Guild Wars 2

Windsteel.9814:

Gratz SFR!!

You have excellent spies, both ingame and ts, and very good saboteurs and dt tactics too. You really have deserved you victory. Hail SFR!

In before they close it. Congratulations to all SFR who gave everything during the 2nd season, I salute you. As far as I can see we are all still here and ready to do it again, and again, and again. It was not the victory that is so sweet, but all those moments that we stood side by side and had so much fun. Deso, BB, JS and everyone has been great too. It was not about the points, but about the battles for me. I also like to make Deso mad, but that’s just the cherry on top

Kresh you are the man.
Bag delivery, arange play aggressive and GG to all.

Rajnesh.4526:

Junkpile.7439:

Well kodash doesn’t even try to fight against js or they are just little bit stupid.

We fought JS for the past 12 weeks,…I think the most Guilds on Kodash just want to fight a new enemy and the same seems to happen on JS as well.
Kodash does not want to get up to T1, we want to fight against PS in T2

Well if you want new and diversity, we are definitely gonna provide just that. As person who was sick of playing against Vz and Deso for 2 months I know where you are coming from. Can’t express what a great feeling it is to play against different opponents now Anyway any plans for tonight? If you do cancel them because we are gonna visit your border to say hi

Hello guys. It is a blast to play with you let me say and too bad we wont stick around more in T2 to do this, but let me tell you that you guys fight a lot more open fights then the blob tower fest in T1. Thanks for the good fights in Eb this morning, when i started leading we didint have anything on the map, but now it looks way better See you tonight.

A breath of fresh air and respect to that 15 players from Viz guild ELY who played on their own last night and countered us few times at Vz bl. I hope we see you guys again tonight.

Jackie.1829:

Had an excellent time commanding on desolation and working with a variety of different guilds many of which were former enemies before.

To everybody in T1, I wish you the best of luck. Perhaps one day we can all meet eye to eye as players and discuss what we want with the game, but do not expect Arenanet to do what we as players cannot.

/bow

You guys have to do what you have to do to preserve your guild and keep fighting the good fight. We had a great time facing you guys and always with a trill and caution going into battle. I have to say you were one of the few guilds i always respected and knew can provide challenge outside of the faceless blob.
I wont say goodbye because I truly hope it is a see you later…

Some very good 3 way fights tonight on VZ border. Farming bags mostly, but took few things to get some attention also. Congrats to Deso that ran a tight crew and I think we won as much as we lost so it was fun More nights like this…indeed.

Offski.4897:

I’ll try and explain.
Not once have I heard anyone say fair game or GG to anyone on Deso, all that Sfr has done is make excuses.

Not true and here is just 2 of this posts.

Ohliufff.8160:

It was a very nice week with some epic fights (some won, some lost). Kidding aside i think tier 1 is looking as it should be. Thanks to all our commanders for pushing that extra hours and leading us and congrats to a well deserved victory. Vizu had a hell of a push last few days which motivated us even more. On a side note I hope people don’t get the wrong idea from all the trolls and propaganda, but respecting the enemy is important, because you will never underestimate him.

Ohliufff.8160:

GG tonight to Deso, Viz and all my boys from SFR. There were some nice 3 way battles on the open field in Desolation. All around even board and a even match for the 2nd place this week.

Dyno.9467:

Under Web.2497:

sfr taking a break(it seems the PUG groups are doing lots better than the organized guilds – With a lot less moaning)

Just excuse in case they finish 3rd, they’ve got a new one every week.

Why are Deso hating so much SFR I’ll never know. I had great respect for you guys that vanishes with every day that goes by. Our commanders are taking a great deal of time to teach our pugs the mechanics of WvW and from what I’ve seen so far they are doing a great job.
The whole time we were 1st Deso hold firm 3rd in T1, then all this shananigans with the free transfer happened and you guys decided “Why not use the situation to kick them while they are down” and you started to prioritize us over Viz. Looking at the mos millenium score today though your buddy’s Viz might end up taking you down to T2.
The funniest thing happened last night though. In EB our commander was opening VS walls and doors left and right and since we want to get to T2 he was leaving Deso to cap them.
On one of the towers we catapulted the wall down and just as the commander was pulling out here comes the Deso zerg. He moved out, but the pugs didnt follow. Unorganized and with no fear whatsoever 20 pugs charged on Deso zerg, whiped them clear off and then took the tower I was rofl with our commander.

