Guild Wars 2

Call it “exploit”, makes things funnier.

No, no, no no no no NO, IT’S SNOWING AGAIN
I HATE SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
unnnnghaaaaaghaaughgnghghn
Make it STOP before I go insane!!!
/grabs cat by the tail and twirls it like a bola

I’ll trade you your snow for our sideways rain … it’s +5 around here, again, with enough wind to make the rain seemingly coming from any direction at the same time . We’ve maybe had 2 proper snow days this winter .

The worst part about it: as long as the weather is just rainy and unpleasant, I can’t even send the kids outside on the weekends, so they’re constantly whining about needing computer time and taking over my gaming pc!

Awww, well, just lock them in the closet! Problem solved. Rite?
Rain sucks, but snow is so COLD. I no likes cold. Cold is bad. Freezes my whiskers. Then again, rain is also bad because… wet… must resist making jokes about wet kitten…
How about just summer, yes?

deSade.9437:

jokes about wet kitten…

/maniacal laughter

Hurr hurr i r liek ap, it is vry respektabul.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Take-away-the-exploited-achievement-points/first#post4841550

Man I’m on the top 25 NA and I don’t even care about the ‘cheated monthly APs’ lol. Some people, sheesh.

Relisted my lfg 3 times because nobody was joining my arah p1/2.
On 4th relist, “Your message was suppressed due to excessive messaging”.

anet pls… ;_;

frifox.5283:

Relisted my lfg 3 times because nobody was joining my arah p1/2.
On 4th relist, “Your message was suppressed due to excessive messaging”.

anet pls… ;_;

Can you explain in-depth again, why my GS AA evade messes things up at lupi?
Is it a “working as intended” mechanic or a bug?

I was the ranger who came to your rescue, btw.

The projectile he flings has a bouncing mechanic after it successful connnect to a player. If you’re in melee, the projectile misses. If you’re at range it connects. If you’re in melee but happen to be evading, you evade the dmg but the projectile will still trigger the bouncing mechanic and dmg (and often, kill) the unsuspecting party members near you.

Well, i guess i’m getting a second axe for my mainhand now…at least i could trait for the +150 ferocity then, during lupi to make my reflects hit a bit harder.

Thanks for the explanation.

wauwi.9162:

Well, i guess i’m getting a second axe for my mainhand now…at least i could trait for the +150 ferocity then, during lupi to make my reflects hit a bit harder.

Thanks for the explanation.

Doood…

deSade.9437:

Doood…

Braaaah…?

Ugh, I didn’t know that. So that’s why I seem to get hit by that $#%@ing projectile in melee range…..

Would kicking more rangers help?

dlonie.6547:

Would kicking more rangers help?

Most definately.
Kicking rangers even brings the world’s peace and it’s been said, it cures the flu permanently.

So wait, does this ONLY happen with the GS AA evade or ANY evade?

wauwi.9162:

dlonie.6547:

Would kicking more rangers help?

Most definately.
Kicking rangers even brings the world’s peace and it’s been said, it cures the flu permanently.

So wait, does this ONLY happen with the GS AA evade or ANY evade?

Not only gs, nop.
And..
Dood.

Just solod my first Arah path ever – P1 – (with a bit of help at Lupi from a friend) and was kicked out of the instance by a guy named “Really Now.”

kitten the forum rules on naming and shaming, Chris ban this kitten please.

Also, they kicked another group who was selling – name “Ivette Valdar.”

Two groups in one night, FIX PLEASE.

Other guy’s name was “Kevinlikespie.”

I saw this happen. I was duoing a path with a guildie, and they kicked us out of our instance as well. They didn’t remove our lfg post though and we were able to rejoin and reclaim the instance.

We saw Nevets Crimsonwing.5271’s lfg post disappear just as they showed up in arah again.

Edit: I have screens showing them joining us and then us being kicked out.

Fireproofcat.9540:

I saw this happen. I was duoing a path with a guildie, and they kicked us out of our instance as well. They didn’t remove our lfg post though and we were able to rejoin and reclaim the instance.

We saw Nevets Crimsonwing.5271’s lfg post disappear just as they showed up in arah again.

Edit: I have screens showing them joining us and then us being kicked out.

They just stole a third instance from a guy named “Zeno Roarzz.”

