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NA T1 off-peak hours situation

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BG dominates late NA. TC and JQ are both pretty dead until their OCX logs on in 3 hours.

Even then, JQ/TC spend most of their time running away from KnT’s 60 man blob that loves to build open field siege.

It has been 1 year since D. Carver's big post

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LOL I am sorry but I do have to laugh.

‘MOAR arrow carts!’ is literally the answer to every situation.

A question about GW2

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Dear NC Soft,

You have your super bad kitten ultra hardcore MMO now in Wildstar. All the amazing super pro elites are playing it and loving it. Can Guild Wars 2 please go back to being a safe haven for us casual and gulp bad players again?

I’ll buy gems!!

Signed,
Me

Does nobody solo roam anymore?

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I stopped solo roaming due to runners.

Whether it’s a thief, mes, war, or ele, everyone just runs when losing.

One Gold Rank in WvW Guild

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Saw this gem the other day.

Honeymooon from Tarnished Coast

WvW Tournament Rewards Distribution Delay

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I’m going to voice an unpopular opinion, this is a good call. If its an issue, why should some people who are suffering from a bug be doubly affected, by not having their chest at all they’re afraid, and by seeing other people with their items they’ll be bummed out. Nobody has access to the vendor, everybody is on equal footing.

So once again, Good Call Anet.

Punishing those that already received their chest because others didn’t get one seems wrong to me. It would be understandable if it was stats gear but it’s not.

That being said, if the only way to sort this issue out is to delete all the tickets already given and send out a second wave of chests then this is probably the right call.

BG: Bloodied but Unbroken | WvW Season 2

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I remember back in the day when BG used to rip on SoR for cheering about bags when they were losing and cheering about ppt when they were winning.

Funny when the shoe is on the other foot……

BG: Bloodied but Unbroken | WvW Season 2

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#b3astgat3

Get it? The 3s are cause you finished 3rd.

WvW Tourney and Customer Support

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The issue seems to be:

- You were given the reward chest based upon where your server ranked at time of meta completion.
- If you completed the meta the first week before servers became ranked, you were not given a chest.

The solution seems easy enough. Just give a chest to everyone that completed the meta the first week. Make it a first place chest for the inconvenience.

Why the Guild Wars 2 Internet Hate?

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It’s not what’s in the game that causes anger, it’s what is not in the game.

So many good ideas have been passed on simply because they wouldn’t have generated revenue.

Pavilion Events Bosses No Chest at end

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The zerg style is what makes this game popular. If I wanted small group, raid level coordination there are a lot better games out there than this one for that.

It’s ANet’s game, if this is the direction they want to go so be it. But I’ll be sure to let my friends know that this game is worth passing on.

Gold League NA Analysis: Better to lose?

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I hear there’s some inner drama on TC right now.

The SoR guilds want to go back to fighting JQ because they’re bored but the original TC guilds won’t let them as they’re relaying information on their locations and what they’re doing to JQ.

WvW conspired? Intervention required

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Because this is a tournament, and that guides actions. Your logic would all be true over the course of a 1 week battle. In this case, it makes much more sense for TC and JQ t o team up. If BG were to win week 3, they would have a very large lead in the league.

Don’t take it personally. Any server that had won the first 2 weeks would be a target.

Again, who is to say JQ and TC don’t team up again? Who is to say this doesn’t happen to other servers? From what I am being told TC doesn’t care about winning 1st place. They are striving for 2nd. So there is literally no reason to not team up with JQ when fighting BG.

It really is destroying the thrill of the tournament. JQ is going to walk freely with no competition. TC will take 2nd because tier 2 can’t beat them, and they are already have their ties formed with JQ.

Server alliances should not happen. Guild alliances? Sure. However, if BG were to go to tier 2 then there is no reason why anyone wants to go to tier 1 to fight the JQ/TC alliance.

I hear TW is coming out of retirement next week just to drink your tears. You’re already drowning us in rivers because of a 2 server alliance, what you going to do when its 3 servers? JQ and SoS going to double you all of next week too.

Best update ever!

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Sprinkling salt on a flesh wound.

PvE will still be zerging and ‘1’ spam.
WvW will still be zerging and ‘1’ spam.
Hotjoins will still be dominated by 90% stealth uptime trolls.
Tourneys will still be dominated by decap engi.

So.. No account bound WXP?

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Account bound WXP would take 1 programmer about 20 hours to do.

If its not done by now, its because they’re simply not doing it.

Have you forgot? We haven't!

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November 15th, 2012

Loners and Everyone Else

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You were lucky to get a group for arah explorable that was capable enough to finish the path and weren’t elitist to the point of kicking you out of the group. From my experiences with arah pugs the group disband after the first wipe on the first skipping part, i dont frequently find high skilled groups good enough to carry a new player.

