Guild Wars 2

The only connection between the two accounts was her name. She was told that her email and card number where blacklisted. When she made the 2ed account, she found out her name was blacklisted too.
That was the problem, she was given a specific set of instruction on how to go about making a new account and she followed them to the letter. They neglected to tell her that she would have to put the account under someone else name.

I think it would be hard to tell someone that they can continue service just not with their email, card, or name. That is almost the same thing as saying you can not continue services (its short one IP address ban).
Its all been resolved though and ANet or NCSoft took the time to personally look at her situation. Once everything was on the table, it was plain to see who the victim was.

You may be on to something to, I could see a short story or something in this, the problem is, I’m boring and Aik is only tough on the forums. XD (hehe love u Aikyy).
700+ views is a bit much for this simple post.

This is becoming more and more of a problem as I advance in rank and mmr in tpvp. Its not that I don’t like retaliation, I use it with elixir B, its just that I feel some classes can just keep this buff up add a little damage here or there and try to out tank me with retaliation doing all or most of the work. Here let me tell u a little story:

Im running condi nades in this match, I roam between home and mid point. I cap home and go try to give some range support at mid while keeping an eye on home. I notice a guardian running for our home point so I start to intercept. After a long intense knock down drag out fight, it ends with both of us on the ground spamming downed skills at eachother. Im thinking “WOW what an awesome fight, look how evenly we are matched, that was so much fun” his buddy come in and finishes me off (which I have np with, its part of the game, his friends got there before mine could). I look at the damage meter…. 12k in retaliation damage, 4k burning, etc.
The point here, I had to land every nade, cleanse every condition, dodge every knock down, and basically play perfectly in order to even reach a draw with this guy. He just popped retaliation and threw out a burn here and there. I just feel like my skill does not matter in this situation. Its just such a hard counter to how I apply my conditions that no matter what I did in that situation, there was no way I could win. There should be a way to win that fight.

I have 19k hp, I took 12k in retaliation damage. On his end its the same skill level as a hs spam thief, only I cant counter it with confusion.

I discovered this a while ago but only with the healing skill, after some testing:

Some underwater toolbelt skills are on a different cd timer then on ground toolbelt skills, allowing you to use the same toolbelt skills 2x, once under water and once on land. This amounts to double heals, extra might stacks and other boons, and some extra damage.

The following utility skills’ toolbelt ability can be used 2x:

Rifle Turret
Grenade Kit
Elixir B
Elixir C
Elixir R
Elixir S
Elixir U

Enjoy!

Thank you for understanding Martin.

I understand all the safe guards you must have in place to protect not only yourselves but also us as players. Her situation was corrected and now that everyone is on the same page, all is well.

Thank you ANet and NCSoft for taking the time to resolve her issue on a personal level.

And Thank you for the response.

It happened again! The same situation. This is insane.

I really don’t even know what to say or do.

The previous problem was closed, resolved is really to strong a word. She was told that, despite NCSoft admitting that mistakes where made on their end, her old account was deleted, never to be seen again, impossible to reactivate. She was informed that if she would like to continue playing the game she would need to buy a new copy of the game and create a new account. She was also told, in very specific words, that her card number and her email account were now on a ‘blacklist’ and that she would need to use a different card and a different email when she activated her new account. Sounds easy, right?

Well she did that, went though all the trouble of getting a prepaid credit card, charging it up with cash, creating a new email account, buying a new copy of the game, creating a new account with ANet or NCSoft and finally buying some gems from the gem store to speed up her progress in getting back what was taken from her by NCSoft. She spent two days crafting her new chars up to 80, running the in dungeons nonstop to regear so she could step back into her much missed, by us and her, normal spot on our wvw team. On the third day she tried to log in and was told her account was banned. AND FOR THE SAME REASONS AS THE FIRST TIME.

I just don’t understand how this can happen, I mean it is, by the definition of the word, FRAUD. You are just taking her money now, and telling her “tough luck sister”.

And what really makes me want to rage is the fact that she is probably the nicest and most responsive person ive ever met on this game, and I know for a fact that though out this entire process she has been nothing but cordial and understanding with the person whom she is in contact with at NCSoft. She understood and decided to move on from the first tragedy and try again. She followed NCSofts directions on how she was to go about creating a new account to the letter, but still she was banned again. She is doing nothing wrong and its really starting to seem like NCSoft is just playing with her.

And another thing, when she created this new account, everyone in our guild was so happy and impressed by her perseverance that many of us donated gold, items, crafting mats, and all the other things she needed to help her along in building her second account back to the status of her first. And now that all gone too.

I need an answer, this is FRAUD, plain and simple.

Well her particular situation was resolved. I will not say how or to what end.

My question as stated still stands though.

