Guild Wars 2

Come on Anet. This must be the most elusive item to find for a Legendary. I have searched well over 40 times in the area and I cannot find it. I find starfish all the time, but a bloody great anchor, no chance.

I have explored the areas over 40 times and still not found the Sunken Anchor. Is it obvious to see? This one is so fructrating.

I would like to see ALL of the GW1 armours in GW2. They were easily the best looking armours, especially IMO the ranger armours, specifically the ranger FOW armour …….. I miss that.

This should have been implemented at the very start of Guild Wars 2. To me, this is merely ‘catch-up’.

The existing system destroyed some of the old established (International) guilds from GW1 when GW2 started. The same can be said for not implementing Alliances as well.

TBH, I dont think that there will be any noticeable changes to normal playing, except that it will bring in the various server chapters of the same guild into ‘one’ guild as it should be.

As some may know, I have been hacked 4 times now. The last time I have not been re-rolled. I lost all my minis bar the account bound ones. Will I have to buy all of these yet again or will they automatically be unlocked? The achievements I have gained from the mini unlocks still stand, even though I no longer have the minis themselves.

As some may know, I have been hacked 4 times now. The last time I have not been re-rolled. I lost all my minis bar the account bound ones. Will I have to buy all of these yet again or will they automatically be unlocked? The achievements I have gained from the mini unlocks still stand, even though I no longer have the minis themselves.

Security Suggestions for GW2 Accounts

Further to a reply from one of the GMs earlier today, he suggested that I post some of the ideas I had, after being hacked for the fourth time recently. I would like all to post any further ideas and any pros or cons to any of the suggestions.

One of the problems of being hacked for the first time is that the original e-mail from Anet with your game code is stolen/copied and then deleted from your e-mails – giving them ‘ownership’ or ‘proof of’. So, when you do send in a ticket to Support, this information is not available to you.

I suggest a more robust multiple layer system, much like Online Banking. The choice of Mother’s Maiden Name, Pets Name, First School, etc should be used. Also a 5 digit number, whereby every time a choice of two of those digits is used. In addition, a memorable name should also be included. All of this is pretty standard for Online Banking. Maybe, Anet could supply (at a price) a calculator authenticator (such as Barclays Bank use).

One of the main attractions to hackers is the ‘high-end’ armours, bags, weapons, mini-pets and other collectables. There should be an option, whereby the player can soul-bound or account-bound these items. This would have a two fold effect, in not only protecting the items, but the economy as well, should the account be hacked. At the very least this option should be available at the Exotic, Ascended and Legendary level. At least the original Guild Wars had the option of account-binding the mini-pets and some armours.

Please do not use this thread as a rant about hacking or that its your fault for having lax security etc etc. This thread needs to be constructive ………………. we maybe able to change things. Thanks.

To some of the posters above:

Have a look at some of the recent posts. Players ARE being hacked, some multiple times, OPEN YOUR EYES – there is a hacker war going on. Just because you have not been hacked atm, does not mean you wont be.

I am sorry, but I do blame Anet for some of the security issues as it has more holes than a sieve.

@Brother Grimm

I will try and answer your questions as mush as possible. I believe that the first time I got hacked was through my normal e-mail account via some software I downloaded, incidentally via digital deluxe, Luxembourg – I unfortunately had ‘saved’ my CC details, so not only was I hacked, I ‘lost’ £425 via digital deluxe, hacker buying GW2 gems/accounts – This money I managed to get back from Barclays Bank ………. eventually.

I downloaded a reputable anti-keylogger and also scanned my PC. I then created an account that I use ONLY for GW2 and a pretty secure password.

Each time since then, the hacker has I believe ‘fooled’ Anet by using my old e-mail address to get a new one and thus a new password. Each time, my account has been stripped – easy to tell straight away as I always get the Gold Hoarder achievement title (I never have more than 20g in gold in the wallet).

These hacks have occurred every month since May 2014 (4 in total), the latest being last Saturday whilst I was at a family wedding, so did not notice until Sunday.

When you are hacked for the first time, they also steal your game registration code and delete the Anet e-mail – If you have bought the game online. So it is very hard to prove that it is your account as you no longer have the codes. As some have already said, the 2nd security measure is also ‘hackable’, the mobile authenticator – though tbh, I have not used this on my account.

I asked the GM’s about ‘how I was hacked’ this last time and suggested that it was them that was at fault (e-mail address change request)- They said that they could not tell me how it was done.

