Guild Wars 2

Expletus[EXP] is recruiting!

We are a small, tight knit guild that is level 69 (MAX) currently. We are looking to recruit about players who are looking for fractals, WvW, dungeons, really all aspects of the game. We have the entire guild hall unlocked, which means all WvW, Trader and Bar upgrades and boosts are available.

We are currently on Yak’s Bend. We have no intention of transfering in the future. Current WvW looks promising all around with the new changes.

We also have our own private arena for doing PvP dailies as well as if you may wish to level up in a relaxed atmosphere. We run guild missions at one hour after reset (6PM PST) on Wednesday nights. Fractals and maps we typically do after dailies are done as well as on weekends.

Our aim is not to have a huge guild of large numbers of members that don’t know or talk to each other.

We are a guild made up of people in their mid 20’s and older who understand the importance of real life needing to take precedence, so if you are someone who wants to join a relaxed, mature guild that enjoys playing the game but also understands the necessities of life coming before the game, we may be the Tyrian home you are looking for.

If interested, feel free to mail, or whisper myself Graka.9457 or one of the other officers Wildkitten.3872, or Laith Gordanach.3157

Expletus[EXP] is recruiting!

We are a small, tight knit guild that is level 69 (MAX) currently. We are looking to recruit about players who are looking for fractals, WvW, dungeons, really all aspects of the game. We have the entire guild hall unlocked, which means all WvW, Trader and Bar upgrades and boosts are available.

We are currently on Yak’s Bend. We have no intention of transfering in the future. Current WvW looks promising all around with the new changes.

We also have our own private arena for doing PvP dailies as well as if you may wish to level up in a relaxed atmosphere. We run guild missions at one hour after reset (6PM PST) on Wednesday nights. Fractals and maps we typically do after dailies are done as well as on weekends.

Our aim is not to have a huge guild of large numbers of members that don’t know or talk to each other.

We are a guild made up of people in their mid 20’s and older who understand the importance of real life needing to take precedence, so if you are someone who wants to join a relaxed, mature guild that enjoys playing the game but also understands the necessities of life coming before the game, we may be the Tyrian home you are looking for.

If interested, feel free to mail, or whisper myself Graka.9457 or one of the other officers Wildkitten.3872, or Laith Gordanach.3157

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I think you need to read the part where he said This was needed so we could reclaim some keys for… stuff to get the true reason why they did it.

They needed to reclaim keys for other purposes.

Yet they dont say the purpose, and they dont even do any sort of asking or consultation or anything. And reclaiming keys is silly considering key bindings. But this is becoming par for the course for Anet, change stuff, give vague/no reason saying its needed for something, need never materializes.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Reddit post explained it as

ArenaNetEvanL
This is a case of normalizing behavior between the mini map and full-screen map. This was needed so we could reclaim some keys for… stuff. It wasn’t the intention that it go out at this time, so that’s why there was no patch note.
I don’t know off the top of my head if the input binding system can support meta key and mouse operations, but its something we can look into.

How is this normalizing anything, you could draw on the mini map, you could draw on the full screen map, everything was the same, this sounds like utter useless information and gobbledy goop to just say we changed it cause of reasons.

Like honestly, its been the same way for almost 11 years. It’s been shift left click since GW1 came out, and since GW2 came out, why change it to right click, its uncomfortable as hell doing it, its awkward, and its just a change for no seeming reason. I have yet to hear anyone complain about how to draw on the map, yet everyone I know is complaining of this change, why was this done, and if your going to do this, then give us the option of switching it between left or right like you’ve done to people that complain about things as simple as the compact button in the inventory.

Expletus[EXP] is recruiting!

We are a small, tight knit guild that is level 63 currently. We are looking to recruit about 10-15 playerswho are looking for fractals, WvW, dungeons, really all aspects of the game. We have essentially the entire guild hall unlocked, only 2 mining rates are left, which means all WvW, Trader and Bar upgrades and boosts are available.

We are currently on Sea of Sorrows, however we may look to transfer once things in WvW shake out, soif you are on another server and would be willing to transfer at some point we would be happy to have you.

We also have our own private arena for doing PvP dailies as well as if you may wish to level up in a relaxed atmosphere. We run guild missions at reset on Wednesday nights. Fractals and maps we typically do after dailies are done as well as on weekends.

Our aim is not to have a huge guild of large numbers of members that don’t know or talk to each other.

We are a guild made up of people in their mid 20’s and older who understand the importance of real life needing to take precedence, so if you are someone who wants to join a relaxed, mature guild that enjoys playing the game but also understands the necessities of life coming before the game, we may be the Tyrian home you are looking for.

If interested, feel free to mail, or whisper myself Graka.9457 or one of the other officers Wildkitten.3872, or Laith Gordanach.3157

Expletus is a guild which has been around for quite awhile, from the earliest WoW and GW1 days in one form or another to now. It was created with the idea to have fun and foster a community ideal between its members.

Our Beliefs -
Expletus is the Latin word for Accomplished/Compete/Fulfilled, and that is the belief system that we bring to the table. That our goals and yours should be accomplished, that you should feel fulfilled in your endeavors, that all tasks before us should be completed. To create this we believe in a few tenets.

• Respect – We all know that we have different ideas and ways of doing things. Each person has the right to their own opinion, and sometimes you may not agree, but working together can make us stronger
• Determination – As a few of us are old school hard core raiders, we know the want to get things done. While we joke, mess around, and generally have a good time, when its time to get things done, we expect like ourselves to serious up, come prepared and be ready to do what needs to be done to get a raid boss, fractal, or any other difficult content done. We all want the big W, but we are only as strong as our weakest link.
• Fun – If you’re not having fun, then what are you playing a game for? We want to make sure that even if were being serious on a run that were still having a good time, being able to joke, relieve the stress and be part of a community is essential. Dark humor always makes the situation a little less tense.

