Guild Wars 2

I believe so. I recently started levelling my 7th character/class and chosing a human for the awesome dance moves I quickly stumbled upon the large zerg in the notorious kessex chain. Im unsure how long this run takes, but Im pretty sure from start to start is at least 20 minutes. In that time you can complete 5 events, pontentially. Then compare that to the Frozen Maw chain.

The XP rewards for each event are the same for both kessex and maw. At around 30-35 you get 1k xp per event. So best case scenario you get 5k for the kessex chain. Now Maw (30 minute loop – takes between 6minutes and 15minutes)…

Defend Tors supplys
Escort brogan
Destroy dragon totem
Kill Shaman
Kill Shaman Guards
Destroy Portals
Defeat champion Shaman

So that alone is 7k experience already, compared to 6k with the same level character at kessex chain for a loop that takes 6-15minutes, depending on how many are there etc. Then you have 15m-24m to do other events nearbye and there are alot. The Wurm hole has 3 events and takes about 5-8 minutes and gives the same XP at same level. There is the gather armor and kill the grawl shaman (2part chain) that is directly next to heart of corruption were the maw event chain ends. There is the champion wolf master. Escort the pack doylak. Protect the statue… So many events that are on a constant loop that can and do fill in the Maw chain when its not up.

Once you become proficient at it, I believe you will be earning at least twice as much XP as what you would from the Kessex chain. At least, that is my experience. And to top it off, the chest at the end of Maw scales to your level and is pretty much identical to a dragon chest which drops rares etc. Farming this I have found my gear is always not far behind my level just equipping the gear from the chest.

Anyways, just a thought. I know alot of people, like me, just want to level our chars first and then go out exploring, dungeoning, wvw etc, without finding ourselves underlvelled and undergeared. If your a regular farmer of Kessex, I suggest you try The Frozen Maw.

Lyndis.2584:

SoS is getting demolished, lol.

:x

Far from it. Last week on Thursday BG had a 13,000 point lead over SOS. BG players were coming in here and celebrating their second place as they beat SOS for the week and were well on their way to knocking SOS out of Tier1. What happened? SOS topped the PPT by a long way for the last 18 hours of the server reset and beat BG by around 3,000 points. They have Oceanic coverage, but more so they have Oceanic/weekend coverage. They win big at the start of the WvW week and on Fridays they turn up early and play right through to sever reset. As a JQ player, Im only just starting to feel comfortable with our lead over SOS, but I still know they are capable of pulling those numbers back.

Ive taken a bit of a break from WvW this week and only played about 10 hours as I have been levelling some other classes. As an Oceanic player I will most likely be turning up Friday/Saturday to make sure we don’t lose in the final hours.

There is nothing more I enjoy than saving an allied player from an overzealous moa or saving an NPC from that wolf, except for maybe the delicious tears they produce. Please keep these as daily missions.

Something I have learnt is that zerg size makes little difference. Coverage wins weekly matchups.

Yeah, I have been doing some research into this. It sounds like early on people exploited it and were just escorting them for the sake of getting the rewards. The distance travelled bit sux too, because basically I am playing zone defense between Rogues and WC, so if it goes further I would be leaving Rogues unprotected.

Not sure about anyone else. But for me the queue and lag issue seems to be working fine. Time for some WvW

style.6173:

The best class for running with a zerg is ele. There is no question on that. Strong aoe damage, speed, and heals. It is the one class that can do it all.

lol @ people who say thief

Don’t forget thiefs can provide AoE stealth, which I have seen completely kitten

Pretty much all classes can contribute well to a zerg. The bigger the diversity the better. I think with zergs the biggest problem is not having any or many of a specific class.

Änyone know what exactly you have to do to get this as a medal/mission completed? Seems sometimes I can fight off theives and skelk protecting the Doylak and walking with it from point A to B and not get it. Then other times I seem to just be randomly passing by and get the reward/mission completed. As my main being a Necromancer at the moment this is going to be one of my main objectives in the server I play for at present, so I want to make the most out of it by getting some return for my work.

