Guild Wars 2

I removed unsuspecting foe 2 weeks ago and I don’t seem to see any difference except now earthshaker doesn’t crits all the time anymore… I really think the issue here was unsuspecting foe applying the stun BEFORE doing it damage roll.

This + burst damage boost + merciless hammer = Lots of stuff stacking together.

As of right now I don’t use UF, either burst mastery and hammer’s burst is doing a fine job. It’s not OP and hit for a little more than the average damage sword does which is a 1 handed weapon. (this make sense) But if they gonna nerf it’s damage I think it might become a bit weak for something that needs you to spend up to 3 bars of adrenaline.

King Amadaeus.8619:

THE Dentist.5960:

King Amadaeus.8619:

BlazeQ.1095:

King Amadaeus.8619:

Does NSP care about PPT?

I am thinking of moving to a server where people enjoy fighting more than kittening and moaning about PPT.

Also what about queues….I hate them, are they bad on NSP?

You will find some that groan about it, or that our BL is a mess… But the vast majority would rather find a good fight than PVDoor a win or worry about the PPT at all. As far as Queues, there are rarely any except for on reset. Even then its only 2 maps that have a Queue.

Hmm regarding queues, what about before leagues? (IE: before you were perpetually outmanned)

SF is queuing 4 maps every reset and it is beyond bad, you pretty much pick a map, pick a toon and get settled in for the next 5+hrs cause you aint moving anywhere else.

What is this “queue” you speak of? Is this a new technique I am unaware of?

But seriously, I like the ppt game for the wxp only. The bags are nice when defending but the leagues have had a huge say in that with us being perpetually outmanned. Wxp is only nice to get my stacks since all of the other servers we face have fortitude, leech, and bloodlust usually. Wish ANet would fix the alt situation.

That is kinda what I had figured, I just did not want to get into a situation where in a few weeks leagues are over and NSP goes back to facing some bronze leaguers and begins to queue every map.

NSP never really queue outside of reset night and it’s ususally either EB or NSP. Outside of that I rarely seen queue in the last 6 month except during the first 2 weeks of the league.

I just wanna say tks to the DB and YB in the DB jumping puzzle yesterday night. Was nice of you not to jump on me and my fellow guildmate while we finished the achievements =)

All I really wish is them to fix the elevation issue with hammer F1. The boost to AP would be nice and the retaliation buff also is nice. Getting 4K AP isn’t really that hard IMO.

Nikkinella.8254:

Adastra.9821:

DiogoSilva.7089:

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JonPeters.5630:

I think the big question here is the base health/armor of the elementalist. Of course if you are just an elementalist you just want us to raise these, but balance must work around some fixed things and profession health and armor are an important part of defining what a profession is so that we can create powerful tools that players can actively use to circumvent these weaknesses.

Jon, please give this post a good read.

Yeah that would be all well and good if you guys didn’t keep doing stupid things like constantly nerfing those tools you’re talking about that makes boosting our health and armor unnecessary. We wouldn’t need more health and armor if you hadn’t obliterated our mobility, healing, condition cleansing and just about everything else you could nerf that made us viable.

You cant keep nerfing us without giving us anything in return. Nerf our survivability, fine, then up our damage. its ridiculous that we’re not only the squishiest class, but also the least damaging of all. Tradiationally mages are the squishiest class, but also have the highest possible dps in exchange for being so fragile. I’d be fine with being squishy if we also inflicted the most possible damage. But that isn’t the case. Warriors can do more damage with 1 attack than we can do by pressing 57 buttons. That is unacceptable. If I have to be so weak I die from a light fart in my direction, I want to drop armies with all my attacks before I do get hit. Double or even quadruple the damage of all our skills, then and ONLY then will our abysmal survivability be acceptable.

Please tell me what 1 hit ability ou speak off? Since the nerf to stunt runes you have to be a really unlucky player to get the whole HB hit.

