Guild Wars 2

At the end of the day like others have said here the language filter is NOT a licensce for everyone that can not control there potty mouth to let rip in /map chat at other player’s npc’s scenary.. whatever..
If you cant live your life without swearing like a trooper, then im sorry but seek proffesional advice.
I think of it this way…… when i sit down to play this game im effectively inviting you ALL into my front room.. because realy we all play in the same game. run around doing the same things etc.
Now i don’t want people in my home that can’t control there language, and if you were realy in my home swearing i would ask you to leave.
Thankfully Anet seems to think the same way. they don’t want people who use offensive language.. have offensive char names… have offensive guild names etc.. IN THERE HOME…
And i totally applaud them for it, as im sure the vast majority of the people who play this game do.
I have seen and played too many games where juvenille ’’idiots’’ with potty mouths and offensive names ran around ruining the experience for others..
I love it here, and if you go back to Wow i hope your very happy.
Cya.!

Im sorry but in my opinion this ’’guesting’’ idea is garbage anyway..
Think about it a moment.
As far as i understand {and please correct me if im wrong} guesting is player A {me} going to a different server to play with player B { a friend } correct ?
Well if thats right, and i as player A want to play with my friends player B………. then WHY AM I NOT ON THE SAME BLOOMING SERVER AS MY FRIEND IN THE FIRST PLACE.
since as i understand it too. only north american servers can guest with north american servers.. and only euro servers can guest with other euro servers.. correct too ?
the whole idea ’’guesting’’ is fluff…. nothing more than that. and if you want to play with a friend… go get on a server together permanently.
And don’t make the excuse of ‘’oh it costs money to transfer servers’’ it was free for 6 months.
Anyway rant over apart from saying……….. ’’GET OFF MY LAWN YOU PESKY KIDS.! :P

domxnik.1453:

They shouldn’t be the way they are in the first place…any of them. You have a lot of money, you get a legendary. That’s how it works, right? Where’s the story/lore behind it like there should be. Send the player on a quest or something.

Well i got another one of those ‘’I Love you’’ pm mail in the forums today from a gold seller.
Not only offering to sell gold but also…. wait for it……. ANY legendary weapon i wanted too, stating that they had all ready to sell.
So yea.. Legendary’s not legendary at all sorry.

Shush you.. i want a significant other.. :p
{goes back to writing valentines card to himself}
But seriously though congratz to you and your better half, makes me smile to know couples also play this game together and have fun doing so.
Great screen shots too..

CorruptedSave.2570:

Ooshi.8607:

iSmack.1768:

If WvW maps were part of the world, why can’t we see it on the map when you’re in Tyria. They are instances, like dungeons. Dungeons don’t count for the world completion, WvW maps shouldn’t either.

They aren’t part of Tyria.

If WvW doesn’t belong to the world why do you get all of the bonuses won in WvW all the times that you kill a mob, gather a resource, craft a item or heal some damage?

Now that is a valid way to show the connect between WvW and PvE. That does give more merit to having PvE elements in WvW.

Apart from the fact that for 90% of the population those bonuses were bugged from start of game and didn’t work until about a month or so ago.
And yea since i havn’t been getting from game start and never asked for them anyway i can do without it.. i have been doing fine so far.
{edit} {probably wasnt 90% but hey it sounds good and no one else gets there figures right on here anyway ;p }

Gbok.1039:

Midnightjade.3520:

Gbok.1039:

If you think, as someone above posted, that you can get 500 badges without ever fighting someone in WvW you are highly mistaken.

Yeah you can. Borderlands jumping puzzle on multiple characters plus the rewards from map exploration will get it done. But WvWvW is kinda fun, no reason not to at least join the zerg for a while to get a few extra.

I’m doing world completion now and have finished one of the zones – just ran around for an hour at an off-peak time. Getting the others is doable but I’m not sure it should really be a requirement. Map completion of the PvE map plus 500 badges of honor to make sure you at least try WvWvW is probably the right balance.

I am sorry but I simply do not believe that you not once ever had to deal with someone of the opposite faction while doing the BL puzzles. It does not matter what you say..I just do not believe that.

I am not against having rotating colors as an option to help people get this completed. I have three more characters that will have to complete this as well.
I just think some of these excuses are poor ones at best.

Before i went off the idea of getting a legendary i used to do the jumping puzzles in WvW..
I only EVER killed ONE other player in all that time, and that was only because the guy kept attacking me {even though i wasn’t fighting back} and had asked him 2 times to stop. He didn’t so i killed him.
ALL other times a simple /Bow or /Wave in chat was enough to go through the puzzle uninterupted.
I gave up because people then started to abuse that, they would accept the /bow or /wave then attack anyway hoping to get and easy kill.
So i left the trolls and elitists to it and went and made myself reaver of the mists instead.

Xaaz.8472:

Farming Flats.5370:

Xaaz.8472:

No, it’s not bannable. You aren’t forced to run with anyone. If I know for a fact someone is running MF gear, I dump them. Sigil of luck is usually a great indicator.

well You can have multiple set of weapons when your stack of 25 luck is built you can switch to another weapon and keep the stack .. thats what i do .. then i switch to my +9% crit weapons .. im not running any MF gear except this sigil will you kick me ?

Yep. You need to have it on for at least 25 kills in the dungeon to build your stack. I would absolutely kick you.

