Guild Wars 2

Normal jumping is harder than Zephyrite jumping.

Zephyrite jumping does all the work for you…

You think this is hard? I can only wonder at the many brilliant games (both PC and console) that you’ve missed out on simply because you’d give up at the first hurdle or puzzle.

Stop whining about challenge, tackle it for accomplishment and self improvement.

WvW is for attacking/defending structures, and killing intelligent enemies.

PvE is for farming, and killing brain dead AI.

And you cannot argue otherwise.

As soon as you try to say WvW is not for killing players, your post is void.

As soon as you say EOTM was created for Queensdale 2.0, your post is void.

On topic:
This map needs to be disabled until they remove badges from the rewards and significantly reduce the rest of the rewards.

The map chat is even worse than Queensdale, and this map has not even served its original purpose, which was to alleviate queues (4 map queues no longer exist on ANY server) and to test new content (new content in WvW? Lol)

Arah isn’t even hard.

It is definitely daunting at first, but it is essentially just like every other dungeon, stack + DPS. Just a couple of extra mechanics compared to the other dungeons, which are simple to learn.

Buying a free ride without bothering to do the dungeon even once, is just pathetic.

Mega Messiah.1734:

Hybarf Tics.2048:

Soule one listen to this and miss your GW music already. Why the step back backwards musically Anet. Surely Soule doesn’t cost more than an entire orchestra.
Come to think of it living story in general is a step back from Soule.

All of Soule’s new music sounds exactly the same and I’m glad he’s gone. So many medleys in GW2 just recycled from Skyrim. That and the guy’s an awful human being, comparing musical piracy to the Holocaust. What a charmer.

As to the OP’s point: "Bro, I want a wikkid mature story with blud and violence and lawts of dying. GW1 totes didn’t have a bad story! Just look at Togo! What a likable, well voice-acted character, or Shiro, who’s motives of anger and revenge would totally
last hundreds of years because that’s not trite!

Oh man, Kormir accidentally awakens an ancient god? What a klutz, lol XD! And a koooooky undead ruler who we make an allegiance with and keep alive because why not? Makes total sense. Forget the long term, as long as Abaddon dies, I’m sure Palawa Joko won’t do anything bad!

And the Lich. Makes absolute sense for someone to sink an entire continent when they’re invaded and then want to destroy the world. Throw in an ancient scepter? Deal, now we’re dealing with a big baddie who needs an ancient weapon to summon an unstoppable force and, even though his plans ACTUALLY succeed, we stop him anyways cuz we’re just so awesome? Radical!"

You tried your hardest to conjure an illusion that GW1’s story is worse than GW2, but in actual fact, even with the way you wrote it, it is still sounds better. Lol!

Let me try what you did, except with GW2:

Dungeon Story/Destiny’s Edge:
I’ve met 5 People of deliberately clashing cliche personalities! And 1 of each playable race! I don’t actually know them, or really interact with them, but here I am, around them, listening to their poorly scripted conversations about literally nothing except pointless schoolyard drama. What is the point of all this? Kiss and make up?

Personal Story:
I’m a super baddie boy adventurdur, I eliminate hordes of enemies and even Demi god power crazy weirdo’s without any help, cause I got the yolo swagger. Oh looky I’m being introduced to 3 people with deliberately clashing cliche personalities who represent 3 cliche groups of strength, magic and stealth.

I ended up in one of these groups! They didn’t even supply me with a set of armour to fit in with their troops, wtf? Now I’ve risen from the rank of grunt, to lord super commander general person in a few missions. Still no armour to represent my new family. Wait you want me to pay for it? Cheapos.

Oh here is Destiny’s Cliche, oh look, more pointless drama. Yap yap yap, let me continue the bad story which has no real point.

Today I found out we are to fight against a dragon. Whatever I look fabulous, I’ll solo him.

Ok Trahearne, this is my story, wtf are you doing, stop stealing my lime light, I just solo’d hordes of enemies without any help, why are you taking all the credit? Go away.

We’ve successfully convinced the 3 cliche groups to join together, and have their clashing cliche personality leaders not argue pointlessly any more. Zombies zombies. Kill some more zombies. Some random pointless stuff along the way.

Ok so this dragon dude is meant to be ultra powerful, he had the power to raise an entire continent, and command undead. He’s bad to the bone baby. I’ma solo him in a grand fashion, this will be a battle for the ages. Do I look good in my armour? I’m sparkling, I’m sexy.

Trahearne! Go do that magic thing to cleanse Orr, which never actually cleanses Orr, let alone anything.

I swing my sword, did some stuffs, oh hello Zhaitan, LETS FIGHT!