Junkpile.7439:

Ohliufff.8160:

Come on guys, I logged in today expecting to see we are 5k points due to our holiday and I see our pugs are owning the place….Can u push a bit harder, this way we will never make it into T2.

I just heard that we have queue in some maps. No idea who is playing.

Yea me neither, but i think this guys will end up proper SFR material since they are holding up to deso on points unorganized

Come on guys, I logged in today expecting to see we are 5k points due to our holiday and I see our pugs are owning the place….Can u push a bit harder, this way we will never make it into T2.

ethier.3417:

I see a lot of Deso commenting on how we a falling, Did you guys ever stop to think we actually want too?

I might as well say it here seen as people didn’t get my sarcasm in the last few posts. SFR wants to drop to tier 2, We are rebuilding and will focus on fights rather than points.

I guess the cat is out of the bag now. I truly hope you guys enjoy playing 1 vs. 1 cause we are all taking a break from it.

I’m actually starting to be glad that this has happened. Everyone can stay for the fun part, but to know your true friends and comrades you have to go endure some bad ones as well.
Next week will be fun in a different kind of way, but i think the right steps were taken and the right decisions were made. This match up I’ll be chilling, having a laugh reading constant whining from the members of 1 particular server on this forum topic, but i wont spoil the surprise.

Tarsius.3170:

I was leading Deso all day in EB and this cracked me up, nice one

Deso had no where near the numbers to compete against SFR or VS on our own so we thought we’d join in with VS and grab what points we could that were on the table. Nothing wrong with that is there? haha

To be fair, SFR held out really well, if VS pushed in i’d take us round to your spawn and wipe what we could there, after that wasn’t working we decided to turn the keep into swiss cheese. Just as things got interesting a VS blob moved by overlook so we fell back and then after that there was no co-ordinated push from us and VS.

So just a free for all in SFR land. Had a fun day, died alot more times than won actual proper fights mainly to peoples inability to listen (those that did ty!)

Got another day off work tomorrow, cya in EB

And just to be clear we didnt focus you 100% of the time, we kitten VS off afew times trebbing SM and hitting bavrost, they were to quick to react and we were to few to take anything

I salute you sir for stating the obvious and not making another “what are you talking about” post. It was the same yesterday as it is today, but we are not complaining. No sir. We will be doing the same think we are doing all week- working all around the map to defend our own and make your evening a bit more challenging.

What about switching and mixing it up a bit between NA and EU T1 with T1 and etc.
How about making a new map where T1 from both regions can play on. Something like 6 servers, and in the same time keeping the other borders with the 3 server cap. I got to say it’s getting a bit boring facing the same opponents.

This free transfer to SFR is making things ridiculous. Guilds cant start their proper raids and get their people in to play. When we end up getting in after 2,3 hours of Q you cant get your raid started so your choices are join the pug commander with the unorganized blob (people who are running around like chickens) or try to roam in a small group that gets kitten run by the other servers blob and cant do much….Seriously I find no joy in WvW any more

I also got in before WvW crashed and can’t see a enemy zerg from distance better. The changes seem to fix only that the characters don’t disappear when they are rendered near me like before.

I’m not seeing the difference from before when adjusting the options at all. Has anyone else been experiencing this? People keep rendering only after i’m next to them.

Also it might be just me but i think the zoom is a little adjusted so you can zoom out a little more?

P.S. The titles that are showing for every char are crazy, i just wanna turn them off.

Ummm The Blobarians :P

It was a very nice week with some epic fights (some won, some lost). Kidding aside i think tier 1 is looking as it should be. Thanks to all our commanders for pushing that extra hours and leading us and congrats to a well deserved victory. Vizu had a hell of a push last few days which motivated us even more. On a side note I hope people don’t get the wrong idea from all the trolls and propaganda, but respecting the enemy is important, because you will never underestimate him.

Q: How many blobs from Viz and Deso at the same time on different gates does it take to get into Garnison with 20 Sfr defending?
A: Trick question. No such number tonight.

Thank you for the +400 bags for 3 hours….it has been nice farming you and i hope you come back tomorrow

GG tonight to Deso, Viz and all my boys from SFR. There were some nice 3 way battles on the open field in Desolation. All around even board and a even match for the 2nd place this week.

I don’t think sPvP daily or monthly should give laurels. For example if i dont like to play sPvP should i be forced to start because now i’ll be missing on all the laurels other people will get. sPvP is optional so it should stay with its current rewards.

