Guild Wars 2

DNT were so wack anyway, claiming builds when Materia would craft the same builds patch hour 1 for 3 years.. — It’s called reading comprehension, people give them way too much credit for combining traits that have synergy. Above that they are just a bunch of classless elites who toot their own horns, nice job on removing them anet.

ps- I’ve had guildies return to us from DNT several times, maybe I should send them some chocolates.

Hey there,
I just wanted to let the forum know that this bug still exists, and has just finally manifest itself for me… For the first time in 4000 hours. New PC, has been running GW fine for weeks though. Today however, If I try to open gw2.exe, I get a ‘connection failed, retrying’ in red, and my net completely turns off for a few minutes. Dirty pool, anet.

notes: I am hard-wired to my router and this problem does not manifest in any other game or software in my library.

Before the daily changes I would just do daily rich iron nodes, and the daily if it was REALLY easy (laurel merchant, craft etc).

Now I’m usually on a little longer since the dailies require often two easy ones (logging and forging) and one that’s either a world boss or zone quest completion. IF there is a world boss near when I log in that is required, I’ll do it, but I don’t go out of my way.

I have 3500 hours on the game, the new format just seems to waste more time and teleports, I imagine once the variety of items in the chests starts to fade in my eyes I’ll probably start doing less again (any day now).

I’ve been running one of the greatest maguuma guilds since release day. I try to keep myself busy recruiting, working on the website, and trying to make new like-minded friends. Our mumble has become more of a place to hang out and wait for GW2 to grow. The friends I’ve made here now play stuff like payday 2, path of exile, and wildstar.

All of this has gotten harder as most veterans have gotten bored in recent months, and a lot of new players seem to get bored and quit too. It never used to be like that – I’ve raised tons of guildies from 200AP to 8000+ dungeon bosses. It’s getting hard to find motivated people that also want a new guild, which speaks more to the game’s population health.

I myself log in every day to mine some rich iron nodes. After making thousands of gold over two years, it’s all I can think of to do with myself for a few minutes a day before I’m bored. Oh I mine the sprockets in my home instance, too.

Let it be known I’m infinitely happy that this game has provided me more than 3000 hours of joy. I certainly have gotten my money’s worth. As the ongoing best current MMO, however, I expect more for years to come! I can’t flex all my sweet gear with no GvG, custom home/halls, or people in the cities!

I played flyff and Perfect world intl for 3-5 years each, and they were free and ugly. Anet, put out an expansion. I got $60 on it.

I’ve done enough dungeons to buy the emperor title, moot, mjolnir, and several other frivelous/rediculously wasteful gold stuff, and I only seen about 5 or 6 precursors drop for guildies in all those dungeons. That being said, even if you don’t find a precursor on your own loot, if you do enough content you can buy whatever you want. I’m still tryin to trash gold, but no, you can’t have it

And this is an MMO with almost no level grind, so surprise, your grind is on RNG.

OP in ANY pvp situation if you haven’t exhausted your enemy’s stability or various other protections before you’re attempted-stomped, you deserved to die.

These players are giving up a powerful skill that will likely cost them their next duel to finish off someone who thinks downstate should give them that extra edge to overcome? Please, you dead.

There is no ‘exploit’. Working as intended.

Glory.1493:

OP is a troll..his ID is xxxx.9562.if he played gw2 for more than 2 years there is no way that 4 digits start with 9….more like less than 3 months

Mine is .9631 and I started 3 days before release. 13k AP. several legends. 30 ascended weapons crafted before plebs could get them in chests for free.

Assumptions are stupid.

OP speaks the truth, however, if you think 5 man is unachievable content you should join a good guild. And moreover, 10-20 man raids SHOULD also require the skill of a high end fractal. Otherwise, how would the raid be any more endgame than all the other stuff you can do 1-79?

Astral Projections.7320:

I get the impression OP is having trouble winning in PvP and wants weaker opponents brought in so he can finally win a match.

PvP gear has no stats, ascended and white are the same in quality.
If you meant wvw, well that makes sense.

I can always find a pvp match during the day, granted its almost always the same 3 pugs mixxed with 2 more randoms. Who could have guessed a poorly diversified pvp system full of ragers whispering you every time they die (and autoblock) wouldn’t hold a huge population?

Check all the other MMO’s on the market, GW2 still slays them graphically. Not a single one doesn’t look like a sloppy f2p k-mmo. Even the newest subbed ones, it’s sad but true.

