Guild Wars 2

I crashed at the 3’rd wall on a medium specs pc, switch on a high spec pc with different setups/hardware (32 and 64 bit /radeon and gtx cards) and crashed at the 1st wall. I tried both fullscreen and window mode.
There is a problem in the helix area. Seems Mordremoth has a new defense system preventing us to reach him:D
I’ve sent both crash reports, hopefully we get a fix so we can advance

Is from the hidden achievement “Not All Who Wander Are Lost”. See Dulfy guide.

Thank you for this spreadsheet qT. Awesome job as usual.
One tiny suggestion tho (to make ppl understand better and get less angry), substitute “viable” with “optimal”.
“Non-viable” is term that describes something that cannot live and is pretty radical. “Not optimal” might be a proper term and would create less negative feedback.
Also , people needs to be reassured that raids are not that toxic and tehnically, all are mechanic wise dependent more than “dream” composition. They can indeed be completed with any comp but “optimal composition/builds” means better times, more room for small errors and less overall struggle.
Ty again

Hello Divine Knights, my name is Aki (MoganLeFay ign) and I am looking for a guild full of nice active people, that are mature and know how to have quality fun.

Few things about me:
- I have HOT and aprox 1.5 years in the game. I am a Desolace norn.
- My main character is a guardian (full asc) with 3800hours played, 150 AR. I know it sounds bit weird but I love guard:D My other chars are a mesmer dps/support (almost full asc) with 800h and I’m working atm on a rev, druid and tempest (this one will be boosted to 80). I dislike instant boosting characters to 80, thats why I level them “old fashion way” (with world completion). I am not altohoolic:)
-I am a frecvent TS3 user, I love to chat, socialize and work as a team.
-I have tremendous patience but what turns me off are rude ppl.
-I have knowledge of raids and mechanics (I took a brake for a while due to unfitting schedule) but now I’m back.
- My game time schedule is after 5pm GMT during week and all day (SAT/SUN) in weekend (as I am a working slave for the global economy).
- I enjoy any game event and I am open to any activities (I do not farm something specific for ages-maps or events so I am pretty flexible).

Lately, alot of my friends went innactive and this game has no flavor when playing alone. Therefore I am looking for a group that can include me in their activities (dailies, fractals, dungeons, raids). Actually, no, I am not looking specifically for such a group. I’m looking for a familiy and for good friends:D

I will pm ingame today after 5 pm GMT as soon as I get any hail from you guys.
Thank you

Oh, the humanity…..

Probably no one will know untill we get there because economy/market is a fine balance and should be preserved. Some things if they are revealed can cause alot of problems and I am sure Anet will try keep to the impact of HOT to economy to minimum. If they would reveal anything , even a hint, you can expect that in 12 hours all specific item/resource to instant dissapear from market, creating a huge demand and low supply, leading to insane prices, leading to huge destabilisation.

As for your supplies, keep some decent stock , use some that exceeds. If the HOT hits around Octomber, you will have plenty of time to replenish what you spend. Someone can hoard as much:D

I am very intersted in Froody. I will try contact you today after 7 pm gmt for additional info. Seems it’s a cozy, friendly, filled with ppl who are not afraid to voice themselves guild. Exactly what I was looking for past 8 months.
I’ll hope we can find few minutes for a chat today or this weekend.
Cheers

Vicao.5068:

Just to know…
Why you guys play PVE?

There is no point for me…
You play to farm legendaries, but you can go there and buy a legendary with real money and no effort…

It’s only “4fun”, but do the same things all the time isn’t that fun…

WvW, its a competitive in theory, so, win it’s the point!
PVP, same thing!

Myself I play pve because I need to relax after a hard day at work. Pvp is bit more stressing.
Most of my money goes to bills cos being a grownup sucks. My money do come with an effort….so the term efortless regarding money is not present in most of ppl lives, just for some.
Buying all legendaries in game and beefing from top to bottom eludes all the fun of targeting towards a achievement while playing the game aka " keeping myself on a task to avoid boredome". As long as a task is still present, the game keeps me entertained.

In pve the events, things to do, etc are wider, more diverse and rotating more often than in pvp imo. According to that, your statement about “doing things over and over again in pve” vs pvp is contradictional to some point.

As for WvW competitive aspect, as a dedicated pvp’er I wouldn’t choose GW2 in the first place. Are other games imo that holds the pvp competitional aspect at its finest.
Not to mention the e-sport aspect…..

That is one awesome ideea. Tumbs up!
I’m finding mysef switching really often depending on enchounter or boss and is a pain in the “huhu” to reassign every time when in a rush.
Saving builds might need some extra icons but how about making it remember the settings and when u get back to Virtues for example, it founds them in the last state of modification instead of reset state?