Completely agree with this and it would be a great implementation to WvW in the upcoming updates. I say WvW, because I don’t think PvE commanders really mind how many people tag along with them.

joocheese.6314:

sostronk.8167:

Shaojack.3871:

Would be nice to see some more signatures here to see what guild everyone is representing =D

I decided after last week that it was best not to display. Although Ill happily change my signature shortly to “dirty winning server pug jumper” shortly.

Why it was best not to display your server and guild?

Too much bickering and fighting last week between servers. Im not in a guild though, only a nub pug using SM supplies to fix outer walls when the treb hasn’t been countered yet. JK about the SM bit.

Shaojack.3871:

Would be nice to see some more signatures here to see what guild everyone is representing =D

I decided after last week that it was best not to display. Although Ill happily change my signature shortly to “dirty winning server pug jumper” shortly.

I haven’t noticed a difference. In fact, yesterday I got two exotics from one boss chest. This along with all the regular blues, greens and yellows. Fractals is still one of the better farms in the game. But I wish they would give us something worth buying with the pristines, because the rings are obviously useless if you play fractals regularly and have hundreds of them.

Im concerned about how cheap they are selling for. There has been a drop in price in the last couple of weeks for them. Also this whilst the precursor has slowly and steadily been increasing in price. IMO if you want to acquire your legendary by gold, then Id do it now. I can’t imagine the prices staying as low as they are now.

SF and JQ are tied for last place. 4th and 10.

Make your fractals run take longer than your allies could have done it solo.

Shadowmoon.7986:

penatbater.4710:

You play for a few minutes everyday to get your laurel. You don’t grind out a 12hr period in a day. You don’t grind for it, just wait for it. I don’t understand the problem.

50 dailies at 20 mins each (not really realistic) to get a BiS amulet with your choice of infusion, that is 16 hours of game play. Congrats it takes longer than 12 hour. The fact that it is dailies hides the fact it is a grind, and slows down the content locusts from getting the item, and releasing they get bored. This game is not long skill based, but grind based. Get best backpeice in game, stack of t6 mats or 1850 tokens, and at least 1 stack of ecto. Yeah there is no grind there. Now we have to grind daily quests to get one amulet per month, i hope you don’t run different builds or run different alts. Prior to Nov i ask question like which alt should i level next, or what new build should I make next for my main, now it just chase the gear treadmill.

I do my daily in about 20 minutes. Just head down to Orr and run plinx. At the end fight the abomination and you will get your revives/dodges. After abomination go get some mats. I use my engineer who sits in LA to craft chef recipes if its daily crafter. People who say it takes hours are exaggerating or haven’t really thought it through.

kuora.5402:

As a SoR oceanic I’m looking forward to see our oceanics back to the scene from tonight, and hopefully see JQ/SoS’s nightcrews coming out to play with us!

See you there!

style.6173:

sostronk.8167:

I went 1vs5 thiefs last night and got a kill from it and survived. Im a necro. I was guarding rogues and I got kitten when seeing them because I just upgraded rogues. They retreated to go kill some doylaks, but I caught up to them and backup arrived and they all went down. That said, most thiefs are bad at the game. Thief class is pretty OP. And I agree with the OPs setntiment. Its not to say though, that other classes can’t do an effective job as well.

The thief class is definitely NOT op overall. In fact, a lot of the specs needs buffs. It is the permastealth specs that are the problem for everyone.

There is a reason why they keep getting nerfed.

I went 1vs5 thiefs last night and got a kill from it and survived. Im a necro. I was guarding rogues and I got kitten when seeing them because I just upgraded rogues. They retreated to go kill some doylaks, but I caught up to them and backup arrived and they all went down. That said, most thiefs are bad at the game. Thief class is pretty OP. And I agree with the OPs setntiment. Its not to say though, that other classes can’t do an effective job as well.

Think I might give WvW a rest. I wait for hours in queue. When I get in I get major lag and can’t use my skills because of the lag. And to top it off I can’t see anyone until there are suddenly 100 right in front of me. These problems were not great before the patch, but now they have become so much worse that WvW is unplayable for me.

