Guild Wars 2

(This is post might get deleted by the mods but I hope it helps and can get some support. Oh and Dulfy had nothing to do with this post I’m just a user of her site)

Like many players of Guild Wars I visit the excellent Dulfy.net fan site, I visit the wiki for in depth articles but for the latest news and help on current events as well as to see the newest in game items, armor etc, I always visit Dulfy.

I’m sure most of us visit at least once a week if not more often.

Dulfy might not make lots of videos and info about builds or encouraging new people to buy the game but the site is one of the biggest aids to new and old players, so I was very surprised to find out that although she’s had an NPC in game named after her Arena net still wont consider her for the partnership program.

She has mentioned that she has applied several times over the last few years and still can’t get an answer back from them.

She has a link now on her site for the affiliate program so if your going to get the new expansion I hope you will join me in supporting her and buy through her link.

With a bit of luck if enough people show some support through her website and I hope, by keeping this thread going we can all help to get her in the program and keep her amazing site up and running.

Thank you very much Dulfy and friends for all your help over the years, I hope you don’t mind I’ve started this thread.

well between the 10000 drinks and not getting into the Jp is going to a very rare skin

1am Uk time and the map is still full!! I’m really bad at jp but I so want the new winter’s presence that I’m trying to get in and practise but I’ve had one 15min slot since the start of wintersday.

PLEASE PLEASE add an instance / more space

I agree with OP I have 12 bank slots, 3 personal guild banks and max material storage and I’d love more bank slots or material storage!
What do I use it all for?
Guild banks – 1 for extra mats (new legendaries are coming what will we need for crafting them?) 1 for Exotics and skins and the last for extra minis / investments and yellows to throw in mystic forge, I like to use the MF in bulk lots and I’ll do the same when I get enough exotics stored.
My banks tabs : 2 for skins / account based exotics, 3 with crafting gear / recipes, 1 with food /potions from leveling -slowly being used, 1 dragoninte ore with Princess lol, 1 with ascended gear, 1 with keys and MF materials, 1 with gathering tools (thanks to last years frost boxes) and salvage kits, 1 with boosters and the last has the account bound extras like torches and endless potions spare skins.

I shall have to look at the cost of extra chars then as I didn’t think that was cost effective but it might just be, thanks for the idea from another poster above

So please Anet let us buy more space from you

I play an Engi with double pistols, I would swap to grenades for long range – great for mobs, and throw down turrets in front of me or up on rocks etc before triggering mobs.

Think of the Troll in Honor of the Waves I could stand high up and throw the turrets down next to him. Or the Elite crate drop I could throw in the best place to support my team mates if we had trouble anywhere.

Now:
Grenades have a reduce range so I’d have to use the elite mortar skill instead, which is nice better than the old one, but I lose the supply drop crate – we all have to compromise fair enough but no elite turrets if I want the range.
( I know there’s a riffle but I never liked that, there were more useful skills on grenades)

Turrets have lost the ability to be thrown!!!!! I now have to run around a battle to drop my turrets in the right place, this means no instant support to my friends where needed, ok it’s doable in the open but sometime in dungeons you just can’t get to the right place .

I can put up with the loss of range on my grenades but come on 2 major nerfs!! I thought the shake up of the skills was going to make things easier, combining more traits together but we keep losing things.

I can’t be the only one who misses throwing turrets around. Please, pretty please, please with a cherry on top consider adding this ability back to turrets

Well I like the idea, sounds great but it might be too much work for the devs to change all the animations.
Lets be honest I’d rather pay to have my minions work right, half the time they just stand around doing nothing or lag behind when your running so they’re often late to the fight. So please Devs spend what little time you have fixing them first before changing their looks

Well I play Necro as my main and yes I’ve accidentaly popped into shroud, cant really remember popping out so much by mistake. I don’t think I’d want a cool down on it, it’s very useful to be able to leap in and out as I like.
If your having that many problems because your double tapping so much can I suggest you use a macro / keybinding to add a delay onto the end of the key press would that work?

I’m not a mm player normally but for fun last week my guild tried all necro mm parties in dungeons, with max amount of minions possible and we wizzed through AC without any trouble, was a fast and easy run. We didnt have any special stats or armor we just all chose minons for the skills and ran with it.
So I think a necro mm should be fine in a dungeon. I normally run condition damage so it was a nice change.