You didn’t get your personal story done but at least you got some shards of zaithan ^^
So you definitely didnt get trolled, that group was pretty nice.

Agreed.

I’m shocked that group went the entire dungeon with you constantly dying and not kicking you. I’m a nice guy but I’m not sure I’d have done the same. Pretty good set of guys you found there.

Thresher-Sickle - No special harvest chance

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Most of the ‘leaked’ patch notes are done so they can experiment and have plausible deniability. They obviously never thought the added bonus of the watchwork pick would cause an uproar or we’d have seen ‘leaked’ patch notes for it before hand.

This scares me because it means they truly have no grasp on their customer base.

What happened to SoR?

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This pretty much was the catalyst. More simply the guilds that left were guilds that wanted to win. That is all they cared about in the end is winning. There was no intrest in staying in T2 or dropping to T3 and rebuilding to T2.

So they went back to stacked servers simply to win and play easy mode, it started with JQ before SoR dropped to T2 and then ended with TC. If the guilds that left had one sliver of server pride it was gone and all that was left was the desire to win and super stack and blob more.

To the Guilds that hung in there after everyone left I think those were the only people left with any server pride and care for the community. TW, PD and smaller less know guilds. No one will blame them if they now xfer too. I think they wanted to wait and see what would happen. And now they can’t even play for fights any longer because there is almost no one left to get their backs.

Cry me a river.

If we were interested in winning, we’d have gone to JQ. We choose TC because it was the closest thing to pre-league SoR. Back when it was about server pride and working as one unit, back before TW started running tagless and telling off every player that attempted to follow them.

The attitudes of IRON, TW and FEAR are what crippled this server. Instead of embracing new players that came with the leagues, they told them to go kitten off. If you weren’t super, ultra elite you couldn’t even be on the same map as them or they’d verbally assault you over Teamspeak for hours then ban you when they got bored.

BG’s top guilds embraced their new players, SoR’s top guilds told them to kitten off. That’s why BG won the league and is still around, that’s why SoR is dead and TW/FEAR are sitting on servers with no other guilds or players that want to play with them.

Opened 88 Exotic Tequatl Chests at once

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Some guy in the RNG thread calculated the odds of getting an Ascended weapon drop from Teq at about 700-1. So an exotic at around 70-1 sounds right.

NCSOFT 4Q and Yearly results

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Yay! Though doubtful, maybe this will put some of the ‘this game is dead/dying’ rhetoric to rest.

A growth in gem store sales really proves nothing.

Q3 2012 the game was still new and people had no reason to buy gems. There were still objectives to work towards in the game.

Q3 2013 the only new stuff in game was all on the gem store. The game had become a grind for many players that could be avoided by purchasing gems for gold.

There was going to be an obvious increase in sales. The more telling number will be Q2 2013 vs Q2 2014 as that was the time living story was first introduced and when a large chunk of players felt the game took a turn towards the worse.

What happened to BG

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Ticking at under +100 for a while there, did you guys all to PvE?

I know getting farmed by JQ in the BLs and SoR in EotM is harsh but you guys can rally from this. Maybe its time to start up the war chest again. Spend some of that phat loot you got from the wurm.

What happened to SoR

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If SoR is just doing this to get out of T1 faster, all power to you since the low morale caused by staying in T1 is really not healthy for your server anymore. However I would suggest you guys shed a bit more guilds (especially your OCX/SEA guilds), otherwise you would be back in T1 in no time….

SoR still has ocx guilds? Oh wait thats right we don’t have any left.

Hire, GC

Most of HIRE has merged into GC and most of GC is leaving for ESO.

Bannering keep lord in eotm is broken

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One does not simply kill a warrior

Which guilds transferred off SoR?

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Why the hell would you go pure EoTM? Might aswell go PvE straight away then lmfao.

Imagine trying to take a t3 keep with 60 defenders, 25 arrow carts, and 10 trebs. Now imagine trying to do it with only 20 people since the rest of your server has to defend your garrison and eb keep from multiple 80 man blobs.

Zerker nerfed, allow us to swap asc gear

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The best way to adapt is by doing a 1 finger gesture.

Nope, its not the middle finger. It’s the pointer finger clicking on the uninstall button.

Hey There! New to Guild Wars; 1 Complaint

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If you’re an NA player, try guesting to TC.
If you’re an off hours player, try guesting to BG.

Black Lion Keys

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The price point on a BL claim ticket is roughly $40. That makes each skin cost around $200 if you just buy keys with real cash.

Personally, I think that’s outrageous for a skin.

Why do you not play sPvP?

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This question is quite invalid, asking people why they never PvP? How would they know if they have not gave it a real try? I am an active PvPer, and would like to clear up some misconceptions that some of you seem to have.

1. “I am not rewarded for PvPing!”

