Guild Wars 2

How considerate of you not to answer.
I’m forced to add some more information.

I’ve been playing six of the eight classes for quite a while, but had been maining warrior and engineer for the longest time. In addition to that I am a soloq-kitten, who was even somewhat proud of his exact 60,00% winrate during the old ladder. Oh, I had like 2k games of soloq, aswell.

Furthermore I have been playing games just in order to have fun for quite a while.
Fun meaning hitting people in the face, getting rekt by games & superior players and naturally winning. No one stops a dedicated and angry me.

Worthy to be noted is the fact that I am no longer “Too young for E-Sportz.” Even the salty leader of [MAD] has become a madman.

Odium

I greet you, people,

who somehow have nothing better to do then hanging out in the forums.
You great, humble beings… I lied, when I said I’d be gone for good.
If there is hope for competitiveness, that is.

The reason for this is the unstoppable force otherwise known as my girlfriend.
After doing literally everything Dark Souls had to offer & hating the crap out of MOBAs – such as beating me up, dying, not being able to carry all dem scrubs hard enough, dying again – and about a gogool games of Town of Salem, she got curious how I came to be.

Therefore she started researching about my dark past. Somehow she managed to stumble upon a little truth, which got her here, as the other things I did are too nefarious to ever be revisited.

tl; dr: I will have to revisit this grim & sad place filled with turret engis and rangers.
Will you join me, random person reading this?

// She made me do this. Do not give her hope by any means. Getting the game files back together will take about two days of straight downloading. Back my days data-packages were delivered in the form of STONES. Out here they still are.
I don’t want this. … Therefore <plz stap>.

Angry Odium

Hey there,

dear people still reading my posts, tonight we have created the opportunity of your lifes! In case you wonder why I’ve started talking about myself in plural again – I’m still insane. This time “I” represents my team, though. At this point you most likely have stopped reading this, but I’m gonna continue anyways.

I, we, don’t even know our own name yet and are too lazy to decide ourselves, wherefore this forum post has been created to safe us work. That’s where you come in! You, yes every single one of you can, no HAS to vote for a better future. A future vision of us hitting you in the face, while even having an awesome name! Just imagine how sick that’d be! Literally all you have to do is to click the following link filled with our bad ideas and use your wrong opinion on it!

One of the names even is good!
http://strawpoll.me/2966143
BUT I’M NOT GONNA TELL YOU WHICH ONE. HUE².

Odium

Hey there,
same problem – first I was like:
“Is rngesus screwing us over,
when we finally come to play the only map we don’t suck at?”
But then I’ve come to wonder about the length of the loop.
Does this loop once? Nah. Twice? Nah. Forever…? Maybe. Kinda hart to proof that.
Might this be one of these great while(true)-loops, everybody is so hyped about lately?
Therefore we have started to count the number of loops, while ranting on the forums.
AND HEY! Here we are.

Some sadistic part of me would be happy if this affected the so hyped e-Sportz event having about as many viewers as most of my former tryhards in law have, when coming online.

I can’t even say that I’m sad or mad – it’s just a waste of time.
Since I do have enough time, but am wasting way to much of it.
At least Seneca told me so. I guess.
YOU MADE ME THINK ABOUT RANDOM STUFF. AGAIN.

// Odium

Thank you for the two free bumps!
After several days of beating up testing thiefs, eh teefs, we have found our man, wherefore further applications for the spot will be ignored.

In case I did not answer your mail / was constantly offline ingame, ask yourself some questions:

1. Did you trashtalk me? In that case you’re blocked.
2. Did you play turret engi in soloq? Blocked.
3. Did you get on my nerfes in any other way? Blocked!
4. Blocked? Blocked! Blocked, blocked, blocked.

Overall I want to thank all people, who were tested, since I now am able to beat just about every thief spec played out there. Furthermore one of you holds the record for eating a 6k prybar, which is something to be proud of, I guess!

This is clearly a gamebreaking issue, since it is preventing me from expressing my opinion freely due to being too lazy to relog every time it runs out. Therefore we need a hotfix ASAP, since the problem has been noticed.

I salute you, the people of this game!

First of all you have to ask yourself, whether you actually are a teef (spoken T-E-E-P-H) or just some idiot that

1. doesn’t know what class he’s playing.
2. doesn’t have about a clue about thiefs, eh teefs.

