Guild Wars 2

Well, that is certainly disappointing to hear. Perhaps there will be future events that allow for these types of achievements to have another path towards completion.

Is this achievement still possible? I’m missing a few things…

Riondron.1069:

Nnekk.5806:

Ronin.4501:

The only posts I’ve seen referencing SBI using hacks in this entire thread were in regards to Arrow Cart fire, and as we’ve already explained over and over, it wasn’t a hack. Spend more time working on siege placement during off-hours and you’ll realize that.

Just a pic showing an AC taking out a Treb on the Star in SM….yet SM was not breached. I found the guilty AC right outside of the outer wall. I didn’t get a screen the AC because I was chasing down the perpetrator who was on the AC…a SBI person. By the time I got back to the AC, our guys had destroyed it.

I died with the Treb because I was like “WTF, where is that coming from?!?” and looking to get a screen of the perpetrator.

Couldn’t report them/identify them as they logged out or otherwise disappeared.

Anyways, I KNOW some of your SBI guys are exploiting. Meh, is that what it comes down to?

That is not a hack, or an exploit, and is very easy do to, especially for someone with points in ac. Just set it up along the wall, and look up. Simple. It would seem that many wvw players really don’t know the difference between what is or isn’t an ac screen view exploit. So until Anet finds a way to eliminate the true exploits, the argument will perpetuate.

From the location the AC was located to the location where the AC hit, it WAS a hack.

I tried it myself using 5 different AC’s from that same location I identified earlier. It is not possible to target up and over the wall to any of the platforms known as the “Star.”

BTW, I do have the increased range mastery in AC. Why do you defend an exploit? Do you use such exploits and easily dismiss them to others because you have “special” knowledge that many others do not?

Get real, please.

Ronin.4501:

The only posts I’ve seen referencing SBI using hacks in this entire thread were in regards to Arrow Cart fire, and as we’ve already explained over and over, it wasn’t a hack. Spend more time working on siege placement during off-hours and you’ll realize that.

Just a pic showing an AC taking out a Treb on the Star in SM….yet SM was not breached. I found the guilty AC right outside of the outer wall. I didn’t get a screen the AC because I was chasing down the perpetrator who was on the AC…a SBI person. By the time I got back to the AC, our guys had destroyed it.

I died with the Treb because I was like “WTF, where is that coming from?!?” and looking to get a screen of the perpetrator.

Couldn’t report them/identify them as they logged out or otherwise disappeared.

Anyways, I KNOW some of your SBI guys are exploiting. Meh, is that what it comes down to?

Josh Davis.6015:

Hi guys,

After some careful investigation of these achievements, we believe there are a few technical restrictions and communication issues that are causing the problems here.

First, Molten and Pirate events do not grant achievement credit. This means that if you hop into an invasion right as scarlet spawns, or if you spend an entire invasion on pirate and/or molten events, you will not get achievement credit for that map.

Second, disconnecting during an invasion seems to have some odd effects on participation credit, especially if you end up switching maps in the process (i.e. moving to a different overflow). You should still get credit if you participate in at least one watchwork event after reconnecting, but if you disconnect, you should assume your participation credit up to that point has been lost. This is far from ideal, but it would be a code-level fix, and we wouldn’t be able to get it in before the end of the event.

Lastly, because the previous two issues are not super obvious, people may be losing track of which maps they have already gotten credit for. The meta rewards are always given as long as you’re on the map when it ends. Many players expect this to mean that they also received achievement credit (which ideally should be a reasonable assumption). However, as this is not always the case, they may mark off a map as complete, even though they did not receive achievement credit.

So in order to receive achievement credit, you need to participate and complete at least one watchwork portal event, and still be on the map when the meta ends. It doesn’t matter how far the meta gets progressed, and you don’t need to participate in any Molten/Pirate events.

Hopefully this clarifies some things for you, and many apologies for any frustration this has caused. In the future, we will try to ensure that large-scale achievements like this are more easily trackable to cut down on any potential confusion.

