Guild Wars 2

100000 JQ on BG BL…

gebrechen.5643:

sostronk.8167:

Has SOR been taking keeps and towers by using zoom hacks and/or eyefinity to wipe siege again?

They just completely cleared siege of a whole tower again. Like every day.

Not in JQ right? Cuz those 3 people and 1000000 AC’s stopped the zerg from doing anything.

As far as today goes, I think JQ is the undisputed champion of Arrow Carts 2.

kittening Indo has a way with words.

Mance.5640:

Melchiorus.4678:

LOL, [SG] you act like you didn’t die over and over to us (while we were GvG-ing another guild I might add). At worst you were a minor annoyance, not even worth much thought. Give us a call for a GvG when you get relevant in WvW Respect begets respect.

I’d like to thank [Pro] for the great GvG today, those are the types of fights that I love playing GW2 for. Tip of the hat to you guys.

Hey just glad our 8man at the time warranted you crying on the forums =)

Our guild doesn’t need to ego stroke, those who know us, know what we do on our server. Nice try though kiddo, you’re cute.

Actually, they never cried… you came in and decided to start it up on the forums.

Lifewaster.5912:

Ascii.9726:

‘And there running’ is like a catchphrase in TS3 over here on SoR. Here’s a couple “fights” i recorded within the last hour. I think you can tell from the disappointment in the voices that this has been happening all day.

Both of those fights show 20-30 organised green dots about to wipe similar or lesser numbers of randomly tagged folks.

In the first case its a rushed attack on bay, and they seem to have scouted your team arriving to bay and got the hell out rather then feed you free wxp by staying beating at the north inner gate.

In the second case, an attempt at spawn camp has clearly taken too long and theres massed reinforcements arriving from your team, which now has respawn advantage.

In both cases the decision to leave rather then feed the enemy appears the correct one.

I dunno, when Indo was like “they are building an AC there” and you all were top of the stairs, you had a huge advantage to wipe him. However, Indo seemed surprised, as did I when I watched it, to see that you guys didn’t even rally… just ran.

Ruin.3461:

It’s hilarious how all the forum warriors from every server seem to think “No, my server is different! We’re the only dedicated server and you other servers just don’t try hard enough! Our guilds are super skilled [at zerging] which is why you always run from us.” Wake up. WvW is a numbers game, and it always has been. Your server is not special; your guild is not special. Just relax and enjoy the game.

Also, everyone talks about numbers. I can assure you I’ve been in fights where 20 of us took on 40 of them, and vice versa and succeeded. Numbers count as far as coverage, but as far as skirmishes, not so much.

oxide.8324:

Azure.8412:

oxide.8324:

Pvp.2758:

My server will destroy both of your servers.

Well no one is showing up so enjoy fighting doors

Why aren’t anyone in BG showing up? SoR was no different a few weeks ago when you guys were PvDooring to 1st place. Why just disappear after we get 1 guild? Come on… thats a horrible mentality. Don’t give up BG! You guys surely can put up a better fight than this.

I don’t know, there just seems to be very few pugs (JQ is the same too). It appears that a fair few WM players split off and made another guild too, which has perhaps hurt the numbers and coordination in our strongest coverage zone a bit more.

SoR may have got only 1 guild, but an EU guild is easily worth much more it terms of PPT than a bunch of NA or Oceanic guilds (as has been demonstrated, first, by WM’s EU overtime, and now by IRON). Of course it doesn’t help that FEAR still feel the need to blatantly kitten when they are already winning.

I never get why people accuse FEAR of so much when they get steamrolled by them. Just because they have an on-point commander that knows every angle and strategy of the WvW map doesn’t mean they are cheating or whatever you are accusing them of.

Chopps.5047:

Voicer.8239:

Is very cute the way SoR just cant chest thump withouth a mention to BG. Ty guys!!!
In the end, all this is bs. Weeks come and go, servers rise and fall…
Im not sure what the new sistem will bring us, but just to know that soon we will not have to deal with this overgrown egos and “forum warriors” (/angrychilds) is enough atm.
Rivalry is one thing, but some of you seem obscessed about it, and tbh doesent look very healty, especially for those who actually play the greatest MMO of all times called Real Life and come here just to have fun and not measure the size of our PPT!
Mb in the future, after u get invincible, stacked with 100% coverage and tired of chest thumping, we can have something more then:

-“My server is the strongest! The coolest”
- “No! MY server have the greatest community, we have the real warriors of WvW”
-“Oh Yeah? We have cookies!!!”
- Im gonna tell all this to my MOM!!
- Meh, ur mom is fat!
- And your mom is fat and ugly!!!
- … >.<’

/boring

Real Life sounds cool, was that released last week? Never heard about it. Greatest MMO ever? You’re setting the bar awfully high. I have great expectations for this game but I can’t find a review for it. Anyone know where to find a review?

http://www.reddit.com/r/outside/

The reason you couldn’t find a review is because they made a name change to the game. It’s actually called “Outside”. To get involved in “Outside” activities, just click the link I provided.

