Guild Wars 2

marnick.4305:

Bolthar.4172:

Anet this will be my last contact I am sure but you may have restored an account but you lost yourself any hope of having me as a future customer. Also be aware if your strong password users are not sharing their passwords/accounts and their still getting hacked you have serious internal account issues.

That, or you have a serious account issue yourself somewhere. Seems far more likely to me. Do you have 2-factor authentication? Is your password unique? Is it different from your email password? Is your email separately secured? Do you have any keyloggers?

In this time and age security isn’t a given anymore. It took me the better part of an afternoon to set up vastly increased security everywhere. If you don’t have my phone, you’re not getting into any of my accounts anymore.

Sounds a bit nieve for you to just be out there attacking those who have had things happen. 1) I can’t two factor because I don’t have a phone (not everyone is in the same boat as you and priviledged enough to have one) 2) I don’t have any keyloggers and the password is infact very unique. Even unique enough that others in my own family don’t even know it. 3) My e-mail is 100% secured and I log into each time and the passwords do get changed. 4) I scan weekly this means for the 3 weeks I didn’t play its would have found it 3 times but it has found nothing wrong at all.

The bottom line is I take “reasonable” care of my account and its information. I have for 15+ years. This “suspect” e-mail account I have had even longer than this and noone has had any access to it yet someone is able to get into my account remove everything to the point where a user is unuseable and the only thing Anet will do is change a couple of characters on the acount to get the login back to you.

1) No restores done.
2) No account security for changes once your in it.
3) No customer service for support.

Here is a hint Anet – have security questions and make it that people have to input them to make changes so anyone that does any kinds of attempts has to know more than just a password.

Like I said I am not coming back to anet as this is the first time this has happened and to be honest anything short of a full restore to the condition I logged off would not bring me back. I am sure it will be my last as long as I reasearch which games I play and don’t just jump on a day 1 purchase like I instintively tried to do here and I play games I know at least have the account security levels I require to play.

I hope the other poster gets their accounts looked at. Anet you need to look at customer service and determine exacly where your willing to let future sales affect current state.

Anet has stated over and over gaain this game was not about a gear grind if that is the case then there should be no problems at all restoring those “non grinded” items to a hacked account. Whats really sad is anet lost this a dedicated player who had a whoping 6-8 gold in his account. Even restoring the gold itself would not kill the economy.

Okay now that I have just checked back here I wish you all well on your future endevors.

I have to say I think this is insane. I have been playing MMOs for the last 15 years. I use strong passwords and I do not use the same userids and passwords on all mmorpgs. I never share account information and I always pretty much stay as a loaner in games.

Along comes GW2. I play it, I get a character to level 80 and then I make about 3 others to kind of test the waters of all the different “flavors” that are out there. I then participate in the Halloween festivities and once the big Halloween event on the 31rst is over with I do not log in at all. In fact I have been so busy home life wise I have not had a chance to do much of anything.

This last weekend (11/18) I go to log in and I can not get in. It indicates my account information is not valid. I go through all my anet e-mails ,the purchase ones, the account creation ones, and finally I look at the new stuff. There I notice that someone had attempted to change the e-mails address on the account. I promptly contacted Anet support.

This is where the waiting began. I had a small glimmer off hope when Anet sent me an e-mail saying my account had been restored and that I had a new password. I logged in and this is when my heart dropped.

1) All my new flavors of characters are now gone.
2) All my items I saved up karma to buy are now gone.
3) All my items had been put up on the Black Lion market and converted to gold.
4) All gold was stripped off my character.
5) They even went as far as stripping off my bags and deleting things that would not make them any money.

I was also restored in the middle of Frostgorge Sound (which I had not visited since I was in my 70’s) where since I had no gear I immediately died and don’t even have enough money to even resurrect as I have a total of 86 copper to my character.

Does Anet really consider this customer support? Sure you restored my account to an “active” state. To say this is all that is to be done with the account for someone who has supplied money for this account is really shoddy. I still have not had any answer to the question if player X is last logged on Monday, and then someone takes the that account on Tuesday, on Wednesday when the account is recovered why can’t they recover from Mondays last logon?

