Guild Wars 2

Having any “new” server always start at the lowest rank only serves to make the least motivated servers even less motivated to care about WvW. Eventually, the two or three lowest ranks servers are just going to be complete ghost towns.

I don’t see why these “new” servers can’t start with a mid tier rank and let the system move them up or down until they get to the right place. At least then the other servers are likely to actually stand a change at least 50% of the time.

The new version of the Epidemic skill only transfers the conditions from the target onto 4 of 5 targets, even if all of the projectiles hit all 5 of the nearby targets.

https://gfycat.com/ClearFilthyAntelope

In the linked example, an Epidemic projectile can be seen hitting the golem directly to the left of the player; despite this, no conditions are transferred to that golem.

I’ll go for number 25

I’m going to nab the ever popular number 42.

I will take number 20

I too have been having random crashes to desktop.

Sometimes, but not always, I notice that the textures of other players and NPCs begin to glitch out and not load right before the game crashes.

I should probably mention, since it might be graphics related, that I’m using a GTX 960 with the latest drivers and has been able to run plenty of other games just fine, so it’s unlikely an issue of hardware being too weak.

I’m not really picky about my number, can I have one randomly selected for me?

Curse You

I lay claim to number 14

I’ll take 165 Mister Hobo

133
I think you know my character name

145 looks to be available

number 432
Curse You

chronometria.3708:

I was surprised at the level to which this event has been degraded in its design.

1 – Doesn’t drop tier 5 and 6 mats (which we desperately need due to horrible pricing at the moment)

2 – Apparently expects group splitting, but lacks any means to assist players in doing that.

3 – Terrible rewards that in no way match the time and effort the event requires.

4 – Bosses that are uneven in difficulty and that usually punish melee.

5 – Having to pay to begin the event.

Needless to say, it could only really be worse if it, say, permanently killed our characters on death or something similarly disastrous. As it is, there is just no reason to do this and I`m already seeing people simply going elsewhere.

1. Why would they? This complaint is rather out of nowhere.

2. What exactly would you propose as a “means to assist players in [splitting]”? You’d think the fact that you can’t succeed without splitting should be enough.

3. Once a proper group has actually got their act together, the actual event takes ~5 minutes to do. So, they could just constantly pop the events and have them done rather quickly; for as many times as they are willing to do it, since there is no cool-down on starting it and no limit to how many times you can do it.

4. The difficulty of the bosses is close enough that roughly equal sized groups can get them all to ~5% health within 1 minute of each other. Don’t expect any one build to be effective against all enemies; players should be aware of what kinds of builds are best against different enemies.

5. You don’t have to pay for the event to start, just to speed it up. If you really want to speed it up, getting everyone to chip in probably makes the cost to each person rather small.

Romek.4201:

but joining a ts with 100+ ppl trieing to organize for 2 hours all this ppl to do one supercool arenanet-world-event is more fun?

Organizing shouldn’t take anywhere near that long. The hardest part of getting a Gold attempt together is getting everyone into the same instance and finding an instance that isn’t stuck with a few bosses still up.

Once you’ve got everyone into the same instance, the actual organization shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes.

This stuff really is quite ironic, considering it’s coming from the same people who would complain their heads off if someone who was “playing how they want to play” happened to kill a champion “out of order” in the zone.

“Play how you want to play, unless it gets in my way; then you’re a terrible person who doesn’t play the right way.”

Max Lexandre.6279:

I’m wondering.

On all recent updates, PvE itself have been “attacked” on several aspects when it comes to farm, from trains to raid events, to gold, dungeon chests, living story, etc… To one level when we hear about PvE on upcoming patches, we instantly know it’s not about new content, such thing is one mirage.

One thing i notice is how Farmers do get treatment of “Hackers” on this game, it must be the group of players that ArenaNet hates most and insists in reduce how rewarding PvE content is.

When i see the direction things are taking here, do you think that there is an “attack plan” on the developers side to reduce how rewarding Orr Maps are?

If they treated farmers like hackers, then they would be banning them, not just altering things.

As for your question, no; unlike Queensdale and the other “starter” areas, Orr is supposed to be a massive mess of fighting and events.

I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to understand that having a bunch of often rude players running around a starter area, attacking anyone who dares play the game “wrong” is bad for the game as a whole.

Ticket 573372

Haven’t heard anything for over 4 days since being told ticket was being transferred.

Ronah.2869:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

No. Absolutely no. Why should we all have to suffer through additional security inputs because a few players can’t secure their own PCs? Players get hacked because they aren’t careful of which naughty websites they visit, or because their passwords are too easy to decipher.

