying. Winning ONCE does not prove anything either.

Oh we lost our keeps plenty of times because of sabatoging. I even remember when we let SoR take our T2 Bay so they can kill all the flame rams that a spy built in their. The only difference between JQ and BG from last weeks match is that Blackgate didn’t want to say anything about it on the forums since any excuse for losing is a form of poor sportsmanship. Especially in the first 4 days of last week when we were down by 20k, the last thing we wanted was to make excuses. Blackgate rises above, we keep calm and conquer.

So there are numerous posts of JQ&SoR Vs BG, yet there are little to no pics or mention of the sabotage. I am surprised that the BG forum warriors hadn’t bought it once this whole time since they complain about insufficient 2v1s, but not a siege sabatage.

There are dozens of screenshots in last weeks thread. It doesn’t matter if the keeps are captured, they were clearly hacking them into walls and other places and yes there are also screenshots of people who found them in these places. Mendons, for instance, was completely siege capped for everything but gollems for the last few days and I searched for siege around that area and couldn’t find any, so it had to have been map cap.

I kinda see the 2v1 concept, but not in game. Its smarter for SOR to play for second because they don’t have the coverage to beat JQ, but they have the numbers to beat BG. BG has now beaten JQ and JQ doesn’t want that to happen again so we are making sure it doesn’t by targetting BG. Just the way things go. But its not like anyone on JQ is like, öh its SOR we will leave them be". We see an invader, BG or SOR, we will do what we can to bring the hurt.

Do the PvE events like Dredge, Hylek, cull the mosquitoes etc. These are easy to do and you can do it solo and award WXP. I believe all events do, but I haven’t checked them all for sure. Also Ive found I can do certain events and then don’t get WXP when I do them again later so there might be some cap on them or something. The other easy one you can do is flip supply camps. These should be small groups/solo events (although zergs do them too). You can solo supply camps by yourself, just watch out for the supervisor buff which lasts 4minutes after it has flipped. If your running solo your are better to wait for the buff to clear and then cap it.

Graybes.8251:

I’m sure you’ve already tried this but have you played with the new graphic settings for WvW? Putting the character quality on lowest does absolutely amazing things for your FPS.

Yeah some of the zerg fights you get you get skill lag even at lowest settings. Im on holidays and played during prime time and there were some 80v80s going on and I had to back up away from the fight and fight on the outskirts so I could cast/attack. During my prime time (Oceanic), I don’t seem to have that problem as much, but during the peak hours of NA it seems it can get pretty bad if your in a high pop server. Before this, I hadn’t experienced skill lag that bad other than in three ways in StoneMist.

I take back what I said about this being a grind. Its actually not bad. You get XP from doing any events in WvW. My impression initially was that it was ONLY from WvW invader kills. Anet really needs to be a bit more clear with their wording.

Its only since the patch that I realised how lame it is. My first thought was a health or damage decreaser once it gets above a certain amount of players in an area IE 1% less damage if over 30 players etc etc. I don’t know if theres a better idea, but I really hope something is integrated into the game that reduces the full on zerg mentality that is in the game. And I don’t believe its possible for the players to just adapt. The system needs to adapt so its not so beneficial to play this way.

Thanks. Yeah this kinda sucks. I guess for my build, Condition damage + power/vitailty minor would be closer to what I want. Seems like alot of gear/traits attach both precision and condition damage, but AFAIK they don’t compliment one another.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

sostronk.8167:

So heavily gated. Can’t they leave that in PvE.

Because these are so crucial to have, I take it?

The +5 total Supply can work well with a “Guild Fortified Transporter” but other than that, I don’t see how it’s terribly useful. In fact, very little of this is absolutely a “must get”.

Your obviously bad at WvW if you don’t think +5 supplies is very useful. Please don’t use the word "fact"ever again when talking about WvW.

Hi. I want to rekit my Necromancer. Im specifically after armor/weapon sets that give +power +condition damage +toughness. But I can’t find any set that gives this. Is there one?

So heavily gated. Can’t they leave that in PvE.

Honestly, nows a good time to come to JQ. Plenty of competition now with good fighting and good coverage.

It was delayed this patch. Will be integrated in four days.

There have been a few waypoints added recently in Orr and some in this latest patch to a couple of other regions. I believe they are required for any players who haven’t already done world completion. How long has it been since you reached 100%? I have 100% and completed them before those additions and haven’t picked them up since, but it still displays 100% world completion despite not having them.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

sostronk.8167:

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Yeah, I play MMOs to rehash tired old N64 garbage.

