Guild Wars 2

3 times in a row on the last story mission I’ve had Mord down to about 20%, the ground AoE hits, I go up in the air and my glider won’t open. On top of that once I hit the ground again the same air current won’t lift me up again and I die trying to get to the next one.

No point in hitting retry as the fight resets but the ground doesn’t.

Trying to complete the final story mission and I have had this problem twice in a row:

/age will tell you how old your character is.

Adaneshade.2409:

The intent is for badges to come from participation in PvP. Neither I, or anyone else interested in PvP is gonna just let some carebear collect his welfare badges without having to fight for them.

I completely agree, If a red name waves or bows at me in the JP I attack them anyway, and I always enter the JP expecting the same treatment.

The problem is that PvE players that have no interest in WvW use the JP to get badges to get their Gift of Battle because a) its easy mode & b) they don’t wanna be on the map to start with. That is why we get so many threads on the forums complaining about PvP in the JP’s.

Town clothes, sure .. if that is what floats your boat. Personally that is too much like Aion for my taste. Adventuring/ combat with wings? No, no, no, no, no!

Adaneshade.2409:

<snip> There is nothing in the jumping puzzles that contribute towards getting your legendary, <snip>

Not technically true, as most people do the JP’s to get badges of honour so they can buy a gift of battle.
Having said that, and even though I do the same thing myself once a day, I don’t rely on the JP for badges, I try and get them from actual PvP.

I STILL log into GW1 to open my presents in May, June, August, November & January. Haven’t actually played the game since shortly after EotN came out, but I still open my presents lol

Complaining about PvP in a PvP zone rarely gets sympathy OP

Setch.2398:

Sil, What his letter was saying is that they cheated because they were tired of JQ and SoS cheating so they decided to do the same thing. Then they realized they didn’t like to have to match cheating with more cheating… so instead they decided to leave the tier.

And yes, the cheating is getting out of hand in tier 1. But I assume it is worse in the lower tiers.

Whether WM’s actions were born of frustration or an ‘if they can cheat so can we’ attitude doesn’t change a thing, they exploited and that is unforgivable for such a high profile guild. SoS, JQ & SBI have always tried to police ourselves when it comes to exploiters and all three servers frown on exploiters.

They might have [WM] on their names but they ALL have the same name in front of it – Stormbluff Isle Attacker/ Defender and that tarnishes all of us with their actions before they left the server.
I used to have nothing but respect for WM, a large part of us remaining in tier 1 was due to them, now I feel shame for bearing the same server name as they had while they were exploiting. It doesn’t matter if they only did it twice to prove or point or whatever the reason, they should never have allowed themselves to stoop that low.

If they were unhappy they should have just left without resorting to what they did. For the longest time they were like a beacon and players flocked to WM comm tags yet in the space of a few moments they made themselves no better than the likes of Wild Bill and other exploiters.

mulch.2586:

I’d reinterpret the top post —

That the market places such a high price on an item that does nothing but cosmetic — doesn’t that mean the game is giving us way too much gold?

Anet always say ‘they are concerned with the high prices of certain items and they are monitoring the situation, but nothing ever seems to come of it (I’m looking at you Dawn and charged lodestones lol)

Kaimick.5109:

Nashaan.3160:

Kaimick.5109:

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I remember I got a Black dye my second year of playing from Arena Net and I was super excited for it ( as that was the dye everyone wanted and was expensive)

Some things never change, it is STILL the most expensive lol

Black is not the most expensive any more, as there are plenty of dyes more so expensive ( at least on my server) than black. Like Abyss ( which is a black yes ) Celestial white ect ect

I always consider Abyss to be black as it is Jet black with a different name (When I looked a couple of weeks ago it was 19g)

Trading post is global, not server restricted – all servers (EU & US) use the same TP.

