Guild Wars 2

lol was great fun so many laughs on teamspeak. These things need to happen more often!!!

The ppt would be closer if during sea db and sor worked together. Instead BG has all DB bl most their EB stuff. While DB has full map que in SoR bay sitting. As a new xfer to SoR from FA about month and half ago. SoR has the same numbers now as they did when I first transfered. One group of 50-60 players floating plus the others that are on map. Nothing has changed the whole time I’ve been here. The scores are close when JQ/DB whoever doubles with SoR to hold off their Sea. When JQ focused fully on SoR and DB isnt holding anything. I believe they are just in SoR BL for fights the score looks like it is now.
Either way its great fun fighting you guys @BG/JQ and as a former member of FA love fighting DB to :P. DB knows FAers love their fights. You can’t hate on having great fights 24/7.
Respect to all servers and guilds for giving good fights!

Got dc’d waited… logged back in client froze got error….not much else to say -_-

After hour and hours of farming and getting no drops. I mean literally 1 drop out of 50 kills. I’ve figured out why.
Magic find is bugged atm since you patched the drop rates. I crafted my buddy who plays his exotic magic find gear he just hit 80 on his guardian yesterday. He started complaining Magic Find sucked so he started using his old green fresh 80 armor and was getting 4 times as many drops actually more than that even rares.
I logged on his account to test it cause id on’t have a fresh none magic find gear on my warrior. It is 100% bugged you get tons more drops without magic find atm.
The reason so many people are angry because you said you increased drops but we saw a ridiculas decrease. I can only figure the plus magic find is giving a negative bonus to it.
I only took a small sample as it was friends account and we where both getting ready for the events, but from what he’s said and been getting and what i experienced it is the case.
If that isn’t the case then something went seriously wrong with the increase in drop in the patch.
Please fix asap!

The drop rate was supposed to increase according to patch. Instead it decreased by an enormous amount. Nothing has been said about it.
I was going for my legendary, but this is way to much. I feel like I need to take a break from the game as well if not just out of pure frustration.
I love guild wars and the lore. I don’t mind a grind for gear mmo or a grind for looks mmo. MMO’s will have grinding you do not have to but they will have it period.
Guild Wars 1 had a lot of grinding in it thats a fact. Obsidian you had to devote a crazy amount of time to get. More so before the expansions. As well as others canthan and luxon 15k. I played from day 1 of guild wars 1 release and loved it.
On to the economy of guild wars 2! Punishing the players it seems is the way your handling things.
Bots come in the game you put DR in it. It does absolutely nothing to the bots as seen on the TP and more evident after the wide bot bans when prices went crazy for T6 mats.
One thing on DR take it out. There is absolutely no reason unless your wanting to keep casual players from making gold so they lean more towards buying gems to exchange for gold. If thats the case then simply say DR is apart of the game deal with it of course in nicer words for PR purposes.
Drop rates where fine pre patch. The only thing that needed changing was a buff to Magic find. I read a post on massively I believe on how Magic find worked and the system seemed good. If people aren’t getting enough exotics or rares to level out the prices it’s simple boost Magic Find in those higher tiers. That is the whole reason Magic Find is in the game is it not? For players who want to take a stat loss to boost their chances to make gold or get that rare exotic they’ve been wanting ex: legendary.
Taking DR out will allow players to go to said area where said material drops and farm them for w/e means they want them. Whether it be to craft their 80 exotic gear or that mid tier item they’ve been wanting.
That will help stabilize the market more than anything. Actual supply and demand not a oh hey i want this i geuss i’ll go farm it oh no 20-30 mins later DR hit i’m not getting that item anymore or any drops. I better go to this zone and keep farming items so I can make enough silver to sustain myself. This is where you get a million of said item on TP that won’t sell. Not including holiday events(candy corn).
All that said i’ve read from john smith i believe the market isn’t being manipulated. It is and these things I believe is what allows it. I’m one of the ones that manipulates it to flip a little gold. Maybe it isn’t considered manipulation by others but I believe it is. You manipulate buy orders and sell order to create a far inflated or ghost price on an item. It works best during peak WvW times as the majority of the I geuss more hard core players aren’t watching the TP to effect it. The causual player comes a long just see’s a buy order and sell order has no historical knowledge of what that item was 10 mins or days ago so he just sells to it. There are several videos on how to do this as well as podcast that show it. Tales Of Tyria being one of them its in a past episode if others want to know how to do it.
Sorry for the long post guys.. I’ve been reading the forums everyday and holding back frustration and judgement but I finally had to say something. It was killing me seeing a game I love be what seems torn apart.
While my ideas may need tweaking or other may have different opinions I believe they are steps in the right direction. I also believe others have very good opinions and should be heard. Even if they are exact opposite of mine its how we as people get better and make things better!