You take that back immediately! N64 is the greatest thing that ever happened in the history of humanity!

For my generation Space Invaders was… and I never want to see that, or Pong, in an MMO either.

Fair enough. I forgive you.

How are people opening hundreds of chests?

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Yeah, I play MMOs to rehash tired old N64 garbage.

You take that back immediately! N64 is the greatest thing that ever happened in the history of humanity!

kyro.8162:

Imo, this is the best patch anet has released so far.

Nice screenshot. I haven’t been able to play yet because the patch was early morning and Im at work now. Seems like all you can see is nametags though and not the players?

Do you get banned for an innappropriate name without being given an option to modify/change your name? Seems a bit extreme.

sPvP warriors are considered the worst class. Everywhere else they are considered one of the best.

Rackhir Tanelorn.9123:

Valik Shin.9027:

Do people not realize u also get rewards for defending?

You also get rewards for killing Invaders…

but no, most people don’t realize that :P

You get alot more “rewards” for attacking.

hex.3218:

Sardonia.8196:

hex.3218:

I don’t know what all the complaining is about. Did BG win last week? Rejoice children! The long cold night of the JQ is OVER! Now that JQ has been beaten, they will implode. Just like HoD, ET, SoS and the other server with the guy that did ventriliquism on the island. The plane boss, the plane!

But seriously, kids, this week is not exactly a fair fight. BG spotted us a big lead resting up for the patch and the week that follows the patch. This week is almost a throw away. Patch mid week, come on. One set of rules half the week, another set of rules the second half.

Look on the very bright side of things. Dedicated players will not be worth MORE than zerglings. Servers like SoR will have a better chance to compete. BG and JQ have a lot of half-in half-out WvW players who won’t spend a lot of time getting ranked up. Smart servers will be able to create specialists for different situations, or even heroes of great reknown that can strike fear in the hearts of other players with their shiny tag alone!

When does the patch go live?

JQ last week pretty much did not care after Wednesday or so. I think they just got fed up with the exploits and seige capping and did not really play has hard as they are now. At least that is how I feel. Plus BG were playing some crazy long hours which cannot be sustained week in week out. JQ came out this week to prove a point and it has shown.

My point was that people make a big deal out of things that aren’t really that important. Heck, SoR could steal a week depending on what BG and JQ field for any given 7 day period.

Getting upset over coverage differences on a week where clearly BG is resting from their hard earned victory is silly. BG can put up a good fight when fully rested and ready to go. Last week proves it.

BG won. The only real reason they did is because they fought for it. Everything else is excuses.

That being said, if JQ wins this week, it’s because they fought for it. Everything else (coverage included) is excuses.

We will have to agree to disagree. I completely believe if it wasn’t for the exploits/cheating going on that week then JQ would have finished on top. Nobody will be able to convince me otherwise. I do agree that BG closed the gap that week, but it was the exploits that stopped JQ from being able to do anything that won the week.

Sardonia.8196:

hex.3218:

I don’t know what all the complaining is about. Did BG win last week? Rejoice children! The long cold night of the JQ is OVER! Now that JQ has been beaten, they will implode. Just like HoD, ET, SoS and the other server with the guy that did ventriliquism on the island. The plane boss, the plane!

But seriously, kids, this week is not exactly a fair fight. BG spotted us a big lead resting up for the patch and the week that follows the patch. This week is almost a throw away. Patch mid week, come on. One set of rules half the week, another set of rules the second half.

Look on the very bright side of things. Dedicated players will not be worth MORE than zerglings. Servers like SoR will have a better chance to compete. BG and JQ have a lot of half-in half-out WvW players who won’t spend a lot of time getting ranked up. Smart servers will be able to create specialists for different situations, or even heroes of great reknown that can strike fear in the hearts of other players with their shiny tag alone!

When does the patch go live?

JQ last week pretty much did not care after Wednesday or so. I think they just got fed up with the exploits and seige capping and did not really play has hard as they are now. At least that is how I feel. Plus BG were playing some crazy long hours which cannot be sustained week in week out. JQ came out this week to prove a point and it has shown.

Yeah its how I felt. Turn up to flip a keep and the only thing you can build is gollems gets a bit old. I didn’t play Thursday of Friday. It was kind of pointless since all we could do was defend and try to hold what we had and any attack gave ample time for BG/SOR to react because we had to destroy the upgraded doors with auto attacks. At the start of this week I noticed the same guy building flame rams, but they have started to dissappear and hes not there building more and resetting the ones he has built so hopefully hes banned.

