Guild Wars 2

Sure, in the off times you often fight with the same 9 other people in different constellation for multiple matches. The pool of pvpers is not as large as their “company talk” wants to suggest.

/e: what? normal words are now kitten?

Hey there,

im currently working with the /pvp/games endpoint to archive data about my played matches. The endpoint returns “started” and “ended” as ISO 8601 with the flag ‘Z’ at the end to declare it is in UTC.
Example:

"started":"2015-11-08T10:09:24.000Z",
"ended":"2015-11-08T10:20:13.000Z"

Do I misunderstand the format or does the API send wrong timestamps? How do other users work with this?

Hey guys,

i have an app running recording statistics about my wallet and how I gather currencies. With the launch of HoT the endpoint https://api.guildwars2.com/v2/account/wallet returns the new currencies correctly as they are gathered by the account.
The second endpoint to make use of this data, https://api.guildwars2.com/v2/currencies doesn’t contain the new ids so we can’t cross-reference it.

Is this a bug or is there a new endpoint I am not aware of?

Nkuvu.2570:

I don’t really understand.

People are fine with the mechanism to artificially lengthen the play time. Namely, the achievements being locked until after the first play through. People are fine with exclusive achievements requiring yet more play-throughs.

But you lose your patience for some repeated dialogue?

If I had my way, achievements would be awarded the very first time through. And you would also have the option to skip the dialogue if you have no interest in it.

Just that complaining about one without having a problem with the other… baffles me.

Its not that big problem because the first playthrough you can just enjoy the story and see what happens. The problem especially with “The World Summit” is that the dialogue and story takes 8-10minutes. This together with an achievement for “Challenge mode” for which you probably need a few tries if you don’t use a guide is a total no-go. I’m all for hard content and enjoyed SAB tribulation and Liandri (especially 8 orbs) but here you are just wasting time for nothing.

Please don’t start the nightcap-blame again. Imho Baruch were always great enemies that searched the big fights. They did not hide like other “big” servers and most of the time respected small scale fights.

If you play against a server just nightcapping, adapt and try to work your schedule around them. I know back when we had the manpower we beat BB regulary by moving our schedules a few hours. Let them cap the night if they want and recap early in the morning as soon as they log off, then hold it for most of the day.

Have a good season 2 everyone

Dawdler.8521:

Bah!

Sometimes I wonder if Elona purposely try to confuse their opponents with erratic behaviour. Piken was defending cragtop/dawns/whateveritscalled on Elona border against a force 3x in size and held at the breached sidewall (well Elona did get through to the ramp but was pushed out again). After that it was just a standoff. If all those Elona had pushed through the opening in one fell swoop we would have been crushed like bugs. But no. It was like someone was just tossing random lootbags through the opening. Dont go through, everybody stack behind the wall and send in the scouts! What they died? Send in some more! Wait, fall back, we only outnumber them two to one now! Build an arrowcart!!! Oh nobody got supply? Its not building itself people. Eeep, Piken rushing out of the door, quick scatter, scatter!!!

Sigh… Sorry, just feeling mean because I then crashed in garrison during the epic battle

Unfortunately that is all that is left on Elona. We are not even in sight to being as strong as the last 12 months. A lot of the core wvw-players have changed servers, stopped playing or went fulltime pve. What you see now are the last pieces trying to play. A lot of casual players just getting crushed, often without a commander on the map.

With our current strenght and coverage we don’t even belong in the first 10 servers.
Just to show you a few examples how bad the current situation is:
- 1 hour after reset you can get on 2 BL without queue, rest 5-10min (while we were in T1 you had up to 5hr queues…)
- usually even EB has no queues at all
- instead of splitting the zerg at 10am, we now often have 1 small group jumping maps up to the prime time
-(this one hit me really hard) commanders that led for the last 12 months being straight up honest with sentences like “guys I have really no idea what to do against such forces, we will probably loose everything in the next hour”

It will take a very long time to rebuild the wvw-population on ER again caused by two very bad factors:
1. ER is the biggest german PVE-server so we are on “very high” while successful wvw-servers like SFR are only “high” (transfer to high is a lot cheaper)
2. We will probably stay in league 1 and get stomped most of the matches, further reducing and demotivating wvw-population

Congrats to Piken, you guys really became a server worth of fighting in the top tiers. Good luck on your journey.

0% wipe, we got the achievement Flawless Defense but no loot or kill.
http://imgur.com/a/zq4lR

Gratz to Deso for EU first, we were 1 second to late.

eremos.8142:

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Attached is our border right now. Still, ER have 30 people on emergency response standby just waiting for something to get contested/flip.

Is this really fun for them? They’re not even getting any world XP for most of the time. If some of them moved to lower tiers they’d have more fun and interesting fights, less lag, shorter queues… but I guess that all pales in the face of the pride of being on a T1 server.

Anyway, well said Lad, there’s still fun to be had during prime time. Just not at any other time.

Well they don’t choose to stay on this map. Just queue for everything and see what pops first, unfortunately now we get in “all green” borders without queues so a lot of people stay there recapping camps while being queued for EB etc.
Being on a border escorting dolyaks and getting sentrys is more fun than standing in LA waiting for EB.

Greetings to the Thief and Warrior from XxX we fought this morning at your keep on EB. Awesome heartseekerburst and nice farming our pugs with your group Was too scared to fight you guys ^^

There are a lot of Guildraids almost every evening of the week on Elona. They are usually on the Borders because of EB Queues.

Matchup bored as hell and just Champion farming for skins :C

FOR SCIENCE – The JP Experiment
Everyone cries about the EB JP being camped etc. so I started to do a test tonight.
1. Well geared Guardian: A lot of enemy in the JP, most just /wave and let me pass. I did 3 runs because on the first one I wasn’t even attacked.
Result: I got attacked 5 times and died only 1 time. Many enemies were going out of my way or waited till I passed. (I didn’t show any signs of aggression)

2. A ~lvl20 Thief (nacked because I don’t have the coin for so many repairs):
EVERYONE attacks you! Ppl that backed up before, now attack on sight because you are no harm. I even made a list which server killed me:

• Vizu: 58
• Deso: 15

Greetings and Congratulations go out to the Mesmer from [Pulp], killing me about 7 times from the top of the arena and the two guys from [WsA] and [oO] killing me a crazy 21 times. Awesome burst and have fun with the bags.

Vizunah is not only the Champion of WvW but also the Champion of JP.
I will do this runs a few more times over the next weeks and see what happens.
And always remember kids: We don’t do this for fun, we do this for science!

Gl & Hf from Elona
Gunnars Hold has made some very interesting moves the last few days. Fighting against you guys is always exciting and a real pleasure. Although it may sometimes look like we don’t attack Kodash, there is only one reason: GH is the unknown threat. We played against them last week and know their playstyle. Especially after your great start on Friday we are warned.
I know our nightshift is very motivated and we will probably win at the end of the week but what counts are the epic battles at primetime. Im sure in a few weeks storys are told about 3 hour orb-raids and keep-defenses and nobody will care about 100k leads.

So please don’t loose your motivation just because of the points and lets keep the rest of the fights as fair as the weekend.

(I’m usually on GH Borderlands at primetime, no idea whats up on the other maps)