Anet take a slice of humble pie!!! Relax a bit think about everything don’t be in such a rush pushing all this new content. Fix the content is there. I promise you you do that and players will be happy those happy players will gossip bring more happy players the players who drop in hey whats changed will see happy players and come back to a happy game. So much happy in that sentence its scary :P lol!

And for gods sake you got pro PvPers/Farmers/Dungeon Grinders right at your finger tips to use an excuse like only 2 man balance team is a cop out. Sit down with the top pvpers or equivalent have a talk with them how to fix things make things better etc. It’s free and I promise they won’t bite if they do well then you got other problems lol.

I can 100% verify drop rates have gotten worse not better. Not sure how that happen. I farmed orr for roughly 2 and half 3 hours after patch hit. No drops from any champions at all. I usually get almost full inventory on drops after one event always after two. I did about 8 events and still didn’t have full bags.
I usually get 2-3 rares at least every event. I got one rare from the whole 2-3 hours farming.
Blue and greens replaced white drops is all I noticed in drops getting better. Getting 1/10 or less of the drops pre patch is crazy.
I am in full magic find gear with ominberry 40% magic find buff and most time have guild magic find buff on fort aspenwood.

I believe all that players are wanting is an explaination as to what action they are taking on bots. Will they be mass banning or are they looking into it day by day. I do not see them letting us know their intentions as effecting anything at all. A we are looking into it isn’t telling the player base anything especially when they report them and see nothing happening for weeks/days.
To players saying they do not see many. If your not leveling 80 you probably won’t. Bots don’t go complete hearts or grind mobs. They set them up on key events (Centaur bridge) as well as others. So that they level as fast as possible to 80 so they can farm in Orr. (Gold sellers do this) Bots you see running around are most likely players who bought one or made one. Gold selling is a business they won’t waste time they do things more efficient and cheapest.
On my server i’ve reported bots in Orr usually there is around 10-15 of them and are at 3 main locations as most Orr karma farms know those locations. The same name bots are still there and that was 2-3 weeks ago. Since then i just stop reporting bots as nothing from my point of view was happening.
I can’t believe they are not doing anything about it. I believe they are taking small steps. I do not think they have a very big team to handle all the issues. They where not ready for the huge influx of players. They are putting fixing all the game issues first bugs missing skill points etc.
I believe the devs/mods should give an official response on it. A we are doing the best we can at the moment our team was not ready for the mass influx of things; or a we are gathering as much information as possible making small bans as we see necessary for a larger ban at a date not to be determined.(GM’s online at the main farming spots or at least Orr even just one per server would help tremendously).
I will say that I love Guild Wars 2. The visual aspects of the game are absolutely stunning. I love the story-lines and very much appreciate all the time your team put into it(would have went different way on cut scenes lol; but they are different at the same time). Not to mention the PvP and WvW. I expect more mmos in the future to use the WvW concept. I am trying to get into the gaming industry and really take the time to look at all the details put into games more now than I would have in the past and not just play through fast to beat it or get to end game.
In the end I understand the players frustration as I’m one of the ones trying to farm Orr :P. As well understand Anets side of things to. So guys be patient like me wait for more patches to go through then see what actions are taken on the bots!

Server: Fort Aspenwood
Guild:Forgotten Players
Guild Tag: [FP]
After upgrading guild to get 50 slot bank; it no longer allows me or my friend(2 man guild) to upgrade anything else. We have plenty of influence it still works right just can’t upgrade anything.