If you read forum, people with 20+ character passwords were hacked. Including myself.
The amount of hacks lately are not due to infected PCs or easy passwords, but with vulnerable databases.

A person can have an infinitely long and complex password, but if they use it for too many different accounts, it becomes very easy to get a hold of.

Just out of curiosity, did you say anything in chat before this happened or was it completely out of the blue?

Seera.5916:

Curse You.9514:

Seera.5916:

The game doesn’t have a smart bot that scans players names for inappropriateness.
Players had to report you for it.

They then look at your name and figure out if it breaks a rule or not. Since the first word of your name is curse and the last is you, they figured you were bypassing the censor.

So the chances of it being reversed is likely slim.

That, makes no sense.

I was abruptly kicked out of the game, then unable to get back in. If there was an actual person doing an inquiry, I’d expect to have been sent some form of notification at least after the fact.

Also, audio dialogue and text matching my character’s name exactly can be found multiple times within the game. If my character’s name is unacceptable, then that audio dialogue and text shouldn’t be there.

They likely have to have the character not being played to put in the name change thing.

Your notice that they did an inquiry was your notice to change your name.

In game in context to specific things, I would imagine. Your name could have any kind of context. Players are not mind readers. Someone could think that you literally want to curse them.

Players reported you. ANet investigated. ANet decided your name was against the naming policy and have told you to change it.

You can’t seriously think that it wouldn’t be possible for someone to insert a particular curse word instead of Curse in your name. Hence why it’s against the rules as bypass the censor. Whether or not you intended that is not the issue. If that was the case, everyone who did intentionally bypass the censor could just claim that it wasn’t their intent to do so.

I can think of a couple of curse words that would fit and are considered derogatory when used towards someone.

If you try hard enough, any combination of words could be “considered derogatory”.

The fact remains that the word “Curse” is used multiple times throughout the game, and the exact phrase “curse you”, is used, at least once, by an enemy NPC (Gaheron Baelfire to be exact) and could also, as you suggest, be “considered derogatory”.

If someone is truly offended by just the idea of “curses”, they probably shouldn’t be playing a game with Necromancers, an entire profession based largely around such a concept as well as resurrecting the dead, another taboo thing.

Seera.5916:

The game doesn’t have a smart bot that scans players names for inappropriateness.
Players had to report you for it.

They then look at your name and figure out if it breaks a rule or not. Since the first word of your name is curse and the last is you, they figured you were bypassing the censor.

So the chances of it being reversed is likely slim.

That, makes no sense.

I was abruptly kicked out of the game, then unable to get back in. If there was an actual person doing an inquiry, I’d expect to have been sent some form of notification at least after the fact.

Also, audio dialogue and text matching my character’s name exactly can be found multiple times within the game. If my character’s name is unacceptable, then that audio dialogue and text shouldn’t be there.

Astral Projections.7320:

They ask that you not make a ticket and then make a thread. The people who work in support don’t read the forums, they are at work reading tickets. They also ask you to give them enough time to work on it, up to 3 days, before posting.

I understand that, however, being basically locked out of a character, a main character at that, is quite annoying and prevents actually playing the game. I’m just going for maximum visibility for what should really be a quick fix.

Just now I was booted out of the game with a message about my account being suspended, however, I was able to log back into the game just fine.

Yet, when I tried logging into my main character, who shares the same name as my account name “Curse You”, I was greeted with a prompt to change my character’s name.

This struck me as odd, since I have had this same name since playing Guild Wars 1 back in 2005 and I have never had anyone so much as call my character’s name slightly offensive.

The only notable event just prior to this happening was myself being whispered by about 10 different bots over the span of 30 minutes and myself commenting on this happening in map chat.

I have already submitted a ticket about the issue, but as this is my main character, I would like to be able to get back onto them so I can resume play.

Ticket number: 573372

Reaper of Grenth is a Human racial skill. All racial skills cannot be used underwater.

I’ll try to be there.
Curse You: 125

I just completed a run of AC path 3, with some difficulty.

Warmaster Grast kept failing to cast his protective bubble, leaving my party to get crushed by falling rocks. Grast seemed to keep either getting stuck casting a slow hammer attack or getting knocked back by the boss, preventing him from casting the bubble skill.

I was 4/5 when I leveled upon getting my final daily event, and so, no reward chest for me, apparently.

I can confirm that my Foostivoo the Merry now sounds like he has been eating mixed nuts-and-bolts.