Guild Wars 2

Well met, adventurers of Tyria! I am looking for a guild which holds as it’s foundation a fellowship with Christ. I would love to help delve into the wonders of this wonderful landscape, crafted by the folks at Arenanet, to explore the beautiful virtual world unveiled to us.

I am helpful to my guild-mates, willing to sacrifice time to help brothers and sisters come to Christ to the best of my ability. Also everybody needs time from the constraints of this world.I am here when not at work!

I am looking for a larger Christian guild to be apart of, transferring will be a challenge at the moment… but if it results in helping others I’ll try my best!

Suggestions? I’ve been away a long time and am clueless to server rankings or top tier guilds. Just looking for a guild centered on Christ. Gaming abilities are second nature, although I can hold my own in a dungeon.

Thanks folks! <3

It’s just you, I got 25 BL salvage kits from my daily yesterday. The day before that I got some below level 80 t-stones.

Usually I’ll only get the coin+karma though.

Danno.5269:

I am just so happy to see that they have the items for direct purchase and not a gamble. I am happy that there are also in game skin options as well. They may not be as good as the gem store ones, but they are fun either way

Came in to say the exact same thing. I was very disappointed in how the total rng thing was done during Halloween (didn’t even bother with the lost shores gem stuff due to it) and this holiday has completely renewed my faith in buying new things from the company during events.

puts on his robe and wizard hat

Thanks arenanet, it’s a pretty awesome hat!

This is my all time favorite jumping puzzle and I’ll be VERY sad to see it go. The atmosphere brings back the same magic I once had as a child when experiencing the wonder of the holiday season.

I’ve never seen such a well done place in any mmo, it’s fantastic.

Now for constructive feedback, it was a little too easy. Got it on my third try. I can understand why it was made easier (personally I loved clock tower) but still, I like a challenge.

Diminishing returns on completing the same path more than once a day. I know the reason it was implemented was to keep people from running the same easy path over and over for tokens. Here’s a solution, have DR reset once all explorable paths have been completed. That way people will have to finish the paths to do that easy one again. As it is right now, some people still just log on and do the easy path and wait for the next day to do it again.

This way, people who just want to get their complete sets don’t have to wait due to DR. That mechanic reminds me severely of the time waste that weekly raid resets were in other mmo’s. This game doesn’t have a subscription to keep me paying monthly, why use a mechanic that would suit the subscription model perfectly? It’s a waste of time.

Other than that? Some bosses need their health pools adjusted (looking at you, HotW). Big health pools are okay when there’s a mechanic that is really dangerous, it encourages you to kill that boss as quickly as you can before he kills everybody else. For some boss that does hardly anything to you with a huge health pool? (yawns)

He regenerated fine in WvW for me this morning, although it took a little while.

For now she’ll do until I get a dungeon set that suits me, preferably Arah.

Thanks for the response Jason. I was hoping it was a bug and not a permanent quick fix to the WvW jumping exploit instead of working on terrain physics. Invisible walls worked fine in beta, but we may need more here aside from just “nerf jumping”.

Jumping puzzles have been painful, and this is just in LA with no threat of repair bills.

Siliconhobbit.4361:

Since then, bot-farmers have smartened up and gone stealth. Now they teleport from location to location, appearing only briefly to farm a resource node or kill something if necessary, to instantly teleport away when they are finished.

We all can see these bots but only briefly. Their appearance is fleeting, thus keeping them hidden and making it far harder for us to report unless we expect the event and can quickly report them in the brief moments they are actually visible.

I saw one this morning in the Norn starting zone at a resource node. It seems he casted stealth immediately before or after teleporting to collect this node with minimal visibility, only saw him for a split second and he was gone. Literally impossible to report when you don’t have a log of other player actions around you in your own combat log.

I was thinking about that yesterday, with the new total makeover kits it would be REALLY weird to change gender depending on your name. For example if I changed the gender of a female Norn named “Princess Sparklefluff” to a male, with no option to change the name at the same time… it would be odd.

Well, it could fit if you dressed him in pink, but that’s not the point.

I had this issue pop up during beta, and once after launch. I thought it was a rare thing until it started happened to me multiple times this week alone.

I can confirm turning the camera with your mouse will occasionally allow names to be highlighted on npc’s and players (not selectable, just become visible) when the screen is centered, occasionally.

NPC’s can be interacted with by running beside them and pressing the default key, or clicking the “talk” text that appears on screen.