THREE INSTANCES IN 5 MINUTES DEVS. DO SOMETHING.

What about the anet guys stop being full trykitten kicking me for telling people to not be kittened and they start kicking those pieces of kitten stealing instance?

deSade.9437:

Not only gs, nop.
And..
Dood.

What did i do to you, to deserve a “Dood”.
only, cuz i’m a filthy dual axe PHIW now? (temporarily during lupi)

Don’t tell me how to play, mom.
Also, did you tried the Sword AA on ranger…DID YOU!? (I know, you did <3)
THE HORROR.
THE PAIN.
THE ANGER.
Either don’t DPS or die tryin’…hard choice, i know.

Brah.

The little motherkittener reposted my instance with the LFG “Crimson sucks.”

I merged with him and kicked the whole party out but didn’t regain my instance.

I’ve never been so mad while playing a game in my life. GG anet. GG trolls. GG griefers.

/ragequit

Submitted a ticket online.

“Dear ANET Staff,

On 3/2/2015, two people with account names “Kevinlikespie” and “Synergy.3910” stole 4 dungeon instances from individuals who had solod them legitimately and were trying to sell them. They then reposted my instance in the in-game LFG with the message “Crimson sucks.”

So not only did they steal 3 hours of my time, they then taunted me afterwards because they know how terrible your banning system has historically been.

In the past Chris Whiteside has been courteous enough to ban such grievers. Please forward this on to him and have him e-mail me once they have been banned.

I have many screen shots from all afflicted parties, and I’m sure you can go back in my chat logs and see how badly I was raging. You see, it was the first time I soloed an instance, and to have my time and hard work stolen from me because of your atrocious party system and atrocious in game security system is, quite simply, pathetic.

Thank you for your time."

I hope you see these posts you disgusting cowards. kitten all of you.

Alright, I’m going to sleep. Night dungeon forum.

You could try sending Chris a direct PM trough the forums. That might be more useful than support tickets.

I can confirm about Nevets’s post, when I posted to sell my p1 arah on LFG, these 2 guys name Synergy.3910 and kevinlikespie.6713 joined then kicked me, these 2 kitten dungeon stealer. Time happened is March 03 Tuesday 5 Am UTC, 12 Am EST. After my incident there was another victim in the next 40min also, forgot his name.

This community DO NOT need TOXIC people like these, because I have faith in Guild Wars 2 community, I’m kinda disappoint to see things like this happening. People spent their time works hard with these freaking stuff, then bam it’s gone in 1 second. So I hope you guys can do something about it to prevent it happens in the future.

Since it’s really easy to kick people if someone vote and just need 1 more agree. So I got a suggestion which apply for dungeon party only, how about if someone request to kick someone then it require 2 people agrees for the vote to success (so it’s 3 person total), ok that’s normal vote for someone which isn’t leader, if someone vote kick leader it would takes 3 other to agrees for the vote to success (so 4 people total). Someone whom opened dungeon instant become leader, but if leader vote kick someone then it should be 1 person agree for the vote success, and if that dungeon is on Last Boss then the leader can’t be vote kick by anyone. If you guys can think a better kick system then go ahead, not this freaking kitten kick system ATM, please don’t keep the kick system same like this in the future…

Do you need some MLG Justice post to get a temp ban on them ?
I still don’t have FC, could take a blow :p

I took like 20 videos of getting kicked out of own instances in the last month. About 50/50 chance. And there isn’t going to be done anything anyway, temporary bans wouldn’t do kitten, must be perma bans to keep people from doing that.

Boiz, I found a new place for funzies : the LF subforum

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor/Dedicated-Dungeon-Group-Recruiting

wauwi.9162:

deSade.9437:

Not only gs, nop.
And..
Dood.

What did i do to you, to deserve a “Dood”.
only, cuz i’m a filthy dual axe PHIW now? (temporarily during lupi)

Don’t tell me how to play, mom.
Also, did you tried the Sword AA on ranger…DID YOU!? (I know, you did <3)
THE HORROR.
THE PAIN.
THE ANGER.
Either don’t DPS or die tryin’…hard choice, i know.

Brah.

