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[Sanji]

I see your as guilty as me...witcher 3 playing.

But I hope a lot of our members start playing again once expac comes out!

[shuttlewrth]

I'm planning on it, though I don't think I'll have a new computer till early next year unfortunately :/

[Silvernis]

I admit, I'm cheating on GW2 a bit myself—I've actually been playing Tera again the past couple days. It's an OK change of pace, at least until Wildstar goes F2P.

[shuttlewrth]

I don't feel to bad as there really isn't anything to do but pvp or farm gold.  Since there hasn't been content patches I haven't been all that motivated to play.

[Silvernis]

I keep telling myself I should try PvP again, but I've yet to pluck up the nerve. The random matches I played forever ago were invariably godawful clusters that I never want to see again. I would try ranked, but I can't shake the nagging suspicion that ranked is just going to be a lot of epeen waving and "go meta or go home, noob," so...I dunno.

[shuttlewrth]

Pvp is hit and miss but that's the rating system keeping you playing with people of your skill level.  Your win/lose ratio will be about fifty fifty no matter what you do.  Even pro players have like a 60% win ratio.  Just know your build and how to play the maps and fight other common builds(which you do mostly from wvw) and you'll be fine. Rated is actually a lot better once you know the maps because there isn't as many gimmicky builds.

[Slein Jinn]

Silvernis, on 11 June 2015 - 08:28 PM, said:

I keep telling myself I should try PvP again, but I've yet to pluck up the nerve. The random matches I played forever ago were invariably godawful clusters that I never want to see again. I would try ranked, but I can't shake the nagging suspicion that ranked is just going to be a lot of epeen waving and "go meta or go home, noob," so...I dunno.

Well, WvW players in sPvP for the first time tend to get utterly wrecked, partly because the fighting itself tends to be significantly more demanding, but mostly because they make just absolutely god awful rotational decisions.  
1) Never outnumber fights by more than +1.  This applies at every point during the fight; if you're fighting 4v3 and your team gets a kill, go somewhere else; you don't need to 4v2.  Fighting +2 is a waste of precious resources that could be doing something more productive elsewhere.  
2) Never stay in a fight where you're outnumbered.  Even for a few seconds.  Just leave.  Now.  This isn't WvW; you're not winning outnumbered fights, and the longer you wait to leave, the less likely you are to leave successfully.  Dying is basically the worst possible thing you can ever do; keeping a node for an extra few seconds is not worth leaving your team short-handed while you respawn.  
3) Regardless of whatever idiotic PuG's shout in Team Chat, fighting on nodes means barely more than fuck all.  Winning team fights at all costs is the most important thing; if fighting off node is the best way to win the fight, then fighting off node is optimal play.  Get kills, then you get the node for free.  
4) The respawn timer is 15 seconds.  Pay attention to that.  e.g. Don't be 1v1'ing on your far node when the enemy team has three players about to respawn.  When you control your far node, and your team gets a kill in the team fight at mid or home, be prepared to leave to go cover far before the respawning player can decap it for free.  
5) Never rotate into established 1v2's.  If you can get there immediately to 2v2, that's great, but if your ally has been getting 1v2'ed, it's already too late.  They've already burnt up most of their resources, so if you try to help them now, they're going to die anyway, and then you'll be 1v2.  (The exception to this is if you have some way to reset the fight for your ally, e.g. Shadow Refuge).
6) Never tunnel-vision any particular node.  Again, regardless of what the bitchy bads crow about in Team Chat, no node is any more important than any other.  If you go into the match with the idea that your team is only competing for "home and mid", then you're going to get out-rotated.  If the other team has a player camping your home node, just leave them there and go take far.  If your team loses the mid fight, bail out and take side nodes.  And make sure that strategy evolves dynamically as the match does.
7) It is always best to team fight on nodes your team controls, and when that's not an option, it is better to team fight on neutral nodes; only team fight on enemy-controlled nodes if you have no other choice.  If your team has map advantage (i.e. whenever, if all nodes were to remain in their current states, it would result in a victory for your team based on the current score), focus on trying to preserve the status quo.  If your team is behind, you want to try to sneak a decap or 1v2 the player watching their backpoint in order to change the map status; team fighting is the slowest way to regain control of the map.

[Aduah]

Silvernis, on 11 June 2015 - 05:54 PM, said:

I admit, I'm cheating on GW2 a bit myself—I've actually been playing Tera again the past couple days. It's an OK change of pace, at least until Wildstar goes F2P.

You know whats a massive time sink? Don't Starve. You know what came out about a week ago? Don't Starve Together. What has this lady been doing for the last week? Trying to not starve, and trying to not die via other methods.

PS, I dunno if I'd play wildstar again even if it goes F2P. It was ok, but its not much different than any other mmo, and it certainly can't beat gw2 combat.