Anet this will be my last contact I am sure but you may have restored an account but you lost yourself any hope of having me as a future customer. Also be aware if your strong password users are not sharing their passwords/accounts and their still getting hacked you have serious internal account issues.

Lets start out wht some extra information. First I was able to WvW just fine last month without these issues occuring. Also I can play the game PvE for hours without lag or without “missing” an enemy or having them appear right on top of me unless I wait for them to spawn there.

Then I decide to go into WvW. I am attacking someone I see on my screen to the right of my screen and next thing you know the fireball is headed to the left side of the screen and it says obstructed. I then look around and I see the fireball is hitting blank air where I don’t see anyone. Next I retarget someone right next to me and get out of range when the person I am running up to is almost right next to me. THis alone may make me think some one is hacking or something and teleporting or whatnot but it happens to a ton of players and i don’t think everyone is hacking.

Also sometimes when the above happens about 10 seconds later I get a load of like 10+ enemies that just appear right on top of me with no warning. Its almost like there is some kind of sync issue between me and the rest of the battl field. I say this because I had another stange thing happen for the last few weeks which is I can’t just hit F and start healing someone I have to repeatedly hit F and each time I do one heal and stop. I even had one person on my own server that I was healing say he was being healed by a ghost bcause noone was by him. Lastly I have times when I can hit someone and I never get credit even though I have done a ton of damage. As an example I went into a battle last night with 38/50 kills it was aroyal rumble for a tower and I took down about 4 people I could count and then am sure i helped at least with another bunch. I walked out of the whole battle still at 38/50 though I got a bunch of loot bags that pooped out at my feet.

Unless this is WvW server only lag then its not lag because I can play all other PvE fine and PvP fine without this. It is not an FPS issue that I can tell. I have done this on two rigs.

What is it that makes it so I can WvW fine last month and this month be so “desynced” that I can’t even WvW properly.

The only thing I have not done at this point is uninstall and reinstall the entire client. Any thoughtss on how to make it so I am able to be more in tuned with whats ogging on with the rest of the server?

You do know you can sell your junk at EVERY heart vendor as well right? Sorry but I don’t feel there is any issue about looting greys with how easy it is to sell them locally to a heart vendor.

1) you have the option to buy more bag spaceper character with gems.
2) You can buy pretty large bags as it is right now.
3) there are ample vendors to sell the junk to all over each map.

FYI I am one person who picks up every grey item and junk sells them, I pick up every white and if its medium or lower armor it gets reclaimed as leather or cloth, all other blue items are vendor fodder, green items go to the TP if its being sold at any rate above vendor cost and I never have an issue with bag space.

IMHO I would love it if things looted went directly into collection first but thats a personal preference about how I think inventory should work.

Actually it would be nice if you got a prenotification of the event about to happen. I know excatly about what the OP is stating and yes it may be bad luck but its also very easy to put im some kind of notification system telling you an even t is about to happen E.G. they have an event radius. Within the radius of the event it says something like “There is unrest within this section of Tyria” like 5 seconds before they all spawn on top of you and mash you dead.

Just a way to help notify players before they get pounded into the ground.

All jumping skill puzzles should give the rewards based on the level of the character doing them not the level of the zone. Its sad when your level 80 doing a jumping puzzle and you get a couple of blue level 20 items.

I notice the chests in lions arch do their rewards this way why can’t all jumping puzzle chests?

Since Jumping puzzles are about platforming and not level dependant this owuld be the best way to divy out rewards.

Title says it all. Nothing more annoying than to lob off a super high mortar to realize you have to wait until it hits to reposition. I am not asking to have the ability to fire a second mortar while one is still in the air just allow for repostioning while your waiting for the mortar to hit.

Minor annoyance but should be able to be fixed.

IMHO its just intelligent use of skills. Its called a teleport for a reason. I just wish the Elementalists telerport actually worked a similar way rather than something that “pulls” us to the targeted location and does not work much outside of open field running.

BTW this is coming from someone who does not have a mesmer as a profession.