Er, Zhaitan, you didn’t do anything? You just fell over and didn’t do anything awesome. Well that was sad. What were you meant to be doing again Zhaitan? This story was so terrible I forgot if you even had a purpose.

Living Story:
Dragons exist, they are affecting Tyria, but you know, whatever, lets have parties and elections and praise queen Jenna and stuff.

Some sylvari pops up outa no where? Ok. Oh she somehow magically went invulnerable and teleported away in a cutscene again after talking. I tried to swing my sword, but I just stood there, mesmerized by her terrible scripting, and didn’t kill her. kitten it.

Sylvari psycho convinces the hostile inhabitants of Tyria to join up in pairs, slowly but surely. Like a buddy system for children.

THERE SHE IS! ILL KILL HER! Wait, wtf, I’m stuck in a cutscene again? kitten her bad script, it is so bad I am mesmerized and stuck in place, unable to move to kill her. Oh kitten she teleported away again somehow.

By the way? What is the point of all this? She has no point? Oh ok. We’ll just continue to ignore the real threat, have some more parties and stuff.

@JSKI

The OP is making assumptions about season 2’s story/scripts based on the precedent set in season 1, and personal story.

And here you are people are, defending the story and script writing of season 2, based on literally nothing.

I’m not saying the OP’s assumption holds much merit, but it certainly holds more than yours, aka nothing.

The ones telling you to buy a legendary out right from the TP, are the people who are flipping them, causing the ridiculous prices.

Make it yourself, you’ll have left over money.

It is intended to do half in WvW.

The AI in PvE attack very slowly, where as in WvW players execute actions much faster.

The damage is adjusted to compensate.

2 years and one crap game mode.

This game is thriving.

Gem store profits > Content > Competitive modes

EOTM doesn’t give any points to real WvW.

So it shouldn’t give loot either.

Remove the loot and watch the map die. Proof that it needs to be turned into a real map, or deleted.

The real question is…. how big would glints baby be now after 250 years?

The below picture is what it looked like in GW1. The other creatures there are dwarves.

Picture is from GW1 wiki, might go grab my own soon.

Anyway, I don’t think it is inside a ship.

I don’t want to be the one to say this……. but I think the team behind GW2 Living Story never even played GW1 or read into GW1 lore.

Yea they finally went to one of the dragons (after being told to thousands of times), but stuff like this is less obvious stuff I don’t see the new recruits knowing about.

Of course, if they prove me wrong I will take back every word in this post, and may even give a written apology?

Everything in that first post are things I’d like to know.

EdwinLi.1284:

I remember there was originally going to be a end story for Elona as well for GW1 but they scrapt it for some reason.

The only conclusion I can come to is, this must of been the point where they decided to scrap Cantha and Elona ever being in GW2, so didn’t bother wasting time doing Elona.

The best song to fight Liadri to (doing 8 orbs), start it one minute before entering the arena.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfd9krEsr-k#t=67

Scoundrel.2139:

There’s almost no point in going for 8 orb for me. :/
Live in Aus, so the lag means I have no idea if I’m one or three seconds away from the Visions.

How many MMOs don’t have an Oceanic server?

I live in Australia too, and I got the 8 orbs last year when the event was harder, took me 100 goes lol. Enjoyed every attempt. Keep at it, you’ll get it. Doing 8 orbs on Australian internet = hard mode, Americans and Europeans have it easy!

I assume you two typo’d and meant to say 2013.

Serophous.9085:

CC Danicia.1394:

You never know where you might find cool things. http://guildwars2.tumblr.com/

Sigh….

“Wanna see new pics? Head to tumblr!”
“Want some different news or sales? Head to facebook!”
“Wanna see our new vids? Go to youtube!”
“Don’t forget to Like, subscribe, fav, retweet, hashtag…SOCIAL MEDIAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!”

You have a webpage…you can post everything in one spot to help your players. Please, don’t make me jump around everywhere on the internet (Or i’ll just go to dulfy since it’ll be done for me there >:P)

Agreed.

I think it’s pathetic that businesses buy into the new trends to be “cool”, whilst they are actually failing to reach their audience by spreading information across different websites (requiring different log ins/account information).

If they posted ALL information in ALL of these mediums, it wouldn’t be a problem, but when you’re asking people to visit 6 websites for 6 different posts you’re doing it wrong.
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@Arena Net.

I have a Facebook account. I don’t “like” your Guild Wars 2 page. I will never “like” your Guild Wars 2 page, because that isn’t what I use Facebook for. I use it to talk to friends, not for businesses to spam junk at me.

I have a YouTube account. I am not subscribed to your Guild Wars 2 channel. I will never be subscribed to your Guild Wars 2 channel. The only businesses I am subscribed to are record labels for metal bands. I will never be subscribed to other businesses.