Hi everyone,
I’m Aki and I play a 8 months old guardian on EU server Desolace. I love my guard so much that I could barely make other alts (except one mesmer).
I am a social person who loves to chat and have fun in game and also help people (probably thats why I love my guard) but I cannot help alot as I’m still a newbie myself.
My friend who is a old GW1 veteran, and taught me all he could, have alot of work in real life and many times he leaves me alone, to bump my head into things all by myself.
Today I reached the conclusion that I badly need a teacher/mentor to help me learn better and avoid developing bad tehniques.
I studied all videos and tactics and ran all dungeons (Arah p1 included) and FOTM personal level of just 13 for now. But no video guide compares with a actual teaching run where you need to experience live and mend tiny mistakes when someone point out what you did wrong at the precise time.
I use Teamspeak and I am fluent in english . I am a very patient person and I learn fast. I always kick myself for mistakes and I take criticism (constuctive one) very well. Sometimes I slip tiny curses at myself with push to talk button pressed (sorry for that)

So, if any kind mentor is availabe on EU, how can I reach him/her? My play time is 6pm-12pm gmt during week and fully on weekends (due to job).

DonQuack.9025:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQYjIzg1DfU

YES! Thats what I’m talking about. Ty!

From what I saw, majority of the ones who come on guardian sub-forum asking for guardian nerfs are not playing one or have no main char as guardian (logic is killing me).
PvP wise, is impossible to complain about the most wishy washy pvp class in the bucket.
Everything we try to do, some other classes do it better. Even more, when others gets nice trait lines setups and we get scrambled traits, traits temp disabled, etc, but finally , FINALLY we get smth decent (not op, not gamebraking, just decent), rain of complains start to fall.
Makes perfect sense to me. If you cant kill a wishy washy class, ask Anet for nerfs. “Is too much”. I agree.

I play guardian since I started the game and loved it. I see all around me classes better glued together but I stayed with my first love. And brakes my heart…

pick a ranger , add A Hamster:D

Joke aside, you can easy play GW2 hardcore mode by taking all your gear off.
This advise is for everyone who feels that the game is too faceroll.
Works wonders. I tried. And remmeber, to make it more difficult is entirely up to us. Reverse is not working.
Have fun ^^

PS: Looking to see nacked TQ runs led by players who thing the wb has been dumbed down above any recoignition. If someone wanna organize such a hardcore content , pls give me a poke.

You can pm me on Torunn Nova or MoganLeFaye when u are around. Your 8pm is my time when i get from work and I play a solid ~4h+ during week evenings and sometimes I chill in game in weekends too.
I’m on Desolace in a small cozy anti-elitist guild called JARG (Just Another Casual Guild), with its share of british (2/3 i think), enough to spice it up. Im not british myself but ill put out my best british accent for you:D
And yes, we own and use teamspeak in case you are up for smooth rolling (not typing) and some good laughs.
If you need people to hang out with while you play the game, give me a poke.

Strong bulls are still used to plough the land sais the agricultural expert:"D (usually in group of 2 at plough)
PS: failed at the joke too:(

Lets all stop being agressive towards eacother.
Some ppl have strong guilds , some have no guilds or just few mates. Not everyone have a strong backup or chance for state of the art organisation. This is why opinions are so different, because they adjust differently to each group of players. And is hard not to be subjectif.

And tbh is not normal to need a shower after TQ demise because you are all sweat, shaited yourself and also developed carpal tunnel syndrome from crazy dps hitting keys.
Atm , TQ is a bit rough around the edges and needs some fine tunning. Till then, ppl need to play nice with eachother , help non-guildies and overall keep the community toxic level as low as possible.

moiraine.2753:

Hahahaha this made me laugh so much.If such unorganised pug group,without any TS and any cordinotion can do it.Then every casual n00b who was crying for nerfs will be able to kill Teq.

Morgan +1 to you ’mon

Despite proven that is duable, even with a timer that could have been certain fail, i think there were only 2 things that made that possible : the fact that ppl there were not afk (very important) and the fact that they threw everything at him regarding dps, even the kitchen sink.
Timers were: he flew at 8minutes left, 2nd fly up was at 5mins, 3rd at 2 mins. Was terrible but fun. But 0.13 sec before fail is not for the faint hearthed nor desirable:(
Myself I was on TS with my friend only , who was one of commanders and he had to put up with all my cursings and rage ;p
PS: Im noob too but never cry. Im also a guard and still dont cry. Not in public ;p (i hope TQ steps on lego).

Yesterday, 8 pm gmt (DesoEU), pug map, 3 comms, no ts, SA disabled ofc, people allover the place dps’ing all TQ parts (paws, head, tail ;p), total salad mix, towards end loads of dead players waiting for those who were alive to drop the last pixels of TQ hp.