About Expletus -

• We are an NA Guild, based mainly in the afternoon and evenings PST/MST. All are welcome.
• As a PvX guild we try to stay involved in all things, WvW, PvP, fractals, dungeons, and Raids. That being said, our current focus is PvE and Raids at the moment, and we are interested in branching out into more PvP focus if those come along that are interested in such things
• A few of us are old school raiders from WoW, and old school GW1 players from the very beginnings of the game. We strive to bring the lessons from these areas to help everyone with the new raiding content, and succeed together.
• Repping is not a requirement except for when doing Guild Events, such as Raids, or Guild missions, as influence is no longer an issue we believe people should be able to rep/unrep as they please
• As with above, we believe the guild should provide, all upgrades are covered by the guild leader and officers, while we appreciate any donations anyone wishes to add, we don’t not believe anyone should ever feel obligated to give, we are here to create a community.
• Our Guild Mission times are One hour after reset on Fridays (8PM EST). (To be changed to reset during daylight savings time.)
• Our raid day is currently on Saturdays at reset (7PM EST)(To be expanded upon as the need requires)

Communication –
We have a Teamspeak3 server, and the obvious guild chat to allow communication between all members. We do not have a website as we have found in the past it be unused and generally a vestigial appendage to the guild. We also have a guild PvP Arena and current level 47 Gilded Hallow guild hall available to all members.

Recruitment –
We are looking for those that share in our belief system, and have the desire to complete the content currently in the game. Raiders, fractal runners, even the general casual player that wishes to be part of a community are welcome. Any PvP’s and WvW’s are welcome to help us branch further into these areas.

In regards to raiding we are currently looking for a Condi Viper Engi, Daredevil DPS, and/or a Power Herald.

If interested please send a mail to Graka.9457 or Laith Gordanach.3157 or feel free to contact us directly if we are on.

We appreciate you taking the time to read about us, and hope to hear from you in the future.

Expletus is a guild which has been around for quite awhile, from the earliest WoW and GW1 days in one form or another to now. It was created with the idea to have fun and foster a community ideal between its members.

Our Beliefs -
Expletus is the Latin word for Accomplished/Compete/Fulfilled, and that is the belief system that we bring to the table. That our goals and yours should be accomplished, that you should feel fulfilled in your endeavors, that all tasks before us should be completed. To create this we believe in a few tenets.

• Respect – We all know that we have different ideas and ways of doing things. Each person has the right to their own opinion, and sometimes you may not agree, but working together can make us stronger
• Determination – As a few of us are old school hard core raiders, we know the want to get things done. While we joke, mess around, and generally have a good time, when its time to get things done, we expect like ourselves to serious up, come prepared and be ready to do what needs to be done to get a raid boss, fractal, or any other difficult content done. We all want the big W, but we are only as strong as our weakest link.
• Fun – If you’re not having fun, then what are you playing a game for? We want to make sure that even if were being serious on a run that were still having a good time, being able to joke, relieve the stress and be part of a community is essential. Dark humor always makes the situation a little less tense.

About Expletus -

• We are an NA Guild, based mainly in the afternoon and evenings PST/MST. All are welcome.
• As a PvX guild we try to stay involved in all things, WvW, PvP, fractals, dungeons, and Raids. That being said, our current focus is PvE and Raids at the moment, and we are interested in branching out into more PvP focus if those come along that are interested in such things
• A few of us are old school raiders from WoW, and old school GW1 players from the very beginnings of the game. We strive to bring the lessons from these areas to help everyone with the new raiding content, and succeed together.
• Repping is not a requirement except for when doing Guild Events, such as Raids, or Guild missions, as influence is no longer an issue we believe people should be able to rep/unrep as they please
• As with above, we believe the guild should provide, all upgrades are covered by the guild leader and officers, while we appreciate any donations anyone wishes to add, we don’t not believe anyone should ever feel obligated to give, we are here to create a community.
• Our Guild Mission times are One hour after reset on Fridays (8PM EST). (To be changed to reset during daylight savings time.)
• Our raid day is currently on Saturdays at reset (7PM EST)(To be expanded upon as the need requires)

Communication –
We have a Teamspeak3 server, and the obvious guild chat to allow communication between all members. We do not have a website as we have found in the past it be unused and generally a vestigial appendage to the guild. We also have a guild PvP Arena and current level 45 Gilded Hallow guild hall available to all members.

Recruitment –
We are looking for those that share in our belief system, and have the desire to complete the content currently in the game. Raiders, fractal runners, even the general casual player that wishes to be part of a community are welcome. Any PvP’s and WvW’s are welcome to help us branch further into these areas.

If interested please send a mail to Graka.9457 or Laith Gordanach.3157 or feel free to contact us directly if we are on.

We appreciate you taking the time to read about us, and hope to hear from you in the future.

We are Expletus. We have been around a very long time, changed hands, changed faces, but one thing remains the same, our commitment to each other. Our guild is what can best be described as a merger between hardcore and casual. When the time comes to get stuff done, whether in the current content or the new raids, we get serious, put our best effort forward with dash of humour and a few wisecracks. On our downtime, we kickback, joke around and just generally get into about as much trouble as possible. We are a mixture of old raiders, dungeoneers, pvpers and leaders coming together in comradery.

Our guild mission times are at an hour after daily reset (8PM EST) on Fridays, and our raid times are at reset (7PM EST) on Saturday’s subject to more days as a consensus of the guild. Our main server location is Sea of Sorrows, but all servers are welcome.

We are looking for those that share our vision and our fun with those that wish to be a part of a community that helps each other and puts its best effort forward. Experienced or newb, fractal runner, dungeoneer, pvper, pver, raider, or WvW all are welcome. If you think that you are a good fit for us, or we are a good fit for you feel free to contact us for further information. Mail or contact can be sent to me, Graka.9457 in game or on Reddit. See you out there.

ZilentNight.5089:

eksn.7264:

ZilentNight.5089:

eksn.7264:

ZilentNight.5089:

Also the patch notes, that state you must complete “League Champion” is wrong and the title is not automatically awarded if you had already completed it prior to the patch.

Isn’t League Champion basically just crossing to Diamond?

To Complete League Champion you have to complete Legend once, i.e. gain all pips in legend and cross into Legend x2.

However, I think that may have not been the true intent, my guess is that Devs wanted players to get this title as soon as they reached legend Division, meaning they completed Diamond.

In order to complete it in 1 season you mean? Does that imply that Primordial Legend is a season 1 only achievement?