If this first step that will indefinitely lead to your own demise fulfillment has been taken, then you may continue with finding out who we are:

(Yes, I have trolled you with that one)

Our current setup consists of pretty much the former members of BoX:

• Milo Kryta aka the guy keeping you alive as Staff Auto all day Bunker Guard
• Bullet Punch aka the dude winning the 1v1 Server forever as Offguard
• Qouve aka the former Hipster, now mainstream ele
• Odium aka the soloq addict as engi
• [INSERT TEEF DOING SOLID 1337 BACKSTABS HERE]

In case you’re still reading, this post has more:

1. I’m NOT KIDDING. This time.
2. We are all Top 25 and that’s what we aim for – tryharding inc.
3. You have to cabable of speaking some sort of English, since communication is everything. You can ask Qouve on that one, he hates people that stay silent in ts.
4. REMEMBER I’M NOT KIDDING AND CONTACT ME INGAME OR ON THE FORUMS ASAP UNLESS YOU WANT TO MISS THE OPPORTUNITY!

Thank you for participating in this great social experiment, which was a big success by the way! The results are both fascinating and irrelevant, but I’ll continue anyways, since I am a scientist!

I got a total of 28 offers to join teams, of which I only knew 15, which is amazing. Some people really overcame their fear and contacted me. I am proud of you, control group!

In addition to that I even managed to get a team with the awesome name of “The Pain Is Real [RiP]”. Therefore the pain is just as real as the cake is a lie.

Furthermore just about everyone thinks I Love Lunch has disbanded, which might be true. You can now quit whispering me. I can and will ignore most of the incoming stuff from now on, since there is no need for more data.

Selling a class with a clear expiration date aka warrior and thereby toying with you has been great fun. In the future there may be more experiments to participate in.

Odium

Hey there.
I have to apologize for not having been online half of the day, even though I said to pretty much everyone, who asked, that I’d be there.

But my other hobby cost me more than time than I had anticipated, which at the end of the day was my own fault, though. In other words: I have overdone it, while swordfighting in the world outside of the internet. I really should have sticked to conquest.

Odium

Greetings,
people that actually read this forum.

Today I have come to a mindblowing realization:
Loosing three times in teamq only cost me three ranks, wherefore I’m now only 9th instead of 6th on the leaderboard. Which is quite sad, I guess. But do I really care?

In addition to that the evening showed me that I need a new team!
My main at this point is warrior with 2,5k Tournament games, but I am also able to play engi quite decently. Moreover learning something new is fun, since knowledge is power. Therefore I have “experience” aka the champion title with every class except ele & thief.

Whisper me ingame or msg me in the forums if you are interested, but beware: If I am constantly offline, you’ll be on my vast blocklist, which actually has more entries than the one for friends. In that case good luck contacting me anyways.

I already have several offers, of which I am well aware.
So don’t worry: This post is by no means a dismissal.

Overall I hereby open Pandora’s Box!
I will pug with whoever asks me to do so!
Yes, even with you!
You only require 4 ppl, ts & the ability of speaking English or German.

Odium

You could try using real equations for a change.
There is no empirical data, elementalists no longer are crap…
Why am I even bothering writing in the forums?
… you get the idea.

There are a lot of “wow”-moments in sPvP, since people won’t ever quit being bad. But there have been some occasions at which I keep wondering, what I am doing here still.

1. Skyhammer. I have complete cannon uptime and keep wrecking all dem people by making use of gravity – and my team loses the game anyways. That’s defintely worth a “oh wow”, even though I probably even derserve those losses for being someone adapting to the circumstances.

2. 2v1s. People quite frequently manage to get roasted by my might-powered-fire AoE, even while outnumbering me. And no, don’t tell me now to climb up further in the ladder to see what real PvP is – I already have reached the end of the line. It nevertheless feels good hitting such guys in the face – kind of like roaming in WvW.

3. Winning, even though I am super convinced that I played superbad. There are so many things I do wrong: Randomdodges, missed AoE, bad kiting, enemies playing the same spec as I do, facetanking, standing in fire AoEs… And yet my llama is able to swallow the souls of most people I meet.

