Guild Wars 2

Remove junk from loot tables. Garlic Bread and Overgrown Tonics come to mind. Hell, any tonics in general. They’re useless to me and I always end up grimacing when I receive them. The fact that I can get something that sells for less than even a white drop is insulting. Especially for a difficult or frustrating encounter, like Nightmare Vines in TA.

My biggest gripe with dungeons is the lack of incentives to do story, the huge RNG on the recipe drops, and the absolutely abysmal loot from most chests. While I receive an exotic every now and then from a chest, I’m still generally receiving garlic bread, trash tonics, and blues. Hell, even in 15+ fractal difficulties I receive blue reward chests. This is frustrating and by no means inspires me to run higher difficulties or longer, harder dungeons.

So currently, the best method to find a fractals group is to spam /map chat and continuously hop overflows by logging out and in until you find a group.

We really need a way to find members for fractals that spans all the current Overflows, such as a group finder. This would make finding groups for fractals much easier, especially ones 5+. It would also cut down on the insane /map chat spam.

Agree? Disagree? And if so, why?

Negativity.5801:

Lucky you. There have been plenty of threads about this and I’ve had Detha bug numerous times myself. Hodgins has only ever bugged once for me, but still annoying.

Just seemed weird to NEVER encounter this bugging and then for some reason, encounter it twice in a row on a patch day

Negativity.5801:

Hodgins and Detha have been bugging for weeks. Nothing new here.

I’ve run AC nearly 3-4 times every day for weeks and NEVER encountered this. :|

Have run AC three times. It has bugged on Hodgins (second scepter) and now Detha at Ghost Eater.

So out of 3 runs, 2 have bugged and had to be restarted because of NPCs. This is incredibly frustrating. Anyone else encountering this malarkey?

Because he is an otherwise boring, insecure character. And worse, after level 50, it becomes HIS story, not your story.

Just a terrible character that I don’t think has any real impact on the story as a whole. He’s not truly developed, has no depth, and yet becomes the focus of all your questing post 50.

synk.6907:

Prophecy.5204:

Ever since the quick dye update Nov 7, our guild is gone and party chat does not work at all. Some are also reporting that guild chat and whispers are broken.

How’s the future? Do you know the lottery numbers?

[I can’t reproduce this at the moment, so I cannot offer you any suggestions aside from the usual stand down/re-represent or relog.]

LOL. Just noticed I had Nov. 7 in there.

Nov 5.

Relog doesn’t work. Seems most of the people in my WvW BG is having this issue.

Ever since the quick dye update Nov 5, our guild is gone and party chat does not work at all. Some are also reporting that guild chat and whispers are broken.

Edit: November 5th. -_-

ZachGl.7194:

Can’t say we didn’t see it coming.

A lot of us discussed it as a possibility last week. I’d say a lot of us saw it coming, unfortunately…

Fed.8594:

It would help if they would direct free transfers to servers that actually need them instead of to any server.

That’s what I don’t understand. Why allow server transfers for every server rather than just the lowest population servers? Usually you see people given options to ONLY lower population servers in order to balance them out with the higher population. I don’t understand why “full” and “high” population worlds are even an option.

shortcake.8659:

Sorry random zerg guy who made this thread. Too much to bother reading here but congratulations on successfully having hundreds more players than everyone else. Feel proud of your #1 rank. I’m sure your guild(out of the 300 there) is great and highly respected by someone. Perhaps if you keep up you will be highly recognized and respected, but probably not since you’re usually just part of a massive sea of random red things. I’ve developed my metalworking skills though so if you’d like I can make you a shiny tin badge.

http://www.lolwut.com/layout/lolwut.jpg

fixit.7189:

If top servers can’t get any balance, what makes you think lower ones will be any different?

Ok so people bail top servers, go to lows. Suddenly lows become highs and history repeats itself. Already people are complaining about others going to lower tiers and off balancing those match ups. Proof is already here, mutiple threads here about it.

Wv3 needs a serious overhaul in almost all aspects before we will ever see things get better. Until then it’s a total mess. Free Xfers is the biggest issue but there is others as well. I dread 2 week matches, think it’s bad now? Just wait. Lmao!

Exactly. I can only imagine how it affects servers in the lower teirs, particularly in the WvW field.

FoxxGen.9423:

This post is nothing more than a single person whining and complaining about a rather mundane point.

JQ recruited Xfers a few weeks ago. CD decided to move the core WvW guild population to JQ to “even things out.” After that, JQ started climbing up the ladder with a now more robust off hours crew.

JQ became such a threat, that upon the folding of TA, a decently sized chunk of old Henge players moved to JQ in an effort to continue the winning bids. Sure enough, now that JQ is fat and bloated, JQ is complaining over their queue.

I am sorry JQ, you may not have your every whim responded to and answered by ANet or any others. You asked for what you now have, and as such it should come as no surprise. If you dislike it, please consider transferring to another server. But please do not blame ANet for this inevitable result.

Lastly, I find it funny you state you’re number 1 yet this fact occurred on the heels of CD moving their core guilds to your server. Ungrateful much?