~Actually, you are! As of the Decenber 10th patch SoloQ wins award you with 20s and TeamQ will award you with 30s, in addition to that you will get 300-350 glory which can be traded for wintersday presents, if sold on the TP, you will be making about a gold every 2 games!

2.“The PvP community is toxic! Just filled with awful people!”

~Yes, there are some people who are very rude, and not good sportsmen, but that is not everyone! I have met many awesome people doing Team Q that I chat with very often, and PvPers can be just as helpful as PvErs, people will teach you, give you builds and be willing to answer almost any of your questions!

3.“There is only 1 game mode, that is very boring

~Currently, yes, there is only 1 gamemode and that is conquest, BUT arenanet has stated that there will be NEW GAME MODES added at the start of this year.

4.“My character looks so bad in PvP

~In the next living story update ( think the next o_O) they will be re-vamping the PvP rewards! And there will be no difference in Pvp and PvE skins! So you can have that cool arah armor look while pwning noobs.

If any of you are interested in PvP, we would love to have you!
There are just a few things that you should do before jumping to SoloQ!

1. Find a build that is currently in the meta (these can be found on every classes sub-forum)
2. Try out the build in a 5v5 hotjoin
3. Make sure to know all of the classes roles, and certain sayings.

Not doing these things is what brings out the worst in PvPers and I think that is what some of you are experiencing.
To put in in PvE terms, just jumping to pvp with a random build is like running a level 50 fractal as a cleric bearbow ranger, with 0 AR. It makes the community seem toxic, when its really not.

I feel bad for you in that more than 99% of people who look at this thread will completely ignore your post and just pretend that whatever delusions they have about the current state of PvP are real.

I do think that the addition of gold rewards for each match is a good addition. ArenaNet actually plans on removing glory entirely in the near future to further bring PvP in line with everything else.

I personally haven’t run into too many toxic people. There are those who go AFK and turn matches into 4v5s though. There’s often the blame crappy teammates at the end too but not much during the games themselves.

There is only one game mode but actually each map has different features that mix things up. In Spirit Watch, there’s an orb which you can take to any one of the three capture points. It’s a unique take on standard capture the flag.

Yes, ArenaNet did say they wanted to allow PvE skins to make their way into PvP. You’ll start seeing a lot of warriors with Twilight very soon.

I applaud the guy for his sincerity but read his final paragraph.

He basically says ‘We will welcome you if you play a meta build, practice 5v5 heavily, and don’t suck’

That pretty much sums up every complaint about sPvP in one sentence.

PvE & WvW: Would you sPvP if rewarded badges of honor?

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Nope, no interest in sPvP.

When I’m in the mood to play against other players, I play Dota2.

Game is too easy.

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I’d love to see your video soloing Lupi with no gear and only level 1 weapons.

Why do you not play sPvP?

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How anybody that’s spent any amount of time in PvE can say that the PvP community is rude/toxic is completely beyond me and so bass ackwards I can’t even tell if it’s satire or not….

Lfg zerker only
Lfg lvl 80 only
Lfg experienced only
Lfg no noobs
Lfg no rangers
Lfg must show gear
Lfg heavies only
Lfg warriors and mesmers only
Lfg noobs will be kicked
Lfg 10,000+ APs only
Lfg ‘all of the above’ O.o

This is completely flawed logic tbh. I’ve done almost everything PvE has to offer, leveling and gearing 8 80s with a 9th slot for messing around, and I love it for the most part. There’s not really much that demands any skill though outside of dungeons, so I find myself doing those or FotM mostly. To pretend like PvE is just filled to the brim with stand-up, awesome, helpful people and that PvP is filled with a bunch of hateful trolls who threaten “to find where you live IRL and brutalize you” is completely rediculous and fallacious. I mean do you really believe what your saying. I’ve played since launch and have done more than my share of PvE content and am also rank40 in PvP and I’ve never seen so many elitist tools ever than trying to find a pug for a dungeon run. Apart from a bit of good natured trash talking, people in PvP are easy going BECAUSE they’re NOT playing for rewards which is the problem with the elitist/jerk part of the PvE community. People in PvP are there because they enjoy it, not because they’re grinding for some digital reward and fell the need to be rude for the sake of ‘maximum efficiency’ and shaving 2 mins off of a dungeon run. Granted there are occasional bad apples in PvP who take it way to serious and flame the chat or whatever, you will never be ostercized, ridiculed, or kicked from a group because of your profession/build/rank/etc. Most of these claims are completely unfounded and probably come from people who’ve never even qued a single match but hyperbole is always good for self justification I guess huh. I do agree though I’d be more likely to spend more time there if there were new/more game modes.

Here’s the thing:

I can avoid the jerks in PvE by simply not grouping with them.