Okay so here is the deal. I do these jumping puzzles to help out on the cost of WvW blueprints. As I am not in a guild or anything I tend to try and help out when someone says they need something in X location and I really can’t afford some of the blueprints without doing these puzzles.

With that out of the way yesterday I did the jumping puzzles around 2pm EST. (Well before the 8pm est chest reset time). I also did all three of the lions arch puzzles at about 3:30pm. I end up logging off at about 5pm and thought at 8pm all would reset. Well I took a bit of a nsooze and woke up at 12:30 and figured I would get the WvW ones done first and I stealthily work my way there just to find the first chest still open. I then move over to Lions arch and I do the 3 there and all 3 chests are closed and able to be looted.

This tells me that the WvW chests are not on the same time are the PvE stuff. What is the timer for these chests in WvW? At this point kind of afraid to try Eternal Battlegrounds one just to find out that chest may not have reset either considering how camped that jumping puzzle always seems to be.

I am at a loss. I have checked all WvW and all 4 zones are 100% complete, I have checked all zones across the world all are showing 100%. I have checked the PvP lobby and found the 4 in there. I am all out of ideas…. Where else if all maps show 100% POI completion can the 4 POIs I do not have be?

Note: I am actually at 99% and 4 POIs and one skill point the only skill point I have left is that bugged one by the Bayt POI SO I really just need to know abotu the 4 POIs I have no clue where they are.

Sisho.5431:

Well I would love to know if you remember who it was it was that was complaining at you then. If it was a member of our alliance then I will speak with them myself about toning it down.

Sorry Since I got kicked I cant even look at my logs. One of them was Sky something (this was not the one doing the one I didn’t care for the most at zone in)

Sisho.5431:

While we are serious WvWers we try not to bring ourselves down to the elitist level and try to just make sure everyone knows what the plan is. What they have said above is true though, people are pretty ridiculous the first night after a reset. Nobody was listening to our obviously organized commands earlier and despite trying to tell them what needed to be done, they kept yelling in chat for people NOT to do what we said and attack a garrison instead for instance. Either way, I could see some of our randoms beingkitten like that too, I’ve seen a few of them out there that don’t know when to shut up. Most of us in general though just try to make sure everyone is on the same page, and personally I usually try to coordinate the masses even when my guild is not backing me.

Yep its one thing to enlighten people either through /team or /map to know what to do. Man that map is alot bigger than I thought it was. I for one would like for someone to tell me where the action is or where someone may need some reinforcements. In fact that was where I did one of my battles because I went where asked.

Sisho.5431:

As to upgrades, you speak to the NPC with [upgrades] next to their name and pay for an upgrade. I suggest not doing this until you better understand it, because some upgrades really need to go before others for sure to make sure the keep/tower/camp is better off. Usually the guild in charge, the guild that claimed the spot that is, takes care of the upgrades. You are welcome to donate money to someone if they say they need it for upgrades as well. I’ve become quite proud of our masses for sending me money when we need upgrades and I’m trying to do it because the guild that claimed something just claims it for the hell of it and leaves it completely undefended.

Thanks I’ll keep this all in mind. At this point I don’t intend to do this and will leave this for other guilds.

Sisho.5431:

Are you in need of a guild Bolthar, someone to actually play with and not have to worry about that kind of stuff?

I really stay away from guilds. I did guilds in so many games and I always was the one to give until I was bleeding (through donations to helping otherp layers who just wjumped to naother guild) to have the guild turn around and die a horrible death. Right now I am about 95% from map completion mostly WvW and I have gotten a almost all of the jumping puzzles done. I have not done a single dungeeon and am thinking that I may need to visit at least each one once to get a feel for them. Who knows since there is SO much more I can do. I have yet to start on the high end gear either. I am just yellow with low end crystals in them. If you drop me a line in game we can met and chat never hurts ot have more friends.

Thanks. I would offer you good luck but since your in a completeing server I’ll just nod my hat to you.

Yeah I have heard this week is supposed to be a big match-up that will be more difficult than last.

Puck you should see my post in the WvW section. While I was not reported it seems people have alot of fun at barking orders and then getting very huffy when you aren’t a mindless drone. What I would do I just keep track of the date and time/send a message ot Anet support with the fact that your report was unfounded and when the altercation occured.