So by that logic you wouldn’t kik me from a dungeon group when you saw i had sigil of bloodlust on my weapon..
Im also high defense… high Hp… nearly 70% crit chance.. and high power too..
You wouldn’t kik that right..?
Well you would be wrong too, because i totally suk in dungeons, i can’t dodge to save my life {literally} im the guy in dungeons thats always on his kitten .
I can 2 shot some mobs in open world but dungeons i suk… so to save being {constantly} shouted at by the elitists i don’t do them anymore {and im much happier for it}
Oh sorry and as to the original op well yea i cant see you getting banned for it, but its not all that friendly is it…

Rin.1046:

I’d love to have open world PvP, where you right click and challenge a player. So long as there is an option to refuse all challenges, and so long as there is no way to grief players not interested in dueling. It would be a fun addition to the game and provide more options for players to keep themselves entertained.

In all MMO’s that I have played, that had dueling, it was clear that it is a very popular activity. And I have seen very little griefing because of it.

Open world dueling would allow players to set up some interesting matches too (think Jumping Puzzle Duel).

Oh please.!!!!
You realy think a duel on a jumping puzzle is a good idea..?
What happens when another player comes along wishing to do that jumping puzzle only to find it covered in people dueling..
If you want to fight other players that much then go to WvW or sPvP
Go camp the jumping puzzle in WvW and have your duels there i hear its very popular.

Kain.9127:

Why should wvw be excluded? World exploration reward is used to craft legendaries. You have to fight in wvw to get tokens to craft legendaries. You have to play both sides of the game. Get over it. Want pve only? Great! World exploration isnt just a pve thing. Thats that.

you don’t have to fight anyone in WvW to get the badges needed for legendary.
The video’s proving it are up on youtube.
Just create a new toon…. run to jumping puzzle get mesmer friend to port you all round the puzzle….. collect badges…drop in stash…. delete toon….make new one…. rinse and repeat…
So you see. NOTHING legendary about that and another reason why WvW shouldn’t be linked to getting legendary either.
I got my 100% map completion on my first lvl 80 a long while ago and i used to sneak into WvW at 2 am in the morning my time and run around avoiding other players until i got all of them.
I saw a lot of others in there trying the same or just standing around waiting in safe areas waiting for places to come free. All of this annoying the hell out of the PvP’ers as we take up space that ’’real’’ PvP’ers could have used.
Im doing the same now on my 2nd lvl 80… im taking up space in WvW.. im doing NOTHING to help with fighting other players or capturing castles/keeps etc, it doesnt interest me. im just doing it for map completion.

Well if they introduce duelling lets hope they also introduce an extra report player function.
So those of us that don’t wish to participate can report the knuckle headed ‘’elitist’ PvP’ers, who will most likely run around spam challenging everyone they walk past to a duel to prove how ’’elite’’ they are.
And don’t say it won’t happen, every game i have played so far has had that problem, and it’s not something i want to be botherd by in game again.

Fay.2735:

For whatever reason all of the sudden when I try to go to the main website I get this error.

HTTP Error 500.0 – Internal Server Error
The FastCGI process has failed frequently recently. Try the request again in a while?

I tried to wait a while, restart browser etc. but I still get it (I use Google Chrome). The website was working fine mere hours ago and it does still work on Mozilla Firefox.

I don’t know whether this is a problem with my browser or at my end or what it is but it’s only happening on the main website, Maybe someone can enlighten me ?

I have been getting the same message since last night {using Opera} can work around it to get on the forums but as you say when cliking on main site page all i get is that message you showed

To be honest i don’t know what all the fuss is about… Legendary..?
Don’t make me laugh there is totally NOTHING legendary about getting one,
you could stand all day in LA in the TP doing your dodgy TP flipping deals all day every day, never once setting foot in a dungeon… WvW… or the pve world..
And still get one after only a few weeks wheeling and dealing on the markets..
I have a suggestion for Legendary armour though if it ever comes about in the game… make it look like a Wall st traders suit… thats all the people in this game that will ever get it ;p
I always hoped for this game the trip to getting a Legendary would be just that.. Legendary, full of epic battles and searches, and going places to find rare parts to forge together slowly to make this awesome weapon.. how disapointing it turned out to be.. {end of rant}

TWMagimay.9057:

Danno.5269:

If they were smart enough to print ectos by the hundreds/thousands, they would be smart enough to know it shouldn’t be happening and stop.

Because, obviously, craft -> salvage -> craft is a clear sign that a person is a mind-reader. Also, it requires an I.Q. of at least 170 to do…right….whatever…

From a post by John Smith today….
I quote ‘’To give some perspective on banning for exploits. Our last round of snowflake banning encompassed greater than 275,000 illicitly created ectos.’’
You still think they were unfairly banned..??
And should have been refunded.??
I don’t especially after seeing the MASSIVE exploit that the ’’200’’ worst got up to..
Have a nice day ;p

ophidic.1279:

Plus all this complaining of “it’s not on the map”, well it is… if you piece the map together. The FULL map, not just the area that PVE takes place in. The world is bigger than the map you see when you hit m.

I guess Cantha is gone because it’s not on the map. Elona? Wiped off the face of the map!

Like i say…
When i press ’’M’’ it is NOT on the world map..
And yes neither is Cantha or Elona but NO they havnt dissapeared but neither are they part of the 100% map completion either.
so your point is invalid.. {sorry}
{Edit} oh and your other post i quote ‘’What’s the point of playing with other players if you’re not ever going to hit one of them.’’ games of chess must be a riot in your house then ;p

Ortumbra.7490:

Krimpton.4879:

ophidic.1279:

Krimpton.4879:

I think most of us are totally NOT INTERESTED in killing other players.

