Guild Wars 2

I agree with Reihert (and others): a title should be a not-easy-to-obtain reward for accomplishing a worthy feat (obviously subjective). Too many/easy titles dilutes them all – note EQ2.
For example: I agree that “Master Chef” should be a title, but it should be for more than just getting 400 in cooking – maybe 400 in cooking & craft one of every type of food & do a quest (that gives you a Chef hat?) & visit every Inn in Tyria (wait, maybe that is better for “Master Drunkard”) – but you get my point…offer a bunch, ok, but make the vast majority of them hard to get – that makes them worth showing off. (Though if other people can’t see your Title, it is essentially pointless.)

Really? Ok, so it IS super easy. Thank you.

Is there an official, standardized, or ANet preferred method to report botting in-game.
Currently my friends and I all use similar, but slightly different, methods to report in game botting – tickets submitted via /bug (and then tag the “Exploit” button and a screenshot – though other, less suitable fields are also needed).
Let’s be honest, in-game botting is unmistakenly easy to recognize. Whereas I will leave it to Anet to verify the report and do whatever they do, it seems to me very useful to give the player-base a quick, easy, and standardized method to report botting – much like the ability to report in-game email spam.
(If this question has been answered, forgive me. I did a quick search and didn’t find any standard method.)

Eh, just to put in my vote. Since I am not generally shy about my criticism of ANet, I should note that I very much liked the event. In point of fact, it renewed my interest and my hopes that ANet was really going to make this a long term game for me and my friends.
1) Doors randomly appearing in the world that gave a trick (mob) or a treat (bag) – cool.
2) Clock Tower – super cool. (I didnt finish it – kitten you Clock Tower; wait till I upgrade to an Intel i7…)(Yes, that is my excuse and I am sticking to it.)
3) Scavenger Hunt Backpack/Book; Pumpkin Carving Title – both cool and fitting rewards for a Holiday Event
4) Mad King Mini-Dungeon – short, easy, but a fun and fitting part of the story (actually played it with my son a few times and he loved it)(did anyone really expect super loot from a soloable 20min run)
5) The Cut Scene – OK, it was really short (and over-hyped), but it was a fitting introduction to the Dungeon (and pretty neat looking when he pops out in LA now and then)
6) World Visuals (Lions Arch, etc) – well, this is where ANet shines and they did so again.

Overall – in my 10 or so years playing these types of things, I will vote that it was as good as any and better than some. If ANet uses this as a springboard to make other Holidays – maybe FebtoberFest – as good, yeah, I am happy with it.

Have you completed the hunt for the second set of chapters (chapters 7-12, I think). That “upgrades” your book and includes the burning skin. (It does require a trip to some higher level zones – 55+)

Well, everyone can say as they please, but when I read the OP, I had to sadly agree. I feel like I have spent a lot of time hyping the game to freinds, etc. , but now, two-months in, I tell people to wait a bit to see if ANet improves upon some of the things the OP notes. It just seems that this is a great game, fantastic concept, poorly run. (Sorry, I am not trying to be a hater, and I am not screaming quit, but I just cant look past all the problems anymore: camera; bots; gem store implementation; and insane number of bugs (to name some). Maybe in a few more months, if the community voices its constructive concerns, this message will get through and we end up with the game I want to tell everyone it is.

I am sure it has been said, but I am adding my two-cents for ANet: Clock Tower is a good puzz and a neat idea – hard, and that is cool. The game camera, however, is god-so-terrible (worst of any game I have ever played). Put the two together and it’s a disaster. It is fine to die because you cant jump, run, etc. – ok, I am cool with that, if I suck at jumping, I pay for it by starting over, but it is no fun at all to have to srtart over (and over)(and over) because the camera zooms-in for no good reason and suddenly you cant see what the H is going on…and, well, you dont have a lot of time in there. (And it does matter if the Camera is set to “Free” or follow.)