we were battling your server last night in WvW

im on maguuma. you guys should all WvW from time to time maybe ill get to kill you. >:]

At least he's consistent.

Silky wrote on Sep 5^th, 2012 at 1:02am:



I can do one better.

I am rubber, your glue, whatever you say bounces off me and stick to you!

fek. northernshiverpeaks alliance splintered... on a good note, the wvw que dropped from 6+ hours to 30min+

So, Ascalonian Catacombs on explorable mode.
It was a three hour wipe fest, and then we gave up.

I'll specify.  We took option number two.
The entire place is filled with mega-mobs.  You need to focus fire them down.  Even the trash.  The mini-bosses weren't too bad, considering.
The first actual boss fight was a battle of attrition.  It was less challenging and more punitively difficult.
The second boss fight was challenging as hell, but it was challenging in a way that required figuring out what needed to be done and then executing it nearly flawlessly.  That fight was a ton of fun.
The third set.... I don't even think it was a boss fight.... it was just TOO FUCKING MANY of these uber-mobs to handle at one time.  After working on one room for approximately an hour, we gave up.
My cumulative repair bill was approximately three gold [probably slightly more], and we didn't even finish.

livefreeordie wrote on Sep 9^th, 2012 at 11:35am:


I was level 39, someone was level 43 or so, and two people were was level 55+.  One person was level 70 approximately.  Four guildies and one pugger.  The pugger was all but useless, but I don't see how it would have made all *that* much of a difference.

I will admit that our group wasn't the best as far as professional combinations go with one Ele, two rangers, a thief and a warrior, but I also don't see how swapping one of the rangers with, say, a guardian or a necro would have made all *that* much difference either.  These things would have helped, sure.  But I don't think it would have helped all that much.

As for my repair bill listed before:  I'm stuck on D&D values.  It wasn't 3+ gold.  It was approximately 4.5+ silver five or six times.
Under 10:1 rates, as PnP used, that's gold.  Under 100:1 rates, as Gw2 uses, it is much less.

I agree, I think GW2 did alot that was different then other MMOs, and really alot of those decisions were the right ones.

I agree, the limited skill slots is really nice, not over whelming, but more then enough room for skill to really make a large difference.  There are another 5 skills that you are leaving out, which is the second weapon set, which should be used, and I think the big difference between good and great players will be that. 

The queue is rough, but I think that will get figured out.  Gonna give them the pass that they have more people queued then they expected.  Im avoiding world play until then.

I agree, not sure what 'end game' is in GW2.  Def not the same as other MMOs, but by the time I have leveled the classes I want to, I'll have put in lots and lots of hours.  Long term for such as active player as you is alot different the most MMOers.  ORs short term plans in DDO are > most DDO players long term goals .
(^ ya thats a bit of fanboism, but frankly, I think they will have released more cohesive endgame by the time I start to fully explore the game)

That being said I just read an interview with a GW2 Dev that was interesting.  You have to remember that the game is 2 weeks old.  End game is not fully fleshed out yet.  DDO original end game was TS. 


"Players can expect that we're going to very, very strongly support Guild Wars 2," he answered, measuredly. "I can't announce to you today what the upcoming updates to Guild Wars 2 are going to be, but we are in fact working on exciting updates for Guild Wars 2, and you're going to see them soon."

Asheras wrote on Sep 10^th, 2012 at 2:27pm:


He said in 2 lines what Fernando took paragraphs to say.

ya i got my ranger to 80 a while back, maxed his crafting, and wasnt quite ready to grind events for karma or start farming mats to make my legendaries so i just rolled another character. there were several that interested me and i purposely skipped parts of the map so i could play those zones with new chars. also for those who dont know the 100% world map completion is account shared. so you can certainly hit 100% without it all being on one char.

stainer wrote on Sep 11^th, 2012 at 10:27am:

That's because you're in the bestest guild that ever was!  Haaaaaay!

someguy wrote on Sep 11^th, 2012 at 11:35am:


I have an ostrich looking thing I am going to name Breaken Jr.

haha thats awesome. i named my pig emergency rations. the silliest thing (to me) about the pigs other than their grunts is their special ability (f2). they "search the area for an improvised weapon". well what usually happens is they find a seed? pick the seed up and activate it and a fucking magical tree instantly pops out of the ground hahah. its good shit.