Guild Wars 2

No sympathy for pugs.

I know that sounds coldhearted, but if you find a good guild to play with, rather than trying to play a multiplayer game all alone, the game as a whole should be more enjoyable in every way possible really.

Until then, you’re missing out.

Shield is fine. Dat focus cc is OP….

Not trying to be destructive but there is about a 0% chance this will be incorporated. Do you think they announced other classes’ weapons already, but have yet to even start brainstorming on guardian? They haven’t announced guardian’s weapon, but I can assure you they already have it picked out. On top of that I doubt it’s a polearm, much less with the random skills a random player picked out.

These just aren’t the types of things that are contributing to ANet or to the game as a whole. Make suggestions, not your own game please.

1. There is already a Cantha thread. Post there for Cantha stuff please.
2. We WILL NOT see Cantha. They’ve said this since launch.

In GW1, Asians were offended by like, EVERYTHING in Cantha and with GW2 being as popular as it is in China, I can’t imagine ANet being ready to bring Cantha back.

That being said though, Cantha please.

Notice how when they merged the Wintersday feedback thread, Gaile said that the devs would read it, and even responded multiple times herself.

When she merged the expansion thread, she did NOT mention the devs ever reading it, nor has she responded once throughout the 12 pages of begging.

I’d buy an expansion, but I’m not betting on one.

Just did some fractals the other night! Come join us for our next run!

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Click “Join Us!”

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A community of friends, not exclusively Guild Wars 2! Come run a dungeon with us, get to know us, then talk and play whatever you feel. Don’t limit your friends to a single game that you play.

http://www.Vicarious-Gaming.com

Still looking for friendly new faces! Just got a new GW2er the other day!

We play a variety of games, outside of entirely Guild Wars, though we do try to remain as active in Guild Wars as possible.

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Head to the site and click Enlist! We look forward to playing with you in game soon!

Awesome idea. If I wasn’t taken already I’d be joining up right away.

Cool idea. Hope this works out for ya.

It’s been a while since we last bumped this thread, but as always we are still looking for friendly new faces to come and join us!

Dark, you know good and well that you left us originally for a larger scale WvW guild, then after deciding that wasn’t right for you, ran out of options and decided to come back to us. Kinda forgot to leave all that out, didn’t ya?

We’re a group of dedicated and loyal friends. We’re not second choices.

That aside. Like Moose said, we’re playing quite a few things together, but still have a good focus on GW2. JUST finished running some of the newest fractals with the guildies less than 5 minutes ago. Join us and be there in our next run!

We’ve recently decided to become more of a gaming community, spreading our time a bit more evenly amongst various games as well, including Battlefield 4 and StarCraft II for those RTSers. We’re also looking into possibly expanding into Final Fantasy as well! Join us if you might be interested!

Well due to a little bit of interest peaked here and much interest outside this thread I’ve decided to go ahead and put up a bit of a test server. If we get this filled, I’ll gladly begin expanding it.

As I’ve said, I have nothing against the manvil server, but it would be really neat to be able to log on to TeamSpeak and see 30-40 people in various channels playing against each other, teams that know each other or just met. People in Solo que gging each other, and even just hotjoin.

I’ve been in Manvil TS a few times since you’ve proposed it, and the most I normally see is 3-4 peeps in a channel by themself where I can also assume they are already friends that know each other. Not exactly a warm welcome feeling. On top of that, there is 0 advertising for that server. Having a devoted TS server would really be great I think.

So without further ado:
GW2pvp.teamspeak3.com

If you’re interested in this idea, be sure to tell your friends and help advertise this. The server just went online and I’d love to start populating it within the next few days. Message “Foop” in game if you want to help. No help with be turned away.

I wish the manvil rock server was advertised a bit more.

Noted. Any others in favor/opposed to a community TS?

There are definitely a few for specific servers out there, but with the sPvP community being not notably huge to start with, I really feel like a server dedicated to sPvP would be great rather than splitting the players based off server. I’d imagine it would be considerably more inviting to newer players as well.

