Guild Wars 2

Says available now, but they aren’t actually appearing in the kits or in the menus for the aesthetician.

I don’t play this game for puzzles. It’s nice that theyre in there, but they should not be required content. I got so kittened off at the first mission in E6 that I doubt Ill even bother with the rest of it. I actually had to kill myself to get the bloodstone puzzle to reset so I could complete it.

Not fun at all.

Arcaedus.7290:

Blockhead Magee.3092:

Arcaedus.7290:

Blockhead Magee.3092:

2000 is very reasonable compared to all other game modes. Well done Anet!

Compared to other game modes; no it certainly is not.

It most certainly is.

Your wall of text was all guess work and conjecture. As you said, crude math which is meaningless math.

Your premise that because legendary takes X long, therefore T3 wvw ascended should be Y long is pulled out of thin air. There is nothing that anet has ever said where these things should be equivalent.

As for insults from wvw people. Calling snowflake arguments a snowflake argument isn’t insulting, its an observation.

Again, well done Anet.

And what argument do you provide to support your opinion on 2k rank requirement being fair? Is it because that’s the rank requirement that Anet set?

Newsflash: Anet has and does make poor decisions from time to time. There isn’t a completely free flow of inter-team communication so it’s happened before that one aspect of the game seems well designed whereas an analogous aspect in a different game mode does not.

I gurantee you that had June 6th rolled around, and the rank requirement been originally set at 1k or 1.5k, the few of you praising the 2k rank requirement wouldn’t have lifted a single finger to argue that it should be higher.

Because most people who WvW frequently have this rank without grinding. We have suffered through the least updated game mode in the history of this game and there needs to be SOMETHING that PvE people can’t just walk in, cry about, and get with no work. This is fair. Don’t like it? Earn some rank.

Leave the req as it is. WvWers need something that is our own. Every other game mode has it.

Leave it the way it is

slamfunction.7462:

Couple things:
- You can’t demand raid attendance. People will ultimately leave your guild, if they can’t come and go as they please. Plus, your raid nights might not work out for everyone. They might be able to make 1-2, but not 2-3.
- Stop server hopping. Yeah, yer lookin for fights, but if your goal is to hop servers every 1-2 months, then people who joined your guild, who are dedicated to the server they play on, aren’t going to want to stick with you
- Its all about the dailies. Not everyone plays for the gratification of smashing n00bs to the ground. Each player has goals; get stuff, have fun, etc. If you are all about the fights, and nothing but the fights, then those people who want their dailies, while working with your WvW raid, are just going to step out, roam for the their WvW dailies, and move on.
- Fight guilds need to be more pronounce about their intentions. If all they do is fight, then your comments to new recruits and etc should be, “You won’t get many in-game resources from raiding with us, but you might possibly get alot of bags, if we do well…and of course, if we aren’t getting repeatedly destroyed by raids twice our size…which does happen quite frequently.” I’m sure there is just as many people who would not join you, once this realization is made.

I require almost all of this of my members and they prefer it thay way to maintain the type of play that they like. I don’t MAKE people attend raid x number of days, but they know they are expected to show their face every week. They police themselves. We make it very apparent up front what type of guild we are :P DN is a fight guild, we also get our dailies done because its so stupid easy.

We used to get these…. if only Anet actually cared about us or even acknowledged us as a community.

This would make it so non-expansion players are at a disadvantage.

Plus its really hard to care what you’re saying when you’re the leader of a known blob guild. Yes, your guild isn’t dying that’s cool and all – but you are part of the problem.

To clarify, it isn’t that we can’t recruit – there is just no viable people to really play against when the opposition is all blobs. Perhaps if others kept their rosters down, then the 20 man guilds would be fine. We all claim to love those small fights, but few restrict recruitment for it.

Geode rewards for events in Dry Top are absurdly low. Effort to get anything accomplished in this map is unrewarding.

I do admit I only come here when I need geodes for a legendary, but part of that is because the map itself is so disjointed with flow I find it anything but enjoyable to even step foot in this zone.

Suggestions for rectifying this would be appreciated, if anyone has any.

I think clearer event chains would help and either a higher reward base for geodes or more frequent events.

What do you think?

gavyne.6847:

Or maybe they do care, but they just don’t understand WvW enough to know how bad Blackgate is to the game mode.

