Guild Wars 2

If you had problems killing the knights on one server, you should have guested to a more populated server. I almost never completed the event on my home server.

I somewhat agree and disagree. I dislike the fact that a giant group of people need to cooperate in order to defeat things. The unfortunate part is that it is very hard in some cases to plan an assault, since some people don’t speak your language, or they just don’t read chat/listen. The skill of a person is also different. In almost every single knight battle, I saw people being pulled into the knight and killed, when world chat was spamming “dodge when the knight jumps.” Some people are just morons (no offense). So, when you’re trying to complete an event (a hard event at that) with so many people that haven’t a clue what they’re doing, you’re screwed. If they do continue raid battles, they should at least make them ‘easier’ (which can be debated by the few who macho players who lie and say “psh, that was easy”) in order to accommodate the ‘skill’ level of those playing (when I say skill, I mean, the ability to dodge, take orders, know their character skills, etc.).

What I did like about them was the teamwork. Setting aside those AFK few who huddled near the door during the Scarlet battles and the morons scratching their butts at the sidelines (or calling for a res…), it was decently rewarding when all the knights went down, or more importantly, when you finally defeated Scarlet. The rewarding part was afterwards, the congratulatory ‘way to go’s and the ‘good jobs’. You’ve just been through 30 minutes of hell with 20 or so people who are competent players. Defeating mobs outside of the event with a group also helped gain more materials. I’m pretty sure I made nearly 50G (not a whole lot, ik) from drops alone in the week and a bit I played during the last Living World.

I loved my personal stories so far. Yes, they are completely optional. You don’t like them, don’t do them. No one has a gun to your head.

«*Looking for an EU Guild*»

Main Server – Gunnar’s Hold (I’m ok with multi-server guilds)

I’m fairly new to the game. I made my account in late-December and have been puttering about ever since. I’m a casual player, as my schooling takes up most of my time. However, I will try to be as active as I can! My main is a level 80 engineer, and once I find more time, I’ll be working on getting the rest my other characters up.

I’m Canadian and started playing on the EU servers because of my brother and his friend, both of whom are not playing anymore (sigh). So, I’ve been playing alone. I find it absolutely boring sometimes and it would be nice to have people to talk to. I’ve also had horrible luck finding dungeon parties and would love to do runs with people!

Post here or shoot me a message in game!
Thanks

You can guest on two servers every 24 hours. There’s no need to combine servers. Just find one with a large population.

As an engineer, I popped elixirs B and U upon running in. When she threw up an AoE I wasn’t expecting, I popped elixir S and ended up getting her.

Hmm… Twice now I’ve gone in, hit only with the correct attunements and was never downed. I still have not received the achievements. Thinking next time I’ll go in and just video it. #frustrated

I was in a run like that too. You should have seen the drama coming off map chat after. Good lord.

Psychol.5783:

Where is Peter?

http://dulfy.net/2014/03/04/gw2-battle-for-lions-arch-achievement-guide/

Baronessvonbaugh.2165:

Does anyone know how often peter goes to locations in Lions Arch per day? Is it once or twice? I can’t find anything out on internet and I have waited at one of his locations (consordium gift shop) for over three hours now and he has been a no show. Can anyone help me pls? I need this achievement to press on. Thanks.

http://dulfy.net/2014/03/04/gw2-battle-for-lions-arch-achievement-guide/

Greyhound.2058:

Their most recent status tweet was 2 days ago, and it said nothing anyway. Maybe YOU should have checked it before moaning at everyone else to.

There are LOADS of threads about this in the Tech forum, with no official answers in any of them – that’s how I ended up here in Game Bugs, looking for an answer!!

Next moan? What else are we all doing wrong?

Lol never moaned. I’m just saying, if you aren’t getting the answers you’re looking for, look for other sources. If not, there’s nothing we can do. All I know is that they’re trying to fix it. How fast, who knows. They’re not posting updates.

What are we doing wrong? Absolutely nothing.

eleshazar.6902:

Forsakendusk.1694:

eleshazar.6902:

And you never release a statement to the community telling us anything which makes it look like you don’t care.

It’s because you don’t look in the right place. They do care. Some problems just take longer to fix. Calm yourself.

https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/433441303075241984

First off, they shouldn’t be publishing statements on third party sites and not on their own forums where people will go when something is wrong. Second of all, that was on February 11th. They didn’t acknowledge that they fixed it, that they needed more time, etc. Two more nights of crashes later and still no word.

And I work in IT, if we did this to a customer we would lose a client over this much downtime. Sure problems take time to fix, but that’s why you have redundancy built in and BCP/DR plans. And most importantly you communicate with the customers continuously. None of which they are doing….

Well then I would suggest seeing the ‘tech’ support side of the forum (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech) instead of game bugs, if my “third-party” link doesn’t help. Twitter is definitely my favorite way of reaching them because I usually get a reply right away. To each his/her own. Maybe you should submit a ticket to tell them how to do their jobs instead of posting it on the forum.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

If you look over in Tech Support, where these kind of posts belong, you will see the Dev responses. =)

^ This.