Our website address has been changed to http://www.Vicarious-Gaming.com now. Go there instead of the old site if you are interested in joining and click “Enlist”. Sorry for any confusion there.

After looking around and waiting for some time now, I’m rather surprised to see the lack of a serious sPvP community TeamSpeak. A couple have tried making a mumble server here and there but nothing ever seriously made to last for a good number of people.

If we can muster enough interest, I’d love to start up a community TS for everyone to use while Solo Qing, Team Qing, hotjoining, and learning from experienced players.

With new game modes on the horizon, I think sPvP could very well be on the rise in the very near future, and would love for everyone to be able to hop on a community TS for sPvP.

I’d love to hear other’s opinions as well as to whether they would find this useful and if they would find it to be a good idea or not. I’ll be out of town for the weekend, so I’ll leave this here and probably make the decision whether to put the TS up or not once I get back.

Thoughts?

EDIT: GW2pvp.TeamSpeak3.com
^ The server is online and active! Join today and help spread the word!

How on planet earth would adding food to pvp help with balance?

I do agree though, I really hope we start seeing some of the new skills they plan on implementing, and not just goofy profession-free heal skills.

Yeah it’s not that much to do really. If you aren’t an achievement point hunter, it’s hard to find anything to do with this update, since that’s ALL this update is. The argument that there is too much to do has got to be the single dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.

Yeah Halloween went from super fun to all alone and bored. My guildies were on TS with me and talking to me, but I want to be there with them when they fall off a cliff.

To answer your question more seriously, it’s to let the meta catch up. Then, I’d imagine to do some testing with changes and make sure everything new they’re about to change is on par with everything else so they don’t accidentally make it worse.

Just from what I’ve read.

Cleric’s gear is going to have more healing power, which is going to be better if you’re trying to offer support like you said you were.

Hey I’m just glad that they’ve decided to do so many of these new cutscenes, even if they do take a bit more time.

I know you guys said you were planning on adding more permanent stuff, which is great! I think one of the best visual ways to see that would be by slowly adding more regions.

Often times, guildies and friends try coming back to the game to see what all has changed, and they take a look at the world map and don’t see any difference at all really.

ANet, you already seem to be doing all the work that’s needed to add new regions by building some very beatiful maps and instances, they’re just temporary so far it seems. LET’S MAKE IT TO CANTHA ONE DAY! WOO!

Why is this thread still alive?

They said before this game launched that there would never be a GW3. Play GW2 or don’t play it and move on with your lives.

If you are all alone “trying to make a guild” and your first priority is how to earn influence rather than finding quality players to play with, then just don’t bother making a guild. Not to be rude, but I honestly think it’s when players like you who recruit other players into their “guild” and give them a bad impression of what a guild really is.

I’m rather impressed that the op is so good at knowing everything about balance that he can tell this skill is overpowered before knowing…. well… anything at all about it. Congrats!

Noticed this a while back but figured you’d find it eventually, but after seeing some of your new-player pushes recently, figured I’d let you know that on the main page under game>professions>rangers, the images are bugged. They’ve been like this for a few months now, but only for rangers. Their skill videos no longer appear and the screenshots and wallpapers are always updated with the newest release of content.

Not a big deal, but to new players looking to play rangers, they might be a bit confused.

As a white American guy, I’m offended by the architecture of nearly every building in the game. It would sure be great if you could remove them all please.

I guess I just don’t get Asian culture or something but it makes no sense whatsoever to me. Please bring Cantha back!

I feel as though Tournament rewards should be considerably more than rewards you get just from hotjoin. That should really help stop the farming too.

I agree, I enjoy Halloween as well. That in mind though, I’m not sure why you think Halloween all year round would be even a moderately decent idea. You’ll see it again next year, just like we did last.

Agreed. Guild housing would give at least SOME sort of purpose to guilds. Guilds are 100% player made in this game. There are so few features for guilds in GUILD Wars.

Vicarious has recently decided to open our doors to many new members to try and improve our wvw presence as well as have members to run dungeons at the same time!

Go to www.Vicarious.enjin.com and click “Enlist” to join!

We’ve changed how we bring in new members to make sure everyone is as comfortable and at home as possible when they join! Apply to join today and see what I mean!