I stopped going when the rich ori node was removed. When it was there, I just logged in on alts, farmed the ori, and logged in on another char.

Shinji.2063:

sostronk.8167:

Haziq.3907:

I guess BG is laying low this week ? Wonder if they will take the title again next week.

Maybe they are lying low. But JQ has alot more numbers participating this week (so far). Also, not long now before the exploiters will have us siege capped with all the rams being spammed whilst Anet, with the hundreds of reports they have, do nothing about it. I think alot of JQ players, knowing this, are not going to coast so much so we aren’t in a position we can’t deal with at the end of the week with spending way too much on gollems because we can’t build any other siege.

You know rams have there own cap, troll rams hurt the local cap but not the map cap.

There must be alot more of them built in places I can’t see then, because last week we couldn’t build rams in places like mendons/anz.

Honestly, it makes me wonder how I got to where I am in the game right now.

Haziq.3907:

I guess BG is laying low this week ? Wonder if they will take the title again next week.

Maybe they are lying low. But JQ has alot more numbers participating this week (so far). Also, not long now before the exploiters will have us siege capped with all the rams being spammed whilst Anet, with the hundreds of reports they have, do nothing about it. I think alot of JQ players, knowing this, are not going to coast so much so we aren’t in a position we can’t deal with at the end of the week with spending way too much on gollems because we can’t build any other siege.

I see the flame rams have already been spammed. Anet is awesome…

Vicarious.3047:

I laugh at the people saying warrior! Sure those 10-12k crits are nice… after you’ve knelt down for 3 seconds waiting for it to go off….. unless ofc those Ranger dots have killed you while you stood still by that point :P

Compare that to my thief build. I can do an immediate 13k burst, then another 13k burst, then another 13k burst, then roll for initiative and do another 13k burst. Downside is I die to one-hits from so many classes abilities :p I guess over certain timeframes, a ranger would do more damage, but I use the timeframe it takes to kill a single target in WvW, where the Thief and a Warrior both perform better. Except of the are a good player and run skills that reflect damage or temporary invulnerability. But the average WvW players skill is pretty low.

But really the question from the OP is open to alot of “but ifs”, so to speak.

Single target would have to be either Warrior rifle or Thief dual pistols. Multiple targets/aoe, maybe warrior longbow.

Are you using this for PvE type events like dragons? I discounted a few things from certain classes on the basis that they are not as useful in these PvE events.

To be honest, Im glad I woke up to a a 14k loss today. If I had of woken up to a 4k or 6k loss it would have been clear in my head that the outcome of the week was decided by cheating. At least a 14k loss causes some doubt. I also believe BG and JQ really closed the gap this week for alot of reasons. It wasn’t just a case of “BG wanted it more”, I think alot of JQ players have left and given up WvW lately. It gets a bit stale, both WvW and GW2. TBH Ive been a pretty dedicated WvW player, but Ive hardly played this week because Im at a point in the game where I am waiting for the next patch and if it doesn’t totally blow my mind Ill be quitting the game.

I think GS is excellent on both classes. Although I don’t think Id ever drop my GS on my guardian, whilst I am happy to pick up other weapons on my warrior. For me a GS warrior seems like a one trick pony, whilst a GS on a guardian seems essential. But in all honesty, there isn’t alot of difference. Any class can be really good at commanding as far as I am concerned, even a GC thief.

Arikyali.5804:

sostronk.8167:

Just to point out, I have a char I run with over 200% magic find and don’t see a difference. I think running a damage build is better in the long run than magic find as it speeds up how quickly you kill the monsters. MF is very controversial.

Is that so? Hm..how much of a difference would you say MF makes then?

Some days I farm with my brother. We can go for a good 5 hours at a time, sometimes more. Same hits on all mobs and on any given farming session either of us could end up with better drops, despite me having over 200% MF whilst he has no magic find. We often compare exact drops and they are almost always the same ikittenhour period. I’ll be dropping the magic find armor eventually when I have the mats and be building a damage build for farming. I believe the damage increase will actually be of more benefit by speeding up how many kills you can get in a given timeframe than the MF chance to drop something rarer will.

The thing is, the jumping puzzle chests in both EB and the borderlands contain things that can be used against you. Its completely reasonable to want to attempt to deny players things that they can use against you.

