Guild Wars 2

grabs popcorn Dis gunna be gud

On a related note, I’m curious how the trial is going to happen? Is it going to first be only repair hammers followed by only cannon blueprints or is the last week of repair hammers going to coincide with the first week of cannon blueprints or are they all just going to be available at the same time?

To all the siege whiners: If you don’t want siege, go play pvp, nabs. This is WvW. Git Gud.

In light of lil devils x.6071’s comments (they’re too many to properly quote but have a general feel to them) and him personally and intimately knowing thousands of WvW players

If everyone I know that has voiced they hated the DBL quit, the game would lose thousands of WvW players instantly. I think you misunderstood the poll results.

I propose a new poll. The people of WvW will be given a simple in and out choice, on whether to keep WvW or have the gamemode be closed entirely. We can call it.. the Wvexit.

Jokes aside, in regards to the poll, the people have spoken(overwhelmingly) on what they want. And you can’t say they had to vote like that because it was either mixed blands or DBL for three months, because they were given another poll on whether to remove the DBL entirely and once again they voted to keep it (overwhelmingly).

There is no point in speculating at this moment what is going to happen, because even when we had only DBL and a lot of people did leave, I remember there were still quite a lot of people playing on DBL and I’m from one of the lower tier servers. It may not have been the grand zerg battles that occurred on AL, but there were there, and whether or not it will be the same when they have the choice will remain to be seen.

No, the outcome of the poll isn’t important anymore. Now, the focus should be on the way Anet will implement it, which can go one of two ways:
1) They do an awesome job and there are a lot of complaints about minor things, bugfixes, etc.
2) They botch it, in which case there’s an overwhelming amount of complaints and suggestions on how to fix it, and then Anet goes through the slow process of doing it.
So should probably save your pitchforks, torches and suggestions for either of those cases.

Honestly, it’s interesting to see all the complaining from the playerbase, even when Anet actually started polling said playerbase on their opinions and further actually implemented what the playerbase wanted. Is it because a vocal minority that is dissatisfied with certain things and thought it was a majority suddenly found out they’re not actually a majority? Ooops…

So much whining.

Easy solution for WvW players who need to craft something “quick”: Add a guild upgrade, that allows the spawn of all crafting stations only for the people repping the guild and for.. let’s say 5 minutes. That should be enough to craft any consumables you may need on the fly.

Of course, the cost of crafting said upgrade has to be taken into account, because if crafting consumables costs x amount of money and using said upgrade costs y amount of money and y is much more than x, then it won’t be worth it.

There have been complaints about this sort of thing for a while and people should look it from the perspective of WvW players. Examples have been given about it already, but at least try to respect the people who actually love this game mode.

Has anyone tried the Gift of Zhaitan https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gift_of_Zhaitan ? After all, the Night Fury is known as the “the unholy offspring of Lightning and Death itself” and Zhaitan is the Elder Dragon with the aspect of Death. Other items related to Death could also apply, like Final Rest http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Final_Rest for example. I know it can be argued that the Gift of Darkness is one such item, but Darkness could be linked to the Night Fury’s colour.

I doubt anyone would care this close to the removal of SAB, but I still thought I should make a post about it so other people do not get glitched like I did at the end of world 2 zone 2 right before the boss, after spending 1-2 hours trying to get there.

I was doing this with a friend and at the bell portion to open the bridge to the boss, he jumped on a disappearing cloud and moved on. I was waiting for him on the pillar, but when the disappearing cloud reappeared, I got pushed into that pillar, which rendered me stuck and unable to escape from it.

Despite the many design flaws in tribulation mode as well as poor ideas and stupid challenges, this one must be the worst: lack of suicide or “retry from last checkpoint” option. I have kept my angry rants to myself and mostly made “working as intended” or “Welp, it’s Anet” jokes with friends. You can write off incredibly, stupidly hard modes as “challenge”, but when glitches and bugs like these exist, there is no excuse for the lack of proper way out of it.

Loving it. Last night I finished world 2 zone 1 and 2 with a friend. It took us a long time and we did not even want to explore, but just finish everything. Can’t wait to go back and explore those huge and amazing levels again.

A few notes: In the last SAB Infantile mode was quite a bit easier than normal mode and you would be able to obtain most of the achievements in it. I still haven’t had the chance to try it, so is that not the case this time?

The only problem I have had so far would be with the rushing rapids. In particular the area before the huge crocodile-log-waterfall checkpoint and the one previous to it. That segment was incredibly glitchy, with instances where I would be standing on a rock and then suddenly get flung out in the rapids or jumping from one rock to another and somehow ending on a third entirely different one.

I admit I still have not tried most of the achievements like collect all the baubles one and after seeing w2z2 it is going to be hell. If it is too much for my nabby self, I guess there are other achievements I can do or other content I can play.

