Guild Wars 2

Great ideas, I like how simple and small things these are but would make my character’s life easier, Lol.

(appreciation comment) I would just like to thank the devs for this awesome patch it made me so happy, like happier than usually patches do. Thank you for your work during HoT development which takes most of your resources!

Last big patch brought back a chapter and thats the reason your wife probably did the episode again, same thing with me I had to cleanse orr twice.

Unfortunate but atleast I know I’m not the only one, and I don’t even know if my support ticket explained the situation well enough since my first language is not english.

I hate to say this but.. nightmare court calls Malyck the harbringer… The harbringer..of… the rest you already know or speculate already. (sorry to bump)

I did put in a support ticket but I thought I’d want to know if anyone else has the same problem while I wait for an answer or a fix. So after June 23. patch my main character which finished personal story long ago (I believe in 2013) Had only 7 chapters in story journal and only the first entry of chapter 7, forging the pact. Same happened with my other character which I was at chapter 7 before the patch and I finished my story after june 23. and bugged exactly the same way (on chapter 7 first entry). I got all the rewards and stuff but I really liked having those chapters (sorry this might sound stupid to some but I really, really like the story and lore of guild wars.) SO, anyone having same issues?

Also having the same issue, and I finished my personal story back in 2013 on my main but now its showing exactly the same thing in my story journal (picture at the start of this topic) also have the same problem on one of my other characters which finished the story AFTER 23. patch. It feels horrible

Nevermind, I found out someone already posted this with a better picture.

I tried to take a screenshot and post directly into bugs through the game but the cube appeared in a blink of an eye and couldn’t take a screenie.

When you activate ventaris legend a pink cube appears instead of any icon like mallyx or dwarf does. (sorry for the bad graphics and all I had to record this on my phone to capture it, didn’t have any recording programs.) I didn’t post the video since I didn’t find any information about posting videos into forum topics and didn’t want to violate rules.

First I would like to thank everyone for posting their opinions and awesome replies, awesome suggestions and good critizism. and I understand that there is alot of griefing and abuse in online games which are impossible to get rid of entirely. And yes I shouldn’t take too much emotion from someone yelling in a game being chat warriors, and the reason I made this topic was because I simply ’’cared’’ too much for new players and myself after seeing commanders yell .. uh.. well not going to post here what they were saying to everyone (and me) but you all know. 99% of the community is awesome and thats what matters

Danikat.8537:

Fyur.8152:

SO… Commanders… Our strategist and leaders, the few chosen ones we follow blindly into battle and trust our lives with. The great and wise dorritos who lead mass zergs to conquer castles and command us to retreat when it doesn’t look good.

IMO this is a huge part of the problem, at least as much of an issue as bad commanders.

I realise this was probably intended as exaggeration but I’ve seen more than a few players do exactly that. They get into a map, see a commander tag and just follow them without knowing what they’re doing or why. Even in PvE where there’s a good chance they’re coordinating a guild event, acting as a marker for an event that’s going to start later, or simply forgot to turn the tag off.

And when they realise the commander isn’t directing them to the thing they came to the map for, or some super-special event only they know about, there’s a very good chance they will blame the commander for their misunderstanding.

IMO it would make a huge difference if players would simply realise that commanders are just other players who have bought a tag and chosen to display it for their own reasons, which may very well have nothing at all to do with you or what you want to do.

Then instead of following them blindly take the time to find out what they’re doing and why (and how they’re doing at it) and make an informed decision if you want to join in or not.

If you think they’re generally ok but could do better maybe ask if you can help. (For example I often see commanders in Silverwastes who are going to all the right places at the right times but saying very little. It’s hard to fight and type at the same time. So I’ll type instructions for the current/next phase myself instead of expecting them to do everything at once.)

If you think they’re a terrible commander and want nothing to do with them you can simply ignore them and get on with what you know you need to do (if you don’t know what to do or how to do it then you’re not in a position to judge whether the commander is doing it right). Or if necessary (e.g. if they’re on WvW and just leading the zerg in circles for no reason) go to another map.

Or if there’s time and you think it could be worthwhile start a conversation in Map chat about how you think things should be done and see who agrees and whether you can get things re-organised.

P.S. No I don’t own a commander tag, thought about it but never felt like it was worth it for me.

P.P.S. Your English is fine.

That is very true and yeah it was just exaggeration but thats also a big problem with people not listening in map chat. good points!

and thank you

TwoGhosts.6790:

I get what you intend with this suggestion: that Commander status is conferred by peers; that it’s earned, not bought; that it’s a meritocracy. On the face of it, that sounds great.

Unfortunately, as nathan’ mentioned above, it would be a system so open to abuse and griefing that I don’t think anything like it would ever be implemented.

Yes, exactly what I mean. But I’m sad to admit that you and nathan are right, it would most likely be that alot of commanders get their points from guildies and ask for donations like nathan said. I was hoping for someone to take this idea and turn it into a working system that would not allow that kind of ’’corruption’’, but seems like its a distant dream.

Maybe a dev will see this and give it a thought and come up with better idea based around this.

Also, this is probably my first time posting anything into the forums so please let me know if this was wrong place to post this kind of stuff.

I’m just going to post this here since nobody probably noticed this on my tumblr. This is just a copy/paste from the post. I’m hoping for thoughts and discussions around this topic and hopefully someone with better writing skills passes this idea to anet.

Commanders of Tyria

Hello, I’m a horrible writer but I felt like I need to get this off my head. The reason I’m posting this here instead of the forums or suggestion box for Anet is because my first language is not English and my writing skills are not that great, I’m hoping someone will post this into the forums with better skills.

SO… Commanders… Our strategist and leaders, the few chosen ones we follow blindly into battle and trust our lives with. The great and wise dorritos who lead mass zergs to conquer castles and command us to retreat when it doesn’t look good. Or are they? I’ve seen awesome commanders who know how to lead, BUT only half of them know how to keep the morale of soldiers up. Anyone can be a commander… If they just have the gold for a tag, which Sounds like MONEY BRINGS POWER.

My suggestion is that lets make commander tag something you need to earn by morale points which players can give you and you can lose points by players.. Sorry, BOLD SOLDIERS giving you minus points for a commander acting like a kitten or simply telling that you need more practice. This Could also just be a color system in which everyone Could still buy the tag but color of the tag determines how good you are to keep up the morale and how good you are at leading.

This suggestion for commander tag is just a thought after long time of running with commanders which might be good, but make new players feel bad for not knowing stuff and being yelled at by a commander. Also I haven’t thought of everything yet the ideas should be developed into a real system. Thank you for reading.