I don’t have a twitter account. I will never have a twitter account. I’m certainly not going to make a twitter account just for GW2 posts.

I don’t have a tumbler account. I will never have a tumbler account. I’m certainly not going to make a tumbler account just for GW2 posts.

If you want to reach YOUR target audience, then make sure there are posts on YOUR WEBSITE.

You’re all wrong.

The Zephyrites blew up their own airship. Who would ever suspect them? Now they can point the finger at whoever they want to create mistrust and distractions. Likely targets are the D.E2 and Captains Council.

The Zephyrites are seeking the take over LA for themselves, and feed the bodies of the Krytans to Mordremoth to gain the dragons favour.

Wanderer.3248:

People running around squawking that the sky is falling is kind-of self prophetic anyway. WvW numbers are very dependent on morale. When people lose, they quit.

When map chat is full of emos complaining about low turnouts, what happens? More people leave!

You forgot the main one: when nothing is changed/improved/added/fixed, people quit.

Liberis.9573:

How can I permanently block this map from my queue?

Gotta uninstall the game and break the discs, and to make sure you can’t download it, block all ANet associated IP’s, then change the p-word on your router/modem/firewall while you are blackout drunk so you can hopefully never undo the change.

Edit: first world filter problems

Sounds like your control key was stuck down.

- So clicking bandage would spam in chat
- Clicking waypoint would close the map and try to ping the waypoint in chat
- Names of NPC will show up if you don’t have the names always enabled
- Ctrl + Esc minimizes things the same as the windows key.

Best way to fix it as it happens is to press/whack the key again and it’ll stop being held down.

Take the key off and clean around the area with a damp cloth, since it’s probably sticky from food/drink/hair that’s accumulated down there.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

I could do PvP if I wanted to fight other players, but I do not enjoy short matches and capturing points. I enjoy the strategy and time involved in WvW and skirmishes in the open field, but because so many people would rather run it becomes a bit frustrating. If people are so concerned with the consequences of dying in WvW they might want to try another aspect of the game… Because it’s ruining it for those of us who enjoy fighting other players. And if you want to tell me we’re ruining it for those of you who DON’T enjoy fighting other players, well… Lol, go back to carebear land.

You sound like you main thief or PU Mesmer. If that is the case, you only have yourself to blame.

Play a class that doesn’t have unlimited get out of jail free cards, and you’ll find that more people want to fight you.

Most people aren’t interested in fighting someone who’s hiding behind an uncounterable gimmick mechanic.

Throw the crutches in the bin and see how skilled you really are.

How come skyhammer is the only map that can roll 3-8 times in a row?

Even when it doesn’t roll consecutively its almost every second queue.

So sick of seeing this joke of a map in solo q.

When I want to play Soul Calibur I go play my PS3, that game is designed and balanced around “ring outs”.

GW2 PvP is balanced around capture points, not ring outs.

Remove this garbage from solo q, and give us GvG.

Simple: because I have no respect for people running low risk builds/classes, in any game.

Why do I /laugh @ and then walk away sometimes?
- Because the noob is using perplexity runes
- Because it’s a PU Mesmer
- Because 40% condition food on condition spam perplexity engineer
- Because it’s an apothecary shadow arts perplexity thief, aka god mode.

If some noob is going to use some easy mode set up playing the simplest combat option in the game (conditions) then I’d rather upset them by taking away their toy.

In the mean time, I’ll look for someone who isn’t running one of those above 4 noob set ups. I’ll look for a good player, or a player who wants to improve at playing with high risk builds.

Also, I love the irony of a person playing a thief or PU Mesmer and then crying because other people disengaged, it cracks me up every time.

I have no issue with solo zerker thieves, since I can down the predictable ones in less than 10 seconds, and the good ones provide a challenging fight win or lose.

Example (if you’re guardian):
Slot 1: Some Staff
Slot 2: Eternity

Have the staff drawn (attack with it), then open your inventory, and equip your hammer. You’ll have the hammer equipped with Eternity’s aura showing. If you swap back to staff now or any other weapon, aura will still be showing.

(continuing on from above) To see if Eternity can stack on itself, you now need to enter and leave a transformation a few times (tonic).
____________
So leave Eternity on weapon swap but never visible in your hands. Once you’re done with the above you can weapon switch to it and fight, but when you weapon switch again it will be lost and you need to start again.

Multiple stacking:
Definitely doesn’t work with: Sunrise, Bolt
Definitely works with: Predator, Howler, Moot

A moderator moved a message you posted to the forum ‘Players Helping Players’ with the reason:

“Hi, we’ll move the thread “Stacking Asuras?” to the appropriate sub forum: players helping players.”