Not everything in this game can be Shatterer or Old Tequatl.

If you really want those achievements but will have to grind for them and hate it, then don’t. 150-200 achievement points for stress and rage is not worth it. Unless you’re the kind of masochist that enjoys this kind of insanity. Then buy the infinite coin and laugh every time you die in some silly way (rapids D=), since 80-90% of the time it doesn’t really matter. Preferably with 1-2 other friends who also have it for the added bonus of laughing at their silliness.

What you get from a champion box is basically a guaranteed green or a chance of a rare or exotic, some coin, t5 matts with a chance for a t6 matts. The intention behind them from what I understood was to have a guaranteed better reward from a champion with a chance of something better, which I dare say has been achieved.

Logically speaking there shouldn’t really be a nerf or if there were one, it would be minimal. For example reduce the coin reward of the chest in exchange for t7 matts or make it so you get t5 matts with a chance of t6 or smaller chance of t7. Another possibility is to not make it a guaranteed green, but something like 1-2 blues with a big chance of a green. But that is from the perspective of the players, the devs are the ones that have the actual numbers and they are the ones who know if a nerf would be needed or not.

Even though the patch is tomorrow and I might not get an answer, I am just hoping to avoid a similar situation like the karma booster one. Unlike the Gauntlet farm where only a small portion of the population was affected, I have a feeling that after the ascended crafting announcement a lot more people would be banking their boxes and get affected by any upcoming nerf.

For those who have seen the preview video on ascended crafting, it had been mentioned that champion boxes will drop one of the new T7 ascended materials. Some people have suggested to me to save all my boxes after the announcement had been made, but I’ve done that with some reluctance.

It mainly comes from the previous patch. The Watchwork bags used to drop a monetary reward of 8 to 12s, which made the Deadeye farm so notorious, hated and at the same time loved. Before the patch had happened I had a number of those bags and not knowing there would be a change to the loot tables I had not opened them. Post patch there was no more monetary reward from them, which was a change that was made without a warning, like the karma booster one.

My question is this: Will there be some kind of significant change similar to the magnitude of the change of the Watchwork bags? There has been no official mention or announcement about it and I am sure there are quite a few people saving their champion boxes in hopes of getting tier 7 matts post-patch.

P.S.: I am not looking to start a debate or a flame war on whether the Deadeye farm was good or bad, whether the unannounced nerf to the Watchwork bags was justified or fair and likewise if any potential nerf to the champion boxes would be justified or fair. I and probably many others just want to know whether we should keep our boxes and open them post-patch or do so now. Thank you.

Hello

I am one of the main officers in The Order of Digital Knightz [DKz] which is situated on the North American Borlis Pass server. Earlier, at around 7pm server time on Wednesday, 24th of April, me and 30 of my guild mates attempted a Guild Challenge. As luck would have it, we got Deep Trouble.

After making sufficient preparations and organizing ourselves we started the Challenge. We escorted all 10 quaggans to their safe spots in the allocated time and all of us received a reward chest with 2 commendations, 2 rares (1 guild mate got an exotic) and 50 silver.

Unfortunately, not long after, it was noted that we hadn’t actually received the 30 merits for the successful completion of the mission. In fact, when we went to the Missions tab on the Upgrades window, it did not show that Guild Challenge has been completed for the week, but that the mission was still active.

I went back to the starting point and when I interacted with it, I found that I could begin the mission again. Since we had most of our members still on, we decided that we should attempt it one more time, despite the fact that we had already completed it once and gotten a personal reward. Everyone agreed that we should get the guild the 30 merrits.

Sadly, on that second attempt one of the quaggans died and we failed the mission. I am reporting this, because despite the fact that we got our personal rewards, we still managed to complete the mission the first time and the guild was cheated from those 30 merits. What is even worse, we decided to attempt another guild challenge to get the merits and hope that we would get a different one. However, neither me nor any of the other officers was able to activate a Guild Challenge mission. In fact, the whole guild interface had bugged – we were unable to activate any other missions or queue any upgrades.

I am writing this to make the Anet developers aware of this possible issue and to see if any other guilds have had this happen to them. This Saturday, we’ve scheduled another Guild Challenge before the weekly mission reset and I do hope that whatever the issue was it would not happen again or it would have been resolved by then.

Thank you for your time,
Madz

Kardiamond.6952:

Madzharov.7530:

Just had some interesting 1v2, 1v3, 2v3 and 2v4 fights against ALS in their borderlands. I learned quite a few things.

High number zerg vs zerg skill should not reflect on the individual skill of a player. Don’t get me wrong, your organized zerg vs zerg tactics are still amazing, it was the first thing I thought when I came back from the upper tiers. But when you don’t have the strength of numbers on your side or a fully upgraded tower, with overpowered numerous guards and cannons you can return to, it’s a whole different story.