Karaad.7930:

Although this is, on the surface, a really good idea, it’s also a very bad one:

I just finish farming my ori nodes joins overflow oh look more ori nodes…

That and everything else that’s supposed to be a 1 time a day thing. Doing this could cause massive inflation and destabilize the economy even further than what the bots have done

That is true in the case of adventure zones, but in places like LA where the playerbase is fractured between home and overflow servers but all looking for FotM it would be a nice implementation, then you would see fewer players asking for a taxi to overflow on gw2lfg.com

Kaimick.5109:

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I remember I got a Black dye my second year of playing from Arena Net and I was super excited for it ( as that was the dye everyone wanted and was expensive)

Some things never change, it is STILL the most expensive lol

Late For Tea.1846:

Please no, the game is easy enough as it is. If you get an NPC running after you doing whatever you want, you can fight mobs 2v1 in the world, making it even easier than it already is. It also lets you farm twice as fast and pretty much do anything else faster as well, causing balance issues.
On top of that, the Hero system in GW1 is what ruined it. When heroes got introduced everyone started to solo the game, instead of playing with others (UW and DoA with 7 heroes…). I don’t want to see the same happen to GW2.

As much as I liked heroes in GW1 I kinda have to agree with this, heroes encourage players to not bother grouping. In GW1 my buddy and I used to do Fissure of Woe with the 2 of us and 3 heroes each rather than finding a group because heroes took the skills you wanted and did what you told them to.
With fewer and fewer people doing regular dungeons (or so it seems) we need more reason to group, not less.

I would imagine if they did it all they would do the same as you are suggesting, not your friend. That’s how they did it in GW1 (anniversary gift on the characters birthday)

TBH I dont remember dodging that much in Vindictus on Fiona or Evie (only 2 I played), the easiest way to learn to dodge is fight Kholer a few times in AC, you soon learn when to dodge in that fight lol.

+1
Since beta I have wondered why they didn’t implement a similar system to GW1 where you could hop to different districts. It would make getting the group together much simpler if you could just type ‘meet in channel xx’

Chloe Sakuna.8796:

I am a ranger commander. It is a poor decision pick a commander that is that squishy. things that are beefy and can give you time to type are great. Most of the time I spend typing than killing. Rangers do have a plus to stand behind the Zerg but you will need greatsword to move your Zerg forward. IMO best commander warrior or guard.

I disagree with this completely, on SBI we have a few commanders that are scholar class and they do an excellent job of commanding. Granted they can’t charge into the enemy ranks sword swinging, but being a commander is more about being competent at the job and being strategically and tactically aware of what’s going on.

@ the OP : class doesn’t matter, majority of players who aren’t in a guild group will follow commanders they know to be competent, regardless of their class.

Czar Peter.7961:

Xsorus.2507:

Its obvious you guys have came up with something….and personally i don’t blame you, If ya didn’t hand hold one another SBI would probably run you over… But please don’t act like nothing is going on.

Its sad

Ummm consider it from each server’s perspective. SoS wants to win first place. The score is pretty close with SBI and at one point SBI had the lead. Of course we fight SBI instead of diverting manpower to fighting JQ. What matters to us is the score difference between SoS and SBI, not our absolute score. JQ is far behind in third. We don’t even care if JQ has the highest potential points as long as we have more than SBI. JQ is probably too far behind to win 1st this week, so they aim for 2nd. They have to choose who they think will be easiest to beat into 3rd place. That’s their decision and they are kind of in a “kingmakers” position. I can’t say for sure what JQ’s strategy is, of course. Btw if you browse the threads for each WvW tier here, there are always people complaining that their server is the victim of some high level double team conspiracy. Coincidence?

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

You don’t really have a position to say that WM is just a ‘doom zerg’. Jang Gun is one of the best strategists to play a Guild Wars game. His commanding is pretty much unrivaled in GW2, and I’m fairly sure he was a very dominant player in GW1 (I’m not sure about this part, fairly sure he’s core). Perhaps their reaction to the whole Tier 1 shenanigans is poorly thought out, but the core WM as players are better than most players will ever be. Not really fair to belittle the guild, when I know for a fact that Agg have had problems with them in WvW.