Sorry this happened to you.

Didn’t they lock down the server changes to 24 hours so even then your guildless you have to change servers so then can’t get back to your own for 24 hours. Seems counterproductive to me.

I am on Crystal Desert as my server. I really don’t mind being on it. Outside this very shakey first day into WvW its been okay. People helping with quests when I need it, people ressing me when they see me down. All the rest has been okay until this.

@Sylv. I am not judging everyoen in there. I agree with what yo usay about the others but you know the saying it onlly takes a few apples to spoil a bunch. Once you get enough bad taste in your mouth you just decide its not woth the hastle of sorting through.

I’ll be back into WvW at least monthly because some of the larger battles were VERY fun. I had someone who would lock people down (still not sure which profession has that skill tht essentially immobilizes you) and I would be putting a lava font right on them. then as people were coming in to help him I would toss out a Meteor shower and a glyph of storms on them so enyone in the area helping was getting hit.

I guess if I can get this post out to enough WvWers to realize that not everyone needs to be barked at an maybe a bit more “talk” and a bit less shouting might help out in the future.

BTW one question totally off topic. How do you upgrade items at a location? THey were tlaking about upgrading supply routes and reinforcing walls? I just was there long enough to learn about being able to pick up supplies but not able to deliver them to a supply pad and the picked up supplies could only be used to either fix broken items or build siege weapons. I saw nothing about how to upgrade existing items. or is that onee of the things only guilds can do an I should just not worry about it?

The world as you know it is over! Or something is wrong with their login servers.

I also got disconnected trying to get into a que on WvW

Since I have to get all the POIs I decided to que up for the WvW action. Now let me tell you I hate PvP with a passion as there are always people trying to act elitist, there are people always wanting to belittle you, there are always people who want to tell you what to do.

WvW did NOT dissapoint my views on PvP at all.

First I got in and was not sure what to do. There was some guy standing at the zone in point that immediately told me to “Move or leave because you are taking up valuable WvW que space”. Let me tell you buddy I myself just sat in the same que I had as much a right to be there as anyone else. I also need to say to you if your taking time yelling at me to leave then your not doing much to help yourself.

Then I go to grab some WvW POIs and in the intrim I get into a battle with a large wall of players from the other server. I have to say it was actually pretty fun. I am not all that great just a level 80 with yellow gear and I was able to hold my own. I was pulling out my elementals and I was smacking them around with my glyph of storms. I then was helping res pepole when someone came up and said “Don’t res anyone just attack”. Well excuse me Mr. Battl master. I am ressing the dead to help with the battle to get the enemy turned around.

I then learn about supplies and I see some pack mule things going and I decide ot help them get there faster bu using my speed buffs on it. Another person runs up and says “You should not waste your time speeding them up you get no rewards”. Isn’t the point of the escort to ensure noone kills them AND to speed them up to bring supplies to the places htey are going?

In all I have to say my first foray into WvW did not disappoint on the attitudes of the people who are plaing in WvW. Those of you playing WvW I hope you read this and take even a little thought on the way you treat players. Not all players have been in WvW before, not all players know all about what they are doing, not all players are asking for your elitist comments.

With that all being said I think I didn’t do too bad coming up with a monthly 50 kills in the matter of an hour when I had not done any monthlies before. I won’t be so reluctant to go in to get that achivement in the future.

I am so against it because I am 100% against any single option that gives the guild leaders entire control over getting money from their membership of players without first notifying and asking if the users in said guild want it.

If your a guild leader you are supposed to be encouraging users to donate items/gold to help out the guild by playing with those who join the guild or setitng up things the Guild members want to do. You are not supposed to be sitting there saying I want to tick a box and just try and recruit as many people as I can just so I can gather their money until I get the next item to make my guild better.

What your proposing is just this type of scenario and IMHO NO guild leader should ever have that kind of power.

What happens if I join a guild I don’t play for a week. Someone leaves as a guild leader while I am not playing and someone else steps up and ticks the little guild tax box and I log in and start playing. My money income drops and I don’t notice it right away and I realize that the new guild leader isn’t doing ANYTHING to warrant me staying. I have then just paid into a guild I no longer want to be a part of.

