Guild Wars 2

We need some sort of mechanics to allow or disallow commanders use their flash icons on WvW . It’s not about their ability to create squads or their flash icon on PvE, only about flash icon on WvW. Because some commanders doing really a lot to help and lead other players, other confusing ppl with their icons or whipping others.
As we’ve discussed that on WvW everyone agreed that we need such feature, because as times passes more and more noobs buying it with real money (gems >gold) hindering other players gameplay.

Hi to all there, people. Let’s share our ideas on how stats should be changed to improve current PvP mechanics. Developers are listening to community and maybe your suggestion would be implanted in game, so let’s make it better

I’ll be first:) . My suggestion would be to give us new stats on PvP gear to outstand crits and condition damage , reducing damage taken by crits and conditions hopefully. Let’s look at current stat’s:

Offensive stats:

• Power
• Condition damage (which can’t be reduced in any way)
• Condition duration
• Precision (Critical chance)
• Critical Damage

Defensive stats:

• Toughness
• Vitality

Supportive stats:

• Healing power
• Boon duration

Special or class specific stats:

• They can be rather supportive, defensive or offensive.

As we can see: there is almost no choose for defense; as for offense – they can only choose between direct damage (power + crits) and DoTs (power + conditions).
So if we’ll have critical damage and condition damage reduction – we’ll get new interesting combinations, like pure power for offense and variations for defense.

P.S. Of course this needs tons of balancing, but in my opinion that’ll improve PvP mechanics. Thanks.

Yep – I don’t like idea of far away character which I can’t actually see. If there’ll be an option for zooming – we’ll have to max zoom or we’ll be in great disadvantage considering to other players.

As an example: imagine that someone on DoTa2 championship zooming out so he can see all map, that’ll be cheating and you want such cheating be implanted into game.

I’m against zooming so far. Current FoV is almost ideal :P

I’m looking for someone to help me with it also , but there are many new players who just can’t do it alone or don’t have high lvl friends in game atm.

So far I did act 1 for my alt, but then act 2 started and all low lvl players can’t do it cause of lvl ~ 60 zones
I can lvl up chars pretty fast , but not in few days while event is going on , so will we have an opportunity to do it after Halloween end ?

DarkBurst.6820:

I wonder why it takes ANet so long to even implement a “Hacking” option when reporting a player. I’ve been running the Clock Tower for 7 hours now with my mate, and am able to consistently reach the top within 1 or 2 tries. I dare say I’m quite experienced with the puzzle, and have rarely seen any one overtake me on the way to the top. (Usually side by side or within a few steps infront/behind).

Just 10 minutes ago, I came across this lv 34 Elementalist (shall not reveal his name). He was able to speed past everyone, reaching the cog first by a huge margin (where everyone has to wait for the wall to break). That might have been possible with swiftness, but even if the guy specc’ed into the speed trait for Elementalist, he wouldn’t have gotten so far ahead. Even though we started side by side at that cog, he would simply run ahead and disappear out of my sights within 5 seconds.

Other alts running the puzzle along with me commented that he’s way too fast to be normal. When confronted, he would insist that he’s using his traits. Only upon having someone mention that he was FRAPSing the run all the time, did that Elementalist go silent and log off. (Admission of Guilt?)

Is it really that hard for ANet to implement a “Hacking” report button? And what can other community members do about it, given that we are not allowed to call those perpetrators out on the forum?

[Edit] Issue wasn’t really whether he was hacking or not, but what we, as members of the community, can do if we were to suspect someone was hacking?

Totally agree with you – that we need “hacking/exploiting” button. I believe it was speedhack, for all others – you can search youtube and see how ppl not hacking

LastSurvivor.1036:

I have to ask this question, because it’s something i am seeing players do more and more often and after multiple reports for “botting”, not only from myself, but from many other players that are getting fed up with it. These afk players in question continue to engage in this practice of gaining rewards while afk (karma, xp, coin) and nothing is being done about it.

Let me explain one players actions in detail. In cursed shore there is a location called Penitent Path where two dynamic events spawn. This individual will park his character near the entrance to one of either two outposts, set his turret on auto-attack, and then go afk for hours at a time. His turrets will then automatically tag mobs as they approach the outpost, giving him credit for every event that is active at the time. Sometimes we’ll find him with his armor broken (naked), and unfortunately players resurrect him and he continues on his merry way, gaining rewards for doing absolutely nothing!