The easiest way of dealing with a lich is killing the necro, before he can even think of using it. Therefore the power-nec has focus priority. Moreover he can’t do kitten about it, since his fears neither hurt, nor last long.

Nevertheless you will have to deal with situations, in which the Lich is active and the necro can’t be bursted down: Reflect his skills, use blind, bind (step aside), dodge and block auto-attacks. In addition to that never, I repeat NEVER try to rezz against one, unless you happen to have something against the projectiles (like the guardian trait with the bubble opon rezz). Camping in the wells also kills you. In that case it is better to counter-cleave and deal some damage to your enemies – e. g. the friggin’ Lich.

Even though I am not sure, why I even bothered opening this thread, and then even ended up reading the whole QQ, but I did so. Therefore I might aswell feed the ignorant troll a little.

First I was like going through all of your misconceptions in order to dissect your post and tear apart one thought after the other, but then the realization dawned that all you write is weird. Like all of it. Every single thing you say. Really.

Therefore I will just point out your main problems – so that you may solve them:
1.) There is way to just spectate, which means that you are playing Hotjoin. Everybody playing hotjoin either is bad or tries something out. Get out of your misery and get real.
2.) According to your grounded opinion engineers “can 2v1 with their eyes closed” – how about rolling to engi in order to find out then?
3.) Another way to get rid of that is rolling to the still friggin’ op warrior doing more dmg and healing over 300 HP for “free” a sec, which is great since “freeness” means that you still have your heal to use, when things get sticky.
4.) Since when is PvP all about farming? Well, except for farming souls, of course. Get real and start hitting people in the face, instead of looking for the best farm in hotjoin…

did I really just do what I did?
Yep.
Being bored is a bad thing.
Period.

You most likely didn’t even manage to get any personal score, which normally does only happen to poeple, who didn’t play at all.

Therefore the system doesn’t give you any reward – next time try to decap some backnode or zerg some glasscannon. Secondary objectives tend to work well for that aswell.

Warrior:

- There is no strong build using no longbow. Therefore use it.
- You mostly will have the trait to swap weapons every 5 seconds, so that is pretty much what you are going to do. Therefore “on swap” sigils are great.
- Use the f1 fire field for buffing yourself might with lb3 or hammer f1, but prioritize hitting the enemy over gaining might.
- Be thoughtful with your stances, use them one by one and not all at the same time.
- Force your enemy to stand in your fire field – it is making them dead.
- lb2 shoots 3 arrows, wherefore it is better to use it, while being still near your enemy
- Your lb Autoattack shoots two arrows – great to remove blocks or blind
- lb Fire Field + lb 4 / 5 / 20% of autoattacks create burning combo – use it!
- Stability enables you to safestomp, do so, unless your guard can.
- Use endure pain BEFORE the enemy hits you, not AFTER the first hit.
- Try to learn the timing of your skills well and don’t just spam whatever is ready
- Thiefs will try to steal your might – don’t let them do so or you are screwed.
- Blind makes it harder to detect pindown, also random-dodges will result in oportunities to land it easier. Seize them and they shall multiply.
- Condition Immunity aka Beserker Stance will let you safestomp a nec

Chaotic.9742:

@utmastuh
Think you only get emailed if you have choices of what you want.

Side note to the devs/anet, am I the only one who thinks this system is rediculous? If one captain doesn’t respond, how long must we ALL wait before you give up waiting and send prizes out? Is it really that hard to make a spreadsheet of team names and cross them off the list once you send out their prizes? Maybe even put a fancy big red X by teams that haven’t responded and, oh I don’t know, leave them in limbo alone until you get contact. Many of us are anticipating our prizes I’m sure of it. Seriously, this is basically the easiest thing in the world yet you can’t assign one person in charge this task? You hype the llama finisher reward yet none of the ToL participants entitled to it have it. Priorities Anet…get them in line please.

Exactly.
Most people just fail horrendously, when it comes to reading their e-Mails.
Therefore the stuff that wants to become a juggernaut kind of soon is doing nothing but rotting in my bank, which sucks. Really. Hard.

Day after day I come online with some sort of hope, which then is being crushed invariantly, creating more sadness. My reaction to that is facerolling even more people, which then again creates more suffering, which at this point is good …

oh wait.

