Guild Wars 2

Thanks to those who took the time to share all this information. And, I’m sorry for the late response – my city (Houston, TX) got leveled by a hurricane and I’ve been dealing with my own problems and helping people with theirs as much as I can.

So, I do things to raise my participate. If I’ve participated enough, I get pips in my bar every 5 minutes. I get a chest with Claim Tickets in it when I fill my bar. Yes?

And, none of this has anything to do with WvW Reward Tracks, right? – like, when I pick the Bloodstone Fen reward track, for example. Right?

Hi friends. I am trying to understand the system of Pips and Reward chests so I can earn Claim Tickets. I Just don’t get it… I need to have it explained to me like I’m a 5 year old idiot. I’d be grateful if someone could talk down to me like I’m an imbecile, and go into extraordinary elaborate detail so my small brain can handle it.

First though, yes, I press B, view the second tab, see my pips, see which reward I’m on – like reward 2 of 4 – and I know that I earn Pips through my participation, and that that participation is different from Reward Track participation. I get all that. But…

1) The rewards – the ones that consist of Skermish chests and claim tickets – how do I get those? Do I have to fill up the Pip bar?

2) If not, how? Are Pips tallied up every X minutes? Is there a clock for that somewhere?

3) Is there anything else I should know, which I clearly don’t?

I play in WvW regularly and have earned 6 claim tickets since this new system rolled out. I can only figure that I must be leaving before I earn the rewards, and that I just keep missing them.

Thanks for your help.

Same problem. She froze up on the very last one. I tried letting her “die,” letting myself die and retry, running far far away – nothing worked. The sadness: it has me

Yes, I think I experience something very similar. I can’t recall when it started, but it wasn’t too long ago:

On loading screens the image is static for most of the loading. Just before the new area loads, the screen will blink to black a couple times, and then finally load (my desktop is completely black too, so maybe it is showing my desktop).

I have seen this on countless recent videos posted to YouTube as well.

I just finished Chuka and Champawat. /roar

1) Question (or maybe a bug?):

2) Bug: Entry 13, Lesson: Way of the Jungle, in Chuka and Champawat IV: Tiger Training Guide – “Complete the Noble Crash Site meta-event in Verdant Brink…” Sometimes the quest to rescue the nobles gets stuck on 6/7 nobles. The final noble (a woman, can’t recall which) gets up to the waypoint and gets stuck, so the Tiger Training Guide can’t be completed. It took me all weekend to find a Verdant Brink map with this event chain functioning correctly.

Finally, I must say: Thank you thank you thank you for this heart-melting story. This may be the most satisfying and rewarding story I’ve experienced in the entirety of the Guild Wars franchise. I started it just to tinker around and explore, but had to finish it because I felt like the world would be out of balance until I set things right. Gaming doesn’t get any better than that for me. Thank you for that gift.

(I would love to know who is responsible for this story, and what other story arcs that person/team is responsible for so I can play those as well. Is there a way to communicate that to me?)

Same error right now at 6:45 pm local time, though I could play just fine this morning around 7:00 am.

Dragonbrand updated. Thanks for keeping it accurate.

I’ll definitely be there! It’s a great cause, plus I have won something (small) each time I’ve contributed.

Tosh – updated Whiteside.

Ounnix – This is a list of server community sites, not guilds. You may want to talk to the people who run the NSP community site to see about listing your guild with them.

Vabbi and TC updated. Thanks for the new info.

Alrighty, updated!

NiloyBardhan.9170:

Hello,
YB’s current website is: yaks-bend.enjin.com

That was listed originally, but then Tiffany.8576 asked for it to be updated to http://yaks-bend.com – see post above Can you guys work it out please?

Updated. Apologies for the late response.

Updated Ferguson’s Crossing

sirsquishy.8531:

If you run the application in windowed mode CrossFire/SLI is disabled for that application.

Thanks for that. If I’m running full and then switch to windowed – which you say will disable SLI – how do I re-enable SLI? Can I just go back to full, or do I need to restart the game / PC, or what? Thanks for your time.