Azure.8412:

Its evident ATM makes a huge difference on the ppt of both BG and SoR, depending on which server they choose to attack.

kitten to Mouth? Or is this a different ATM?

sostronk.8167:

sostronk.8167:

Orion.9075:

Kaimick.5109:

Pvp.2758:

SoR will reign fire on all the nations below them

Please keep in mind that SoR wasn’t doing much before IRON came to your server with almost two full guilds, leavign SoR with an EU presence that can cover a 40+ man zergs on 3 different maps at the same time. Now I am not down playing any of you guys on SoR and congrats on this weeks win and last weeks win, I think it is much deserved for you guys. Although lets not forget it is only becuase of IRON you guys are in the position you are in. Any how grats on winning.

Props to IRON. Not to try and take anything away from them, but SoR was T1 for a reason before they came over. The issue is, we probably received one of the best EU guilds in the game, as well as already having some of the best NA guilds, and I guess that coverage and how well IRON fits with SoR just screwed over the other 2 servers. Hopefully BG/JQ get some other good EU servers, and we can have full coverage all around for all 3 servers.

An answer I think Anet made for this was the upcoming patch where it may be easier to drop and gain a tier. This will stop a lot of transfers, which affect the fluctuation of how un/covered you are. People may still transfer, but I doubt quite as frequently.

Sounds like Anet is trying to destablize servers to promote server hopping and profit$. Well played Anet.

Oh wait, Santum of Rall and Blackgate going Tier 2. Have fun down there guys. See you soon. lol.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/big-changes-coming-to-wvw-matchups/

It’s funny, cuz now they are just turning it into an ELO system it looks like. Also, they are doing it based of Matchmaking rating (ELO) even though our overall rating will probably higher after this week (forget the site that showed potential rating).

Kaimick.5109:

Pvp.2758:

SoR will reign fire on all the nations below them

Please keep in mind that SoR wasn’t doing much before IRON came to your server with almost two full guilds, leavign SoR with an EU presence that can cover a 40+ man zergs on 3 different maps at the same time. Now I am not down playing any of you guys on SoR and congrats on this weeks win and last weeks win, I think it is much deserved for you guys. Although lets not forget it is only becuase of IRON you guys are in the position you are in. Any how grats on winning.

Props to IRON. Not to try and take anything away from them, but SoR was T1 for a reason before they came over. The issue is, we probably received one of the best EU guilds in the game, as well as already having some of the best NA guilds, and I guess that coverage and how well IRON fits with SoR just screwed over the other 2 servers. Hopefully BG/JQ get some other good EU servers, and we can have full coverage all around for all 3 servers.

An answer I think Anet made for this was the upcoming patch where it may be easier to drop and gain a tier. This will stop a lot of transfers, which affect the fluctuation of how un/covered you are. People may still transfer, but I doubt quite as frequently.

SFShinigami.2015:

Wotah.2975:

LetoII.3782:

Poorly composed, my apologies. I responded to the whole discussion with half my mind on a tasty Reuben. My point was SoR has watched it’s holdings be fought over during this time for months. It’s hard to keep a straight face seeing the leaders in the coverage war arms race crying foul. Much less respond with anything but “up your game, son”

Was it a New York Reuben? Huh huh… ?

Reubens are best served from Omaha, where they were created, tyvm.

I thought reubens were German…

cesmode.4257:

Vol.5241:

I really hope that they make the scavenger difficult and long enough that players will still think that the 600g or so to buy some precursors is a suitable alternative.

i.e. includes:
-10,000 WvW kills
-90 laurels
-50 guild commendations
-dungeon master
-50 SPvP Tourneys

+ a whole list of scavenger item requirements that can only be acquired through beating tough bosses, acquired at different times at the day, and through solo and team work.

No to guild commendations.
-Not everyone is in a guild.
-Not everyone wants to be in a guild
-Not everyone that is in a guild is in a large enough guild to acquire this.
-Not everyone that is in a large enough guild has the desire to do guild missions at all.
-Not every guild does guild missions, even if they can.