Supply doylak needs its mechanics improved, thats for sure.

My guess is they have reduced the player limit size on maps. Its not taken my 1.5hours+ to get into WvW before. I think they might have done it to convince people to move to lower pop servers. If thats the case it may work, because Im starting to consider moving to a low tier inactive WvW server so I can actually play WvW. Waits for Anet to lick their lips at all those gems they will be getting from server transfers.

The video was pretty much every experience I have with opponents. If I see one I always assume there are at least 20 more I can’t see. Its a shame, but I don’t think there is alot they can or will do about it to fix it.

My first thought is the Omega Siege gollem in not worth it, you would be better with just 5 alpha gollems.

Im enjoying T1 in NA at present. The score and coverage is all really close.

I found the WvW areas completion quite easy. If you jump in and get involved they will come pretty quickly and you won’t need to transfer servers

Ive been waiting close to an hour and a half for Tier 1 Queue. I read somewhere a guild did a test and found it was really random and some of their guild members would queue at same time and some would get in within a short time and others would have to wait a long time. The server population caps are probably too high for the WvW too handle right now. Glad I am Oceanic were the queues are generally lower. If I was from NA or Europe I would probably move to a lower tier server so I could actually get in. Only weekends are really bad.

Is downed state a sPvP issue? If anything, I really like downed state because I farm so many kills from players in that state.

Keep sending in the screen shots guys, because that queue is taking so long I many never get in!

Best I can find on the TP is 28c whites items. Its 750 salvages so that would come to 2gold 10 silver. Seems alot of people are crafting low level gear and salvaging, but its not possible for me to do as I don’t have a large supply of low level mats for that :/ Going to keep looking!

I mostly play in WvW, Fractals and Orr. I don’t seem to get alot from here so I just want to get this one out of the way. Most of my salvages are for globs. Wheres a good place to get alot of salvageable materials from? I don’t particularly care what Im salvaging as Im mostly only interested in T6 materials these days. Im thinking human area, maybe centaurs, skritt or bandits for some reason.

Score update! I have a suspicion SOS might actually beat BG to the line…. things are getting interesting for second place…

JaredKincade.9761:

sostronk.8167:

Proumbro.1376:

VOLKON.1290:

I’m not fully up on the politics… why would SoR go for revenge against SoS? Revenge for what?

I wouldn’t say revenge as much as I would say rivalry. It’s been a while since our super close matches of the past, and many of us are looking forward to some equally fun matches when we meet again.

If your from SOR, a word of warning. BG pretty much played themselves out of staying in Tier 1 next week because of their rivalry with SOS. If they had of played smart last week and targetted JQ, BG would have finished in second place and gained some points. This week they are going to miss pushing SOS out of tier 1 by 30 points, which they could have made by playing for second place last week. To elaborate on this, SOS commanders were instructing to leave BG alone and avoid them and target JQ because it was obvious they were the bigger threat.

That said, Im yet to see a server play smart like this. Just know that a “rivalry” can come back to bite you like it just has for BG. And in all honesty, I don’t see BG getting much Tier 1 again for a while. Especially with Kain coming to Tier 2 in another week and FA becoming a stronger unified force.

Well then you don’t understand how this really works then.

The ratings are all equal tomorrow. The shake up will take several weeks before the right servers are in the right tiers, but I will be shocked if BG isn’t in a higher tier than SOS, JQ and SOR in two weeks.

Barring any new substantial announcements on rating from Anet, quote me on this on Feb 8th.

EDIT: BTW, BG did finish in second place.

BG finished in third place last week:

http://mos.millenium.org/matchups/history/18#NA

Scores were:

SOS: 232 012
JQ: 222 304
BG: 169 721

SOS took a massive lead early in the week and JQ pulled this massive lead back after their guild transfer blackout period finished.

Proumbro.1376:

VOLKON.1290:

I’m not fully up on the politics… why would SoR go for revenge against SoS? Revenge for what?

I wouldn’t say revenge as much as I would say rivalry. It’s been a while since our super close matches of the past, and many of us are looking forward to some equally fun matches when we meet again.

