Guild Wars 2

While playing pvp, my party and I all got kicked from the game and got the message of Network Error (Code=1083:5:7:1618:101). Help?

No one even mentioned the poor mesmer =/ the only form of swiftness for a mesmer is if you equip a focus in your off hand, gives about 13 seconds of swiftness and has a 20-25 second cool down. Besides that the only gap closing skill is blink with a 30 second cool down and range of 900-1200. I mean sure it does have some stealth and clones, but those skills take up slots, you want more stealth, good bye condi clearing. It all has a trade off, but all in all, good luck to a mesmer who’s trying to run away!

It seems the state of WvW has been in question since the big let down of Season 1. Everyone has their own idea of what WvW should be like, and I’d like to share some of my ideas. I’m hoping some people will see merit in my ideas and share why, as well as the reasons why you might disagree. Please keep the discussion on track, and try to add something to the discussion

Who am I, and what experience in WvW do I have?

Coverage seems to be one of the biggest issues in WvW currently. And I have a few suggestions on how this factor could be minimized.

• 1) Increased height of walls for towers and keeps. The fact that siege on top of walls can be destroyed from the ground by players is ridiculous to me. If a player can’t safely sit atop a wall and rain down on enemies below with siege, how can they effectively defend when greatly outmanned? There needs to be some way to prevent a player from being able to aoe the top of a wall from the ground to take out the defensive siege. If the attackers had to build their own ac to take out the siege on the walls, I feel like that would be more fair.

• 2) Make upgraded gates immune to players attacks. It’s a little ridiculous that a zerg can and will beat down an upgraded gate with their fists once their rams have been destroyed from the defense. This would help the defenders to hold down their hard earned T3 tower.

This last point I’ll break down into a few parts because it is a little lengthy.

• 3) Break the maps up into zones, where if your server owns a camp/tower/keep/castle, then you would hold claim to the specific zone encompassing it.

• 4) If you die in a zone owned by your server, then you would be able to be rez’d just like normal. However, if you die in a zone not held by your server, you would not be able to be rez’d, and would have to wait until your server took control of the zone, or you wp back to spawn. This would also help with defense when greatly outnumbered. Now say you die during the assault of a tower/keep but your server ends up being successful and takes control of it. Well now you’d be dead in a zone owned by your server, and could be rez’d like normal.

• 5) While in your zone, gain different defensive bonuses, say increased movement speed, or a little bump in your stats to help defend your zone against invaders. Once you step out of a claimed zone, and into enemy territory, you lose those little buffs, but gain something new like increased MF/karma/xp/GF. This would encourage players to leave their zones to go on the offensive, but it definitely wouldn’t be easy.

These are just some of my rough thoughts and I hope to get feedback from other players to help refine them. I’d love to answer questions or discuss foreseeable problems. Bump if you agree and lets get some new thoughtful ideas generated, in hopes that Anet will take a look(=

We’re trying to keep things under control during the night. FSP is moving up and we’re starting to get a lot of pressure. Most nights we’ve got the outmanned buff, but hopefully with more strong players we’ll be able to take more and more head on!

Hell On Wheelz, a WvW focused guild, is looking for more experienced players to join our ranks! We play around the clock, but are currently trying to boost our Pacific/Aussie/Asian times. Because we have fewer members online during those times, we will be looking for commanders to help pull together new members during our “off” hours. Even though we are WvW focused and like to spend most of our time running organized guild groups; we still do our fair share of PvE content to keep things fresh.

Feel free to mail an admin of the guild below to join or for more info. I will also be checking this post daily to answer any questions.

Guild Leaders:
RAIN.1238
torri.9267
Vice Leader:
Ravenclaw.6352

Hell On Wheelz, a WvW focused guild, is looking for more experienced players to join our ranks! We play around the clock, but are currently trying to boost our Pacific/Aussie/Asian times. Because we have fewer members online during those times, we will be looking for commanders to help pull together new members during our “off” hours. Even though we are WvW focused and like to spend most of our time running organized guild groups; we still do our fair share of PvE content to keep things fresh.

Feel free to mail an admin of the guild below to join or for more info. I will also be checking this post daily to answer any questions.

Guild Leaders:
RAIN.1238
torri.9267
Vice Leader:
Ravenclaw.6352

I think it’d be awesome to open up a voting system. Instead of teams just bull heading through to the next patch and then having players moan and groan about it, slow down the releases, give us some options, and let us vote. Involving the community more, and releasing more relevant game content. Maybe even set up a cycle, where players vote on which area of the game they would like to be a priority for a certain amount of time. That area of the game then gets centered in patches and updates. Once that cycle is done, open voting up again and let us help decide the next area of focus.