Thank you for the response, I was not expecting one so soon. =) I would like to say that I am not trying to stir up trouble or rage on anyone. I’m just a little scared that this could happen to me.

130323-002205 is the first ticket she opened; it was closed when she received an email explaining the reason for the ban.

130327-001507 is the second ticket she opened because she was not content with a perma ban on her account.

“I understand from your last few replies that this whole mix-up was an accident. I regret to inform you that we will not be able to assist you with this account.”

How is this possible? How can Anet or NCsoft understand that the whole mix-up was an accident and yet still be unable to reverse the actions they took at the beginning of the mix-up? Their actions resulted in my friends account (who has been playing from launch) being perma-banned. And every attempt to get support results in this same email template.

If you run with the med kit, use elixir for heal when under water and if you run with the elixir as heal, use med kit when under water.
This allows you to heal twice when fighting near water =)
Enjoy it till its fixed, unless this is intended, idk.

omg I cant type im laughing so hard from these last 3 posts. Its over man, take everything and we still win by over 200k. You guys are to funny.

Edit: Straegen got there a sec before me, Im talking about the 3 posts above his.

Ill share mine too:
Weapon skills 1-5 are bound to f, g, x, c, v respectively
I put my kits (skills 7,8) on q and e
My utility (skill 9 , I switch this around depending on the situation) is shift + g
Heal is shift + f
Elite is the 5 key
Tool Belt skills (F1-4) are bound where the weapon skills used to be 1-4
I bound the ‘use’ (F key) to ‘t’
And I use the 180 button ‘r’ quite often

NevirSayDie.6235:

Just a clarification—elixir B doesn’t give protection…

Dam, your right, brain fart on my part, I responded to fast. If he had protection it was coming from elixir H. Sorry for any confusion. He still gets retaliation with B.

Blowtorch is the skill Kara is talking about.
He was running duel pistols, the number 4 skill, (first skill for off-hand pistol) blowtorch, looks similar to a flamethrower auto attack. The most popular p/p build is p/p elixirs. Traited a certain way this build can be a might stacking, condition removing, but still offensively focused build. If this was what he was running, he was gaining protection (-33% damage) and retaliation on elixir b use and auto elixir b at 75% hp, had a 5k + heal up about every 15 sec, and lost all condition and gained every boon in the game about every 40 sec.
Your best bet at beating this build is personal condition removal and efficient boon removal on the engi, and range and movement so he can’t burn you or a full pdv burst.
Depending on the gear, after the boons wear off and his condition removal is on cd, his survivability is limited.

Don’t believe tool tips. This is a huge buff. Im noticing greater damage on my bomb kit and prybar on the tool kit, more so on crits. Prepatch I would crit for average 1900 with the occasional 2k with the bomb kit, now they are all over 2k every time. Im running full exotic berserker gear and rifle and valk gems.
I didn’t even test the healing turret yet, but from reading the posts Im pretty sure Ill be running this now and have much better access to condition removal in my build. THIS IS AWESOME. We are going in the right direction people, encourage this behavior!

Thank You ANet!!!

theredone.3845:

100% correct, you dont need to justify anything…. so stop trying, and in doing so, lying to everyone….. or just own what you are. im gunna go with “server surfer” i like that one.

Guys, come on, Obvious troll is Obvious, and bad.

Something I think is often overlooked, the vulnerability stacking of traited grenades. You can easily keep 15-20 stacks up on normal mob and 10-15 stacks on a champ or boss mob. So when calculating your total dps, you would need to add 10-20% of every other group members dps into yours. I’ve only met one ‘random’ person who recognized this during a dungeon run and thanked me for it. For me, this means I trait grenades for damage and vulnerability stacking and that’s my dps, done. Now I have 40 trait points to spend on versatility and healing and buffing. I run nades pretty much exclusively in dungeons, its great, the biggest glaring problem though is its lack of burst damage. To compensate for this, if I know there is a situation coming up where I have to have as much burst as possible, such as fighting alpha in CoE and a teammate is trapped by a crystal, I save grenade barrage for that moment. Does not really make up for the lack of burst but it makes sure you have at least a good front loaded damage ability to start.

Also, elixir kit with kit refinement is awesome for a small constant heal and constant condition removal, the only problem is that it will override any water fields people put down for healing. This has gotten me into trouble in groups before, I lay it down on someone with low hp thinking the heals will help him, only to have him die and claim that his blast finisher healing combo was ruined by my overriding light field. So I’ve found that I use super elixir is better used as a preventive measure as opposed to a quick reaction to inc damage. Toss it at the start of the fight and don’t throw it on anyone who’s actively loosing hp and in danger of dieing, unless you know for a fact that no water fields are going down.