Guild Wars 2

Brothers of Aesir [BoA] is a Guild Wars 2 guild located on the Desolation server.

We are a fully upgraded guild essentially starting fresh after a few monthkittenus. We are currently a very small group of mature, talkative people and have a lot of experience with in all facets of Guild Wars 2.

We are looking to build ourselves up into a community full of mature, imaginative, talkative and thought provoking people. People that will fill guild chat and/or team speak. People that aren’t afraid to put forward any suggestions that they may have, who start and contribute to discussions and friendly banter.

• We are PvX Orientated. We are looking to participate heavily in every aspect of the game, and are looking for experienced players in the PvE, WvW and sPvP sectors to help us organise.

• We actively encourage new players as well, we love this game and we want to include as many people as possible.

• We are looking to build a community. This includes banter, easy conversation and an open door policy in terms of guild improvements.

• We really do not want to fill our guild with drama, so mature players are a must. Age is not the be-all and end-all, so don’t be afraid to apply if you’re under 18 – provided you have the maturity level we seek.

If you would like to join us, please visit out forum http://brothersofaesir.eu or contact us in game:

Conatcts
RoninJonny.1582
DiscoPopping.9724
Bazeldon.1953

If the above are not online you may also contact
Bunners.7251

Looking good! Really nice final match there, looking forward to seeing the next lot!

These would be the things I would like to see

WvW

1: Colour options for commander tags to easily distinguish themselves from other commanders

2: The option to invite people into squad both individually and within an area (not too huge say 1200 max) in order to try and include pugs and such more easily. Could possibly have a similar implementation as the dance books on the gem store that allow you to invite others to join in the dance.

3: Squad member names in yellow, similar to the way party member names are in blue.

4: This I will admit is a somewhat rough idea as I can not think how to implement this idea to work in an easy to use and effective manner. However it would be nice to be able to temporarily create a sub commander with his/ her own distinct tag that can be seen by squad members. This sub commander could take about ten members in his/ her group. This will make it easier to order a group of ten to go and do a specific task by getting a sub commanders group to go and do it rather than trying to get 10 people to put x in chat and then hope they work together.

5: the ability to see how much supply those around you have (including non squad members)

PvE

1: The ability to temporarily hide someones commander tag.

2(a): To be able to show commander tag only to guildies. (b) To be able to show tag only to those in squad ((b) would have to coincide with the ability to invite squad members)

Final thoughts

Personally I think that these changes would expand the functionality of both the commander tag and role of being commander without giving much increasing the ability for people to damage others game experience.
As for allowing a slow delivery of changes or waiting for a total rework I would rather wait for a total reworking as long as the changes are discussed openly as they are decided upon in order to get player feedback before release.

Regards
Jonny

The Scout NPC’s located throughout Tyria, which give info on nearby heart quests, have been stopping mid sentence when I interact with them. The map comes up and circles the hearts as usual but the dialogue can sometimes only be half way through and they will cut off and the map will close. It is not a huge bug but it is rather immersion breaking.

Regards
Jonathan

Edit: A good example of this is “Peacemaker Gammek [Scout]” located next to Mrot Boru Waypoint in the Brisban Wildlands.

Thank you to all who where involved in resolving my issue!

Regards
Jonathan

Hi
My ticket is #38387

I sent my initial support ticket on the 3rd Nov and received a reply on the 5th of Nov. As this unfortunately did not provide a solution I followed up with another reply on the 6th giving further information in hopes it may help.. I shall leave a copy of my reply below.

Regards
Jonathan

Re: Lost item in mail system (request #38387)”

Hi,

I have spoken to Foz and he has double checked to make sure and the second mini remains the only one he received unfortunately.
I should point out that I did send a blank mail to Foz shortly after the first attempt to send a mini hadn’t been received to insure he was receiving mail. I do not know if this blank mail would show up as being one of the two mails you mentioned but I feel I should have pointed it out to make sure. I also did not (intentionally at least) send any mail to anyone else around this time (or at all during that day I believe).
Hopefully this added info helps

Regards
Jonathan

Hey Dusten,
I’ve sent my own wall of text to try and match yours through PM :P about the guild I’m a member of (Brothers of Aesir [BoA])

Regards
Jonny

Hey Mambata,

I’ve sent a wee PM to you about the guild I’m in (Brothers of Aesir [BoA]), hopefully you find it interesting

Regards
Jonny

Hey Shadow,

Just to let you know I sent you a PM about the Desolation based guild Brothers of Aesir [BoA]

Regards
Jonny

Hey Phantom,

I’ve sent you wee PM about Brothers of Aesir [BoA] on the Desolation server

Regards
Jonny

Hi Danny,

I’ve sent a bit of info on the Desolation guild Brothers of Aesir [BoA] to your inbox, just so you know .

