Guild Wars 2

Hi folks.

This isn’t really a recruitment post per se since we currently don’t have a guild up and running. My brother and I have been playing GW2 since the beta weekends and recently returned after a hiatus where we were not playing MMO’s. Rather than rejoin our old guilds or join a new one, we decided that we’d quite like to create our own. I’m aware however that creating a guild and then recruiting for it is a difficult task, especially when you don’t have a base of players from which to start from.

The point of this post is that I’m looking for any like-minded individuals out there who are still interested in GW2 but want to work on their own project rather than join a pre-existing guild. If so, I’d be interested in hearing from you either in this thread or via PM and we could talk about working together in the task of creating something new. I’m currently situated in Desolation [EU] server but would be willing to move to another server if I felt it worthwhile. I’d classify myself as a PvE player but would wish for the guild to be PvX. I have a guild name reserved (but the name can always be open for negotiation) and own fully-licensed IPB software with which we could create a forum / website.

As said before, if this interests you feel free to post here if you have questions or PM me for further details.

Cheers.

HawkMeister.4758:

Bhelliom.5324:

New dungeons, New jumping puzzles, WVW map updates, UI improvements, Landscape change with some RP story.

Heh, we had all of that, but it got deleted.!

I understand things like Halloween should not be kept as they are festivals but things like the molten content and the super adventure box should have been. It gives people more variety with what they are doing in the game. The super adventure box is one of the things they could have kept updating bit by bit. There are so many possibilities that could keep the player base busy and invested rather than board with collecting “x” and killing “y”.

Nothing really changes apart from the fountain in lions arch….now that changes ALOT!

On a serious note: The amount of Temporary content is a joke, the content in general is a joke. Unfortunately everything is Kill 250 of this, shoot 100 fireworks, hit 250 pinatas. I would much rather an update every 3 mouths providing they bring something worth while out i.e. New dungeons, New jumping puzzles, WVW map updates, UI improvements, Landscape change with some RP story.

There is so many things they could do to the game to improve from the vanilla game and make people want to come back. Unfortunately it does not look like they will go down this road and we will continue to see pointless achievements to set “x” amount of fires and kill “x” amount.

I understand that every server is going to have different coverage and different amount of players ect. however if they are to keep the rng then they will have to implement a handicap system that isn’t +20% magic find, +33% experience, +10% World Experience and Take no Armour damage on death as these are completely useless to help your server… It only helps you not get large repair bills from being pawned so much. If they keep the randomness then you ether have 1 week getting completely dominated or another week dominating. Both of which are not the greatest fun.

I understand something had to be done about the Match up system as week after week the matches became very stale fighting the same server over and over.

Unfortunately the RNG system currently implemented does not solve the issue. I am currently on a server that is winning(this should be a great thing) but unfortunately I am very board as when I go into EB we are sitting with nearly the entire map. One server has already given up completely.

I think the best solution to keep the tier’s changing(fighting different servers each week) would be a 1 up 1 down system. The winner of the tier would move up a tier and the looser would move down a tier. This way it wouldn’t be as random as the RNG system currently implemented but would balance a lot better.

Please discuss your thoughts on this..

Anet do not know what the issue is. There tech support just blame our internet connections even tho every other game and service works perfectly for us and it is only guild wars 2 that has the issue. Now if we were to trust their tech support(ncsoft tech support) then we should all just quit and play something else as it will never get fixed because there is NO issue.

Last ANet response was nearly 2 weeks ago. Please update us on this issue. This is beyond a joke now. I played all day today with no problems until 17:20 GMT and then severe lag. As i previously stated in my last post: this is not a problem with our ISP. I have tested multiple games, downloads and contacted my ISP multiple times. They have tested my line sent me out a new router. We have tried everything.

Please help with this issue. This is the last chance as I am at my wits end with this issue. This needs looked at urgently or it sadly looks like I will be uninstalling and not looking back.

Having the same issue. Been happening for over a week and half now. This is defiantly not an issue with my ISP. I have contacted them numerous times regarding this and have had them send me out a replacement router to try that. It seems to effect us most during peak hours.

We are currently with Sky Broadband. Location : Scotland. I have also attached the NetworkDiag.log file.

Also i would like to add after hours of testing all other online games and services I use i.e. World of Warcraft & Netflix all work perfectly. This is an isolated issue with Guild Wars 2.