What about this Ele build?

This one also

Same I also wish we could have fought with you more. It was hard to get a good fight with the other guild from FA trying to sneak to get some few kills.(I think it was [ATK] or something like that) I’m not sure if you guys did it on purpose but the best fight we had with you was when you moved back in the middle of your regrouping so we could wipe them and we finally had a good 5 -10 minutes of intimate fight =P

Luthan.5236:

Does condition DURATION also affect sieges? Or only condition damage?

It was a while back I remember when my warrior was condi specced last spring. The bleed on my skill was saying 75 – 80 000 damages over 1 minutes on a superior AC. Never knew if it was really working or not but I still have some screenshot somewhere.

Wushuspinner.5689:

Solstice.1097:

Devon did state he will be on NSP and will be getting the meta achievement.

However it is suspect whether NSP will capture SMC 5 times in the entire season, let alone a single player present all 5 times.

Well, you were way off with this comment huh.. Sm taken so many time first week i lost count

We took a T3 SM from FA during late NA primetime a few day ago. I know this week we flipped it 3-4 times. We did flip it 6-10 time during the first week.

Kai.9182:

clipnotdone.9634:

Wagonvil Rock
Wagongate
Wagorlis Pass
Crystal Wagon
Darkwagan
Devona’s Wagon
Wagonbrand
Wagony Bay
Eredon Tewagon
Ferwaguson’s Crossing
Fort Aspenwagon
Gate of Wagon
Henge of Denwagon
Isle of Janwagon
Jade Wagon
Wagoneng
Magwagon
Northern Shiverwagon
Sanctum of Wagon
Wagon of Sorrows
Sorrow’s Wagon
Stormwagon Isle
Tarnished Wagon
Wagon’s Bend

kitten bandwagons on every server

NSP never had any big transfer in their favor.

The main issue with hammer is that the % crits chance bonus bonus of UF was apply before earthshaker touched. It was pretty much near 100% crits chance on that ability. While I agree that the damage nerf on the hammer is a bit high I pretty much think that changing the way earthshaker worked with Unsuspecting Foe would have fixed a lot of the issue peoples had with those 2 combined.

You don’t have. We are the lowest number pop server and are not expecting to win. TBH I had more fun yesterday night than the whole week VS SBI.

UltraHiDef.4809:

Sirendor.1394:

styx.7294:

I think this would be a fantastic and fresh change for season 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHcO6Xo8eJ8

Where instead of 3 servers fightin the servers are split by 3 colours and fight each other with WvW guesting allowed to servers within your colour.

OMG amazing. I love it. HIT THAT +1 BUTTON!!!!

Whoever thought of this is a genius.

I was typing something about this video then I noticed someone posted it before me. I do think this is one of the best idea. This could be applied in the non season week.

Rednik.3809:

Zanryu.3417:

• Conditions resistance is too strong.

I really want to see fix for warhorn/guardian shouts double conversion reverted, and more so, i would like to see such abilities given to all classes.
Condition builds are way too powerful now.

I agree with you I miss that a lot on my warrior.

MarzAttakz.9608:

So it’s fine to say “don’t overnerf them or they’ll go the path of the Ele” …

How do you think those of us who have chosen to play Elementalists since beta feel? We’ve always been seen as a joke barring those few months where a few usable builds were found and then nerfed into oblivion.

NO NO NO. I really don’t want warriors to feel like we (ele’s) do but something fundamental needs to change in the mindset of the balance team, every class needs equal representation and attention devoted.

Isn’t it not so long ago that no teams wanted a warrior in their team?

Cogbyrn.7283:

Maybe if they move UF, I’ll be able to switch my build to Death from Above. I miss that trait.

Also, whatever they do, it won’t change the weapons I use or about 50 of the points I that I trait. Maybe 60. So I’m completely unphased.

I also think people think UF does more than it actually does.

