Guild Wars 2

Bunzy.8674:

Lets do it!
I support the 5 person mesmer portal idea!

I agree as well, but only because if 1 thing is stupidly limited to 5, all things should be.

Thresher.3049:

Blackgate forever.

I think someone got their feelings hurt, lol.

Jayne.9251:

So Supreme Commander Segal is back at the helm for BG … who did JQ and SoR pick?

JQ picks Miku Hatsune, or at least I do.

Also: I was completely lagging out in BG BL tonight as well, even when there were only 3-4 people around, kitten’s broke.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

This is one method of getting up. Personally, I would not call this an exploit. You are literally just using the jumping mechanic as it is meant to be used – to jump.

You’re totally right.

Things like this arent exploits either then right? I mean all he did was jump twice and use some movement speed skills.

And this one right here, totally not an exploit either, the person just jumped and used ride the lightning.

(In case people don’t get my sarcasm, I think all of these things are exploits.)

The only video I’ve seen so far was of someone wall jumping to get up there, so let me ask, what’s the difference between wall jumping up somewhere to hide as a mesmer, and just wall jumping over a gate and portaling people in? I don’t see a difference.

Pvp.2758:

wish.3102:

It’s not somewhere you can legit jump to, I tried. If you really say it’s possible, I would like a video.

It’s possible, but I’m not going to show you.

That’s because you have to use the jumping exploit to do it.

It’s not somewhere you can legit jump to, I tried. If you really say it’s possible, I would like a video.

Mighty Assasin.3816:

wish.3102:

SOR, you had a mesmer hiding inside our Bay, who is in a spot you can’t get to without hacking. You should tell your people this isn’t acceptable, I doubt choo or any of the other guilds here really want to be labeled cheaters.

That’s not a hack lol.

If there is a legit way to jump up onto that rock, please record it and post it to youtube and link it here. Thanks.

SOR, you had a mesmer hiding inside our Bay, who is in a spot you can’t get to without hacking. You should tell your people this isn’t acceptable, I doubt choo or any of the other guilds here really want to be labeled cheaters.

What horrible music, (that was suppose to be music right?) and misuse of the ideas of Angels, Demons and Nephilim. Angels and Demons are the same thing, Nephilim are what you get when one of them has a child with a human. This is almost as bad as Diablo 3…. almost.

Generally I don’t fight people in puzzles, (unless attacked, then be prepared for me to camp your puzzle for 30 minutes) because if you’re camping people in puzzles, it’s because you’re bad at PVP and can’t fight anything but PVEers and mules. I do this because I would rather fight a well geared enemy with siege, than a gimp server filled with low lvls and no siege, but, if I knew someone was a lame PVEer trying to take a shortcut through the PVP content towards their legendary, I would kill the ikitten out of them, repeatedly.

Jeknar.6184:

So, no, i’m not welcoming the SoS players…

I wouldn’t welcome them either, they’re just going to make you completely dominate T1 or they’re gonna get mad they still can’t win and leave and go somewhere else. They’ve already shown their true colors when the chips are down.

The changes to AC are BS, it’s suppose to be the beginner dungeon, not the hardest.

Miiaah.5416:

I’m not even positive BG has close to the coverage to take JQ.

Don’t kid yourself or anyone else, BG probably has more people than JQ, if not more than at least equal. Half those people moving to BG need to man up and go to SOR instead.

VOLKON.1290:

Mogar.9216:

regardless what the issue is stealth is killing the roaming part of WvW. I solo roam all the time, I would say 90% of the people I face are thieves . Now days it’s not even single thieves anymore it’s an arms race. Since thieves find themselves facing other thieves now thieves run in packs of 2-3 . As a soloer 1 thief is fair 2 is not beatable 3 is insane.

Nonsense. I almost never face a thief in WvW.

They’re always killing me from behind.

Thank you! I’m here all week!

lol…..

Musty.3148:

Hell, I’ve been saying this for months, I stopped playing my 80 thief because it’s an imbarassingly easy class to curbstomp people with. Any of you kids playing them should be imbarrassed for picking and continuing to play such an imbarrassingly OP class.