Are you freakin kidding me? You do realize this is an ONLINE game right?

what has the fact that it’s an online game got to do with it ??
Realy support your point here or just don’t bother to reply ty…
Look the simple fact is WvW is NOT part of the world so therefore should not be part of the 100% map completion..
And the PROOF that it is not part of the world is if you press ’’M’’ on your keyboard you DO NOT see the WvW maps show up in the WORLD MAP.

I enjoy both the PvE and the PvP portions of GW2, but correct me (nicely hopefully) if I’m wrong here. I know there are POIs in dungeons too, which, if you press “M” on your keyboard you can see the entrances (if your the right level or above, unless you have explored the area already), but you cannot see their maps on the world map. And unless the POIs in the dungeons don’t count towards world completion your statement doesn’t carry that much weight.

I wouldn’t dream of correcting you..
However.. ;p
I have 2 lvl 80 now one with full 100% map completion and the other on 85% so far, unless im suffering from a severe case of brain fail i can’t recall any dungeons having poi ‘’in them’’ that count towards world completion.
I may be wrong of course, im getting old now so you may correct me {nicely pls} if i am wrong.. : }

ophidic.1279:

Krimpton.4879:

I think most of us are totally NOT INTERESTED in killing other players.

Are you freakin kidding me? You do realize this is an ONLINE game right?

what has the fact that it’s an online game got to do with it ??
Realy support your point here or just don’t bother to reply ty…
Look the simple fact is WvW is NOT part of the world so therefore should not be part of the 100% map completion..
And the PROOF that it is not part of the world is if you press ’’M’’ on your keyboard you DO NOT see the WvW maps show up in the WORLD MAP.

LOCO.1785:

Krimpton.4879:

I think most of us are totally NOT INTERESTED in killing other players..
And the only reason most people are in WvW is because its one of the easiest and most efficient ways to farm Karma.
Oh and its full of underwater farming botts too..
And people camped in the jumping puzzle 24 hours a day to get there ‘’easy kills’’
The only Added danger in it is if one zerg is going clockwise round the map and the other is going anti clockwise and they accidently bump into each other.
Even then with the culling issue you dont see 90% of the people on either side so where is the excitement in that.??
Killed by invisibility.. ;p
{Edit to agree with op} and yes i agree with the op WvW should Never had been made a part of world completion.. thats a fact.. end of story..

Most of us not interested in killing other players?

Only reason people WvW is for easy karma?

Full of underwater bots?

People camping the JP 24/7?

Culling effects 90% of the enemy?

This post is so wrong I don’t know where to begin…

All of the above has been seen by me..
And ALL of the above has been reported in these very forums multiple times by many.. many other players..
So.. be constructive or go try to increase your post count some other way.. ty

Kinglette.4906:

Do the npc players ignore you in the other maps?
No didnt think so, what you are saying is im a bad i can kill npcs but not players please nerf the game.
either that or spend some time in wvw and see it can be fun, the added danger that you could actually die rather than auto attack and afk help the time pass

I think most of us are totally NOT INTERESTED in killing other players..
And the only reason most people are in WvW is because its one of the easiest and most efficient ways to farm Karma.
Oh and its full of underwater farming botts too..
And people camped in the jumping puzzle 24 hours a day to get there ‘’easy kills’’
The only Added danger in it is if one zerg is going clockwise round the map and the other is going anti clockwise and they accidently bump into each other.
Even then with the culling issue you dont see 90% of the people on either side so where is the excitement in that.??
Killed by invisibility.. ;p
{Edit to agree with op} and yes i agree with the op WvW should Never had been made a part of world completion.. thats a fact.. end of story..

Schnuffles.5369:

Bots keep material prices down. You don’t want vials of powerful blood back to 27 silver each do you? Because thats what happened after a mass bot ban.

Uhm…. yes i do

Because then the hard work i do by getting them will be properly rewarded.
I appreciate it is nice for those that don’t want to make the effort to go kill mobs to have cheap mats to craft with,
However for the rest of us farming the mats is a nice way to earn our in game gold too,
So yea ban more bots thats what i say and get the mat prices back up ;p

Dantos.1065:

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

The number of accounts terminated as a result of this exploitative activity is actually very small—fewer than 200. However, these people are the very worst offenders, and engaged in this exploit to egregious levels—hundreds and even thousands of times. They knew exactly what they were doing and they knew that their activities would damage the economy.

As a reminder, when we dealt with the karma exploit incident in September, we said that we would show some leniency for that particular incident. However, we made it clear that future exploits would be dealt with more firmly. As a result, we have terminated the accounts of the worst offenders in this most recent incident.

As always, if you have an exploit to report, please email exploits@arena.net.

Thank you.

I’m sorry, I do not believe this for one second, my guild alone saw ~10-15 people banned, I seriously doubt that we had ~ 10% of ALL exploiters game wide. We have many members, but a smaller number of very active ones.

As a result of this my guild is now without leadership and according to your support we have no way of making anyone else leader.

Our only recourse, for all the members who did NOT get banned and are players is good standing is to leave our guild, which had all guild options built up, and start all over again.

Oh wow 10 to 15 people including leader all banned from the same guild..?
For being cheats…
Oh no sorry i mean….
Exploiters..
Oh no wrong again maybe..
Ahh yes Traders/crafters thats right yea ?
Oh dear how sad… never mind..
Like a lot have said you agree to the TOS when you click on the ’’accept’’ button on downloading the game, if you can’t be bothered to read it then hard luck.
It’s there game they make the rules… you play by them or there’s the door cya around don’t bother the rest of us on your way out..
Bye.

