Guild Wars 2

This server has been through 2 major highs during the first and second season.
We’ve survived a mass exodus twice now. The people that remain on this server are loyal talented players that pulled together the scraps to not give up on a server we call home.

Sure we have our differences and internal struggles from time to time but in the end we pull together to reach the goals we set for ourselves. I’ve been on this server since beta and have remained here ever since. I found my home in the “Hordes of Denravi” guild which was founded to keep players loyal to our server on the server.

If you’re looking for a server that will try hard and doesn’t care about the underdog position. HoD is your server.

Yeah HoD imploded twice actually once after season1 and then after season 2. I really rather be this size and have people stay so we can keep our epic wvw community.

Hoping for some great fights during the season. As said before BP be proud of the guilds i mentioned. They came Saw Conquered Got beaten and Came back to Conquer. much love for those guilds.

So i’m a native HoD player and i run in WvW quite a bit, to me it’s the only real End Game available besides taking part in “Next Top Model” (Anet do something about this)

I’ve been part of the 2 seasons in WvW and as you might know we won both seasons.
Now this season it seems we have lost every guild we once had with exception of maybe 3. 1 got formed by native HoD members. As far as i am aware we never bought guilds.

The last month it seems, to me that is that HoD has been ganged up on. If we’d be fighting someone even if we were WAY in 3rd place. the 3rd server would actively avoid fighting whoever was 1st or 2nd. regardless of who the matchup was.

Then yesterday i was on some streams following some Crystal Desert people (roaming). And one of them had sincere rage towards HoD. Is this a thing?
Are the lower tier servers beating up on HoD? or am i reading into this wrong?
I mean we get in some good fights but fighting 3 blobs that outman us 1 to 3 seems while they aren’t fighting the opposing server. I can’t help to read into that.

Finally props to [VNG][Oath][AsH][BuS] and [BEEP] btw.
Awesome fights this week.

Also i’m not asking for pitty as i relish in the chance to fight bigger groups and cut them in pieces we can actually fight. I’m just trying to understand where this all comes from. I am not active on the forums and thus unaware of possible issues that arise there.

I’ve tried Reddit, These forums and in game.

let’s say that 15 % of the users of GW2 actually use reddit to read Gw2 related stuff.
Let’s say that of that perhaps 2% read the recruitment messages.

That’s a whole lot of nothing.
In game you rarely find someone that’s looking for a guild still that’s on your server.
How are guild supposed to recruit members for WvW if 90% of the people they play with either already have a guild, or they are from another server (PvE map recruiting).

Isn’t anyone else running into this?
Anet? any insight here?

Sweet now to farm for a commander tag :P

Yeah that was my intent. i’d prefer to be rushing into a group and tagging a ton of them and then dodge roll out and put some boons on my group. wait a second and then head back in to tag some more and roll back out.

So you would take multiple weapon sets and armor sets and trinket sets?
I would consider that if they would allow me to have macro’s to do armor swaps with one button.

so you would go with? clerics’s and knights? what other stats set would you consider?

Hey Guys,
I’m considering getting a commander tag for my guardian.
I’m wondering what people think of my build and where i should change things.
I’ts a full cleric build with soldier runes.

Worked this of athena’s v2 build.

http://intothemists.com/guides/1764-commander
Feel free to comment in here or on the actual build.

Nevermind i’m stupid. i just need to get the success state of the event that unconstest it

Hey guys,
i tried searching the forum for this but the keyword dungeon or contested both return 0 results.
i couldn’t find it on the wiki and google doesn’t return anything either.

What api do i call to test if my dungeon POI is contested?

Hey guys, i’m trying to create a personal event timer with all the best features from multiple websites.
so far it get’s all the map poi’s, hearts etc and puts them in layers.
then i get all the events i care about and their details.

now i’m trying to place the event circle.png ontop of the map like gwstuff is doing.
but his data is inconsistent with what comes out of the api.

i found a conversion for tile coords to continent coords. but that still doesn’t seem to work completely.