Now i just recently caught him at his computer and decided to confront him about it. He claimed he got in contact with anet staff and said he was given the green light to engage in this activity. He claimed that because it was a built-in function it was not against the Terms of Service, only script use was.

So what’s the deal here?

I have a screenshot of the conversation i am willing to provide upon request. I elected not to post it here or mention his IGN due to any possibility that it could be against forum policy. I look forward to hearing back on this matter soon, thank you.

Staying afk and killing with turrets is allowed, but you’ll be kicked to character selection screen after short period of time. I believe in your case person used 3rd party (script , program, etc) to stay online – such things aren’t allowed

Gaile Gray.6028:

If I had a nickel of everyone who said “I’m secure” and then was proved not to be secure, I’d be quite wealthy right now.

Bots do not signify a security breach; they signify the use of stolen credit cards and the creation of accounts, which has nothing with your contention that there is or has been a security breach in our game or on our network. Just consider volume to assure yourself that this is not the case.

The password lists are widely available; feel free to do a few Internet searches to learn more.

The bottom line is that you should do what you desire in relation to your account. We’ll continue to take the best measures possible for our players.

I understand your position;) “There is nothing that can’t be hacked” ©

Not having scripts for banning 3rd party auto-programs, that’s security related issue in my opinion for such great project.

Just checked most “big” of them, and as I thought my pass is clear. Maybe you have unique list

We can discuss this forever, anyway reason maybe – that my dynamic IP connects me from different location or something else. At least can we, players, have an ability to disable this message without changing password ?:) And please add an ability just to add phone number to account information(not authentication), just in case of someone’ll manage to steal both acc and mail – we’ll have chance to prove our ownership.

Thanks:)

Gaile Gray.6028:

If you’re required to change your password, your password is known to hackers. I’m sorry if you disbelieve that, but that is the case. The password may not have been used yet, but to prevent a future compromise, why not just change your password and move on?

Because if someone breached your defense – we’ll need to change password in other projects too. I’m not usual user , so my password can’t be known to hackers because of my “mistakes”. Other companies have much stronger defense , than you do (never saw such army of bots anywhere). And to be clear – where did you find such black list? Can I have a link if it’s so easy to get? As far as I know any big company won’t give their user details to anyone and etc…

All I want to see such list to check if my pass really there, or something like: “hackers breached our defense” or “we’ve made this message for everyone, because of security reasons , you can click here to get rid off it”.

Also thanks for answer, as for your last question : I don’t believe in fairy tales – that’s why

I’ve read about black list and so on…. I’m pretty sure my password isn’t in such list , but I’m still getting this annoying message > so can you please delete this.

I’ve strong password used only in such projects as WoW, and can bet no one in the world got same. So only true reason can be – that someone breached your defense; but , I believe, you won’t announce such things even if they’ll happen.

First of all, thank you. It’s really great, that you listened to people suggestions and implanted such feature . But I hope you’ll get rid off application based code receiving:
1. As an example: I don’t (and won’t) have such phone that can run applications, because many of us need it just for calling. Buying expensive phones few times in a year(breaks, stealing, loss) just for game account security isn’t great idea.
2. Any soft based security features can be surpassed by good hackers.

P.S. Check how it’s done in google Atm it’s my only way to secure account. Today someone tried to access my mail, gw related I believe:

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:08:22 AM GMT
IP Address: 119.183.170.185
Location: Tai’an, Shandong, China

dummies have lower stats than any player or npc( lvl 80 ofc) ,especially light ones. I don’t have problems with all thiefs, just with few ones. I took a look at combat log after fight because he was killing 3-5 of us solo with few hits. I also have lvl 80, but i’ve never done 3x+ ( increased – yes , but not so much increased) damage on WvWvW; maybe never met lowlvl players there in fights. Also tried damage formula on wiki, but it’s only 1.5x or 2x (with fully geared heavy exotics and traits) difference depending on armor.
Still waiting for answer….

Peetee.9406:

It’s a class issue.

I get hit for 12k backstabs regularly with a full yellow Invader set or better, and 30 Earth (Toughness) as an Elementalist.