Regards
Jonny

Hi Codata,

Just to let you know I sent you a PM about the Brothers of Aesir [BoA] on Desolation

Regards
Jonny

Yes it very much should, I would say exotic was about the right level for max stats. You got higher stats as you levelled through the game to funnel you through certain areas and keep you exploring the areas you where in as you went through the story. Then when you where finished with the story you would be able to get kitted out in max stats without too much hassle. For me that was about right for stats, maybe even a bit too hard in fact. After that, optional cosmetics for that thing we call “fun”.

You don’t get banned for trading goods back and forth, you’ll be fine. One trade of 750 ori to a guild member is unlikely to bat anyone’s eyelid. If you botted, then they’ll work it out buy the predictability of key presses, not a trade. and if you bought or sold real life money from goods then your (or the person you bought from) would have a major supply outgoing greater than a one time 3 stack of ori trade… especially if you get it back in a new crafted form. I’d say just go for it and don’t panic too much. If you’re especially worried then just make sure they send you back the crafted items the same day and it’ll be obvious it was all fine.

Good luck!

P.S. I think if your waiting for a GM then you might be a very long time as they don’t always answer everything.

P.P.S. Havoc is correct about one thing however. It is easy to get your crafting up for very little gold. A good guide can be found here http://www.gw2wiz.com/

Nano.2106:

I mean.. Does it really matter? Whoever it’s equipped to becomes soulbound to it anyway lol

That’s what they mean…

I decided to craft a box of Draconic Armor and after buying all the materials then happily taking a chest piece, some Elonian wine, mystic coins and crystals I discovered that putting them in yielded nothing but a greyed out forge button. also putting any material before the chest piece then the armour greys out. does this mean this recipe (and thus the armour box) is uncraftable? After doing a google I found out that opening this box yielded the incorrect armour but, as far as I can see from the comments, it was fixed about a month ago.

Any help understanding this would be great!

While I doubt any dev will ever read this among this pile of nerd rage I would like to address the topic at hand and hopefully give an understanding of the current concerns. I understand that there is very little information in regards to these worries (something I wish my fellow Tyrians would take into account) and that these concerns may be completely unfounded (and I hope they are). But I still feel it is important to share your views (In a polite manner hint hint other posters) otherwise there is no chance anyone will know you have them. Anyway, on with the post:

I do have very positive things to say in regards to what I have so far heard about Ascended gear. The idea being able to get further in a dungeon as you earn it sounds great, it really does! Doing the same 3 paths over and over can get a bit tedious (though I find doing with friends makes it great fun even if it is the same thing over and over but that’s off the point :P )and the idea that the dungeon evolves as you get better at it and earn gear sounds like it can make “farming” for the tokens into a fun evolving event. And until Linsey Murdock’s blog post and Chris Whiteside’s statement I thought that’s all it would be.

I think Lindsey & Chris had every intention of elevating the clear concern (and quite frankly panic) that had arisen from the community and to get us exited for the update (which I still am). Unfortunately, in regards to me at least, it had the opposite effect. I’m going to focus on part of the blog post that, if I’m honest, made my heart sink.

“Legendary items were always intended to be on par with other “best-in-slot” items. So fear not, all existing Legendary weapons, which are currently on par with Exotics, will be upgraded to be on par with Ascended weapons at the same time that we add Ascended weapons to the game.” – Linsey Murdock

That, as I read it, is clarification that the stats on these items are better. They are not better in certain dungeons, they are not a trade of where they are better in one circumstance while exotics are better in another, they are just better. That means that if I find my self in a one on one with an equally skilled player in WvWvW (I often do face one on one in jumping puzzles) who has this armour then they have an advantage and I have to get these stats to make it even. Even if I worked for ages to get Mjolnir (as I want too) I would still be at a disadvantage. To me that means I am going to have to get this tier of armour and weapons. I’m not going to get it for fun, or because it looks awesome (though it may do), I am going to have to get it to not lose an advantage and that is where you start to turn it into grinding in my opinion.

The next worry came from Chris’s post stating it was felt there was too large a gap between exotic and legendary and it was seen that a new tier could help rectify this. Personally I though their wasn’t enough of a gap and though they should be something gained over a period of 6 months or so by getting special items from completing monthlies, giving them a rare (maybe even legendary) quality and making them a sign of/ and reward to someone who has been dedicated to gw2 for a while. But hey, that’s just me. But even if we accept that we do need another tier I do not understand why this tier needed a stat increase and couldn’t have just been a special tier for named exotics like The Crossing and Mjolnir or just the new Ascended armour with equal stats to upgraded exotics plus the Infusion slots. I can’t really formulate a good explanation to what I mean here as I am unable to understand why a stat increase is being added. Maybe I’m missing something but I’m afraid I just can’t get my head around it.