This is my coord conversion.
function calc_continent_coord($map_rect, $continent_rect, $event_location)
{
$center = $event_location->center;

$map_width = $map_rect¹⁰ – $map_rect⁰⁰;
$map_height = $map_rect¹¹ – $map_rect⁰¹;

$continent_width = $continent_rect¹⁰ – $continent_rect⁰⁰;
$continent_height = $continent_rect¹¹ – $continent_rect⁰¹;

$xMap = ($center⁰ – $map_rect⁰⁰) / $map_width;
$yMap = ($center¹ – $map_rect⁰¹) / $map_height;

$yMap = 1 – $yMap;

$xContinent = $continent_rect⁰⁰ + $xMap * $continent_width;
$yContinent = $continent_rect⁰¹ + $yMap * $continent_height;

return [$xContinent,$yContinent];
}
and then i use

worldToPixel: function(latlng)
{
return map.project(latlng,0);
},

pixelToWorld: function(xy)
{
return map.unproject(xy, 0);
},

navigate: function(x, y)
{
var latlng = this.pixelToWorld([x, y]);
map.setView(latlng, 7);
},
setScaledMarker: function(key, x, y, r, image)
{

if (this.eventmarkers[key])
{
map.removeLayer(this.eventmarkers[key]);
}

if (r && image)
{
var boundSouthWest = this.pixelToWorld([x – r, y + r]);
var boundNorthEast = this.pixelToWorld([x + r, y – r]);
var layer = new L.ImageOverlay(image, [boundSouthWest, boundNorthEast]);
map.addLayer(layer);
this.eventmarkers[key] = layer;
}
else
{
delete this.eventmarkers[key];
}
}

to create the layers.
1. i don’t even see the actual layer.
2. how does the radius translate to the event vs the coordinate.
3. some of them have a radius of 1000 and some have 8500 that seems like a large difference.

Hey Guys, i’m trying to figure out if i can get the current server time out of the api.
IT would be nice to have some sort of indicator on my site that tells a user they can go do their dailies again.

rifle for a thief
they should also add racial weapons.
Claws for charr. something alcohol related for norns, something techy for asurans, something naturey for sylvari, godknows what to add for humans.

Because if played right they shouldn’t get hit only warriors have the real issue here.
And possibly a guardian but they are meant to take the hits.

So like i said scale stats per class and it’ll be alot better.
As a warrior sacrificing damage for health is a tough choice.
as a guardian i couldn’t care less if i do damage or not.

I’m just making you think about the implications increasing health for classes that actually need it versus classes that don’t

and then what repercussions would this have in PvP or WvW.
Changing this stat would unbalance those play modes.
who cares about PvE really. stats only matter if you can’t kill kitten or if you die to fast.

I’d love to see this too.
But since retraining traits costs money and thus takes money out of the game (which people will then buy)

this probably won’t ever happen.

Where is the Regeneration in this calculation?

Guardians have shields/blocks.
And Mesmers/Necro’s have phantasms/minions.
engies have turrets that provide heal and such other things.
Thieves have stealth

the only person that your calculation directly applies to is a warrior.
as they have to rely on their damage and whatever boons they can get.

iniside.4736:

Darsin Callagher.5821:

No offense but the interface of GW2 is severely lacking.
Modification and or additon / removal.

It doesn’t lack anything. It’s perfectly playable. Only thing that is missing is ability to move toolbars around and other UI elements.

That is your opinion not a fact my dear friend.

Teraphas.6210:

As for an aggro meter it is actually pretty useless seeing as there are various aggro models eithin game. Some attack who is hitting them the most. Others target the weakest. Some lock on and don’t stop till the target is dead.

I have seen one in Orr lock on my wife and not switch targets despite 30+ guildies beating on it and her doing nothing but run around kiting it.

I am sure there are others but these I have witnessed

I have seen this to. But personally i think that’s an issue with how aggro works.
They should fix that so tanks can actually tank.

No offense but the interface of GW2 is severely lacking.
Modification and or additon / removal.

Chrispy.5641:

If Tripling Power Triples your Damage, then….

• Tripling Toughness should Triple your Armor.
• Tripling Vitality should Triple your Max. Health.
• Tripling Healing Power should Triple your heals.