Another scenario – I have someone recruit me to a guild saying things “will be cool” and “we will worship you”. I join the guild, and it has a tax. I then decide to give it awhile because they indicate they are going through a transition. All the time taxing me. I then find out the guild is a scrub guild and noone is helping anyone else. I leave but then all that time I was taxed and I got nothing from being a member of the guild.

I am not saying this is what YOU would do. I am not saying this is your intention. I am just saying this is 100% why I am so dead set on an option I would NEVER use even if I was a guild leader as this option can be ABUSED. Someone playing a Warrior when I don’t want to be a Warrior is an irrelevant arguement because that can’t be abused to affect everyone in the guild.

Basically this option to me begs of scammy leaders who just start recruiting people just to get more gold in their coffers. That is why I am so against the tax system and much more intrigued by the benifits of the guild membership to increase along with the donations.

Um if EVERY guild has the OPTIONAL ability to use it and I am in said guild BEFORE its done and I am not aware of it then it WOULD affect me. I can read just fine and your attempt to belitle my post because I replied as to WHY taxes are a bad thing just goes to show your trollish state of mind. Lay off the ayttacks on people who don’t agree with your ideas for a guild system and work with what people think “could” be viable options. I am not the only one posting saying that TAXES = Bad but DONATIONS for benifits = good.

I guess the question is do you WvW PVPers mind getting the long ques because me as a Pure PVEer am cloging it up trying to go in JUST to get some WvW kills nd not even worrying about PvP at all? IMHO If you make it achieveable in both locations then you make it so neither is “left out” and the WvW ques would drop significantly.

Maybe a small box right by the map progess section? Any place they are going to charge you some money you should have a spot to see how much you have IMHO.

Fay my problem isn’t that I can’t judge the distance on a flat surface my problem is the distance “changes” when not on a flat surface. Have you gone to a rolling hill area and used the same skill? It will tell you out of range even though it should or when your casting at something as running up a hill. I have always felt that distance isn’t like laying a string in a straight line across a flat desk but taking the same string and putting it on an arch or taking the same string and then putting it over a bunch of small arches.

I don’t want to have to be a savant mathmetician to have to figure out max distance for all different scenarios.

I think the idea of having a mark on the ground at max distance if you do any distance max skill would be great. it also would help out with targeted AoEs and other items as well. I had not even thought about those.

Only add this is you also add a “vandalism merchant” that allows you to buy cans of spraypaint and tomatoes and eggs and whatnot that you can then toss/use on the statues at will.

My suggestion has been that when you hover over a gate on your map besides it just saying Asura gate it hsould say Asura Gate to XXXXXXX I really hate that they do not do this and make you run almost up to the gate before you see the name. I too think your suggestions are great even an indicator like instead of the arch why not make the ramps themselves the type for the race. E.G. a ramp up to the Sylvari would be the green ramp in their home town. The char can be a metal ramp, the human could be a stone one and so on. The other suggestion would be some type of color coding of the gate like they do the different colors on the PVP gates.

I also have suggested that they number the discoverables on the map so when your looking at them and missing one you could say hey does anyone know where POI 5 is or whatever. Rather than saying I have 19 of 20 POIs and I have NO clue which one I am missing. I definately +1 this suggestion.

There should not ever be a guild tax. I could see the ability to make it so you get a specific benfit based on the level of “donations” but a required tax guild is something I would never be a part of. I donate to a guild based on what I do with the guild, to tax me if I join a guild and have not done anything with them is just wrong.

Make it where the level of donations affect your level of guild benefits and I would be much happier than a “guild charity”. A tax by any name is still a tax. I could call it a “Guild cotton candy feeling fluffy bunny cute kitten support requirement” and it STILL is a tax.

Would be nice if this also went for the Elementalists Teleport skills as well. I never both having it inmy bar because you have to take so much time ensuiring you have it “just within range” when there is no range indicator in this game.