My final concern from Chris’s post is on the idea of a gear treadmill. While I was relieved to hear that there is not going to be a new tier every 3 months, he did say that these items for this tier would be slowly released over time. Maybe I am being overly worried but the idea of higher stat gear being slowly released (I assume being released by item type) is exactly what a gear treadmill is. Releasing advantageous items periodically so that we will constantly have to work towards them each time they are released, I can’t see how you wouldn’t call it a gear treadmill. Maybe it was not meant this way but it does feel that way

I’m sorry if that got a little whiny at the end but it seems it was a lot harder to hold back my feelings than I thought. I would like to say as a final that I love this game and I feel that I have got my money’s worth 100 times over. I hope that all my worries will be shown to have been way off and we can all have a laugh at how silly I was for being so worried .

Best Regards
Jonathan

P.S. Sorry for any bad grammar, I’m afraid I’m rather dyslexic and there is only so much spell check can do.

I have got a bug that doesn’t seem to allow me to have more than 7 messages and (it doesn’t tell me it’s full either, I just don’t get any more until I delete some). Try to get him to delete some mail just in case.

Well as I had completed it with a Charr and people kept saying “try with an Asura!” to anyone who said it wasn’t impossible to any Charr or norn I decided to roll an Asura and see.

I was put with a few Norn and Charr and while at first I thought “yep they’ve got it worse” I asked a guild friend if he could Ctrl+t me so I had a marker. After that and about 10 15 min of getting used to Asura I got it (pic below).

So yes I agree Asura have it harder without Ctrl+t but with it was about the same. I doubt this will change anyone’s mind but hey, at least you can see I tried to see it what you where talking about.

First point before I talk about the others. The JP does not count to the title
1) I’m glad it is hard and I would would say boosts only help if you are used to them as all it affects that matters is the timing, otherwise it can be done fine (from a slow warrior)
But if you really want speed you can bring in a banner with you but prepare for everyone to hate you (as it will throw off their timing).

2) I would say be more patient, as someone who took absolutely forever to memorize the path (only the first half before the leap of faith is hard). Bring some tonics and have a costume brawl while you wait if you must (I did, lots of fun)

3) I agree with you but a good trick is to do it with someone in your party and Ctrl+t them and they do the same to you, then you have a big marker above your head

And finally being to hard to do doesn’t equal bad, it equals a challenge! People like me who like that finally get a JP and people that don’t wont lose their title for others fun. Just as I wouldn’t go around saying “all JP’s should be this hard!” because it would ruin others fun even though I can find it rather boring, I really don’t like it when others call for easier things because they don’t like it. But I would put it in this perspective, you get an exotic, you need to put the effort equivalent to the items you’d need to collect (more than 7 hours even)

Finally I’d suggest watching a video of it being completed, it helps a lot.

Wujack.4692:

No, the abilities of your character doesn’t make you successful. Its the timing, movement control, right positioning AND your abilities you need to be successful.

I’m afraid this is true!

But I would also like to point out in regards to the OP’s original post saying this game is for casual players. This is untrue, casual players are simply not punished for being casual. Legendary’s are not for the casual but casuals can get exotics without too much extra effort. Even the JP recognizes that many casuals wont be able to do it and they haven’t included it in the content. This games has lots just for the hardcore that aren’t for the casual, but as I said the games philosophy seems to be not to punish casuals for it.

Not everything can be for everyone this comes form games in general to the things in those games. Maybe this isn’t the game for you, I don’t know I’m not you, but the game also has hardcore (I hate that word btw) fans that enjoy this stuff. So if the Dev’s giving them something upsets you then I think your expectations are out of alignment (nothing to do with the devs)

errm… RPG’s aren’t video games?!? I’m going with “no” to that one!

“Video Game: A game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or display.” – Dictionary

Chest in Lunatics (Lunatic court?) Inquisition can drop exotic on final boss (and you can repeat it), jumping puzzle gives exotic boots first time you complete. I’ve not done the others but the primary focus is on fun (I’m having lots) but there is no way to please everyone. My motivation is I enjoy it, as I do the rest of the game, the achievements and (hopefully) title will just be a perk for me.

Chinnaru.4359:

Sorry by pumpkins i meant the pumpkin icons on the minimap

They can disappear and then events will pop up after a littler bit that need to be completed to bring them back

Charr
Warrior
No speed boost
4 hours of pain but I did it (got so confused at the leap of faith)

Awesome puzzle is awesome!!!

DLost.9643:

same here I’ll update this with an error code that it gives me.

error code given: 7:1000:7006:836:101

I’m the same here, I’l try removing the Authenticator to see if that helps.

I don’t know if this is the correct place for this, my apologies if it is not.

I was wondering if there is a way to cancel a bug report when you discover just after submitting the report that it was your own stupidity? :P Or is someone in an office going to have to read it and roll their eyes? I ask this as I reported an invincible mob that could hurt me, I tried to no avail to find away to hurt it and could not. It appeared that the heart quest near by wanted to kill aggressive things (as noted by it going up after killing a different mob) so I submitted a bug report under that. Then I discovered the heart quest required you to lure those mobs away and they are invincible on purpose (really nice heart quest by the way :P ). This left me feeling rather bad to submit a bug report with undue haste and made me hope that there might be away to cancel this a spare someone a bit of my stupidity?

Best Regards
Jonny