Guild Wars 2

Greetings from the Guild of Kindred – [GoK]. We are a friendly PVE group of close friends and family that are looking to expand our guild. We have been around for a long time; however we have kept our numbers small. We are currently looking for new and old players alike from all levels and experiences.

We are located in the Sorrow’s Furnace home world and primarily focused on PVE exploration of the map as well as quest lines etc… We currently don’t have scheduled events, but we will as we gain new members.

Our current members are from all over the world, however our primary language is English and our gaming times varies as some of us are online longer and later than others.

If you are mature, friendly and open to teaching and learning GW2, we are looking for you.

You can contact any of the three leaders in world at Hechicero.3297, Rheena.4301 or Talena Ahrum.7430 for more information or to sign on.

See you in world.
Mrmez
Guild of Kindred

I am sure the OP had some issues as I saw the same for a few moments, until I figured out what was going on. I can see where some people would have a problem with this one. The only tips I can give is to Watch the golems and stay out of their orange circle. Watch the white half circles too from the asura ( line of sight). Just watch their patterns and then make your move no matter trying to get the doors open or the final fight.

Take your time, do not rush it and all should be done. I soloed this within a few moments or so , but did not rush it.

Good luck.

Yes, I saw that as well not sure what that was.

Yeah, I’m going to have to chime in on this one as well. I’ve done everything possible on my side to check the connection, the PC, used more than one PC to check, went into cmd, reset and allowed access via the modem, set firewall permissions for GW2, reloaded GW2, cleaned (repaired) files in GW2, checked the connections ( packet loss 0 everytime) … and still I get the same thing as the OP.

I have been lucky the past few days as I have not crashed yet, however the massive lag spikes are killing me.. literally in game. In the year I have been in GW2, I’ve never seen so much lag anywhere even with 50 toons fighting a world boss, until now.

I am sure Anet is looking into this as there are several other posts about the lag and others having the same issue as the OP. Let’s hope some kind of solution can be found for it.

Hi, I’ve noticed a few things that seem a bit off as of late. If these are not bugs and are things that have been changed without any notice given, just ignore it.

Issue 1.

After getting the frozen Barrels, there is a spot in front of Kevach Homestead where you try to catch the barrels that Volden is throwing to you. The problem that I have notices is that he only throws one barrel after that nothing, he stands there holding the next barrel that he was going to throw, but does not throw it.

Issue 2.

The worms in the tunnel system near Volden, their respawn is insane. After killing a few of them and then attempting to pick up barrels will only result in you getting 2 feet from where you last were and having to fight worms you just fought 2 seconds ago. Not one respawns, they ALL respawn at the same time. I have noticed this little issue going on all over the place not just here in Warefarer Foothills.

-H

Hi everyone, so .. I was sitting here the other day doing my dailies and talking with a few friends when the topic of how we all do our dailies, and most importantly, when we do them came up.

So I was wondering how does the GW2 community do their dailies?

A: Do you do them in a standalone format (Ex. You come in check the list and go right to those tasks only)

B: Come in and do your normal “thing” (Ex. Map exploration, Heart Quests, Train running etc.) and eventually you will complete the dailies when it happens.

For me, its Option A. I come in look to see what needs to be done and I’m off to it. What is yours?

See you around Tyria.

Yeah these bots are driving me insane. The other day my mate and I were in Malchor’s leap and saw a few “people” running around just farming nodes and mobs. After watching one stop in the middle of battle to turn circles for 20 mins, and another running into a wall and then kept running we knew these suckers were bots. We ended up following the group around for more than an hour to see their path and patterns. They never spoke, never responded to anything we said. ALL of them were in some of the larger guilds, I’ve informed the guild leaders I could get hold of. These suckers ran amuck all over the place. We reported every single one we saw. I now assume that everyone that I see in Orr is a bot until proven otherwise. The attached photo is the path that we saw them running on.

We did have some fun with them. We would kite larger mobs on them more than they could handle and then we would watch them die. They would lay there for a bit before re-spawning and then we would do it all over again.. Hunting Bots was more fun than killing mobs down there.

A-Net should make it an achievement to kill as many bots as you possibly can. lol I know it wont work outside of PvP, but I wished it would work.