Tq officially downed with 0.13 seconds remaining:D
Conclusion: duable even in the most unfortunate situations.
And tbh, I didnt had a feeling of hard work satisfaction like that in a long time. People cheering at TQ demise? priceless!
Pug maps= hardcore mode, ftw <3

My friend whom I play with is a old Gw1 veteran and he loves his necro. He joins fractrals with it (altho he has all classes lvl 80 and geared) and are moments when I’m greatefull for his class being there.
He has 21k AP but again, thats irrelevant as myself I dont see the AP being the determinant factor related with how good or bad a player is. Communication, listening and avoiding/correcting mistakes is essential.
Elitism at its finest is shown everywhere (pve and pvp) but in the end, having fun and a good time is what matters.

I love necros in instances/fractals. I dont mind having any class as long they learn by trial and error. Cant count the times when my “9lives cat” necro friend saved the day while I was dead on the floor from rolling a splif and he had to finish the kitten boss.
PS: not to get me wrong , im zerk guardian but that doesnt automatically means that I approve this “meta” bs and elitism. I would rather have 3 new players to teach them in fractals rather than 1 elitist cupcake that stresses everyone with rush and skips. Rushes and skips have their usage but they also have their specific time and place, not all the time and everywhere.
We always post at the end of LFG message “fun run” so ppl know that is friendly run and join it w/o any fear of getting rejected. And we always got it done and at least players learned smth from it at the cost of extra 10 more minutes compared with midless zerks and class specific runs.

You can use the tiny rock about 2/3 of the way down (left side) but that not always seems to stop you. You need to hit it spot on.

Another way that works (and tried it 2 days ago) was to go bit to left , above that rock, but instead of sliding towards it, pop swifness and jump as far in front as u can. You will fall in water w/o taking damage. Works every time.

PS: rezzers wont help if you do karka achiev as upon death you loose weapon

If he sais so… ;p

WvW commander called Charr Guevara
Asura called Nine Inch Tall
Mesmer called Split Personality

are so many fun names I saw around….can’t even start..
awesome thread:D

“There is something in the waaaaterrrr…”
I still can’t belive a Antonov 225 can fly, with one engine, and a little shuffle on its back… oh well, those russians:D
TQ flying is more like rise from water, crawl to top of building, semi-crash back on land, do his thing for a while, takes off, flyes very low, crash back down.
Welcome to MMO, sorry that RL appliance in fantasy games let you down, maybe nexty time…:D

Imo, the guard/dragon specialization in long bows makes him another jack of all trades master of none. Hunters wannabe, and yet, probably hunters will still do it better. Till now we were warriors wannabe with the difference that warriors were doing it better anyway.
As frontliner, guard will have to take a step back, altho the ideea of frontal aoe shield might save the day. We cannot know untill the all package is tested together and see what we can keep from original guard and what we can add from the new mastery.

I dreamed about axes so much on my guard , dreaming about dual axes throwing ricochet but well, bow…lets see how that goes…dream shattered.
As for name, “hunter” needs to gtfo. Need a replacement with anything else: dragonslasher, dragonbane, dragonflame, dragonnanny, anything but hunter. Let the hunters have their originality and give guards theirs. Even the old Paragon sounded mighty.
Thumbs up for thumper bunny btw…

1st:That system would discriminate new players. Would be like: “sorry but you cannot get a precursor, you’ve played too little”. That would be unfair, plus, it creates intensive farming and even botting, something that Anet stated multiple times they don’t intend to have.
2nd, : 750h probably would be enough to buy a precursor even by selling linen. I mean, if you salvage and sell silk, linen,damascus, piquant food, growing lamps or w/e TP values most and is easy to get , by the end of 3 months you would have enough gold to buy the darn thing and let the rng gods rest in peace.
Thats what I plan to do and tbh, my goals seem more straight forward and easy to reach atm. I got 50 gold, 2500 left:D

I think is a very nice skin. Not so for the price.

There are ways for players to make statistic tests but that requires alot of community effort. Without proper tests our suppositions are invalid and remain w/o proof.
A way to do this will be to get 100 players, all having same level, all having same magic find (we know that magic find dont afect chest drops but do affect mob drops), and make those players do exactly same activity on same server time on a shard with a certain population number.
After 3 hours, compare the data.
Redo the test changing the parameters.
Rinse, repeat.
THIS is how statistics are done and how valid data is gathered.
And even so, the data is not 100 accurate due to minor issues but is gives the closest to reality information you can get about RNG vs accounts.
It also can narrow down the “luck” effect that occurs. For example, from those 100 players , if one account is particulary “lucky” it can be compared with the rest of the batch to see the differences.
W/o this tests, suppositions remain as they are, unproven.
The question is, who would be up for this ?