And you should be embarrassed about spelling that word incorrectly twice while spell checkers exist in web browsers.

Thief is fine as it is. You can crush scrubs, but you can do that on any class. If people know what you’re doing and they’re level 80, they put up a good fight, just like with every other class.

Brome.7036:

WvW power rankings! you heard it here first!
1. Ele
2. Mes
3. Guard
4. Thief
5. Necro/Eng
6. Ranger
7. War

I don’t understand why Guardian is way up on this list, lol. Can you explain it? Mine is pretty terrible in WvW. (about all my GRD can kill are THFs, w)

Banjal.7328:

Stealth needs to break on DMG.It’s dumb that I can hit them over and over wile they are in Stealth but I still can’t see them.

I could get behind this as long as I get to be invincible the first 2 seconds of stealth.

LetoII.3782:

We might consider helping a guild of stature move for the sake of balance.
Random players who offer no metric of their worth however…

You’re right, I should record one of those 10 minute videos where you stand in the middle of an enemy group and kill like 15 of them. I dislike techno though, so you’ll have to deal with listening to real music as you watch this low quality recording.

http://youtu.be/XKeftUe7S8c

I’ve been playing with different recording software recently trying to find something decent and free, the search is still on though, sorry for the low quality, I was lagging a bit when i recorded this too. I’m also aware this isn’t the greatest video, it’s just the first thing I found laying around.

Orikx.9671:

I’m pretty sure no servers are looking for a bandwagon guild that rides the coat tails of FoO and then claims supremacy to transfer to their server. Especially since you won’t have a guild to ride the coat tails of anymore. Oh, I forgot we don’t have coverage gaps, you have proven us wrong and showed us all proof of how we have massive zergs 24/7 in all 4 borderlands with your brilliant screen shots.

I never said you have massive zergs, I never said you have 24/7 coverage, I said JQ doesn’t outnumber you like you believe they do. And my post wasn’t really about trying to leave JQ, because I knew no one would pony up the gold for us to leave, it was about pointing out peoples lack of commitment to what they say they want. I offered people a chance to help unstack JQ, and no one wants to do it apparently. I also don’t spend much time hanging out with FoO, which is sad, they’re fun people.

My favor thing about this thread, is how SOS complained for 4? weeks now that JQ was stacked, so they all moved to a server that was already competitive in T1 the last time it was there.

How about you guys do what you advocated JQ to do, and not all stack up on one server, SOR could use some help too.

At first I was like “I love Wolf!” Let me switch to youtube to watch this… Then there was a weird picture of some J guy and it ruined the image of a cute wolfgirl running around stabbystabbing people and I lost interest.

But it wasn’t a bad video, lol.

That warrior is boss.

kefro.9312:

JQ needs to lose some guilds … this is getting boring… i fear for the future of gw2, im not seeing a expansion working on gw2 any more…

My guild has no particular attachment to JQ, we transferred here when JQ was losing because we play odd hours sometimes and we were looking for people to fight 24/7, so we had to move to t1 or 2. (And those JQ scrubs didn’t even pay us anything! what jerks) If the fight is against JQ because no one else wants to play anymore we can roll with that. It just annoys me when I see people spreading obvious falsehoods, so I troll here a lot in defense of random things, and I find the need to comment on this.

Do you really think JQ needs to lose people for your server to be competitive? It’s fine if you want to think that, but who is going to pay the gold for the transfers? Tell you what, pay the gold for us and my 7 person guild will join your server. Unless it’s SOS, I don’t like them for reasons I won’t go into. Any of the other tier 1-2 servers are fine though. Want people off JQ? I’ll give you a chance to put your money where your mouth is and recruit a hardcore WvWer and his alt account and his 5 friends.

But honestly I do kind of agree with you. If the demotivation I see in SOS and SOR continues WvW won’t be fun anymore unless you’re fighting against JQ with an organized WvW guild that has numbers behind it. I for one want people to fight with and against at most times of day because my play time is strange and jumps around. I think what needs to happen is SOR SOS and BG and whoever else is in T2 and wants to be T1 needs to recruit and offer the gold for transfers, rather then just complain JQ has them beat and give up.