Young man, you better respect the elder players! Back in my days nobody, nobody was this defiant! Questioning the meta?! Ha! Kids these days, so lazy, unwilling to go through the pain of using sword on lupi and looking for the easy way out! Back in our days we got our solos with TEARS and BLOOD…

[P.S. I just couldn’t camp sword I had to use gs on swap when soloing… else phase 1 was like omg I don’t want to remember, and p3 aoe too /shudders]

Oh and by the way, you’re grounded.
Pal.

I also seriously doubt they’re gonna do anything about the instance stealing. You know, caveat emptor and all that jazz. Some people wanted this socialistic party system, now we all suffer because of it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Making-Players-Feel-Stupid-is-Bad-Business

The irony, oh the irony…
/laughs hysterically

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Just solod my first Arah path ever – P1 – (with a bit of help at Lupi from a friend) and was kicked out of the instance by a guy named (removed)

kitten the forum rules on naming and shaming, Chris ban this kitten please.

Also, they kicked another group who was selling – name (removed just in case)

Two groups in one night, FIX PLEASE.

Other guy’s name was (removed)

Uh oh, looks like somebody might possibly maybe almost get a slap on the wrist!

We got a kittening winner :
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2xsd41/does_arenanet_punishes_people_who_scam_sellers/

I still think the crazy guy from the “dungeon guild” (ha!) recruiting is more insane. Like, insane insane. Like, banana split insane.

P.S. Like the du Pont guy in Foxcatcher. Oh hoooooly cheshire kitten, that guy is creepy as hell.
I can’t watch! What’s he gonna do… /cowers

Doesnt look so encouraging so far:

USgamer: Heart of Thorns has mentioned a number of features, but i’m not seeing anything about Dungeons. Can we expect more Fractals in the expansion?

Matt: We’ve talked about all the major features of Heart of Thorns. We have talked [internally] about what we’re doing for Fractals and other content systems that are part of the base game. We don’t have any specifics on dungeon right now, but we know a lot of people play dungeons. It is something that comes up. If you look at the Mastery line the demo, there is one for Fractals. We can’t really comment a lot, except to say we looking at all of those things.

Kristen: Challenging group content is definitely something that we want to do. How that manifests, we’ll talk about that more soon.

Glad my hype died down already. I kind of had a hunch that the fractal stuff we get is gonna be really minor. Maybe some adventures will be decent.

So they’re full of kitten as usual. Good.
PR wise they’re the worst company I’ve ever had the disgrace of interacting with (aside from nexon for very brief moments), and I feel like a huge idiot for being a “fanboy” for so long. Remove the “feel”…
I’ll just let someone else sum up all the things that annoy me about that PR bullkitten, so I can quote. Atm I’m blown away by the amount of stuff in there I don’t like and I can’t translate my feelings to words.

At least they finally had the heart to say something on the subject. Hope killed.

OH BOY CHALLENGING GROUP CONTENT!!!!

Too bad they really don’t seem to understand (care?) that groups can be smaller than 20.

Got a link for that btw? I feel like getting depressed.

edit found it: http://www.usgamer.net/articles/guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns-interview

I like the opening line, too:

Over two years ago, ArenaNet launched the sequel to Guild Wars 2, it’s first successful MMO.

Also,

Matt Wuerffel

With every core system in the game, we looked at where they were and said ‘Hey, are these at a place that we’re happy with?’ Almost always at our studio, the answer is ‘no’. Providing choice to players, providing progression to players without invalidating what you’ve done before. With Hearts of Thorns, every system that we’ve touched and every piece of content we’ve touched is driven by that desire to respect players’ time.

Feed, my friends.

Was just looking at this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2xshqw/complete_text_guide_of_every_mastery_description/

If you look at exalted lore and itzel lore it hints at access to champions. These might be instanced stuff. The negative is that they are locked behind masteries. But if they are genuinely challenging and instanced. We may atleast have some new stuff to do.

10 Mastery Points: Exalted Purification – You’ve become honored among the Exalted. You can now challenge their Champion each day and unlock their finest treasures within the Golden City.

Sounds like a boss instance or a mini dungeon. Skeptical how this is going to turn out. Anet are being intentionally vague about challenging group content so im struggling to look at these hints positively at this point.

For sifting through all the crap for tiny details go here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2xsb21/hot_news_hot_meeting_info_megapost/

well they didnt say “no”. they are just like “we cant talk about it”….

if you think about it, if they want to do raids for example, you can bet it wont be ready when they release the expansion.

this sounds better:
Is there going to be small group instanced content — basically, are there going to be dungeons?