Glass cannon gets 2 hit in just about any fight if a person doesn’t have some serious skill. Everyone can make a balanced char or one stacked with vit and toughness and play casual.
So for me what you did is made a decision to play casual, then realised your build didn’t preform as well as you hoped it would and you decided to come to the forums and complain about the hardest to play build in GW2 and how it should be nerfed. Stop me when i’m wrong.

ConfusedDave.4271:

There was a post about this from Mike O’Brien when the same question was raised just after release.

US dollar prices are displayed exclusive of sales tax, which is then added on to the price you pay later in the checkout process.

Euro prices are displayed inclusive of VAT, which is charged at 20% because ArenaNet’s EU operation is based in the UK, which has %20 VAT rate.

10 Eur / 1.2 = 8.3333333 Euros.

So Arenanet get 8.333 Euros when you spend 10.

Current exchange rate is 1 dollar = 0.75 Euro. When the game launched mid 2012, the exchange rate was actually 1 Dollar = 0.8x Euro, very close to what the 1 to 1 conversion works out at without the VAT.

It would be unwieldy to continually adjust prices based on exchange rate fluctuations, so 1 to 1 seems to me to be a perfectly sensible conversion.

At this juncture I should point out that if you buy in GBP, then you are getting the short end of the stick, because in that case they are charging more than just the cost of the VAT extra.

There was this person working in a bank, who deviated 0.10 cents from every transaction people made with bank transfers and made around 100 million in a week….At the end he went to jail because that was illegal.

Sooo when you say “1 Dollar = 0.8x Euro, very close to what the 1 to 1 conversion works out at without the VAT.” yea it sounds good if we are talking about 100 euro right?

How does it sound when we talk about ignoring 0.03 over hundreds of millions? That is money out of consumers pocket mind you.

penatbater.4710:

Of course, you don’t NEED a Legendary to play the game, but so far it is the only one big reward implemented and of course, us adventurers; think we deserve a better chance at getting one that the people standing inside Lions Arch the whole day.

1. Who are you to dictate how players should play the game? Contrary to nature, a lot of people gain “fun” from playing the market. Case in point, neopets (if you know that). Stupid cute web page game, but has a “stock market” section. Even if it wasn’t advertised, the feature is there and people derive fun out of playing with it.

2. The fact that there are multiple people who have multiple legendaries (which some, i reckon, aren’t tp players) indicate that legendaries are attainable and fine as they are.

1.This is not a stock market game, and the simple point that someone might be playing the market because its the most fun they have in it is absurd.

2. Legendaries are another additional content that does not change your in game stats, so whoever wants to put that much effort into getting one is welcome to do so. I for one don’t care so much about the appearance, but the skill lvl of people.

happyjedi.1372:

I understand, what will happen if I purchase in USD instead of EUR?
Will I be able to use the gems while playing in Europe?

Nope…if you are from Europe you get charged in Euro period. You cant pick your poison.

So the story can’t evolve? Everything should stay the same I guess…that would be so much “fun” after playing for couple of months. The story evolves with everything they add and if they choose to add this kind of content they will. So the simple question is do the people want this content to be added. Some don’t…the OP does (quite frankly i don’t care if they do or don’t). What i do care about thou is that we look outside the narrow minded box and try to improve this game, this is where the simple “NO” does no help.

It’s not taxes i assure you mate. It’s the policy of every new big game over the past few years. Valve has implemented this and it was a big issue for the customers at first…there were even groups for protest with the name “1$ is not 1€”, but nothing changed and will not as it has become “normal” even for the big company’s.

Fred Fargone.3127:

Ohliufff.8160:

NPCs dont have mounts so we shouldn’t either?

He was obviously referring to the lore.
I want nuclear weapons on my minstrel. What do you mean nobody has them in the game?

Mounts would be a nice edition to the game and they are optional to use as well so if you dont like them dont use them….use the waypoints.

You got a very loose idea of “optional”. Yes, they are “optional” for the person using a mount, but not for the poor Asura who was using a merchant when someone parked a dolyak on his face.

Seriously, no mounts.

If you want to say that for the sake of the lore and the npc’s they shouldn’t add mounts because they would be unrealistic to the game, all i got to say is: This is a fictional game sir.

+ I don’t see how adding more content could hurt the game when everything in this game is optional. You can do dungeons or not, PS or not, grind…or not. Giving more content and choice for the people is not bad ppl. It’s the foundation of any democratic society.