Here is an idea..
They probably did what they did to it because at least 80% of the people that went there did NOTHING else apart from stand on the hill farming the adds.
That’s not team work or helping with anything thats selfish and just smacks of the Me.. Me.. Me attitude..
just my opinion. Im off now to fight a dragon :p

Fiontar.4695:

I hope you adjusted upwards the completion rewards, so that those who don’t exploit still get the same XP/rewards for a full run to completion? Right?

Not so much adjusting upwards the rewards for genuine players.
but if they know as he says ’’multiple’’ players were exploiting it then they must know who those players were.
And lets hope we don’t see there kind in game anymore.

Sylv.5324:

Ok. Guess I’ll go for whisperblade instead of a legendary. Makes my life easier.

This is exactly what i did,
I have just finished getting all the mats together to make ‘’Reaver of the mists’’ and i now use that as my ’’shiny’’ weapon instead of doing dungeons for tokens to eventually get a legendary.
I just got totally sick of the Elitists hurling abuse if you so much as pulled something one nano second too soon in there perfect dungeon run.
Or as what happened most of the time loading into the dungeon to find the leader and most of the rest had bolted off like racehorses with me tagging along at the back trying to keep up like billy no mates..
So yea the idea you put forward in your OP great idea. im all for it

Flissy.4093:

Thereon.3495:

Jeez, so many people moaning about a fun event!

Fun is objective. I haven’t found today’s fun. I didn’t know it wasn’t fun until I did it.

so it was fun up until the point you didn’t get your mega lootz.??
Realy as others have said it’s not all that much of a big deal, the mini pets are not essential to playing the game.. they are just fluff realy.

Do you have the Order of Whispers camp in Mount Maelstrom.?
Thats the one most people miss i believe, it is just next to the Irwin isle waypoint you have to swim to get to it though.
Good luck in your search and congratz on when you do get 100%.

The most simple solution to this is…..

Make your own guild..

And if you prefer just have yourself in it, or just you and a friend.
Honestly that is what i did at the very start of the game, im a totally grumpy and unsocial person anyway and didn’t feel like joining others in a guild.
Try it you will be suprised how quickly the influence builds up and if you are in no hurry to do things like i am not then its quite satisfying to see..

Elatus.7091:

Gaile Gray.6028:

Kurama.1257:

I feel the same way, most we can do is hope we atleast get something and if not keep complaining. I just can’t believe people who hadn’t logged on for days are getting them, that’s a real kick in the face.

I can’t believe that, either, Kurama — in fact I do not believe it. Talking to the people involved in the creation of the script, I just don’t see how an account that wasn’t even logged in — at all! — could get a chest. I would like to hear from someone who was in that situation, who flat out states, “I did not log into the game during the entire event, and yet I got a chest.”

• We have plenty of reports of people who got a chest who earned it.
• We know of players who did not receive the chest, and we’re working on that.
• We have a few reports of people who got a second chest. (No, to answer the question, do not expect a second chest if you got one — those who got a second got it in error, but we’re not going to take it away, nor are we giving out “second helpings” to everyone. )
• I don’t know of anyone who flat-out did not earn the chest who got one. I’d love to hear from that person!

Thanks for your patience as we look into this whole situation.

I’ll do the hard work :P

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Lost-Shores-event-disconnect-solution-merged-threads/938733

when you ask you shall recieve

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Lost-Shores-event-disconnect-solution-merged-threads/938779

theres probably more but you can look for yourself

Great work linking them threads….
But you know one big problem. they are over 9 pages long with over 400 replies {merged} threads far too much work to look through them.. :p

Oh and the script.? i suspect that was 2 guys sitting in a room with a list of accounts flipping a coin… heads you get one tails you don’t….. RNG rules :p

Asagi.1405:

Rayzor.2548:

Asagi.1405:

William Fairfield.1428:

This is not a bug. This is a random drop from the daily rewards. The vials also have a chance to randomly drop from every creature in the zones.

So as Azelroth suggested.. Loot everything!

Are you kidding me?
Do you realise how insanely idiotic it is to make a piece of gear a requirement to progress and then make it RANDOM?

Even Blizzard in all their years of gear treadmilling have never stooped this low.
In one patch we’ve gone from logical progression and steady rewards for our work to RNG based content gating!

I am disgusted with this, and ashamed that I have contributed money towards your paycheck.

Do you realize that you don’t need that ring at all, don’t you?

Well let’s see. I person with the back and ring is taking agony ticks for 150, I’m taking them for 1.3k and it almost kills me on some fights like Jade Maw 14.
Any further and it likely will kill me. So yes, I very obviously do need it.

QQ some more because you are too ELITE and in too much of a hurry to rush content that you can’t hang around and loot everything..
When i got there i loot everything and have tons of decent drops from there already.
So like i say stop being in so much of a rush and you wont miss stuff. ;p

I will chip in my 2 coppers worth i think….

I believe the whole task of getting a legendary has been gone about the wrong way in the first place…
So you get one of these ’’precursers’’ ? and then you happily go off and grind the same places day after day week after week to get the Karma and all the other bits and pieces…
Thats not legendary behaviour, thats Farmville..

