Guild Wars 2

I’m pretty sure this is just a troll, but I will say that the title of lord has been given to plenty of females. I don’t think it’s anything to get worked up over.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Didn’t link anything, and that was only the 3rd message in map/team chat I had put down that night.

Well, I don’t have specifics for your situation, but I can tell you that reporting someone does not have this effect. Perhaps one of your 3 messages managed to get on the nerves of some dev who decided to abuse his mute function. That seems unlikely though because a dev would actually have to be in wvw for that to happen.

That link doesn’t really specify whether the event would give Maguuma mastery XP or Cental Tyria mastery XP. My guess would be that it will be for Central Tyria. Maguuma seems less likely, but hey, what do I know?

RyuDragnier.9476:

Somebody reported you. Happened to me, and I found it funny, just because I told a guy that there was no point in defending Anz because it was paper.

Nobody reported him, or you for that matter. Even if someone did report, there is no way that you would see the result of it so quickly.
This kind of chat suppression is automatically enforced and happens like Jeknar already told you. It also happens to commanders sometimes when not many other people are talking in map or say chat or wherever. I can’t tell if that was the case here, but my guess is excessive linking with no other message.

Awesome, make it so.

Choppy.4183:

That means the outnumbered buff grants immortality! Guess that explains how I’m still kicking after 10k+ deaths!

Now you’re getting it, I am undefeated when the outnumbered buff is on. Just make sure to whisper all the lame brains who think they beat you during those times to correct their misconception.

Want d/p to stealth like d/d? If you are in steal range drop your black powder and cast heartseeker, press steal right after and you will land mug and heartseeker while remaining in stealth since the stealth from a leap finisher is applied after the animation.

Choppy.4183:

the player knows they got the kill anyway… and so do you.

Your moral victory has no power here Choppy! If my armor doesn’t break then it means I didn’t die! Which means they didn’t win! Which means I win!!!!

Bunter.3795:

You espouse a double standard here Gaile. “why not just move on and let it go?” The game has a verbal abuse report function, an inappropriate character name report function, why can’t people just “move on and let it go?” as you suggest? Why are those behaviors considered so bad that there are people forced to rename their characters or suspended for comments and yet other trolling behavior is, in your opinion, considered not anywhere as bad? A persons character name who you may never see in game again is surely something that could be “let go” yet constant banker golems or boxes of fun spam at reward chests, etc which impacts way more people and can cause people to lose out on rewards. Before anyone says that ‘verbal abuse" is so much worse, well you have a block button, use it. We don’t have a block button for the golem banker that can be constantly spammed at an interact location.

I understand what you are getting at here, however, there is a fundamental difference in the two actions. If someone is acting inappropriately in any of the chats, or has an inappropriate name, they are providing you with their account info as well as evidence of their behavior and should already be aware of the potential risk they are taking. I don’t think it is necessarily that one action is worse than the other action, but accountability and guilt are much harder to determine in the case of spawned npcs or items. Certainly if you see someone doing it, and it is to an excessive amount, you should report them. The OP was about a single banker dropped on top of a vista which, yes sucks, but ultimately can’t be proven as malicious and is much better to just let go.
In the case of world boss chests you can just turn on autoloot and aoe loot and as soon as the event is done the chest is looted for you. Most other things can just be selected to give them priority. The ones that need fixing are things that can’t be selected, such as vistas, hero points and things like that. For all my time in wvw I have never pulled a tactivator so I’m not sure if those are targetable.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Palador.2170:

Gaile Gray.6029:

I think these instances are pretty rare, for I play the game for hours every night, and a lot on the weekends, and I can’t remember this happening more than once or twice. I also happen to believe that many if not most are accidental, and not a form of griefing.

It’s not a problem for you, so you don’t think it’s a problem for anyone else? And if we want someone to address it, we need to grief you and anyone else with an ANet tag until someone gets angry? That’s pretty much what I’m getting from this.

Then you read it wrong. She’s saying in her experience she’s encountered this once or twice. She never said because it wasn’t a problem for her, it wasn’t a problem for someone else. She’s saying in most cases it’s probably accidental.

The idea that it takes someone at ANet to get angry for something to happen is ridiculous.

I have to say I agree with Arden here. You’re reading way too much into what she listed as personal experience. I would add that she also recommended that even if it is griefing, it is better to let it go and move on. The spawned bankers or merchants or whatever despawn after like 15 minutes, just go do an event or two and come back.

Furthermore tying an account name or guild name to the spawned object would only act as a tool for others to harass someone who probably made a mistake.
I’ve played the game since launch and have several characters with 100% map completion, as well as a bunch more with partial completion and I have never experienced this problem. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but I agree with Gaile. If it does happen, it is most likely an accident.

Thanks for the clarifications. Outside of mainhand pistol I can’t really think of a stealth skill I would want to replace the auto attack, especially with the cool down they added. The stealth attacks are great for 1 shot bursts, or setup for bursts, but then I want my auto attack back to get more damage in. I suppose there is something to be said for the heartseeker backstab combos that would be possible, but that seems like something they would have to nerf pretty quickly, otherwise thieves would just gain hidden and 212121 until there was nothing left in front of them.