(also @ Nashaan.3160)

I can confirm that some flaming was exchanged between Agg and WM by whisper, which I personally had no time for and would like to see discouraged. However, we absolutely did not beat WM by exploiting. Why then, did “one of the best strategists to play a Guild Wars game” feel so frustrated that he left the server to steamroll lower ranked players on Kaineng?

I think you mis understood my post, I am saying that all servers use sheer numbers to cap and that WM adopting a ‘if they are exploiting so will we’ stand, even to prove a point, is inexcusable. I wasn’t trying to imply that AGG did the same thing :P

Shadow Islim.6932:

Well enough so that they would be about par with rangers, and I bet if anet added the ability to take a perma elemental in PvE almost everyone would, its just to annoying / not fun to dodge everything. I would rather the less dps and a tank pet

Lol, no ele in their right mind would willingly take a damage reduction down so far to be on par with rangers

Czar Peter.7961:

This news about WM is the funniest thing I’ve read all day. What WM did all day every day was roll around with their doom zerg and capping structures with their sheer numbers. It’s the Starcraft equivalent of having all your units in one control group and auto attacking an area.

They rolled over us for a few days until we smartened up and exploited the inherent weaknesses in their strategy. We had their main zerg scouted with thieves at all times. We avoided them on the open field and played defensively so that their numbers counted for little. We split our forces because their main zerg couldn’t be everywhere at once. And since they only had one zerg, they could not adequately defend newly capped structures, which we promptly took back.

Instead of recognizing this and changing his strategy, WM’s leader has posted a long and rambling post on GW2 Guru accusing SoS of planting spies, exploiting and openly admitting to taking SoS’ garrison by exploit in response to his perceived grievances. What a joke. They don’t belong on T1 with that kind of attitude.

“What WM did all day every day was roll around with their doom zerg and capping structures with their sheer numbers” ~ Like that is restricted to WM, Every server does that. It’s no different to trying to defend against a sea of [MERC] tags or [FOO] when their sheer numbers overwhelm you regardless.

In a way, I can understand WM getting fed up, watching the endless criticism and insults aimed at Jang Gun and other commanders in /team by the same few players on 2nd accounts would be enough to dishearten any player, however, stooping to the exploiters level with a ‘if they are doing it so will we’ attitude is inexcusable.
Enough people in the past few weeks have been of the opinion that SBI are just a bunch of exploiters thanks to the actions of players like Wild Bill and the like, for one of our most prominent guilds to do it, even if it was to prove a point, is severely damaging to the rest of us on SBI.

I know the main guilds on SOS & JQ don’t hold the entire server responsible for the actions of a few, as they know we are quick to report the exploiters ourselves (and they know SF and others, will refuse to take a keep/ tower by underhanded means) but the general opinion of SBI will go down because of this.

I am sorry to see WM go, as already mentioned, they were a very PuG friendly guild and it will be a lot quieter during my playtime now (GMT) but they should never have resorted to using an exploit for any reason. To be honest, I didn’t even believe it until I read the post on gw2guru.

rgrwng.4072:

I’d like to get onto Sea of Sorrows, but it’s full. i just need to get the Vista and POI at their main fort in EB, and with 3 SB zergs running around, none of them touch this area at all today, or this past week it seems. i play for 18 hours/day on my days off, and either i cannot get in when the gettin’s good (because they have taken SoS main, but i cannot enter) or the zergs avoid that area like the plague.

i tried to play and involved myself with some zergs today, but commanders were not issuing much instruction, so as my feeble pve mind tries to grasp what the heck is going on, i just get frustrated when roaming around. “kill stuff” seemed to be the objective for the day, otherwise it would be attacking random walls and watching as commanders WP out of a counter zerg just to save themselves leaving me and other players with unnecessary repair bills and random troubles.

So server transfer, while still a highly suggested method, is impossible for me right now because my server (stormbluff) and SoS is full, and doesn’t allow me to switch. if i was able to switch, i would like to go back to my SB server, oh but because it will probably be full, i have to wait several more weeks to get back, so i won’t be able to play with my friends.

so for now i guess i’ll take up EB space, and just hang around at the starting area until it clears up. then maybe i will get lucky. learn 2 play? sure, if i didn’t have to scrub to get by in this game type.

put me in a WvW overflow server, or something, where i can “learn 2 play”. Grats to all players that already have 100% exploration in WvW.