No, you can get in future seasons as well

Are you sure about this, cause there seems to be a lot of miscommunication on this as well as the Year of the Ascension achievements. Some people say the Year of the Ascension ones reset, which is really stupid if true since it takes 60 days to finish all the achievements and we only had 58 days to play, and on top of it you will keep getting gifts you already have, and don’t need. And the legendary title, people are saying this tourney only, others are saying forever you just have to hit legendary. Arena Net really needs to clarify this quite abit better, the vague and contradictory answers are irritating.

We are Expletus. We have been around a very long time, changed hands, changed faces, but one thing remains the same, our commitment to each other. Our guild is what can best be described as a merger between hardcore and casual. When the time comes to get stuff done, whether in the current content or the new raids, we get serious, put our best effort forward with dash of humour and a few wisecracks. On our downtime, we kickback, joke around and just generally get into about as much trouble as possible. We are a mixture of old raiders, dungeoneers, pvpers and leaders coming together in comradery.

Our guild mission times are at an hour after daily reset (8PM EST) on Fridays, and our raid times are at reset (7PM EST) on Saturday’s subject to more days as a consensus of the guild. Our main server location is Sea of Sorrows, but all servers are welcome.

We are looking for those that share our vision and our fun with those that wish to be a part of a community that helps each other and puts its best effort forward. Experienced or newb, fractal runner, dungeoneer, pvper, pver, raider, or WvW all are welcome. If you think that you are a good fit for us, or we are a good fit for you feel free to contact us for further information. Mail or contact can be sent to me, Graka.9457 in game, on Reddit at Grakaron, or a message here. See you out there.

Neox.3497:

Graka.9457:

Neox.3497:

“Okay guys we will kick you all so the price of the upgrade is 500 times cheaper and then invite you back.”

No.

The only thing they could add are smaller guild halls that are way cheaper and have little less features.

There are quite a lot of simple ways around this, taking an average of your guild number week after week, if the number goes down drastically it counters that by keeping you at the higher number, if it is stead at a low number week after week keeping it at a lower % of the normal prices. You can’t honestly sit there and say its okay for smaller guilds to get the shaft. Its basically forcing people to go to larger guilds if they don’t have the money, and thats all it is, MONEY that separates the small vs large guilds, just to get the bonuses from the guild halls.

It would punish big guilds for having a lot of players. Bigger guilds would start to kick inactivate players and players who don’t help buying stuff. I’m in a larger guild (currently ~90% representing) and have “spend” 0 gold so far for the guild hall. However I’m doing guild missions and some organized stuff sometimes (with Teamspeak). I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one like that and I could imagine the leaders would hate such a change since they are really open but would have to kick or ask for gold from their members.

Also why would bigger guilds have to pay more if the product is the SAME at the end? As I said: New guild halls that are smaller and cost less (to upgrade) would be a way to make it better for smaller guilds.

I just said Bigger guilds would NOT have to pay more, I’m saying Big Guilds can handle what they are currently at, but small guilds can not. Your basically proving my argument for me by saying big guilds should not be punished, but small guilds should be by virtue of them being small. You say you have had to spend 0 gold, thats commendable, but if you take a large guild, say of 200 people, each donating something, you can easily take care of many of the items that are quite expensive, say for example ley line tools, only 1 in 10 has to donate one and your overflowing with them, but a guild of 10-20 people, each one has to donate 2 or you cant get the upgrade.

Small guilds should not be punished for being small, Anet even said that supposedly the new guild missions and guild halls would be inclusive and available equally for both small and large, yet it seems small guilds have either a massive grind wall, or a money wall attached to them compared to larger guilds. No matter how you slice it the disparity is unfair to those that prefer a smaller community compared to those that don’t. Not everyone will donate to a guild to help build parts of their guild hall, but the larger amount of members you have the higher amount of pool there is for people to donate compared to a smaller guild. There should be some sort of method, device, or something to help with the costs.

We already have it gated behind favor weekly and aetherium/minute, and at current rates it would take 6 months minimum to unlock everything, you cant honestly tell me that people would kick others out of their guild for 6 months to build all the upgrades at cheaper prices. There are methods like the one I mentioned to counter act anyone trying to be shady, what I am saying is needed is the same as we have on many bosses, either it upscaling or downscaling based upon the amount of players in the situation.

Neox.3497:

“Okay guys we will kick you all so the price of the upgrade is 500 times cheaper and then invite you back.”

No.

The only thing they could add are smaller guild halls that are way cheaper and have little less features.

There are quite a lot of simple ways around this, taking an average of your guild number week after week, if the number goes down drastically it counters that by keeping you at the higher number, if it is stead at a low number week after week keeping it at a lower % of the normal prices. You can’t honestly sit there and say its okay for smaller guilds to get the shaft. Its basically forcing people to go to larger guilds if they don’t have the money, and thats all it is, MONEY that separates the small vs large guilds, just to get the bonuses from the guild halls.

I’m not one to usually complain about hard work, or spending gold on items, but I find that the guild hall restorations are slightly ridiculous for smaller guilds. I see all this stuff being posted about people already on their way to 15+ or unlocked arenas etc and the amount of materials required for small guilds is beyond the pale.

It just seems that there should be some kind of equalizing of the effort/money required of this for guilds that are in the 500 of people and those that are at the 20-30 end, ie you should only have to do a % of the amount required dependent on the size of your guild. Some may say I am whining and that’s fine, I just find it kind of weird that an average of 50-100g per member from larger guilds to finish stuff compared to 1000+ from member for smaller is quite off putting for upgrades and items that we were told small guilds would be on the ‘same footing’.

My friend and I have been doing the story and all the maps etc in HoT together, there isn’t anything we havn’t both done, but the odd thing is she keeps getting further away from me in mastery points earned. Shes currently 2 ahead of me, and even earned one in a story instance while I did not. I’m not sure whats going on, and I’m hoping that when I go back through the story I will earn these unearned mastery points, but I know she also earned one outside that I did not. I’m hoping theres some explination or solution.

We are Expletus. We have been around a very long time, changed hands, changed faces, but one thing remains the same, our commitment to each other. Our guild is what can best be described as a merger between hardcore and casual. When the time comes to get stuff done, whether in the current content or the new raids, we get serious, put our best effort forward with dash of humour and a few wisecracks. On our downtime, we kickback, joke around and just generally get into about as much trouble as possible. We are a mixture of old raiders, dungeoneers, pvpers and leaders coming together in comradery.

