Guild Wars 2

((Copy Pasta from a post I made in Reddit! Links instead of Images to cut down on post size— which requires some extra clicking, but I hope you find it worth it. This was so fun!))

Several weeks ago, a guild mate put forth an incredible amount of effort and, in anticipation of the Halloween Content, began teasing an event called Blood In The Guild Hall

On his own, Rusken Flamebreaker fabricated an intricate Murder Mystery for us! Over the span of two weeks, using our Facebook page as a means of communication and the main message board, we sought vengeance for our fallen comrade!

The day has come, everyone is gathering in the guild hall waiting for the event to start. You are so excited for the new challenge and you can’t stop to join in the crowd uplifting chatter.
Two strikes of thunder suddenly cut through the air, resounding in the vast guild hall. You instinctively wonder at the source of the sound…
Beyond the stairs, you see a motionless body lay in a pool of blood.
Rummaging through your bags, you lit a candle and lay it next to your fallen comrade. You clench your fist and swear you will bring justice to the guild. Your journey has begun…

Phase 1: Investigate the crime scene
Search Gyro come back with some suspicious clues. Time to find those location and investigate the crime scene to unlock clues!

During this phase, we investigated the Guild Hall, searching high and low. When we found a location, we were given clues of varying types to start us on our way.

Phase 2: Follow the trail
Minions manifest from your shadow and project some images into your mind. Time to find those locations and investigate the crime scene to unlock clues!

During this phase, concurrent with Phase 1, guild members followed the trails of fleeing suspects all across Tyria! We found more clues, and sometimes got close to the suspects, only to lose them at the last moment. There were 30 locations in all!

Phase 3: Question the suspects
With the help of the guild, you have capture your suspect. Time to wring some information out of them.
Post your question to the respective suspect, they have to answer you one way or another. Feel free to add in additional actions or follow up with more conversations, they might or might not help you getting a more truthful reply.

During this phase, guild members interrogated the three captured suspects on their whereabouts on the night of the murder, motive, and more. We really put the pressure on!

Bonus Info: Findings from various experts
More info coming in to help you crack the case. Feel free to drop in request for various testing or reports.

Eventually, we were given more information to help us along when we were stuck, including an autopsy report, some forensic analysis, and some help with coded ciphers.

Phase 4: Deduce the crime
From all the info you have collected so far, time to crack the cookie.

Finally, with all the information gathered and suspects questioned, we were given a space to post our theories on what really happened, and who the murderer was! Awesome prizes were given both for guessing the correct murderer, and for getting closest to the actual chain of events that led up to it!

The Truth Revealed!
The Guild gathered together and finally summoned the Ghost of Rusken to reveal the truth to us!

It was a HUGE amount of work, and it blows my mind that he put in so much effort and time for us to have this great, themed event. Kudos to you, Rusken, and thank you so much for the fun!

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

It might have something to do with tomorrow’s patch. I am guessing that you have a specific decoration that is getting changed and it’s causing some sort of conflict.

Ideally, also use the in-game /bug reporting tool, which gives the QA team additional troubleshooting details. This shouldn’t happen at all and I’m hoping your reports will help them prevent it in the future.

Regardless of the cause of it, it was really unnerving to see! I didn’t realize how often I go to the GH til I couldn’t anymore!
I’ve sent in a report — but if it’s likely to be fixed with tomorrow’s patch, which, I am reasonably optomistic it WILL be, that will probably be moot. Here’s hoping!

I am part of 5 guilds, two of which are Gilded Hollow and 3 of which are Lost Precipice.
My guild has had Gilded Hollow for more than a year and is (was?) Max levelled.

Logging in today, I have a bizarre message on my guild panel— “A new build is available. Guild functionality has been disabled.”

The other Gilded Hollow guild is accessible, as are all the Lost Precipice ones. Only OUR guild seems to have been effected.
My launcher does not patch anything, and the rest of my guild mates are having the exact same problem.
We cannot enter from Tarir through the portal, it automatically directs us to any other guild we are part of that has Gilded Hollow.
All our Guild EXP is still there, but all the icons beside the MoTD are gone except for the basic ‘You claimed this!’ icon. All our consumables and decorations appear to still be in the inventories…

We just can’t get in.

Anyone else having this issue / locked out?

This is super creative! Love this

This is pretty sweet, DusK! I really like the drums, definitely gives it an epic feel

This is great!

My Guild always gathers in the Guild Hall before weekend Guild Missions and uses the portal to get everyone together.

Now that we’re upgraded as much as we want to be and are working on optional extras for fun, we’ve started doing little fun things after Guild Missions in the Guild Hall!

We have Gilded Hollow and we have used it for, and are going to use it for:

• Hide and Seek!
  Make sure you’re all in the same instance if you have a medium or large Guild. I found this out the hard way, though it was pretty hilarious! All you have to do is unrepresent and you can no longer see gold guild dots, and they can’t see yours! Prizes for first, second, or third person to locate the hider, or hide several people at once who then reveal themselves when they are found the first time.
• Tonic Races!
  Myself and some other ‘officer’ types will situate ourselves with tags up around the Guild Hall and have everyone drink a tonic, then run to each tag in order, and across the finish line. This leaves options for people to take whatever path they’d like rather than a set one, but ‘evens the playing field’ by having everyone in the same form with the same speed boosts and lack of skills.
• Hide The Decoration!
  We have an ‘Immense Lion’ (two, actually!) and since it’s such a huge decoration, it’s fun to try to hide it! This, and Hide and Seek, really renew our appreciation for the hall as we run around exploring it!