I hate soulbound items, especially since I have multiple toons and enjoy working out new builds. These new builds require different items, and once I use something on one toon it’s stuck or worthless. I either fill my bank with items I have no use for, or salvage them for near nothing.

I get a new set of armor for a build I want to try out, but decide I don’t like it. So I decide to stash it in the bank because I don’t want to throw away the 30+ gold I just spent on it. I level a new toon and realize I could use some of that armor on this new toon. Oh wait I can’t, because it’s souldbound to another toon. So now I have to buy the identical item I already have but can’t use.

I understand that without soulbound items, that they would slowly lose gold value because there would be a much larger supply. It just sucks to have to buy things you already own and don’t use, in order to complete another toon.

I definitely get lag in WvW no doubt. Open world events once in a while. But lately I’ve been getting a lot of lag issues everywhere, even while standing in LA salvaging stuff in my inventory. Game crashes have been another problem as of late. My FPS however is fine until a lag problem occurs and then the game really bogs down.

Ya I read that one when it was posted, but it seems things are getting worse, or possibly my patience is just diminishing.

Know what I would love to see in this game? An event without lag, or a WvW fight with half the lag. It’s ridiculous that after a year, players are still suffering from the horrible non-stop lag. I could care less about new content when I can’t even bear the lag that seems never ending. Sure sometimes it is a persons system that causes the lag, but if you need a top of the line system to even play the game on low graphics, not many are going to stick around.

It’d just be nice to see some major updates to optimize the game so people can play the game without the constant lag and performance issues. Especially in WvW, where I believe it is the worst.

Update:
We’re still looking for active players to join us in WvW. We’re going against some really strong servers, and could definitely use the help! Gandara and Aurora Glade have great coverage during NA Prime; each usually fielding 20-30 players at a time. During Guild OPS we run with 15 members. Even with the smaller numbers we are still able to put up a hard enough fight for them to pull in a zerg to take care of us. If you are interested in coming over from another server or if you’re already on FSP, just let me know if you would like to join us(=

iorlas.6721:

RAIN.1238:

I love when I check the map and UW holding down their BL! Keep up the hard work!

We are fighting hard we can just about manage to hold 2 towers and garrison but,it’s tuff with both servers hitting us at the same time with so many.It’s been fun even tho we are lacking numbers…we will fight on.

Edit: i spoke too soon the other servers decided we becoming too much of a threat so zerg’d bigtime:)

With the come back FSP is trying to make, I’m sure that as long as its not green, it won’t be a primary target;) Just really glad to see you guys didn’t give up! I’ve been on servers that do, and nothing is more frustrating. Keep up the hard work though; UW will only get better from it!

I love when I check the map and UW holding down their BL! Keep up the hard work!

jonwar.4186:

Ironvos.9014:

All you SE people have done in this thread so far is trolling , complaining and provoking.
Give it a rest before you turn your guild into the laughing stock of everyone, you’re not far off already.

Your server has called several members of SE scrubs and we’re not supposed to react. Your server has attacked us for being americans and we’re not supposed to react.
your server wont fight unless they have a numbers advantage
your servers “roamers” seem to have alt 4 hotkeyed for the first sign of crisis.

soundaboutright?

Genev.2450:

There is no reason to be cuddlysweet to a zerg guild who came to EU because they want to get rewarded for killing doors and take the easy way out. You say you can fill up an entire BL by yourself, why aren’t you doing that in gold league or NA?

the move wasnt intended or planned out. some players from our guild came over to see what it was like on an EU server. Less/no lag (at the time, not so much the case now) was an inviting factor for myself and a few others but then alot more members started transferring, Oh, by the way, more than half our guild is still on isle of janthir and havent been able to transfer with us. Isle of janthir is NA silver league, fort ranik is EU silver league, so whats the difference between us being here and being on an NA silver league server? We OR your server couldnt compete in gold league, I dont think you understand the sheer numbers tier 1 gold league servers can send out.

