Guild Wars 2

He sounds like Sheogorath to me. But maybe that’s the “Madness Effect”.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Paradox.5498:

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Rare Halloween Mats: Just from Personal ToTs alone (which you can get 16 per character per day for a total of 80)

Absolutely false. I got a lot of them even from normal tot dropped by huntin ghosts popping outside doors, and tot from mining points.

Absolutely false again. What you’re referring to is ToT-bag, what he’s referring to is PERSONALISED ToT-bag. They’re different things, the personalised version has a much higher drop rate of the rare crafting materials.

By the way, if you have materials to craft Mad King chests in the mystic forge: these chests are a great source of rare crafting mats as well, often dropping as many as 7 chattering skulls / plastic fangs / nougat centres.

Edit: Reminds me I should refresh more often. XD

He said rare materials drop ONLY from personalized ToT( not higher chance or lower chance). Which is false. Period.

Please read the sentence once more : “Just from Personal ToTs alone (…) you should be able to get at least half of this in Act 1.”
Which means that using only the daily pToT bags is enough to get half of the rare mats required during Act 1, not that they are the only way to obtain them. Period.

Seems like he likes how the SB looks, but his character can’t use it.

TL;DR : iMad

Vithaar.8637:

yes 4 hours, those are cheap version for people to try. Crafted ones are permanent but much much more costly ( legendary level costly almost )

Sorry but those weapons are far less costly than the legendaries, you don’t need 1.2M karma nor a large amount of skill points.

Got the same, I think it doesn’t take the Master Carver one into account (due to the title reward I think).

That ÐERP face is hilarious !

I have the same bug : all of my “+% Bleed Duration” runes does not work.

Thenoob.1480:

Jump shot is affected by cripple, at 900 range the dagger storm has as much range as a pistol shot, that plus cripple trying to dodge out of the area is pretty much worthless

You know that the daggers are thrown randomly, right ? If you can’t dodge twice to the thief and smash his face into the ground (or use ground-targeted AoE, or remove his stability and CC him) that’s not because the profession/elite skill is broken…

“Why can’t the rock beat the paper ?”

SLOTH.7842:

The other issue which is also very serious and alarming, is the Vizunah Square, they have a huge advantage compared to everyone else. They are always doing much better because at daytime the French are playing, and at night the Canadians are playing, Canada isn’t Europe, why in the world do they play with us, they have a totally different time period, they are in average 5-6 hours behind us, which means they can get everything they want during the night, because we sleep, and they are up. So when we wake up, everything is Vizunah Square, and we can’t do anything untill School and work time is over here in Europe.

Proof please ? I’m still waiting for anyone to bring official informations about where are players logged from.

Arreyanne.2683:

When people see a thief look like he uses Blade storm twice in a row

a thief that steals first can get an ability from the target that allows them to staret spinning again just FYI

When a thief use steal on a Warrior player he gets the Whirlwind Axe skill which does not grant stability nor reflect projectiles/bleeds/cripples.

So basically, the bandwagon killed TA ?

Mysticforce.5096:

Could be an Engineer. One trait that they can get is turn invisible whenever they are immobilized.

Either this.

Or the 5th thief dagger skill allows you to go invisible if you hit something, combined with the +1 second stealth trait, stealthing steal trait, initiative on stealth trait, stealthing heal, blinding powder, auto-blinding powder below 25%hp trait, and the shadow refuge.

Edit : And the Blast finisher + Smoke field makes you invisible.

It would make spying much more easier.

Perfectly legit. Why should mesmer not be able to make portals between borderlands ?

Dinks.2478:

I think this was less about complaining that he doesn’t have a holiday and more about showing the proof that night capping is basically a one way ticket to win.

More like showing the proof that numerical superiority is a one way ticket, seems like Clausewitz was right.

DaysOfNIght.5928:

I agree. From looking at the ratings post it looks like my server (Gunnar’s hold) was the lowest rated server of the 3 over the last 2 matchups, we have been Red both times.

I wonder why ANet didn’t make it random?

I think Overlook is a really strong keep to hold, but we have found that when you are red you get attacked by the other 2 servers in the Eternal Battlegrounds much more than they seem to attack each other. I think this is to do with the water between green and blue keeps, it is more instinctive to take a route over land than run though the water maybe?

Both blue and green tower south of EB have better positioning because they are on the edge of cliffs and cover an area where moving may be dangerous, whereas the red towers are direclty on the ground, plus you can’t really see what’s going on in the eastern red camp from the nearest tower because it’s in a cave, so you can easily ambush people there, forcing them to move out of the tower, etc.

Or they can disable WvW for the current round once you transfer.

Psykoyul.9147:

FGM.7605:

To Anet

Very simple thing that solvers this problem is to block all the IP’s from Canada (or whole Americas and then vice versa) accessing EU servers. If the French Canadians are truly not playing on EU servers which I’m certain they do, than they won’t mind it anyways. Additionally it could solve a lot of those nasty lag spikes. Anet have you ever seen what are they doing at 4 A.M. GMT+1??? Full Zerg 50-60 PPL, like WTF!!!