Razor.6392:

Voted engineer. The class plays by itself and any apparent complexity is overwritten by engi’s ridiculous strengths in every single situation.

Autopilot faceroll overpowered.

How about Condition Removal?

This thread.
This poll.

Are you living in the past or am I doing so?
Enlighten me pls.

Pyriall.5027:

The feature patch was nothing more than taking what we already had and repackaging it. Outside of a few runes/sigils that changed anything, the feature pack was more punishing to veteran pvpers than it was rewarding.

What?
How the heck did the patch punish me?

Maybe because it made me reroll from hambow, oh wait.

Now I get it! Because of it I had to open all the old Tournament chests one by one!
Which let me make some gold. In addition to that rewards now are kind of… well, rewarding.

Elementalist is back and friggin’ op – … what is that Ele doing on the floor over there anyways? Still getting facerolled as soon as he fails a dodge? Yep.

NOW I GET IT! The patch finally removed the viability of Lyssa and made us playing with even more mightstacks and doubled the swapping fun by doubling the sigils!
Which is bad, of course. I guess.

Also there is now a new way of becoming dragon without farming scrubs for like – ever? Therefore most people have it – why not? I really didn’t look forward to grinding the rest of my way to pheonix – and so did you.

Last but not least the patch brought us people camping the yoloq lots and lots of PvE-Guardians using their legendary greatswords! Ok, that’s a problem, but one that should stop soon. Or at least I hoped so.

So tell me, what in your opinion happened.
I truly am curious.

I want to use this opportunity to do two things:
1) I want to say hello to Bullet. Hello, Bullet.
2) I want my ToL-reward! The rest of the legendary is already lying around doing nothing.

Crovax.7854:

[…]

I really like that warriors seem to move away from hambow though.
That a/sw-lb looks quite potent.

On the first glance you might be right, but this 1v1-build has been viable for about as long as hambow has dominated the scene. Therefore Warriors running that build have strong 1v1 capabilities, but fall off in teamfights in comparision to hambow. Overall the warrior will try to do more on his own and without his team. In other words: That build is great if your team isn’t using the opportunities your stuns create anyways.

In addition to that hambow can still win most duels – in my opinion the difference just is not worth the loss in teamfight-capabilities.

WHY?
Why did you make me do that?
1800 Tournament chests tried to friggin’ kill me…!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9qdaz2pplj0pbze/gw2_inv.PNG
That’s what was left of them…
and then, you know what?
Then I had to create Dyes…
so many dyes… one by one in the mystic forge…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/atljun5nf7vgh8i/gw2_inv2.PNG
Opening those then was kinda fun, though…
getting rid of the mess afterwards … NOT.
At least my warrior has now about 330 dyes, while using exactly two of them.
I really need to buy some creativity to get out of this celestidial abyss…

I also think I am insane… kind of…
I guess.

Well, the cast takes some time – enough to dodge it.
If you manage to do so the mesmer has the full cooldown and you’re still fine.

xGreeD.6018:

[…] is pretty much zero. […]

Please just learn to read.
Pretty much != 100%.
It will safe people so much effort.

jimmyimo.2089:

It’s not that I lose Skyhammer, it’s just a kitten map. Its’ boring to shatter and pull.
But I noticed a lot of top players took your advice and quit; hopefully that satisfies you.

At first I thought you finally came up with a real point, then I realized that the number of quitting top players because of skyhammer is pretty much zero.

If you find an aspect boring, well poor you. Not everyone can be satisfied.
It’s rather obvious we won’t persuade each other to change opinions; all that is about to happen is flame.

Anyways, it’s your right to post this and it is my right to say my opinion about it.
As some brilliant man once said:
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell

jimmyimo.2089:

Greetings ANet fanboy,
I would like to inform you that these maps are not part of tPvP and that is for a reason.

If you don’t like the game, just quit it – it will make the servers a better place.
And according to you soloq is not tPvP and yet you want to change it?

It’s the whining I can’t stand; just learn to play the friggin’ game and adapt.
Flaming never achieved anything remarkable, which not ended up with more flame.

Even though you may think that this poll is representative, it isn’t.