I find this extremely funny!! They make a game that has so much potential and could go extremely far but because they do not know how to run a class 1 MMO its going to kitten. Mistake after mistake keeps happening and you will have to think how you are going to fix it before it is too late.

Lesson One – Don’t kitten off your customer base.

Lesson Two – If you kitten up don’t hold your customers accountable.

Well for me I will continue to play while I find this game fun. Sadly this company has lost all the respect from me and will Never receive another penny from my wallet.

Korrigan.4837:

Grizledorf.5290:

Let’s keep the discussion civil.

A bit too late in a thread where the second posts compares the moderators with one of the worse prototype of human being in history…

I’m out of here… I see no future for this thread anyway.

Well that all depends on what side your on the moderators may idolize them.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Seriously, just stop.

You keep making thread after thread about this, and it keeps getting deleted. Obsessive much?

Move on. Your post got deleted, big deal. People’s posts get deleted all the time. It is Anet’s forums, they can delete them if they feel they are not contributing or being constructive or friendly.

Making thread after thread to complain about it does not help. It just gets you more infractions, deleted threads, and leads to a ban.

Seriously, let it go and move on already.

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Killul.9685:

Bhelliom.5324:

No idea but the “Mods” are more like the Gestapo. They don’t even interact with the community to join in on the discussions. All we get is “This topic is closed” and variations of that. Why can they not join in on the chats like the blizzard community managers do? If i were them i would take a trip over to the wow community forums to learn how to treat their community.

Ps. To the employees, I have nothing personal against each of you just the way the forum is run(i understand it has been handed down from a higher level)

You are going to get infracted for this. If Anet is telling them to do what they are doing then Anet has extemely poor ideas about how to handle the forums. People get infracted and thread deleted for no reason.

Don’t worry i already know. You get infracted for the most stupid things.

If it is a third party dealing with the moderation that would explain why they do not contribute as they know jack **** about the game.

Kath.3165:

… are there any reason? Seems from people posts that GW2 now is extremely grindy (fractals), still have major issues with balance in WvW (theives etc) and no progression at all for pvp’ers (other then go do PvE for Fractal-stuff).

So, if its just the same game as 3 month ago – with more grinding – I wont borther.

Do not listen to these forums. One of the biggest cesspit’s on the internet. If you have previously been playing, go play it again and make your own mind up. After all you may enjoy it and it hasn’t cost you anything as you already have the game.

Cole Winters.2764:

I expected more of a community reaction to this. Thank you to the people who supported my views!

I think a lot of people have put their rangers on the way side until things get sorted out. As at the moment we get turned over for everything as it is more beneficial for them to take warrior’s and guardian’s. I love my ranger and I hope they will soon give us the option for choosing between pets or no pets(without being gimped).

I really like these ideas. It would improve the whole overall feel of the ranger. I would be delighted to see a non-pet option for the ranger. I do like the Hunter Mode idea with the special skills being affected by the pets you have hidden away.

Something needs to be done to improve pets dramatically as they are more of a hindrance than anything else and I believe something like this could be the best thing for the class.

Na its gonna be hard to get groups for these instances… even harder than it is already. It was a good system when all gear was endgear and there was no better… Nothing got old….

Look at it in wow… why would anyone go and run the violet hold instance for level 80 when they can go do a level 90 instance with plenty of gear.

If i new this was going to happen i wouldn’t have purchased the game or put any extra in gem purchases… No more money to A.Net from me. The only motivation i have now is to load up the game and look at my character i just spent all my gold getting T3 and full exotics

Mada.5319:

Just wait for the guesting feature to be implemented.

When? once they finnish adding more gear? Most likly… Once they fix bugs? na that wont happen till they ad more gear…

You have to buy more mate.

Guys lets look at the real reason…

If you want to use your gear from all the old instances and well everything now… you have to get the gear then BUY the TRANSMUTE STONES from the BLACK LION TRADING POST to be able to give the old gear the stats…. Great money making scheme… keep doing this every couple of mouths and more and more gear you need to buy transmute stones for.

Kelayda.8359:

ANet you just introduced a Sword of Damocles into your game.

I felt it the second I read about Ascended gear. I don’t understand the Legendary “gap” you brought up, as I had been working toward the harder to make mystic forge exotic weapons (Immobulus, Volcanus, Mjolnir). Now, I have no desire to work towards those goals.

