Guild Wars 2

This first week of leagues has been interesting nonetheless.

Despite being targeted by Ebay and Yak’s, we were able to salvage some fun!
(I mean, who knew YB stockpiled siege, players, commanders, and skills before this week?)

We shall meet again, and good luck to you both as you enter other matchups.
I hope you don’t get double teamed-It’s not as awesome when you are on the losing end!

Dragonbrand! Great job chaos-fielding our group down with your endless mesmers today!

I know all servers are probably exploiting it, but every time we tried to take a tower, there was a mesmer there who would leap down and ruin the fun…

Way to suck!

(Please fix Anet)

I want to kill me some Goat this week. And then chill the Burn.

Then take a quick trip to slaughter Rekz.

Better hope we don’t eventually beat DB, or you Rekz guys will have to find another higher tier server to transfer to. There’s only so many above us.

Good luck everyone, and happy hunting!

My Dearest Setun,

My forum warrioring (while that surely isn’t a word) is horrible, I know. You’ll get over it. I’d like to hear some more opinions of BP from you and your fellow SBI members. Maybe send a few guild representatives my way! Oh. Wait.

Apparently, If our skill level was as low as you say it is, we would not be doing so well.

I implied it in my first post, but I’ll type it out clearly here.

You are in last place. A “bad” WvW guild as your men mention is better than not having one. After all, I’m sure any organized group of players could blow through your guild. Which one are you in?

In the end, do you really think your lootbag count is higher than the mighty BP’s? Maybe if everyone is chilling out in the new area in Divinity’s Reach.

Please continue on, making yourself and your server look bad.

Call me a troll if you wish, but when someone is making a fool out of themselves, I NEED to let them know through any ways possible.

Thanks for being so entertaining.

I love it. I just HAD to get on and post.

SBI, I find it quite funny that half of your posts are along the line of “BP, your awesome and winning, but your guilds suck!”

Then you proceed to say that because you don’t have WvW on SBI, you guys continue to lose.

If our guilds get wiped time after time, how can you sit back in your last place position and say we suck…when you don’t have any guilds. Last time I checked, that was your problem, not BPs.

Also, if we suck so much, we wouldn’t be wiping your huge militia zergs with 35 WFD, or capping your home SM every night.

Ebay, I have great respect for your guilds. We’ve had some great fights with Hawk in particular. Gotten much better. If SBI had enough people in WvW, maybe they can spectate sometime.

I’m truly sorry if you aren’t a troll SBI and you read this post. Talk to your friends for me.

At one point, we had a complete defensive force in our Borderlands. The enemy glitched into Bay with about 20+ and took it. Do You realize how demoralizing that is?

Please look at this Anet. If I need to do this privately, let me know and delete this post. After all, everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

Good to see SBI kicking it up a notch this weekend!
Good to see NSP doing very well also.

Have a great July 4th Americans!
(and a good week if you aren’t American )

So, is ALS really transferring out of Anvil?

Shout out to ALS for knowing how to use arrow carts above and beyond the normal limits!

Well, I really wish I was home to finish the first event, along with the others, but I had the time to play the new dungeon…and

It was AWESOME!

I will have to wait for Sunday to play the next event and new zone, which is a bummer.

Aside from the lag, time required for the dungeon to actually open, and other bugs(most which I did not encounter), I’d like to say thanks to A-Net for doing this:
It is a learning experience for everyone…and the new content is great.

Over the past week, the jumping puzzle has been occupied by countless Gates of Madness trolls (mostly individual guilds), who have taken the time to build arrow carts and other equipment on top of the arena. I know it is not just GoM which does this…all servers in WvW have probably done something similar, and that’s fine.

What’s not fine is how many of these trolls are on for pretty much the entire day, killing any and everyone coming near, mainly due to the success of arrow carts.
No one has come close to taking them down, even with Anvil Rock and Borlis Pass personnel teaming up to try to at least get halfway to the top of the arena.

Is it a problem which can be stopped permanently? No.
Can it be toned down so at least some of us can finish the jumping puzzle? Maybe.

I don’t know if it is possible to remove siege equipment from the jumping puzzle all together as it is not a separate instance, but that would be a start. Just think, people at the top already have the chains to pull, and skills like scorpion wire to troll and take care of enemies. It would be more enjoyable if people had a chance to get to the top vs getting killed in 5 seconds with an arrow cart.

As far as other solutions, I have no idea. Maybe there is not a solution. But I know one thing:

Stuff like this can be fun for a while, but after dealing with it constantly, I want it to go.