Thanks to OP for a well put message. I agree with you, Thank you Anet for all your hard work

I like the idea of sharings my dyes across all my toons I think it’s a good idea. At least we’ll all get something back for having a duplicate.

BUT…..

What no one has mentioned yet we’re all going to be charged to change colours on armour. At the moment I could change as often as I liked and it didn’t cost me anything (not including costs of any bought dye) now there’s going to be a fee every time I want a new look, how dear is this going to end up being. I know I wont be changing my colours as often as I do now.

A question for the Anet team about guild influence.

I play on FOW and I am a member of a large guild. This guild has now moved to Gandara. Is there any way to rep my guild while staying on FOW? If I guest on Gandara I’ve been told my influence will go to the FOW Guild and not the Gandara guild (It’s the same guild but the new Gandara one has lost all it’s upgrades) and because I will be unable to rep and add influence I will be kicked from the guild.

If I leave and get invited back will my influence go to the new version or still to the FOW guild? Is there anything I can do?

I don’t want to move servers as I have a couple of private bank guilds of my own that I’ve spent a lot of gold, laurels and influence on, that I don’t want to loose.

Thanks for any help you can give.

I’d like to start with a thank you to anet and their staff for all their hard work and effort that goes it to what is basically a free game after it’s initial purchase. I don’t know what other monthly pay mmo’s are like but I’ve always been impressed with Anet willingness to listen and to try and sort out the problems, as well what content we’d like.
There’s a lot of negativity on these forums ( and I wont argue with some of it) but compared to most games you buy were you get no feedback at all after purchase, I think Anet do well. So good job Anet and thanks for a game I still enjoy playing.

As a whole I’d give LS 7/10 there have been some great updates, I’ve really enjoyed 4 Winds & Marrionette, some that weren’t really my style but I played and some that didnt interest me at all, but at least everyone seamed to get an update in a style they liked. They weren’t all the same things over and over. Some great designs, epic fights and some good dungeons.

What lets it down is the overall polish so as an earlier poster said, don’t release things to a timetable, release them when they are ready. Even if Anet had said “Battle for la out 2nd March” , but at the end of Feb said sorry guys we’re real busy with the Asian launch, Battle’s not quite ready we need another couple of weeks. Yeah there would be disapointed fans but most of us would be happy to wait that bit longer for an update that was fun and worked well.

So please take your time!

PS any chance of changing the armour skins system to the old GW1 version, any skin can be used on any armour even if it’s town clothes. that it goes over the top of your armour so I can keep my exotic set but have different looks for it instead of having half a dozen pieces just so I can change my hat every now and then

to the OP I’d say last part was just a pass, there were some good things but most of it was overshadowed by the bad.

I was lucky first day of BFLA I was on an overflow server and we did 3 knights together and I got to see Scarlet etc. It was a good fight everything worked against the knights, then I fought the hollows and it was a bit of ehh? whats going on? but then I got into it and it was a long slightly more complicted fight. So for the first atempt I thought it was good. Then everthing went down hill, lag, dc, loot, mechanics!! It’s the first time I’ve been so put off by the LS that I’ve only been back to la for the dailies, so I’ve got my la chest and helm etc.

Pt1 Battle For la – great job by the art team fab atmospherics excellent design there was some good things in it. Never got to rescue everyone because most players weren’t that interested, but hey each to their own style of play. I know people have complained that we didnt get to fight of Scarlet and her troops but I looked at it, that it was a surprise attack just happened as we entered la so the first thing you’d do is evac the survivers.

Pt2 – Battle for La now we take back the city. mmm well not quite what I thought would happen. I thought we would lead groups from all 3 orders into the city (1 from each entrance) and battle across the city taking key points. Sort of a mini WvW (which I dont play, but wouldnt mind for a 1 off event) take some locations, meet in the middle fight a super boss then tackle Scarlet.
What we got wasn’t really about taking back the city kicking out the bad guys, but 3 zerg fights and then if your lucky you get to move onto the last mega fight, (there’s been enough said about the poor mechainics and changes to repeat here) and a so so story.

