Guild Wars 2

Good news! HH applications are open again!

If you are looking into getting into raids, or you’re already into raids but looking for a non-toxic, non-elitist and relaxed environment, then HH might be for you!

The guild allows for any member to create a raiding event, at any time that suits them. This means that HH doesn’t have any “set” raiding times. People create and join as they are available. But because we are an EU server these times usually fit EU times and usually happens in the evenings except on weekends.

HH also provides a very supportive social environment, our guildies are very warm-hearted, humorous, and always trying to help where they can.

HH also offers a custom PvP arena which is financially supported by the guild (donations) but other than that access is free.

HH is also happy to announce that we have 2 JPs in the Guild Hall!

If you think HH is the place for you then please head to our forums to apply.

For more info visit http://hh-guild.com To apply: http://www.hh-guild.com/forum/m/41097494/viewforum/8140139

Looking forward to raiding with you!

Want to raid? Don’t have the gear? Been poisoned by elitism? Don’t worry, us too….

Hounds of Hades [HH] is a small EU guild looking to create a fun, safe space to experience “hard core” content (and all other content in GW2).

We are looking for members who want to try this content, who want to learn (with us, as we are learning too and we are willing to teach what we have learned so far), and have fun together.

We have very experienced raid commanders who are willing to teach raids and help people to progress.

If interested, go to http://www.hh-guild.com to apply!

Hi ^^
We’ve added a (work in progress) website for more information on the guild:

http://www.hh-guild.com

My favourite game of all time.

And also the game that had a large part in leading to my eventual wedding.

We’ve had some experiences like this, and with pugs. We have a guild for this issue – Training/learning for raids:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor/EU-Poisoned-by-elitism-Don-t-worry-us-too/first#post6410856

Want to raid? Don’t have the gear? Been poisoned by elitism? Don’t worry, us too….

Hounds of Hades [HH] is a small EU guild looking to create a fun, safe space to experience “hard core” content (and all other content in GW2).

We are looking for members who want to try this content, who want to learn (with us, as we are learning too and we are willing to teach what we have learned so far), and have fun together.

If interested, PM CathShadow.9507 or LilysHeaven.2543

We will be running fractals / Dungeons every other day, PvP once a week, Raids on Sundays (Max 2 hours) (initially).

Now for the Elist stuff: “MUST HAVE”: …………………………..fun.

I got caught…

And then this…..

I love it. It’s much easier on my eyes, looks a lot smoother to me

I love this episode. I LOVE the map, mechanics, hearts, look and feel.
The map is stunning, the enemies are fun, the bosses and events too.
For the first time in a long time I was sad to stop playing.
Yeah… I really love this.
(Also, becoming the “friend of my enemy, and the enemy of my friend” (for a time) was an interesting (fun) twist)
Also: Taimi. Best. Character. Ever.

I mained an Ele for ~4 years… WAS my favourite (pve, pvp, wvw, whatever).. then they nerfed it..

Now, Necro is my fav in PvE,
And Engi in PvP.

I barely touch my ele anymore

I feel there’s more to the CS story than is let on, but that is another issue, and I think, one for Anet themselves to address and sort out.

As for the hacker — social engineer (No real hacking seems to have been done) — Personally, I find his behaviour reprehensible.

What he did is certainly not white hat. He gives people in the infosec industry a bad name. This is the sort of thing that breaks trust, not builds it. It hurts people. Any “point” he wanted to make is destroyed and overshadowed by his own narcissism. He was on a power trip, not trying to “point out the issues” to ANet regarding the security.

If he wanted to do that, he would have PMed Gaile and said “Your account was compromised in this manner. Please get them to adjust their security protocols”, changed her password randomly and then deleted his own access to her account.

There’s nothing noble or good, that was done here.

Ester Sauter.7694:

There is an option, in the gear on the top left of the chat box

I tried that option, and still see the blue text (but anything in /s and /p doesn’t have a bubble anymore) <- the opposite of the effect I’m looking for:

I like the /s and /p bubbles but can’t stand the *tron bubbles -_- :P

Really? hmm odd.. I’ve never seen that bubble in game before..