Guardian is one of the most balanced and popular classes in the game, and for good reason. I really don’t see what the big deal is. Guardian beats the warrior in nearly everything but DPS. Don’t agree? That’s fine. If you need me I’ll be in sPvP killing more warriors.

They announced over a month ago that they were planning on changing how consecrations were going to be done. A few days before the patch might be a bit late to start a thread of ideas on how to change them.

Kerishan.8460:

Poorly realization, i really don’t like it.

How about poor grammar?

I like that this isn’t TOO Halloweeny so that it can still actually be used throughout the rest of the year too.

Most all ANet employees do such a great job of being patient with people who have no patience with ANet. I enjoy their occasional subtle sarcasm comebacks too though.

I DC multiple times per day. There’s nothing I can do about it, it’s just because I don’t get great connection in this area. HOWEVER, I’ve also felt the pain brought on by even just 1 person disconnecting as the rest of their teams sits there in defeat, some just leaving to go afk. 1 dc = 9

While I wouldn’t be surprised to get hit by dishonor due to a dc, I 100% support this.

Completely agree. I thought this game was called GUILD Wars.

I think that’s part of the reason we disagree. You seem to be much more offensive. I don’t believe guardians specialize in killing as fast as possible and relying entirely on dodges to survive.

I have a few guildies that play more like what it sounds like you do. Nothing wrong with that, but I think that’s why mace works better for my build.

I’m guessing you have more trait points specced into Zeal and/or Radiance then Valor, Honor, or Virtues?

Mace is next to maybe hammer when to comes to tanking and kiting in dungeons. It definitely has it’s place though.

Alright, well even if you don’t believe me, the fact that mace/shield is one of the most popular sets for guardians apparently means nothing?

I don’t mind discussion, I just don’t want this to lead to ANet doing something goofy like buffing the shield.

Guan, rallying off trash might work better in pve sometimes fine. Even still there are times when you just need to go pick them up. If you are always rallying off trash and never rezzing manually, you’ve probably let a lot of people die and not even know it.

Alright, since I’m apparently coming across as a know it all, allow me to backup my statements. Go look at any of the best pvp guardians. They almost ALL use resolute healer, and it works well! It’s not just me. Aza, you might be a fine guardian, maybe better than me, I don’t know you and I never claimed too. I’m just saying if you are a button masher like guan, then no shield probably won’t work too well for you.

@ Aza: You don’t need the resolute healer trait now. Instead you can get something else since you have the shield as a knockback. However, I won’t nor have I ever denied that the shield is more situational. So is the Wall of Reflection as well. Put it down at a bad time and it does nothing. Put it down at the right spot at the right time and I’ve killed a ranger with nothing but the wall. Situational =/= underpowered or in need of a buff.

@ guanlongwucaii: absolutely NOTHING in your argument was… well correct. I personally diagree with Aza but at least he has some valid points. You’re arguing that using a knockback while rezzing is a bad thing? I guess that kinda makes resolute healer obsolete… Also the “short” knockback gives you PLENTY of time to rez someone. I normally don’t even need to pop my stability if I use the knockback.

I’m not gonna sit here and argue anymore. All I’m saying is that in the length of time you all spend complaining about a weapon that is fine and not going to be changed, you could have spent that time figuring out how to actually use it. To each their own though I suppose.

I’m going to continue to use shield since I know how to use it. As I said before, message me in game if interested in learning how to actually use shield, otherwise enjoy your focus.

Wvw zergs, the shield (in my opinion) is actually really easy to use. Simply put, when a fight starts, throw the shield of judgement over your allies. The shield would probably be better used for it’s ranged blocks but can easily save lives when used right. Use it to rez players or block for players being hit from the top of a tower. With shield of absorption, rather than just adding a little bit more to the zerg, making little to no difference at all, the shield of absorption can easily change entire zerg strategies. If the other zerg is trying to fight ranged, just take a couple steps in front of your zerg and use the shield. 4 seconds of near invincibility for your entire zerg. It’s so easy to use in zergs. It’s all about the timing.