Our guild mission times are at daily reset (8PM EST) on Fridays, and our raid times will be on the weekends subject to more or less days as we gauge the new Elite Dungeon difficulties. Our main server location is Yak’s Bend, but all servers are welcome.

As Heart of Thorns comes closer we are looking for those that share our vision and our fun with those that wish to be a part of a community that helps each other and puts its best effort forward. If you think that you are a good fit for us, or we are a good fit for you feel free to contact us for further information. Mail or contact can be sent to me, Graka.9457. See you out there.

Agent Noun.7350:

Dhorghar.5249:

The restrictions were datamined by the almighty that_shaman long ago.

Only one or two character slots

Limit of level 15

Seems like a limit on how high a “rank” you can get (specific to trial or possibly PvP related)

Only able to send mail to friends.

Can’t send items or gold through mail

Can’t speak in map chat

Can’t access Team Arenas

Can’t access main WvW maps (EB and Borderlands)

Can’t sell items on TP.

http://thatshaman.blogspot.com.es/2014/07/upcoming-features-from-entanglement.html

Like we’ve said a lot in this thread, these do not gel with what’s said in the leaked trailer, and that datamine is from over a year ago. It’s not necessarily relevant.

It does, however, show that ArenaNet is aware that restrictions need to exist to protect the game’s economy.

How does this not gel with what was said in the trailer. And I quote.

“Leap into an award winning world
Experience limitless adventure
Challenge others in world class pvp
And massive world vs world battles”

EOTM World vs world battles,
Non team arena battles world class pvp
Limitless adventure, play 1-25 as much as you want!

Like seriously, thats all the trailer says and you people are like IT GUARANTEES THINGS IT DOESNT SAY!

I usually don’t post very much on the official forums, usually I hang out on Reddit, or just mind my own buisness, but after the last few weeks and with today some things need to be said.

Arena Net, please for the love of God start communicating both before and after you make decisions or have leaks. Just a few days ago you removed Karma boosters without saying anything ahead of time, basically leaving people with many “enchanted boosters” that were worthless to them leaving them feeling as if they were screwed on boost purchases. Then today IGN jumps the gun on your Saturday announcement, which I understand really sucks, but you have the community tearing itself apart over it. You need to say something to nip stuff in the butt, this was the whole reason you moved Gaile over to communication was to start talking more. You really need to address this stuff and speak to the community, all you do is pit us against each other and by the time you do say something many people are so angry they have just had enough.

Please Anet, talk to us.

Prototypemind.4026:

I have 18-20 slot bag on every default slot, yet running dungeons the fill up in no time. Things like food, slaying potions, multiple weapons because of various sigils, etc, take up space. Dungeons pile crap on top of crap into your bags. It becomes an annoyance. Fewer drops with more return per salvage would be a much, much better alternative.

Every time this comes up, Anet’s knights ride to the rescue saying that “deposit all”, or salvaging more often, etc are the answer. They aren’t. Players shouldn’t have to stop in the middle of clearing a few dungeons to salvage, deposit, vendor, and sell simply to keep playing. I doubt it will change as Anet likes the revenue from unlock slots being so costly, meaning semi-casuals will likely just dole out the real cash since they don’t have time to grind the gold to turn into gems. It was just one more bit of tedium for me, so I simply chose not to play anymore for the time being.

You right man, the dungeons shouldn’t drop anything at all, that way you never have to salvage, deposit, vendor, or sell anything, or we could go to the wow extreme where you have to head back to (Pick current capital city) and get rid of crap every single god kitten dungeon run and in some cases half way through. You are so full of crap that it honestly is hard to type this without laughing at you, every MMO has you get lots of drops etc, many have salvage/sell when in the middle of a dungeon. None though have an ability to store your crafting materials from where the hell your standing with one click of a button, nor do they give you an entire extra tab to store all that stuff. You sir, are a moron.

I wish to apologize up front if this post sounds confrontational or whiny, that is not my intention, but I have found some issues I’d like to bring up that have affected me and many people I’ve met.

Gem conversion in game is still a monumental pain, the original system was in many ways much cleaner and better to use. Currently the only way to get an actual realistic conversion rate for gems to gold is to use a website outside of those run by Arena Net to look at gem to gold prices such as gw2tp.com. Its highly ridiculous that we have to do such a thing, I know many people that have quit buying gems in large amounts cause they have no idea what the rate of conversion is and they don’t wish to lose money on it so instead buy nothing at all. Along with new players I have met that have a similar issue that when I try to explain to them how the system works finally throw up their hands in frustration and just don’t even try. I’m not saying I’ve met everyone in the game and this is a universal consensus but everyone I have met seems to hate this new system old and new players alike and if their attitudes are anything to go by this is costing Arena Net money, a lot of it.

The second issue is purchasing gems overall, I don’t know what system is being used now that is causing this issue but myself and many others (especially if map chat today is anything to go by) are having issues with buying gems at all. It keeps giving a “Unfortunately an error has occurred. Please try again later.” message. Now I don’t know if its because of the anti fraud locks, the no VPN usage allowed when purchasing, or some other issue entirely, but a large amount of people seem to be quite angry at their inability to buy gems and the fact that they have to put in a support ticket to get any sort of help, especially during these 24 hour flash sales.

Now as I said I’m not trying to whine, I love Guild Wars 2, and Anet as a company and want to see them succeed as much as possible, but it just feels like these issues are causing Anet to lose large amounts of possible revenue because they are driving away paying customers with their complex and frustrating systems. I’m hoping maybe these systems are already being addressed or will be in HoT because if it continues I feel you will put more of a wedge between yourselves and customers that genuinely want to give you money.

Having the same happen to me, everything freezes, and then the spinning wheel comes up and sits like that forever, when you try to close guild wars 2 it says its ‘busy’ would you like to wait for the program to catch up but it never does, even leaving it alone for 30 minutes. This has only started happening since the patch, and only when I go to do Tequatl, would like to know whats going on or have it fixed soon.

Edit: And just happened again, got kicked out of teq, got back in and it freezed up within being on the game for 3 minutes, this is getting really tiresome.