Asuras? Well ok then.

2 of my legendaries I can stack on top of itself 40+ times, the other 2 I can’t.

As for the normal stacking, just swap weapons from inventory while you have a weapon drawn.

dagrdagaz.4913:

@Realist…hmm..since u recommend Ranger, i now have to say that imho that is the worst GW1 class to play.
Becos, if i remember the argument, anyting a Ranger can do another GW1 class can do it better.

@OP, dont worry about the Sunspear thing.
If u start playing the Nightfall campaign u automatically progress the Sunspear title track/rank. With a high enough Sunspear rank u can use Sunspear skills!

Well for starters I never said the words “the best”, I said versatile and fun. Versatile meaning you can do so many different roles with a ranger. And none of them being weak.

Also, you’re confusing that statement with GW2 rangers.

I got GWAMM on my ranger, and earned it unlike all the speed clear Assassins abusing Shadow Form. I had a tonne of fun playing Ranger.

Attempting to call rangers “the worst class” is quite funny though, any good player will rank them highly in every game mode.

Talking strictly about PvE here.

But if I’m being biased, Lightning Reflexes + Whirling defence + Throw Dirt automatically makes Ranger a better tank than any other profession for 95% of the game, without sacrificing DPS.

And while I’m continuing to be biased. Assassins are a burst DPS class, and somewhat squishy, and requires sacrifices to maintain energy if you want to sustain damage in fights. Ranger’s Expertise attribute combined with “Zealous” daggers allows them to continually chain low recharge dagger skills at no loss of energy, while double stance and throw dirt makes them basically immune to attacks. So the Ranger can easily sustain spammable high damage using daggers, while rarely taking damage, making them better than Assassins.

Rangers are pretty much equal to Mesmer’s at shutting down enemy AI with skills like Choking Gas, or combining Technobabble with a skill bar consisting of the 0.5 second bow attacks, while using Marksman’s Wager to sustain energy. It’s my PvE variation of the PvP Machinegunner build before it was nerfed (monks cried, all the build did was high pressure through fast hits and nothing more).

Ranger can also apply Burning, Bleeding and Poison in one single hit, and spread it to multiple enemies with Epidemic straight after that one hit. Kind of like a condition burst build.

Basically, ranger can fill just about any role necessary, and the only role it does poorly at is dedicated spell caster, for obvious reasons.

While I never really used Ranger heroes besides to muck around with Barrage/Pet builds for fun, a smart player using Ranger is irreplaceable.

Apparently Guild Halls and Guild vs Guild have no place in Guild Wars.

Roaming Solo Adventurer Dude and Dudette Wars 2.

Allaraina.8614:

Holy cow you are ALL BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE! THANK YOU!

Clarification: My character is on the Sunspear title track and is a ranger.

I mained ranger in GW1, I personally found it to be the most fun and versatile class, I just wish the GW2 version could even compare to it.

As you progress in the game soon you will be able to swap your secondary profession at any time in an outpost. You will also unlock Assassin and Ritualist as a secondary class when you play through the Factions campaign.

The ranger attribute Expertise is what makes the ranger really enjoyable in my opinion, it allows you to create a ridiculously vast amount of builds with many different secondary classes.

“For each rank of Expertise, the Energy cost of all of your attacks, Rituals, touch skills and Ranger skills are decreased by 4%. Several skills, especially those related to Energy costs and skill recharge times, become more effective with higher Expertise.”

What this means is, you can use all of the below skills for a cheaper energy cost than what is listed.

A lot of Warrior and Paragon skills use adrenaline, 1 adrenaline is gained per hit. Expertise does not reduce this cost, only Energy cost.

• ALL Ranger skills
• ALL Touch skills from any profession. Sort the list by profession, as it lists some skills you can’t use, or very rarely get to use.
• ALL Ritual skills. Good for using Ritualist secondary to spirit spam.
• Assassin dagger attacks
• Dervish scythe attacks
• Warrior axe attacks
• Warrior sword attacks
• Warrior hammer attacks
• Paragon spear attacks

Use the link to the Expertise page to see how much energy the skills will cost at each level of Expertise.

No other class offers as much versatility and creativity than the ranger. I’d even go so far as to say that ranger is better at being an assassin and a warrior than those profession as a main.

These 2 skills you will almost always want on your skill bar:
- Lightning Reflexes. Block and attack speed.
- Throw Dirt. OP blind.

In a condition heavy zone, bring Antidote Signet.

Other than that, muck around with different skills and play styles and have fun!

My personal favourite for doing Hard Mode and Vanquishing is Ranger with Assassin Secondary.