Absolute no to guild commendations. If I dont want to do guild missions, thats how I want to play…i.e. the whole theme of the game. So don’t force me to do that.

I would hope when playing “Guild Wars” one would be “Warring” with “Guilds”. Honestly, I can understand not wanting to group (but I don’t really understand… it’s kind of the purpose of an MMO), to only PVE/PVP, or to only WvW, but not having a guild just goes against the nature of the game. I’m in a guild where we couldn’t get all that crap anyway, cuz we ONLY WvW.

Imo, all gear/skins/etc, or at least an even amount should be able to be obtained through your preferred playstyle (as far as META game goes). I should be able to obtain just as much cool kitten through WvW as a PVEr can through PVE.

sostronk.8167:

The buffer between Tier 1 and Tier 2 isn’t getting any smaller. Pitch your tents guys, we are going to be here for a while.

I guess you didn’t get the memo. They are changing how it’s all going to work next patch (in like 1 week), so it’s very likely that DB could hit T1 shortly.

Waage.2047:

Aurust.8961:

syNc.5840:

Also a side question for SoR are you actually getting real fights. I MEAN REAL FIGHTS! not getting stuck outside a slow siege, but a moving fight.

Yea, we are getting great fights! So don’t expect us to get bored.

Like what? I am actually interested because it dose not seem like there is real resistance. I mean fights as in driving off 3 times your own numbers, choking a zerg in an ambush and countering a entire zerg with only 15 people.

I know people like me are rare, but i can’t be the only one that hate being the top dog. I mean who cares about wiping smaller guilds and randoms. Taking Keeps or towers with only token Resistance.

NO the fun is when you are out manned and have to fight for every skill.

This happens all the time… or the 20 minute fights inside the enemy garrison, etc. There is still a lot of fun having. The other night, I think I was running with my guild, but it may have been another, and our tactics continually wiped another server that had 1.5-2x our numbers (I think we had like 15). This is at least true for the NA and sneaking into SEA timezone. Not sure how much competition is in EU timezone, although I log in there sometimes.

cyyrix.6105:

Azure.8412:

I honestly don’t think it’s nice to call Indo’s speech a rant.

These are direct quotes from Indo’s speech:

“Our enemy may outnumber us, but we have something that they don’t. We have a server that’s united with each other.”

“We’ll do it the right way. Not by paying kittening guilds thousands and thousands of gold to get there.”

“The greatest enemy that we have is not these two kittening stacked kittening bullkitten servers that have nothing else.”

“We’re better than everyone out there.”

“We’d rather have a solid community and solid kittening server and lack numbers, than have numbers and have nothing else…trust me I’ve been on the other side of that. JQ had that. It still has that. Nothing has changed. Their major guilds do not work with each other.”

“There is a true sense of comradery on this server…trust me when I say it, I’ve played on JQ, I’ve played on other servers, you can’t find that everywhere.”

“This is the kittening Sanctum. We’re here to stay and it’s going to take a lot more than these two kittenxbags to put us out of it (Tier 1).”

This is exactly the sort of character assassination that a lot of players are tired of listening to from the server with the self-proclaimed “best community”.

Indo may do great things for the SoR microcosm, but you’re crazy if you think the Kool-Aid he serves is good for the GW2 community.

It was a speech that he gave to everyone before going into WvW. It’s a battle speech. You don’t say, “We suck, let us lose today”; “We are the worst server and are going to get our kitten handed to us”.

No, you say what he says and motivate your troops. This is exactly what I’ve heard in the Marines. And it wasn’t intended for other servers to hear either. Someone just decided to record it and make a vid.

If your server leader ISN’T saying this kind of stuff… then everything Indo said, is actually true.

shortcake.8659:

Who cares if FEAR has a mandatory camera download as part of their screening process. The tells you get from them when you kill their arrow cart with your own are amazing.

Wait, I didn’t hear about this.

Lasermonkey.7984:

Grats to SoR, obviously you know as much as BG knows, 1 guild doesn’t make you go from Red to Green and a 50k plus lead. You guys showed everyone the true SoR this week, about dern’time!