We will be detailing more of the hard challenging content.

The Wyvern fight is a good example of what we are looking for and doing more of in the future. That Wyvern fight, if you think about it, that’s just in the open world potentially – well it was in our demo and that’s more of the stuff that will be in the open world.

If you take that even further, you can see, sort of, what you can extrapolate out and see what we are thinking about for challenging hard group content in the future.

We will talk about it as we get closer to the launch date.

http://www.gamezone.com/previews/interview-talking-guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns-with-arenanet-s-development-director-jsmh

NoTrigger.8396:

well they didnt say “no”. they are just like “we cant talk about it”….

Yeah, but…

Q: “Will there be new dungeons/fractals?”

A: “We’ve already talked about all of the major features of HoT.”

is a pretty clear “no” in my book. However, actually acknowledging that, you know, people actually play dungeons is a refreshing change.

if you think about it, if they want to do raids for example, you can bet it wont be ready when they release the expansion.

From the CDI, I agree. I guess I was hoping that they would have planned to include a couple of dungeons in HoT independently of the aborted Raiding CDI.

I don’t find the reset of that quote (in the edit) to be promising. They deflected the “small group” part of the question and went on talking about open world.

:(

spoj.9672:

10 Mastery Points: Exalted Purification – You’ve become honored among the Exalted. You can now challenge their Champion each day and unlock their finest treasures within the Golden City.

Sounds like a boss instance or a mini dungeon. Skeptical how this is going to turn out. Anet are being intentionally vague about challenging group content so im struggling to look at these hints positively at this point.

Agreed. My bet is that the Champion is a world boss. I expect that world bosses will be more like VW/Marrionette instead of golem/fire ele/etc, but it’s still a far cry from an actual instanced challenge.

I just can’t find something challenging if I can AFK and be carried by the herd.

The new encounter design is definitely better than the old ones, but the only way to really fail is not having enough people spamming autoattacks while watching netflix. Personal contribution doesn’t exist without instancing.

Ehh, I think CP did a great job of really pushing for individuals to put effort in. Sure a lot of people leached the hell out of a few bosses, but if you didn’t have people doing well on each boss you’d quickly drop to silver rewards. The problem there was the megaservers and how you simply couldn’t get a map where people didn’t leach. Make a map with say 5 bosses, only 25 allowed in the map, kill each faster than a pretty strict timer with a heavy scaling factor and suddenly you have content where you need 5 groups of 5 people or there abouts all really trying.

It’s certainly doable, but witht he megaservers and large amounts of people, well that’s when it deteriorates into “kitten this” content instead of the fun content it could be.

http://youtu.be/a6Nd4t6XvT8?t=3m26s

are those just text boxes or is our character actually voiced?

Jesus Christ NoTrigger, you really are riding the hope train on this.

There’s nothing. They’re dodging it.

no im not riding the hope train. but im sure they know, if they dont give us any instanced stuff they can wave good bye to alot of players.

Stupid work computer…I never set up the sound on it so it’ll keep quiet in the office.

The captions on that youtube clip hinted at what they were saying, but had a lot of errors. Can someone summarize what they said?

I’m hoping you just proved me wrong, Trigger

He asked: “Will we be seeing new dungeons on HoT?”

Jon Peters: “Hum… well as you guys seen in the video… challenging group content, I like to use those terrible phrases, hum.. you know, there’s gonna be stuff, we just aren’t ready to say exactly what the content is”

Yup. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dodge

Turns out the captions weren’t that bad then. That’s pretty much what I gleaned from them. They captured the emptiness of the conversation well.

I really dont understand why they cant just say whether we are getting instanced content or not. Or whether this new challenging content is open world. Being intentionally vague is really frustrating.

Because by confirming their lack of kittens given to investing in new dungeons, they would be shooing their customers away all by themselves.

It’s much more profitable to just continuously feed them hope until they wander off by themselves. All the while dropping a few bucks on the Gemstore they love.

spoj.9672:

I really dont understand why they cant just say whether we are getting instanced content or not. Or whether this new challenging content is open world. Being intentionally vague is really exciting. I’m so hyped!!!111!

FTFY