To get a Legendary i think you should have to unlock it…
By doing ALL paths of ALL dungeons in the game..
By having 100% map completion..
By having at least 2 craft skill at max..

you see what im trying to say here..?
The list above is not exhaustive and im sure some here could add to it.. but to my mind Legendary means doing things that are ’’Legendary’’ :p
And grinding the same old farm spots, and the same old dungeons day after day week after week isn’t..
Anyway if im totaly wrong flame me.. im a noob anyway :p

The problem i found today while having a little farm in Orr is if you don’t join a group from the spam messages all you get in drops is the amazing porous bones.
If anything at all..
I was running around like a lunatic trying to tag mobs for some damage at Plinx event and the tunnel event’s but just couldn’t do it.
Single person versus 2 + groups = zero rewards in drops as far as i can see.
I eventually gave up of course and moved to wandering solo on another lower level map. { at least i wont get banned as a bot LOL }

Osiris.3467:

Hello
I use roccat keyboard and i need driver and program(i use driver from official website)to run this keyboard and they got some macro program in it and i got ban?
that not fair cuz i think all hi-end keyboard had macro program in it in driver even in keyboard itself.
that mean who use hi-end keyboard gonna get ban?
btw i don’t use any macro command in gw2 and sorry for my bad english.

I have been using rocat Isku since first beta all way through head start to now,
And…
NOT one single problem with it, no bans, no trouble.
So sorry your wrong.

Gaile Gray.6028:

PetricaKerempuh.7958:

maybe this is helpful but i noticed quite a few ppl saying that their entire parties got baned at same time while being in the party… this is definetly something to look into while reviewing baning process by anet.

btw, really weird to have this happening after 7 years of flawless game support. i am not alone in this situation and it is realy kind of dissapointing and am wondering who else from my closest friends list will get the same experience… for now we have 1 hacked acc and 2 bans…

Are you under the impression that parties don’t bot? If they were banned for botting, it’s entirely possible that this is what the entire party was doing because yes, botters do join guilds, do form or join parties, and do everything they can to avoid detection. It doesn’t work, but they try.

This statement kind of makes me very reluctant to party up with anyone in cursed shore.
I will explain…
Whenever i go there lately im constant tagged by party’s asking if i want to join ’’faming’’ events.
So.. if a party full of bots start to do that to players and we find ourself through no fault of our own accepting such an invite, when the bots eventually get there punishment will the unknowing player that has accidently tagged along get it too.??
I think from now on im avoiding Orr totally.

‘’Thanks for letting us know but the forums are not the best place for this. Using the in-game reporting system and the tickets is the best way of helping us dealing with this problem. Check the following thread for an update about the botting issue.
{link removed to a locked and redundant thread that says nothing}
Thanks!’’ {Quote}

Just copy and pasting this so the Dev’s don’t have to bother :p

‘’The point is many of these people want treasure chest and an exploration achievement, but actively seek to avoid PvP despite actually being in a PvP zone. Also, why people could be afraid. After all, no one wants to be the one responsible for their team losing. In WoW everyone just blamed the people who didn’t have upgraded gear (which you need to battleground to earn in the first place).’’

Well you can blame Anet for that..

For putting vista’s.. points of interest and such in the pvp are that was needed for 100% map completion.

I know in regards to me i went into WvW just for those things. i never attempted any pvp at all, and if i was attacked if i couldnt get away i would log out..

Most of the time a simple ’’wave’’ or a ’’bow’’ to an opposing member was enough for them to realise that i wasnt interested in pvp and they left me alone.

For those knuckleheads that simply had to kill somone or there day wasnt complete as i say i logged out and didnt give them the satisfaction.

And no before anyone says it im not ’’scared’’ of losing to another player or it hurts my feelings or any of that. i just can’t see the point of it, it just does not interest me.

So yea up until i got 100% map completion i was one of them guys taking up your precious room in WvW just hanging around picking daisy’s looking at scenery NOT doing one bit of pvp.

Just like an awfull lot more people too gathering by how many i was standing around next to in there on a daily basis :p

Agemnon.4608:

But are in PK areas because they have a need to be. Now, why would people be afraid of PK? Because if you lose to a mob zerg, no one knows, since AIs defeat you whereas someone else defeating you exposes you as an inferior player to whoever beat you. Now, when people do lose they blame “class” for it. Of course it’s a factor, and not all classes and builds are optimized for PK, but people need to be more humble and admit that there’s always a lot to learn. Maybe you try being a damage dealer, but your class is optimized for support or tanking?

I remember someone trying to run away from me as I was attacking them on the way to a borderland jumping puzzle, and I defeated them without any real problem. Yes, that was on my thief in his PvP (AKA berzerker) gear against a green arrow.

Another situation on my ele was one vs. three. I was switching attunements, using abilities as the situation demanded, used wind staff 5 cage at the right moment, but still didn’t win, but… that particular group knows that I am not afraid of PK and risk making myself look like a noob worthy of my fellow gamers’ contempt. The next round on it was much better, but I had NPC and some player help.

Are you lost..?

Or maybe just confused.

This is the general section of the forum. pvp section is just below go post pvp things in that.
Having said that i have read your post 3 times now { my brain withering with each attempt} and i still cant see what point you are trying to make.

abot 90% of your post it seems is made up of how you killed other people in pvp. ?? congtrats well done i think that maybe thats what your meant to do, im sure those that are interested are impressed.

Most of us are not :p

Galen.9042:

GW2’s end game is built around cosmetics. Dungeon gear and Racial armour provide no better stats than level 80 epics. Arenanet gave us the tools, in the form of transmutation stones, to let us customize the appearance of our characters just the way we like it. As a roleplayer, I absolutely love this idea. The trouble is, the game doesn’t currently let us do that. Because you are still limited to light, medium, or heavy armour depending on your class. Take my Elementalist for example. She’s a corsair, and I’d love for her to look like a pirate. Unfortunately, virtually my only options are to make her look like a high price Korean call-girl.