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Dear Anet, again I agree 100% with this kind sir.
Please implement this fix so that all the constant whiners, all the “I have no idea what I’m talking about” get faced with their dirty ignorance.

I have to admit that the main reason that I want this change is that I can’t wait to see what the losers would then imagine to explain their losses.

That said, I am well aware that some forum whiners don’t make a community and that there are a lot of solid opponents that are trying to make things better for their server. Good luck to you guys, it won’t be easy with all those baby girls you have to deal with

Just like when Riot Games had to split the EU server into EU West and EU Nordic&East. Before that whiners were blaming russian players “and their hieroglyphs”, after that they were blaming the spanish/french/german/dutch players (and the one-time free transfer sometimes).

It seems like it’s a rule in online gaming, “if something goes wrong, that’s never my fault, that’s someone else’s, even if this someone else does not exist”. People will always need a scapegoat…

“We are against server that is far more geographically diverse that we are this week (Arborstone)”

Lol, especially when it comes from a global eu server.

Haralin.1473:

I think there should be more ladders, a ladder like it is now, then a ladder for the Night ( 0 – 12 hour) there you can see who is the best at Night/Morning and a ladder for the day time (12 – 0 hour) there you can see who is best at day time.

Knowing that Europe alone goes from UTC+0 to UTC+6 (taking only the “europe part” of Russia into consideration), how do you define days and nights ? Same thing for NA servers, 4 time zones to take into account. Oh, and there is no Asian/Oceanic servers too…

Zora.8437:

CardboardBox.6087:

Zora.8437:

The solution is VERY easy…I believe to counter night capping and fix the issue at hand all arenanet needs to do is see which servers cap the most points during certain hours and pair up servers by prime times also along with rank…If one server earns more points durign a certain time frame match them up with another server whose prime time is at the same time keep the rankings similar at the same time…seems like a no brainer to me.

so who gets matched against the 24/7 max coverage of Henge of Denvari?

other 24/7 servers

Which is what the matchmaking system is supposed to do in the long run.

AlienMagi.7102:

AXLORD.2045:

Give the rankings some time to sort it out, and stop with this stupid canadian rumor (be it about VS or any winning [FR] server).

Haha, rumor.

seems to me that you don’t see that their wvw queue is completely filled even at night&morning = obviously americans on eu servers

It’s also extremely tedious when many of these people lag like kitten because of that exact same reason

In that case I’m still waiting for ANet proof about where the players come from on each server. The fact that people are able to play during the night or are lagging is not a proof, if that was the case then I would be canadian 2 days per week.

If a server has a 24/7 coverage, then it deserves to go higher in the rankings, that’s all. But it’s true that the free server transfers don’t bring balance to anything.

Give the rankings some time to sort it out, and stop with this stupid canadian rumor (be it about VS or any winning [FR] server).

Completing an event gives 2 points if you’re alone, or 10 per player if you’re at least 2 from the same guild.

The winner this week will be seen again in two weeks anyway, be it Deso, GH or AR.

Top tier post, good job.

Dee Jay.2460:

No, well not quite. There’s in fact an entire state (Quebec) that comes to life on french servers at these hours. Where Central European activity starts declining significantly around midnight, the French activity just starts kicking in.

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1. The French-Canadians don’t get to PvP seriously because there’s hardly anybody left to fight them. They’re left twiddling their thumbs and picking off easy kills. WvW is only fun if you have someone to fight.

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While this issue is somewhat mirrored with other nations (Australians playing on US servers) I believe the Quebec -> France connection is an extreme. Their hours correlate very closely with night hours in Europe and there’s a very limited number of French servers so their population is very focused.

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Believing in those rumors killed your post, you lost your credibility, sorry.

To do that much damage you need to be stealthed and right behind your target (flanking works when it pleases), it’s not like it’s something you spam whenever you want.

Does your fun come from watching the scoreboard or playing the objectives ?

Because I prefer taking a tower or a camp over waiting in an T3 keep for enemies to attack. The scoreboard doesn’t even bring anything to WvW, I don’t understand how people can think “they have more points, we’ll never catch up, better not go in WvW”, isn’t the purpose of WvW to actually fight to defend or capture objectives ?

Riverside is way above our level (Augury Rock), but the “AR vs Kodash part” is somewhat balanced : we were quite even in the last 1-day rotation against them, barely winning, and we only took the 2nd place two days ago.

The issue is that Riverside belongs in the T1 bracket IMO, but it makes 4 with VS, FS and Desolation, so there will always be one of them in the T2 bracket.

And don’t pay attention to the point ticks, that’s changing nearly every hour.

As long as it stays Accound Bound, I’m ok with this.

Trust them, they are engineers.

Here you go :
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fang

I farmed all my T3 mats in the Blazeridge Steppes.

It seems like the materials you get from salvaging an item only depends on its type (weapon, armor or salvage item) and its level. You use fine crafting materials to craft armor and weapons, but you won’t get any by salvaging, just like you will never get a leather piece from salvaging a bow, but instead an ore of the corresponding tier.

You can obtain low-level gear in bags I think.

stof.9341:

That’s exactly my point. Mike Ferguson made that thread with that message at first post. Then then a day later they come and delete it entirely? Why? Because they might not get behind what was said anymore maybe?