[shuttlewrth]

It's nice to see everyone besides me has been slacking in GW2, makes me feel a little better about it.  I'm know we will all come back to it come HoT though and I can't wait.

[Silvernis]

Aduah, on 12 June 2015 - 06:39 AM, said:

You know whats a massive time sink? Don't Starve. You know what came out about a week ago? Don't Starve Together. What has this lady been doing for the last week? Trying to not starve, and trying to not die via other methods.

PS, I dunno if I'd play wildstar again even if it goes F2P. It was ok, but its not much different than any other mmo, and it certainly can't beat gw2 combat.

I've heard of Don't Starve, but I don't know much about it. Now I'm curious.

There was a lot that I really liked about Wildstar when I played it—interesting lore, fun aesthetics, a sense of humor, decent writing, decent voicing, great music, etc. I liked the combat, too. I mean, no, it definitely didn't beat GW2's combat, but I still found it a lot more mobile and fun than combat in most other MMOs I've tried. The game's biggest failing for me was the painfully old-fashioned hub-based questing mechanics. If it had used something like GW2's hearts and events, it could've been fantastic. (Plus all the little QoL stuff that GW2 offers, like being able to deposit crafting mats directly to your inv, account wallets, access to the TP from anywhere, WP teleporting, etc.)

shuttlewrth, on 12 June 2015 - 06:45 AM, said:

It's nice to see everyone besides me has been slacking in GW2, makes me feel a little better about it.  I'm know we will all come back to it come HoT though and I can't wait.

After the last beta, I'm pretty hyped for HoT. The new map looks like it's going to be very interesting, and I'm eager to get my hands on the revenant again, not to mention the new specializations and revamped traits.

[Sanji]

Silvernis, on 12 June 2015 - 08:00 AM, said:

I've heard of Don't Starve, but I don't know much about it. Now I'm curious.

There was a lot that I really liked about Wildstar when I played it—interesting lore, fun aesthetics, a sense of humor, decent writing, decent voicing, great music, etc. I liked the combat, too. I mean, no, it definitely didn't beat GW2's combat, but I still found it a lot more mobile and fun than combat in most other MMOs I've tried. The game's biggest failing for me was the painfully old-fashioned hub-based questing mechanics. If it had used something like GW2's hearts and events, it could've been fantastic. (Plus all the little QoL stuff that GW2 offers, like being able to deposit crafting mats directly to your inv, account wallets, access to the TP from anywhere, WP teleporting, etc.)



After the last beta, I'm pretty hyped for HoT. The new map looks like it's going to be very interesting, and I'm eager to get my hands on the revenant again, not to mention the new specializations and revamped traits.

Cough asurian revenant*

[Silvernis]

Sanji, on 12 June 2015 - 11:06 AM, said:

Cough asurian revenant*

Naturally. My rev will be asura #10. I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM I CAN STOP WHENEVER I WANT.

[Sanji]

I wonder if we should make 3 identical asurians Revenants....
Nessa Pirate Queen
Silvers Pirate Squirrel
Luffy Pirate King

[shuttlewrth]

All you little long eared people...It's like an infestation of you all.



Jk....kind of

[Sanji]

shuttlewrth, on 12 June 2015 - 11:24 AM, said:

All you little long eared people...It's like an infestation of you all.



Jk....kind of

Shuttles Pirate Bus

Lady of Shuttles:

Mrs. Pirate Limousine

[shuttlewrth]

Lol

[Silvernis]

Sanji, on 12 June 2015 - 11:22 AM, said:

I wonder if we should make 3 identical asurians Revenants....
Nessa Pirate Queen
Silvers Pirate Squirrel
Luffy Pirate King

Yarr, shiver me fuzzies.



Seriously, though, I have no idea what I'm going to name mine. I might just stick with Lemon Lozenge for lolz.

shuttlewrth, on 12 June 2015 - 11:24 AM, said:

All you little long eared people...It's like an infestation of you all.



Jk....kind of

There is no escape. Today, Ehmry Bay. Tomorrow, the world.

[Sanji]

Silvernis, on 12 June 2015 - 11:44 AM, said:

Yarr, shiver me fuzzies.



Seriously, though, I have no idea what I'm going to name mine. I might just stick with Lemon Lozenge for lolz.


There is no escape. Today, Ehmry Bay. Tomorrow, the world.

Captain longjohns Squirrel?

[Silvernis]

Sanji, on 12 June 2015 - 11:50 AM, said:

Captain longjohns Squirrel?

Do I get to sing the song?

Spoiler

[Sanji]

Yeah sounds about right tho wed need some jimmy-crickets names with it no?

Are you still gonna SW? later...am gonna be on witcher once home but ard 8 ish 1 hr before reset ill probably log in and decide with yous...what we are going....if we go for Nessas tower or such defending....maybe we can defend inner smc and farm bag at the 3 gates with loads of sup acs.

back to work...for me.