In general I like LS, but monthly updates might be better so things can be a bit more polished. Loved Bazzar of the 4 Winds, really enjoyed playing against the Marionette some great team efforts even when we didnt win it was fun, liked the Molten Alliance & dungeon.

Some of the stories need to be improved I remeber GW1 stories being better.

But most importantly no matter what ANet do in future big or small they must first fix the terrible lag, disconnecting and broken mechainics. If you know there’s going to be a big event then make sure your servers can cope with everone wanting to be on together. Because no matter how good the content players will only be fustrated and disapointed with a game that keeps letting them down.

The simple answer is remove the leaderboard If you don’t know what other people have you wont worry about it, or worry trying to catch up, you can just brag to your friends instead about how well you’ve done.

Please let everyone just play the game how they like, don’t alter dalies. What does it matter to you how people get their scores they’re not denying you anything.

The only thing I think would be nice is if they add to the achievements bonus like those for special events. So if you’ve spent the time or skill (for the elitists!) and done all the jumping or crafted all the gear you get a prize.

(Talking about the PvE game now)

The game has never been about trying to catch up with some one, an ongoing evolving game can not be played like that. Some one will always miss an event, you can’t roll things back for them or holt everyones progress because some players buy the game later or can’t spend as much time in game. Do you suggest that special events don’t have rewards in future because people who buy the game next year will have missed them and it wont be fair?

It’s a game not a competion, if it was we wouldn’t be able to all farm the same nodes and by the sounds of things it would end up like WOW, with everyone beating each other up for things. That’s why we’re all playing GW2 for the co-operation not the fear of being mugged in game.

If you want a competion, leaderboards etc or you want to show off your skills and great game play do PvP, if your not getting the recognition there for your hard work ask Anet to change some things. I don’t do PvP so I don’t know what it’s like for rewards and stuff.

So for now I’d say wait until we see the new changes and then you can complain but don’t try to take away other peoples rewards for what ever reason you think.

Please leave the achievement points for dailies how they are. A lot of people have complained about them but I bet they are mostly hard core players with high scores. I play 3 or 4 times a week and I try to get the daily when I’m on. Yes its great to do some long hard achievement but often I don’t have the time or the skill. Most of the time I manage to get the dailies while I’m trying to complete an area’s exploration. It’s a great bonus and I feel like I’m getting some thing even if I can’t always manage the big stuff. I’m trying to save up the laurels for some good gear.

But just because I’m a more casual player why should I be penailzed for how I chose to play the game?

If you play a lot you’ll get more ache. points so you can get better things thats fair, leave it how it is.

I do agree that a special bonus should be given for completing various ranks, eg complete all the slayer tracks and get a perminant defence bonus, finish 20 jumping puzzles (which I find really hard!) and get a speed bonus or a black lion master salvage kit etc.

So please let every one gain the achievement points how they wish to, that’s why there are choices on the dailes, so everyone can play how they like.

It’s good news that they’re starting to work on the home instance. I’m looking forward to the player housing. I just hope that any house or guild upgrades can have a choice between gold or influence as payment.
I’m always broke never had more than 8g to my name I would like to be able to log into a “home” guild and use any influence points I get to buy house upgrades. This way I can be constantly earning stuff for my house and if I get some spare money I can buy a round of drinks.

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I would love to see them do more to make me want to go to my home instance. Gathering node probably isn’t going to do it for me, but more story elements sure would.

Maybe the player housing will have bookcases in it for things like Marjorys journal and the new four winds model, any of the new story rewards we’re starting to get.

I agree with Mad Queen et all, excellent writing loved the noir feel to the cut scenes. Hope Anet give the writers more time to do work like this. Anet please don’t rush to get things out as fast as possible I’m sure everyone would rather wait a couple more weeks for a good update like this than a so so one like southsun ended up.

Jam’s right love the day by day unfolding, great pace not too quick but not as dragged out as some things have been.

Only downside so far was the effigies, rather than 50 that you could just jump too or run out of lions arch every half hour to repeat the near by ones, say 20 or 30 non repeatable ones that make you explore the base areas again.

So far a big thumbs up! Keep up the freat writing.

If you need more staorage space form your own guild. A friend pointed it out to me that if you create a guild you could get the guild stash cheaper than buying the bank upgrade, and you don’t need other members so you can store non account stuff there.