Honestly, I think it does. SoR now has coverage during a time that leads straight into their strong NA. Thus, NA is even stronger and the server has a peak for a lot longer. When you have 2/4 timezones really strong, it makes a big difference. I mean, SoR isn’t just now showing their potential… they did it NA all the time. Just now, they have the coverage of another great guild during another time.

oxide.8324:

Lifewaster.5912:

Dementia.9543:

Anyone with an eyefinity setup has a hugely larger FOV and camera view than anyone else. you can easily rotate the camera so that the sides of the screen extend to a further viewable distance than other clients without it. The few times I have run with fear they make a point of pointing out that you can place an arrowcart right up against a keep or tower wall beside the gates and do this.

If thats true, maybe someone with this setup can test the camera view at Bravost and show us if this cart can fire on the inner courtyard from the position shown in the 2 screens.

You can simulate it without having multiple monitors by doing alt+enter and resizing the window so that its width is 100% of the screen’s width and its height is around 25% of the screen’s height. In some spots you can just barely see over walls but FEAR have the amazing ability to hit absolutely anywhere inside any tower/keep so I very much doubt they are doing it with multiple monitors or a resized window.

Having run with fear all the time, I can assure you they aren’t using any hacks. Someone even asked recently on TS if they were and they explained exactly how to do it.

sostronk.8167:

Orion.9075:

Voicer.8239:

sostronk.8167:

What kind of support did SOR give you?

The same support that BG did to the guilds that wanted to come over but couldnt withouth our community help.
Is not a big deal, and there’s nothing wrong with donate gold to help new friends.
I still wonder why they keep saying that “BG is buying guilds” and trying to give us a bad reputation for so long and then they go and do the same!
Im surprised no1 is trakittenalking SoR right now and….oh wait!
Call me crazy, but mb when OTHERS do it, is not so bad!!! Lets see..

BG donate gold to help ppl get in? How dare you??! Blackhole destroyer of guilds!! Shame on you!! Your reputation is the worst!

SoR donate gold to the same objective? Oh, this is a real community, tight and perfect!! You should all watch and learn!

The same logic applied on the “overtime” nonsense…think about it!

BG won? Overtime lifeless nerds!

SoR winning? Is just bc you’re so good! Again, we should all watch and learn!

I think the main difference is we don’t offer guilds gold to come over. They decide to come over and perhaps if a few of their members couldn’t make it, we help them out. That’s the difference between buying guilds and not.

Thats the same thing BG did. And thats why I am scratching my head after all the criticism that has come from SOR to BG (including youtube video rants about it) and saying how much better their server is for not doing this, when all along SOR does it as well.

Sorry, I’d been not on the forums, but what SoR did and what BG did is different. BG didn’t help out a little after the guild came over and said they couldn’t get everyone. They chose SoR and came over and SoR were like “Oh kitten, we got a good EU guild to join our server” and they were cool people, so yes, anyone would help them finish coming over.

VS.

BG: “We offer you 7 guilds 4k gold each to come over to our server… cool?”.

oxide.8324:

Ascii.9726:

I still dont get it. BG had no issues or worries about ‘balance’ when they recieved pretty much every major guild from KN and was ticking 400+ pretty much perm.

Now SoR received 1 euro guild and have good fortune in regards to playing smart and the enemy playing sloppy its suddenly a broken T1 that’s unbalanced and will be for months.

BG and JQ have more players on there servers then SoR, even right now at midday UK time. IRON’s 100 people transferring over wasn’t enough to push our status from Very High to Full so the gap between them 2 ratings must be a large.
__________________________________________________________________

You need to motivate your servers community to get into WvW. SoR has an amazing community and we assign every guild we know off to a borderland at reset night (apart from Ace he solos SoR-BL for us).
__________________________________________________________________

Why do people from SoR keep posting screenshots showing how JQ/BG are ‘full’ and SoR is ‘very high’? A lot of the players that make JQ/BG ‘full’ are casual with very little interest in WvW. Most of them probably transferred for the sole reason of getting map completion. The only thing that motivates these players to play WvW is seeing that their server is already doing well and is in 1st. SoR being the underdog of T1 for so long doesn’t have many of these players. Win a few weeks and SoR will be full too.

I’m not going to search for it, because I don’t post too often, but earlier in this thread many people said that SoR has a lot of PVErs, moreso than the other 2 servers. They even went as far as to say there weren’t as many dedicated WvW guilds.

Voicer.8239:

sostronk.8167:

What kind of support did SOR give you?

The same support that BG did to the guilds that wanted to come over but couldnt withouth our community help.
Is not a big deal, and there’s nothing wrong with donate gold to help new friends.
I still wonder why they keep saying that “BG is buying guilds” and trying to give us a bad reputation for so long and then they go and do the same!
Im surprised no1 is trakittenalking SoR right now and….oh wait!
Call me crazy, but mb when OTHERS do it, is not so bad!!! Lets see..