You just have to think about who is actually reading the forums and in addition to that such threads. First of all you need to be a PvP-Player, which excludes most of gw2s population. Plus everyone playing tPvP happily won’t really read this kind of thread, since it is very likely to contain flame, which would just ruin the mood. Hence you have a rather high percentage of unhappy people, who have run out of walls to scream at.

Moreover, consider this: The map diversity is rather low to start with. If the map pool was reduced by two more maps, it would just end up horrible.

At the end of the day: Learn to play those maps and quit flaming.
Use our time!

I definitely am interested.

Even though I already do have a team I actively play with – if it wasn’t for the fact that we currently are lacking a person. It can’t be bad to know more good players to play with.

This can work out, even it most likely won’t get a team for everone involved.

Well, rewards in PvP?
Now that there are some, you want to be efficient?

Anyways, joining teamq alone is not intended and as a result you won’t ever get up in the ladder and be stuck with people having strange ideas like queueing with less than 5 team-members. And in case your rank rises: The premades will crush you.

Whilst in soloq you can play your way up the ladder without having some “hard cap” you won’t ever reach. Plus your odds to win are way higher, since there is no such thing as a premade party.

The rewards for teamq are reasonably higher, since both forming a team and being actually online to play together is rather hard. For that godkitten reason I have collected about 1,5k soloq games, while only having 600 in teamq.

If it was random, everybody could just reroll till he got an easy one.

Currently at least one person of the party has to have cleared each instability.

Face the facts:

• The number of bad players in fractals had to rise, since most people didn’t care about high lvl fracs in the time prior to this patch.
• Even unskilled players had no hard time getting higher than frac lvl 30. As a result they are now there aswell.
• The new fractals are different from the old ones – it is not like you were thrown back to the very start like the reset of leaderboards in PvP did. Instead you’re doing something new.

And even at rock bottom it still is the same with instances:

• Carry your party, support the weaker players to get through. Maybe even explain, but never, NEVER let them feel like they’re bad and you’re the super-experienced-I-am-better-than-you-elitist.
• Don’t just play and survive for yourself, care for the others

Some useful tips:

• Try not to have the same class twice
• Get away from Rock Bottom and it will get better – a lot.

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill

Let this be said by an elitist, who wants you to learn your lesson.

Is it intended that my mates had to walk from the very beginning, whenever they died?

It took them quite some time to get through the Forest with the more dmg from behind instability. At least enough time to create this thread, while still being alone.

Death is what I shall bring upon you.

Forz.1725:

On a side note: What is with these people asking for some sort of “compensation” for being somewhere in the top??? I mean seriously….

Whether you believe it or not – it’s actually some good playing needed to end up there.
Plus it’s rather obvious that you aren’t anywhere near a rank that could get a reward :P.

Yesterday hit the 1k soloq-games and I have to say:
So what?
Then those numbers will be reset, who cares?

That won’t stop me from playing, since Soloq serves some simple purposes:
- My lack of having a team is compensated
- I can hit other people in the face
- Getting better and better – and this progress won’t be lost because some numbers will be reset
- farming all champion-titles, which won’t be touched aswell

For some people this may all be about ranking, which is rather sad by the way, but aren’t we playing a PvP-Game to hit other players in the face?

Hey there.

As the title says, I am looking for a team to play tournaments with actively.
The reason is rather simple – I’m sick of soloq.

Who I am
I’m a quite ambitious but stubborn player – in other words: I bring a lot of patience, otherwise I’d not really have played so much soloq. In addition to that I’m a noname to everybody not having played soloq during the last months. Everyone else is likely to have come across me – since I have more than 1000 Matches of soloq at this point.

What I bid
- Will to learn any class with any role you want me to
- Experience with Engineer, Mesmer, Guardian, Necromancer & Warrior – all with title except war, which is less than 40 wins to go.
- Rank 43 with overall nearly 1,5k Tournament games
- English & German Voicechat
- Timezone UTC+1 (Germany), online from about 16-24 o clock
- enormous hatred towards hotjoin

What I expect
- Daily play
- Voicechat
- Constructive criticism within the group
- a certain degree of maturity
- fun

If you have any questions or are even interested in me, answer me, contact me!
And put me out of my misery of soloq! …
You also may bring cookies.

xGreeD

When I entered the instance I first was pleased by the design.