I’d say if anet needs to fix one thing graphically, it would be the motion blur, and FOV. Pretty archaic by modern standards, tons of new games are nailing it, I think it’s time anet caught up in that realm, it’s been the same since release and I leave it disabled since it’s ugly — though I love graphics options and hate having to disable them for making it uglier.

don’t forget if you are trying to stack swiftness too, you can use the heal while WIND attuned to add additional swiftness (I use dagger 5 [turned backwards so the dodge doesn’t lose distance hehe] + the heal).

Before that I’d also leave the norn racial elites on, those dashes are funner than FGS (Well they were before the ‘feature pack’ broke em 2 years later)

my guild probably had more of the underwater legendary spear than any group — just to screw with people in the middle lake in WVW… i think we all know how that ended.

I always forged my own random precursor before buying another. Cept the 3 energizers I bought before the moot had effects haha. 15g precursors, sons.

OP, it’s called RNG, and your experiences only reflect one person’s loot table. Been hardcoring dungeons since the start (4-8 paths a day) and the only loot thing that’s changed is that HOTW-1 doesn’t fill your bags twice — And that was done in 2013.

Yoroiookami.3485:

I just want to get some enjoyment out of completing a map, it isn’t much to ask, is it?

This game has the best mmo world map available in terms of exploration, if you aren’t enjoying it for the sake of enjoying it, you’re doing it wrong. You shouldn’t need a reward in addition to an hour of fun, other than the RNG loot anyone’s subject to.

One of the biggest problems with this game is all the people complaining for handouts, they gotta rework the boss loot a hundred times instead of releasing content for people who enjoy good views, graphics, and enemies.

“Make it worth my time!” Gaming IS the reward, I freakin hate these tools. Learn a real skill or hobby if you want it to pay off, then you can enjoy guild wars casually in between all that.

I really can’t fathom a WoWer that actually fits the ‘noob’ bill anet dumbed down the game for in the last feature pack. The ‘o’ button has always worked for the trading post, now and forever. (you can hover over the icon and see that)

You don’t like text? Or classes? Honestly I dunno what you were expecting but pretty much all this stuff is the same in both MMOs you play.

It is worth noting that GW2 has THE EASIEST GRIND TO 80 OF ANY MMO CURRENTLY AVAILABLE! So if you are at 32 and confused after months, you just aren’t trying pretty much. Join a guild and ask, use the forums (these can be for help, not just complaints!), or map chat. If you don’t like these options..

Play regular RPGs.

Someday they’ll add guild halls and GvG and we’ll have something to BUILD again.

I recruited every day since day 1, kept a guild of 300 adults happy for 2 years, now they’re all bored and playing other games. I still recruit but the rate at which veterans of this game quit, is much greater than that of noobies looking for guilds (at least for my statistics purposes, at the times, zones, and mediums I use to recruit daily).

As for myself I log in every day to hit rich iron nodes, and the home instance blade shards, 30 ascended weapons, 2 legendaries, emperor title, yeah I’m finished. I think payday 2 gets more of my time at the moment.

Anyway yeah, your post was refreshing, I like hearing why people still enjoy this game, it’s one of few things I still find motivating. The CDI’s regarding guild halls are hopeful too, I got a million kitten influence to spend. Don’t tell the kittens.

Dry Top event chain is kinda cool, may be repetetive but at least it’s something to do. It has unique currency rewards that can keep one busy for quite a while, whether you like cooking or crafting or whatever. Going T5 requires some communal effort, and I dunno, making mawdrey and my time in dry top is some of the only stuff I’ve had to do for months, so maybe my standards are low.

Not many champions to ‘train’ either, its mostly a mix of events, many only have veterans or less. Get good loot if you teleport around a lot though.

if you aren’t familiar with payday 2’s community reward system, might I suggest you check out their current ongoing event – and might I even suggest anet take notes Wonderful way to grow your game and playerbase, has been immensely successful.

http://www.overkillsoftware.com/crimefest/

Making the loot drops higher for what is well accepted to be a “guild world boss” seems to only push people more towards joining a megaguild, so to speak. I think that boss needs some reworking, joining TTS or praying to the overflow gods shouldn’t be a requirement for an achievement tree

you can watch a video to learn lupicus solo. you can watch a video to learn arah4.