BG donate gold to help ppl get in? How dare you??! Blackhole destroyer of guilds!! Shame on you!! Your reputation is the worst!

SoR donate gold to the same objective? Oh, this is a real community, tight and perfect!! You should all watch and learn!

The same logic applied on the “overtime” nonsense…think about it!

BG won? Overtime lifeless nerds!

SoR winning? Is just bc you’re so good! Again, we should all watch and learn!

I think the main difference is we don’t offer guilds gold to come over. They decide to come over and perhaps if a few of their members couldn’t make it, we help them out. That’s the difference between buying guilds and not.

Ljiona.9142:

Way to early to be claiming a victory. Tuesday – Thursday are the slow days for SoR.

Not according to IRON commander… Having that night coverage be strong during those days should work out well for us.

scootshoot.6583:

hplee.2839:

score update, end of SEA (taipei time 1:44 am)

SoR pretty much neutralize JQ’s SEA advantage.

Least for one day. Still early in the week.

What every server benefits from (assuming the score favors them) is the usual PVE players which there are a ton more of will join the fray thereby helping with coverage. SOR am sure has quite a bit of pve people who typically don’t wvw being active participants this week and that is a good thing.

Don’t get why SoR has more PVE players participating this week than any other server… that makes no sense.

washu.8670:

Pvp.2758:

SoR’s hardwork is finally showing

Heh, thought SoR never pull overtime shifts how do you even define hardwork, heck the previous SoR posters here criticizes WM for playing too much wvw. The 3 come from behind wins by BG is what I call true hardwork and dedication.

I’m not trying to instigate anything, but getting 3-4 guild server transfers is hardly “come from behind”. SoR got one guild to cover our weakest time zone and while it’s still young in the week, I’d say they are doing a huge part.

I guess this only applied to the first day, cuz I’m able to do it all now.

DKNS.2135:

Orion.9075:

DKNS.2135:

fade.8603:

Scores are very close with few more days to go, keep fighting all 3 servers!

Well JQ can maybe come out and try to put up a fight atleast (if they get their energy back after the weekend overtime); SoR: not really.

Just sucks that our NA is so strong, but them other servers (cough BG cough) have to buy guilds to stay competitive. In actuality, if we had any EU/SEA presence (compared to JQ/BG) this whole thing would be a different story.

uhmm https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/69025/full.jpg

You know i can go and say a kitten tons of things to this comment but i am gonna stop before i get another match thread locked

And i have NEVER liked SoR, but good job for still putting up a fight. Hold on and you will eventually start getting guilds and then we will have a perfect NA T1, but a part of me also wishes that you get kicked out and we get DB instead because of all your kitten Forum warriors. Anyways, we will see what happens.

Honestly, I’m pretty sure we’d prefer to be the underdog and if guilds want to transfer to us, that’s great. Our NA is usually top PPT every time. It’s the lack of Oceanic/EU players that keeps us 2nd or 3rd. BG got a little advantage from buying a few guilds, but still that only works for their EU/Oceanic timezone, cuz they just get wiped over and over during NA.

JJBigs.8456:

roseria.7695:

Score update…

Your signature contains a curse word normally filtered by Anet but you decided to circumvent this. As im not sure report post is accurate, since its your signature I decided to write this.

It offends, astonishes, shocks, disturbs, and causes me grief to see you attempt to subvert such a block on a word you decided to print. Please correct it.

Really? It causes all those emotions out of you considering that it is allowed on Radio and TV?

DKNS.2135:

fade.8603:

Scores are very close with few more days to go, keep fighting all 3 servers!

Well JQ can maybe come out and try to put up a fight atleast (if they get their energy back after the weekend overtime); SoR: not really.

Just sucks that our NA is so strong, but them other servers (cough BG cough) have to buy guilds to stay competitive. In actuality, if we had any EU/SEA presence (compared to JQ/BG) this whole thing would be a different story.

Xriah.5743:

I can’t help but feel like it’s a strange idea to spend development time on temporary content.

If you look back at older MMOs like Everquest or World of Warcraft or City of Heroes(RIP), they contain a seemingly bottomless pit of content. Years and years of updates and expansions stacked on top of one another make for a wealth of content that newer MMO’s can only hope to obtain in time. Even if it ends up being largely unused as the players keep up with the ever advancing endgame, it allows newer players to see and explore the past. Kind of like how the Southsun Cove is now. It’s fallen into obscurity, but newer players who wern’t around for the event have the oppourtunity to discover the area and explore it.