I’m sorry. But, this is not good enough. I play for fun, Getting achievements is part of that fun. I don’t expect to have to jump through hoops to get what simply is a participation achievement.

It now feels like a pitiful job to get my last (12/13) Invasion canceler.

So many issues with this event in general. Bugged portals, disconnects, crashes. Your “code-level” fix that you cannot possibly get out in-time to fix this issue needs to done. Not later, tater, but now.

They should make ATM’s give money for free too!

LOLOLOL!

Save them for a character that lacks map completion! But, also wait until the bug is fixed:

Bug:
The last device in a stack will always fail to teleport you. Make sure you have at least two before using a device. If you have multiple stacks, the last one in a stack still fails, and attempting to use another device right away gives the error “You cannot use this item right now.”

I’ve definitely seen the flame ram bug. However, it’s only recently come to be so. Maybe the last 3 weeks or so.

It does not revive players when activated.

I think the OP is onto something here. Why shouldn’t the “Ranger” have the longest range in the game?

I think they got the distance from target relative to damage is backwards. The closer the target, the more damage they should take from the LB. That would give the LB a bit more burst damage when targets flatly stand in front of the Ranger. It also creates a mechanism so that other classes couldn’t not simply switch to a ranged weapon to deal with the Ranger since they couldn’t hit from the same long distance.

The way a Ranger plays right now it does not feel like the “best” ranged class, which it should be.

Truth is, SBI is ONLY good when they outnumber the opposition 3-1 or better….and use AC zoom hacks.

/sigh

ColinJohanson.2394:

This is totally our fault, we dropped the ball on this plain and simple. We planned to have this messaged ahead of time to be fair to everyone, communication broke down between those who knew it was supposed to be messaged, and those who were supposed to message it and it simply didn’t happen.

As game director this is ultimately my fault first and foremost, and I’m sorry for those who potentially lost some karma as a result. It is our policy to message these kind of changes ahead of time with lots of warning, I’ll do everything possible to make sure this doesn’t happen in the future.

I’d recommend not using your karma consumables yet, give us a day or two to try and see what options we have available to help mitigate the issue.

How does one go about getting this karma back:

“We will also be reimbursing the people who used their karma during the period when the initial change was in effect with as close to the correct amount of karma as possible.”

I went to my bank and pulled and used all my consumable karma due to the patch notes. I figured there was no reason to “horde” it any longer.

Looks like its only related to the EB map. Was able to que for BL map. sigh….

???

Logged out completely and back in, same message. Got kicked from WvW with the same message and cannot get back in.

Still happening….

Zikory.6871:

The problem with reporting is that it may not be a “zoom hack” there are ways around it that have nothing to do with “hacking” You can go into windowed mode and stretch your screen or Eyefinity neither of which are cheating technically but still unfair. That said no reason to start a debate on that there are plenty of threads on that subject.

If there are ways to shoot an arrow cart from the ground OVER a wall onto the ground on the other side of the wall (besides right at the gate) without using a hack, then aNETneeds to figure out how to counter this with in-game code.

Saw it happen 3 times during the current match-up.

It makes one want to quit playing to see such flagrant cheating going on consistently.

Just wondering.

What the best course to report such a thing since you can’t always see or target the person doing it?

kokuou.9537:

Centrix.4065:

Also, whats the use of the wooden chests? ANet claims that they contain higher tier items than the normal bags of loot. So far I have only noticed this on the steel chests, the wooden chests seem to be either bugged or useless. 80%++ (being generous) of the time I pickup a wooden chest I either get nothing or a barb… Nothing or a worthless trophy lol. Doesn’t seem like it’s working. I’ve received more rares from normal bags of loot than the wooden chests, which is contradicting don’t you think?

The steel chests seem to work though. I’ve found 3 or 4 so far and got exotics out of them.

It’s still quite dumb to consider a “supply” drop as “rare”.

I don’t care of the drops are in bags or chests; you are still required to go back and “look” to see if you’ve missed anything.
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As stated earlier in the thread, if you get ‘nothing’ out of the wooden chests, it’s because you got supply. If you had max supply beforehand, you won’t notice anything, but if not, you’ll see that you have up to five more supply than before opening the chest.