If you have trouble getting through, try talking to some of the guilds in your server. Quite a few of the JQ guilds regularly run events to get casuals their jumping puzzle chest towards the end of the week.

5 hours on a worknight, 18 hours on a weekend day. Except when if I go out or whatever. Some weekends I like to stay at home and I can go for ~36hours straight, sleep and then its Monday morning and time to go to work. I work a standard 9 day fortnight, so 5 days averaging 18 hours and 9 days averaging 5 hours so 135 hours a fortnight or ~65 hours a week. I think thats about as much as anyone can play who has a full time job :p

Ursan.7846:

Ask yourself

What would you like to do instead?

Is not doing the dailies preventing you from doing it?

If not doing the dailies isn’t preventing from you doing what you like to do, why don’t you just do what you like to do?

I thought id try an experiment to answer your questions, in order:

1. Play WvW.
2. Yes.
3. Because WvW players are already broke and I need the infusions to try to deal with my constant state of being broke and not being able to afford basic upgrades in WvW. And its not the daily reward of coin, karma etc that is the problem. Its the infusions. Those infusions put substantially more coin into the economy, if I don’t have them on my 8 chars, Im going to be proportionally even more broke. Before the Laurels, it was no issue to skip dailys. So I either go do something I don’t want to do or not be fully functional in what I want to do…

Its a common theme among dedicated players in WvW servers that we are trying to come up with ways to entice casual players to participate in WvW. Its hard when the rewards are terrible when compared to WvW. As a dedicated player, I find it actually costs me more to play WvW than I obtain. On an average day I could earn or lose coin, depending on the situation. If I am in a situation where I have to outright defend, then I lose money. If there is alot of flipping going on, I might make a very small amount or maybe break even. Which is terrible when in PvE you can pull 5g+ an hour. Upgrades to buildings cost so much. I don’t know if its intended, but if you are a dedicated WvW player you have to be able to farm PvE in order to contribute in every way possible in WvW.

Not like the Karka event though. I put over 30 hours into the event and missed out on the chest because in my timezone the “finale” was a Monday morning whilst I was at work.

Arikyali.5804:

The ‘loot from chest’ doesn’t include the little wooden chests from monsters, right?

and for something like the Superior Runes, is it only the last stat given, (+25% ) or are all magic stats added, totaling +50%?

Its all the magic stats on runes added together with any others you have (not just the highest stat). Wooden chests from monsters are applied the magic find bonus.

Just to point out, I have a char I run with over 200% magic find and don’t see a difference. I think running a damage build is better in the long run than magic find as it speeds up how quickly you kill the monsters. MF is very controversial.

JemL.3501:

i would defend myself by saying ‘’i thought the event was mean to spawn lot of mobs’’ so dont worry tbh.

Id tell them I thought the builders were taking a break and having a union meeting whilst I farmed thousands of heavy moldy bags everyday for a week.

mcarswell.3768:

i’ve seen people link [Dusk] after doing Shadow Behemoth, but then again people sometimes link all kinds of weird stuff that they already have.

Id say its a troll link. I believe on the wiki it refers to “high level” bosses. Maybe Mount Maelstrom and areas above this, but Maw or Shadow Behemoth… I highly doubt it.

Polismassa.6740:

sostronk.8167:

You guys do realise that Guild Wars isn’t a reference to the “guilds” your talking about right?

I noted that in an earlier post, but that still doesn’t change the fact that GvGs were a big part of GW1, and would be a great addition to GW2. Certainly far more lasting and useful than more random PvE events (although I might be biased…)

I agree with you, that they would be a good addition, despite the fact that I would not be able to participate in them because I am part of a “small family guild”. But at the same time, I really don’t think Anet is looking to implement any more large features, unless its in the form of a “payed-for expansion”.

Im a bit confused about the concept of “being bad at an MMO”. I came from a different gaming background which viewed MMO players as being casual players who were bad at gaming.

You guys do realise that Guild Wars isn’t a reference to the “guilds” your talking about right?

They are not “guaranteed”. I have definitely had blue/green drops from quite a few of these. And yes this is since they started saying it was a guaranteed rare. Some I can remember not getting a rare are Grenth and Frozen Maw. Im assuming Anet have a different definition of “guaranteed”.