So once again I’ll just assume far shiverpeaks is a bit upset because they thought this first week was going to be a walk in the park but oh noes, those big bad americans from SE are just night capping everything. Dont worry, we’re looking forward to fighting a real server too.

lmao, you guys ran from IoJ because you lost your oceanic coverage over there. Not to mention when you guys first transferred over to IoJ from Darkhaven, IoJ was supposed to be strong contenders for the silver league. Then it got split into 3 leagues, and you guys were put in the bottom of silver. Next you started losing oceanic guilds and jumped ship. You had the chance to fight a “real server” many in fact, but you guys ran lmao. But as for being here just to farm WvW, you couldn’t do a better job. Your PvD skills are amazing we’ll give you that, glad you’re having fun(=

No, we don’t have that many members, just a tight knit group looking to have some fun. Not to mention the server community here is awesome(;

We had plenty of fights last night. We actually had the outnumbered buff last night in our own BL because a much larger NA guild just transferred over to Fort Ranik. There will be plenty of fights to be had against them, and the late night EU players. Currently we field between 10-15 players at a time, so there is plenty of room for growth;)

Hell On Wheelz [TanK] is loving our time here on Far Shverpeaks in WvW. We are an NA guild that focuses on the WvW aspect of GW2 and currently looking for players that want more out of their time spent in it. Our tactics come from a range of servers and guilds, each of which had their own way to win. We enjoy tearing things up in WvW every way possible whether in offense or defense. However, we’ll take on a zerg over a door any day!

• +18
  Things can get a little rowdy when you’re having fun;)
• Maturity/Respect
  People do get offended, but we can’t let that affect our performance. Be respectful and don’t wear your feelings on your sleeves. This helps us keep the drama out of the guild
• TeamSpeak 3
  TeamSpeak is not required, however, it is strongly recommended. Voice comm’s help us achieve better coordination and efficiency
• Guild Ops/Representation
  We run WvW as a guild nightly during NA Prime Time. Usually starting at 8pm EST and continuing 2-4 hours. During Guild Ops all online members are expected to be in WvW with us, as well as representing. We also ask that our members represent whenever they are in WvW, and to group up with other members.
• Classes/Builds
  We do run specialized builds during Guild Ops, and will ask for certain builds for different classes. This may mean getting new gear, and playing a different role than you are used to. Don’t worry though, there are plenty of builds to allow you to play the roll you enjoy; for the most part… Sorry rifle warriors! ;D

[TanK] is a great guild for players looking for a place to learn the intense fun side of WvW and to get away from the “pug” blobs. To join, or if you have any questions, please mail Rainin Ash or Torry The Healer in game. We’re also willing to help interested players on other servers with the transfer.

Formerly known as Asylum Elites [FURY] from Darkhaven; Hell On Wheelz [TanK] is looking forward to joining FSP in WvW. We are a NA guild that is focused on WvW, and will be looking for other NA players interested in guild meta builds and open field fighting. We learned the strategies we run from a range of server ranks; including current;y ranked #1 JQ & #4 TC. Just let me know in game anytime if you are interested in joining, or working with us. Would love to see other NA players transfer over to join us as well as current player on the server. Thanks FSP for having us(=

I would like to discuss more about Piken, could someone mail me in game? I’m guild leader of a NA guild, and we’re on the fence about transferring. Mail me and lets talk!

Darkhaven is pulling together like never before. Already small tight guilds are gaining influence in WvW, they not only work together, but also show a great deal of respect to each other.

Darkhaven has an amazing community, one that is willing to learn and grow. However, it takes patience and hard work to make change. No other server provides the opportunity to build and strengthen a guild in WvW. If your guild is looking for a server to regroup and refocus, Darkhaven is the place to do it.

If you have any questions/comments about our server, please feel free to PM/Mail me @ Rainin Ash

I enjoy the fights against FC before they call in their entire server to deal with our one group that can’t even pop orange swords. Haven’t really had the chance to take on NSP, but look forward to it!

I’m on Darkhaven, and this week we haven’t been able to stand going into AR BL’s longer than to karma train a few things. The lag there is unbearable, doesn’t matter the zerg size, and it is the only map I consistently get kicked from. I normally wouldn’t complain about this, except it’s not just me that it happens to.

Sorry GoM, we would go hit AR, but the map wide lag there is unbearable. So we’re not trying to just focus GoM, we just can’t do anything in AR BL without lagging nonstop until we eventually dc.

I don’t know if I’m the only one who feels this way, but WvW is the only End Game to GW2. So why does it get the least attention? You really think I care about a new skin for my back piece? Or a one time boss fight? I’m getting tired of seeing all these updates that make PvE “better”. “better” as in grind this content for two weeks before it is gone and replaced by the next two week farm. Why not put some actual thought into WvW, which players gear for, and build guilds around.

Leagues might have been a step in the right direction, until they up the server populations, and only announce two leagues for NA. You really think 2 leagues will be balanced and competitive? 4th ranked TC, cant even compete with any of the top 3. But, you expect 12th ranked servers to have a chance? lmao, you guys really pride yourselves on thinking these things out?