These are a few famous builds to show how versatile a ranger can be:
Touch Ranger (Ranger/Necro)
Bunny Thumper (Ranger/Warrior (hammer))
Spirit Spammer (Ranger/Ritualist). The link is a general all profession build. As a ranger you would bring the first 4 skills shown, along with Summon Spirits and 3 other skills of your choosing.

Just in those 3 builds, there is an unblockable lifestealing caster, a pet/hammer build, and a minion build. And that’s not to mention a ranger can play with daggers and scythe’s and bows and interrupt builds, place traps, play as a tank, and use spirits etc!

25 pages and only silence from ANet.

(Danicia posted on page 15, but it was only to say “I’ve deleted posts” (standard))

What is good:
- Unlocking traits through in game activities. Hunting is always fun.

What is bad:
- Slower all over character progression.
- Need level 30 to equip ONE trait, LOL!
- Making Alt’s is now a chore.
- Low level traits locked inside high level zones.
- New players to the game are screwed.
- New players to the game are going to be bored by having nothing to customize.
- New players are learning the game slower, this is bad.
- New players and characters cannot participate in low level dungeons AT ALL.
- 100% map completion for every character LOL! I had 4 world completions from before this change, and even I think this is stupid.

^ All of this stuff has been echoed throughout the thread. ^

GG

If you play on an absolute skritt box PC in a high density area, then the model of things is invisible, but the names are still there.

It isn’t like the old culling where they were literally non existent at all.

@OP deal with playing on a wooden PC, or update it, those are your options.

((Editing as I go))

General skills to use and abuse:

• Blind is a hugely overpowered condition that will make almost every physical attacker completely useless. This link contains a list of all the ways to apply it.
• Daze is a condition that causes the targets spell to be interrupted when struck by a physical attack. Great against monks and other casters.

PvE only skills (you can use these, but not heroes):

• Pain Inverter will absolutely decimate any enemy that deals any AoE damage. Overpowered. Earned in Eye of the North.
• You Move Like A Dwarf. Instant knockdown. Overpowered. This is earned from Eye of the North.
• Save Yourselves! is a PvE skill that you can use as a warrior primary or secondary. Overpowered. Earned in the Factions campaign.
• If you are a caster, you can abuse Necrosis for huge spammable damage. Requires Necromancer as primary or secondary class. Earned in the Factions campaign.

Here is a list of some easily attainable skills for you and your heroes.

Mesmer skills to use and abuse (or be careful of):
Remember, the AI will not stop attacking or casting

• Empathy deals damage to the target when it attacks.
• Backfire deals damage to the target when it casts a spell.
• Wastrel’s Worry deals damage when the target activates any skill. Hex is removed after triggering once.
• Diversion will shut a skill down after it activates.
• Cry of Frustration deals damage and interrupts in an AoE. Heroes and enemies use this well.
• Shame is good for punishing defensive casters.
• Guilt is good for punishing offensive casters.
• Mistrust is good for punishing offensive casters.

Necromancer skills to use and abuse (or be careful of):

• Insidious Parasite. When the target attacks, the caster steals health from it.
• Spiteful Spirit. When the target does any action, Spiteful Spirit causes AoE damage at its location.
• Rotting Flesh causes disease in the target. Spreads quick.
• Putrid Explosion. Explodes a corpse for big damage.
• Well spells

Ranger skills to use and abuse:

• Lightning Reflexes is a stance that gives you 75% block, and 33% increased attack speed.
• Whirling Defence gives you 75% block. Damages ranged attackers.
  ^These two used in succession allows the ranger to tank most of the game
• Choking Gas is a Preparation that interrupts the target and adjacent targets when struck. Very powerful.
• Throw Dirt blinds the target and all adjacent targets, hampering their physical attacks immensely. Very good skill.

Guild Wars 1 has way more depth than GW2 ever will, there are many skills that synergize well together, even across classes.
Example of one good cross class skill combination:

• The ranger spirit Winter turns all elemental damage into cold damage against all allies and enemies.
• The Mesmer stance Mantra of Frost reduces cold damage, and provides energy management.

So if you equipped all of your heroes with Mantra of Frost in a heavy elemental damage area, and you or a hero drops the Winter spirit, you all benefit from damage reduction against any elemental attacks.

• You can even go one step further, and use the elite ranger spirit Greater Conflagration to turn all physical damage into fire damage. Affects all allies and enemies.

This physical damage will turn into fire damage, which will then turn into cold damage because of Winter, which will be reduced by Mantra of Frost.

This is all I can be bothered doing for now :p

As far as Hall of Monuments points go, this link details it in a nutshell.