I agree with you. It doesn’t do much on one warrior using it. On a hammer there is only 1 ability that stun. I think that when 5 warriors can do CC it become 50% crits chance to anyone who as the trait. The pvp 5 man warrior team really showed that. Lower the crits chance to fit with a T1 skill. It will be still useful just not OP.

It`s a MMO each class get at the top once in a while. I personally don’t know what is the OP build they speak off. I play the typical shout heal build. Is it the Bow/Hammer one? Sound like a great Idea but I fail to see how great that build is at mobility. The only build that really that can do anything that come to me is the GS/Hammer or mace shield.(I have no idea how good the skullcracker is now they fixed the stun runes.)

Unsuspecting Foe is really strong for a T1. Either move it up or reduce it to 20-30%. It would still be worth taking and stay an interesting option but i would not be the only one option. I hate when they move up a skill in tier. It break many build and this is bad for all class IMO. This skill is easy to tone down to proper level. T1 skill should give some flavor to your character.

reducing the base healing signet and giving it a better scaling is a great idea. It would take a bit of investment and better scaling is better in the long run. It doesn’t nerf it for everyone but reduce the effectiveness to the pure DPS build.

Great fight at SBI ruins yesterday night. All I wanted was to get my achievements done but I ended up having some great fight.

Thanks to all the people that was there.

It’s funny to see all the guild that transferred to SBI It’s like I’m fighting all the guilds that used to form the lower tier servers at the same time.

Solstice.1097:

Thank god they changed leagues to 6/9/9 instead of 12/12 or else we’d have Crystal Desert and IoJ ruining our league (we’d have NSP too but they wouldn’t really ruin it)

TBH crystal desert and IoJ lost many of their guilds in the weeks prior the season.

They need to buff the other heals now to be on par with HS. Anyone tried the new healing?

I personally haven’t been in queue since a long long time. NSP have some queue maybe on reset but it`s mostly EB and the BL where our main WvW guilds focus. The queue only stay for a few hours and are really really short.

Warhorn used to convert condition to boons all the time but since la patch that was removed. To me it was a huge nerf. Tier 2 tactic tree is pretty stacked with many really good skill. Empower ally, quick breathing and shrug it off. They all great but AoE 2 conditions converted to boons every 15 sec or so is really great.

Amurond.4590:

Natar.3671:

Is anyone as excited as me for the new content on kessex hills?

Have fun against FA :<

TBH I expected this on the first week. I was even wondering how could we cap SM 5 time for the meta achievement. Finishing second on the first week was a huge surprise even more since IoJ did beat us pretty hard the last two time they fought us.

The way the match up seems to work we will probably never face them. It look like it’s the 3 winners face each other, 3 second place and the 3 third.

Am I he only one to miss the condi removal from warhorn skill pre 15 october patch. I took a pretty big hit there.

I lost empower ally and have to spec in warhorn to get the condi removal back. Last patch was more of a nerf to me and my build than a buff.

Wait what nerf? Sigil of paralisation? If this ability need something it’s the ability to work in elevation.

skgstan.9687:

Sorry to interrupt the forum drama, but question @any Os reps. This other GvG video in your guild channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn3aABmim_Q

It’s really good, but i’m curious to know who did the editing or if it was multiple people? So far this is one of my favorites i’ve seen on here aside from that Respawn Maybe video that was floating around. Love the video, I look forward to more of your stuff…maybe even one where Ostrich is featured?

Arkanys did it I think and he did and incredible job.

Obiza.7625:

I’m not someone who is a super WvW diehard fan, but if you’re gaming with the right people you can make just about anything fun. Sure NSP is the clear underdog here but I’ve still had a pretty good time so far and I’m sure the server will improve by the end of the season.

That is true. Rarely I was able to get that many kills/bags per night. This will be our easy week and it’s our best chance to get as many SM cap as we can for the meta.