Heard the sounds, but never seen the speech bubble (of the other owners) → I don’t own one of those things myself

• I love this Episode, but I feel it is somewhat short – though the quality of story and writing is YEARS ahead of anything previous…

• Ele nerf: I don’t mind the power downgrade too much but the increased cooldown is problematic

• Those blue speech bubbles from the “tron” skins… REALLY annoying

So, that new speech bubble with the blue text… Is there any way to get rid of it ? REALLY annoying to be playing the fen, and then suddenly in blue text “BOING” or “NOONE CAN CATCH US” etc :’/

The “outrun a centaur” piece never happened to me (since I main a salad)….

Then I decided to play my human mesmer… with a trait that gives you speed every 10 seconds……

I guess it takes 10 seconds for me to forget that the mesmer could outrun a centaur… because…. “I COULD OUTRUN A CENTAUR”

I generally choose random ones, but on one character I use “Apprentice Toymaker” because my grandfather was a toymaker

On Sunday, my wife and I went to try claim our guild hall – after saving up etc…

We tried once or twice (really like that instance)… and failed..

So, we decided to try PUG. We got 4 other players in, and they gladly helped us, worked well as a team, and had fun.. Really enjoyed the experience (And I’m somewhat shy of pugs so it took my wife some convincing).

(We killed 1 maw with 1 second spare… was epic)..

So, thank you so much to those who played with us, and set me a little at ease for PUGS…

Really appreciate it.

LOL! Mine says “0 KB/s”…. switched to 32 bit, downloaded the patch, back to 64 it’s redownloading (but I’m assuming it’s downloading the client update if there is one? Not the data files?)

Angel McCoy.1832:

Together, may you always vanquish your dragons. Congrats!

Thanks so much, Angel!

Kranodor.8915:

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For the couple: May the principles of the Eternal Alchemy always work in your favour, and the Pale Tree give her blessings. And, just for good measure: May Lyssa always watch over you two, and help you to see the beauty in what you have together.

Thanks very much, Kranodor.

Also, I agree with Gaile: There are many many people in game, and most are amazing people. You never know what may happen! Don’t give up hope!

Kranodor.8915:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Kranodor – There are an awful lot of people playing Guild Wars 2 and I hope you will take the chance to reach out to some of them. You may find your soulmate after all!

I wish you well in the future.

Thank you, Gaile. As player of probably one of the oldest standing Guild Wars accounts, it means quite a bit to me to get a reply from you (for some reason I always think of you when I see the Frog Pond in Lions Arch…). In any case: Thank you.

One of these days, I’ll muster up the courage to get into a new guild, or get players for my old guild, or maybe just find some people to finally do some fractals or dungeons with. (Might be harder than it sounds, as I think I’m sitting squarely between different player archetypes, and I really don’t want to waste anyones time.)
Then again, it’s not always been that hard for me, so it might get easier again. And over the last few days, I’ve realized once more how good this community actually is, thanks to random encounters while running around the maps.

As for guilds: If you’re on EU, you’re MORE than welcome to join our (all be it tiny) guild!

WhiteFox.9432:

Congratz!
Tell me you are going to do the wedding over in LA to? With the wedding costume?

Also, this proves, that while being a game, MMO’s are also a social platform. But instead of just chatting or posting stuff on a social network site, we have virtual avatars that give it just that tiny edge more while keeping contact.

Thanks

We both have our “Wedding outfits” ready and waiting for the day… -> An asura and a Sylvari… who’d have known -> will probably need to log in before though to get ready because it’s going to be a VERY busy day :P

I’m not sure why it’s an issue either
either "SELECT * FROM threads WHERE title = ‘whatever’
or explode ( ‘\n’,search string)
Select bla bla where title like ‘word’ or like ‘combination of words’

If your db is indexed properly it shouldn’t be an issue…

unless there is something WAY bigger wrong in either code or db…

Zedek.8932:

This defeats the “People who play online games never will get married” nonsense!
Too bad interesting players I meet are guys…

LOL… yeah, I suppose it does..

If it helps.. I never once, in my life, thought video games would get me the woman of my dreams.

Ashen.2907:

Congrats!