In all of my earlier dealings (hacks), I have been dealt with promptly and to my satisfaction, with x3 roll-backs etc. Even a ‘well known’ senior Anet figure dealt with some of the issues with me.

Now, Brother Grimm, I think I know you as we used to be in the same guild (if your name is the same as in GW1 – ask Shan) and I know you are a nice person, but frankly, about this issue, you have no idea about how these things happen and on the scale and frequency that this is happening – just look at all of the posts and not just recent ones.

This is a very serious issue not only for current players but any future ones. At the rate this is going on, there wont be any ‘original’ players left as there is no way I am going to start again and ‘make up’ two years of hard work with the insecurity of future possible multiple account hackings – its like trying to make a house out of nothing but sand.

So, if I dont get satisfaction, then I wish you all well and maybe I’ll see you in another game.

At the moment, I am waiting a reply to my last e-mail to the GM’s on a possible re-roll. I am not logging-in to the game until I hear what the reply is. If it is a negative response, then that will be it for me, I will let the hackers have my account and good luck to them.

I cannot believe that players like myself and other who have played 7 years on the original game and 2 years on the current one are being treated in this way. Anet needs to get a grip on its security before any new changes are made to the game, this should be their number one priority. I have to go through hoops to log-in on my banking, an online game should be no different.

@ cptrips

Yes, I was compromised but it was Anet who compromised me in the first place. It was they who authorised the hacker to change my e-mail address, so it was they who are at fault.

Like others here have said, if I do not get a re-roll back to where my account was before the latest hack, then I will certainly consider ‘jacking in’ GW2, because I do not see the point in carrying on anymore. Who is to say, that I wont be ‘hacked again’ next month or the month after until infinity. If this is to be the future of GW2, then this game will surely die as it wont have any customers left except hackers and bots.

In regards to being re-rolled affecting the economy, that is total BS. The economy has already been affected by the hacker selling everything in the first place. My stock of mats was there for me, not the economy. I also had a lot of mini-pets, a collecting habit I had from the original GW, with no intention of selling them – they should give people the option of account binding items of personal value.

If your RL bank/credit card account had been hacked, the bank would refund you your money – they dont complain of affecting the economy. I regard Anet as protectors of my GW account, just like a RL bank is of your RL money.

@ Nessarose.

I too am currently going through my fourth hacked account this year. I am at a serious loss of what to do now. The hacker just requested an email change and then hey-ho, my account was lost to them.

I wish we had the opportunity to make things like mini-pets, armours and weapons etc account bound and unsellable. GW1 did this with mini pets. The more stuff that can be unsellable the better as it would be a deterrant.

At the very least, Anet should put accounts that have been hacked once onto a watch list with a possible 24 lock down until verification is confirmed.

I am getting the point now of jacking the game in and finding something different as I dont know if i’ll have to go through all of this crap again next month.

SECURITY of accounts should be paramount, above all else. If you want customers to play this game and keep this game going into the future, then security needs to be jacked up asap.

Great matchup so far. Some of the fights have been quite intense when numbers on each side are roughly equal. It has certainly been fun so far, but also hard work. I feel that all 3 servers are going to have a hard battle to dominate one another.

If a server has more than one Commander on the same map, make each Commander Icon a different colour as it can often get confusing when two or more groups overlap or converge.

I agree that the higher the upgrade, the harder it should be to take down or whats the point in the upgrades?

Add spiked barriers as buildable seige defences.

Do away with siege weapon degeneration, once built they stay that way until destroyed by someone.

Have the possibility of waypoints in towers.

To the AG member that helped me (the necro character) get the Skill point in the south of the Riverside BL map, thank you. I also believe you were the same one that shared the capping of the vista to the left of it a few minutes later with me. As you were honourable, I let you be. I salute you, an enemy.

Well thanks Riverside for zerging every map. I hope you have a really boring time playing by yourselves with no enemies for the next 2 weeks.

Hoping to see some epic fights in this reset and not endless blobbing as per last reset from BB.

While they are at it, make Barrage a skill that can actually be used in siege and anti-siege warfare – ie: use Barrage whilst on a wall to the ground, and use Barrage against players that are on a wall from the ground. At the moment, I find it is a useless skill in wv w.

Maybe it is just me, but I have found that BB and AG are far more organised Guild wise in wvw, whereas Gandara are mostly PUG made groups and therefore the common denominator is to follow whomever is a Commander.