The change a few months back was nice where you could set yourself to show as offline, log off and come back hours later still showing as offline if you just wanted to pop on and do alittle quick TP work/bank/etc without getting into a long conversation with everyone. It seems as of this patch its been bugged up again, if I log off showing offline, and log back in game after say 10 minutes its reset me to show online, if its under this time it seems to still show me as offline. The timing could be off on this, but would appreciate it being fixed back to the way it was.

Everytime I try to do any sPVP that involve the Battle of Kyhlo map it just sits and spins trying to load it, and if I have any sort of programs in the background, a web browser, hell even music, or a movie it crashes everything. Even without anything running when it tries to load the map it just crashes out over and over again. I look it up and this seems to have been a problem in September but it says it was resolved. Does anyone have a clue whats going on and why it keeps doing this?

Okay after putting up with this since Drytop came out and constantly having it fixed or broken between patches would like to have an answer to whats going on. Everytime I enter Drytop or Silverwastes and sometimes just randomly while i’m in there the entire game will just pause, then go whitescreen, take around 30-40 second to stop and then the game will speed up to catch up to where it is now. I have no idea why its doing this cause I have a friend and we have exactly the same computers, right down to every single component and she doesn’t have these problems while I do. It’s really starting to get frustrating cause I keep losing out on tags, or dying or in some cases missing huge portions of the sand storm and would like a way to fix this so it stops happening.

I saw a post on this awhile ago, and sadly cant find it, but what is the official stance on siege trolling. Is it, or is it not bannable, and if so, how is it reported. Cause I see people do it all the time and honestly not give a crap when you tell them they shouldn’t. The rule of conduct make it fairly plain its not an appropriate way to act in the game but is there actually a red post saying its not allowed and bannable? I was sure there was one but now I cant find it with a google search or anything else. Does anyone know?

The thing is in reply to the last two posts. Before all I had to type in was 100gems and it give me the answer to how much that was worth, I could also look down below at the graph to see if gems had gone up or down during the last little while. Now I have to sit there and do the math myself which changes, and on top of it you only get the premium rate if you buy a large amount of gold anything below that and you take rounding errors that completly screw you. Hell even on the custom exchange its completely worthless and tries to shaft you as hard as possible. Anet needs to give people that do gems to gold back the original way of doing it, where we type in what gems we want to do and decide whether or not its worth it, not this crap where we close our eyes and roll the dice that were not getting the shaft.

Cause in many ways this new system seems like its just a way of tricking new players into converting gems to gold and not realizing whether they are getting a good rate or not compared to the old system. Compared to the old system even with the custom option the new system is a complete travesty of epic proportions. But I’m sure the standard fallback will be that somehow it was too difficult to understand which if in anyway that was remotely true these people should not be allowed to use a computer for fear of sticking salami into the dvd drive for the difficulty of not understanding that it isn’t a toaster.

Behellagh.1468:

You lose at most the price of a single gem when converting gems to gold.

For instance 100 gold is currently 868 gems. 868 gems according to the commerce API is worth 100 gold and 11.38 silver which makes gems worth 11.53 silver each when converting to gold.

K, and that still doesn’t take care of any of my complaints, I don’t have a way of getting the 11.53 silver info unless I do the math myself which before I didn’t have to. I don’t have a way of knowing the previous movement of the market in any manner. And I find it funny “You lose at most the cost of a single gem” well there were people screaming on these forums the fact that they lost the value of 4 gems when doing gold to gems conversion yet their complaints were apparently acceptable.

It’s simple, I won’t do gem to gold conversion till I can trust I’m making a good choice, it just means I wont spend nearly as much money on the gem store as I used to.

I understand that you added a custom option to the gem exchange but its beyond annoying for anyone that’s trying to convert from gems to gold. I have no idea what the current rate is per 100 gems like I used to, there’s no graph letting me know if stuff is on an upswing or a downswing. When I look at it, I have to do the math myself and it never matches up with any of the other websites that supposedly use the gem exchange API (and those websites never seem to match each other either.)

At this point I don’t want to spend any money on converting gems to gold cause I feel like I’m going to get ripped off. Are you adding anymore of the old functionality back? or should I just save my money?

The World Scene 2

World of Dreams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r--EJFEp6E
A map of the Continent of Tyria slowly appears, with the camera zooming in and showing the respective place as its called up.

0:00 Ogden: The world has changed much since my friends and I were last together. The darkness has grown and the world is in turmoil.

0:10 The Charr attacked Ascalon(zooms in on Ascalon City), and it was destroyed by Adelburn. Denying them any victory, turning all of Ascalon into ghosts. They pushed still against humanity but were held back by Kryta and Ebonhawke. Palawa Joko decimated Elona, forcing it all under his rule, and Cantha cut themselves off from the world. And then they came, the Elder Dragons.

0:29 Primordius of Earth awoke in the Central Transfer Chamber pushing the last of the Asura to the surface, my people, if they still exist continue to fight him. The Jormag of Ice appeared in the north, devestating the Norn (zooms in on the Northern Shiverpeaks, colouring them red and going south to Frostgourge Sound) and forcing them south into the lands of my people. The sea dragon then arose cutting what little contact we had left with Elona and Cantha off (paints the southwest oceans red). Zhaitan appeared, raising Orr from the depths with him and untold destruction upon the coast (Orr and its surrounding areas painted red). Lions arch was detroyed and rebuilt by the tenacity of pirates.(zooms in on LA) Zhaitan’s forces attacked, but were repelled by Kryta and Lions Arch. (Zooms in on Steamspur Mountains) Divinity’s Reach then sent a force against Zhaitan, but they were also destroyed. (Zoom in on the Grove) The Sylvari were next to appear, but instead of a foe, a new inquisitive race, and a friend, thing were still dark, but there was hope.

1:26 A Norn by the name of Eir formed Dragon’s Destiny, rallying two Asura to her cause of destroying the Elder Dragons (Shows Eir, with Zojja and Snaff slowly appearing with her). She also recruited Edge of Steel, creating Destiny’s Edge (Caithe, Rytlock and Logan slowly appear with the other three). Together they destroyed many dragon champions. (shows Destiny’s Edge fighting the champions in Maguuma, in the Shiverpeaks, and Upon the undead ships)

1:46 Joining with Glint they challenged a newly reawakened Kralkatorrik (Shows the video by Caithe in Sorrows Embrace), but were defeated, breaking Destiny’s Edge, and pushing the world back towards darkness and despair.