I met the woman who I married through GW1. It can be a blast to tell friends that my wife is the best prot monk I’ve ever known.

Thanks!

hahah yeah it makes for an awesome tale!

Our guild at one point had 10 members, most of them left GW2 for good, it is now only my fiance and I left, and we can’t do any of the guild missions because “3 man” :|

Jumping puzzles are my favourite content in the game, I’ve finished them all, and this was one of the ones that gave me some of the most trouble (when it first came out).
Now that there isn’t any giant Norn butt in my face, the JP is much easier.

It is SLIGHTLY more difficult than the other two, but mostly because time == pressure == mistakes for some.

If you “Keep calm and carry on” (sorry), then it’s fairly simple.

Also remember: greed kills

Meh.

I miss SAB. It was the biggest reason I logged in when it was around.

Took a break for a long time because of its disappearance.

Wish they’d bring it back.

To be honest, I feel that this “announcement” is part of the previous one, and belonged with it. I don’t see anything “different” from it:

“Here, collect these” … “Here, have achievements for ‘collect these’”, I’m a little disappointed in these (and many features announced), but I will wait and see, and experience the patch before I make my own judgement on the matter

I love everything about this release.. this region.. it’s really such an awesome place and I really love the mechanics

I usually land up making my own groups because I have encountered many toxic players… also the whole “2 people to kick” system is a little silly to me (WAY too easy to abuse).

That said, I did a “LFG, first time on path x, all welcome, all cinematics”… got a good group, except 1 guy.. who started complaining : “Do any of you even HAVE full exo?! why aren’t you doing x or y” etc.. I see kick notice, and then see that guy suddenly disappear… I didn’t even get a chance to react….

4 manning that same spot without him, suddenly we are doing well………

got a 5th player who was like “hey you’re pretty far already!” :P

I main an Ele, and while I don’t have a ton of survivability, I do a butt-ton of damage…

I’ve got 1 of each class, and only have my guardian, thief, and warrior left to max level…

Problem is, after playing Ele, Engi, Necro, Ranger, and Mes a lot… I find Warrior SO incredibly boring… that it’s become a problem for me to level it… x_x..

soo…. boooorrrinnggg….

1 every few months IF I’m lucky…

That said, I got a rabid stat ascended in drytop 2 weeks ago

We were new to this dungeon (VERY recently), Killed EVERYTHING, did EVERYTHING, got to where the chains are… and bugged. there was nothing left in the dungeon when we got there to get her killed to reset or anything.

Kinda don’t want to bother with this path after that happened → wasted all the effort killing mobs, doing all the content, just to get to a place where you have to quit to fix it.

Personally, Jumping puzzles are some of my favourite content in this game.
I only have 1 left to do in the game, and would love more. I absolutely love that this zone has the aspects (and the jumps).. I really enjoyed the sanctum, between that, this zone with the awesome jumps, and SAB, those are my favourites so far.

This is sort of the method I used

(though I stayed with him on some platforms for hard hitting attacks )

Remember your ranged AOE if you get knocked down → He will take damage from it, eg. on a staff Ele: meteor shower on him from the bottom floor, run up ramp, then use your other skills like lava font etc

So, the patch released… on time (so thanks for that),
Pros :
Story wise, I think it’s great. I haven’t finished all of the story yet, but what I’ve played, I loved.

As for the little tentacle vine things.. they’re great – all of the new mechanics/monsters are cool. I had a lot of fun messing around, dodging etc. (I’m soloing it first to experience, I’ll group up later )

(A side note : did sun skill move to 2 ? … I hit the wrong button a few times >.<)

The jumping aspects (both the aspects themselves and the aspects of the map) are great. I absolutely love jumping puzzles, and am grateful for a permanent zone with some in.

I think the sandstorms are an awesome addition, and the “river” is fun.. I jumped over the fence thinking it was just normal… and learned my lesson fast.

Also, that mine… I love the darkness.

Cons :

Just a pity that it’s a bit smallish… (that said there is a ton to do, and I have a feeling either it’ll get larger or there will be more zones.)

Aspects are timed… I’d prefer the same mechanic as in the Sanctum

Thanks for this patch, I really like it.