I can think of no conceivable reason why this is. Obviously, it would throw off balance to let anyone have the higher stats from heavy armour. But what’s wrong with letting them just have the appearance of heavy armour? The current implementation of transmutation stones even seems to support this; if, for example, I tried to use the stats from the heavy armour on my light armour character, the item would show up as non-equippable!

You could make the argument that it makes classes less recognizable, but this doesn’t hold water either. For starters, if I see a medium armour class coming towards me in WvW, that could be one of any three classes. How do I tell which one it is? Well, either by looking at their class icon, or more typically, observing their abilities. The guy throwing grenades at me? Probably an engineer. The guy with two clones of himself who just teleported an entire army behind the walls of my keep? Probably a Mesmer. The unguilded human female with a Juvenile Brown Bear pet and a somewhat nonsensical name? Probably a bot. The fact is that when encountering other players, you recognize their class from their abilities, not their appearance. You might be able to argue that it would hurt SPvP, except you can’t use transmute stones there anyway, making it a moot point.

It would even be beneficial for Arenanet. More options for armour means more players wanting transmutation stones, which means more sales for Arenanet on the gem shop. It means more players running dungeons, because previously undesirable dungeons suddenly become desirable if you could choose any of the armour.

It’s win on all fronts. So why on Tyria can’t we do it?

This….^^^^^ totaly this…

I have been looking for the right words for about a week now to make the same point that the OP has just totaly nailed in that post above.
The game is meant to be all about what YOU want to do but for some confusing reason they still restrict us in this way.
I mean they make a great play on ‘’doing away with the holey trinity’’ which i congratulate them for it was a great move, so now no one HAS to be a healer no one HAS to be a tank, no one HAS to be a dps only.
SO… why do you still make us all dress like a healer.. a tank… a mage…. a dps.??
Heavy armour for tank, light armour dps… cloth mage/healer. if your going to be bold and inovate then go all the way. ;p

Do you have your bank space overflowing with toilet paper and rotten eggs..?

Well maybe good people i have found a use for it all…

A post from the very helpful Gail Grey in another thread…….

‘’Lastly, I’ve noted that some of the protests here and in tickets are completely without merit. I found one individual — 100% certainly a botter — who submitted nine (9!) tickets protesting the block, and was posting frequently on the forums. Please keep this in mind — the volume of chatter does not necessarily equate to the number of innocent players (with all due respect to the innocent people!’’

Maybe then a Dev could log in such individuals as Gail has described and we can all throw toilet paper and rotten eggs at their character in Lions Arch.. :p

{ I know it will never realy happen but fun anyway } :p

sorry i dont know why my post is like that i only posted everything once but it duplicated every paragraph and now wont let me edit. so sorry

Im having problems trying to understand why my Necro cant wear plate armour because ‘’that armour type is unsuitable for your proffesion’’..

Uhm.. why is it unsuitable.?

Uhm.. why is it unsuitable.?I just like the way it looks on my character.

Uhm.. why is it unsuitable.?I just like the way it looks on my character.and since this game shipped with no ’’traditional’’ roles for example we can all heal, should we wish to, we can all Dps and tank.. should we wish to… apparently.

Uhm.. why is it unsuitable.?I just like the way it looks on my character.and since this game shipped with no ’’traditional’’ roles for example we can all heal, should we wish to, we can all Dps and tank.. should we wish to… apparently.So why am i still restricted to the ’’traditional’’ cloth armour for my classs.?

Uhm.. why is it unsuitable.?I just like the way it looks on my character.and since this game shipped with no ’’traditional’’ roles for example we can all heal, should we wish to, we can all Dps and tank.. should we wish to… apparently.So why am i still restricted to the ’’traditional’’ cloth armour for my classs.?Why cant we all wear whatever armour we like.

Well i would assume the good old Mk1 human eyeball approach would ban a hell of a lot more than the…. ‘’2 bots a day’’ that Anet is currently banning.

your fond of math.. do it yourself they say 10k bots banned ‘’in the last few week’’ as someone else in a thread elswhere in this forum pointed out thats less than 3 botts a day across all servers.

An automated system to do it.?
yea great meanwhile the economy is going to hell in a handcart while they set it up.. it is not viable for regular players to farm mats to sell on Tp because of the massive amount the bots drop on it.
Regular players can’t do many DE because of bots camped at the spots so its pointless trying to as you get zero reward or loot.
Regular players can’t do other DE where the bots are not camped Balthazar temple comes to mind. not because that event is bugged but because there is constantly 2 – 3 bott trains running in that area. close enough to effect the upscaling of the DE but not close enough to get involved in killing the mobs, the result being the event is over before it realy begins as regular players cant defeat the massive jump in mob numbers caused.

Realy this whole situation makes me think that this game company never had anything in place at the begining to combat bots. the one red top post in this very thread states ..
‘’We recently hired an entire new team of people with one mission in mind: operation bot destruction.’’
Meaning you never had a team in place before ??
My ‘’the good old Mk1 human eyeball approach’’ is in my opinion the most simple solution to get rid of a whole raft of bots.. RIGHT NOW.
Yes maybe it’s not the most technically advanced form and it doesnt have great ’’techy’’ james bond style programming and all that garbage but it will work.
It will work against the ‘’low level’’ botters the major farmers yea maybe wont work but it will give breathing space.
It will make the game players the ’’genuine’’ non cheating game players see that things are happening and we will shut up about it.
That is why so many posts are made here { and deleted here } it’s because people are frustrated they see the botts.. they report and move on. the next day they see the botts, they report and move on. after a week…. 2 weeks…. 3 weeks doing exactly the same to exactly the same named botts it’s like what.!! why am i bothering.