This site contains player submitted builds for all professions, as well as entire team compositions. Use this for inspiration, or if you don’t want to do much thinking in GW1 and just want to get in and out if the game ASAP (not recommended, enjoy the game, it’s fantastic).

The GW1 Wiki contains an absolute tonne of information on literally everything. Use it when you need to find out more about literally anything related to GW1.

Useful information:

Conditions and just about everything related to them.

Hex spells in general, and a big list of the skills.

Health degeneration and how it works (conditions and hexes).

Condition removal skills.

Hex removal skills.

Interrupting and everything related to it. These skills are necessary in level 20 content. Heroes are fantastic at using them if you give them the means to.

Energy and everything to do with it. From maintaining your own energy, to denying the enemy of their energy, as well as a big list of skills and links.

General Tips:

• Play through the campaigns first before aiming for HoM stuff, to learn the skills, the enemy compositions, the lay out of instances etc.

• As you are learning the game and its areas and encounters, sometimes YOU WILL have to restart the area or mission and bring a different build to combat the inhabitants. Don’t let it discourage you.

• You will need to build your party through the traditional Tank/DPS/Healer mentality. The best groups use healers that can still do damage, and DPS who can take hits or avoid them.

• Bring at least 1 healing skill, and maybe even a condition removal skill. Ranger primary and secondary has access to Antidote Signet which is the best self cleanse in the game.

• When using Heroes you should set a hotkey for “Flag All” and “Cancel Flags”. I used ‘R’ and ‘E’ respectively. Use this a lot. And I mean, A LOT. This allows you to move heroes out of AoE and away from a lost fight before they gain Death Penalty. A good strategy is to play yourself as a semi-tank, flag your heroes some distance from the enemies, you run in and take the initial agro, then unflag the heroes.

• Synergize your team build, don’t just think about your own personal character build.

• The AI will move out of AoE after a second or two, so time your knockdown skills to trap them in.

• You will come across casters that can be especially tough to kill (huge healing), or who will deal an insane amount of AoE damage. Depleting their energy or interrupting their skills will make the encounters easier.

• Not all conditions work on all targets like GW2. For example you can’t bleed or poison a rock golem.

Information you’ll need later.

• What to expect from Hard Mode

• Tips on Vanquishing. Contains extra information such as which zones contain hidden enemies and which active quests will make the zone harder.

• Everything you need to know about Elite Skills.

• Everything pet related.

• The Lightbringer title. Contains information on good farming locations.

• The Sunspear title. Contains information on good farming locations.

• The Kurzick and Luxon titles, and everything you need to know about maxing them.

Zacchary.6183:

A skill trap. When triggered, it increases the skill level of bad players by 200%.

Only plays thief.
Calls others bad.

On topic:
Launch trap needs to exist.

Bombsaway.7198:

Put the new “untested” maps on a couple of “test servers”. Allow the rewards (e.g. wvw) to carry over. If you earn laurels, dailies, wvw exp, it would stay on your real account.

Let players who want to play these new maps knowing they could be broken go for it. Let others stay.

They will never do test servers. (ok well they did for EOTM for a while)

But the simple alternative would be to make the maps playable but not count for anything, just like EOTM.

But to get accurate feedback, it would be better to replace the BL’s and EB with the new maps if even for one week at a time, then bring the original BL’s and EB back while they continue working on the maps until the next time they publically test it.

If it isn’t a tournament, it doesn’t matter what map we play on.

I like it, it’s reminiscent of The Hall of Heroes.

We all know the chance of a new game mode being introduced though. 0%.

Let’s all bow our heads in remembrance of our fallen PvP modes.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild_vs_guild
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Heroes'_Ascent
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Jade_Quarry
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Fort_aspenwood
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Alliance_Battle
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Codex_Arena

May SoloQ and TeamQ remember their brothers fondly.

I remember tearing this idea to pieces in the original thread before it was locked.

I see you copy pasted it in a new thread.

It is still broken in every single aspect, thankfully it will never be implemented.

I’ve never seen John Smith post anything insightful. Or answer player questions with reasons as to why something is done or not done.

Each post comes across as:
“This is my baby, and being its mother I believe it has no flaws.”

And then the sycophants come in and cheer him on.

GoogleBrandon.5073:

lordkrall.7241:

Did someone forget that the last big patch (the Feature Patch) had more sPvP stuff than PvE-stuff?

Sorry, but what kind of comment is this?

Do I have to remind you that PvP got updated on a 6 months basis? While, I dunno, PvE and WvWvW have had a ton of more TLC to it than PvP will ever receive?

Leave WvW out of this.

Your quarrel is with the gem store, open world PvE and the Living Story.

WvW, SPvP and Dungeons are all neglected sections of the game. Equally neglected.