On the PPT side of thing we are doing pretty good actually. Last time we faced CD our score was 77 000 at this point and we now have almost 100k.

sephiroth.4217:

Trying to take back the keep and look where this guy is shooting his arrowcart.

Someone got caught. I don`t even think this is possible even using aspect ratio.

EQ epics felt more epic to make than legendary. (It was a bit more chaotic to do) I owned swiftwind and earthcaller in EQ and Bolt in GW2. I guess I`m attracted to lighting sword :P

Allakhazam… Haven’t been there in years. Now i remember EQatlas…

Omne.4603:

Some highlights from Os guild on friday night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZfEQ8N_BG0

That fight on the wall of hill. It was so amazing.

azerte.4365:

insanemaniac.2456:

anyone see devon yet?
just wonderin

oh oh i know, 3g bounty for a screenshot proof that hes on nsp
but i kinda doubt he would be on his anet account =/

We saw an anet dev on NSP in EB yesterday, not sure if it was devon though

There is more than 1 Anet dev on NSP I think. When they put their Anet tag usually it’s really funny to see how much they get hunted down. I heard they have a higher chance to drop precursor. =)

Nice video and great fight also!

Omne.4603:

I honestly didn’t expect to spend the first night of Silver League spawn camping CD on NSP bl.

It was a really fun night. That fight in the other BL’s hill was pretty insane.

NSP did a lot better than I expected.

Thanks you to everyone.

Devon.9061:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-We2bnvbvYQ

VLK style.

AHAHA =)

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

I’m just glad that they made the decision to push ahead with leagues in their current form despite population imbalances because CLEARLY there are no better alternatives or easy fixes.

This is simply genius. It’s so amazing…

That would have a pretty cool cross servers friendship vibe that the tequaltl overflow had.

18k you have to be really squishy and him pretty well buff/DPS oriented.

Server you log into when the league start will be your home server.

• Edit

In the patch note.

Players will be tied to the world they are on when they first log in after the season begins. Players may transfer worlds at any time, but their final reward

Cynz.9437:

we ninja moved on last min to FR… was so sudden :x

i am kind of kitten ed since we actually spent gold to move from DH to IOJ and then IOJ decided to slack and we ended up xfering again…zzzzzzzz

FR? IoJ lost quite a lot of late. So far none of the heavily WvW involved guild left NSP.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Sharpoon.8197:

Curo.2483:

The only reason NSP is in silver is because we have more players (than HoD/Kain) that place their pride over their enjoyment of the game. Ignorance is bliss I guess.

Our only serious WvW guild (Os), knew that bronze was where we belonged, even though they wanted to be in silver for the competition. Some ignorant people flamed Os for this decision (which was a completely selfless one), so Os took us to silver to prove themselves to said people.

I’d say it’s some consolation to know that the NPS’ers that wanted us in silver are going to be getting their faces beaten in, but it’s really not. I won’t be able to enjoy my favourite aspect of the game for 7 weeks unless I leave my home server, which I have gotten very attached to.

This entire “WvW season” thing was a horrible idea, and is only rivaled in horribleness by the fact that Anet gave people so much time to destroy their own servers via transfers, stacking, throwing, and the results of differing opinions on those topics. I for one know that NSP was split between people who wanted bronze vs silver, and we risked losing multiple guilds and guild leaders over the whole thing.

As someone said earlier, those who see this as a challenge for NSP to overcome are delusional. The word “challenge” implies a chance of success. What’s even more ridiculous is how many NSP’ers think we fought hard and earned a rightful place in silver league. They don’t seem to understand that we are here because of illegitimate action taken by other servers who purposely lowered their WvW score to take what should have been our position in bronze.

What’s really funny is that Devon thinks he’s going to finish the Season 1 meta on NSP. The only way we are getting Stonemist Castle is if the other servers pity us and give it to us freely.

The leagues haven’t even started yet. Don’t get discouraged. You won’t be fighting the stronger servers every week. You guys are probably on par with IoJ now and during NA prime you’ll probably be on par with CD.