Malchor’s Leap
Sorrow’s Furnace.

Yeah I’m going to have to jump on this one also. Apparently the words (of) and Kindred can’t be together without the ( ) , but it’s allowed in the signature O.o Riiiiiight.

I just ran into that little problem while trying to make a guild recruiting post. Kept changing my guild name to “Guild okittendred Knights”. I tried the ’ trick, which did not work so I went with ( ) around the word of. Apparently Anet or some creative persons out there have devised a negative word for “(of)kin” minus the ( ). Could someone enlighten me on this if this above term is derogatory in any other language other than English? Danged if I found anything on it anywhere.

Q: Who are the Guild (of) Kindred Knights?

A: [GoK] is a division guild from the Guild (of) Kindred from within Guild Wars 2 (Sorrow’s Furnace server). We are an old guild going back to the days of Astonia (MMO) from ages ago. Hechicero the last remaining original member of The Kindred from Astonia moved from one gaming world to the next until he found a home in Guild Wars 2. The Guild (of) Kindred was founded by Hechicero in GW2 and then joined with his long time friends. The Guild (of) Kindred is a private guild that only contains 6 members and will most likely remain that way.

The Guild (of) Kindred Knights was created as a division of the Guild (of) Kindred to allow non-members to join with them and take part in all that Guild Wars 2 has to offer. The Knights main goal is to complete group events and or events that require a large number of people in order to complete them.

Q: Are there any rules to the Guild (of) Kindred Knights?

A: Yes, minor but important ones. Which are simple.
1. Keep the Drama to yourself, and don’t be a trouble maker.
2. Keep the Drama to yourself, and don’t be a trouble maker.
3. Keep the Drama to yourself, and don’t be a trouble maker.

These are very simple rules to follow, as for representing we do not require 100% representing, however it is requested that you are representing while taking part in anything that is guild related to the Guild (of) Kindred Knights.

Q: What kind of things are the Knights doing in world?

A: We are laid back but will be mostly focused on doing things as a group. PVE for starters, personal quests, guild quests, leveling, exploration etc… these are just a few things that we will be starting out with. Later we may move into WvW or PvP in our own private server, this is to be determined later on.

Q : How do I join with Guild (of) Kindred Knights?

A: You would need to contact Markus Tyrellium AKA (Hechicero) in world (Hechicero.3297) or respond to recruiting posts in map chat when they are made.

See you in world.

RECRUITMENT CLOSED AT THIS TIME

Been there done this, get this out of here!!

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Oh I find this to be an interesting post to say the least. I have to say that at first I could not figure out what was going on with the “Champ Trains” (there is no Zerg in GW2, go to Starcraft for zergs), anyway I observed them for a bit and tried to understand why they were doing this “mindless” running around, then it hit me. Each person in that “Champ Train” is there for one reason or another, and not all are there for the same reason. Some could be there to bring a close to their gaming night after a long map clearing run, or instance running etc….. I hit them up for daily quests and the monthly quests when the new month rolls around. I don’t look at them as money makers or anything else.

I also like the idea of running with a group of people cooperating in taking down the same task. For me this is something that is a bit odd on as most of the time I am so used to soloing things, not by choice but by circumstances. My time zone makes it a bit hard to match up with others for the guild, as it stands I am lucky to see anyone during the week. So running with the “Champ Train” helps me a great deal in learning how to open up to others and trusting them as they trust me during these events.
Could Anet make it more challenging? Yeah they could but either way the “Train” does not stop.

Now the thing that I don’t like about the “Trains” are the attitudes that most people get when someone who is not with the “train” or does not know one is running kills something or tries to kill something. There are always a few people in the “train” that start flipping out and being verbally abusive to the others. I don’t like to see this as it’s uncalled for. If you are running the “train” and you find in your rotation that a Champ has been taken out, move to the next one. It can’t get any clearer than that.

Ok this was odd, I was in Sparkfly Fen (Sorrows Furnace Server) standing near where one of the fish heads pop out. This thing popped out blew up and I landed in Bloodtide Coast. I was not dead, no injuries no nothing. Just a bit puzzled.

Is this something new or a bug ? I’m going with bug on this one.