There are still so many areas of this game that can be filled out. Why spend time on this when you can make more permanent additions to your game and use them as selling points? Just from past updates, I get the impression that the dev team is spread thin enough as it is without tacking on tasks that only have a temporary impact. Spend those resources elsewhere like patch QA, bugfixing, mini games, new zones, polishing the personal story, balancing skills and traits, etc. I think that would be appreciated more than what were getting with the living story now.

I think it’s a great idea the way they are doing it honestly. It actually keeps people playing their game and interested. While some of it may not be permanent, you can bet they are also working on permanent content as well. I mean, hell, there are still 8 zones or something that they can play with and unlock for us. All those games you mentioned didn’t start out with all that content, but slowly and painfully developed over extended periods of time. Also, all those games were P2P, its a different dynamic when your game is F2P ish.

I quit GW2 for a long while and and came back probably the second part of the Living story event. However, I’m mainly a WvW player (Thanks for making temporary content for us… /sarcasm), and didn’t even delve into the Living Story until this Molten Facility came out (wanted to check it out and hopefully get paid). Then, I also find out that in order to get the META achievement, you have to get all the previous achievements from the living story (They didn’t let us know this til the last part of Living Story). So, I went back and started getting the achievements only to have them end the next day. So now, I have no possible way to get the META achievement even though I’ve only recently learned about it.

TLDR: Keep the old Living Story achievements active til this is all over please.

digiowl.9620:

Between that and being a group instance, i wonder how many will never experience the effort that ANet’s people have put into it.

It’s easy and accessible enough that anybody that wants to do it, can do it. Or they can cry on the forums that they aren’t going to do it, because it isn’t solo.

Vulpis.8063:

choon.6308:

Vulpis.8063:

choon.6308:

Vulpis.8063:

Why do people keep trying to claim that formal/forced grouping is the only form of ‘player interaction’ that exists at all? I see plenty of player interaction in MMOs in general, not just GW2, that has nothing to do with raid/dungeon groups.

No one clamied that. I only claimed that it is dangerous to mess with group dynamics in favour of soloers.

Vulpis.8063:

Edit: And I also might point out that conversely, I’ve left MMOs because the high-end content was nothing but forced-grouping, with no solo content to be found..

If grouping is forced and uncomfortable to you, don’t play an MMO. Otherwise you will demand more and more things to be soloable, thus killing the MMO. Judging by the title of the thread, it seems like it is more of a chore than and opportunity to meet new people.

I don’t know how is it a horrible thing to group with 4 other people. Wow, don’t think about grouping with 23 other people then

You…don’t seem to be reading your own words, here.
In one line, you try to say that noone is claiming that forced grouping is the only form of player interaction…and then turn right around and once again state that if you’re uncomfortable with that, you shouldn’t be playing MMOs.

And as for grouping with 23 other people? I don’t. I do, however, quite enjoy open-world/public events where 23 other people show up and work on the task/Champion/Boss alongside me, without the need to actually group. There’s a vast difference between the two play styles. And that’s the wonderful thing about how nearly all of GW2 handles things—you can run it solo doing your own thing, you can run it alongside lots of other people doing their own thing—with you sometime pitching in and then wandering off, or wandering over to pick them up if they happen to be nearby, or you can, if you choose, form a group and do any of the rest of it as a team.

So did I say ‘forced grouping is the only viable playstyle and if you don’t like it don’t play mmos’ or ‘no one is claiming that. If you don’t like grouping don’t play an mmo’ ?

Sorry to break it to you but they are not the same thing. Maybe you should pay attention to what you reading before replying.

Incase you don’t understand: no, grouping is not the only playstyle. But if you don’t like grouping, don’t group ! No one is forcing you. Since you don’t like it or participate in it, what’s the point of demanding dungeons to be soloable ?