I’ll just leave this here. You did say specifically BG, he wasn’t touchy to question it. Say what you mean.

Xenesis.6389:

…..Maybe the smaller DB guilds are tired of running into t1 blobs and having to voltron to counter it, hell I heard DN moved to t3 SoS……

This is the exact reason we left. Even when groups were split up before they’d voltron if you ever got one over on them. It was not fun, it was affecting morale in the guild and, like before, we decided to move instead of mass recruit. :P

grifflyman.8102:

I have has seen a few DB guild tags on SoS now, including DAWN. Not sure if SoS is actively recruiting or what but that seems to be the place people are migrating to.

I can confirm DN here as well. To clarify we were not recruited and AFAIK none of the other guilds coming here were either.

When DN moved to DB we were very adamant about not wanting to go to T1. We stated if DB were ever to go to T1 we would be leaving.

It’s the ebb and flow of WvW servers. It isn’t imploding, it’s just going back to a tier it can be sustained in.

testpig.5018:

Trebbing Towers from Keeps.(this is also an issue in EB).
-Keeps should not be able to treb Towers.. However, Towers should be able to treb Keeps.

50% of the Map is wasted space.
-The top left and top right corners of the map, should have something more to them. Perhaps put in a Tower in each of those corners. And these towers are protected by the NPCs that spawn in that area. Top right tower would have Centaur NPCs protecting it. Top Left would have NPC skrit protecting it.

NPCs from these towers would spawn and and press towards East and West Supply camps and attempt to capture them.(like EB)

North Camp(Area):
-The north camp in the Bls have huge protected walls that provide no protection. -Please, make the huge walls that outline this north part of the map, with Siege doors, and have the walls destructible.
-Place a Tower to the North North of this area, and bring back RELICS. (put the relic in this tower).

Outdated look:
-The alpine maps look dated, and lack lush feel and life.

RELICS:
-Bring relics back. Have relics tied to the death of the NPCs keep lord instead of on the alter of power. Allow Relics to be placed in any objective (keeps, towers, supply camps).

Relic Benefits:
-Double the Points earn from that objective
-Reduce the dolyak upgrade requirement by 50% on the objective that the Relic was placed on,.
-for each relic your realm controls gain 25% coin/xp/magic find.

Reading this, and listening to my guild read this. I can’t really come to much many more conclusions other than you don’t really represent the majority of WvW players. I would also like to know if you know what PvE truly means.

1. Making trebs work from one direction but not from another direction is entirely asinine. Not only would that be a programming nightmare, to what avail? What is the purpose of having a keep (mind you Citadel is the only “keep” that can’t be taken) except for strategic advantage. What on earth were you thinking when you came up with this point to lead your argument against the Alpine BLs? There is absolutely no reason for this to be this way. Keeps, cappable keeps, have strategic advantages. Citadel is an exception, however there really isn’t much that can be done from Citadel that can’t be reached from below with careful execution of AoE and range skills.

2. More than 50% is wasted in DBL. What is the purpose of the Oasis area other than as a grave reminder of more failed PvE implementation into WvW. It was a disaster both logitically and aesthetically. I would even venture to say that MORE of ABL is utilized than is utilized in DBL. The entire center is a ruin cappable area, which before the original Alpine update I would have agreed with you, however on Alpine you do have access to some PvE which you do seem to hold really dear to your heart.

Currently the areas that you deem empty, such as to the left and right of North Camp are often the scenes of pretty awesome battles where people utilize the landscape to maneuver around to get strategic advantages over other groups. This area has historically had a lot of action in the fight scene. There is no reason to change them. NPCs = PvE= Not WvW. There is no reason to have Centaurs or Skritt protecting towers in this area. The DBL attempted to have some Lore related reasons to having different races protect different towers and keeps, which was a neat idea but a fairly poorly executed one. What reason would Centaurs or Skritt have for protecting any keep? As far as special heirarchy go, both are fairly low on the food chain. More concerning and problematic for this view is that your proposal puts them on an equal level which is simply not true. Although both are far inferior in the way of intellectual development, the Centaur are developed in warfare and the Skritt are glorified Raccoons.