Time: Game time 0850 hrs.
Server: Sorrows Furnace
Location: Sparkfly Fen (Splintered Coast area)

deSade.9437:

I don’t understand people claiming that the “real self” of someone shows up when stressed or angered. You’ll have a variety of reactions influenced by the personality, yes, but I don’t see the point in judging a person based on inconsistent behaviour under particular circumstances. You should judge them based on a persistent behaviour, that shows up a good number of times in different situations.

I could not agree with you more there. I am still looking at what I wrote in the original posting as I may have said something that was not entirely correct at the time. The meaning is there, just the wrong words used. I do agree with you that if a person is to be judged for their behavior is should be done using the most consistent behavior over a vast amount of situations.

deSade.9437:

. It was just a bunch of people getting stressed because things weren’t working out and as always, there’s someone who is more vocal and claims to know best. See, someone wants to take control of the situation, while others suffer in silence; others let out annoyance by cursing at the screen (me). <— “Aww screen you’re doing it wrong!” It’s hard to collaborate at times, you know. Everyone has a unique personality and individuality. People’s beliefs clash with each other. People argue. That doesn’t mean the ones arguing were kittenbags, just more vocal. Although probably some were

I agree with you there as well. Everyone of us sitting here reading this who has played a game at one point or another lost their minds due to ( insert the issue in the game that made you go insane). I still remember losing my mind when I was kid playing the Atari 2600 and something went wrong. I look back on it now and laugh. I am sure in a few years I will look back on this situation and do the same. I just have one question.. what is are” kittenbags”?

deSade.9437:

P.S. Lol at the OP’s veiled reference to a mysterious, presumably qualified job that covers you in an aura of knowledge on the webz, like Gandalf’s beard. Yes, I’m playfully poking you. Don’t get all worked up. It’s awful when people judge you based on a misplaced sentence.

This part made me smile a bit, I needed that. Thanks. I would also like to thank you for your input on this.

denamed.5860:

@OP: May I ask which studies and theories you’re basing your arguments on? I’m no authority on the matter (currently still just working on finishing my PhD in Sociology), so you might have access to material, that I do not have and that contradicts the popular theories on human behavior and crowd dynamics.

Greetings denamed.5860, thank you for responding. After reading your response and going back to read what I wrote again, I can see some minor errors that I made. I do not have access to any materials of this nature not in this day anyway. The information that I may or may not have used was based on my past studies a long while ago so I think I am getting the information crossed, which would not be the first time.

denamed.5860:

Widescale Behavior changes are a very slow thing that need generations to manifest. Even individual behavior changes take years. With that in mind, the event has not brought out the best or worst in people, nor has it influenced their behavior on any level. What you’re witnessing and by the looks of it, mistaking for something else, is a mixture of frustration and individual self-assertion. Parts of the human self that have been there way before the event even started.

I agree with you and I made a similar statement to another person responding when they asked if going by my logic that the survivors of the Andes plane incident in 1972 had cannibalistic tendencies before they crashed . I explained that the survivors did not have cannibalistic tendencies beforehand and that what they did was done to make sure they survived. Their natural instinct for self preservation kicked in and they did what they had to do. I also explained that what happened in 1972 and what happens at any event in GW2 cannot be compared, they are not the same.

I believe you are correct what you said about mistaking what I was seeing as something else. I believe what I saw would fit somewhere along the lines of Freudian Theory when it comes to crowds. The members of the crowd wanting their sense of individualism and self-assertion back that has been taken by a “ commander or leader” over the group. It has been so long ago since I was in school and studying this subject matter.

denamed.5860:

The event is constructed in a way that an individual can do everything right and still fail the event. If something fails, a human reflects upon themselves: Where did I go wrong, how could it have gone differently. If they can find no fault with themselves, because of a variety of reasons, they look for it somewhere else. Within the crowd or swarm, you will see the first signs as a blind shot into the blue. A quick vent of frustration aimed at no one in particular but rather a hypothetical person that must be at fault. If no one reacts to that, the frustration ends suppressed. People rarely alpha-strike others directly within a huge crowd and it’s impossible to make out who really is at fault – because it’s a communal fault.