Heh. Actually, it’s not so much demanding that dungeons be soloable, as the problem that someone thought it was a cute idea to make the one and only means to complete either the Personal or Living storylines that are otherwise completely free of content that you absolutely have to be in a formal group for (but can be done that way if you choose to, since they scale upwards nicely) be a dungeon. Arah is even a doubly whammy of bad design, since not only do you have a dungeon smack-dab on the end of solo content, you have what ought to be solo content welded on to the entirely otherwise dungeon-based Destiny’s Edge reunion story. The two parts need to be split up, really. As for the Molten Facility…given how it’s been pushed as the epic end to the event, the ‘obvious’ solution is to make a soloable version (since fat lot of good making this ‘epic ending’ is if only a fraction of the people who did the entire rest of the event get to see it), with another solution being to keep the dungeon for the dungeon-runners, and provide an alternate, similarly difficult solo task that trips the same event flags for the rest of us (I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’m quite willing to give up the unique dungeon drops in favor of being able to actually get the last part of the story and the reward for participating)

You’re acting like it’s hard or something. I don’t get what you are debating about it. As much as people may like to solo, these games are called “MMOs” for a reason. People typically play with a small group of friends or find friends whilst in game.

Ramurak.8501:

Who in the team thought it be fun to add another dungeon so hard its impossible to solo or near impossible to even duo, so that it force peoples to party up to max party size … again ?

Really ? I mean really ? after all those complains for past months about the last dungeon Arah, forcing a full size party to finish storyline, they are still doing it ?

Here i thought they finally changed, those in charge of Super Aventure Box, done it perfectly, give their player a chance to do it alone or with a small party. Very good job SAB Team, you guys sure know how to do stuff.

Oh well in my book Anet lost their number one team for making online game. I thought there was still some hope left, but there is none. Will sure not be looking forward to any of their future game from now on.

It’s a pretty easy dungeon. As well, do you want them to only release solo and duo dungeons? I mean, you mention SAB in your post, then say you don’t get any solo-able dungeons. SAB IS ONLY A MONTH OLD. Some people like solo stuff, some like grouped stuff. Considering you can do majority of the game solo, I’d say grouped stuff is the stuff that keeps a MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER game going. It’s not very epic to solo Zhaitan, or Jormag… and it shouldn’t be. However, soloing smaller events is typically a fun challenge.

Rising Dusk.2408:

This thread makes very unfortunate assumptions that I am compelled to address. The first is that Norn isn’t Human. I know that should be obvious, but Norn are a different species altogether; just like how countless animals in real life give birth and then abandon their young, there is no reason why we should project our own personal ethics and morals onto another race. I would argue that calling Norn a ‘terrible mother’ is very presumptuous and pretty ignorant.

Many Norn children elsewhere in the lore leave as early as they can to start their legends and make their own fate. Eir and Braham clearly aren’t very close, and Braham does seem to slightly resent Eir, but Eir is likely facing a lot of cultural barriers that make her want to give Braham his space to develop his own legend, and countless other things that we can’t begin to comprehend as humans. It’s also important to consider Eir’s own legend and goals; she can’t raise a kid while fighting Claws of Jormag, Destroyer of Worlds, Kralkatorrik, and Zhaitan, and other stuff.

Anyway, please don’t project your own feelings about what motherhood should be onto another culture / species. It is—and I mean this with no offense—belligerent, ignorant, and naive, and hopefully now you can see why.

I always think it’s funny when someone says they mean something with no offense, then say something that could be offensive. Yes, you meant it.

Talenna.4052:

Why do people play Guild Wars and not pvp?

Because it’s a beautiful world and the PvE is fun.

I don’t pvp, I will freely admit that I’m simply not a good enough player to do so and I don’t enjoy grinding for items that pvp seems to require.

I will spend quite a bit of money for gems for fluff and it’s people like me who help to support Anet and GW2 with our credit cards.

So whilst many pvpers look down at those of us who do not like their game style, we are still supporting it by buying pet hippos and I do hope there is a kitten for sale today!

Back on topic, my dislike of pvp will possibly prevent me from completing the map, unless I can find pvpers who will carebear me around the wvw map.

Edit: some weirdness seems to have occured with the post above. I apologise to the person who posted it

Kind of funny, because I know many of people in my guild (a WvW focused guild with leader that don’t touch PVE), that spend way more money on buying stuff to allow us to be a T1 server per week than you ever will.

runeblade.7514:

The technology isn’t there. If they could do true autoloot, they would do it.

However, I don’t like this suggestion.

After a successful battle, there is enjoyment in going through the corpses for loot. It is so satisfying to see bags everywhere. But what if we have the option? I will still be forced to turn auto-loot on. The commander will just go to a battle, win and go to another battle without giving me any time to collect my bags. This will make zerg vs. zerg even more monotonous and boring.

Honestly, that is what we do on T1. Go from battle to battle. We only pick up bags if its in a keep or something that we need time to regroup before moving on. Otherwise, we don’t stop for loot bags. Thus, if there was some way to get it otherwise, that’d be great.