NPCs dont have mounts so we shouldn’t either? That makes as much sense as if i were to say Refugees walk around with horses, so Anet ppl must give us that option too so we can feel equal to the Refugee NPC, which is degrading ppl on so many lvls.
Mounts would be a nice edition to the game and they are optional to use as well so if you dont like them dont use them….use the waypoints.

This is one of this “Forever Alone” moments when I find myself buying account bound flowers then going around LA looking for other people that did the same. But then again there is still the option to send girls a mail with my [Large Bone] attached to it

In theory adjusting drop rates at higher value for overpriced and highly demanded items should work….in theory. Then again you can always count on people to be people and greed is a constant value in any markets.

On the other hand A-net folks will have to deal with the inflation sooner rather than latter. Why you ask?

Scenario:
New people start playing GW2 every day right? Yes!
So person starts playing and levelling up, getting some gold, some blues and greens on him and then when he reaches certain point he wants to buy some nice new gear from the TMarket.
By the time he does that , inflation (most commonly known as peoples greed) has doubled the value of the item he wants. (Trust me that has already happened with most of the items on the market. When i started playing 2 months ago everything was half the price.) So now the poor newbie cant buy squad, because the gold and item drop hasn’t increased for him…only the prices. So now he will need to grind 2 times as much for 1 item which will probably just make him not want to progress much further in the game and eventually stop playing.

Personally i call for more control from the A-net over the market and applying some adjustments. Lets have a Cap ratio to item prices….lets say i can sell at the vendor one rare armour item for 2s,30c….put a 1:10 ration on the amount people can list at the TP…that means the top price that this item can be listed for is 23silver and thats it. No more speculation on the market.

Saulius.8430:

from my experience:
1) solo you need to contribute enough damage to get loot;
2) in party its enough to hit once, and if party contributes enough damage you get loot.

in group events when there are a lot people nearby its very hard to deal enough damage solo as trasmobs/champs die too fast, while in party its a lot easier.

Actually in all my time grinding in CS i found out that you need to hit the mobs at least 2 times in order for them to drop anything…sometimes as a staff ele i dont have the chance to even drop my aoe before the horde of people grinding events with me kill everything in sight

+1
The big issue for me is i catch myself grinding trolls for dropping better loot, then going in with the group to kill champions or bosses.
Last time i bothered was this Champion Karka which took my party 20-30 min to kill and we all got 1 rare item out of it. Everyone was like “well this is bs”.
Please make some changes to the reward system, because people are starting to give up on challenging things and go for the easy tasks….

[SPOILER ALERT]
I’m going to post here although the reward was not the only thing i was frustrated about when i completed my PS last night.

The loot is total BS i give you that and so will everyone who ever did bother to get his PS done, but that’s not the big issue for me.

Killing Zhaitan.
I was really looking forward to that…I wanted to get him abort the ship and tear him a new one(after all this quests who wouldn’t right?).
What did happen though?
You get on few guns and you and your friends go "omg lazer pew pew pew pew " till he dies.
I hope more people express their concerns regarding this so when GW folks start making Expansions or release more content they consider the voice of the people.

I would pay big money for a speed debuffed Dolyak with a tinfoil hat on…..

I like mounts….I like Karka Hatchlings also.

Here is a idea to the Devs: Make a carriage pulled by a horde of Karka Hatchlings.

I would love very much to have on of those. I would very much love that indeed kind sirs.

Wait a minute i thought eles cant weapon swap. Can i switch via inventory and skill keep the 25 might stack?

I have a Fire Staff Ele which i’m gearing up with Flame Legion set (power/precision/%crit dmg)

I want to add some more dmg to my Molten Staff with the Sigil and here is where i’m at a crossroads.

Which should i add?

Superior Sigil of Force – 5% more dmg

or

Superior Sigil of Bloodlust – You gain +10 power each time you kill a foe. (max 25 stacks and ends on down or weapon change)

I cant quite understand which will end up helping me out with my current build. Can anyone give advice or suggestion which one will be better for the long run? Also what does exactly “ends on down” mean for the Sigil of Bloodlust and if i put Sigil of Force does it add that 5% to the weapon dmg or to the Attack stats?

And yet somehow i feel the one cheated now. Thanks for the clarification nevertheless. I hope you guys consider writing this kind of things when you release the new patches so people have a clear idea on what starts when.

“Players earn one laurel for completion of the daily achievement category and ten laurels for completion of the monthly achievement category.”

Just completed my monthly achievement there and didn’t get my 10 laurels….