If you really observed people, I’m sure you’ve noticed how the flamewars don’t really start before someone starts arguing back. There are usually several frustration vents happening before it starts to go wrong. Chances are, they’ll have a different idea about how to work this out and since their vision differs from that of the other people venting frustration, their views clash. Tensions rise and they start flaming. This will happily spiral out of control, as more and more people find their counterpart. At some point that might even just be “stop chatting and focus on the fight”. There’s no quick solution, as backing down from the discussion usually means you lose face – why would you back down if you’re right? – and your identity is under widespread attack by all the others looking for the fault, after all they’re now actively blaming you in front of all these people. Now Identity on the other hand, is one of the most fiercely defended parts of the self.

The anger and vileness you witness, and which I have witnessed too on several occasions, isn’t the worst in people. It’s actually a result of how humans deal with their daily lives. That is, constantly second guessing their every action and reigning in their instincts and compulsions.

Again , I have to agree with you there as your points are very much on target. Good luck in your studies and thank you for responding to my post.

fierotecknics.5961:

. Leadership is best when it is by example. If you truly wish to make a difference, be the example.

Indeed.

Sigerk.2897:

I’m sorry but I found you post to be extremely condescending, if you’ve been watching people for this long, as you say you have, how could you ever come to this conclusion? Have you ever been under a great deal of stress? Would you define the actions you took and the words you spoke to be an honest representation of your personality? :/

Greetings Sigerk, Do not be sorry for finding my post condescending, it was not meant to so. I do not consider myself any better or less than anyone I never have and never will. To answer your other questions, yes, I have been in situations that were extremely stressful, and the actions that I took and the words that were spoken were all second nature because in my former profession you must rely on your training, knowledge and experience, or you go home in a bag. The actions that I took during those events were not my original and honest representation of my personality at one time, but after years of dealing with said situation you adapt.

Sigerk.2897:

Judging people based on their behavior during an activity that may be stressful for them and concluding this is who they really are doesn’t seem very fair to me. Also you need to take into account that this is a mass of people, and whenever people congregate in masses they behave differently than they would in situations where there would be less (or no) people. Plenty of real world examples for this.

Again, do not get my post wrong as it was by no means a judgment posting. My posting was just my thoughts and what I gathered from observing the populace in many areas. I did however make a statement in reference to the Guild(s) bashing other guilds and yes I judged them and will do so all day long based on their actions both present and past.

I understand very well about when a mass of people get together also known as the mob mentality. It only takes one person in a large group of people to get the entire mob going, perhaps it is this that I saw because there was nothing organized about anything on that field from what I could observe.

Sigerk.2897:

By this logic, the survivors of the Andes plane crash, who resorted to cannibalism to stay alive, would by your definition, be truly cannibals and where hiding this all along.

No, by my definition they would be survivors. They overcame and they adapted to the situation that they were in. Those people on that mountain during that event did not have a choice but to do what they did in order to survive. However in this game and during the event of Teq, no one is being forced to be there. They are not under real threat, the stress is very real to them but the threat is not. Then again I could be wrong if someone actually thinks they are under threat during that event, however these two situations cannot be compared but I get your meaning nonetheless.

Perhaps what I am seeing in these people during these events are not their real personality traits, and perhaps it’s not really how they are in RL. It is not my place to make said judgments and as I said my posting was not meant to sound judgmental.

Thank you for taking the time to respond with a civil tone, and for bringing up some interesting points.

Have No Faith In Me.1840:

Thanks for the book Mr E-Psychiatrist

You are very welcome.

Greetings.

Those that know me know that I like to watch people. I spent a good number of my 20s watching people for my job. It is second nature to me, one of which does not stop even in a video game such as Guild Wars 2. In watching these people I found it to be interesting on how they deal with the stress of playing GW2 and events such as the new update to Teq.

I also like to watch how people behave during times of stress, by doing so you can tell who a person really is. It’s a proven fact that under stress your real self, the one that most people try to hide comes out to shine. Why am I telling you this? It’s simple.. this new upgrade to Teq 2.0 has shown me what just about every single person I have met on here is really like. It’s very interesting to watch.

I have spent the past few days moving from one server to the next while watching to see how each server takes care of Teq. In doing so, I have had the chance to see the behaviors of just about everyone that I have come in counter with and or just in the area.