2:16 There have been some overture of peace, notably by Dougal Keene (Shows the handing of the Claw of Khan-Ur back to the Charr), but not enough to bring the world together against their common foe. We are at our greatest need (The map zooms out to show a full image of Tyria with all the corrupted areas of the dragons in blood red and the small territories of the five races that remain untouched). They fight amongst themselves while the Elder Dragon’s are poised to destroy us all.

2:31 We need a light in the darkness (the camera zooms in on Divinity’s reach, continuing to zoom into Salma district and coming into focus on Leah)

The Beginning Scene 1

Fight the Darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8-KJ6lwiSc

0:00 Screen fades in to a huge army of Humans from Divinity’s Reach in formation (army around 10000 strong with multiple siege weapon emplacements), with it pouring rain upon them, and lightning flashes in the background. They look out upon an opposing army of undead. The camera zooms in upon the command section at the back of the army
Commander Saran Alsin: We are in position, Sir.
General Zamon: Have the forward columns move up, begin the attack.

0:13 The front of the army moves slowly towards the undead. Trebuchets fire into the oncoming undead horde, decimating their numbers.

0:32 Saran: Sir, something is wrong, the undead are falling to easily.
Zamon: Superior strategy. All force charge and engage.
Saran: We should pull back, this isn’t right.
Zamon: At my moment of glory?! No full attack.
(All human force engage flanking the undead army on both sides)

0:54 Undead begin bursting out of the ground almost completely encircling the Divinity’s Army except for the way back north beginning to run towards it. Multiple Zhaitan champions descend from the sky and begin tearing through the army.

1:08 Saran: Sir we must order a full retreat. We can’t stand against that!
Zamon: How…. how can this be (stunned silence)
Saran: Horn, sound the retreat!
(Flag barrer drops the flag and begins sounding the retreat. The army begins to fall apart and the retreat becomes a rout)
Zamon: NO, I WON’T LET YOU TAKE MY MOMENT OF GLORY! (begins to strangle Saran)

1:19 Saran punches Zamon knocking him out and handing him to an aide “Get him out of here”
Saran looks upon the carnage realizing that they are being destroyed as they are running away and they need a miracle
(a mesmer image appears before Saran of a grizzled old warrior)
Ravik e’Kieron: Get everyone out of here we will hold them as long as we can
(the image shatters and then we see in the midst of the battle with soldier all around fleeing a set force of 500 heading towards the undead force)

1:33 from far away we hear the shout “Ascalonian’s CHARGE!”
(the force picks up speed spreading out to prepare to engage)

1:55 Fully routed human army being chased and destroyed running north, Death and destruction everywhere, people dying and dead with Saran running and looking back to see the Ascalonian brigade being torn to ribbons but still fighting until suddenly

2:15 the Undead suddenly stop following the army feet away from Saran, seemingly losing interest and turn back heading south away as Saran looks stunned upon his former soldier rising from the dead and following their new undead masters.

Screen fades to black and then the worlds slowly appear Guild Wars 2: The End of Destiny

Background Information

Leah Alsin- Human elementalist noble. Her parents dissapeared almost 25 years ago when she was a baby, raised by her families servants she grew in a somewhat pampered life, but with a strong upbringing in magic and belief in justice. Tempered in an unexpected event turns her into an at first reluctant hero, but pushes her to fight for her people and others.

Gavin e’Kieron – An Ascalonian outcast, his distant ancestor was the leader of the Chosen of Tyria, the group that defeated the Lich, Shiro, Abbadon, and the Great Destroyer. Due to his family line being disgraced he continues to fight to regain his family honor and to try to makeup for the precieved mistakes of his ancestor.

Magni Brokkrson – Apprentice to Jora, one of the Chosen of Tyria, training to be a true hero. Fights against the oddness his culture puts upon him for being an Engineer, more worried about tinkering and creating instead of brawling combat and drink.

Xaap – Mesmer extrodinare, or so he thinks. All he wants is to make a name for himself, finally be respected amongst his peers.

Lord Faren – Lovable goofball, life long friend to Leah and general aall around womanizer. While Faren is brash and more trouble than he is worth sometimes, his heart is always in the right place and he is willing to do whatever he can to protect his friends.

Also included are all the know characters weve come to love and enjoy, Destiny’s Edge, Jenna, Knut, the Vigil, the Priory, the Whispers, and on and on. I don’t want to give too much away to the backgrounds and history or it will just ruin the story.

A friend finally convinced me to start putting up the stuff that I’ve put together over the years, I always had a fascination with the story and lore behind Guild Wars and GW2, and I’ve always found that it kind of sucks for those that are coming into GW2 without having seen the story of GW1. This work also has its own twists and turns to keep it freh and tries to fix some of the issues a few people have with the personal story. Multiple locations will also be introduced that many people knwo into the story including the Eye of the North, the Temple of Ages and others from GW1 to connect it more with the story of GW2. Now a disclaimer on this, you wont see any videos mainly theres are trailers, and scripts I wrote up and pieced together with music and ambiance that felt right, thats really why this project of mine never went anywhere cause I suck badly at machinima. But if people are interested I’ll start putting up the entire story I have for a Guild Wars 1 and 2 movies. For now though please enjoy first the Guild Wars 2 Trailer for the movie, background information and opening scenes. Thank you for your reading/listening time.