[FURY] is back;) I learned what I was hoping to on my visit to Tarnished Coast. [RE] was able to teach me a lot and I was even able to participate on their GvG team, was a blast!

So now that these bigger WvW guilds are gone, there is plenty of room for the smaller ones to step up and strengthen their ranks. I’m missing [SE], but [Abys] not at all. It was extremely hard to try and build a strong WvW guild with [Abys] constantly picking at members trying to get them to join, including myself. The funny part is how [Abyss] complained about everyone on DH expecting them to take care of all the WvW. Well, wtf did you guys expect after recruiting all the WvW players you could?

But anyways, I feel DH is far better off without the guilds. Sure it may take some time to get back on our feet, but we’ll come back stronger.

-Rainin Ash
Asylum Elites [FURY] is looking for active WvW players looking for more than a senseless zerg. Focusing on open field fighting and zerg busting. GvG in the works. PM/Mail if interested.

I’m not 100% sure the que is broken. It seems however, that it is. I’m tired of sitting in a que for an hour or more, then listen to people getting in after only waiting 10 minutes. Shouldn’t the person who’s been waiting longest get first priority to enter a map? Like I said, I’m not positive it is broken or not working as intended, just getting a little frustrated with it.

Alright, not sure how this works out, but SBI is on some crazy stuff tonight. First I was defending Aldons, as SBI ranger pets rushed in through a full gate. Next is how they magically appeared on the 3rd floor of SM, without there being any openings at SM inner. I saw the warrior first, and thought it a little strange, I followed him to the main floor where I found an entire zerg. That group got wiped, and I ran back to the third floor of SM, and guess what I found… SBI running from third floor down to the lord again! Only this time, there were a lot more magically dropping from the ceiling. Not sure how SBI did it, but I know they didn’t come in through any gates. Who knows maybe they have some special flying shoes.

It bugs before she even gets inside. Once you get to the top of the jumping puzzle and kill the NPC’s it bugs out. She stops moving, and the walls keeping us out of the room stay up.

Lifewaster.5912:

RAIN.1238:

I would love to use a pistol against them, which is what I do in PvP, but in WvW I find it almost necessary to use a focus instead.

Again, thanks everyone! I’ll keep checking up on this for new tips and such that could help me out.

Get a set of superior runes of the centaur, then use mirror heal to buff aoe swiftness every 15 sec. This is very useful in wvw as you can also buff allies and yaks.

Rather then gut your current gear set, you can buy a spare set of armor from the exotic temple karma vendors in orr, then try it out. I recommend getting a set of power/toughness/vit just to have both a glass cannon and a bunker armor set so you can swap depending on situations.

Thank you Lifewaster! I don’t know why I never thought of this, but finally no more focus!

I really appreciate all the comments here, I guess it will just take more practice for me to become better at fighting them. Perhaps the biggest problem I have with them is that once I realize what they are, I just rage and my timings get all thrown off. I would love to use a pistol against them, which is what I do in PvP, but in WvW I find it almost necessary to use a focus instead. Without the focus I have no speed buff whatsoever. My 2nd problem may be that I don’t use much as far as conditions, besides the bleeds my phantasms inflict or the small amounts of confusion I stack on them, I don’t really focus on getting enough to actually balance the fight out. I just don’t want to change up my build too much and make it less effective against other classes that I handle with relative ease currently. There are a few things I will change up and try out, and if at the end of the day they’re still the only thing that tears me up, so be it. I guess 7 out of 8 is pretty good.

Again, thanks everyone! I’ll keep checking up on this for new tips and such that could help me out.

echo.2053:

So many activities its blowing my mind.

<3 ya gom

I see me! ;D … well 3 of me, 2 clones and then my tag.
That was a pretty fun fight; actually there were a lot of fun fights tonight. Keep it up DH!

Spets the MilkBandit.9031:

RAIN.1238:

Was it worth it though? Take SM, we take your keeps. Well done Rina and SE for the work done on NSP’s BL keeps.

Keep up the good work DH!

was a good move on DH part, but the keeps were nearly paper afiak, tier 3 sm, with full supply. reset,well worth it. considering we took the keeps back almost immediately.
Knowing how GoM love SM, it will give them something to do for the time being.

Not sure if you noticed, but we did have the outmanned buff on both maps.

It was smooth of you guys and well played, definitely caught us off guard. But it didn’t do much, as soon as you came back for your keeps we took SM back. Accomplished slowing us down though. Wasn’t trying to bash or anything, it’s all for fun after all.