This offer is for anyone really, give us the gold and we’ll leave, otherwise, stop complaining about it.

jhuce.2489:

ROFL…Do 5 mans even exsist? If they do clearly they would just get rolled over every time the set foot onto the battlefield. Just to the fact that having more people attacking your group equates to more damage to your group. I dont even see it possible for a 5man to beat a 6man…EVER…skill doesnt even play a factor in this because of numbers….
I suggest all 5mans merg up and create optimuszerg to have a fighting chance. Also all zergs should sit on top of each other to abuse the game mechanics and really show of their skill. Aswell as use stealth curtain/group stealth to sneak up on people even when not stealthed because of another broken game mechanic and kill them before they even know whats going on. This is really how you will win at this game. NOT stupid 5mans….people…5mans…ROFL…idiots…

This is a hilarious post, and I half way agree with it.

Spartyr.6795:

I’m not sure I’ve seen a worse attitude out of a winning server.

You’ll have to forgive me for replying to someone and setting them straight then. I notice you didn’t quote what I was replying to btw, maybe you’re trying to hide that fact?

Ross Biddle.2367:

The points will remain unbalanced because at those times where JQ makes its points, there are no SoS or SoR online to team up and attack JQ. It’s not that JQ are any good, it’s simply that they have a free window of point making time the others don’t.

Wasn’t JQ just winning the NA afternoon time weekend PPT? Did all the SOS and SOR players suddenly give up and don’t log onto WvW at all now? I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ABOUT THE FIGHTS!!!

SoPP.7034:

wish.3102:

I’ve gotten like 50 badges the last 30 minutes without using siege.

That’s weak. I get 100 badges in 20 mins using my bare hands.

I was using my bow =|
You got me beat.

Oh man, good times farming SOR on SOS BL in bluelake right now. I’ve gotten like 50 badges the last 30 minutes without using siege. They just keep rushing in and dieing none-stop, they even outnumber us here.

Those 2 failed portal bombs were also priceless.

Resonance.4216:

MERC having fun with Waha and his mob.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hPpyO_kI60

Maybe it’s just me… But I only saw 1 FOO tag in that whole video. Record with better quality next time, then people don’t have to ‘take your word for it’ that it was FOO, when 99% of the tags you can actually read don’t say FOO. I saw just as many EMP and PRX and names I don’t recognize as FOO.

I bet he ran by a guy /sleeping and thought the guy was dead, and then he got ganked and now he’s crying, lol.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

I’m sorry that you aren’t very good at hiding.

The point wasn’t to hide, it was to let you know I was there, and waste your time looking for me and camping my dead body, which I did a good job of. How long were people freaking out in your team chat over me? 30 minutes? That’s what someone on your server whispered me to tell me, so I’ll go with that. Better luck next time!

@bearcow, You hung out with that guild for how many hours and only managed 4 minutes of video? /notimpressed.

Tijgertje.7461:

I think SoR gonna win this week!

I think so too, especially when they use such amazing tactics as dropping 5 flame rams on top of 1 dead thief, then burn SM supplies to build them while camping said thiefs corpse with 20+ people…. While that thief is afk and eating and laughing at them.

Orikx.9671:

Though I guess that is what happens when you jump around from winning server to winning server. You probably want to give yourself an excuse for being a bandwagon player so you tell yourself you are the reason JQ can PPT 600+ and that you transferring there to bandwagon made all the difference.

I generally just run around by myself and kill 4-5 people then die. The only time I hang around with the zergs is when we’re losing stuff and its important that everyone works together.

I said it before, and I’ll say it again. JQ’s early morning giant point ticks are because of FoO, and the randoms that log on then to play. They come online, and the 10~ people JQ has in every map trying to defend stuff suddenly dont have to worry anymore. FoO just jumps around the maps, and takes everything. And when theyre online there’s 1 map with a Q, the one they are on. And the other maps have like 10 people. SOR and SOS eventually give up on trying to hold whatever FoO is trying to take and start map hoping to try and take their stuff back, but FoO is just better at it than they are. Thats also why as soon as FoO logs out the JQ point tick goes way back down. Because the 10~ people left on the maps cant defend them. Saying SOR loses to JQ because FoO PvDs you is a bad joke.