I think a better idea would be to make the WvW titles available like all of the other achievements but as an optional, ie: The player can select if they are to be shown, like the achievement titles are now.

I would like to say to AG and BB, thanks for the epic battles in EB last week, especially when Gandara were defending SM. So far as I have seen from the reset, it is a very close thing with SM changeing hands almost every hour, so hopefully we will ALL have another epic week of battles.

We all know that the Black Lion Chests are not working as they should be because of the price of the keys and of the slim chance of a dropped key.

I say, introduce the GW1 system of Chests/Keys/lockpicks.

Chests spawned randomly per map, usually 4/5 per map. Specific Chest keys or lockpicks were bought with in-game gold to unlock said chests. Could also add a title/achievement to this as well – Treasure Hunter as in GW1.

Even better would be if they changed all the Risen in Orr to Grenchies.

Guild XXX (not real name) is an old established GW1 guild that plays in GW2. It is an International Guild. It finds its members are quite split in playing times and wants to have a foot in each timezone (US and EU).

Can it have a ‘chapter’ in each timezone server (ie: Yaks Bend – US and Gandara – EU) and still be the same Guild? with a full list of members and the same guild chat. If so, does each ‘chapter’ have to have a seperate Leader? and can each ‘chapter’ unlock all of the upgrades from its gained influence?

Has anyone done a similar thing?

Or make some of the hearts/quests repeatable like they did for some in GW Factions.

Agreed. All Guildies (if representing) should show up on the map regardless of whether they are in your party.

Could definately use a ‘’Guild warband’’ system in PVE that could cater for up to 20 members – Must be Guild members only, with perhaps 5 places that can be used for ‘’guests of the Guild’’.

I would go so far as to add more achievement points by increasing the slayer achievements and give out titles with them like Warhammer did.

Some on here are complaining of no end-game and then on this thread of taking some of it away ……… you cant please some people it seems.

I avoid LA like the plague. I personally use Hoelbrak as my ‘base’ of operations.

I do agree, more should be available in the other cities, but considering the game is new, ‘things’ may come about as time progresses. As they say ‘Rome was not built in a day’.

At the OP, /signed … but with some refinements.

Could even add in further Commander titles such as a ‘’Knight Commander’’ with even harder/more acheievments to obtain – with possibly an armour (much like the guild armour).

In Zones that are two or more away from Lions Arch, they should have at least one outpost that has an Asuran Gate tuned to Lions Arch in them.

I love the multi-guild system and always wished it had been implemented in GW1.

I personally am in 4 guilds. Two of which are on different servers, these being guilds I once belonged to in GW1 and have some great friends in them (mostly for chat purposes). The other two, one is my own very small guild of which are family and very old GW1 friends (also used as a Bank extension) and the main guild of which I am a member, also from GW1 – the guild DVDF.

I usually have my main character representing the main Guild and the others my small family guild. I alt hop daily as each character is doing different aspects of crafting and i need them to refine any materials that have been farmed.

For me, multi-guilds works.

Adding on to what Disciplina above said about Guild Banners. In WAR, the ‘planted’ guild banner could be captured by the opposing side in RvR – The same could be done in WvWvW. It was always a great deal of pride in capturing a banner and a great deal of shame in losing one.

Which brings us to having ‘’Bannermen or Standard Bearer’’ as a special guild rank = Permission to carry the Guild Banner/Standard.

IMHO, the Commander icon/title should be earned via WvWvW achievements and experience NOT by how much gold you have or bought. It could then be account bound as the player has at least earned it on one character. It should NOT be able to be shown outside of the Mists except in Lions Arch, for group gathering purposes.

I would like to update that today I tried Mosselyn’s method (see above) of changeing to a different language and for me it worked. Once done, i changed to playing different characters several times and the TP worked each time as long as I remained logged on. Thanks Mosselyn.

As the title says, Make Town Clothes craftable. There are plenty of recipes and discoveries for armours etc, but none that I am aware of for town clothes even though Anet I beleive has stated that nearly all NPC clothes can be worn by our characters.

In regards to random maps. I would go one better and have indivdual unique maps for each server. Each server has their ‘own’ map that never changes but is different from all of the other servers.

That way, each server gets to know their own map very well and it then becomes their ‘home’ to defend. It also makes attacking other servers maps harder as they have to ‘learn’ the opponents map.