Omega Mayhem.7163:

Krimpton.4879:

Omega Mayhem.7163:

acemanelite.3987:

the special snowflake is you omega fanboi.

I have read what they have said and have watched closely as the bots become larger and larger numbers…how long does it take to log in as a GM port to any heavily exploited DE point with lets say 5 bots or more and click BAN…..

Now back on topic….how many PEOPLE then? because I know several in my guild have also reported the same bots over and over and over…….

No, you didn’t read what they said.

They said they have just hired a team dedicated to just this problem. They also said it takes time to make sure that it actually IS a bot. They have already made mistakes in banning people that were in fact NOT bots and had to reinstate their accounts.

But, having read their posts, you would know that… right?

I tested your theory for you………….

I just went to Orr to a location that is favoured by botters.. i spotted a train of rangers with bears running in a circular path auto attacking everything around them..

I tried to talk to them got no reply… so yea total time between reading your post logging on finding the bott train and getting back here to reply = less than 8 minutes.

So yea… your argument invalid much ?

Do you answer every whisper sent to you? I sure as heck don’t. Doesn’t mean anything. Argument=valid.

I do actually. im very sociable in game, will help anyone i come across at anytime.

However….. I dislike CHEATS with a passion unsurpassed by anything else, there is no need for it especially here, this is a GAME meant for leisure, something to relax in after a hectic ‘’real life’’ day.
If that experience is being ruined by CHEATS then ultimatly the non cheating players will leave for something else. that will mean less pleasant people to interact with and a less enjoyable GAME..
I have posted before on this subject because i feel strongly about it. the in game reporting tools are not enough.
It is not enough to just have the players of the game reporting instances of cheating, the GAME needs eye’s on the ground employee’s of Anet in game..
There tag line they like to use all the time is ‘’see you in game’’ well get in the game let the players and the CHEATS see you. being pro active thats all im saying.

Omega Mayhem.7163:

acemanelite.3987:

the special snowflake is you omega fanboi.

I have read what they have said and have watched closely as the bots become larger and larger numbers…how long does it take to log in as a GM port to any heavily exploited DE point with lets say 5 bots or more and click BAN…..

Now back on topic….how many PEOPLE then? because I know several in my guild have also reported the same bots over and over and over…….

No, you didn’t read what they said.

They said they have just hired a team dedicated to just this problem. They also said it takes time to make sure that it actually IS a bot. They have already made mistakes in banning people that were in fact NOT bots and had to reinstate their accounts.

But, having read their posts, you would know that… right?

I tested your theory for you………….

I just went to Orr to a location that is favoured by botters.. i spotted a train of rangers with bears running in a circular path auto attacking everything around them..

I tried to talk to them got no reply… so yea total time between reading your post logging on finding the bott train and getting back here to reply = less than 8 minutes.

So yea… your argument invalid much ?

Ouroboros.5076:

I really like the advice given by all the excellent “developer wannabe’s” in this forum.

“You only have to send one guy there to get rid of the bots I’ve seen ! It’s not like there are dozens of farm spots on each of the 25 maps on 52 servers to be watched 24/7 lolnubs ! Listen to me I have so much experience in MMO developpement and maintenance !”.

If you guys could see a bit further than the end of your nose you’ll realize that the number of gold selling mails dropped significantly the last 2 weeks, and that the farm spots exploited by the bots are spread in the entire world and are changing all the time. It means accounts ARE banned but there are so many possible locations that it’s too easy for them to avoid IG detection, at least for a while.

And I don’t know why I would bother explaining this to an uneducated public who won’t ever have a clue about the complexity of this topic but automatic bot detection is not something that you can implement in one day, even in one week. You first have to understand the farming technique, then find a way to detect it, imagine a detection algorithm, implement it, and finally test it extensively. Any true negative of your algorithm is an undetected bot and any false positive is someone banned wrongfully, so you better be sure of you.

TLDR ; Be patient omg, it’s an incredibly complex subject for a game like that.

Bott detection algorithm’s testing and blah blah blah what else…?

What wrong with the good old Mk1 human eyeball….

You know its an amazing thing the old Mk1 if you use it to ‘’look at things’’ you spot things like BOTS… Speed hackers….. flying hacks…. CHEATS.

You go oh look a guy flying in the game…. teleporting from mob to mob. did we program that into the game.. Hmmm no i don’t think we did… = BAN HAMMER..

Oh look 20 naked rangers all running in a line in a circle path around Orr.. hmm hello rangers.. no reply = BAN HAMMER.

Im sorry but i dont believe a word of what Anet says right now, it’s a horrible thing to say i know and i will apologise if im wrong. BUT…
When i see MORE bots now running around than i did before, and they claim to be baning 10k every few weeks… sorry but i dont believe it.

Get some Mk1 human eyeballs on the ground in the game Anet.

Steve.7926:

After putting up with this getting worse day after day after day, and getting several infractions by the mods here for even MENTIONING the botting plague.

I’ve decided that life is too short to waste time on this and hope for anet to do anything.
After reporting the same bots for over a week and they are still there, its quite obvious that anet either don’t care about the problem or they are encouraging it, as a way of generating extra income.