A skilled pve player is knowledgeable of ALL dungeons. Has the master title, actually learned em. Keeps up on the world boss tactics and evolves as they do. someone who can kill champions by themself, basically.

A skilled pvp player knows how to use all their skills and weapons in the most scenarios – following metabuilds and copying others’ ideas every patch about the ‘best’ is only for mediocre pvpers, they have to react when the best changes. skilled players are already prepared for any changes in what constitutes ‘best’, knowing how the weapon and class skills work before they are deemed OP.

A skilled wvw’er… Zergs? Follows orders in voice (if they like being in a baitball). zzz.

this game’s pvp is very punishing in the sense that if you don’t follow whatever the one build for each class everyone is doing, you’ll be called a noob. that changes fairly often with patches.

also for killing people higher level than you. and lower. and winning, and losing.

basically gw2 pvpers are mostly jerks, try the pve or wvw aspect. or make a dedicated pvp team and completely own them ragers:)

I’ve been taking my guild through fight clubs in wvw (entire 30-50 person groups of duelers wasting queue space) and killing them all. Since the beginning.

They’ve been mass reporting me since the start, crying in map chat and everything. screaming not to res me. too bad i got 50 guildies to do that.

anyway yeah, i’ve never been banned. two years.

anet reads their reports. follow the rules, its all good.

I’ve always had an easy sense of direction in this game, and I raised myself through FlyFF, Global Agenda and Perfect world, all junk mmos.

I really can’t fathom anyone having as hard a time as this patch makes it sound for new players. This was the easiest grind to maxlevel I’ve ever experienced. Give us veterans something to do, I’ve made 30+ ascended weapons, several legendaries, I certainly got my money’s worth but I won’t and never pay any further in something as goofy as new skins for the same tired content.

It doesn’t matter how dope they look, I’m still standing in Hoelbrak. My guild hall is waiting on several other games but I’m stubborn and have high hopes for anet to get it together.

We’re still growing and looking for you! Since day 1, Maguuma’s greatest guild
And now if you’re interested in SPVP (PVP) we are building a dedicated squad for full-time Materia ownage. Wanna get that shark finisher? Those interested in participating feel free to contact Taxi.7053 for recruiting

I appreciate when I get whispered by bad thieves coughinsertgenericloki-namedthief cuz they can’t kill me, but does everyone really have to rage whisper and block me? Just cuz I’d rather /laugh through your terribad daggerstorm is no reason to get nasty. Or is it just a rule that every troll thief hates being out-emoted? haha

6th place is almost as good as 5th too, in the grand scheme of servers BLNT!
Maguuma por vida

I got my moots precursor before it had effects, 15g in 2012

Since then though, crafted near 30 ascended pieces, bought emperor title… Stop rolling the forge people, make 20g a night in a couple hours of dungeons/bosses and delay that gratification for a couple months! Gotta have something to chase in this game haha, that’s why I bought emperor cuz I was out of ideas to spend on .

All the fun stuff… keg brawl, ss survival, aspect arena….

CANT PLAY WITH YOUR FRIENDS

I’d grind dungeons all month just to keep paying for a monthly PVP server if you guys would include these [obviously pvp] fun games to the server selection options. I’d survival with my guildies all month, and I’d love it. And you’d get lots of pvp server money. think about it.

I get hit for 19k all the time in there, good thing warrior has 27

weak clip :*( please fix!

Nevermind the size… let’s discuss how it needs to NOT GO THROUGH MY HEAD. See attached. My helmet and/or hair both have a strange sideways earring coming out of them..

nothing crazy about getting ascended… i threw 600g at an emperor title cuz my 25 ascended weapons and 2 legendaries left me with nothing else to buy.

run dungeons, run them well. i dont even use the trading post and i have too much money all the time. the level of entitlement in this game is absurd. “NEEDMOHANDOUTS!”

I really hope this means making classes that use COND, HEALING, or TANK stats more viable. Slowing down the best dungeon dps 18 months after release is pointless. All the hardcore players have their money and gear, and have no reason to replay old dungeons for the 10,000th time if the only difference is they’re slower for those with REAL SKILL (ie: can dodge and wear zerk gear) I am not impressed. Create roles for the other classes, or have you never tried running a pistol+pistol engineer? You shouldn’t resent your party mates for chosing something they like, and when you only do a good job of making zerk dps, it hardly seems like it needs a nerf. The OTHERS need a BOOST!