2x SB zergs arrive at the Sea of Sorrows Lowlands. neither of them coordinate a taking of the fort. maybe they did on voice chat, which doesn’t help their in-game chat watching followers, much. shortly after seeing 2 commander icons out there, one WP’s across the map to do something else, while the one i joined runs around in circles, leading their followers (and myself) to their deaths in a counter zerg.

Why do you need to get on Sea of Sorrows to finish map completion? Just go to #1 server in a different tier. You only have to look at the current rankings to see which ones are 1st in their tier.

Boots, gloves & shoulders are from Citadel of Flame, Helm lookes like Sorrows Embrace, chest & legs might be Crucible of Eternity, not entirely sure on that one though

If autolooting badges is too difficult to implement, they should do it the same way items are displayed when your inventory is full i.e a box pops up on screen with the loot and a take button.

I can’t imagine how many badges I have left lying around because I have moved to a different spot when someone I attacked actually died.

EDIT I am in complete agreement with others that said it, a kill should = badge(s), not some random chance.

Kalipsan.2073:

Much of the armor, weapons, and hairstyles already clip badly, and I can only see myself wearing a guild cloak. I’m not even sure if they have those. But more back slots would be nice. Visible quivers for us archers maybe? =)

Visible quivers are already in game

Scroll down on this page :

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vial_of_Condensed_Mists_Essence

to see the quivers available.

The population that displays on each server is based on players logged in at that time. If WvW is going to be your primary past time then you might find this helpful :

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/32335/WvwRatingsNa-12-21.PNG

These are the current rankings, it will give you an idea of how well each server does at WvW (although to be fair, how well a server does in world vs world depends on how varied the servers coverage is – lots of out-of-hours players usually means a better score).

No no no no no lol … the best thing they ever did in GW1 was add the ability to hide cloaks, I will be happy to never see them in GW2 :P

Dreed.3714:

ehh another pvp options… to make gvg realy like gvg they need add big area for many ppl i think 100 vs 100 max. When they add custom arena option there will be no problems to make Guild Wars in game.

The only problem with that is culling. If they did GvG of that size the forum would have even more complaints of culling problems then it does now lol.

Smaller guilds would also feel excluded.

I do agree that GvG would be a cool addition though.

On a sidenote, the name Guild Wars never had anything to do with guild vs guild pvp

The jumping puzzles are on a pvp map, they get camped by all 3 sides, not just SoS. Jade Quarry have their fair share of camping JP’s and so do we. All you can do is hope you go in there at a quiet time or when allies are in there.

You can try /wave or /bow to see if they leave you alone, more often than not you will get killed anyway.

At the end of the day you are complaining about pvp on a pvp map, be it in a JP or anywhere else in the zone. You are unlikely to find a sympathetic ear lol.

Find a thief to help you, Shadow Refuge cancels out all of the temple effects (even the annoying Melandru one) making it easy to get skill points.

The stat reduction you get from using MF is significant (be it defensive or amount of damage you do). Like many others, I won’t group for fractals or even a dungeon if someone admits to wearing full MF gear. Why should a player get carried by the rest of the group so they can get better loot chances.

As I understand it it is only for dynamic events, it will not increase the yield from jugs/ boosters. Only the 5% banner & 50% karma booster will do that (as you already said).

I have the same experience, minus the cores/ lodestones and exotics … all I ever get from dungeon chests is crap, be it the 1st run or the 10th

It doesn’t work like that. I have 6 80’s and I couldn’t do that if I wanted to.
If you run the same dungeon repeatedly, even with different characters you get diminished returns.

Lets say I want AC armour. I run all 3 paths on one character and get 180 tokens. If I run that dungeon any more before daily reset I will only get 20 tokens per path. To avoid this I switch characters and run the same paths again. Path 1 will reward me 60 tokens but path 2 & 3 will only give me 30 per path, If I switched characters and ran them again it would reduce even further. You would have to spread out each characters set of runs across 10-12 hours to avoid DR, and tbh if someone plays GW2 that much they deserve their armour faster than the guy with one 80 lol.