1. This isn’t WoW, the dungeon system wouldn’t have the same effects here as it did there.
2. This is actually the perfect game for a dungeon finder. There isn’t elitism due to gear/stats here, and you never know what achievements the other player has.

I was afraid just like you of what a dungeon finder might cause, then I thought logically about it and the fundamental differences between the two games. Besides, we can already do cross-server dungeons conveniently and I’ve not been met with hostilities. Arenanet actually cares and will ban rude people.

I think we do need one, this fractal dungeon shows it. I’m on a high pop/full server and it’s difficult to find a group at times. You know what I do? Go to the LA overflow where people are actually looking for many things including normal dungeons.

I’m looking forward to the scavenger hunt, and now that we know who’s doing it… thank you! I’ve just started preparing to get a legendary and it feels rather… hollow. The hunt is just what I’m looking for, a nice journey that isn’t 100% about feeding other people money.

I enjoyed this puzzle, very unique. At first I thought standing on the stones would move us up higher and we would be going up and down on all the stones (would be neat!) but I don’t know if this could even be done in the game. Think sonic the hedgehog platforms and you’ll know what I mean.

Anyhow, really liked the jumping puzzle.

I would try looking at it from the other angle:

There are people in this game who do nothing but PvP. Before this patch hit they had no reason to log in every single day aside from doing what they normally do. Now (just like in PvE) there is an incentive to log in and complete your PvP achievements for rewards. The people who do nothing but PvP probably won’t even bother with the PvE side of dailys.

If you’re a achievement completionist (which it seems to me you are), this should actually be a good change… you have more variety and more chances at points.

Rhymelark.4396:

I was really hoping for a Lost shores mini pack like we got for Halloween. As a mini collector I’m really dissapointed that they are now in the lucky packet chests.

My sentiments exactly. I would have been more than willing to purchase the new minis through the shop, but not if it involves chest RNG at all. I learned my lessons from other people’s Halloween stories and won’t be made a fool with this mechanic ever.

If they actually drop during the event, that’s okay and it’s better than pure chest drops. I don’t know if they’ll be available after the event in some way with the new dungeons/token system but that would be great as well. Either way I’ll get my chance through drops.

Would have preferred a way to purchase them separately in the shop, and have them drop but at a low rate during the 3 day event. I won’t ever support the chest RNG as it’s a very cheap money making tactic (works well, but not for the customer).

sonicsix.5713:

So I broke out my cell phone and began to play a game on it while waiting for a waypoint to become uncontested. I am still waiting. I wish there was a 30 minute time limit for waypoints to be contested.

I’m not sure if this thread is a troll or not. Why didn’t you just, you know… go play the actual game to make those waypoints uncontested? Maybe say something in map chat for help with an event?

Anyway, welcome to Orr. It only gets worse from here.

Posted by me somewhere else, but here’s my thoughts on seeing the news post. Arenanet can correct me if I’m wrong in any of this, just going off what I gathered from the article.

New Gear/Gem types:

*new gems will be absolutely required to complete certain encounters in the future or you’ll die, this applies to future dungeons as if the mechanic weren’t in these… these new gems would be pointless
*only this new gear can slot the gems
*gems could involve very grindy RNG to make in the forge
*gear will be craftable through mystic forge recipe plus discipline

Getting exotics was too easy in my opinion coming from other games, this helps bridge the gap between average mmo players and what GW2 is. So we have progression that’s not purely cosmetic for PvE now, this could have been done without the artificial difficulty of Agony and just done with stats.

My next issue, what about the pure WvW crowd? This gear does offer a big enough stat advantage to make a difference, as PvP by design is competitive. They will now be forced to do the new gear progression or be at a disadvantage, the Agony buff will not apply for PvP so there’s no need to get the gem this gear is built upon. If at some point new dungeons offer the gear in exchange for tokens, they’ll be forced to PvE. sPvP is completely separated from everything so nothing applies here.

-I’m okay with a progression of gear, exotics are too easy to get.
-If PvPers are forced to do content that has nothing to do with PvP to get this gear, then it’s not okay. At all.
-New debuff and having to build for this is artificial difficulty, not a fan.
-This is being done through gating, over a few dungeons.This could possibly hold new players back from completing later dungeons if implemented incorrectly. In other words, a gear treadmill (even if it stops forever after the last item, it’s still could be a treadmill up until that point).
-What’s stopping me from just buying the gear off the TP like I did with exotics? Effectively destroying that feeling of progression? Will the gear be soulbound on acquire?