Hearts can’t reset if their going to keep them as part of the 100% world completion. unless they also change how the heart looks when completed? I kind of likethem resettng if you talked to them. Then you could reset the ones you want to rework on. Of course they would have to evalute how often you can reset them so you are not abusing it going to a quest that is very simple and just resetting it over and over for rewards.

1) Add in a take all option that takes all items from ALL E-Mails. I normally don’t go to my e-mail after every heart quest and it is annoying to say the least that I have to go take all from every e-mail.

2) Add a report function for spam e-mails so we can report the spammers who are gold selling. I literally logged in today and had 6 e-mails all gold sellers 0 from anyone who was an actual player.

3) Add a block filter option. I would like to be able to put in a set or words that if sent to me NEVER show up. Some of these words being www. , gold, buy, I have no reason to get any of those e-mails.

4) Add a block by user option. I would like ot be able to just block a user from being able to e-mail me at all. If I can block them on chat why can’t I block them on e-mail?

Okay I am just perplexed here. I have the following and am not at all sure why I am not feeling"faster" at all.

Elementalist with 2 handed staff – I have the Signet of air +10%. I have the Air trait number 4 One with Air that at 50 seconds should give me +25% increase. I also have the staff that is 33% increase.

Now I have ran without anything enabled and NOT attuned to air from point A to point B and I get 10 seconds.
I have changed to air and waited 1 minute and ran from point A to point B and I got there in 9 seconds.
I have changed to air and waited 1 minute and used the windbourne speed and ran from point A to point B and I got there in 6 seconds.
I then ran from point A to point B with attuned to air but no Signet and no One with Air and I got there in 9 seconds.
I then ran from point A to point B with attuned to air but no Signet and no One with Air and just used the windbourne speed and I got there in 6 seconds.

Just for fun I also did this in town and by a speed boost person and the speed bost person AND the windbourne speed do seem to stack.

This is telling me that something is broken with the Sigil speed increase and the One with Air speed increase. What is it that makes those speed increases so much less than the inherent staff skill that gives a 30% speed increase?

Those giving targeting information on elementalists need to step back and reevaluate your answers. With elementalists it tends to be a bit more than just target and attack as it is with some of the other professions I have played.

Alot of the skills for an elementalists are the click area spells. What I found out is nice is to go keyboard keys to cast the spell but then set in the options to make it cast at pointer. So you use your pointer and hit the corresponding key and it casts there without the need for the second click.

Also since your using area spells remember you want to cast just BEFORE where you will end up being. E.G. if I am auto casting my fireball and then I go to cast my lava font I always cast it just in front of where they will be running and not right on top of them. this gives them a few more seconds within the field and thus they take more damage.

Also remember that attunments mean alot when it comes to what role you want to play. I almost always play damage heavy and try and srike down foes before they get to me so I stay fire and I run with elemental summons (both lesser and greater) and I will summon them as fire to do the damage as well. once I take a few hits and see my burning down the enemy is not working (either too many at a time or too spread out) I then do a burning retreat and a quick attunement change to water to get a good couple area heals off before switching quickly to earth for more survivability and finishing off the battle.

The main thing to remember is with Elementalists its all about your attunements and how you best utilize them for your survival.

About the quests it took me awhile to figure it all out. You have the main quest line that is indicated with a green swirly. That green swirly will take you on your storyline quests. Outside of that the other quests you have are the heart quests. They ALWAYS have a radius around the heart giver and as long as you see that particular heart on the top right of the screen you know your in the general area to do the quests. Some heart quests you may need more information than just the area and if you do you can talk to the heart quest giver. When you finish the heart quests the rewards go into your mailbox so you have to then claim them from there. Storyline quest rewards come with a big popup on the screen and are items you select one of 3 items usually. Anything else is you participating in a dynamic evenet and you should see a medal at the end of the event on the right hand side and those reards go straight into your inventories gold reserves and there is no “pickup” for it. Hope this answers some of your questions. Good lluck in the game.

Also you can use Karma to buy components for crafting in things you can then sell. IMHO make it an all or nothing. Make everything you use Karma for you soulbound including the items made from anything to do with karma items in any way or open it up so we can do salvages and whatnot on the items.