JQ does have superior coverage, don’t get me wrong, but we have lots of coverage gaps too. 11pm->7am EST theres like no one around. and then again around 2pm til I dunno when, maybe 6 or 7pm. The funny thing about the 2pm coverage gap though, I always seem to find 50+++ SOR PvDing their BL back along with a ton of other stuff, and none of you SOR guys will acknowledge that. But thats when I quit playing generally though, so whatever.

And here’s a fun SS of SOS before they start crying FoO PvDs them as well.

DeadlyRush.1620:

Does not add up. As you can see, your angle only hits the side wall. The picture clearly shows that the circle is centered on the siege.

My picture was only displaying that you could target the wall through the gap above the gate, and I wanted that to be easily seen, hense the angle. I checked to see if I could get that angle on the corner of the wall from around where I was like the red circle is shown in the second picture, and I could do it fine, but it made for a less understandable screenshot. If you don’t believe me, go try it. I assure you, it’s possible. if you don’t think so, how about you let me come into your bay and I’ll set up an arrow cart, and you can take pics of where I can hit, and I’ll record myself playing while I do it. Deal?

Barab.9016:

What was up with the “Sanctum of Rall Invader” sending me a “join” request in WvW yesterday ? Attempting to join my party ?

If you join a party together you can talk to each other, which is most likely what he wanted.

MagiKarp.8201:

I found a solution for your problem, have all the SoR guilds join SoS meaning your coverage gaps are filled and we can beat JQueue together

I support this idea.

@Orikx
And my point wasn’t that SOR doesn’t have coverage gaps, just that when you lose all your stuff, you’re not heavily outmanned like you keep claiming. Showing 20+ people attacking SM is proof of my point. You wouldnt take 20 people and attack SM if the other team was rolling around with 50+ and kicking you around, which is what would of been happening to SOR if they were outmanned.

Le Rooster.8715:

Welcome to “constantly winning tier 1 club” where winning no longer becomes an accomplishment but an expectation, and the moment your ppt is low all the PVE’rs start complaining “Da hell, i like transferred here coz i thought it was stabal why we loseing”.

I transferred to JQ before the announcement of the end of free transfers. If you want to know why, it’s because I saw a thread saying they were recruiting. In that thread I saw some things I liked, and then I spoke with someone from JQ and this is the impression I got: They don’t run from fights, most people use their community TS to coordinate, there’s no in house drama, there’s tough competition, and JQ never gives up. These are the things that made me transfer to JQ, a few weeks before they announced the end of free transfers, before any large guilds moved there, when they were constantly losing T1. My problem right now is that it seems that only the “tough competition” part is true anymore.

Sorry for my spam posts, I dunno how to add lots of picture attachments to 1, could someone tell me? lol

Stealth.8150:

here is what i saw from awesome commander from foo.
really quality work destroying inner siege from outer wall of bay

I attached kitten to show you how this was done. The cluster bomb red circle would of been a green circle with an arrow cart though.

Ok, ok, 1 more.

Who would push SM if they were heavily outnumbered? (SOR actually has more people than JQ in this picture) Anyway, these pictures are all taken on different days, none of them Saturday or Sunday (I think the EB keep picture is from Monday) And not only that but they all are taken around your 8am time.

muekung.2518:

Edit : dang it ! I got trolled !
my sense of humour is bad and i should feel bad !

You didn’t really get trolled, but if you look at the time in the picture its close to 9am EST, and it’s only 8:20 right now, lol.

8:38 AM EST. Do you require more?

muekung.2518:

well… SoS already pushed us out of EB. so….

That picture was from a few days ago. It was fully upgraded when we got there.

Orikx.9671:

Whatever happened to those Screen Shots you were going to produce that showed our off hours having tons of people defending? Oh thats right you couldn’t because you were trolling then and now you are trolling your own server.