This feels like testing for a gear treadmill, and I hope that I’m wrong. This game is amazing and a lot of work goes into designing the look and lore of it. If you possibly backtrack this much on the manifesto though I wouldn’t hesitate to cease all future transactions or even play the game. Let’s hope my thoughts on this matter are proven wrong.

ZaiTh.6378:

I am not even sure why they went all of the way to level 80 out of the gate.

I had a discussion with someone about this just earlier today! Let’s assume a level takes…. an hour of constant work to get, that’s 80 hours give or take. With the stat differences between a max level character in WvW and dungeons, it seems an awfully long time to play just in order to be effective. Quite a few people won’t even bother taking a sub-80 class and I know that I’ll be destroyed with almost zero chance of winning against an 80 in masterwork gear when playing on a lower level alt.

Why spend all that extra time on leveling when the cap could be much lower, or leveling time decreased? If the zones went up to say… level 40, it’s not like we’d be skipping all the content. I’ve gone back and completed zones for armour skins many times, the armour stats would be horrible for me at 80 but I just want the look.

This way you can jump into the game and be effective with not that much time at all, the way it is right now… it feels painful to level alts.

An event starting that can’t be exploited for gold. Just kidding! (but kind of not)

Back on topic, I think the Mad King will transform the Lion into a demon who will terrorize all of Lion’s Arch, and we will have to work together with the npc’s to defeat it through a few dynamic events. Consequences being that the city is essentially shut down until the Lion is returned to normal.

As a show of thanks either the gods will come down and cause the lion to shoot candy corn out it’s mouth and cotton candy out of it’s butt (with rainbows coming out of the fountains), or Kormir will steal the statue.

I understand your well written response, but I must respectfully disagree. While frustrating at first, this has been one of the most enjoyable jumping puzzles I’ve experienced. The first time through the WvW eternal battleground puzzle during beta was a nightmare for me, but now I can do it easily and it’s very fun while still being a challenge! The Mad King’s Clocktower is no different.

Oh that is strange.

One of the reasons I decided not to go for the scythe (even though it’s AWESOME) was due to the fact that my normal staff turns into one whenever I cast a spell anyway. After seeing that image I’m glad that I made that choice and decided to craft the other one.

Honestly I thought the scythe would be dripping blood or something, but that probably wouldn’t fit with the rating. Still a cool weapon skin though, not so much with a necro but maybe it will be fixed.

Thank you. I’ve finally stopped being a pack rat and got rid of all my mystery tonics from months of rolling alts and getting keys. Didn’t get anything special from the chests but that’s fine, I had no intention of dumping more than $5 on them anyhow.

On a side note, they’re dropping things that aren’t related to Halloween at all. I got a few rare crafting materials that are usually dropped by fire and ice elementals.

I was just thinking about this and found your thread through the search function. Darn, they really said race change is definitely something that won’t be done?

I really regret rolling my Charr warrior now, nearly everything stretches or clips (including weapons), few heavy sets look good on them. I would have gladly paid to change him to a Norn, I really hope there’s an option in the future. I’ve got too much invested in my Charr to just reroll the same profession for looks.

I can confirm what Grezko above is saying, the trading post seems to be off since the patch. I was attempting to purchase a greatsword for the 20 silver price and when getting to the actual listing page it was 26 silver.

Unless you watch what you’re doing, you could loose some big money due to things not updating properly.

Sort of agree. Jumping puzzles are a different matter, as you get blueprints from them… those should be kept as part of the PvP experience.

Vistas, skill points and POI’s though? Not really needed UNLESS the rewards for WvW map completion were blueprints along with WvW stuff like a badge or two. It just gives gear which doesn’t really help me all that much in WvW. Maybe have them be a separate completion achievement for WvW only? This would leave the normal 100% world completion for PvE people achievable without stepping foot in PvP.

Let’s be honest, it’s going to take you a long time to get 100% exploration on WvW maps if you are a low pop server… when matching changes to 2 weeks it may actually take you months.

The numbers are definitely lower. I’ve been mostly focused on the PvE side, but when I played WvW for just a short time at launch (under 30 minutes) I picked up around 15 badges and that was being a total noob regarding looting and killing.

The other day I spent a few hours in WvW, mostly on siege weapons. Got one badge out of a CRAPLOAD of bags.

Thanks for looking into this arenanet, as it’s starting to be used as a tactic for defenders and is actually game breaking to WvW. You can’t break a siege that you can’t see, but they can see you just fine.