Guild Wars 2

Invalid.8765:

Manbear.3408:

Elochai.1280:

Like I said above if you can’t handle words get off the internet.

The internet is privately-hosted public space. You’re free to fling your poo at everything in your own living room to your heart’s content, but you can’t fling poo in a shopping mall. See the difference?

I fling poo in the shopping mall, I do not understand what point you are trying to make. From your tone, it sounds like you would be the type of person that would want SOPA/PIPA/CISPA to pass.

Even by the low standards of anonymous forums, that is a feeble attempt to build a straw man. Why not just jump straight to calling me “Hitler” if you’re going to be so lazy with your arguments?

Unless you are trolling, in which case several seconds of slow-clapping to you.

Elochai.1280:

Like I said above if you can’t handle words get off the internet.

The internet is privately-hosted public space. You’re free to fling your poo at everything in your own living room to your heart’s content, but you can’t fling poo in a shopping mall. See the difference?

Stop acting like a 12-year-old if you object to being treated like one. Pretty simple.

Wow. Quite the potty mouth on our dear Once there. I didn’t see his alleged hackery, but I’d gladly see him booted for spouting off like a low-class juvenile delinquent. BP doesn’t need worthless clowns. We’re better than that.

Wryscher, I feel your pain. I’ve been leveling my necro this past week, and I think I should have named him “Gingerbread Man,” because I spend most of my time running around in circles dropping marks with a train of ettins rumbling along behind me until they die, presumably of exhaustion.

It’s GW2’s version of the Battle of the Somme.

wickedgreen.4685:

Manbear.3408:

There’s nothing wrong with the achievement. By design, it encourages you to participate in WvW. That’s a good thing! Plus, making it challenging to attain enhances the achievement. Without the WvW component, half the toons in Tyria would be sporting gold dots. Who wants that?

This elitist attitude isn’t helping the game. Is your gold dot only special because you have something other’s don’t? And for the record, it isn’t “challenging” if you are on a server that is winning and control’s 90%+ of all 4 maps at any given time, now is it?

Yes, except that I’m not on one of those uberservers. I played about 200 hours of WvW before hooking up with a group that was able to crack into Blue Garrison. Those were NOT 200 wasted hours. WvW is all kinds of fun, and is much better at honing your PvE skills than PvE is at making you a good PvP player.

And yes, I rather enjoy having something that not everybody else does. I’d have done the achievement anyway because that’s how I like to play MMOs, but the gold dot is icing on the cake because I am an elitist jerk.

There’s nothing wrong with the achievement. By design, it encourages you to participate in WvW. That’s a good thing! Plus, making it challenging to attain enhances the achievement. Without the WvW component, half the toons in Tyria would be sporting gold dots. Who wants that?

The Anet giveth, and the Anet taketh away.

Why are all of you talking about a game (DAoC) that you aren’t playing? This is GW2. Love it or leave it, hippies.

Borderland assignment is based on tier position. 1st place in the tier gets the green borderland, 2nd gets blue and 3rd gets red. If your tier is pretty static, you might reside on the same borderland for several weeks in a row.

Sartori.1960:

Okay, heres little old me running around trying to get map completion done in WvW. I think its hilarious that I get zerged by 10-20 people that chase me down and kill me.

Would some explain why I matter that much?

It’s not you. It’s those badges you’re carrying. Sweet, sweet badges. Oh, and that you might be a dolyak ganker. So, actually it kind of is you. And your delicious badges.

Once more into the breach and all that, eh?

A tip of my cap to the Asuran mesmer from [ENVY] that I keep running into this afternoon on the BP borderland map. You, sir or madam, are slipperier than an eel, and I mean that in the best possible way. I felt good when I put you down (with a little help) at Redvale, and I was not at all surprised that you paid me back in spades at the sentry north of Hero camp. Well played.

PAXA run their mouths so much, one wonders exactly what they’re trying to compensate for. Insecure much?

I think I came off more hardcore than I intended. AR is mostly good folk, but they’re also mostly good fighters and they’re there for the same reason as us. I’ve been greased enough times by ALS that I wouldn’t approach a group of them without a similar group at my back. That’s what I meant when I wrote “be the cat.”

Ever see a cat “play” gently with a mouse? If you’re the mouse, don’t be fooled. Sooner or later the cat’s going to put its teeth into your neck. You got lucky this time. Next time, be the cat.

Dabrixmgp.4758:

What ever happened to playing the build you liked and not just whats OP/FoTM?

That’s actually what most of us do. Usually that means we aren’t uberslaughter machines, or if we are it is at our own peril. I play ele most often because I like the versatility and the animations, but I dabble in warrior, guardian, mesmer and engineeer, too. They’re all fun to me in different ways.

Fantastic fights tonight in BP borderlands. Hats off to both AR and BP for serious tenacity at Bay and Bluebriar. I don’t know how it all ends, as I’ve got to get some sleep, but however it turns out I had a great time and thank you for the badges. Thanks also to the BP commanders who did a bang-up job managing multiple fronts. Really excellent gaming tonight, everyone.

Nothing is useless, though some classes/builds are more challenging to play than others, and some only really shine in specific circumstances (but when they do—wow!).

Rashagal.5867:

…what is it about Umber and DG that you guys love so much? Is it the view of the majestic Overgrown Grub as it raises its tiny yet strong, shining mandibles in the sunlight over the walls of Valley Keep? Perhaps its how the blazing glow of trebuchet fire from Stone Mist Castle lights up the sky in its celestial glory before smashing against the walls in a beautiful display of fireworks and embers?

This is freaking beautiful.

Check out the big brain on Thrumdi! Thanks for the Bartle reference—I’m not familiar with his work, but it sounds interesting. I’m going to pick up a copy of his “Designing Virtual Worlds” on Amazon. It’ll give me something to read while I’m trebbing.

Jscull.2514:

If this game is going to be only “designed” for your “casual” players… The population will decrease by at least a third. As business people, bad model.

And… if you design only for the self-described “hardcore” players, your game population will decrease by at least two-thirds. Worse business model.

Cheez-n-Rice, people! Some of you spend so much time crying about all the ways this game sucks that it makes me wonder how you find the time to even play it. It’s a big game. It wasn’t made just for you. Deal with it.

I am shocked and disappointed that Arif did this, since s/he seemed like a standup player. On the other hand, that’s a pretty masterful bit of sabotage that almost cost up the keep. This on top of yesterday’s ninja wall breach emphasizes the need for heightened vigilance when we’re on defense. Thank you, Kalkz (and a bunch of others), for saving our bacon on this one.

For those of us from small guilds (or no guild), server vs. server offers an opportunity for team play that we might otherwise not have a chance to enjoy, and that cooperative play engenders (or should) a sense of loyalty to the people we run with. Heck yes I’m proud of my server!

Methinks Trikki doth protest too much. Enjoy your awesome.

Thank you Ironvos & Arcadio for the link. I like to see how the servers are doing when I can’t be in-game.