The point of this post is not server politics (CD-ET-JQ-HoD-SBI politics) as much as it is about server communities. It is an issue that can affect any server, not just JQ. JQ just happened to be the example server since it’s the one I play on.

Setsunayaki.4907:

Original Server Community? Is that a joke?

If you want to talk about an “Original Server Community” and people leaving, play the original Guild Wars, you know….that game that actually has some people who did play for the seven years its been out, like myself!

I think this is relevant to your opening statement: http://i.imgur.com/J25mf.jpg

Daboss.4682:

Well thanks for your kind words. We agree something needs to be done with the server transfers, it is having a major impact on WvW and if it continues to go unchecked it will ultimately hurt the game. We’ll see how everything shapes up when they release the WvW patch in the up coming months.

Hopefully when the dust settles, I’l have a chance to roll with you guys ago. Most fun I’ve had in PvP since DAoC.

Hoots.9564:

Wish Anet would read this because jq is no longer the server it was when we slowly rose up in the rankings, all the guys we played and learned with to drive us to #1 are now either in queue for hours or just simply transferred, speaking of which prophency aka daboss?? id love to transfer to wherever you guys went so that i may continue playing with the guys i’ve been rolling with for a month now See what transfers do to realms anet

No, Mini.

But Daboss/Indo (TW) and Nekky (Fate) are the two guilds I am referring to. :\

I am from Jade Quarry. I chose Jade Quarry over the other servers at launch because of the community: they had a great, established community of ex-DAoC players and a warm grouping of guilds that had been together for years.

At first, I was apprehensive. I had tried a couple other servers during BWEs in an attempt to find a community of players that seemed to resonate most with my playstyle and attitude. I wanted to WvW, casually, and find a group of players who were both organized and laid back. Regardless, when launch came around, me and my handful of guildies took the plunge to JQ.

As time went on, we grew to love the server we were on. I saw familiar names in Lion’s Arch every day and I knew that I could always jump into WvW, hop into the server TS, and enjoy PvP during whatever time I had to play. I laughed with the same people each night — people who I had never met before — and we formed bonds of familiarity.

Despite the names JQ may have established on forums, it became my home, and my guild’s home. And for the first time since DAoC, I had a server with a community that felt like mine. I was proud of our accomplishments as a server and I always wanted to see Jade Quarry become #1.

And #1 we became.

And that’s when the problems started. Like HoD before us, people began to transfer en-masse to Jade Quarry during off-peak hours. Now queues were 15m-1 hour to 4+ hours. Combined with the crashing issues WvW still has and the bugged queues (some people get into the same BG in 10 minutes while others wait hours upon hours), WvW became something I had to plan. Most days, I don’t even bother logging on now since I know WvW — the thing I absolutely adore most, despite its issues — will be impossible to get into.

This week, Jade Quarry has experienced the loss of two very important and original server guilds because of the queues and ArenaNet’s lack of response regarding the free transfers. We have so many new guilds and players on JQ that getting people in to play with guild mates is impossible. We’re essentially experiencing the same thing HoD did when it was in the top spot.

The two guilds we lost were extremely important to our WvW crew. They were also the main team I ran with every night. And now they’re gone.

For the first time since launch, I’m torn between the loyalty to my server and the desire to play with people who have transferred off of JQ. WvW, simply put, just isn’t as fun without these familiar faces roaming around each night.

ArenaNet, please give the community some response about these transfers. An incredibly important part of every MMO is the community and the bonds that players establish between their fellow server mates as well as their enemies. In every MMO I’ve played prior to this, transfers have always disrupted communities in some way. And just like HoD before it, JQ is now being disrupted, uprooted, and destroyed by these free transfers.

While I understand the need of them for balancing, allowing players to transfer to high population servers is just further skewing the population issues. Please address this issue — I really do not want to leave the server I (and my guild) have grown to love so much, but I think we may have to in order to preserve the experience of the game.

tl;dr — Server transfers are destroying the original server community of Jade Quarry. Many original guilds are transferring off in order to even be able to play together. I don’t want to leave JQ — I consider it my home — but I may have to because the game is ceasing to be fun due to lengthened queues and a crumbling server community.

Ranking in match-up.

Green: 1st place server in matchup
Blue: 2nd
Red: 3rd, underdog

Topic title pretty much summarizes it. Some wait in queue for hours upon hours to get into a borderland while my guild mate, who queues for the same BG after I do, gets in within 10-15 minutes.

Something is definitely wrong with the queuing system currently.

So besides the invisibility bug that I posted about in the WvW forums, I am now starting to experience extremely long load times, freeze-ups during start-up, and the game hanging at load screens (never loading in or showing the proper completion for the zone I am in, meaning 0/0 vistas, 0/0 PoIs, etc.). My character screen also doesn’t load when the latter happens (black with my names and the buttons on the right corner). This does not happen exclusively in green borderlands or sPvP. The most recent zone it occurred in was Lion’s Arch.