I’ll have to run the PvP tournament stuff by the Guild, too, and see how they feel about it. We definitely have people who love PvP/WvW, but we’re about 60 members, and the majority are mostly PvE oriented.

We also had the idea to maybe start a raffle to help fund the Guild Events so none of the leaders go broke eventually — maybe 80% to the winner, and 20% to the Guild Bank to be used for prizes for events?

Fun stuff, and thanks for starting the Thread!

My Co-Leader and also bestie, Lethani Kvothe!

(Note : Large size! Might take a minute to load!)

Here’s her vision of my in-game Engi BFF, Rio Cogsprocket!

(Edited : They’re pretty big — A4 size! — and might take a minute to load! >.<)

I’ve never actually commissioned anyone for fanart of my character(s) before… But I had a wonderful experience with Millalock on Tumblr! The results were so far above my wildest expectations, I wanted to give her a shoutout, here!

She’s drawn me, my best friend in-game, and my co-leader, and is currently working on my husband!

For now, here is:
Penelope Rainir, my Necromancer

All credit to http://millalock.tumblr.com/

(Edited : They’re pretty big— A4 size! — and might take a minute to load! >.<)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Official-response-re-HoT-inclusions/first#post5160476

I really should not have gotten on this warpath before work. It’s going to take forever to calm my ire enough to focus…

[[Calming Breathing]]

As many have already said, this is a disastrous move, and an obvious cash grab. Why could we not have just added in the set amounts to the existing system? Why are there not smaller set amounts for people who don’t have 70g++ to throw around (10, 25, 50, 100)? Excellent points have been made about people who only need some small number to reach their goals… I wish I could deny that Anet cares so little about their player base.

New players are just that— NEW. Have you no faith in their ability to learn a system? They’ll have to learn this system, too, you know! You do not need to dumb a game down like this for people to want to join and play it— your original player base loves/loved it so much that they recommended it to others… didn’t they?

Please, for the love of little kittens, consider the ideas laid out in this thread, and save your players from leaving!

• Smaller increment amounts (10, 20, 25, 50, 100?) Additionally, please reconsider the ability to input one’s own amount. That’s what made the gem store so friendly before, in my humble opinion— the ability to put away small amounts over time to ‘save up’ for the things you wanted.

Just… Just see KELVRIN’s post a few above here, on page 12.

I’m taking a break from GW2, for this IS, surely, madness.

[[Drops the mic]]

Hi Aereth! Reconsidering joining up with you guys after this mistelling earlier…

Hit me up in game again sometime— will leave you an in-game mail!

How has an ArenaNet person either not seen this, or not responded? Should it be moved to the “Bugs” section, since I"m not sure they look here as often?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/The-adds-in-Orr-events-are-off-the-charts/

Please refer to this link, as there are MANY, MANY complaints and quite a bit of unrest about the terrible scaling in Orr!

Well said, Ravenor.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Champion-Risen-Wraith-Unfair-Unbeatable

Here I’ve noted and comment on the Champion Risen Wraith in the Shelter’s Gate event. This is the only place I’ve noticed it as I haven’t attempted any of the temples yet… But I’m heartened to see others have been having major difficulties, and we are not alone.

I too noticed the Risen Chickens firing eggs that hit for 10k+ damage a hit, and find that also critically unfair.

I DEEPLY hope this thread gets noticed and something is done about fixing these insane scaling issues! +1’s all around!

+1’d that thread as well, Anon.

When the Champion Risen Wraith spawned in Shelter’s Gate Camp in Cursed Shore, it was an instant loss. I understand beefing up the mobs, but feel this is broken— We had approximately twenty people there to defend the camp, and the creature used a MASS LIFE TAP. Not only was it healing itself beyond us being able to damage it, it killed everyone within seconds, even fully ascended gear folk.

I can’t imagine how even a smaller group would be able to kill it, scaled down, as it would still have the same skills, and kill everyone within moments of coming in range. Add on the massively sized AOE DoT’s and it was impossible. An instant failure.

I feel this combination of skills for this mob unfair, and extremely frustrating. Could this please be adjusted somehow?

Glad, but not glad, to see this is happening to other players than myself.

Same problem — Female Charr, Heritage Heavy Armor chest piece has a red stripe down the middle and on the armband that cannot be changed by any dye corridor.

This is frustrating enough, looking at the clash, that I actually had to get myself another red to make it work.

I don’t understand why this hasn’t been fixed yet, as it seems fairly simple to tie it back in with one of the dye corridors again, but…

Please address this issue? It seems pointless to have the ‘benefit’ of the armor from previous GW1 play when it looks awful because of an insurmountable glitch. sigh

Lyssa Uncontested on Ehmry Bay, 10:33pm PST

Well—- THAT was unpleasant….
sigh
Issue resolved, though. Please close this thread, and much thanks for the support, Gaile, and those who gave it.