But then I started truly feeling happy.
Stomping mobs in PvE!
Finally something making it harder to kill like thirty foes at the same time by kiting and spamming AoE! Both the main reason why I like this and other people not are the very same: It’s making it harder!

Just imagine how challenging (or for most people wiping) downstate in Fotm 80 Ascalon would be – especially with rallying mobs. Whenever a player or maybe even a NPC dies: rallying foes!

In the name of all people not challenged enough by current things: Please keep it up!

I want mobs to be stomped!
I want them to work together!
I want m o r e challenge!

IGN: Technitius, Mutator Veritatis, Legat Horroris, Justitia Caedis

Main Profession: Engineer (870 games)

Alternate Professions: Mesmer (428 games), Guardian (318 games), Necromancer (300 games), all classes with more than 150 tournament wins

Region: EU

Practice Availability: Mainly afternoon to night

Languages: German & English

Experience: Teamq mostly with noobs, nevertheless nearly in Top 1000. Pretty much soloq, currently in Top 50. Overall 1,2k tourmanent games played – I really hate hotjoin.

Level of desire: Competetive tPvP.

Errant Venture.9371:

It’s hotjoin so who cares? The entire concept of hotjoin was lolzerg from the beginning. That’s why the allow 8 people per team on the tiny maps.

Hotjoin is where new tournament players are forged.
And you really can’t imagine how much I hate the current 8v8 system & hotjoin overall.
To express it in numbers: I have 2k matches played, 1,3k of which were tournaments.

The changes I suggested would work for tournaments aswell – they’d even work better, since there is no team-swapping or late-joining. Didn’t I point that out already anyways?

Some time ago, after starting to play Hotjoin again, something happened to me that will sound tooooooo familiar.

When the match began, I instantly rushed mid, as I usually do, my team… well, 7 people were capping close. Now the unpleasant part: I was crushed by 6 players in mid, five of which then killed my team still unable to cap close because of the 8th member of the enemy team. This game ended lost 0 to 500 by the way.

This may have been an extreme case, but it’s safe to say that every single one of us has experienced this egoism himself way too often. That leads to the question why people do such stupid things as capping points with way too much manpower.

And this question is astonishingly easy to answer: They do so because only the people standing on the node on capture gain rank points. The players fighting (or being crushed) in mid by that time get less reward than those who capped the point, even though they played the objective – unlike the other ones.

I did some thinking and came up with team wide rank points would help – if they wouldn’t come in with loads of problems. The idea sticked to my mind nevertheless, so I started working out solutions for the most obvious problems. And here we are – the time has come to ask other people and hopefully the Devs for feedback.

Basics
- the current rank-point gain for any action will be lowered, but every team member gets the points (e. g. for taking close)
- personal scores get replaced by a team-score
- rank points are gained for playing the objective mainly, which also includes actions like holding a point for a minute or keeping it contested – all the stuff mostly done in higher tier tournaments, since ppl don’t get there without doing so
- the team score is multiplied by a number determined by the team winning or losing (not zero in that case) at the end of the round
- maximum team score will be still 300 before multiplication

Problems
- Carrying of afk-hotjoiners
=> Kicking ppl for afk after 60 seconds would get rid of that problem pretty easily.
=> Players literally doing nothing noticeable for team-score in a decent amount of time get kicked.

- Skyhammer farming:
Players would now only have to walk into death – without even being hit once. Reducing the number of points gained for gravity-kills would help for starters, but wouldn’t solve the problem. In addition to that it is viable to cap the amount of rank points gained by gravity kills to an overall amount of e. g. 50 per round.

- Players who join a match in progress getting the whole reward:
in the first 30% of the match everybody joining gets the whole team score, every player joining afterwards:
rank point gain = (time played / the time the round took) * the team score.#

As mentioned before, I want this thread to be one to be discussed in, so feel free to give constructive feedback. No insults and no flaming. We actually want to make PvP a better place and I know you want it aswell.

kardinal.3051:

and you use gold for what purpose in pvp?

Additional Characterslots, Eventskins!
Beat that.

Despite the mostly negative feedback in this thread, I have to admit that I’m different.