Legendary weapons are being upgraded to Ascended gear stat level, so that means one of two things: Ascended level weapons will one day be introduced or Legendary weapons will be the only Ascended tier weapons. So working toward anything less than a Legendary right now is pointless, and I’m not interested in the amount of work it takes to get a Legendary.

I’m now playing this great game knowing that all the time and effort I put into my gear is eventually going to be outdated and I’ll have to do it all over again. I’ve taken a break from the game, and just waiting to see how all this turns out. My gut reaction tells me it won’t end well though.

Totally agree… the things this game was sold on are gone…. I wonder how long it will take them to take the horse blinkers off…. and see what is happening…

I loved the response last night saying they would love to hear our feedback on the new ascended system…. hmm have they even read the post?

tkalamba.2541:

Rhyaehar.9504:

BadHealer.3608:

Loosifah.4739:

I personally welcome the new content. Especially since they’ve defined that the gear progression WILL end as Rare -> Exotic -> Ascended -> Legendary.

I did pick out your statement, but it had been posted by others.

Why do you think that Legendary is the best? Since it can’t be infused, you can’t run all the dungeons with it. Ascendend will be stronger (if you run the dungeons) and easier to optain. But you could use it, if you need it for a special build.

If you are doing WvWvW you may use Legendaries, but Dungeons will be always Ascendes only or the people will laugh at you.

Legendary will be upgraded to Ascended status.

But Loosifah is still wrong, again, in his post.
Ascended == Legendary
There is no progression between them because the stats stay the same.
Just more bling some people don’t care for at all.

The gap is not in stats, but time allocated to earning each tier. You can get Exotics too easily, and Legendaries took too long. Ascended will fill the gap inbetween.

You sit and lap up all their bull-kitten… the fact of the mater is most of this forum hates the idea and you are just being a hipster…

Nope if i want a gear grind i will go back and play the mother ship of MMO’s WOW…. No more money will be spent here.

Well looking at it from Anet’s stance now they have to options:

Let the content go live and loose a shed tone of players and mabey keep the people that want some progess but they will go in a couple of weeks anyway once they have completed the content.

Or

Pull the content and mabey start to recover the damage already caused. However no one trusts the company now so this will be harder.. ohh yes and they have their self pride to worry about…

Hmm… well i think the odds are on the patch going live.. they cant let their self pride down……

boobzooka.3521:

this is PERFECT. gear progression introduced in stages, and already existed BIS are protected.

As many as there are QQing about gear progression, there are a lot of us had seen this coming from the get go and had been waiting for it. Skin grind just isn’t enough.

Next up hostile players and duels. Then the game would be perfecto.

Well i know a game for you… WOW its already established and carrys this model… GO PLAY IT!!!

I have an idea… instead on having totally new gear why not each time you get infusions you can just add them to your current gear…. this means that their would be no increase in stats but people would benefit from the infusions ? This would also not effect the balance issues or the WvW concerns….

Have you watched too much twilight?

We all love a great infraction…. this is utter bullkitten but yet no response from the devs… Surely they will have finnished their morning tea with a good old morning meeting… or maybe they are trying to iron out the bugs for there upcoming patch… most likely the second thing as it is quite clear they do not listen….

However if they carry along this road i can see it going the same road SWTOR went but unlike SWTOR, anet does not have a big publisher like ea behind them and some other top ranked game titles…. At the end of the day its not my fault if some anet people loose there job as the game goes down the kitten…. I for one promise never to put another penny to this game and that will be my contribution… enjoy guys…

Now Anet have shown they cannot be trusted.. I wonder what bull kitten they will say to try and gain our trust again..

This has opened a can of worms that they will most defiantly not be able to get the lid back on….

At the present moment the Guild wars 2 staff are sitting around a big table discussing what to do.

Later they will come onto the forums and give us some diplomatic bullkitten that will hopefully in their eyes cool everyone down.

They have too much self pride so they will not do anything about the issue everyone is complaining about.

Get rid of the stat increase and this infusion crap keep the stats the same and POOF everyone is happy again.

Fiontar.4695:

I think most of the posters in the thread need to re-read the information on ascended gear and Fractals of the Mist dungeon, including the blog post, over and over until they actually understand it. there is nothing here to be up in arms about. Nada.