I’m on NSP and Curo is right in that we will almost certainly get stomped 7 weeks in a row.

We’ve been fighting servers in the silver league 4 weeks out of the past 6. We had IoJ just 3 weeks ago and CD 4 weeks ago. Unless they have suffered catastrophic loses of practically all their guilds, their population still far exceeds ours.

The funny thing is I’ll bet many (certainly not all, I can think of some exceptions) of those who were OUTRAGED that others wanted in bronze league will probably disappear out of WvW a couple weeks into the league.

I know mostly who they are and I can’t wait to see how much they will get involved.

I currently use my DPS gear and shout heal (about 2k maybe a bit less) for the same as I was healing using in almost full celestial gear (armor 3/6, all access minus back and weapons.). I haven’t played with my celestial gear/heal weapon stack/heal food since the patch came out.

I wil try it out later.

insanemaniac.2456:

styx.7294:

moutzaheadin.4029:

I posted this in the eBay/hod/kain match up thread. I think it applies here aswell

Normally I don’t care about other match threads, but this one interests me for obvious reasons.
Something tells me this match up and the one we have Nsp/gom/ar arent very random.
Seems like it was a measure to try and avoid kain into tanking out of silver. For extra measure hod is also in the mix. So if either one even lift a finger for a good week.. its hello silver league.
Nsp on the other hand got a match where we have to actually push past the low rankings of the other server. While the other 2 kain/hod tank.
I guess my point is. This doesn’t look very random to me.
Lastly and I speak for myself/guild here. I want silver league.. I want the better constant fights. Keep your lolfinisher and blues in the reward chests. I don’t care about any of that trash. Its the fun fights that keep me playing. In bronze.. it will be a bore.

Kinda heavy on the conspiracy there, Obs =P

its a test for just how bad the matches will get in bronze league

cant get worse than the top paired w/ the bottom 2

Actually if this is what the worst match up. I would say that it’s not that bad compared to first in silver VS last.

Kain is performing very bad at this moment +15 ppt and can’t perform worst than that. Even in this current situation they are still 9 point over NSP. In other hand NPS has quite a lot of room to play with. NSP currently can decide if they want to be in bronze league by performing slightly worst/taking a PvE week or go in silver by pushing a bit.

Toble.2968:

Narsil.6579:

Also it would be sad for me to rage and be alone, but the sad part is it isn’t just me or my guild in here saying NSP is a kitten about their roaming, it’s coming from both sides of DH and FC, and in fact it’s multiple people. The other side is the only ones defending NSP are either XOXO or OS, and sadly I’ve wooped several OS already , XOXO may be the only competition I will ever come across if that.

And Os would care..

If we were a roaming guild.

:)

What I do care is stuff like we did in SM after midnight(east).

It has been a while since I had this much fun.

Bird Song and Mr. Devon Carter on the same server!?!?!

I have heard the rumor that you were playing on NSP from time to time.

Bird Song and Mr. Devon Carter on the same server!?!?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcIjFeWE4fE

I have heard the rumor that you were playing on NSP from time to time.

Those rune need to be nerfed or all the other one need to be buffed. The issue is that for some class it open some interesting and fun build but for other like engi or mesmer it become way too OP.

Mace/Shield and hammer as low mobility. Maybe that is what he wanted to write.

IMO this system should have been what they implemented for unmanned. They said in an interview they didn’t wanted to give stats boost for unmanned for this and that reason. This is the same thing but it does a lot more damage.

150 all stats is too much I think. It’s like 2 celestial ascen/legen 2 handed weapons worth of stats…

Half of this would have been cool. 150 is overkill.

[EK] It was pretty fun tonight until we had to quit to defend hills.

First encounter with you and DH in NSP SW camp was probably the highlight of my night.

IMO Unsuspecting foe issue is only with the greatsword. It’s fine with the others weapons.