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 LordofHats wrote:
producing video to support the game play style.

FRAPS makes it pretty easy to do.

Ele can work well. There's just a lot of hoops that need to be jumped through to do it.

The nice thing is that any class can work well, but the problem is that most of them don't have to jump through those hoops to reach the same or higher level of effectiveness.

Yes, I've found that mixing fire and lightning is far better than pure lightning, myself, on my power/precision build for my ele.

At this point, I'm considering the idea of a build that utilizes 20 fire, 20 air, 30 in the atunement one. But it still feels far too unfocused because even with the focus on fire and air I still need to use earth and water sometimes as well.

Iv tried to specialise in one or two attunements but I pretty much always ended up using them all for one thing or another.

It does seem hard to get some good synergy between attunement traits sometimes, ill probably look into it more when I can afford that 2g manual lol.


If you use a staff the trait in the bottom line making staff area attacks larger is pretty good.

I have a weird build that goes 10/20/20/10/10

Haven't gotten to 80 yet to test it out, but it looks good on paper.

I came up with a spec today for the ele. Has 20 in water and earth then 30 in arcana.

Has alot of regen, bleeding and protection granting abilities.

Havent tried it much but it looks interesting.

I just spent the last two hours in WvW, and not only is Yak's Bend dominating - but my buddy just finished gearing out his toughness/heals warrior, and it is stupid how good that build is. He just doesn't die. and he kicks out pretty good heals. While the rest of my guild was still queued, the two of us held off seven people from the center island, and we probably would have taken them all if it weren't for how stupid hard it is to actually put someone down in the water. Then the rest of my guild got in, which was a nonstop pain train cycling around the map taking anything the other two factions dared to try to keep.

Out of the seven of us, we had six 80s in pretty much full exotics, so most fights would be - ten to twelve people jump on us, we focus down seven of them while having none of us go below half health, and then merrily chase the survivors only to kill them steps away from the safety of a door.

I think in two hours we "wiped" once.

 Bromsy wrote:
I just spent the last two hours in WvW, and not only is Yak's Bend dominating - but my buddy just finished gearing out his toughness/heals warrior, and it is stupid how good that build is. He just doesn't die. and he kicks out pretty good heals. While the rest of my guild was still queued, the two of us held off seven people from the center island, and we probably would have taken them all if it weren't for how stupid hard it is to actually put someone down in the water. Then the rest of my guild got in, which was a nonstop pain train cycling around the map taking anything the other two factions dared to try to keep.

Out of the seven of us, we had six 80s in pretty much full exotics, so most fights would be - ten to twelve people jump on us, we focus down seven of them while having none of us go below half health, and then merrily chase the survivors only to kill them steps away from the safety of a door.

I think in two hours we "wiped" once.

lol I wish I had a group to do that with.

Same.

Edit:

They really need to fix WvWvW badly. I'm sick of logging on, looking at the scores and seeing Vizunah Square 80k, Far Shiver 70k and Desolation 60k, it sucks.

That's actually a pretty balanced fight when the range in the scores is only 20k. Sure Desolation might not be winning, but if they're only 20k behind then they haven't been completely dominated. Compare it to the one going on now between Darkhaven, Anvil Rock, and Yaks Bend. The horror. The ungodly horror!

Yaks: 134k
Dark: 47k
Anvil: 44k

That's a slaughter.

Things are currently kinda hectic here due to starting university and whatnot... Once I get into more regular pattern we could organised WvW days or dungeon run sundays or other such things.

I would like that.


The WvW thing.

Theres been ALOT of posts about it on the GW2 forums, and the few I read follow a similiar order.

First the post from a Desolation-er.
Then a few agreement posts.
Followed up by a bunch of "We're not cheating posts" by both Shiver and the French.
Then a few "Oh really? Then explain X. And Y, and Z." From Deso.
Then back to Shiver and Vizunah for the " Oh we just have people who are so dedicated they play 24/7.

And then on to the next thread. See for yourself.

I tend to avoid MMO forums. The amount of nonsense that goes on in them is worse than Dakka's off-topic section.