3. Adding walls to North Camp, and Doors. This is strategically unfair. The North Camp is the closest supply line for the Citadel (which you’ve already spoken out against above for being unfair Strategically). It is heavily contradictory to propose that you would not only like Citadel to keep the North Camp, but also have a defendable, walled in supply camp solely for them. The strategic advantage that would impose on the rest of the map, outside of the location advantage of Citadel, would be completely unbalanced. North camp is relatively easy to keep on any manned BL.

4. Relics, are you serious? This is more PvE in WvW, not to mention the reasons they were removed to begin with. I think someone needs to take a trip to the archived areas of the forum where you can refresh yourself on why this is a terrible idea. In addition you want to add a tower that could potentially be a siege fest over a relic system that would undoubetly give yet another strategic advantage. Your points are riddled with contradiction and I find that concerning. Tying relics in with even more PvE (pve-ception?) places the strategic advantage of relics in the hands of NPCs. This would have been a perfect opportunity for you to discuss the revitalization of the roamer and the small man havoc groups that the DBL had all but killed, but you chose yet again to go a PVE angle.

Outdated Look. “The alpine maps look dated, and lack lush feel and life.” So you’re trying to tell me a mountainous wooded region with wildlife, plants, running water, and 2 styles of terrain “lack lush feel and life.”? Please explain how a barren desert with dust storms, rocks and one dead center area of plantlife is lush and alive.

Generally your suggestions concern me because not enough people are posting about how fabulous it is that Alpine is back. If you go into the Beta thread for DBL you will see thousands of posts addressing the issues in DBL that they ignored and caused the uprising against DBL. I feel your posts and opinions are lacking in the factual and research areas… if these are just your opinions then fine – but do not assume we all share them. Many WvWers that I encounter want to keep the PvE out of WvW, and many of these suggestions are backpeddling into PvE areas that we spoke out against.

I urge you to keep these ideas going, but perhaps on the GvG side of things. Think of GW1 and flag running and old styles and modes of Heroe’s Ascent that would implement into GvG (a structured one that utilized Guild halls) very well.

This is massively annoying. It should be a display option.

Matchfixing pure and simple. They do this to preserve their tier and systematically destroy ours. This is why so many people are calling it the kittenter alliance.

I’ll try removing and readding. It’s a strange thing.

I’m 100% that both numbers are him, its just really quite odd lol.

Both of our accounts were pre order CE accounts so it couldnt be a free account issue.

+1 to the flail

I thought you fixed this last night?

So I’ve noticed something strange with my husband’s account.

I have him added to my friend’s list and he’s added under Blasphemous.2461 but when I go to mail him something in game, it shows up as the addressee Blasphemous.1402. He’s had the same account the entire time, and he does always receive things I mail him, but I find it odd. Also when I add him to a party he shows up as 2461, but when mailed from the party window it’s again 1402.

Is this something we should be concerned over?

Thanks

On the contrary I thought this was one of the worst outfits. Yeah it looks kind of cute on humanoid females… but it looks terrible on anything else.

Gaile asked me to post this from a comment thread going on on Facebook.

A little background:

My husband and I met in GW1 when we were a Heroe’s Ascent monk team. He played healing monk and I played prot monk. He didn’t really like me in the beginning too much but we ended up developing a really strong friendship that blossomed into more. Luckily we both happened to live in the same state: Pennsylvania. He lived near Pittsburgh and I lived near Philadelphia.

After a few years of friendship we ended up taking things to the next level. We started dating and got engaged on November 2nd, 2010. Despite taking care of all our wedding’s last little “somethings,” we still ended up participating in all the Beta Weekend Events and played the game religiously at launch. We married on October 5th, 2012.

Some ups and downs in game led him to taking a couple breaks, but I’m still going strong every day on Guild Wars 2. I am now a guild leader of a successful WvW guild, have met some fantastic friends in this community, my best friend and the love of my life. No matter where Arena.net goes from here, I am forever thankful I picked up a copy of Guild Wars 1

The Cake:
We had one of our wedding cakes stylized after the monks that we played in Guild Wars 1, our main characters. I gave the baker pictures of our characters (below) and she was able to made adorable fondant (I think) characters down to the last detail and armor mixes that we had at the time. The background was an Eye of the North character log in screen from the game. (It was delicious). The baker is Hillary of Cake Creations by Hillary out of Homer City, Pennsylvania but I read she has since retired.