Was it worth it though? Take SM, we take your keeps. Well done Rina and SE for the work done on NSP’s BL keeps.

Keep up the good work DH!

Nice one NSP. Feel proud about that one.

I think free transfers would be fine, just make the time between transfers a month or so. Then even if guilds decided to move servers, they would be stuck on that server for at least 4 matchups.

It’s not something huge or game breaking. It just annoys me, especially when you’re trying to mass golems or something for a quick cap. But no I’m not that worried about it. It’s just something to deal with, and work around. Thanks for the replies tho.

I feel that once a player dies they have a set amount of time to pick a wp to spawn at once the fighting around them is done. If they don’t pick one in the given time, and are not being resurrected or anything, I think they should spawn back at that borderlands wp. This way people can’t stay dead and spy on everything going on around them. Either that, or once they die make the screen go to their map, where they can choose a wp, and their chat box. This way they would be able to talk to people to get a res, or just lay there and do nothing. But they would not be able to lay there and spy on the area for who knows how long.

Idk about you guys, but I’m not even getting error messages. My game just freezes, and I have to quit the program and restart it. I’m not able to get anything done, about the time I get across EB, it freezes and I have to start all over again.

3 times now since I posted. This isn’t even laughable anymore. And a lot on DH are, I’m trying to command there, and about 5-10 people say something about it periodically, usually every 10-15 minutes

Since the patch WvW is nearly unbearable. Besides the siege bs and skill lag, my game continues to freeze without any error messages or anything. It’s almost impossible to get anything done, and I keep missing out on loads of XP because of it. Think there will be a day when an update means more than a week of fixing everything it messed up?

Maybe I’m just to used to SCII’s ranking system which is pretty boss IMO. But either way, the PvP leaderboards need some work. It’s kind of sad that it’s the best they came up with, and even more so, their pride in them.

I will miss this match up, it’s been a good eye opener for DH especially. It’s shown us we can’t just faceroll through everything, and even though people still think it’s the only solution, it’s made a lot of the commanders wake up and start using some strategy. It sucks that Anet messed up so big on the patch, which single handedly destroyed any accurate positioning for the 3 servers. I do feel that all 3 servers have strengthened in WvW from this match up, and even though it has been pretty ugly, we definitely should be able to show next weeks servers that we know what’s up.

Perhaps I was 26th because I never really cared about my rating, and just messed around winning some and losing some. Since I started caring however, I’ve jumed to 34% with under 10 games played. About half of which were pug groups. It’s kind of hard to determine how good a person is when all that matters from the look of things is whether your team wins or loses. One player can’t carry a team, and it seems the case sometimes. Especially with akitten players in almost every match.

I’ve crashed about 3-4 times, and it gets really hard to command when the game crashes at key points.

DH is having similar issues in EB, we haven’t been able to drop siege either. It’s been getting very annoying, especially when you can’t even put out an ac to defend a tower.

Idk, I guess, but they could at least show us our ratings and what we’re up against. And when our rating is based off a team, it’s really hard to be accurate, that guy with 13 wins could have easily been carried those 13 games, and be no better or worse than someone in the 50 percentile.

So after looking over the leaderboards, and reading through quite a few posts, it seems that the PvP ranking system is worthless. I thought it would be a good challenge to try and work on my rank now that I’ve grown a liking to tPvP. I looked at the leaderboards and saw that I was in the 26%, which is pretty low. I don’t think I’m that bad, and am going to work kitten improving it. I then saw a guy ranked 7th on the leaderboards, with 13 wins. it might just be me, but I don’t feel that 13 wins is enough to put you in 7th place.

That being said, I would like to at least like to see a definite explanation of the rating system to show that it’s calculations are what I think a rating should be. Otherwise, they need to be reworked to reflect actual player skill, and not just lucky match wins.

This is just a very brief over view of our guild. Please visit the website for more!

Home World: Darkhaven
Guild Name: Asylum Elites [FURY]
Guild Website: http://www.asylumelites.com/
In-Game Contact: Rainin Ash
Focus: WvW/PvP (PvE in between)
Quick Notes: A newly formed guild looking to expand our influence in WvW and the Darkhaven community. Players of all levels welcome, will consider guild merges.

Home World: Darkhaven
Guild Name: Asylum Elites [FURY]
Guild Website: http://www.asylumelites.com/
In-Game Contact: Rainin Ash
Focus: WvW/PvP (PvE in between)
Quick Notes: A newly formed guild looking to expand our influence in WvW and the Darkhaven community. Players of all levels welcome, will consider guild merges.