To add-in some initial excitment, for the first time in any map there is a ‘fog of war’ which needs to be cleared as one progresses in the attacking campaign.

A City could also be added to fight in and over – urban warfare.

I have the same problem. My ‘master’ computer (Windows XP) has the problems with TP but my other computer (Windows Vista) never has a problem with TP.

TripleA.1753:

I have the same problem too. It has nothing to do with your account. It has to do with something specific to your computer. I have two accounts and two computers and I can access black lion on one computer fine but I cannot access it on the second computer at all. It has been like that ever since I installed the game.

If anyone figures it out it would be great to know.

Class wise:

(Heavy) – Berserker
(Medium) – Druid / Warden or a Witch Hunter / Zealot.
(Light) – Bard or a Mage / Wizard

Race wise:

Tengu, Kodan, Quaggan, Grawl, Hylek, Forgotten, Yeti

Areas:

Fill-in some of the gaps on the existing GW2 map before expanding out to the Crystal Desert, Magumma Plateau, Far Shiverpeaks and Charr Homelands.

Also include: Fissure of Woe and Underworld as PVE High Level areas.

Bring back or expand on some original Guild Wars 1 towns/outposts – Some should have developed into bigger places in 250 years.

I would like to see the ’’Slayer’’ titles max level increased to infinity. By all means give a title etc at a certain level, but let the ‘’kill count’’ keep on increasing with kills.

The same could also be done by some of the other ‘titles’, such as reviving downed players, salvaging etc

Do things like 20+ power, 30+ precision, 1% magic etc make a difference when transmuting? Do the two items have to have the same type of traits as my example for a transmutation to work? Do the items have to be the same colour types, ie: a green with a green, or a white with a white, etc?

Sorry for all the questions, but, this transmutation thing is baffleing me.

I have tried the transmutation route and either it doesnt work or I have’nt figured out how to do it properly.

Your ‘Octopus Dress’, was it a crafted lvl 80 or a vendor one?

I thought that Anets’ original idea was to have whatever armour you desired, but it seems to me that once you get to level 80, you inevitabely end up with pre-made exotic ones which frankly are too over the top and are just horrid looking.

I long for the simple designs of the original Guild Wars armours. Please Anet, can we have them in GW2?

Can early crafted armours be made for lvl 8o’s?

What I mean by this is that I much prefer as a Ranger / Leatherworker some of the early crafted leather armours, but I want them with stats that befits a level 80 ranger. Can this be done? either by crafting, transmutation or not at all?

It would also be a good idea if all crafted armours had a vendor who sells them for level 80 in the main citys.

Not all of us like the looks of the ‘top end’ armours. I much preferred the more simplier GW Ranger armours than some of the ones I have seen in GW2.

Titles in General: These need to be displayable, or what is the point? They also need far more tiers to them, something that we can go for over a long period.

Orders: When the ranks were awarded, we should be given them, to be able to display, otherwise what is the point. Also NPC dialogue should reflect that we do have these ranks, its common courtesy. A wearable badge could also be included denoting said rank, ie: Priory = Magister.

Armour/clothes: Add recipes so town clothes can be made. Can we have some of the GW armours back in as they were simple, had clean lines and were nice looking.

Waypoints are far to expensive, or at least have one asura gate in each zone so one can cheaply travel to Lions Arch/Divinity/home city and back to zone.

Mail: Have a (dropdown) personal mailing list.

Legendary gear: To have truly legendary gear, use GW items, like Drago’s Longbow or Rago’s Flamestaff etc. also FOW armour.

I was disappointed that some of the outposts from GW1 did not make it into GW2 – Yaks Bend, Droknars Forge – 250 yrs and these would have been highly developed outposts.

Names of bosses like in GW should be included.
We need FOW and UW.

I would like to see party size increased for general PVE (could be guild based).

We need WAR type warbands (24 people) for WvWvW as lack of chat/co-ordination is really showing and WvWvW is not fun as it stands at the moment.

Waypoint charges need looking at as they are becoming very expensive the further you move away from your home city. The same can be said for armour repairs (an evening in WvWvW wipes out what i earned in PVE ealier in the day.

Come on Anet, if you are going to have legendary weapons, at least have the decency to use some of the weapons/skins that were legendary in Guild Wars 1, ie: Drago’s Flatbow, Urgoz, etc etc …………… these are what I call legendary.