So basically what you are saying is that you’d love to see 45k health guardians with 2000 armor and 500+ heals ?
I’d run WvW with a group of guardians. we’d never die.
i’d run PvP with a group of guardians. we’d never die.
I’d run every dungeon with guardians only. we’d never die.

And besides that. EVERYONE would run the same armor.
screw power precision crit on a thief or a ranger.
i’ll go power toughness vitality on every build.
Go full shadows and just chip your health away.

The problem does not lay in the fact that stats don’t scale.
The problem lies in the fact that certain stats don’t scale higher towards classes that use them.
For example a guardian should have healingpower scale more and crit lower.
thiefs should have healingpower lower and crit higher.
Etcetera Etcetera.

edrickdebane.9134:

Here is a question for a API programming player out there.

The question Darsin asked about his cool down timer on this other elemental abilitys…..is that something you can get info from using the API and if so you could them make an overlay.????

The API is fully outside the game it’s static.
I am currently looking into this.
I think the most you can do is look at Events being active or not on a certain world.
There is no such thing as personal skills or countdown timers.

iniside.4736:

Darsin Callagher.5821:

There isn’t really a need for them in WoW either but it certainly makes the gameplay alot more enjoyable.

You mean addons complety destryoed gameplay and each encounter must be designed in a way, that assume you have certain addons.

No addons. Thanks.

I’m up for cosmetics addon’s that alter positions or look of UI elements. But anything that directly add new functionality should be forbiden.

I think you’re going to quite an extreme here.
In WoW there is just alot of possibilities against what you can write an add-on.
They could just not expose some of their “API” in game so that they could only have certain add-ons work.

For example.
An autobuy add-on (NOT A GOOD IDEA)
An Aggro calculator for a group in a dungeon (pretty kitten necessary)
A in game leveling guide for people that have already levelled 2+ 80’s (I’d like it)
A add-on that will auto attack probably not going to be implemented.

The only real risk here is user security.
To be fair that would have to be up to the user if Anet says they can’t spend cycles or hire an actual team to validate these things.

My thought is that they are missing out on great user content and possibly a richer gaming environment and community.
But hey what do i know.

Then don’t? doesn’t mean someone else doesn’t want to?
I understand everyone is responding out of their personal preference but you have to think a little bigger than 1 person.

Sawnic.6795:

Yeah, anything that directly interacts with the game client is strictly forbidden.

Which is why there would have to be an approval process.

Just send more of it to the 2nd mail you send and they can redistribute.
My current Guild Leader get’s 10 emails everytime she clears her mailbox from trial accounts spamming her with gold buying messages.

There is a reason this is in place.
I do think that if both players have eachother friended. this might be less harsh

Teraphas.6210:

There are plenty of overlays out there like one at gw2stuff. Uses the apis to let you know when boss fights are going on.

You don’t really need a leveling guide in this game. Just play is quite easy to stay at the level for your zone and most areas progress in a clear path. As long as you aren’t skipping things, and really new players get into everything they will easily stay at the curve. Plus there are plenty of sites out there to give them more info as they get deeper in the game.

i was not aware of the overlay. that is actually quite nice.

Thanks!

As for the leveling guide i wasn’t quite targeting newer players with that.
I for one hate grinding a 2nd character to 80. i have 2 now.
But the story-line doesn’t change so i couldn’t care less how i get there.

Profession guides in game would be nice too.
Perhaps the overlay guy will add these as well.

That’s all nice and dandy. Sometimes decisions need to change based on the community itself.
The fact that Anet doesn’t allow it doesn’t mean they never will.
And no need for them? That’s all relative is it not?

There isn’t really a need for them in WoW either but it certainly makes the gameplay alot more enjoyable.

I’m sure this has been asked before.
But i am under the impression that this game is significantly lacking in community added value.

I only played WoW for a short period of time (Brother bought me a month , Yay )
But the amount of quality adding add-ons are insane.

Where is my DPS meter?
Pet finder
Even a levelling guide addition for newer members i’m sure would be welcome.
Copy paste trait set-ups?

I see a huge potential for great input by the community here.
Ofcourse there will have to be some sort of “submission” process so keyloggers and spambots get caught.

The API is a great addition to the outside world.
But unlike me there is still people with only 1 screen out there.