Guild Wars 2: End of Destiny Trailer. Music: Mind Heist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgJghykl8SI

Black Screen, fading to show Ogden
Ogden: I was there at the beginning. When the Great Destroyer was beaten, before we realised that he was just a minion for a greater evil. In 1301 AE, the Kingdom of Kryta assembled the one of the largest armies that had ever been seen, to finally defeat Zhaitan and his brethren.
0:17(Human army, composed of multiple classes, ballista, catapults, covered by Asuran airships manned by human standing across a field from a massive undead army pouring from the water.)
0:20 (Human army charges forward)
0:22 (Army fighting the undead)
0:26 (Human army overwhelmingly destroying the undead)
0:27 (Undead burst out of the ground in massive numbers surrounding the entire human army)
0:28 (Army falling apart under the onslaught)
0:29 (Blightghast breathes death upon the human army causing it to fall)
0:30 (Blightghast, the undead, and the now rising dead cover the field)
0:33 Ogden: They failed. But there were those that wouldnt give into despair, and continued to resist.
0:35 (Fade to Queen Jenna Throne room in Divinity’s Reach with representatives of the Asura, Sylvari and Lion’s Arch)
Gavin: The Chosen of Tyria dissapeared to create a ritual, one to protect us from teh gaze of the dragons, but it is failing. We have only three weeks until it fails to build an army to save Destiny’s Edge and bring the fight to Zhaitan forces so they can kill him.
0:47 Minister Caudecus: But there is no such army.
0:49 Gavin: This is why we must make one! We fight or we die.
(Council nods, fade to battle scenes, Each scene changes on the sound of the fog horn blast)
0:52 Blast One (Undead army surrounding Arah screaming at invaders off screen)
0:54 Two (Army composed of all the five races charging across Orrian field towards Arah)
0:56 Three (Smaller Asuran Helicopters flying zooming above the army towards undead dragons)
0:59 Four (United Airships spread out to lay covering fire)
1:02 Five (Ground forces meeting the undead in fierce combat)
1:04 (Close up of his face) Gavin: Fire!
1:05 1 Airships reign fire down into the undead
1:07 2 Catapults and balista firing into the undead
1:10 3 Explosions of lightning within the alliance army
1:14 4 Air units flying low blasting and bombarding the ground
1:15 5 Undead dragon breathing black death fireball from its mouth
1:18 6 Fireball hitting an Asuran Airship causing it to fragment into pieces and explode
1:20 7 Male Norn holding a dead female Sylvari soldier crying
1:25 Leah and Destiny’s Edge attacking Zhaitan within his cavern under Arah
1:30 Vigil, Whisper, and Priory fighters rush into help Destiny’s Edge fight Zhaitan.
1:35 Gavin’s Flagship(The Chosen of Tyria) flying into Zhaitan firing all weapons.
1:37 Seveana leading a charge of the repentant White Mantle against the flank of the Undead.
1:41 Leah(elementalist) being filled with magic and becoming a white beacon of light.
Each scene shows with blast of Fog Horn
1:48 1(Looking at outside fields of Arah zooming towards the city)
1:50 2(Zooming through the city remnants towards the caverns down)
1:53 3(Under in the caverns moving through the twists and passages)
1:55 4(Black screen then showing Zhaitan rearing up and breathing black death at the screen)
2:01 5(Black screen with words “Guild Wars 2: The End of Destiny”)
2:07 6(Black screen with words “Coming Soon”
2:09 7(Black screen with words “Created by blah blah blah blah blah”

I like it, its a nice copy of a great costume from GW1. I miss the wings I admit, but its still overall a good costume.

My mistake, is this specifically for bashing on it? I apologize, its not like the amount of skimpy/sexy armors in the game is vastly outnumbered by full body/modest types of armors by a factor of 10 to 1, oh wait. lol

Will and have bought, thanks Anet for bringing this back.

My suggestion would be to put the name of the siege above it, instead of having to find it among the mess of siege thats been thrown down. On top of this, also put the name of the person that threw down the siege with the name of the siege, so people can themselves keep track of whos throwing down what, and whos being a troll or not. If someone is found to have thrown down a ton of siege and generally being a troll, we can report them and have them dealt with. Stopping people from throwing down a large amount of siege by mechanics would be problematic, because commanders do this alot.

An alternative solution would be to scrap blueprints outright. And use WvW abilities to determine the ability to ‘drop’ plans thereby aleviating the problem of commanders having to drop everything. Basically when you put 1 point into say ram mastery, it would allow you to drop rams, if you put in the full 75 points you would be able to drop superior siege rams. This would make it so that only those that are actually spec’d into it would be able to throw down the siege and would stop some of the trolls. Along with this you could also make it as you had with exhaustion to top anymore trolling.

Mrjap.7691:

is it so hard to keep it in your inventory then till it ticks off?

That’s not the point of my question. I’m wondering is this intentional that boosters stack time now or not.

Mrjap.7691:

why dont you just stack 2-3 each time and see if it holds?

Cause if i do that with a birthday booster that alot of time to lose

Okay never saw anything in the patch notes for this, but by error i consumed two of the same type of booster, and lo and behold they added time together, my 1 hour speed boost was 1 hour 59 minutes and 59 seconds long. I tested this by consuming 3 more boosters and now have a speed boost lasting almost 5 hours. Is this some new setup? cause if so it rules. I’m just afraid of consuming a ton of boosters then finding out this is a bug and losing them.

Raif.9507:

Hey again!

Ari here, Overwolf CM.

I just wanted to add here that Overwolf is working with ArenaNet in a collaborative effort on a few contests that require use of Overwolf in game. Not only that, they are also sponsoring and hosting an Overwolf app developers challenge for GW2 as you can see in this official ArenaNet blog post .

This is a joint competition that that is sponsored by ArenaNet and they mean for you to use these apps (if you want to) in game. That’s why they also announced it on their official Twitter channel, and will promote it further (such as announcing the winners) in the future.

See you in the Mists,
Ari

Sweet thanks, I just like my account and didnt want to do anything that would get me into trouble lol.

Vayne.8563:

Overlays aren’t add ons. They’re overlays and not against the terms of service. There’s nothing you get from this that you can’t have from having a second monitor and a calculator.

We’ve been using overlays for a long time already…at least I have.

Is there any sort of red post saying that overlays are okay? I just dont want to get myself into any sort of trouble.

After seeing this tweet from the official guild wars 2 twitter https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/510858084043206656 which showcases the new Overwolf mod coming out later today (Which still hasn’t come out yet) it occurred to me to ask here if this was an actual endorsement and approval of us using this mod. I ask since I’ve played since GW1 and I remember then that third party programs were not approved, and as far as I’ve always heard that remains the same for GW2. Could it be possible to get a definitive answer on this subject if its approved of by Anet or not to use this Overwolf Mod?