At least SPvP has better rewards than WvW now.

@Lordkrall
It had more PvE things.
WvW got nothing except PvE cross-overs like sigils and rune changes.
SPvP got reward tracks. While aesthetic customization was destroyed.

If you want FA to move out of T3 faster, do not cap your stuff back, let them hold it to gain more score to increase their rating even faster. In the mean time, just look for fights.

MisterBang.3516:

How many HoD’s are needed to change the lightbulb?
Dunno… they never got that far up the ladder…

I love it.

Skyhammer








Just kidding, set fire to it and never look back.

Foefire is my favourite.

If they shared the same style they’d be like any other skin set.

Also, less rainbows and unicorns, ty.

By the way, you can use ‘simple’ party list (in the options) to hide portraits, and display their names instead.

Apparently names are over rated in the “advanced” party list, because you know, knowing who has what buffs/debuffs or is being attacked isn’t important, right? /end rant

While we’re on the topic of allowing parties to party, which I think is a good idea, guilds need a mention here.

We need an “Alliance” feature like in GW1. Allow guilds to form Alliances with one another, and provide them with an Alliance chat.

Being upset by this is ridiculously illogical, this isn’t permanent, it is only a few weeks, the glicko system is adjusting itself.

Some people still fail to realise that FA was meant to be in Gold League, not Dragonwagon’s Sanctum of Rall-inflated-rating server.

HoD was a FREE TRANSFER band wagon server.
Guilds from FA joined Gold League servers, or the FREE TRANSFER band wagon server for an easy first place win.

These guilds/players that went to Gold or FREE TRANSFER HoD, stated straight away that they would transfer back to FA after the tournament.

T2 aren’t complaining about guilds leaving to go home to FA, so why is T3?

I understand that these last few weeks have been tough in T3, since T3 is only used to pick up groups running around versing other pick up groups. When FA’s skill groups returned and started annihilating these pick up groups I can imagine it is unpleasant to be versing good players on the map, since you’re not used to their existence.

And don’t kid yourself into thinking “but HoD was strong?!?! Why would they leave???”

Band wagon servers aren’t strong. They are driven by easy rewards, they have a weak community, they have no cohesion, they have no resilience when losses come, they break apart just as easily as they started.

Inb4 the usual person who pops up in these threads starts verbally assaulting and bullying certain servers and guilds and players, then plays the innocence card and claims they are mistreated and that they are a shining beacon of innocence and purity even though they’re the one causing problems.

ozmaniandevil.6805:

I don’t understand the whole server swapping thing. I mean, I chose IoJ and regardless of how outnumbered we are, it’s my “home”. I would never consider transferring to get a skin or any other “shiny”. I don’t know why ANet allows this sort of thing?!

Some people only want rewards, especially if they don’t have to work for it, just stack and free win. So ANet catered to them. People like you and I will never transfer, and don’t care for rewards, but others do so ANet provided.

It’s like sporting teams, people like you and I will barrack for one team, and support and cheer for them forever. Then there are the band wagon type people, who will just cheer for who ever is winning the current year/season.

Nuzt.7894:

Honest question here,

How would it be any different from what we have now ? Bugs/exploits that have been around since beta, lopsided tower/keep placements to allow advantages to X color over Y color, glitches all over the place.

Seriously how would it be any different then the current maps ?

We’d get new bugs and glitches and exploits to complain about. NEW!

Use minimum size asura in SPvP to gain an unfair advantage, no one can see you, or see your skill animations. You can also hide inside your minions/turrets etc.

Legitimate cheating for the win.

I’d love new ‘untested’ maps, here’s why:

- Winning and losing doesn’t mean skritt outside of tournaments.
- Fun matters.
- Nothing stale is fun.
- New maps are not stale.

Even if the layouts are a bit imbalanced in whatever way, with user feedback the issues are ironed out.

Winning and losing during the “off season” means nothing, so mucking around with new maps during the off season has only positives, no negatives.

If a tournament comes around, and the new maps aren’t fully balanced, then use the old maps for the tournament.

Simple.

Ty for reading Devon. Chop chop on the new maps. Just don’t make it like EOTM, make it like ACTUAL WVW.

Bloodstealer.5978:

Realist.5812:

Your friend probably visited sites he shouldn’t have (gold sellers), and/or downloaded things he shouldn’t have (hacks/bots).

In 16 years I’ve never had a single account for anything on the internet hacked, and I don’t even care for account security.

“Hacking accounts” for videogames does not exist.
Giving your secure information away does exist.

A PIN code is a waste of development time, and it won’t solve stupidity.