Glad I found this, as I just tinkered with SLI on GW2 for the first time last night.

Does anyone know how SLI affects Windowed Fullscreen, or vice versa? Read: looking for information based on first hand experience, not just repeating what someone else said in another post.

Anyone?

Multinovae.5918:

DR is currently DRserver.enjin.com

The devonasrest.org domain forwards to drserver.enjin.com, but I can’t tell which is preferred.

Updated Vabbi, added link to the EU english guilds directory. Thanks!

fizzypetal.7936:

Howdy…are the community sites only for WvW?

No, definitely not – although most community sites tend to revolve around WvW, especially since the Megaserver update rolled out. Now days you PVE with everyone, but WvW only with your homeworld.

Updated Baruch Bay. Thanks!

Updated Piken, thanks Arthedain

Thanks Tiffany. It has been updated.

Acium – at the rate ET is ascending the WvW ranks, we (DH) will be likely be matching against them very soon. Make sure you’re on the right side

Updated. Added Fort Ranik website, added known “official” Twitter account for each server, cleaned up and reorganized list.

HoTR has that player named Infanta in the guild, right? Sick, sick PvPer. I ran with him in WvW a couple weeks ago and saw him kill ALL the things. I remember having a lot of fun with you guys

Can you right click and destroy a spoon without penalty? My Siege Commander’s Spoon (the only spoon I have) didn’t disappear from my inventory when I found it; I don’t want to make space for 21 spoons as I work on the collection.

Anyone know for sure?

Gaile, this is uncool.

How does the purchase of 4 or more commander tags elicit a refund, but 2 does not? How is reimbursement from one scenario more fair than the other?

Guild Wars 2 has an upstanding history of reimbursing players who are left short-changed by way of a game update, and I don’t think this should be an exception to that long-running standard.

This is especially irksome for people who paid cash through the Gem Store in order to get the gold to buy an commander tag for another character on their account.

I hope you guys will reconsider your position on this. 100 gold means a lot to me, and “fair” means a lot to all of us.

So that’s why we’re always butting heads with Sorrow’s Furnace is WvW – apparently the result of an ages long turf war

Darkhaven has a great community with lots of social media stuff, website, forums (both public and private), Facebook groups, Teamspeak, and community contests and giveaways every month. Lots of good stuff and lots of good, active, and community-minded people.

Go to http://darkhaven.us and poke around some. We have some vetted and popular guilds listed along with leader contacts, so you can reach out to those people on your own if you like.

Also consider hopping in to our WvW this season to see how we do do things, how/if you can fit in, and how you think you can help. We’re open to suggestions in WvW, because we recently lost some big guilds to the free server transfers. So there’s definitely room for you.

Legendaries are account bound, as are all Ascended gear. This changed in the big April update:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/account-bound-wxp-legendaries-and-ascended-gear/

alexandermrgn.3648:

We’ve lost a lot to the bandwagon transfers. If you’re a WvW focused guild or player, seriously consider Darkhaven for your transfer!

Agreed. If you have a WvW-focused guild and are looking to make a difference, there’s plenty of room in Darkhaven. Your guild may get drowned out by competing guilds on other servers, but on Darkhaven your guild can shine, be in the forefront, and truly make a difference.

Updated list for pinning. Please post, PM, or mail me in-game for changes.

Click NA for North America or EU for Europe below to expand the list and show all servers. Twitter accounts also listed.

Abrilete.1439:

Yesterday in WvW during a fight a LB ranger tagged me while I was trying to run away. He pooped QZ and, at the same time, I used Whirling Defense. It hurt him. A lot.

That has nothing to do with Read the Wind or arrow speed.

Kilger.5490:

Problem I have with taking the skill is it is grandmaster, taking away a very powerful trait combo in signet of stone + mastery

You’re talking about using Signet of the Beastmaster, Signet Mastery, and Signet of Stone all together right? For me, that’s too much of an investment just for a few seconds of invulnerability every minute or so. I’d rather have Read the Wind plus a different Adept trait, depending on the gameplay.