All the people who say ‘you missed this and this’ don’t seem to realize that bi-weekly updates don’t mean anything to someone who jumps in midway through some living story chapter. And cash shop availability/temp back pieces aren’t REASONS to come back if he was already bored.

And as for server populations… Even maguuma says VERY HIGH (like alllll the rest) and you’ll never see more than 1-3 people in any zone except lions arch. People do the first round of world bosses at reset too, but by 3 hours past then, jormag just stays up for 3-15 hours. Golem resets his quest chain. Orr sits fully contested. I go on TC/BG to do the bosses, like most people on other servers do.

[Square… I’d recommend guesting these servers if you wanna see a full world experience before moving on]

The total capacity must be very low or something.

Thank you for your kind reply OP, brutality is my speciality! Hope you find what you are lookin for.

I fully agree with the OP, if you realize that making thousands of gold in daily dungeons just to shell them out for new visuals to wear in the — same dungeons — is getting kind of old. I’ve made full 500 profs, legendaries, emperor title (just out of boredom and lack of stuff to buy) — and i did it all re-running the same dungeon content I love.

But there is a limit to that, believe me. I hit it months ago. Need a huge patch, very soon. Even if they release one new dungeon it won’t be enough. Let alone a slew of casual meta cheeves.

I’ve been running all dungeons – all paths since release, several a day, and as of about 2 months ago everyone else who I know in the same boat (we’ve built a guild of over 250 adults) has moved on to other things. There’s just NOTHING to retain us.

I spent 600g I have saved up, on the EMPEROR title. Just cuz I’m out of stuff to do. New skins in the cash shop and a few gather achievements for a meta every few weeks is very disheartening. I didn’t even mind being out of money, cuz there’s no point in saving if the only updates are visuals. Same dungeons, same fractals, I just don’t know.

WvW is kinda fun if you have time, give it a try it has changed quite a bit. Your fun will probably be dependent on your server. As a hardcore gamer though, who has remained VERY optimistic (about new stuff, dungeons, expansions, guild halls) I am running out of hope. I’m playing a pile of other games to keep my guild wars fix at least casual, hoping for more.

I really hope anet has some huge plans for a CONTENT update soon, the bi-weekly fetch meta is really only appealing to the most casual of players. 10k+ AP, 15 ascended weapons and 5-500 professions, I had a moot made the very day they added visual effects to them — The first on maguuma I’d wager. I’m a former full-time wvw commander. One of the first and still most active on our server. I manage guild missions of near 50 people per session, twice a week (I ran out of any use for 6 commendations/week months ago, purely go to ‘show up’ now). And I’m paying for my mumble server even though it’s more just to keep the guild playing OTHER games together while we wait for something entertaining in GW2.

TL;DR – Maybe

Xsorus’ analogy is pretty spot on. And even if you manage similar sized zergs the one with the most hammer warriors always wins. Neat, wait I mean zzz.

that ain’t no way to live

Indeed Krypton. +1.

and the guy who said “the best I can get in wvw is exotics…” that SHOULD be the best stuff you can get, there was no other reason to run fractals before other thank pink ears etc.. No risk, no reward. Zergs = zzzz

Very straight-forward: When a sylvari transforms into a juggernaut, give it the [OVERGROWN TONIC] skin from TA. Would be very boss and make lots of sense. Gets giant, hardens into wooden armor, tears everything up. I’d run. The husks before nightmare wurm already have the skill animations too, could be easy to combine.

This another suggestion towards immersion, step one of course is to make oakhearts aggro when you harvest trees near them I got a million great ideas to bring the world to life.

This one’s simple and excellent.

If you are harvesting trees within range of an OAKHEART, PINESOUL etc it will aggro and attack. You are, after all, trying to take it’s childrens!

Materia [Mate] – Maguuma Server – PVX / WVW
A home for social, positive & active gamers

Recruiting skilled veterans and active, motivated newcomers

100% All Guild Unlocks as of May, 2013. Completing all bounties, challenges, puzzles, rushes & treks weekly. Max merits, we make sure our members get commendations.

24/7 BUFFS – +5% Kill EXP, +10% Gathering Bonus, +10% Magic Find, +5% Gold from Kills

+15% Karma Boost Sundays, +10% Craft Critical Sundays weekends

We run the -15% repair costs on WVW nights and -20% waypoint costs on mission days, any and all perks we try to maintain for all who influence, it belongs to everyone after all.