If your from SOR, a word of warning. BG pretty much played themselves out of staying in Tier 1 next week because of their rivalry with SOS. If they had of played smart last week and targetted JQ, BG would have finished in second place and gained some points. This week they are going to miss pushing SOS out of tier 1 by 30 points, which they could have made by playing for second place last week. To elaborate on this, SOS commanders were instructing to leave BG alone and avoid them and target JQ because it was obvious they were the bigger threat.

That said, Im yet to see a server play smart like this. Just know that a “rivalry” can come back to bite you like it just has for BG. And in all honesty, I don’t see BG getting much Tier 1 again for a while. Especially with Kain coming to Tier 2 in another week and FA becoming a stronger unified force.

I completed the January acheivement on 3rd January. If your like me, you won’t have to wait long.

I never joined this game for PvP. I would never take PvP in an MMO seriously.

I really like the colossus and Grawl one. The only one I hate doing is the Dredge because of how extremely hard it is for some players in a pug.

I have a number of chars. One of them has over 200 MF when I roll him. I don’t notice a difference between that char and my others. I am completely sceptical about MF.

I never noticed a requirement to grind. I noticed alot of people chose to grind when they didn’t have to do so. I picked up full gear sets with the highest possible stats, just be playing and enjoying the game. Seems some people prefer grinding.

As a necro main I pretty much ignore the mobs. Just remove my conditions occasionally and Im fine. Its probably rough for chars that are a bit squishy and dont have alot of CC and condition removal. The mobs seem to be a little less aggro, but Ive never really had a problem with them on my main.

I recently transferred from SOS over to JQ. I did it for a few reasons. I felt a bit detached from SOS after patone left. He was a player who led well and if he was in EB I was going there. After he left, I lost interest in WvW. The queues were long so whats the point, might as well go farm fractals instead of waiting in a queue for an hour.

Im certain SOS will return to form. I see alot of hate in here from other servers towards SOS, which is a bit of a shame. From the few discussions I have had with JQ players in the BLs it doesn’t seem to be something that reflects the attitude of JQ towards SOS. Rather just a few vocal forum warriors who like to talk tough in here.

I would like to fight doors, as many as possible.

Khrums.3765:

There is easy way just price depend from position in ranking like:

Tier 1-3 – 1800
Tier 4-6 – 1000
Tier 7-9 – 500

Can be dynamic too so if server fail and drop from bracket to lower tier that’s mean need more people on WvW and can become cheaper to transfer. And will help suffering servers to get WvW alive again and protect overcrowded servers to get too much people on board.

Would also cause problems. Just look at what Kain did and stacked a low tier server and wiped the low tier competition off the map.

Depends on what you intend on doing in WvW. Personally I think Ele + 1 if your going to roll duo and cap points together. Warrior with greatsword is highly mobile and can instant revive with his banner, Necro can AoE instant revive and is near unkillable and can support an ele whilst guaranteeing constant CC, Thiefs would provide some extra utility etc etc

Your only 10k points ahead of SOS. Why do you think they are “having a hard time” if blackgate is only just beating them?

The only thing I dislike about downed state is the fact that someone can use it to scout the oppositions movements during and after a fight. Them actually being in a downed state is fine with me, in fact I farm so many kills by using dead players as bait that I want to keep the downed state.

Ardon.4105:

The new SoR has yet to be tested against equal competition. We’ll see how they do next week. Unfortunately due to the rating reset, their time in the spot light will likely be cut short.

How so? SoR is likely to go Tier 1 after the reset if things progress as they currently are and there are no major changes.

The patch is trash. I can’t even get in. Anet muffed this one up.

JPSnow.8296:

Alright I got it working I disabled my firewall and antivirus (Norton) funny I have been running fine without doing that since the change today must have changed something in the exe file and Norton dosnt recognize it anymore I hade a exception for it before will try to make a new one and hope it works all the time without disabling it

I think you will find it was just a coincidence. It randomly starts running. I believe it is a server issue.

Mine randomly started working and patched. Then FML, the first time I ever accidently log out whilst in game and now I cant get back in.