ColinJohanson.2394:

Snip (Sorry for doing so, error said messsage length too long)

So what does this mean from a lore perspective of the game, currently the ending part of the personal story has been turned upside down so that you go straight to cleansing Orr and then reinvade Orr to go kill Zhaitan. Many characters you now meet you act like you’ve known them for awhile and then suddenly later you act like youve meet them for the first time, and parts of the story were cut out entirely. As noted here http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2g02mx/the_personal_story_doesnt_make_sense_since_the/ and on the bug one here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Personal-Story-parts-missing/first#post4395639 which goes into more in depth detail the story now is a convoluted mess. Are you guys planning on fixing this? or reverting it back to the way it was originally which to be honest seems the better decision? Cause as it is, you’ve basically done a major retcon that destroys the story and confuses anyone that does it. On top of this, there was never any warning of such a change coming, it just showed up on the patch notes that
"
Chapter Focus:

Chapter 7 is now focused on helping Trahearne cleanse Orr.
Chapter 8 is now focused on defeating Zhaitan.
"
No one I’ve talked to wanted this, no one I’ve read about was even expecting such a change. Why would you go back now and do such a thing, some didn’t think the story was that good I admit, but now its just all over the place.

Now that I finished watching him finish his personal story I have to give my total feelings on it. To put it best, this change to the story makes using GW1 Prophecy as a template makes it like once we finish Crystal Desert missions, we go do the first two missions in Ring of Fire Islands, then head back to do the Deldrimor missions then finish off with Hell’s Precipice back on Ring of Fire Islands. The changes destroy the story it doesnt make it easier to follow or better, it just makes it a confusing. Please revert this change.

Also I’m not the only one that feels this way theres an entire thread here on reddit about it as well http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2g02mx/the_personal_story_doesnt_make_sense_since_the/

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

Tanek.5983:

So, I have a guildie who was on what used to be a Ch7 story part and now it is in 8. does that mean he misses out on what used to be in between?

No, though your question confuses me. No story steps moved from Chapter 7 to Chapter 8—just the opposite.

The story confuses me, why was this change made? There was honestly no forewarning of this or anything. No questions from the community, no hey were fixing up the personal story to make more sense (if thats what you think its doing). Why was this change made? And if we can prove to you that this change was bad, will you revert it? Like please don’t take this as I’m being harsh or coming across as attacking you, I personally love the personal story. I loved the lore and the feel of it and everything that went with it and this change is just heartbreaking to see.

After looking around on here and reddit, some people seem to think it fixes the story by taking Traeherne out as the center of the end of the story and focuses more on your character. I personally don’t get it at all, if I hadn’t already gone through the personal story myself I would be confused as hell by what I was watching.

Tanek.5983:

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

From the update notes:

Chapter 7 is now focused on helping Trahearne cleanse Orr.
Chapter 8 is now focused on defeating Zhaitan.

What does this mean in practical terms? Have pieces of the story been moved/removed as players are saying? Thanks.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Broken-Character-Story/first#post4392288 This post goes into more depth on the change, as it is its fairly much the experience I witnessed with my friend watching over his shoulder, its just a confusing mess, things out of order, things missing, people acting like they know stuff before they have even met each other or even know about the situation.

Quoted from Vyetta.3976

“I already leveled one character all the way to 80 and did the personal story up to what seems to now be the middle of the level 70 story quests. Today I got another character to 70 and did chapter 7 after the patch. Please tell me this is something that’s going to be fixed because this is the order my story went in

-Chapter 7 started with rescuing the researchers, as usual

-Jumped right to battle for Fort Trinity

-After battle it cut out EVERYTHING including meeting whatever that water chick’s name is. It goes all the way to when you have to escort Trehearne to the tombs (which is in a level 80 zone) to cleanse what he thinks is the heart of Orr. Norn shaman lady gets risen, all that fun stuff

Also after I killed the eye and cleansed Orr I went back to fort trinity to find Trehearne… who stops me? Water chick!!! Mind you I only knew who she was because when I leveled a character before this horrible patch I actually got to do the part of the story she was in. This time around, if I were new, I’d have absolutely no idea who she was and how my character seemed to know her. But for some reason, they do.

Please fix this. I love the character story and I’m very upset that I missed out on a lot of things I was looking forward to seeing when I picked different options than my previous character had. This really takes away from the game for me and I can see this confusing a lot of others. I’m dreading continuing to play because I don’t want to miss out on anything else. I don’t want to stop playing or being able to experience the story that goes with my character… which was a big reason I loved this game in the first place"

This is why the new story change is both confusing and in dumb.

I asked them about this same thing here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Personal-Story-parts-missing/first#post4392245 apparently this is intentional. I’m hoping they revert this, as it is, its a dumb move.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

From the update notes:

Chapter 7 is now focused on helping Trahearne cleanse Orr.
Chapter 8 is now focused on defeating Zhaitan.

So this is intentional? to flip the story around and remove parts of it? Please tell me you are joking. This is a terrible change, while some people may have complained about the personal story, I actually liked it. Now it just a jumbled mess and in many cases doesn’t even make sense. This is terrible, I hope you guys intend on reverting this change, cause as it is it just makes the story confusing and bad.

So, I been hearing things about this, and went checked it out with a friend playing the personal story. And I have to ask. What the bloody hell? It seem like parts of the Pact storyline are completley missing now, and some parts of the personal story have been jumbled up. I’m reporting this here as a bug cause I’m hoping its so but really what the hell? The Tonn storyline seems to be just, gone, poof. And the story after that involving the invasion of Orr by the pact seems to be just all mixed up and all over the place. Should I have my friend stop playing his personal story? Is this just a current bug, or is this an intentional new change with the feature patch?

Went to put my Mawdrey backpack together today and was unable to, when I got to Diessa for the next part where you go into the Font of Rhand portal the event wasnt up, so I went to get the meta event rolling and ran into Hazarar Razenight at the Bloodsaw mill. For some reason hes invulnerable, and were unable to do any damage or interact with him in any way other than attacking. Is there someway to fix this? or is it bugged out?

I’m having the same issue, all the told me with support was to change my method of payment cause some others have had success. Tried going from my visa to paypal and still having the same issue. I’m slightly perturbed when they have these one day sales and then have these kinds of issues and seem to have no idea how to fix them. Whats even odder is I bought gems as a gift for a friend and that worked just fine on their account, but on mine its completly “An error has occured, please try again later.”