Such a disappointment, but I guess I shouldn’t be. Not everyone is like Maguuma. XD My hope is, since you have dedicated WvW only players, you’d probably practice more individual fighting. =D

Shall we all judge a server over a one day experience?

Yesterday I fought an upleveled warrior from Borliss pass, and I one shotted it. Does it mean all player from BP are bad and will get one shotted by me?

I hope not.

Wowow, chill mate, I wasn’t judging your server. =o I’ve met a lot of good roamers on Anvil rock. =D

Just ALS. And not their entire guild even, for all I know, we could’ve fought some newbies, that had just joined the guild. XD But until I fight them more small-numbers, I’ll never know.

Just had some interesting 1v2, 1v3, 2v3 and 2v4 fights against ALS in their borderlands. I learned quite a few things.

High number zerg vs zerg skill should not reflect on the individual skill of a player. Don’t get me wrong, your organized zerg vs zerg tactics are still amazing, it was the first thing I thought when I came back from the upper tiers. But when you don’t have the strength of numbers on your side or a fully upgraded tower, with overpowered numerous guards and cannons you can return to, it’s a whole different story.

Such a disappointment, but I guess I shouldn’t be. Not everyone is like Maguuma. XD My hope is, since you have dedicated WvW only players, you’d probably practice more individual fighting. =D

osif.8673:

Get your ego out of here Toble, no one wants to see that microscopic thing. As for ALS and WAR who keep on trying to diss PAXA, I’m glad we screwed with your zergs enough to have this profound of an impact on your mostly terrible guilds.
I can only imagine in guild chat something along the lines of -

-“BWAH, what just happend to us?”
-“Oh, it’s PAXA, keyboard turn to them and press #1 guys!”
-“Yeah get them! RAWWRRR!”
-“Hahahahaha, look they’re running away! CHASE THEM UNTIL THEY DIE!”
- kitten I chased too far and died, come rez me and we can continue chasing."
-“They’re running again! WE ARE SO GOOD GUYS!”
-“Oh crap why are there only 10 of us left?”
-“Quick, backpedal back to the keep before they kill us!”
-“Why am I not moving very quickly?! Someone give me swiftness so we can backpedal faster!”
-“Well guys, there were like 15 PAXA members and they ran from 6 of us. Well done, even though we died, we were outnumbered.”

Bwahahahahaha! I even imagined the voices and the faces.
So are you guys always running with 5 or have 6-8 sometimes?

Woo-hoo! Just came back from a week long vacation in tier 3! =D

Had a couple of awesome duels with a few awesome ARs and an NSP. Was pretty fun, I hope we can repeat. I (and my guild, shhhhhhhhhhhhhh) are accepting challenges, just pm me here or ingame and we can look into it.

Otherwise, haven’t had much chance to get in the fighting, but I have to say, ALS (Anvil’s Last Stand), you’ve gotten quite good since the last time we fought. =o Your organized zerg kind of reminded me of tier 3-4 organized zergs. =D This week might very well turn out to be really fun. =D

Since I’m not seeing a lot of general WvW fighting from our server with few exceptions, I will derail a bit.

I had a lot of fun yesterday fighting you amazing Maguuma people in location omitted. I won maybe 2 fights?!.. Ok, it was probably less, but I don’t really remember those, because the +200 losses were much more memorable. XD

I hope we can get together for more during the week as well, the time spent in those fights was one of the most fun times I’ve had in WvW. =D

P.S. I could’ve taken a much more awesome picture with the Great Flame Ram Lord and the siege golem, but while I was setting for it I accidentally double clicked on one of you folks and my auto-attack went to hell. T_T

When Commanders from other servers come to defend you, it should be pretty obvious you made the right call.
I don’t know if you are trolling or not, but don’t go looking at what’s in front of you in team and map chat, without considering what is actually going on underneath. It is easy to blame the Commander because of the whole “When things are going well, everyone congratulates the soldiers, when things are going bad, everyone blames the leaders.”, but instead of coming on some forums and directing your rage at one person, try to see the bigger picture.
Mich was one of the three Commanders that were agreed on to lead on the map on reset night. When the other two got dced it took them a while to come back because of the queue. The same queue hindered pulling a 4th Commander from a different borderlands and while there were others present on the map, they were dealing with smaller-sized operations.
If you don’t have a Kerrigan with the zerg, then they turn mindless.