There are people so dedicated that they play 24/7. If Vizunah is anything like Henge of Denravi, then they've got a guild alliance going with two or three guilds taking night shift. Hell its probably worse on NA servers cause we get most of the oceanic players. Come nightfall, the Asians swarm the WvW map XD And Asian guilds are really well organized compared to American guilds (hell the Aussie guilds are more organized than the American guilds )

That score difference really isn't that bad. Yak is now 167k, and Dark and Anvil are hovering between 45 and 55k. Being 20k behind is not bad. The servers that win WvW tend to be the ones that can maintain pop cap 24/7 and that have the most organized guilds and guild alliances.

There are a few exploits but honestly, organization is the key to WvW which makes it a guild game. The server with the more dedicated and organized guilds wins.

I tend to avoid MMO forums. The amount of nonsense that goes on in them is worse than Dakka's off-topic section.

This is also true XD Especially the official forums. Avoid them. Like the plague.

I just bought the game and find it quite enjoyable.

Is everyone on the same server?

Desolation for most of us.

 LordofHats wrote:
That's actually a pretty balanced fight when the range in the scores is only 20k. Sure Desolation might not be winning, but if they're only 20k behind then they haven't been completely dominated. Compare it to the one going on now between Darkhaven, Anvil Rock, and Yaks Bend. The horror. The ungodly horror!

Yaks: 134k
Dark: 47k
Anvil: 44k

That's a slaughter.

Yeah, we are wrecking house this round, but we've lost most of our matchups since start.

Wow this is really really sad. I'm in WvWvW right now and theres a French guy, from Vizunah Square surprise surprise who is actually spying our chat and messaging his friends back in Vizunah. He actually wrote something in French, I think about how we werent attack/were attacking something. This is disgusting and I'm really pissed off with Anet. To make matter worst, when I tried to take a screenshot and post a complaint, I couldnt login to guild wars 2 Forums.

Edit:
If anyone wants to know, his name is Arknor.6245

Oh that. Yeah. That's been happening a lot. I have no idea why they've allowed free transfers so far. It's probably thrown the ratings for several servers completely off and there are guilds that will send people to spy on a servers WvW chats. of course, that's likely to happen even if transfers aren't free. EDIT: A simple solution would be to disallow transfers to servers a player's is currently engaged in WvW with.

A pity they won't lock his account to one server for poor sportsmanship.

Well realistically, proving spying would be about as hard as proving botting. Sure if Anet dedicates the time, they'll get it done, but its a rather large amount of dedication for what is by design a casual mode of play. WvW was never built to be competative like SPvP. They specifically designed it to appeal to people who normally don't do PvP (which seems kind of odd, since its guilds and serious PvP players who will win WvW battles, but oh well).

They can't rely on player reports. I mean, how many frivolous reports must Anet get a day? Going through all of them will take forever in itself.

I know. Thus more the pity.


Also, after playing a few rounds, to me the regular pvp is nowhere near as fun as world pvp. So I'm more concerned with world

Sometimes Im in the mood for pvp but mostly if I want to fight people it would be in wvw.


I cant imagine people gather much useful intel by spying though, most of the desolation wvw chat is people whining.

Well that depends on if there's a commander about.

I was under the impression they were locking server for WvWvW...

I am disappoint ANET :/

to me the regular pvp is nowhere near as fun as world pvp. So I'm more concerned with world

Same. I like SPvP, but WvW is fun. Maybe if it becomes really popular among players as a more serious game mode they'll take measures to improve the performance of it. I know I'd like to see some balance tweaks to the Borderlands maps.

I might throw down for some WvW once my guardian is level 80. I'd jump in with my Necro, but with the way the class is now, I figure I'd end up getting more fun out of it with my Guardian. Of course, I'm on a different server from most of you lot, so you might end up testing your mettle against me.

Actually Necro can be pretty lulzy in sieges when built right; pulling enemies off of walls, healing huge amounts of players at once, etc.

You need to be a very unconventional necromancer though. A disruptionmancer, as it were.

So about that level 50 or 60 heavy armour Mel...

I've been busy with other things recently. And just haven't had the materials, either (I've been leveling up my ele, necro, and ranger, so I haven't gotten any steel-tier materials).