The one thing that really ticks me off when I hear (from guild mates) that an event is nearing is when I use a WP to get to the event, I sometimes get put into an Overflow Map.

Why not give the player an option to decline entering an Overflow map?

Every time I go to one with the purpose of participating in an event with my guild mates I end up wasting my $$ since neither the event nor my guild mates are there.

Give a small warning:
The way point you selected to travel to is only available on an overflow map. Do you still wish to travel there?

Is that too hard to implement?

It would be great if all your loot was automatically stored in some chest near the spawn point on each map. When you are done with WvW for the day, you go check “your” chest to see what goodies you got.

The chest would hold only as many different items as you have inventory space; giving you a “your loot chest is full” warning when it fills. You’d also have an indicator of how full it was at all times, so you can periodically check on it and clear it out.

Seems OP to me.

People will ALWAYS find the most effective way of killing the enemy. There will be another “thing” down the road considered just as OP. Still…it cannot be ignored when discovered.

Traits for damage to an enemy should not apply while on Siege.

The traits were designed with our normal weapon sets in mind.

There is now a separate trait list for Siege weapons (WXP); let that be what makes using Siege more powerful.

DevonCarver.5370:

Tracked it down and we are working on it. Thanks for the info.

That is just crazy! Actually, this makes me quite angry. It seems I was wasting my time reporting a bug. For every legitimate bug that someone reports, literally, hundreds of people experience it but lack the will to report it.

I know I submitted a bug report on this months ago. To now tell me you guys are now just finding out about this is absurd. It leads me to believe that bug reports are not being thoroughly/properly reviewed.

I guess I’ll stop submitting detailed reports since they are often ignored.

Thanks you guys!

Commander tags should cost 500 gold and a certain amount of WXP

But, yes, there should be more (and better) “tools” available than there currently are.

azizul.8469:

you can get a precursor in WvW you know……

Why, yes; yes you can.

The downed state in WvW ONLY needs to be changed.

Make it take twice as long to bring some one up and give the persons “Healing” the downed player, 50% vulnerability while doing so. Disable all Invulnerabilities/Stabilities while you are reviving a downed player.

Make it so that you cannot revive a “dead” player if there’s a battle or combat within 3000 units of them.

brunohstein.9038:

1 (and only). Disable the ability of reviving dead allies.

I like this too. Zergs can be slowed down and dismantled in this fashion. Right now, they feed themselves all to well.

Grove.2835:

Remove the 5 cap AOE limit. Force people to spread out, play and try new tactics and not have 40+ all standing on one commander, moving and using all their skills at the same time.
Also only limit map switching to every hour or so.

Yes, a thousand times, yes!

I get that “invulnerable” message at times when my pet(ranger) runs back and forth in front of my target.

The event is currently bugged on Yak’s Bend. I believe its at the beginning of the chain. Warmaster Chan just sits still and will not advance with his troops towards Shank Anchorage. In game bug submitted; all the good that does.

/sarchasm_on

I am so impressed. Truly..

/sarchasm_off

I can confirm this happens a lot in WvW, but sometimes in PvE as well. It seems to occur when a previously applied root has run it’s course, but the effects stays even though the condition is no longer there. I can last for up to 5 seconds.

Sometimes, you can “clear” the bug by releasing the “walk/run” key and pressing it again. Though, that just may be a coincidence.

Is this “intended”? Or indeed a bug that has been overlooked for quite sometime?

You should try sorting through all the “partial” food items that count as an edible food item but also count as a material for creating a higher level food item. There are at least a 100 such items!

If you need a WvW PoI or Vista that is almost impossible to get, then likely, other people on your server need it too.

That’s when you start recruiting people on all the PvE maps to help each other get them. If you get 100 people together, you’re likely to succeed at getting them.

Not likely what you wanted to hear; it takes a lot of effort on your part to recruit people into going to the WvW maps, but its true

No lag for me, at all, since the change.

Might be your internet or your rig?