How incredibly sanctimonious … You of course have total knowledge of this persons browsing and downloading habits etc to make such accusations.. either that or you are completely naïve about the whole issues at hand.
You of course also know that this person was downloading things that he shouldn’t have because that’s the only way “hacks and bots” can bypass one’s protections.. .. please share with us what we should or shouldn’t be downloading.. hmmm I’ll hazard a guess you don’t even know the first thing about what you are talking about and are just copycatting comments from other “expert posters” who make the same assumptions.

For your info -
I have long complex passwords for any account I hold and all are unique without any kind of pattern to them. I had a unique email that was used for GW2 and nothing more and was none of the widely known providers. My email provider assured me that they had not been hacked and have their own protection inbuilt as an added security to my account.
I utilise as much protection that is available to the average everyday person including 3 sets of virus/malware protection all regularly updated and scanned twice daily as well as firewalls and router protections… I have never visited a goldseller (in fact I don’t think I have ever had more than 200gold ingame and have played since BWE1) and don’t frequent “dodgy site”s or download things I shouldn’t and certainly don’t give out my personal info to anyone.. yet somehow my GW2 account got hacked a few months back.. and like you I had never been hacked in 20yrs of using online material… so please share your oooh so wise wisdom .. I am all eyes and ears.

I agree with the OP thatANET needs to implement better Guild Bank / Personal Bank security feature because it only takes one person to be hacked and a whole guild can suffer the consequences… and please don’t play the " guild leaders need to manage better cos if that person gets hacked it makes no difference how they manage guild bank privileges etc.

I’m not entirely sure what you’re trying to do here, but I’ll respond in some kind of way to appease you.

Bear with me.

I could give my account information to a random person in the street, and it is utterly useless to them unless they know where to use it. They might try it in a few random places, but it won’t work, and they’ll throw the info away.

Even if your account information was obtained through whatever random virus/keylogger/malware from some random place on the internet, unless the “hacker” knows where to use it it is useless.

Game accounts get hacked because the person who obtains said account information KNOWS it is for the game, it isn’t a 1 in a billion lucky guess as to where to use the information. They were searching for specific information for a specific program/site. They have an invested interest in this game at some level, and this is why they specifically searched for account information related to the game.

Now tell me, what kind of people are interested in video game accounts?

- Gold sellers
- Hack/Bot scripters
- Random person playing the game who just wants to get ahead, and knows how to trick people into giving out their info.

In what way will the above people try to obtain account information?

- Commonly through phishing emails (pose as staff from the game)
- Commonly through scam sites by entering account information (gold seller, power levelling etc)
- Very very rarely through keyloggers and other viruses/malware. If your site or application is well known to contain viruses, word would spread and no one visits it or downloads it ever again. The above 2 are more subtle, hence more commonly used for game accounts.
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What I’m trying to say is:

If your video game account gets “hacked”, it isn’t because some seedy guy who infected your computer from a dodgey porn site thought it would be funny to try the info he obtained in every single video game ever invented until it worked, then delete your stuff.

It is because you literally handed it to a person who has an invested interest in this video game. Viruses are not used to obtain video game account information, getting someone to simply write it down on your site, or in an email, or in your hack/bot program are the methods used.

Your friend probably visited sites he shouldn’t have (gold sellers), and/or downloaded things he shouldn’t have (hacks/bots).

In 16 years I’ve never had a single account for anything on the internet hacked, and I don’t even care for account security.

“Hacking accounts” for videogames does not exist.
Giving your secure information away does exist.

A PIN code is a waste of development time, and it won’t solve stupidity.

Spectator betting?

How does the pay out work? Does the bookie pay out of his own pocket if there are no losing bets / not enough losing bets to take from? Or does he just say “LOL SORRY, there’s no winnings to give you.”

Spectator betting is also open to easy match fixing, especially between friends.
“I put a 10 gold bet on the other guy, take a dive.”

Karizee.8076:

Realist.5812:

It doesn’t have to be good… it just has to be UNIQUE to the birthday gift

/peers over glasses

You really expect them to make 4 million+ unique items?

Read the bolded and underlined part.

Unique to the birthday gift.

As in, you can’t get it anywhere else in the game besides birthday gifts.

WvW has loot?

Ps. OP, if you’re talking about EOTM, it is not WvW, it is PvE, hence the loot.

It doesn’t have to be good… it just has to be UNIQUE to the birthday gift, and it just has to be useful or have some variance in drops like GW1 minis.

Giving “auto level 20 scrolls” to people after 12 months is just…. stupid, completely stupid, utterly stupid, and ridiculously stupid.

The scrolls drop from Achievement Chests as well.

I have 9 of those scrolls that I’m never going to use, and I have 9 characters at 80….

As long as they don’t give out a stupid and useless item like that again, I’ll be happy.