DR cannot be removed and has overall impact. Its a way to keep economy balanced and prevent inflation, a common issue that leads to the decline of many potential good games.
“Quote:”Diminishing returns (DR) refers to the mechanics used to prevent bots and exploits from disrupting the economy and gaining an unfair advantage over legitimate players.DR is needed for dungeons due to their large rewards and ability to be repeated quickly. Similarly, it is applied to Dynamic Events to limit players from exhaustively farming one area, reduce congestion in one particular map, and to discourage illegal activities such as botting. (…) Dynamic events, in which the completion rewards are reduced for a given character after repeating the same event multiple times.
Affected activities: Loot from enemies, in which foes tend to drop less loot of progressively lower quality, for a character remaining in the same area for long periods of time."

So, in conclussion, intensive farming one area trigger a progressive build of DR . Tehnically, if smth didnt dropped after a set time (3h), the chances for it to drop decrease exponential untill reached dramatic decline limit.
Is the way Anet takes care of our health:D

Imo , a conspiracy is too much to presume.
If we consider , for example, that the RNG system in GW works on a 32 or 64 bit Mersene twister algoritm, there is nothing there that can be suspecterd fowl play except the data base library where from the actual drops gets selected, and we know for a certain fact that accounts/players do not have a individual account linked library as it is a universal one.
The only way a 32 or 64 bit Mersene twister can be influenced is by outside actions as:
- DR kick in (and I wont develop how that one works as we know) that is the only thing that has direct imput in the algorithm
- number of players that recive loot from the pool data library, that has indirect imput in algorithm
- area/location (that has direct imput into algorithm, by the designated loot table distributed to the library for the specific area* see instances with specific drops, etc).
-events (see above).
-player actions (a player who use MF alot obviously has more chances than a player who uses MF ocasionaly, etc).
RNG algorithms with big pool data/library are basicly impossible to control. The amount of numbers alocated that decides what drop you get it passes thru too many mini-prng codes thus making it impossible to control w/o direct imput into data coding (ex: modifying library or narrowing the arrays/possibilities ).

Just my 2c about this 2 weeks escaladated conspiracy theory discussion generated by the kitty cat maguma beta portal key ;p
Sorry for bad english but is not my mother’s language:D

They look like tiny cats for me, never saw someone call them rats or rodents. I think is rude.
I call them “the tiny people”. I’m a Norn:D

My friend farmed like a madman for 2-3 days while I was at work. Saturday I logged to join him, dropped the portal in 1st hour of Silverwaste run, from a reward chest. I was pretty “shush”, didnt said anything, just a mumbled “kitten”, knowing that he’ll fume:D
Lucky me, he dropped it too after another hour.
Before we did Silverwaste , asprox. 6 ppl got it in Dry Top.

Anyway, I guess Anet listed it as a rare drop to make sure that crazy grinding determined players will surely get it, as to be honest, they do need crazy 24h/day players for beta testing and this is something understandable.
The bad thing is that is no option to mail/gift the beta test key to a friend. Myself I will willingly pass mine as I know for sure that are 50% chances to be at work when beta test is deployed

I am really happy that I am here where I found awesome people and I am looking forward to cya all in GW2.
I really have to say it, I am impressed. Hands down, TAW is one awesome guild with one awesome community!
Oh yea, and we need more EU players so if you are looking for a home and great people, you know were you can find, stop searching ;p

I sent a mail to Mack, hope he’ll read it ;p If i need to redirection it to someone else too, let me know.
My game give me some headaches atm due some weird instalation faulties . I keep sort it and keeps bugging at logout (reinstalled /cleared over 7 times, I wont give up ) Yesterday made it work again, so when I get home from work I hope will be still ok.
With a bit of luck I’ll be on after 6 pm GMT when hopefully I would be able to contact someone from TAW.
Cheers

Hello there,
I am a new born GW addict looking for a home (tbr:guild). I would prefer a british guild if possible but a international one (english speaking) would be great too. I am a mature player, teamspeak user and a gamer all my life.

Few things about me:
I am playing games for over 20 years. One of my first was Blood, right after Bomberman ;p. I played WoW for over 5 years and along side with it pretty much every game that came out , shooters, rpg, fps, (Firefall, Warframe, Warthunder, Path Of Exile) you name it. I loved to test those games from alpha stage and see them going thru closed beta, then open beta then release version. Was a fun trip.
But lately my friend (old GW player) took me out of game testing and introduced me to the world of Guild Wars, that I must say, instantly captivated me.

What am I looking for:
Me and my friend (his guild went inactive or died), we’re looking for a friendly guild, english speaking, with mature players that have great sense of humor.
I plan to spend alot of time in the game (whenever my job allows me) and a friendly relaxing enviroment , with people to talk on ts while we play the game, would be wonderful.

I am interested in a guild on same server due to the fact that I want to activate in all aspects of the game (pve, pvp,wvw, etc).

Any message you can leave here or ingame (IGN: MorganLeFaye-female norn guard) is well welcomed.
Thank you