Agree. I don’t think we should be able to stomp from stealth – the countering options are just too limited, if available at all.

As a Ranger, the ONLY thing I can do is have my Wolf out, Press F2, and hope I inflict fear on an invisible stomper, who I can’t even target.

Bowstring got lost in the cleavage. It happens.

Dodosaur.6324:

Read the Wind is the new grandmaster trait… and it seems worthless.

No way! Totally wrong! Here’s why:

Let’s say you’re auto-attacking with Longbow from from a distance, so say you’re consistently critting and hitting for 2500 damage.

Let’s also say that you’re attacking once per second.

If an enemy moves or strafes, and you miss two shots out of five, then you miss out on inflicting 5000 points of damage in 5 seconds. And let’s be realistic – no matter how skilled you are, you’re going to miss some longbow shots due to enemy movement.

No other trait can potentially add that much damage (or rather prevent you from losing that much damage) in such a small amount of time. And it’s FREE damage! It isn’t dependent on other skills. It doesn’t have a cooldown. It doesn’t depend on swapping weapons, or dealing with your stupid pet, or any other circumstance. And you can’t wash it away with condition removal.

If you’re hitting high numbers with your longbow, anything you can do to significantly decrease the chance of missing is going to make an enormous difference in your DPS.

I think the OP might be mixing up Orange Swords (which can appear anywhere) with regular white swords (that only appear over an objective when it is contested).

There is a belief that an objective won’t appear as contested (white swords, not orange), at least for a brief period, if you just attack the gate with rams. This is why you will see a commander leading a small group of 10 or 12 people scream “RAMS ONLY! DONT ATTACK GATE!”

I’d like clarification on this too.

Please update NA Darkhaven – http://darkhaven.us

This sounds cool, count me in:

Clara Fee
Darkhaven
WvW, Dungeons

Great Necropost, yes, but things have changed since this topic was posted. I’ve had a lot of success with timing Sic ’Em just right.

Paz Shadow.9715:

This is my armor, full ascended beserker everything…

I’m not trying to one-up you or be too critical, but if you are having trouble killing with 3700 damage and 54% crit before foods and Rampage As One, then I think you are doing something wrong.

I don’t have ascended everything so my stats are closely behind yours, but I decimate the average WvW player that isn’t ready, isn’t paying attention, or is retreating / straggling behind. I think that’s a great strength of powerful Rangers – the ability to mop up multiple enemies without breaking stride.

Mike.5193:

Do me a favor, roll a thief, grab a build off the net and start running around in sPvP (just to have all skills and whatnot) and report back.

But… we’re talking about WvW, not sPVP. Thieves facerolling stragglers and roamers in WvW is not the same as doing so in sPVP. Right?

Turrents placed on top of tower walls from way below are really aggravating. I’d like to see that addressed.

Can someone please explain where all of this Warrior speed comes from to those of us who haven’t built a Warrior?

Yeah I thought it was 1000 stack sizes period – not just in collections. I posted about it and everyone flamed me and implied that I was an idiot. Truth is, lots of people were under the same impression as me.

In any case, I now have 1000 item collections. It’s better than 250, but in hindsight I would have rather spent all the gems in another way.

I bought 3 collection expanders thinking I could move around stacks of 1000 items.

Nope.

The items only stack past 250 when they’re inside your collection.

Yes, I get that it’s called “collection” expander, and not “stack” expander, but still, a note to that effect would be nice. If I have 3000 of an item, the 1000-stack collection doesn’t help because I still have 8 stacks of 250 that I have to make room for.

Lame. >:\

Not following the bickering above (although personal PVP is the best PVP).

But I just wanted to say I’ve thoroughly enjoyed going up against some of STAR guild’s attacks. Win some, lose some – but either way, the 25 minute fights for a few feet of land has been hella fun.

Mepheles.2087:

You have no idea WHAT you’re talking about do you? Resorting to attacking my personal character is all thats left?

Awesome!!! PVP is best when it’s personal. Best. Best. Best.