Guild Wars 2

I just want to tell a story about what happened in our guild tonight at our weekly guild missions..

We got our guildies together in the guild hall, eventually.. Even in the guild hall it seems guildies are scattered all over megaservers because for some reason the map closes all the time. Apparently the map can only carry 5 people.. and when the next one enters it has to open a new map..

Why only 5 people at a time? We get around 40-50 people in the guild hall for missions or events (maybe even more). This is very unpractical. And then there’s the fact that some guildies don’t even get a pop-up about the map closing and they are unable to ‘join’ other guild party members in the right map.

So anyway..

Guild Races.. We got 3 of them this week. Before HoT we managed to get everyone in the same IP pretty smoothly, most of the time that is.. (Don’t get me started about who’s able to start the missions at location or the ‘accept credit’ in the end.)

Only this time it’s different. We got a lot of other guilds doing missions at the same time as us, it has always been that way because it seems to be the most convenient time for everyone.

So we managed to get everyone to Lornar’s Pass for the Bear race, and we got everyone into the same IP. We noticed another guild doing the race with 11 minutes left on their timer. We decided to join them, so we activate our race.

After 30 seconds (ofcourse everyone was already beared up and ready to go..) we all got a message that our guild apparently started a mission in a different instance, if we’d like to join that instance. We experienced the issue before when we did the chicken race, so we decided everyone should accept and we’d all gather in the new map and continue the race.

After pressing ‘accept’ half of the guild got the message that the map was full, the other half tranfered to the new map.. The new map only got 2 minutes of the race left, and when those 2 minutes were over the race completed.

So no one was able to get their rewards.

So we started the race again.. this time it has our own flag, no other guild in sight. And everyone is trying to bear with us and join the race again (see what I did there?). So we got 11 minutes to do the rush.. and when there’s only 3 minutes left we get the message ‘your guild has started a mission in a different server, would you like to join them’ (not exactly the right words, but you get the idea). And with 1 minute left people already got the message the guild race failed.

What just happened??

Oh and on another note.. A lot of our guild members did not get credit at the end of the race. They did not transform back. Yes, they all completed every checkpoint.

This was not fun.. It took us roughly 2 hours to do 3 races. We’re having a lot of trouble getting everyone on the same map and with those messages from Anet popping up scattering guidlies all over the megaservers. It’s not helping… like.. at all..

Edit: I still call it a ‘Rush’ sometimes. Thought it would look nicer to stick to ‘Race’ in the complete post.

Yeh. Did a rush 2 days ago. The guild leader warned everyone not to accept of the warning about the other instance comes up. I finished the rush well within time, but never got the reward.

Same with challenge. We did it, no reward.

Huh. We did two rushes on…Thursday night I think…and didn’t have any problems. So whatever is going wrong, it isn’t all the time.

Misguided.5139:

Huh. We did two rushes on…Thursday night I think…and didn’t have any problems. So whatever is going wrong, it isn’t all the time.

Seems random, our guild did them yesterday and one person got the reward after doing them twice.

We had issues with multiple guild hall instances as well. Same issue as the OP with the inability to join via a pop up message or right clicking a party member to “join in [map name]”

We did see a message about “your guild has started a mission in another map” we just all clicked “cancel” on it and had no problems (we started the rush on our map, didn’t join one in progress).

I wasn’t at our guild missions yesterday but apparently they had issues with rewards not being given out. Today there didn’t seem to be a problem, they we’re given out after the completion of the rush timer.

durend.6237:

We did see a message about “your guild has started a mission in another map” we just all clicked “cancel” on it and had no problems (we started the rush on our map, didn’t join one in progress).

Next time we’ll get everyone in the same map IP, wait for the other guilds rush to finish and then start ours. And we’ll ignore the ‘mission in other map’ message.

It’s worth a shot and I hope everyone will get a reward then.

It’s just not fun to have to keep telling everyone to NOT press accept.. or to NOT accept credit.. or to NOT start a mission on location. There’s always those who don’t (or refuse) to know what is happening and do the exact opposite.

Trying to lead a guild mission becomes a chore instead of something fun to do with guildies

Thank you for showing your experiences!