Thread got closed, and there was maintenance the next day, so I wasn’t going to continue the discussion. But here’s a fun SS of JQ pushing SOR out of their EB keep then spawn camping them with equal numbers at 9am EST.

Would you like more?

EDIT: lol, you can even see the SOR mesmer who got mad I killed him when he was fighting a warrior and winning.

SmokeyNYY.7841:

(it was an awesome 3 way fight until JQ decided to go PvDoors).

I love how you say this in a derogatory way, like your server is above PvDooring. But just today when you took all of JQ BL, you did when you had 50+ people and JQ had 10~. That’s about as PvD as you can get.

Anyway, my reason for posting is not to laugh at you, really. It’s to yell at the JQ community. You guys are bad and you should feel bad. Today I was ashamed to be a part of JQ. This is the first time in like a month I’ve played WvW in the NA afternoon, and I was appalled at how effing terrible you all are. EMP failed to mount any sort of offense a few times and gave up. 90% of the players in the maps I was on wouldn’t get on teamspeak or listen to directions. And worse than that, the big guilds weren’t even in the BL channels on TS like they were to good to hang out with people not in their guild.

JQ, seriously, this is not how you win. Quit being pathetic, start working together, and communicating with each other. And for Gods sake, quit turning and running the moment the enemy has people around who want to attack you. That’s the fastest way to die.

All that talk of SOR besting JQ in NA time is true. I’m glad I played today at this time to see it for myself. JQ NA is pathetic, I even got to hear some drama in-server fighting on teamspeak, it was great. And remember, no matter how much those JQ guilds say crap like “we’re in it for the points,” if you ask me, from what I see, they just gave up and ran away. It’s a good thing you guys have FoO to carry you, cause Wahas crew actually knows how to fight people of equal numbers and put up points.

I’m aware that I’m angry right now with how bad JQ did tonight, and that this post will probably get deleted, but hopefully some people see it, and it makes them shape up, stop making excuses, and try to better the server. Because at this rate, it won’t be long before a bunch of people get tired of JQ and transfer off. I know if I played WvW at this time of day, every day, I would of left a long time ago.

One last thing, if you SOR people are “just in it for the fights” what is stopping you from chasing your desired guilds you want to fight across maps? If JQ, the king of Queues can move whole guilds across maps during NA prime time, why can’t you? Is it because your server is stacked during NA time and JQs aren’t?

covenn.7165:

I missed the zerg in the video.

Why are you always such a Negative Nancy?

Anyway, good video, I enjoyed it.

PUG = pick up group, how is that a negative term?

I define a PUG as anyone not on the community voice chat program.

Speaking of farming people…

Actually, it is still “JQ gets rolled NA prime time” judging by the silly amount of farming that was done.

Remember that SS I posted last week of my 2900~ badges? Well, it’s 3900~ now. Thanks so much SOS and SOR. I only play WvW for five or so hours a day too.

The solution to thieves is a CC move and the tab button. It’s that simple. CC a thief and he will die in half a second. If he doesn’t, he’s a crappy tank build and you can safely ignore him and run away because he won’t be killing you before you distance him.

The most important thing with thieves is to not play their game.

To the SOS people who thought dueling was a fun way to kill time, you guys rock, we should do this more often, and next time maybe we should invite some SOR guys.

This is my most favorite thing to do in GW2, Im glad Im not the only one. But seriously, I’d dump the flame blast sigil, that lets people besides the one youre ganking know youre there.

Where can I find the math for how power scales with damage to find out how much of a % damage increase adding X amount of power is to X amount of power.

I would also like to know the base damage increase for a critical hits, and what the tiers for crit chance are at level 80, and basically all about how critical hits function in this game.

I also find it tiresome that people would say things like 50/50 power/precision is better than 100 power, then someone else comes along and says that it’s not true, but doesn’t prove it wrong with math. How is anyone suppose to know the real answer when people are simply stating what look like opinions with no mathematical backing?