Johje Holan.4607:

Just because something has been some particular way for a long time doesn’t mean it should stay that way. Especially if its universally acknowledged as being bad.

Absolutely, I agree with you and would love a different system to be in place. My reason for not manually adjusting matches unless movement becomes impossible is because it only perpetuates the wall. No matter what happens the main problem, as has been said, is population imbalance. People will inevitably fairweathr away from hard matches, which turns hard matches into bad matches, and then bandwagoning goes and imbalances everything even more. It’s a tough problem that is hard to solve without alienating a bunch of people.
The main thing is that until a new system is in place we are stuck with what we have. Tweaking glicko whenever a bad matchup occurs is a bandaid fix that fails to address the real problems.

While I agree that at best glicko is imperfect and at worst broken and absolutely stupid, bad matches happen. They have happened since the very beginning, manually adjusting the matches should only happen if the T4 situation happens again. YB will move eventually and until then find the good times where you can.

You’ve got some interesting ideas, and I like the idea of glyphs and a long bow. (side note: this reminds me a lot of the Thief video games, did you take inspiration from there?) Would glyphs function like signets? That seems to be the way they are described. One thing that throws up lots of red flags is the hidden buff. I’m not entirely sure what the purpose is. It would allow for a spammed attack such as pistol whip, or unload, without breaking stealth? If something like that were implemented the public outcry would break these forums indefinitely. Overall I think it there are some good ideas but it would ultimately make the thief too powerful, and I think we all wan to avoid unnecessary power creep.

D/P. Stack the camp and lay down that blinding field as soon as it runs out every time, then auto attack your way to glory. Gotta make sure to stack the camp though, and kill scouts first.

Edit: S/P would be good too, that way you get the evades from pistol whip. I still like D/P better though, it conserves initiative.

It’s already been said that this is a bad idea, but can you imagine the attacking zerg throwing 6 rams that are invulnerable for one minute? They would be through the gate before you could do anything at all. Granted, you’re not stopping a group that big with one or two defenders on ac’s anyway, but you get the idea. Burning oil and cannons become useless entirely with invulnerable siege.

I stopped using my SB entirely because the damage is not good. It became a weapon that I was only using when I wasn’t in combat, for the teleports. Now that mobility (at least in my build) is so good, I find in most cases it is an obsolete weapon choice. Everything about the SB is too slow. Maybe if they increased the speed of the attacks I would take another look at it.

The portal is what you think needs a nerf? I mean there are a lot of things about mesmers which are strong, but a mesmer using a portal to dodge a zerg and “divide the squad” is just plain ol’ good times.

Wait… Are you talking about friendly mesmers setting up portals to send some people a different direction?

I agree with the Rev idea. You might also take a look a Mes, they can be pretty fun to play.

Why do I feel like I’m about to be offered snake oil?

I have the same trait lines and I run S/D D/P. I used to have S/D SB before HoT but found SB to be unused and kind of a hindrance. I’ve had a lot more success against warriors in particular with the S/D D/P sets, and in general having something instead of the old staple SB seems to throw most people off initially. All in all I feel it’s pretty versatile and like Straegen said that in combat mobility is fantastic.

I guess my question is how do you think you are the first person to post about this? This sort of post has been around since the first thief equipped his first dagger and landed the first backstab on an similar zerk spec.

I am not following your train of thought here. What you are suggesting would force everyone to have to make similar builds. While it is true that the dps/zerker classes can output their damage quickly, they are relying on their dodges in lieu of toughness and vitality. If they get hit, you know they are going to seriously feel it. On the other hand, you with your support build, don’t have to worry about timing your dodges just right because you have the stats to take a few hits. The great thing about Guild Wars is that you can play either way and be successful.

As a side note if you are fighting something that can one shot you, regardless of your build, why would you not expect to go down, take some friends next time.

Hear hear! New Tequatl is my favorite and best boss fight in the game.

The badges are used to purchase the gift of battle, which is required for legendary weapons. If you are into that kind of thing.

Simply spectacular!

Starbird.4029:

> Replace Body Shot with a Shot that allows the thief to leap backwards, firing shots that cripple multiple targets. Give it an initiative cost to reflect this.

I will often run P/P, I like it because it fires a bit faster than the SB which makes it harder to dodge. Plus, I really enjoy the blinding combo field. That being said I do wish that there was a skill like the one mentioned above, it would give more versatility, and I would feel a lot more useful to my team while using P/P.

Fernshade is always my main name, and always a thief (my favorite class in any game). I have had it forever, about 15 years or so, back in the days when I played Gemstone III. For my alts, I haven’t spent more than 10 minutes on any of them. Sirennialis, human mesmer, I think “siren” fits well with the mesmer class. Taren Felwind , human warrior, because warriors should always use a family name IMO. And Kallvach, norn ranger, I like the hard k sounds for the norns.

Lol, good stuff here.

One possible answer might be that you are only allowed one in-world chest per character, per boss, per day. As far as the bonus chest goes, you are only allowed one of those per account, per boss, per day.