Our Original Guild Wars 1 Characters: http://i.imgur.com/dyfnXB7.png
More Shots of the Cake: http://i.imgur.com/lBFAly7.jpg
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Thanks Everyone for checking this out,

Angel & Blas
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So desperately want friday night reset back

I think he may be referring to how when you go from PvP to PvE to WvW it “saves” it.

I did, but I had to file a ticket for it.

Wasn’t really burned out by WvW but more by opponents blobbing.

Now that is worse because EBG is the only viabale map.

I don’t feel we are burning out now, but our raid times have dropped. We still raid the same nights a week but an hour or so shorter than before HoT because of the map problems.

Rebuying it actually is NOT a fix for this issue. The issue affecting these people isn’t a lost recipe or a wrong character recipe. The game does not recognize that the item needs to be replaced, and it is not available for repurchase from the karma vendor.

The only way I’ve seen this issue rectified, for any of the people I’ve talked to, is submission of a ticket and Anet directly replacing the item.

Hope this helps anyone.

Also ready for Friday Nights back.

@Renkku you didn’t do anything wrong. The recipe DOES say it was okay for Weaponsmith. If you check your weaponsmith I guarantee it will have a recipe for the Legendary Inscription, but nothing else.

I filed a ticket on this last night and they replaced my recipe. I double checked it again, and IT IS INDEED for Weaponsmith, Artificer, and Huntsman. I will be unlocking it on my Artificer this time as my friend did that with no issues. I was asked to submit a bug report so it’s something they are aware of but it isn’t really a widespread issue.

You need to file a ticket and explain that the Box of Recipes for Ravenswood Branch says Weaponsmith but you did not get the recipes unlocked. The NPC that it says on Wiki should replace it, but it does not actually register as “lost” items. You need to ask for a replacement in the ticket. After I did this I had mine replaced rather quickly.

Best of luck.

In the item description in game it said Artificer 450, Weaponsmith 450 and one other. Unlocked on Weaponsmith and the only recipe that was applie to the account was “Legendary Inscription”.

The Experimental Staff Head Recipe, the Experimental Staff Shaft Recipe, and the Ravenswood Branch Recipe are not applied.

awesome update.

+1 for Friday Night Reset.

Tired of this saturday bs

6 crashes in 2 hours, upgraded to 64 bit and now I cannot stop crashing out of WvW….

Title says it all.

I get that Raids release this week… but maybe in a couple? This lack of hype is so disappointing.

[DN] Digital Nemesis is recruiting experienced active WvW Warriors on Dragonbrand!
Please feel free to contact Angel.6085 with any questions or information inquiries.
Visit http://www.digitalnemesis.enjin.com/recruitment for more information or read below!

Who is [DN]? History
We are a WvW focused guild. We were founded on SoR and moved to TC upon SoR’s fall. We participated in S2 on TC and chose to make the move to Blackgate. After spending some time on Blackgate, and proving ourselves during Season 3, we chose to undertake a T2 move with our good friends [JINX] Bad Lucks Coming to Fort Aspenwood, with the goal of finding better fights and continue to destroy opponents in WvW. Unfortunately when the cancerous guilds from T1 invaded T2 it was no longer the environment or playstyle we enjoyed. Along with [JINX] and our new friends Venator Phalanx [VP], all three of us moved down to Dragonbrand to hang our hats and fill our bags. Now we enjoy cooperation with our favorite two friend guilds, as well as our new friends on Dragonbrand.

We took pride in running smaller numbers vs the large hordes of the T1 servers, but ultimately our style of play became less and less viable there, so we chose to hop over to T2 to check out this scene. You’ll rarely see us backing down from a fight and we aim to become one of feared fighting guilds on the Dragonbrand server. We may be WvW focused, but the overall goal of the guild is have the most fun possible while still maintaining success. WvW will always be our top priority, despite other interests. Although we consider ourselves WvW focused, we are also a community where everyone’s voice is heard and matters – you will find no dictatorship here.