Any ideas, suggestions, feedback?

This happened to me in the Halloween event today, but I’m sure it can occur in most instances with a party, other dungeons, etc.

Never diss the party you are with. We had a few newbies running through the dungeon, and it probably took about 20 minutes…much longer than my previous 10 runs

So, being a honest person, I party messaged something along the lines of:

“For the record, this was the worst group I have been in today”.
MISTAKE!

We defeated the king, then everyone got very uptight at my lighthearted(sorta) comment. As I was running down to get the treasure, BOOM! Kicked out of the party. No treasure. Learned my lesson: Never put down your team, no matter if they suck really bad! Teehee.

Hope this entertained some of you. Don’t know if this could happen in other dungeons, but just a warning.

Being a thief, I can tell you that the best defense is to have the heal button ready to go, along with traps ready to be set.

Yes, some critical can go for almost half of a player’s health, but a thief’s worst nightmare is someone who knows how to dodge, heal at the right time, and bind them from moving!

Eileithia.5246:

I have a Logitech G600 with 12 buttons on the thumb, and a “Shift” key (ring finger) to give you another 12 actions. I’ve bound 1-0 on the main set, and weapon swap + F1-F4 on the shift set.

After using it for a week, I could never go back to clicking, and I was a hardcore clicker in every game previous since EQ1.

Sounds like something I need to check out.

Redfeather.6401:

Ethan, this is what I did first thing in beta.

I re-mapped the keys.
E-forward
S-strafe left
D-180 turn
F-Strafe right
Z-weapon skill 1
A-weapon skill 2
W-weapon skill 3
R-weapon skill 4
G-weapon skill 5
C-utility 1
V-utility 2
B-utility 3
shift-heal
Q-weapon swap
1-4 Profession skills

And then I practiced 1 full afternoon to get my fingers used to reaching those keys and knowing where to reach by instinct. I did that practice in Lion’s Arch up on the cliffs where I could be all alone. Did it until I felt like it was an extension of my mind.
And it really paid off, and I can’t go back to clicking now!

I clicked all through GW1 and it wasn’t until GW2 that I realized…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ2HcRl4wSk

Whew! I got tired just looking at those keys

I’m sure once some of the binds become installed in your muscle memory, it is a piece of cake and efficient.

I had to learn to keybing in LoL and got pretty good at it.

In Guild Wars 2, I guess I like having more control since the combat is more dynamic.
Using a mouse helps casting aoe skills better for me as well.

There are few of us.

Few of those who actually use the mouse and click our weapon swap, our skill bar, our F1 skills, and perhaps most often- our healing skill.

Honestly, I have no idea how many people use the mouse compared to the keyboard.
I’m used to clicking the skills instead of pressing a binded key—-something that has plagued me since the beginning of GW1.

So, what do you guys use? Any ideas of advantages or disadvantages of each?

Late at night, I find myself missing the skills. which could be easily avoided by pressing the 6 key to heal, for example.

Agree with you and with Rhyse.

A free cost would allow for better convenience, especially when hoping between personal story assignments.

I’m sure they look over these from time to time.

If I was a Dev, I’d look for the suggestions with the most replies, but most probably do get skimmed.

Anyways, what’s your suggestion?

Waypoint cost could go a bit down when at a higher level. Even then, however, the cost can be clearly covered and then some by looting some monsters.

Other than that, paying a few silver to repair my armor is nothing too serious.

Compared the the percentage death penalty in Guild Wars, having a little of your gear busted makes sense.

Honestly, Guild Wars 2 is still very appealing and interesting to me. I’m taking everything very slow, getting familiarized with each of my two (yes only two so far) characters, and really enjoying the game for what it is- A piece of art, with each of the components being players at home.

So, the game is definitely NOT dying because I know that many others feel the same way that I do, but for another group of people, Guild Wars 2 is just not the game for them so they leave.
Very expected and understandable.

Every day, the game is growing: No we will most likely not have overflow zones again, nor will new servers be added to the roster every week. However, seeing that all of the American servers except one are at a high population, GW2 is prepared for the future in my opinion.

Yes, something like this would be really awesome. In Skyrim, for example, I could spend countless hours launching foes off of mountain tops.

However, for a MMO, I do not think being able to knock a creature of a high elevated area would be good.

Say it is a skill challenge and you knock the enemy off of a hilltop right away. Is that really a challenge? Or you knock a NPC off of a cliff, but someone else was also attacking the same NPC…It just wouldn’t work out in my opinion.

Fun? Yes! Compatible? Most likely not.