MB: Maximus Exteme IV
Video: (2) MSI R6970 Lightning (CrossFire’d in lane 1 and 3; 8×8 native)
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X + Turbulence II Series 16GB (4 × 4GB)
PS: 1000W CoolerMaster Gold Series
HD: OCZ Vertex 3 240GB

To “grind” is to play with very little fun or amusement.

Just because it will take “effrort” and “time” to achieve the needed WXP to level to what you desire, in no way, is that a “grind” to do so.

I love WvW. This new system is just another layer of WvW loveliness!

Good job Dev’s!

If they placed the siege, (they had the blueprint) then they “own” it. Only they can remove you from it. Otherwise, it’s whom ever jumped on it first.

Cannons, Mortars and Oil are NOT player owned. No one can kick you from these.

coronbale.3894:

TSYM a fun target?

In the first 5 days we were in T3 I wracked up an amazing 8300 kills. Both YB and DB threw everything they had at us. It was fun, it was exciting, and it was definitely challenging.

In the last 7 days we wracked up about 430 kills. Rather than face the first challenge your tier gets in who knows how long, you chose to avoid us, and hit our homeland whenever we left it. Any time we took the field you scattered like roaches with the kitchen light turned on, and hit us where we weren’t. The ONLY decent challenge we had last match week was when BP was hammering us with everything they had while YB hit our hills the instant crossed swords showed. It was about 3 hours of run, wiping golems, defending massively one sided fights, and seeing great combat movements. The instant they took bay they moved, and joined in with the “dodge TSYM like we owe them money” initiative.

You had a solid chance to improve your team by facing mine. So yes, you can go back to your talentless ZvZ brawls, and BP I’m sure can go back to farming uncoordinated masses like its zombie land. Well go in search of a higher caliber of competition, one that might actually stay and fight!

How dare they!

How dare they avoid the OMG Zerg and go somewhere else to earn points for their server instead of feeding the OMG Zerg bags & bags of loot.

The nerve…

Habib Loew.6239:

I’m aware you are all posting about public chat but I just wanted to post a reminder that commanders are never suppressed in squad chat.

I’m aware of squad chat.

Are you aware that there are more good reasons not to join a squad than there is to join one?

I think there should be a minimum level to enter WvW; perhaps level 25 or so.

That would prevent people from deleting characters on servers that they previously went into WvW on before they moved to a different tier and creating a new level 1 character for the express purpose of spying/griefing in WvW.

Would a spy want to drop a 100G on that ability alone? I doubt it.

But, if they did, that’s why I suggested a time allotment per piece of siege; to limit the amount they can destroy in a period of time.

I’d also make it so that the Commander HAD to have the tag ON, and there was a “/map” message about the siege being destroyed. “Commander so-and-so destroyed flame ram at Bluebriar”

Skill lag is BAD!

Anet, Please fix ASAP.

Gab Superstar.4059:

Jayne.9251:

A: you can dump your ram bps on top of existing enemy rams and build/use and destroy their rams after you’ve taken the tower.

B: flame rams can be used for so much more than just knocking down gates.

You will often hit the enemy rams instead of the gate with your rams.

I can confirm this as well. I thought I had built the ram too far away from the gate once (since I could hear no noise and see no damage numbers); I had someone else jump on the ram and they to could not make it work. We then built a 2nd ram on the other side of the door (opposite an existing enemy ram) and it worked fine. After a minute of AOE’s the enemy ram was gone and a straggler hoped on the 1st ram and, viola, it worked.

Never saw any damage numbers, even if my ram was hitting the enemy ram…so, dunno if it actually “hits” it, or it just blocks it somehow.

Anyways, I support the idea of the OP.

On a side note…

What if we gave Commanders the ability to destroy siege placed by their own team?

Perhaps with a few limitations such as a piece per allotted time; like 1 piece every 30 minutes.

I’d also like to see siege identified by who placed it.

Making some form of auto-loot optional seems to be the wiener here.

Qid.1937:

Delius.1968:

Hi all,

I was doing fractal 32 just minutes ago and at the last fractal we got the Volcanic one and we weren’t able to finish the end boss (the shaman). At this point out of the blue the party lead and one more kicked me (I’m a D/D ele and we were pretty mixed: Me, R, G, W).