If I remember correctly it was posted as an answer in the ranking thread, all answers (including ANet ones) were deleted to keep the post clean.

This idea is like trowing a gigantic middle finger to every WvW player who can only play at night.

“This is the only fair way to do it.” Yeah. Sure. For you, at least.

Plus players will find a way to exploit that, either “Hey ! We’re dominating, quickly, everyone DC so the enemies can’t have more people capping back !” or “We’re losing, better surrender, quit, or do jumping puzzles, enemies will have fun fighting doors.”

The only thing I see ANet could possibly do without spitting in anyone’s face is switching the Orb/Outmanned Bonuses.

Kayato.9178:

Preacher.9018:

they openly admited they have latin americans playing (not hiding it unlike VZ)

And now we have latin americans xD I look forward to talking conspiracies.

You don’t want to mess with brazilian players on VS, trust me.

Huehuehue

Orexis.3178:

I understand the OP but I don’t think Anet can do much about it. I play on Far Shiverpeaks and every morning Vezunah has taken over the entire map. From what I heard it’s because at night (EU time) alot of Canadians play on that server and just take everything without opposition.

Oh, I thought it was a UFO, messing with the scoreboard, that’s what a friend of a friend of mine told me.

Orexis.3178:

A possible solution could be that Anet only allows European IP’s on EU servers but then again there could be some crazy guild that only plays at night and takes over everything.
It’s indeed very frustrating and I hope Anet finds a solution but I doubt it.

And then nearly nothing will change, and people will find another scapegoat/excuse to hide the fact that their server is not dedicated enough to WvW to be able to compete against VS. Guilds and Alliances prepared months before launch for WvW, recruiting people able to play during the day, and other during the night, because they understood that WvW would need a 24/7 coverage to be competitive.

Orexis.3178:

During peek times it’s alot of fun to play against Vezunah and it would be a very close call to see who is the best of the two, but because the canadians take over everything at night we don’t stand a chance.

People should think about the fun over the scoreboard, a score which doesn’t even bring anything of interest.

Bondurant.1540:

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Best thing I ever read on these forums. Good job.

Can’t believe there is still people who take that “Hebrew-Canadian-Guild Troll” seriously, no wonder you’re here whining…

Nothing is keeping you from killing some mobs in PvE to unlock the weapon skills you want. You won’t be helping your team that much by going in WvW right after the prologue/tutorial.

Mescaline.2743:

Just try to realize that we are demanding a balance , is it such a bad thing at your eyes ?
Grow up please.

A balance is something fair for everyone, here you’re only penalizing night-time players (be it because they’re from space, they’re not working/going to school, or because that’s the only moment when they can play). It’s not ANet/the winning server fault if your night-time players don’t do WvW.

You’re exactly the same type of people back in the WoW days who were complaining about the advantage that HC players had over the casual ones about gear accessibility, this resulting in a flawed and flavorless PvE system with little difference between someone who dedicate every evening to raiding and someone who play less than 5 hours during the whole week.

Stop being selfish please.

Crafting your own armor is a way to avoid grinding a dungeon for the 1.4k tokens required for a full set of exotic.

Plus, legendaries.

I think The Sims or Wii Sports should fit you better. Why should people stop playing when you go to bed ?

Plus it’s not like there is anything big to win in WvW, being 1st/2nd/3rd doesn’t bring anything except small PvE boost, which are nearly useless for the WvW player who invest time in WvW objectives. And even with your suggestions, the servers currently winning will buy the immunity, and if you’re not able to take back objectives during day-time now you won’t be able to de it after, nothing will change.

A 24/7 war is not a daily-5-hours-long-battleground, it’s time for people to understand that. Whining all day long only makes your server look bad.

Nope. Or sPvP. It takes less than one hour to unlock everything with a new character, laziness is not an excuse.

Bart.5023:

a fix could maybe be to close the borderlands at 01.00 uk time and then open it again at 12.00, during that time no one would get points from the borderlands, but Eternal battleground would be open 24/7

“I want the WvW to stop when I’m not playing.”
Sorry but WvW is not The Sims.

Uder.9187:

CLundkvist.7814:

Im done with WvWvW untill this gets fixed, Vizunah Square [FR] is the only server in europe who has that much activity going on during night time weekdays. How come? i still think thats its canadians in FR. so much activity during night and the only server? i suggest u getting switched over the america.

of course, you see a lot of them:

http://www.casugaming.com/index.php?www

running around at night and they are a 500+ wvw guild from canada.

And this answer proves two things :
- You’re not doing WvW, if that was the case, then a 500 members WvW guild should be hard to miss, but I’ve yet to see a screenshot of a 60-canadian-zergs bus from CaSu at night.
- Believing the fact that CaSu is a 500 members hebrew-speaking-canadian-guild on a french server… Well, it’s self-explanatory, if you’re falling for a troll like that no wonder you’re here complaining, instead of doing WvW…

Herpkitten

Can’t find anything that would fit more.

Boubie.7164:

So much hate…

I laughed so hard ! :’)

Edit : I shoud have saved that pic’, already delete