No matter what server I went to, it was always the same. People were arguing fussing and fighting not Teq, but each other because they assumed they were better at leading than the other guy next to them. At each and every event, each and every time it looked more like a romper room playground kitten ing contest to see who is more pretty at leading. Then you have these ones that are not directly involved with being “commanders” that instigate those that are. This is a festering stew pot for trolls and I have watched them coming In by the boat loads on many servers to soak in the chaos.

On my server, this has even spewed out into Lions Arch in the form of one guild or group of guilds bashing another guild because of “poor” leadership and or because they think they are god’s gift to the server. To me this is unacceptable behavior .

I am sure that Anet did not intend for this new content and upgrade to turn out as it is, but you know it is what it is. This event has not brought out the best in people, in most cases. it has brought out the worst. These servers that have already completed defeating Teq are no exception to what I have said above. I have been to their servers as well watching others that could not get to the main event , and in doing so I have observed the same behaviors.

It will be interesting to see the outcome of this, as every time I step into Sparkfly Fen I make sure to bring the popcorn too.

What are your thoughts on this? Have you observed the same? If you comment please do not call out any guilds, and or people. Let’s keep this civil.

-H

-Edit information The original post did not convey what my actual intentions of the post should have. In reading some of the comments all of which were good allowed me to look back and correct what I failed to see as I wrote what I did. I did not remove what I corrected in the original post, I only struck it out.

Thanks for the interesting conversations and or comments, let’s try to keep the stress to a minimum and go beat Teq 2.0 then sit back and laugh about this whole thing.

– H

Now you know that Anet is going to fix this, they need to make sure to feed the greed in everyone so they can sell things that would only sell for 2 silver more or less a week ago and it’s now being sold for 15 gold as I have seen in the trading post as of late. Im talking about some low level items that a lowbie can no longer afford now because of the insane hike in prices.

Greetings, I found this nifty little issue to which I assumed was only on my computer, but my friend running with me also could see the same thing.

In the image below the reward chest at the top of the balloon tower is floating and not rested on the tower as all the other towers are.

Server: Sorrows Furnace
Location: Frostgorge Sound
Waypoint: Skyheight Steading Waypoint

Actually this issue I and my guild-mates have noticed months ago. It annoying as all git go when you need to push what ever you are fighting away, and then its right back in your face as if you never pushed them back. This is not the case with only “Point blank shot” but other “push back” abilities as well. I actually don’t expect this issue to get fixed as its most likely on the nerfing list for A-net but they did not get around to adding it to the list of nerfed items. Sad actually.

Getting the same mess here. Is it only with some accounts ? I can log in with my second account all day, but the primary one can not. ( shakes head).

UPDATE***

Problem solved

Hi Eiken, I agree with you on that one. Some guild names I have seen have been outright insane or ones that have not been planned out properly, so when they actually get a mature leader in there and they want to change the name to something that would be more fitting to the current guild they can not as far as I know of at this time.

If they made it like the character name change with a waiting time limit, in addition make it to where the guild can only change the name once. I know there are some out there that would abuse is if they did not have a limit, they would be changing the guild name faster than most people change their undershorts.

SandyRose kitten

As to pets… A Ranger can carry two pets just not both active. Keeping an eye on the active one and swapping out before it dies is a skill choice that can be very useful when done right.

The main complaint I have regarding pets is I am a level 80 and still have a Juvenile Pet. That is like running around with an Armored Personnel Carrier armed with a
sling shot. The pets should Level Up with the character.

Agreed, it can be very useful to switch them out before one dies. It can mean the difference sometimes between getting that kill, or paying up some silver for repairs because you died. I also agree with the pet leveling. They should level up with the main character.

The one thing about the pets (Bears) that bugs me is at that one moment where you just barely got out of a battle by the skin of your teeth, and the bear runs off starting trouble and bringing it back to you before you have time to heal. When my bear does this mess, I leave him right where he is and walk the other way. My thinking is " he’ll catch up".

I’ve seen this a few times as well. The one that was the most memorable for me was watching this Mesmer “walk” up and over a wall, then opened a port for his team to get in. I’m thinking he was using a hack or something, because he got up that wall before I could get a screens shot.