You can also try to make thief and go to test it’s damage at mist – if someone hitting your lvl 80 12k backstab – that’s 100% cheating;)

I’ve tried few my new characters at WvWvW and there were few moments fighting with some thiefs, which killed ppl pretty fast. I have my own thief and after few death checked combat log and saw: steal, cloack and dagger skills hitting me for more than 6000 damage each. Relogged to my thief and went Mists to test thoose skills damage on dummies with maxed damage build > hitting like 2000+ only…

So to be clear: are thoose ppl cheating and how should I report them or it’s just so bad lvl scaling mechanics or anything else I’ve missed ?

Dark Knight ( Death Knight, Anti Hero , etc…), because we have only 2 classes wearing best looking heavy armor. We need heavy class using destructive magick which counters guardians , because many of gamers prefer “evil” style gameplay

Got dc then couldn’t log in. Finally after I’ve managed to do it, and my trading post works fine after this (I can buy\sell from now). So whatever you’ve done , thank you

P.S. Just wanted to say devs that it worked for me :P

meatbunz.7342:

I bought the game, pre purchased for $60
Alot of my friends were’nt willing to pay this much, but in order to get them to pay for it I found a guy on ebay selling the pre purchase keys for $30
So I got my friends to give me the money and i bought it off the guy and gave them the keys.
Everything was working fine until a week ago my friends both got a message saying they needed a second key from the retail box.
Now both their accounts have been suspended and the guy on ebay isn’t replying to my messages
Can ANet do anything about this???
Cause my friends are really upset and this is going to come out of my wallet.
I don’t even see the purpose of having two separate keys that need to be activated on top of each other, its only brought up issues.

If Arena selling this game for 60$, can someone sell it cheaper? Just think a bit , as you should before buying game for 30$.

It is funny to read something like I was afk for hour or more and so on, dunno what are you using but game uses auto log off for afking. So I’m pretty sure you’re using “something”.

Rynter.3975:

ctrlaltelite.1362:

Rynter.3975:

Here’s a question for someone who might know: what GW2 profession is most like WoW’s warlock in terms of gameplay?

Tough because the GW2 professions are all pretty unique (except for the warrior). Even necromancers can fulfill a support roll by giving regen to allies and removing their conditions. What did you like most about the warlock?

I liked lots of things about the Warlock. I liked the fact that he was pretty tanky for a caster. I liked how 1v1’s essentially devolved to trying to keep an opponent from applying damage to you (Fearing and shutting down casters, kiting melee) while your dots tick away at their health. In mass pvp it was fun being able to wade into a big fight and fling spells left and right without being quickly squished by massive damage.

I made an Elementalist and I’m having fun, it’s a very mobile class with lot’s of tools at its disposal. I was just wondering if Necromancer was more similar to Warlock than Elementalist is.

Necro here is way different than warlock. It reminds me affli lock (scepter as weapon and curses as traits) and pala with his bubble (death shroud) but without serious CC

I love balance in this game but it’s not balanced for duels, some classes are strong against crowds, some are supporters , some are better 1 vs 1. WvsW gives opportunity for any role, dueling only for few

Ok, than I’ll answer exactly about this situation:

AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can:

Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write
a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder.

Using such programs will get you banned, I hope you understood why

Cellane.7683:

I wouldn’t be so hasty to throw this into the same category as bots. What Folji is doing, as far as I understand it, is only re-routing some keybindings from mouse to keyboard, while retaining the golden rule of “one button pressed = one action done”, it doesn’t automate anything. I’d wait for official word on this, but I can’t see any issues with this personally. Forbidding this would be like forbidding different keyboard layouts, after all.

Yep, but it’s using same scripts Allowing it will open wide door for bots Question was: is it safe? ; and answer always would be – no. Using such macro legal or not , – is absolutely another question only official can answer

Nope In all projects you’ll get same answer because it’s using same scripts as bot programs

Could we please don’t have it ? So we won’t see spamming "?;%% like russian lang in chat. At least for Guild or Party you can always use skype, ts, rc and so on.

Hi, talking about latest patches that should prevent account stealing : I have dynamic IP, main email account and so on. So, seriously, those features and suggestions ( like creating new mail) are hurting users more than helping. I was really surprised that there no option (which should be required) to add my phone (mobile pref) number ( in +3xxxx… format). Emails, account information and so on can be stolen, but not my phone so I can get it anytime back.

P.S. I hope devs would read this and it’ll stop them from making stupid things like IP checking.