Ascended Gear has stats on par with Exotic Gear that has enhancements already applied. Ascended gear removes enhancement slots in order to be able to provide infusion slots. This gear will not be more powerful, outside of Fractals of the Mist, than properly enhanced Exotic gear! Ascended gear will provide another method for players to acquire exotic quality end game gear, but some may miss the opportunity to customize their stats via enhancements.

Where Ascended Gear shines is when equipped with infusions, or when the item comes with resistance to the new FotM exclusive monster condition built in. This system will allow players who play a lot of FotM to get deeper and deeper into the FotM experience on a given extended run.

It’s an end game dungeon progression, but the gear progression provides zero gear inflation outside of FotM!

I look at FotM as another form of adjunct game play in the same vein as WvW and sPvP. They are optional forms of alternative game play meant to appeal to people with particular play styles and content preferences. You can completely ignore FotM dungeon, if you wish, and you will not see the rest of your game play suffer as a result. Others may play FotM almost exclusively. It’s just another way for the game to broaden it’s appeal and offer players more game play options to suit thier changing mood!

ARE YOU ON DRUGS MATE???

If you have a look here:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/linsey-murdock-unveils-new-high-end-ascended-gear/

you can clearly see they are higher stats than exotics NOT “on par” so effectifly making them stronger

Well it just shows that we shouldn’t listen to a word they say…

All trust lost…

killcannon.2576:

Give them time. They will reply once they get together and discuss it. Meanwhile I suggest to keep posting not only here, but on other gaming sites, if there is a big enough stink raised, something will be accomplished.

Completely agree. . . It NEEDS to be shown how much we all disagree with this idea.

Well we do get a response from the developers in the blog posts but they make it out as if they are our comrades and we all agree with how awesome it is… However when you go onto the forums all you see is hate towards what they are saying is so awesome… The problems need to be addressed directly to us from the developers and they need to stop being so stubborn.

“thank you very much for your feedback!”

Ok so… I take a look at the forum and all i see from the staff is

“thank you very much for your feedback!”

Hmm… so much hate towards the new patch and all we see is :

“thank you very much for your feedback!”

However we all know that you are just trying to dust the whole situation under the carpet as to speak..

You think that a couple of days into the patch we will all just forget and get on with the game and be happy.

Well to the devs… We DO NOT forget!

you should have taken heed of SWTOR and how they interacted with their community. If you haven’t forgotten the community is the thing that keeps a MMO from going down or staying good.

Lock this.. infract me all you want.

At the end of the day if i wanted to play a gear progression game i would go back and play wow as it does it a lot better.

Thank you for your time.

Arnath.2319:

Korrigan.4837:

Arnath.2319:

This is a once off thing to keep a overwhelming majority of players happy.

Overwhelming majority? I suggest you read this thread again, for a reality check…

I knew someone would be stupid enough to say this…

These forums are what, like 1% of the Guild Wars 2 community. People who have to complain do so very loudly, while those who are happy rarely say a thing.

Also, i highly suspect that once Arenanet explains the system to you uneducated fools the majority of people complaining now will grow to like it too.

Well mate going by your philosophy how can anet make a proper estimation on how many people want it ? If only 1% of the gw2 comunity uses the forums… your logic is flawed you spaz

If we wanted gear progression i would go back to wow.. as well its already established and does it better. I thought guild wars 2 had to much potential but if this goes ahead then I too will be uninstalling the game from my computer.

They could have added in so much more i.e. guild halls/guild vs guild to bring some point in actually having a guild. But NO instead they bring in more increased stat’ed gear… why not have this gear at exotic level? This would mean the “old” content would not become outdated.

Also the amount of bug fixes that could have been done instead of adding new stat progression gear…

That is just some of the stuff I am disappointed with. ANet should really think about what they are doing and If they take there hat off and apologize for this massive balls up and pull the release of the content back a couple of weeks so they have time to fix this… Then I and many others will most likely accept there apology and keep on playing and support the game. However I already know that they are cowards hiding behind there blog of “we don’t give a crap you will like what we think is best” and things will not change. If this happens i will never give another penny to Anet..

Good Job on ruining your game Anet.

Completely agree with the OP. However Lyonell since you have been infracted it would seem Anet cannot take criticism for the things that they have really screwed up with in this game. They have potential for a good game but if they are blind and refuse to see everyone’s views apart from the “ohh yea this game is a wow killer” fan boys view then it will quickly go to the kitten..