*tldr; * I love basically everything in the patch that I’ve played so far.

I LOVE this new zone, and I LOVE the jumping, and the aspects.

LOVE!

Thanks Anet!

Jerus.4350:

Carighan.6758:

While a nice idea, this’d create the unrealistic expectation that the PvP should be balanced around 1v1 (which it clearly isn’t intended to be).

^^ this. I know my last game, DCUO, the introduction of 1v1 arenas caused them to have to rebalance a heck of a lot of stuff towards the 1v1 game, which took them out of balance in the larger group game, and ohh it just became a nightmare.

Well, the idea is more along the lines of the PvE dueling that people want… PvE dueling would by nature be imba. Gear differences automatically do that, so balancing isn’t an issue. (for balanced play go proper PvP)

As far as I understand games with it eg. WoW (Though that is speculation on my part, since I’m not a player of WoW) don’t balance for the gear diffs etc.

I’d like to see the pavilion remain open to Dueling 1v1 after the festavilites end.

So:
Player 1: Queue for fight
Player 2: Queue for fight
Player 3: Queue for fight
Player 1 wins, player 2 gets booted, Player 3 enters the arena with Player 1.

As a “gold sink” you could potentially add betting too .

This would also make a nice way for people to “burn their excess tickets” as I’ve seen requests for .

Edit :
As for GvG : So as not to waste the area below, each of the 6 arena’s downstairs could be used for GvG content? (so 2 guilds select 1/6 section of the map from hobo-tron, and then once the arena is set, those 2 guilds spawn in their for their battles

I have had the entering and getting booted straight away,
as well as the no option.

The worst for me is if you fail and the healer just stands there. he doesn’t bother to heal you.

And there’s one where he says "you need tickets to enter " (but I have 100 left) < in the case of this one, just move the tickets to a different spot in your inventory.

My biggest issue with this was the arena above the centaurs → whenever I switched targets to an orb, then used a skill, it autotargetted to a centaur WAY down below x_x

Crise.9401:

Double post, but whatevever…

People, form EU, missing the chest should check their WvW (not the tournament) achievement tab. If it shows an achievement related to your placement being awarded and you are still missing your chest, contact customer support, because it is not going to appear on its own since the game thinks you already got it.

Also, interestingly for me at least said achievement was for the wrong placement (4th, when actually we placed second in our respective league), so if you see the same mention that too. Be sure not to mix up achievements, since there can be one for the first WvW “season 1” with very similar title.

Yeah, Mine says unlocked, but I don’t have the chest. Have contacted support.

Same issue. Server first, no chest..

Edit : Eu (SFR)

Gravox the Terrible.2157:

Learning the mechanics sounds all good and fine, but one shots are just junk. I play from australia. Getting killed over and over again from AOE that you are outside of, or Mortality visions that aren’t actually close is “disheartening” to say the least.
The least Anet could do is build me my own server below the equator so I could play the game “working as intended”.
Lag FTW! Always.

I’m in South Africa, so I know the frustration that is lag.. that said, I used food that gives me a boost to dodges, so I can counter lag with some "excessive " dodging… that worked out for me.

I must say, I REALLY enjoyed the Liadri fight.

It’s gotten to a point that I know the AOE patterns, which is helpful.

I used an Ele to beat her :P..

A few times though, I got her to basically needing 1 hit left and got booted either by time or by that shadow of death.. once I accidentally dodged into a vision of mortality.

The feeling of satisfaction when you beat her… nothing beats that!

So, Trying to help out on Boom-Boom, I tag up.. and every time the turret appears I /s “turret”.. a few messages in : “You have been suppressed for excessive messaging” … Next turret appears, no message, people ignore it….

Thankfully someone was there that took over announcing turret..

It’s quite annoying though, that as a commander you get suppressed for commanding -_-

I like it

I like not being pushed aside for a change.

610552
And
612886

Both around 7 days old now..

zenleto.6179:

Azure Prower.8701:

Oh, it’s scary music you want do you?

http://youtu.be/Uq734_nZ7Eo?t=14s

Bah. Almost as bad as being rick-rolled lol

!!!! It’s WORSE than being rick-rolled!