Zape.2094

If you do not craft nor play PvP it is far from "sort of fine". It takes about 66 weeks which is a year and a half just to get the shards for ascended armor. At 4 hours a day play time (with which from the start you probably wont even get the full reward, but lets say you do for the sake of the argument), thats 1848 hours invested. For ascended. Armor. Want to get weapons too? No problem, that'll be another 44 weeks. And we're over 2 years of CONSTANTLY playing 4 hours a day. For ascended. Sorry, but this is far from fine lol. As the lads have suggested, there are alternatives, which are crafting and PvP, and those make everything much easier, but if you solely play WvW, it is not even remotely close to being "sort of fine". Even if you play too much WvW. Which I do btw, this week I got last skirmish chest on tuesday. WvW is quite literally all I play in this game, and Ive been around for a couple of years, and yeah, Im still MILES off getting full ascended. Best, Z

Thanks a ton captain! I think I'll have to pick up crafting 😉 Best, Zape

Is getting them in PvP faster / easier? And crafting, what level do I need to do it? And how much does each of them cost approximately? Thanks! Best, Z

Im encountering the exact same issue. I have the gold. I have the tickets. I have the memories of battle. What I dont have is the kittening grandmaster mark shards, because it takes bloody ages to get them at this point, and I do not do anything beside WvW (I dont PvE nor craft). Best, Zape

Hi Splat! I know I'm late to the party, so you've likely already found your new home, but I'll join in on the action regardless because I think I might have just what you are looking for! 🙂 We are [Envy]; a community consisting of 3 guilds - Total [Envy], Totally [Envy] and Total Wrath Of [Envy]. The first two are both close to full, each having over 450 active members, whereas the 3rd only has a good 100. It is our WvW guild (formed for the upcoming Alliances beta). Not to worry you too much with details, what we offer is a very chill and active environment, filled with people who do all kinds of content - from living world and helping with personal story, to raiding and fractals (PvE), to running tournaments in structured PvP, and last but not least, to conquering the world in WvW 😉 In case this interests you in any way, please do pop by on our Discord, as that's where most of the things go down: https://discord.gg/WgxSBXCK I am also available on Discord for any information as Topgun#0222, or in-game as Zape.2094 🙂 No matter what we'll be happy to have you tag along and join us, even if only for a little while to give us an opportunity. Your friend is welcome here aswell. Oh, and we're on EU indeed 😉 Best, Zape

Is this the new alliance beta 🥴

Same thing happened to us. -Blacktide Best, Z

Soon™

I think you'd lose on way too much utility if you swapped the bubble for rampage honestly. I think warriors make pretty good commanders, but Id run bubble since its one of the strongest skills in the entire game for a zerg v zerg scenario, even more so when the commander is the one placing it (better coordination and map control). Its kinda like as a firebrand you could always run the invuln meditation, but it's generally not worth losing the stability (at least in my experience). Thanks for your input! Best, Z

Thanks for your input Hannah! Honestly though, what I feel like is a very strong trait of Firebrands is the amount of stability we can put out. Cause a large part of leading your squad is avoiding CC and being able to always move forward / backwards, at least from my experience. And I am kind of afraid to run tag on other classes, since if I dont have a good firebrand in my party, things can go sideways pretty quickly. I was thinking spellbreaker could be a decent alternative cause of the bubble and the decent amount of stab and tankiness it has. I would probably be afraid of running a class with little to no stab access while tagging honestly. 😄 Thanks! Best, Z

I guess the biggest benefit of a chrono commander would be the use of veil and the pulls right?

Hey guys, I was just curious from your experience, are there any (and if yes, what are they) good alternatives for commanding on Firebrand? I am genuinely curious to see any builds that could match (or perhaps even out-do) the firebrand in the role of a commander. What are your experiences? Does anybody have any "off-meta" builds they like to command on? I've seen some spellbreaker commanding, scourge and even elementalist so far, but Im not sure how viable they really are. Best, Z

A discount on additional character slots would be great to match the spirit of the upcoming Mad King Realm event.... I'm super excited to level my alts and spend time in the event, but I sadly only have one character below 80, other slots are full.... Id definitely buy a couple of additional slots if they were discounted! 🙂 Best, Z

The issue I'm seeing is, "in a few months". Alliances have been first announced in 2015 if I'm not mistaken, which is 6 years ago. Since the beta we've had only included the most basic features of the alliances (it only included guild selection - it didnt include any matchmaking processes, it didnt include the forming of alliances, it had no GUI changes aside from the one menu that wasnt functional anyways...), and even so none of the features were really working (the guild you selected didnt actually lock in for some people, there were overflows of maps there shouldnt be, some objectives were unable to be capped, score wasn't calculated properly...), I am honestly a little scared to say "in a few months". I would honestly expect the next beta to appear soon after EoD launch. And even then, the ACTUAL alliances system is miles away. The only reason why I'd like to move people to a different one is because we were promised to be able to play with our guild this week, when in reality none of us could. And for this we spent dozens of hours gathering people, instructing them, and organising things. So it'd be nice if our effort would actually be useful in some sort. Best, Zape

But for a fee, right? The thing is, I know some of us got free server transfers, but apparently not everybody did. So a lot of my guildmates do not have this for whatever reason. And transferring 90 people, 500 gems per person.... Well, you do the math hehe 😛 I will give you a scenario. No guild wants to be on the same server as every other guild, since that means infinite queues and 0 content to fight against. Im not even sure if you play WvW at this point lol... Not sure about your alliance comment - it has nothing to do with transfers unless Im missing something? So what if it takes years for the alliance system to come into effect? Just the more reason to allow people to swap servers, no? I have used my free transfer, yes. But alot of my guildies havent, and apparently they dont have the option to either. That is where the problem lies. I am not going to transfer. I just want my friends over here. Thats it. Those of us who have formed this guild are mostly on the same server, and we're happy here. Its those that joined after the megaserver system that are spread all over the place. These people are the ones I want over. Best, Zape