Yes, a player with multiple 80’s will get tokens faster than a player with only 1, but that is no need to punish them for having alts.

You can still get your 100% map completion without it, 100% completion for a zone and the exploration achievement are not the same.

On a sidenote, for the longest time I was at 174/ 175 in Kryta, it wasn’t until the skillpoint in the NE corner of Harathi Hinterlands was bugged and I couldn’t get through the gate that I skirted along the sides trying to find a way in and found a cave on the east side of the map I’d never been in before. That was the one area I’d missed repeatedly on different characters.

When I wvw on my ranger my most used build is : Throw Dirt, Thunderclap, Lick Wounds & Bandage ….. oh, wait …..

The simple answer to your example is they aren’t the same. Exotic Ascalon armour comes in 3 stat choices : power/ tough/ vit , Power/ vit/ healing power and power/ prec/ cond dmg. Arah sets are power/ prec/ crit damage, power/ prec/ tough and prec/ tough/ cond dmg.

There is no need to do all of the dungeons, you pick a set that has the stats/ skin you like and you do that dungeon. Doing certain dungeons is also a good source of income.

I know it has been suggested before but the different lodestones should be added to their respective dungeon vendors.
The price of lodestones is going up and up because, in my opinion, fewer people are doing old dungeons and the drop rate is horrendous. If you wanted to make a gift of light for example it would cost over 375g just for the lodestones if you were to buy them.
I know people will just say ’don’t buy them, farm them’ and it is a valid point, until you consider I have done CoE enough to purchase a gift of knowledge, chest, legs, boots, shoulders and a staff yet have only ever gotten 5-6 charged cores, not one single lodestone.

My suggestion is raise the drop rate considerably or make them available at dungeon vendors.

I think every ranger and necro have faced their ascalonian counterpart and thought ‘ kitten I wish my point blank shot hit that hard and recharged that often/ I wish my life syphon could drop someone in 2 hits’ lol

If I recall correctly, you cannot skip a book to save money, you have to use them in order to be able to use the next one.

I don’t use any of the siege I get, as more often than not commanders want a certain amount down so as not to waste supply. I usually find a commander I know is competent, tell them I have some siege for them and drop the blueprints for them to pick up and use as they decide.
In that way I also feel I am contributing (albeit in a small way) to the amount of siege commanders use in order to benefit the whole server.

If it is an exploit, then adding the ability to drop it on the ground and someone else pick it up seems a little bit like entrapment lol

Am I the only one who finds it funny that someone with a level 80 thief is calling for another class to be nerfed in wvw? Lol

I feel my warrior is a lot squishier than my guardian in dungeons, I find you stay alive more if you play it the same as you would pvp – don’t stand still, keep moving all the time.
Knowing what utilities to use in each fight makes a difference too, in CoF you need condition removal for example whereas AC you need stun breakers. It also makes a huge difference if you are standing next to a guardian or not.

Given a choice I prefer ranged (Ranger, mesmer, ele) so I tend to use rifle on my warrior if there is another plate class that is in melee. If I am the only plate class then I will just melee.

She usually bugs only when you run past the gravelings/ oozes just before the mortar room instead of killing them (which I assume you did as you said you tried clearing the path for her afterwards). Doesn’t happen every time but the only time Detha bugs for me is when we skip those mobs instead of killing them.

shadowsoul.2134:

I don’t know if this topic has been argued before, so I launch it.

I’m playing wvw since 3 matches and a half, and I noticed this situation: the most influent moment of the game is the night.
You could have on your server a lot of good players affictioned to wvw and the greatest commanders, but if it doesn’t have a strong night partecipation… it’s screwed!!

I think that this is a problem. The servers with the stronger presence of night guilds or (more probably) of “other continent” guilds will always win against a regular servers, in which late night players are just a really small percentage and, most important thing, casual. The “better night covered” servers will always will always collect an insane amount of points.