BroScientist.9875:

If anyone could tell me what the counter for this is as a ranger? As far as I’m aware there is none except LB aoe and random auto-attack in the hopes of landing a blow. This is absolutely not fun to play against and is why I hope ESO gets it right; because if they do I will be leaving this game for good.

Longbow, 4 if you see them running at you, 2 when you know you have them targeted, 2 will keep hitting them even when theyre in stealth. Other than just just stand inside 5 and move around, the more youre moving the harder it will be for them to CnD you.

style.6173:

Not really sure the point of the video. Maybe our definitions of permastealth are different. Now cloak and dagger is a whole different story. That is permastealth.

You have to come out of stealth to use CnD, using it while stealthed doesn’t work. You also lose 1 inititive every time you use it using this method, provided you set your build up for it, and you need stuff to hit. So saying it’s permastealth is actually wrong. You can be seen for 1 second every 4, cant attack anything, and can only do it for like a minute, if you have something to hit, and stay in stealth the entire duration for the skill. The 1 minute life cycle can be expanded upon with blinding powder and hide in shadows, but seriously, once you miss CnD once because someone moved at the last second, you’re basically screwed.

YPC.6349:

wish.3102:

YPC.6349:

Art.9820:

I don’t get it, how is this useful haha?

In next video, they will show you how to use dead mesmer + perma-stealth thief to steal keeps.

And after watching it, I hope everyone realizes why you should camp dead bodies in your newly taken keep/tower if you care at all about keeping it.

Even if you camp, so what?
Can you remove the dead mesmer? No.

They get kicked due to inactivity after 20 minutes of being dead.

YPC.6349:

Can you break the perma-stealth? No.

You don’t need to

YPC.6349:

Can you stop the rezzing? No.

You can kill people even when theyre stealthed. Drop AOEs on the dead body and auto attack it if its health goes up. Thieves are kittenedly squishy, you can kill them in 3 seconds.

YPC.6349:

Can you kill the mesmer before she/he put down the portal and jump down the wall? No.

Camp the body and it will waypoint out or DC from the game.

YPC.6349:

How long and how many campers you need for 2 people that may or may not be even here?

Depends on how good the players camping the body are. If theyre bad, then you probably need 4-5. But 1 good Necro can easily hold off a thief from doing anything to a dead mesmer forever.

But then theres always the possibility of actually doing a sweep and looking for people hiding inside. You do know that little pistol 5 circle is visible on the ground to your enemies right? It even has a big red circle around it when its on the ground. It’s easy to notice, It’s not like the thief is completely hidden from view at all times with 0 indication it’s there. The video you linked it just bad players who don’t know how to fight a thief trying to fight a thief. The best solution to anything you don’t understand is to learn how it does what it does, then you can find the weaknesses and counter them. I know personally, I have never lost 1 on 1 to a thief since leveling a thief on my warrior or guardian. My guardian sometimes cant kill them because theyre very good at running away, but they never kill me, and I could easily prevent them from ressing a mesmer.

Dayra.7405:

Make the number of maps (with smaller population limit than now) dynamic.

Whenever the servers have a queue for all WvW-Maps a new server start a new WvW-map. While they are active they produce score-ticker as usual.

When the population shrinks the map saves it’s state and is shut down and the remaining people are distributed over the still active maps or Lion’s Arch.

=> Less Culling and Laag problems, due to reduced population per map.

=> Less Queues due to additional dynamic maps

=> Less PvD, as the maps are shutdown while there isn’t enough mass to fight.

This wouldnt work because if your server is suddenly losing a map you could all just log out and kick the other team from it. Then after a bit log back into it, and have saved all your stuff from being taken, and start getting all those points again.

style.6173:

1. Agree completely. Commander needs to be earned in some way. At the very least, we should be able to vote to remove a commander’s icon for some period of time.

QFT

YPC.6349:

Art.9820:

I don’t get it, how is this useful haha?

In next video, they will show you how to use dead mesmer + perma-stealth thief to steal keeps.

And after watching it, I hope everyone realizes why you should camp dead bodies in your newly taken keep/tower if you care at all about keeping it.