+ Hero banners for scheduled guild events!

Missions and dungeon running tournaments sun+weds evenings
Guild WvW Saturday evening primetime! (Commander Sinful Panda)

Our team base is permanently set at 300, dedicated and full-time, all 18+ adults only. Maturity and respect are requirements of all our members. We seek to provide a fun, active & powerful group to help each other grow within the Guild Wars 2 community. We squad up daily for dungeon runs, material gathering, dragons, coordinated WvW, or just shootin the ish in our private [mumble] voice server.

All we require is that you have an active toon with us that represents full time. And please keep any negativity to yourself, we praise individuality but our guild is meant to encourage it’s players. No hourly commitment is needed, we know who is active and we clear those who are not every month or so, but time away is always fine with a little note in advance. Fear not, we just want everyone here to have a quality experience. Try and you will see!

One year strong, scarcely a problem and 0 drama, happy anniversary me MATEs, and GW2!

We’re based in North America but have since become international. We have players in France, Poland, Australia, Asia, UK, Canada, South America and more. You can consider our most active times to be mid-day through the early morning hours, though there’s always people on to play.

We also have our own Terraria and Killing Floor servers, and play Path of Exile, Tribes Ascend, Planetside 2, Left4Dead2, MTG Online, Warframe, Hawken, ME3 and more together. Pretty much you can always find a MATE to pal around with Though let me be clear we are not a multi-game guild, just have a lot of friendlies who appreciate diversity.

CONTACT / JOIN
In-Game Whisper: Vox Stellarum, Remy Versailles or Deirdre Phaedra
In-Game Mail: brutality.9631 (preferred format)
E-mail: materiateam@gmail.com (issues only)
Website: http://materia.tk

Looking forward to meeting with those interested in joining!
(We had to make a new recruiting post, the old one stopped responding to edits and removal)

We have and are completing guild Bounties, Challege, Puzzle, Rush and Trek, all tiers, all week! We’ll make sure you get your commendations:)
Still looking for endgame driven players who want to raise alts, run lots of pro dungeons, make new friends and work on their legendaries! We are at 200 permanently but always have room for new people

Hey there, got your in-game message, this is the head of MATERIA. Shot you one back from my toon, happy and ready to have you both

Hotjoin is terrible. Can you please make it so capping OBJECTIVES is worth the same amount of glory as zerg-training around killing a split up team? Getting really sick of the zerg v zerg aspect, we already are forced into it with the new WVW ‘upgrades’. Make the objectives in PVP pay out as well as kill farming.

Thanks.

People sit on your corpse to encourage you to leave, if you stay, they consider you a spy.

The only people who consider a half-crouch animation or otherwise something LEWD are just pathetic and childish. If you even SEE that when they sit on you, maybe upgrade the maturity lol…

I’m an adult and I don’t see this ever, because ANET didn’t design such a TEABAGGING skill, and quite honestly it takes a childish mind to interpret half a movement in pixels as something lude. I’d say it was cute but it’s actually kinda sad.

Do you guys ever stop mid dungeon to wash your hands cuz they touched another boy’s?! ONOEZ lolol…

there are some quite boss engineers in pvp, warrior is far weaker in that realm.

Seems kinda silly that you can’t set seperate permissions for this. You gotta pay to add the 100 slots TO the trove, as they describe it, but it stands alone and really might as well have it’s own administrative controls in the rank section.

Since it doesn’t ADD 100 slots to the other one, has it’s own comments and money storage, I say add more rank setting options for guilds who have this unlocked.

IE:
Officers can access tier 3
Squad Leaders can access tier 2
Everyone can access tier 1

Currently: can only allow access to 1, or 2+3 together. Thanks for the consideration.

Because getting overflows on dragons and bosses I’ve been doing since before they even guaranteed yellows is garbage. There’s well documented proof of people getting way too many chests by riding their guesting options as liberally as allowed. Many of us joined lower population servers to avoid this kind of thing, and enjoy smaller boss fight communities. Now it’s vulture central. Hope a guildie is there, pray the ‘join teammate’ feature isn’t bugged, and then pray the capacity isn’t full.

If you’re gonna allow insta-guesting to take away people’s spots on the server, set two different capacities based on your home/guest position.

A #14 quiet server with a fun but small pve base should never be swamped by a bunch of #1-5 people watching like vultures via web apps.