So, why wvw doesn’t stop by night?
It could stop from 2 a.m. GTM to 9 a.m. GTM.

I know what kind of answers i will read: “real wars never pause at night”, “life is unfair: it’s part of the game”, “I play only by night, and I wanna play wvw”, “this is part of the strategy, a good server should organize bla bla” and going on…

Stopping wvw by night would help to bring sense to points. It’s not necessary to explain it, it’s clear enough.

And if someone log in at 4 a.m., he/she can do something else, GW2 offers a lot of enterteinments. And if you log in only at late night, you are in the wrong server, choose another one from another continent list!!

Surely there’re also some less drastic solutions:
Keep open wvw but stop points
Keep open wvw but make invulnerable keeps and towers
keep open wvw but stop sieges building
etcc

/discuss

p.s.
I’m sorry for my bad english, am not a native speaker ^^

I don’t agree with closing the W3 servers between certain times and to be fair your ‘less drastic’ option of being unable to cap or getting no points for capping between certain times defeats the purpose of w3 entirely.
It is easy to suggest to ‘other continent’ players that if they want to pvp out of the servers normal hours to go to a different server but a lot of people play on other continents servers because that’s where their friends are. In the case of Oceanic players, they have a server choice of bad or worse in regards to latency as they do not have their own servers.

For a while now w3 has been about numbers and more importantly, coverage. The server that has the most wins. W3 has been losing players for various reasons, for Anet to turn around and say ‘w3 servers are now closed from XX to XX, if that is your playtime go do something else’ would do it more harm than good.
There are suggestions to merge NA and EU servers too, but I think this would cause more problems as well. EU players would object to being forced to play on NA servers (it would be NA servers because Anet is based in the US)
Any remedy they try and implement (if at all) is likely to be met with objections by a portion of the global player base.

In my mind, twinning NA and EU servers together so their points are combined at the end of the week without actually making players physically move to a different server might work (although I can see it causing friction between servers if one doesn’t think the other is pulling their weight)
The suggestion to reduce the points gained for PvDoor might cause the least upset, out of hours players would still be able to accomplish objectives/ contribute to their servers points and still get a smile when they look at the map and see it all their servers colour, but it wouldn’t give so much of a lead.

Alternatively, they could just make the outmanned buff actually worth a crap. Increased karma & exp count for little if you can’t cap anything.

CarelessKrow.8032:

Jedahs you guys should take a short, 2-hour coffee break. We promise not to take anything else.

:)

That’s only because there isn’t much left for you to take .. or it was like that last I was in there lol

stof.9341:

Well problem is, somehow, I don’t know what is CET. I know I’m in GMT+1 or GMT+2 depending on daylight saving changes but the “alias” CET isn’t something I remember :p

Best anyway is to give a link to a website that does the conversion automatically into the user timezone.

Central European Time = GMT +1

Wheeks.6451:

Other than the initial cinematic, is there anything happening tomorrow that will be permanently missed if we aren’t around for it? Do the events only last for 24hrs?

Schedule : http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wintersday_2012

I’d be happy if loot bags went straight into my inventory bags, lost count of the amount of times I have to run back and pick up a bag because I am constantly moving during battles and I couldn’t even begin to guess how many bags I’ve left lying on the ground because I haven’t seen them lol.

Groovy.6749:

Esya.3427:

English are even confused about GMT. All the English members in my guild refer to their time as GMT, event when it is BST. Then I have to tell them it is BST during the summer and not GMT and they lose the plot .

loool

That’s pretty much me :p
Probably because I live in London and greenwich park is like 30mins away from where I live so to me it’s GMT every time, everyday xD

Since Europe is a fairly big portion of their customers, a GMT clock would be really appreciated. We know the US always get the lead way in pretty much everything related to media, but there is no need to rub it in our nose :p

Pretty sure as the UK and Portugal are the only countries in Europe that use GMT (I think .. geography never was my strong point lol) , I would imagine Europeans would be content with CET lol