I was playing a lot PvE till I got kinda bored of it and started tPvP – as a result I have 300+ of any craft-material in PvP except the rank-tokens lying around being useless. The trick or treat bags on the other hand are something different – yes, I even need some of these for the meta (indeed, I’m slow, but that is a result of PvPing).

Short: I like the basic idea!

Good:
- Trait & skill information and stuff
- Condition-DMG Display
- New way of AoE-Targeting
- Fixed Paralyzation-Sigil
- necro death-shroud changes

Bad:
- extreme immobilize stacking

Missing:
- Rewards still suck
- Skyhammer-farmers still hurt the pride of honest players
- new stuff (map/gamemode)

1. Rewards – not much to say about that, I have over 250 of any PvP-craft-Material (except rank tokens) and nothing achieved by that.
2. Map-Art – the maps are cool and nice to play on but compared to some other places in Tyria they lack a certain degree of epicness.
3. Diversity – it’s kinda boring to see most players play just the very same builds over and over again. It’s really hard to both balance a game properly and get diversity in the process, but I really think that it’s possible by collaborating with the players. Especially those playing high ranked tPvP.

It’s quite simple – when you salvage it you get PvE stuff (elder wood logs) – and it’s a PvP-item.

100 for boss.
51 for achievement.

I ALWAYS win.

Dear A-Net,

I personally am curious about some data – how many people managed to get to liadri?
How many of those beat her?
And ultimately – how many players do have the achievement “light up the darkness”?

In addition to that please don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to whine because it’s too hard for me, because it isn’t. I think it’s great like it is – challenging and definitely not too hard.

Got all the achievements anyways.

Just succeded against Liadri after about 100 tries.
I’m engi, which is great because of the great sustain by healing tower (pop, overcharge, pick up). Useful skills are Elixir s and the toolkit 4 (the shield), since you can avoid the 1 hits like that.

Also used superior sigil of energy to regenerate endurance.
You need some toughness to survive the auto-hits, so I traited it.

Inventions → Power shoes are kitten useful as well.
Rest of gear was berserk with divinity runes.

First phase is easy with some training.
Just dodge the mobs and throw the cores.

2nd phase seems unfair, but the AoEs have a pattern!
They pop first on the first 50% of the map, then on the other.
That basically means that you can either kite the boss in circles around the map or just from left to right, where you have to look out because of the illusions.

I personally safed elixir s for the pulling thing. If you have 2 people just let the other one tell you, when one spawns. Would make it a lot easier.

The whole thing is just a skillfight, in which you cannot afford making mistakes since they kill you nearly every time. If you have any questions, ask.

I couldn’t help myself but laughing out loud, while reading through this.

Reminded me of a party I ran fracs with yesterday.
Well, at least they tried to.

Scale was 30, I think – so something to chill out, if you’re used to harder ones.

Our second frac was the shaman – I was on their ts as a random.
They started to freak me out instatly, since the only thing they had in mind was flaming the last boss and whining about getting that fractal.
I stayed silent – it was too soon to insult them. They’d just kick me or worse – get on my nerves even more.

At the end of the day I should have left instanteniously.

They kept blabbering that we would need a guard or we’d die.
At least the second part was true. We did die a lot.
So one of us changed his char and we went on.

I tried to coordinate them – two of them ended up lying in the lava regularly.
After telling them how to dodge the arrows properly for about a hundred time, I stopped also that efforts.

“We need a second guard.”

That made me doubting my sanity.
Did they really say something like that!?
Sure as hell they did.

Didn’t help much either.

BUT!
This frac is fine as it is.
The Problem is the fact that most players just can’t play their char properly.
That is also the reason engis are particularly disliked – most of them don’t really know how to play their char… because he’s different. I am an Engi on high fracs btw.
The Boss itself may be challenging, especially when you start to come closer to lvl80, but that’s fine.

A game, which doesn’t challange you, will bore you soon enough to death.
So don’t change it! Don’t give in for another time, A-Net!

Call me an elitist.
But I do confess to like the thought of somebody biting into his own keyboard, after loosing a battle against me.
This sadism is healthy – as long as you’re challenged.

Would it be possible to make the fractal-skins you get while doing daily 20+ usable for sPvP as well? Both weapons don’t have additional stats, which makes them pretty much alike. I think many players would really like this – for example myself.

Just a minor wish.