Kieran.5730:

I don’t have a Twitter, nor am I going to make one just to follow them. This is the OFFICIAL forum, this should be the first place they post anything. Take a break? From what? I haven’t been able to play for more than 20 minutes the last three days.

Calm yourself. Jeez. You don’t need to make a Twitter account to see their Twitter posts. They answer questions right away there. This is the official forum, and they should be posting updates… but they sure as hell aren’t going to reply to whiny brats. Boo hoo, you didn’t play your game in three days. Someone call a ’wah’mbulance.

eleshazar.6902:

And you never release a statement to the community telling us anything which makes it look like you don’t care.

It’s because you don’t look in the right place. They do care. Some problems just take longer to fix. Calm yourself.

https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/433441303075241984

Try tuning on on Twitter. They post updates about what is happening every once in a while. Try sending them questions. No need to get huffy. There’s only so much they can do. Take a break, go for a walk, watch TV.

https://twitter.com/guildwars2

There’s actually nothing wrong with this.

“…as soon as look at you.” is actually correct. Meaning they will kill you as soon as ‘they’ look at you. The word ‘they’ is actually not needed. It’s idiomatic.

Reference: http://thegrammarexchange.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/340600179/m/2611084581

Yup, down again. Lol. I think it’s time to take a break and watch some TV or something.

Wow. I was freaking a little. My internet has been on the fritz lately because of the weather. Thank god it’s not that. I would really like to get back on though. I have some PvP’ing to do

I’ve been trying to get my achievements for a while too. Sometimes we have a group and when we stick together, just dominate… but no one ever goes to do the EotM achievements, especially the ones in the middle of the map. We usually linger off on the side stuff until some members of the group bugger off, and then we all end up screwed.

Every time I go over to do the achievements, I get brutally murdered by maybe 10+ people. I don’t see this changing any time soon, and it’s quite depressing.

Ztepam.9327:

To sum up, I feel very uncomfortable at these events now with all this hate around me, every single time seeing people calling each other ’tards/noobs and many other things that I can not write them here!

I got into a scrap with a guy today too (over pm ofc). I’ve never seen someone so hell-bent on insulting people. We were in an overflow and he was throwing insults at everyone, even by name! I even saw one person log off mid-boss battle because she rolled into the Marionette’s path while avoiding a boss attack. Things like that happened and keep happening. People need to realize it’s just a game, and what they’re doing is actually cyber-bullying.

I’m from Canada and here, cyber-bullying is actually considered a criminal offence. Because of how it effects people, no wonder it is. You have people of all ages, some who are effected by comments more/differently than others, playing this game. It would be nice to have a few game monitors (Player moderators / GMs) actually around during the events to crack down on some of these things.

Thank you for making a post about this!

Steel Fenrir.2791:

My way of dealing with flames is to flame back. Spout some bullkitten back at them, even if you are really the wrong one or really don’t know what you are actually doing. Say “I’m proud to be noob”, or “I have a life, unlike you loser”, or “this game sucks anyway”, or some other stuff that would turn the flame up. Don’t be civilized my friend, what they are doing is just making you battle hardened in mind and in soul. They are training you by throwing kitten at you, so that you could throw kittentier kitten back harder.

By doing this, you’re throwing more logs on the flame and making the situation worse and uncomfortable for other people. Block or ignore them.

Shift Focus.9083:

It’s been over a week and people still don’t grasp the concept of it it seems, even with a lot of people in each of the 5 lanes people still somehow manage to fail the event.

» Possible reason 1: I was playing with some people earlier today that have never done the event before or are not level 80 yet. New people are coming in left, right, and center and trying their hand at the event for the first time. Reading an event guide is one thing, actually playing it is another.

» Possible reason 2: People don’t care anymore. They realize that they can complete The Origins of Madness achievement without even killing the Marionette. They also realize that you can get rewards from the lockboxes too.

» Possible reason 3: General lack of communication. Some people either don’t understand everyone, or they just aren’t reading the chat. I find a lot of people when they’re counting lanes yell out “need more in L3” and find that people who are in lanes that also need people will leave.

» Possible reason 4: People go for the easy-way. Most of the runs I’ve been in have a HUGE amount of people in L1; considered “The easiest boss/lane”. I’ve also seen people run into lanes that need people and leave right away due to the lack of people. Seriously? This bothers me more than losing. You see a lane that needs people, you stay in it.

These are the top four I can think of. I also find it aggravating that during the runs, people whine and complain about people failing, or have the nerve to map chat “NOOBS”. Some boss fights put 5 people in a circle, and 2 people in another. It’s entirely bad game mechanics and not their fault. If this doesn’t lower group morale faster, I don’t know what does. You’d think that if people cheered each other on more, they would strive to do better. Instead, we have idiots (who are most likely ‘fail’ themselves) yelling at everyone. To get back to my point before, it really doesn’t help when you’re alone with one other person trying to kill a boss, and people are yelling at you to hurry.

Probably TL;DR, but those are my main points

Check out the guides on Noxxic They save some pretty decent PvE and PvP builds
http://www.noxxic.com/gw2/engineer/pve-builds/damage-grenades