In sPvP, every hot join and tourney is full of chest thumping grub lickers. You ignore one and two more show up. It’s the nature of competition, it brings out the worst in people.

I know there are people that treat PvE like its a competition. The speed runners, the heavy only groupees, the achievement braggarts, etc. These people aren’t in competition with the environment, they are in competition with other players. They are essentially PvPers who choose to compete through PvE.

Whose got it the roughest in dungeons?

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hunter60

Hunters.

They’re so bad I’ve never seen one in a dungeon.

Gw2 says they have 460k Concurrent players

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I see no reason to not believe it. That number was probably hit the day WvW leagues went live.

GW2 almost certainly has more players now than back then but I’d have to imagine the concurrency numbers are down. We haven’t had, what I consider to be, a ‘major’ update since September.

Everyone hates Scarlett?

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For some reason I keep getting a bug preventing me from asking anything more than a few words long, but:

Is scarlett the most hated game Character ever?

I see NOTHING but scorn for her in game, out of game, forums..whatever…Seriously..I cannot think of a single character that is so hated by the gaming community.

The dog from ‘Duck Hunt’

Hate that jerk…..

Let's play a fun game

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Hate: Speed runs
Like: Plushy Griffons!

Worth Returning?

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It’s worth trying again.

You wouldn’t be here unless you had some interest. It won’t cost you anything to give it another go.

Dungeon community ignored?

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It took us over an hour and 2 mesmers to cheese that Alpharad fight yesterday.

Now I’m not the greatest GW2 player in world, perhaps not even average. But there’s no way that fight is meant to be that kittening hard. It has to be bugged, hence the reason you don’t see it in the patch notes.

What you need in a Commander

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Don’t make commanding into rocket science. I’ve watched so many commanders with a number advantage get wiped because they try to be way too technical and split their forces.

Meta favors zerging so be willing to zerg. If you have more people than your opponent just smash them in the face and collect bags.

is this game dead

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Nope, not dead.

Royal Terrace Pass, this is what we want

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Permanent Instant Repair Cannister

How do you explain the WvW reward?

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Best rewards ever……

Attachments:

Interesting Season 1 Ranking

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so six 2nds is more impressive than seven 1sts.

I don’t really know what to say……

do you like ribbons?

No defeat, no competition in S1

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BG players look at SoR as if it’s some monstrous blob of evil. They don’t seem to understand that the server is comprised of individual guilds and players. The few remaining active guilds on SoR have no more control over the former SoR guilds as BG does.

IRON isn’t on SoR anymore so please quit calling them SoR. If you want to blast them for giving up, go blast Gunnar’s Hold. That’s where they are.

WvW for small servers is demeaning

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Not sure about EU, but in NA all ANet has to do is reduce the map cap to 40 or 50, and T1 will crumble under the weight of their server stacking, and the players will spread out.

It wouldn’t affect JQ/SoR.
There’s no longer ‘T1 stacked servers’, there’s just Blackgate.

JQ has lost a large chunk of it’s playerbase, SoR has lost well over half it’s playerbase.
Look at the score, TC is even with SoR, that’s how far SoR has fallen over the last month.

Why is SoR playing dead???

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I want to see 1 major wvw guild from each t1 server pick a partner guild from same server but differing timezones and leave to a random low tier servers…would be awesome balance to multiple servers but it definitely won’t happen =(

Definitely won’t happen? It’s already happened.

KISS (EU) has already moved to the Ruins of Surmia. DIE (NA) has already moved to Ehmry Bay. IRON (EU) is relocating back to Europe once the season is over. HIRE (OCE) was offered a large of sum of gold to transfer to Piken Square and is considering it.

SoR has lost half of it’s players since the start of league. It’s a lot closer to being TC than it is being JQ or BG.

Way to many warriors and guardians?

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That doesn’t really tell us the whole picture. That break down is all characters, not just the ones being played. We can’t tell what people are maining from the breakdown, the percentage could be higher or lower as result.

Agree with this guy. I have one of every character as well but only play my guardian.

SoR/Blackgate/Mag 11/08/2013 Gold week 4

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My sources tell me that Waha and almost all of ATM/FoO walked away from Guild Wars 2 this week. Looks like BG will be the last server standing at the end after all.

Congrats BG, you have earned your right to PvDoor for the rest of GW2’s existance.

SoR/Blackgate/Mag 11/08/2013 Gold week 4

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Over 300 posts and 7 pages with like only 3 SoR guys posting.

I’m impressed, keep up the good work!

Anyone else simply bored?

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The b2p/f2p payment model does not work.

This dev team has amazing ideas and vision, but lacks the funding necessary to bring any of them to light. It’s really a crying shame…

That’s why you see Teso, WS, and FFXIV returning to sub models. The stuff that players want is just too expensive to do for free.