I did a repair on my client on Monday in an attempt to solve my WvW crashes, but that’s all I’ve tweaked. All my issues have really started post Oct 7 update.

Arson.4189:

gotten a bit worse last few days dunno whats been up if you guys are tinkering with the system or somethin. just lettin you know

Yep. Last two updates have made it awful. The very last update tonight has made WvW unplayable.

Post update, our whole server has turned into the blind leading the blind. None of us can see commanders — they’re just floating icons — and even friendlies aren’t loading for many of us.

I’ve turned down all my settings, turned up rendering… nothing is helping.

http://imgur.com/uP6vt

What is this, I don’t even…

Jade Quarry has been going pink for Breast Cancer Awareness month.

We’ve been under pretty heavy siege in WvW, but we took a couple seconds to take a quick screenshot inside red Garrison.

http://i.imgur.com/CbWSC.jpg

Edit: If this needs moved, feel free. Just realized it is in WvW Discussion.

I am running this on a high-end machine, yet when I get into WvW (the best part of the game for me), I CTD. Nothing in particular triggers it. It just… CTDs.

It usually happens during Keep and Tower takes. Pretty irritating when the queue is hours long and there’s no grace period.

Why is this?

LinseyMurdock.4165:

We did also reduce the amount of butter and chocolate you get from bags. I was a bit nervous about taking them off vendors since they are such a staple, but I’ll be the first to admit that I went a smidge overboard. It’s felt a lot better since the change went Live, at least from my own experience (and I do play the game a lot and do lots of crafting!) How do you all feel about how much butter you get now?

Butter and Chocolate as a cook – I’m fine with the drops (since it’s such a huge staple). What I’m hurting on is Vanilla Beans. Seriously — you need them in Wet Ingredients and things like White Icing, which combine → chocolate icing. They’re over 1s each on the TP (1s 20c last time I checked), which makes most combination dishes that use Vanilla Beans too expensive. When it takes 2-3 Vanilla beans to make the 1 crafting component, which sells for 2-3c on the TP, I’m not exactly inclined to make anything with Vanilla Beans. I really don’t want to take a 3s+ loss per slice of cake, etc.

I’m so sick of getting into WvW after a 45m-2 hour queue and getting this within an hour or less (this time 15m) of getting in: http://i.imgur.com/gcdrJ.jpg

And of course, I get put RIGHT back in the abysmal queue.

I also can’t even play WvW with sound because after 20 minutes or so, I get this magnetic ringing in one side of my headphones that is coming from GW2 only. Nothing I’ve tried in the Sound settings fixes it, so I have to turn GW2 all the way down in the volume mixer since I can’t restart GW2 because the queue.

So please, PLEASE, give WvW a grace period. Two minutes. Something. Anything. Every time I get DC’d after waiting to get in I just want to punch a kitten.

Edit: I’d also like to add that I only have this issue in WvW. I never CTD otherwise.

I’m playing on an XFX 5780, a 3GHz i7, 12gb DDR3. I have no overheating problems and my physical drive is fine.

JQ also experienced the login server issue. I was on TS with the server and all of a sudden, everyone was DC’d. We all worked to get in as soon as possible to protect Garrison.

Also, for those wondering: I play on JQ in WvW from 12am CST to 5am CST. We don’t have an Oceanic presence as much as we have a lot of dedicated players who stay up way too late to make sure we are good to go for the AM crew. We hurt on presence and organization most during off peak hours, but we do what we can with what we have. We have commanders that take up leads at specific times in specific BGs and we ask everyone participate in TS. We coordinate pushes, siege, and respond to defenses quickly. We usually have 1-2 big commander groups coordinating efforts across the whole map.

After HoD/SBI, JQ has really put forth an effort to coordinate and get everyone on the same page. Otherwise we are just a high population server without organization. I love the JQ server community — it is pretty laid back and friendly. I’m happy to see us trying to organize and work together more.

So during the quest “The Queen’s Justice,” you are suppose to fight a Seraph commnder and his army of Risen. Except as soon as the quest begins, your NPCs die and the mobs aggro on you. Worse, the game replaces ALL of your weapon skills.

So while I am kiting around a tiny room with Risen on me (that Frenzy and run much faster than I can kite, and did I mention chain KDs?), I am trying to read what my new skills do.

I hope to god this isn’t intentional, because it sucks. How is this “fun”?

http://i.imgur.com/XOnc2.jpg

I ended up pulling them bits at a time and using only 3 of the skills.

Can this be fixed so at the VERY LEAST, the NPCs are useful? I’m so tired of NPCs in my personal story quests. Most of them just make things that much more difficult for me and die off in the process. The only purpose they serve is getting me killed or downed over and over again.

Since the build on the 14th, I can’t see effects like the Asura gates, ground targets such as my own Lava Font, or water. It also isn’t loading enemy players well, so I can’t see if I am running into a non-friendly area.

Screenshots:
http://i.imgur.com/lSHxC.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/vRBt2.jpg

I’ve tried doing a full client restart, tweaking the settings, etc. but nothing is working.