I’m on Fissue Of Woe and often it can get hard to get a large group together for some of the bosses and even some dungeon runs. Would it be possible to put a notice board up in Lions Arch were players can advertise group events?

For example:

Karka Queen Event
Meeting at Pearl Islet at 7pm Uk time

Or

Ascalonian Catacombs Dungeon Runs
Lvl 30 upwards meet at Wp from 8pm to 9pm

This way we could carry on with the main game but know when it would be easier to find a group for an event, instead of hanging around a dungeon or LA for half an hour trying to get a group together.

The messages only need to stay up for a few hours before being automaticaly wiped off.

I know this is what guilds are for but I’ve joined a couple so far and one guild has stopped playing and the other started to focus on pvp. Even if your in a good guild your team mates are not always on at the same time.

So far I’ve found it a bit fustrating, I can agree with a lot of whats been said here, but I’ve not been able to get all 4 camps done nevermind the queen. I’d like to get the chance of having some of these problems.

I’m on fissue of woe and for the last 5 days I’ve been trying to do the queen event, so far theres just not been enough of us to leave a group at every camp. We’ve captured 3 at most but soon as we leave the third camp to go on one of the others has been over taken again by huge groups of karkas.
Pleas Anet if a camps been won leave it like that until the queens arrived, don’t reset them untill after she’s there. Because so far I’m just running around in endless circles trying to capture the camps and being killed every 5mins. Is it worth it?

I know if I was in a guild it would be easier to orgainise a good group to do the event but the guild I’m in hasn’t bothered doing the event.

I wish there was an events notice board in lions arch where we could leave a message up for an hour or so for example:

Karka Queen event
Anyone interested meet at Pearl Islet 7pm Uk time

We could do that for any of the big events. I’m a solo player mostly but I do enjoy meeting up for the big battles. I think it’s great when there’s a a big group playing together, all helping out. I love to do the big bosses, but a lot of the time there’s not many of us about to do it.

Last night I had hopes it could be done when a commander messaged for everyone to join in for the event. Great I thought untill I got to the end of the first camp killing the karka nests. I destoyed the last one to be told off by the other players as they were only there to farm and they were all kitten ed at me as they’d have to wait for it to reset!!!!!

So does anyone know of a world I can guest on that’s doing the queen event regularly?
I’d like to have a go but soon I’m just going to give up and go back to the rest of the game.

dead drops and lost and found objects in deiessa are on Millers sound at the moment
wayfares are on fissue of woe

guesting on millers sound and found mysteroius drops and lost n found objects

Hi what world are you on?

Hi Fissue of Woe has dead drops in Wayfarers but none in Diessa, just jumped to Gunners hold and nothing on diessa

Please allow players to salvage karma items, I don’t expect to get sigils / runes if it was already on the item or even crafting materials but I love to get back any upgrades I add onto a weapon. Or please add a message reminding players that once added upgrades can’t be got back from karama items.

I’m still a low level palyer with only 2gp to my account. I recently got hold of a major sigil of krait slaying (?) and applied it to my trident. When I upgraded my trident I couldn’t reuse my sigil as it was a karma bought weapon. I was annoyed as I couldn’t afford to replace what had been a great drop (the sigil). Unfortunately this isn’t the first time I’ve made this mistake, I don’t always remember which were karma items weeks after getting them. It’s fustrating to get better items then not be able to upgrade with the runes / sigils I’ve managed to find so far.

Thanks Anet for reading.

I’ve read and agreed with a lot of comments on the forum about lost shores event.
Well done Anet love the game shame about the problems this weekend.

Some one else has mentioned that this weekend should be called a “Stress Test” and that we should ask Anet to replay event again next weekend when the bugs are fixed and we can all play it as it was ment to play.

Many thanks to responding players and Anet.

Edited by Moderator: No petition threads

My characters are stuck on the loading page for gendarran fields, cant report problem in game and I don’t have a twitter account!!!!
I was trying to do the halloween event and now I’m stuck. Gendarran fields wont load so i cant map travel any where else. I’m in Uk so I’m going to miss most of evening event. I wish that gw2 had started like gw1 midnight to midnight in usa, that way here in uk I could have played all afternoon.