Irony.5203:

Zen.8497:

Miiaah.5416

“I really don’t have culling issues with my new iMac, even on high settings large fights are much better but then again I like staying in smaller groups like 15-20 on our side”

It is common knowledge that culling issues are on the server side and not on the client side. It is already announced to be fixed in the new patch.
I always go by if you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

Culling is a combination of Server side and Client side issues. For the most part, the windows and mac clients should operate nearly the same in terms of fetching data from the server, however it may render it slightly different.

The difference is probably no more than 5%, if even that.

5% of what?

Find below a quote below stating that Anet is currently not working on a precursor scavenger hunt. Its months off if it even comes…

http://dragonseason.com/Front/tabid/124/EntryId/212/Lunch-with-Colin-Johanson-Part-III.aspx

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“Precursors. A little while ago there was mention that there were going to be other ways to get hold of precursors, like through the scavenger hunt.

Colin: Someday yes.

Someday. So no plans for the immediate future?

Colin: We’ve thrown in a few more RNG ways to get them, like random chances for places they could go in the game recently, but that’s not the real solution. That’s just a “hey lets just increase the number of places people can earn them at this point”. The fixes for qualifying for loot that will go in the February release will also increase the chances you can get precursors ‘cause it means you have a higher chance of rolling for loot in every creature that you kill. Which means you have a higher chance of getting a precursor. So that will help as well. But long term we’d like to do something that’s a little bit more epic, where there’s a clear path of “here’s everything you need to do and when you complete it, you automatically get a precursor.” We’re not working on that right now, we’re really trying to design what that would be, but yeah certainly at some point we will create a system that allows you to do that."

If culling is not related to lag, then why was culling implemented?

Minion of Vey.4398:

TDWIG.9712:

Yeah I think I’m going to wait for this next patch, and then just buy it no matter what happens to the price. I can only wait for so long…

It’s iffy now. I made a post above mentioning they’re cheaper due to lower cost of ectos. Since that post they announced a change to dragon chests which caused ecto prices to go up a fair bit.

Precursor prices may not go back down now. There’s no real reason for precursor prices to go UP by any meaningful amount, as after all ectos are still cheaper today than they were pre dragon chests.

Waiting for the patch is fine. Unless there’s something in there directly related to precursors though, what you see today is probably about what you’ll see in a week though. Course there’s always surprises in the patches, you could end up seeing randomly in the patch notes “slightly increased chances to get precursors from the MF” again or something.

I could be wrong about the nerf, but aren’t they reducing the drop rate on both rare and exotic items? If so wouldn’t that mean less precursors dropping from boss chests?

I think you pretty much covered it SadieDeAtreia. Nice work.

Mackdose.6504:

eisberg.2379:

Mackdose.6504:

eisberg.2379:

DeathPanel.8362:

If you choose to skip a few dailies then you have no right to complain about not getting laurels on those days since rewards are based on time/effort invested as is the standard for reward for ALL mainstream online MMOs.

It would be unfair to those that actually put time in to get their laurels on those days for you to get any special consideration.

Time and effort you say? I play 24 hours per week, but only on 3 days per week, I get 3 laurels per week. Some guildies of mine only play 1-2 hours a day for 7 days a week, and they get 7 laurels.

I’m sorry, but getting laurels has nothing to do with time, it is just logging in every day play for 1 hour and get the reward.

Dailies were a bad idea, should have been a weekly with 7 tiers, where each tier gives you the same reward as a daily. This way if you play for 7 days 1-2 hours per day you can get the weekly done and get the 7 laurels, and if you play 3 days 8 hours per day, you can still get the 7 laurels.

While that would work on paper, it also counters why dailies were put in: to get people playing every day to populate the open world.

With the weekly, we’d see overflow weekends and dead non-peak.

That is a good counter point. How about taking the BiS Item that is only available through laurels, and give other ways to obtain it? Would that get rid of the incentive to log in every day? I would imagine people would still want to get as many laurels as possible for the other stuff on the laurel store.

And you’d be absolutely correct in that assumption.

I think having a sole BiS item exclusive to each type of reward structure is a good idea, personally. It encourages trying new things (fractals for back pieces, guild missions for earrings, laurels for amulets)

I can definitely see my opinion not being the popular one in this case.

I would have agreed with you some time ago. And as an example, it was the monthly reward in December that got me into Fractals. But there is not a single thing on that list of daily “tasks” that I have not done a million times already. I think it would be pretty awesome if they did challenge me to do new things, but they don’t.

Rule number 1 for fight club, DONT POST ABOUT FIGHT CLUB!