I know I blew my £40 on the game and they have it now but after this fiasco I will never buy another ncsoft/arenanet game again.

The bots are left alone and anyone reporting them or commenting on them gets forum infractions. and I thought blizzard were a bad company.. words fail me.

Goodbye all, its such a great shame to quit a game that is so fun to play.

What he said ^^^^

Me too i know i have blown my £40 on this game and yes i wont be touching another Arena net or Ncsoft game again after this Fiasco.
They made this thread 11 days ago with the grand anouncement that they had banned 1600 people for botting.
Big deal.!!!! thats on average 33 bots a server.!!!! good work well done well spotted.
Maybe you guys at Anet should stop eating the cupkakes you keep posting pics off on FB and get online and have a look at your game.
EVERY place i go on the server im on 10 tp 15 botts at EVERY location spamming attacks so the reguler players get NOTHING.
All we get for reporting it and coming on forums to air our frustration at it is our posts deleted and a warning.
I havnt been online in a week now just sick of not being able to play the game i PAID for the way i want to play it.
But you know what guys its a waste of time posting here in this thread i bet you it NEVER gets read.
11 days old and still NO further news. the silence is deafening realy.
Cya around { but not in this game anymore}

Eochaidh.4106:

Leiloni.7951:

Eochaidh.4106:

Leiloni.7951:

So are you saying we should let people continue to do this and earn free rewards? Why do you not want people to report this as a bug that needs fixing?

Don’t take words out of my mouth. I never said that this should happen. I am saying that people should not be banned for standing there chatting or roleplaying. Can you even prove that this is an issue and that someone is actually abusing this? It makes no sense. A stupid excuse to demonize a group of roleplayers

OK.
1. Don’t take words out of your mouth? Don’t take words out of MY MOUTH. I never once said anything about banning people. Chill the kitten out man.
2. I don’t give a kitten if they are roleplayers. I have nothing against roleplayers. Why do you care so much that they are roleplayers?

You are the only person in this thread who cares about either of those two points. Understand?

Exploiting is a bannable offense. Don’t call people exploiters if you don’t think they should be banned. I am talking about roleplayers because that’s what this thread is about. People should be free to roleplay/chat anywhere for as long as they want without being branded ‘exploiters’, period.

The thread is about a group of people standing/sitting around at an event spawn point for a long period of time doing nothing to help other players in that event..

That effects others players experience of that event in a negative way…

So whatever ’’roleplaying’’ spin you want to put on it DONT DO IT whoever they are.. you are or whatever..

It’s not good manners.. PERIOD.!

If you want mounts in the game that much why don’t you try this….

http://youtu.be/rzcLQRXW6B0

I agree give more weapons for underwater combat…

Then again with me more weapons will probably mean i will be 2 x times more hopeless at it,
Having said that though on my travels around the world so far in the char area i have seen some guy hammering on a submarine.! {think it was there could be confused i guess}
Now….. give me a go at piloting that underwater and i will be in it all the time. ;p

Who is Jeff.?

Is this the GW2 version of where’s Wally…

Do we have to search for him in mobs and dungeons. and get a super little prize if we do.. :p

Well yes ok maybe im being a little frivolous but big bowl of Karma for the Devs that do come to forums a lot and pass on knowledge about updates and bugs it is all appreciated even by the guys that rant a lot {im sure}

Natjur.4017:

The two vista that you use items to throw you there, the catapult that fires cows (and you) and the super jump musket.

I love the COWapult! (now I am looking for a Catapult that fires cats!)

Oh Noo!

Not the vista in Lions Arch with that musket. is that the one you mean.?

I couldn’t work out how to do that one for ages, everyday for a week i would be standing there firing myself off in all directions before i got so frustrated and left.

Then one day i was doing it another guy walked by watched me for a while and said ‘’hey dude why don’t you just aim it at the rock’’
Tried it and boom first time straight on it..

Im not sure why i was laughing so much after that, but it still makes me smile thinking of all the times i pinged all over that part of the map trying it.

Nimshae.2743:

Hey There
I have been a long time player of MMO’s since DAOC, I’m not a great player, I am a 37 year old Mum and play merely for fun and enjoyment rather than being the best.

I endevour to always make sure my passwords are different and the maximun amount of characters you can use for every game, and I scan my PC regularly.

However due to being a Mummy of a very small child (3 years) with Autism, my playtime is often sporadic and when Jack demmands I pretty much have to drop what I am doing.

After reading the amounts of people “supposedly” being banned for going afk this makes me worried. As of now I am trying to log out to charcater select everytime Jack needs me, however sometimes I regret I just don’t have the time.

I do have a razer naga mouse with some assigned number keys, however I find that it’s more an ornament as I never use the keyboard I tend to move using arrow keys and mouse click the abilities. Yes archaic I know.

I am just worried I may get banned for standing still somewhere and not answering pm’s as I am legitimatley away from the PC on a Mommy errand. I repeat I am never fighting I would be merely stood. Even in the middle of an event, it just means I am probably going to die.

If anyone could put my mind at rest I would very much appreciate it!

Thanking you in advance

Sarah

I wouldn’t worry about getting banned for going afk a while, I think the most they will do is kik you back to the log in screen if your character is idle for too long.
I know that happend to me once while exploring a map, suddenly got the munchies and went to get food…. parked my character in a safe spot…. went to make a snack… mum called on the phone.. got to answer mum when she calls ;p
Anyway when i got back to screen i had been kittend to log in screen, no big deal realy.