What do we require of members?
Well, good question! We are looking for people who are enthusiastic about running WvW, want to improve their skills and tactics, are active, and desire to help create something great. We require 100% rep with regards to NA Time Zone (7PM EST on) and during raid participation. We also require that you run a build that will provide synergy to the group. A weak link in a party bring down the group and may cause unnecessary wipes. We aim to avoid this by providing suggested builds that will help the group in the heat of combat. If you have a build that you run that you really enjoy, feel free to hit one of the officials up for approval.
*TS
*Mic and willingness to use it for calls
*Willingness to follow guild mandated builds or seek approval for your own
*Attend training if online
*Join our forums

PPT? Just for the fights? Wtf?
We aim to focus on maximizing our fun in WvW on a daily basis. Whether it calls for hunting down pesky enemy groups, or coordinating with other groups to attack garrisons and keeps to bring victory to Dragonbrand. We mix it up to keep each WvW night fresh and fun for all of those involved, however generally speaking we are not a PvD guild – if you enjoy karma training you most likely will not be happy here.

Sweet, how do I get involved?
Just go ahead and visit http://digitalnemesis.enjin.com/ and make an ‘Enjin’ account. From there, head to the recruitment tab and fill out an application. You can also send a mail to Angel.6085.

Anything other than WvW?
While DN is a WvW focused guild, our members have an array of interests outside of that. We have 2 off nights a week where you can do whatever you’d like in game and not be penalized for not being with the guild. We have achievement hunters who are always working on the latest living story or finishing off a collection or world boss, we also have people that enjoy dungeons and people who love to run fractals of different difficulties. Although these events are not generally guild scheduled, if you like a mix of PvE and WvW, then DN still might be a great fit for you. You’re also completely welcome to rep different guilds during the off hours and off days, if desired- but ideally we want people to be part of our community.
We also run missions once a week on Thursday nights, and usually do a weekly or bi-weekly 50/50 lottery.
Please feel free to contact Angel.6085 with any questions or information inquiries.
Currently we are in need of the following classes:
Warrior
Guardian
Necro

But, if you play another don’t hesitate to drop me a line and chat
THE TL;DR:
Server: Dragonbrand
Interest: Fun and Fights
Focus: WvW
Contact: Angel.6085

Wont quit WvWing because my guild is a WvW guild but it has really killed morale and drive in my members. We run a roster over 60 and it seems everyone logs early now because it’s just not fun anymore. EBG is a nightmare of blobs and the BLs are dead because… no one wants to play them. Anet really needs to fix this or WvW will not survive.

Blackgate was open last week, you kind of have to just be around when it pops :\. I’d say give it a week or two so people aren’t exploring the new maps. It draws in more PvE people who are curious and the populations will even out again.

What they did to wvw is disheartening and heartbreaking :|

Yes. I’d probably even pay for it.

I don’t think he’s saying that people don’t want to do the events because it’s contested, just that it is more often a chain reaction of contested waypoints. If theres events on the west side of the map but the only ones uncontested are on the east side, it makes me not want to do the west side event if I can’t even get a middle ground location for a waypoint.

Couple that into the mob density and overall difficulty change (I’m not saying it’s too hard), it makes running past a lot of enemies or other things to get to said event much more tedious. I understand wp contesting, but the current situation in the new maps with wp contesting is out of control.

Just as the title says. Went into SMC and they literally have every opening covered, there’s no way to even begin to take that apart.

Yes, I am a little salty. But more importantly, it seems really like an abuse of a mechanic. How does everyone else feel about the witnessed usage of these new siege weapons?

+1 agree. Soulbound is stupid too.

CPU is AMD PHenom II X4 955
Now have Nvidia GTX 970. I run everything high graphics all the time and I’m always fine.

I used to run a Radeon 6870 until about a year ago. I had to keep my graphics low for WvW but was fine everywhere in PvE.

My computer is old, 2011, only runs 3.2 GHz.

Why don’t you post up all your specs?

Just so you don’t look silly in the future, its Zerg not serg.

I think Halloween is pulling some people too.

Bumping for notice…. we need this working.

If your 10 cant stand vs 20 then your 10 need training. I know that is harsh but really. I understand numbers play a factor but a skill group of 10 can annihilate groups even over 20.

Way too few. At least 12, but that’s pushing it too.

Osu.6307:

How can anyone answer this question? No one has been there yet. We’re all to busy grinding hero points in maguuma jungle.

Speak for yourself.

Personally I hate them, but I’ll still give it a go for a few weeks before bringing out the pitchfork. Still demoralized over the loss of Friday Night Reset

200 roll over…. so that’s even less. Quit kittening.