How does a company like ArenaNet NOT have the technology for that. It’s basic technology that’s been in games for years.

I’m pretty sure that Anet makes enough money they can upgrade their own kitten servers.

declan.3968:

how is SOR oceanic representation

Its better than our EU, but still not up to snuff with JQ/BG.

Yeah, it’s pretty much TS or bust. It will seem a lot more organized if you get into TS. You can always enter WvW and ask in Team chat for the server. Also, the time you mentioned is usually somewhere when NA (our best time) is getting off. As far as random people with tags, this happens, because we do have some troll commanders. You’ll learn after a day or 2 not to follow some commanders (like Phantasmal employee).

Rebel, I’m inclined to agree with you that I really only care about the badges being auto-loot. Just wasn’t sure if everything Auto-loot would be good or not. It’s not as big a concern for me anymore since I pretty much have all the gear I need, but it would still be nice to get what I earned. They could possibly do away with Loot badges altogher and turn it into an a number (like how Karma works). So you would automatically (and immediately) earn it on kills. Similar to how “honor” worked in WoW.

Maiden England.3491:

amonian.3596:

recently i transfer to sor from kaineng and playing asian prime time.
sor is very weak ocean and asian time. we need more oceasin lol.

go sor.

what are you talking about? we are weak NA time and strong during oceanic… HIRE, NYS, TSYM….. all raid during oceanic

SoR Asian/Oceanic time isn’t nearly as strong as our competitors. Our NA usually has the highest PPT, but then it drops significantly throughout the night.

Automatically show up in your inventory. I play a warrior in WvW one of the top guilds on one of the top servers, and my job is to push through and let our back line kill down everyone. However, with all the constant movement, and the slight lag before bag spawns, the only opportunity I have to grab them is to walk back or to search for them (if they didn’t despawn) after a 5+ minute fight. However, if I walk back, I’m not helping that team. As well, if I’m frontline, I have a lot more chances to die, and thus I won’t be alive to pick up bags.

While I don’t mind the idea of picking up loot (only if you live through it and you have the opportunity to pick it up), I don’t like the idea that I don’t get my credit for the kill (i.e. Mark of Honor). Is there any discussion from devs on this, or is it a moot point that I’m trying to fight for here?

UserX.8217:

@Ruitsz
Glad to here your up and running

@Noxijin
Are you running any Anti-Virus software or a Firewall. Disabling them for troubleshooting. See I you are still having problems after disabling them. Also some Anti-Virus and Firewalls don’t like to disabled so uninstalling them for testing is also a good option.

@peeMon
I have been working with a few people on the load screen issue and found that some people are able to connect using a different account on the same computer or not able to log into the problem account on another computer. This leads me to believe the issue is server side.

If you have already tried the -repair switch or re-downloaded the setup submit a ticket to ANET.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/How-to-Submit-a-Technical-Support-Ticket-2/first#post3957

Run a repair of GW2
1) Navigate to theGW2 directory normaly located at “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\” or “C:\Program Files\Guild Wars 2\”
2) R-Click “Gw2.EXE” then select Send To>Desktop (create shortcut)
3) One your Desktop R-Click the “Gw2 – shortcut” and Rename it to “Gw2 Repair”
4) R-Click the “Gw2 – Repair” shortcut and select Properties
5) In the tagert line, all the way to the right after the quotation mark add a space then type the following: -repair
Example: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -repair
Example 2: “C:\Program Files\Guild Wars 2\” -repair
6) Click Apply then OK
7) Run teh gw2 – Repair

OR Alternatively

Grab a new Gw2.exe from:
https://account.guildwars2.com/account/download (It’ll download as Gw2Setup.exe)

You can then rename it from “Gw2Setup.exe” to “Gw2.exe” and replace your old one.

I just wanna say I love you. I’m not sure if it completely works yet, but at least the launcher is using some CPU now and I can visually see it working. I’m just glad to see some change. I use the very last part that I bolded. My issue was I’d click GW2, it’d pop up with the usual launcher, but then nothing. 0kb/0kb downloading and couldn’t click the X to get out (Had to end process it out). Couldn’t uninstall the client and now I see movement, so I’m happy.

Ok, while seeing movement got me excited, I spoke too soon. I just watched it and while the change helps it download or what not, it closes and pops open again with the exact same problem as before. This would be fine if I could uninstall GW2, but I can’t. Any other ideas?