The party kept going without me and got someone else instead as I couldn’t rejoin. The party lead mentioned “he’s sorry – he didn’t kick me and they already failed and getting out” – but he was obviously lying as I saw his status was still inside the fractals.

I think they failed in the end with the replacement as well – given the time I saw them listed inside the fractals after I was kicked… but this is some horrible behavior and made me feel really crappy.

Can I in any way report abusive kicks? I did my fare share all the way to that last boss of the last fractal and was helping with D/F projectile protection at the boss as well. I feel really let down atm and not sure I should ever party with people I don’t know… but then I won’t have anyone to do fractals with(

Thanks.

Yay democracy? Obviously people didn’t want you there.

2/5 is NOT a Democracy. Too much room for abuse.

I agree. The way it is now (bugged?) its very hard to do. The NPC either doesn’t get the shield up when needed, or he’s dead because of the former.

My group did manage to figure a way around his AOE’s. there’s a wall in the West area of the pit that you an put your back against that has a samll area that the AOE’s seem to miss.

You just have to be careful of his knockbacks, they can sometimes push you sideways, into an area of AOE’s, you just have to get back to that spot and get your back against the wall.

If you can get Grast to join you there, you have a better chance to get his shield at least every once in a while. It looked like it was every other AOE that he failed to get the bubble up.

I’m getting a kick out of reading the responses that have to do with not changing the system. Are they legit? Hmm….

From, “I’d miss the screenshots of all these loot bags” to “I like to retrace my footsteps of the battle by going back and looking for the bags.”

The only reason I see that we don’t auto-loot into our inventory now is because it would help out the botters; they wouldn’t have to code in a way to retrieve loot.

But, is that really a problem for serious botters? Or even a casual AFK’er trying to earn some cash? I’d say there are many ways a person could bypass this system of having to press f while standing near a bag (keeping the f key taped down?).

I think the only persons this effects (mostly) are the persons who are in WvW and in major battles or fast moving ones.

In WvW we should have an option to “auto-loot” (that is, pick up a bag) if we so choose. Otherwise, you are stuck with either stopping to pick up the bags (and consequently slowing the action of the game), or losing out on them.

Palu.3405:

I do not think we’re losing on purpose. Yes, there are likely fair weather players who only show up to karma train when we’re dominating tier four, but I think Maguuma’s lack of any sort of night crew really dooms us. I’m one of the few NA players whose sleep schedule is so weird that I’m still playing at 4:00 am. Just this weekend, I was on very late and our total points per tick reached a low of +25, as we only held one keep in EB. Even in our own borderlands, I was one of maybe a half-dozen people on the map, and on said map we owned nothing except a few sentries, and we’d periodically take camps that were then immediately recaptured.

During NA prime time we can hold our own for the most part, so I’ve really begun to believe that the night crew that we lack is making the difference. Now, that’s not to say that I’m complaining; if other servers have a night crew and we don’t, all the power to them. I’m just (hopefully) offering up an explanation of why we lose so violently every time we peek into tier three.

Your “night” crew on T4 was many more than what you are stating when you went up against Yak’s in the past. I guess they too can fall victim to the “fair-weather” fighters.

Yak’s has it’s share of these as well; I’d venture to say most have them, it’s a matter of to what degree.

GuardianOMS.8067:

Did the OP really just compare two servers in a tier when said two servers are facing different opponents? What the actual kitten? Not to sound rude but how can you say “logically, that does not compute” when there’s a variable in the mix? I don’t even….

Did you just post without having any foreknowledge that the OP’s comparison was valid?

You need to re-look at the past matchups. Yak’s did in fact face the same servers you did and vice versa. We went up to T4 and you dropped to T3 without the other servers moving (that one time, spanning 2 weeks) This week, you get TC instead of FA while we, again, get Ebay and CD.

Vazir.5867:

Portals are fine, aoe should hit 20 ppl instead

That’s exactly my point.

Thanks for the support.