Thank you Dragonbrand and Darkhaven for the wonderful weeks of battle. Our time together was short and brought many frustrations. Which thankfully were overshadowed by the amount of fun that was had. =D
To Darkhaven, I hope you rebuild your server and WvW force. Doing PvE events for the PvE community is a nice way to advertise(drunken parties and naked women(or men depending on your preference and/or gender) might also work).
To Dragonbrand, I have to say it was quite enjoyable fighting each and every one of you. My only regret is not being able to see the fight between Ehmry Bay and you to see who’s stronger. Good luck in your battle against them.
And finally to our deserters (har har), you know, it’s still kind of sad that when I hear “Krew is here” in teamspeak, the initial joy from getting reinforcements is crashed by the sudden realization that you’re actually trying to kill us now. Still, no hard feelings, good luck in the future. =]

There’s an easy solution for people that get killed by thieves and believe they are op:
If you just want to kitten around in WvW, stay in one place when you’re attacked, spam/click skills, then roll a bunker build guardian. You’ll never complain about thieves again.

Disclaimer: The above advice may not work for people that are completely terrible in the game.

Evilzara.6378:

Can somebody post a screenshot of the score? I’m in class. :o

Here you go =]

fellyn.5083:

Awwhhhmagawd pvp happened in a pvp area. Lets make it personal!

Not personal. Since it’s a pvp area as you said, I won’t do it half- assedly anymore. No more mercy. >=D

Edit: Wait, when you swear, it replaces it with kitten?! That’s got to be one of the funniest things I’ve seen.

To the Darkhaven guild attacking people in the jumping puzzle:
Of course you realize, this means war. I will now make it my personal mission to organize thief groups to gank Darkhavens in the jumping puzzle.

Otherwise, it’s been a fun and interesting day so far. I was part of the initial group of people defending BP lands from the Dragonbrand assault. And let me tell you, you guys not only have nice tactics, but the numbers and coordination to pull them off. Attacking 3 keeps at once from multiple locations? Superb. In the end only Hills was left standing and despite our efforts the keep fell in the end as well. It’s too bad your force is Oceanic, makes me wonder what would have happened if you were facing our prime crew.

My only problem with you folks so far is this – You have a formidable force, a strategy to strike several places at once, that’s executed flawlessly, and yet there are some Dragonbrand Invaders that ended at the Hills Lord Room, when all inner and outer gates were at full health. Now clearly, this isn’t a mass guild exploit of +40 people like what Anvil Rock does on a daily basis, so I’ll give you guys the benefit of the doubt this time. Come on, you’ve already proved you don’t need something like this to win. I would post screenshots, but technically I already did and the mods pmed me. The exploiters were from the guilds TAP, GB and UhOh, so I am hopeful that that would help you in finding them.

In any case, everyone is welcomed to the guild banquet. As the DKz chief troll, I will make sure to provide excellent entertainment. =D

Edit: No, it’s not really bashing, if it’s true. When 2-3 people exploit, it’s an isolated case. When an alliance of guilds exploit with +40 people, then it’s server policy. Go away from this thread, Anvil, and fix your server.

This is my first post on a forum thread ever and considering our opponents from previous weeks (The AR Troll who keeps stalking us and can’t get over the fact that he got facerolled repeatedly and there is nothing he could and still can do about it should be evidence of that), it’s pretty obvious why.

I can’t decide which one between Darkhaven and Dragonbrand I like going against up more. The first night I probably experienced a minor cultural shock: “They sweep for enemy mesmers?! Wait, they actually utilize mesmers legitimately, without exploits?!”

I will probably forever remember Darkhaven’s amazing mesmers and how they get inside the keep with only one task in mind – find and secure a hiding spot. I’m sure some of you actually had quite the laugh at our expense when we found you and you still survived for so long. And Dragonbrand, for an Oceanic server, you have a day crew which actually induced conversations in our midst such as “Who said they were Oceanic? If they are, what’s with the good people that are on now?!” I shudder at the thought of you having the same presence for both day and night.

The weekend hasn’t even passed yet and the fights so far have already washed the horrible taste of the boring, dull, disgraceful battles from the previous month. My only hope is for Darkhaven to rediscover its WvW strength and come against us in full force and for Dragonbrand to keep up the pressure throughout the whole week. While our numbers may dwindle with the passing of the weekend and the passion may grow cold during the Wintersmith event (sorry, couldn’t resist), those who remain will fight tooth and nail. Even if we end up losing, with fights as challenging and amazing as these, there wouldn’t really be a loser here. After all, in the end it’s a game which is meant to bring us joy. =]

P.S.: I’m not trolling, just pumped up after fighting servers that are actually good and don’t cry in corners like small, sobbing b.. I’m not allowed to swear here right? Keep it up, we’re looking forward to and are excited for the new challenges you will provide us this week. Also, there are most likely a lot of mistakes, but I’m sleepy. I’m sure someone from AR (that’s right, AR) will point them out.