Guild Wars 2

So when I CTR+T on a PC or NPC the bit target is coming up over their head, but nothing is coming up in the chat window. Used to be that my party would no I’d set a target because it would come up on their chat boxes.

I’m not sure if it’s a bug, or an intentional change. Can I get it back somehow (in options maybe?) Has anyone else noticed it?

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Vision Crystals, and lesser visons crystals. I know they are craftables, but they are super valuable, account bound and taking up space.

Gift of …….

Any Legendary-specific collectable.

Brainfart. Looks like my problem was my lack of using my eyes, I thought they’d taken it away.

I’ve been absent from the game for a while until recently. When I used to play and I did my personal missions the map would clearly show me where I was ment to go so I could WP right there.
Now it doesn’t – I have to follow it’s trail, often though LA and 1 or 2 connecting cities and several zones – when I could have just used a waypoint if i’d know where the final destination was. Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a way to change/fix it?

Thanks for the feedback.

I’ve been playing GW2 since launch but my wife has only just decided to try it out (initially thanks to the free play model). But when she did create an account my server was full and she joined another one instead. This has not caused any issues until I tried to play WvW with her.

Obviously WVW separates the servers for a good reason, But we don’t want to pay to move my wife’s server (and mine will probably still be full anyway). Is there another option available to us? Does Anet still occasionally offer free transfers for moving to smaller servers?

I’ll add you to my friends list. TYvm

Thank you Arc, it’s reassuring to know that small no-min-rep guilds can survive. I’m going to try and do what you suggest and see how it goes.

Easier said then done, Alcopaul.

I opened Bounties quickly and we hit them every weekend for a while, but numbers dwindled and now we hardly get enough people to do it. We’ve been saving to unlock the next one now for about 6 weeks, but we’re still 20k influence short and gaining influence slowly.

Until I can get more people ON and interested bounties won’t succeed. And if found those people who don’t represent most of the time will come if invited, but STILL wont make a habit of repping at any other time.

Some great Replies, thanks for your support People.

Ryazz, I will keep an eye out for you online and we can chat.

Wynter, Thanks I think that’s solid advice and I think it helps to put things in perspective for me. Thanks.

I am posting this in the hopes of gaining some useful advice on my Guild current situation. And constructive feedback any of you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Some background.

So I played GW2 for about 2 months and joined a few guilds in that time, and none of them quite suited my needs. When I eventually found somewhere I felt at home I was suddenly booted fro not representing 100% of the time (I had 2 sets of friends playing who don’t get along, so I had to be in one Guild for each group).

This annoyed me and my Friend so much we decided to start our own guild and we made Masters of Ascendance [MOA]. Our first rule was that no one ever had to represent any set % of time, so long as they were participants on some level. We had few rules and a casual attitude.

For the first few months things were smooth, until we lost a few key members (stopped playing) and then we found there wasn’t always someone on. Then when a member logs in and finds no one on, he reps elsewhere and then so does the next guy and the next guy. Sooner or later they stop even checking to see who’s on.

Then the Guild missions Came and as you probably can guess things got worse. We struggled to get enough people on at any one time (we have several spanning time zones in the guild) to complete them and soon it just became easier for members to get their rewards with Larger guilds.

Now when someone loggs in they see 10 people on and 8 people not repping many choose to rep somewhere that has more people actively participating. Now organising even an all-guild Dungeon run can be hard, and the frustraition from that is also causing people to go elsewhere.

I don’t want to fold on the guild. A lot of my time and Gold has gone into it, we have developed all the Guild Traits to level 5 or higher and we have all our Bank tabs. But If I don’t do something soon we may loose everyone.

I’ve concidered altering our “No minimum” Represent rule, but at this stage that will probably just force a lot of people out, including fence sitters. But atleast then when I introduce someone new to the guild they wont see a long wall of non-repped members.

Has anyone in a similar situation been able to turn it around? How did you do it? We need to make some changes soon, but I’ just not sure what.

Hi Derian Gothsend, I’m Saxon of of 2 GL’s from MOA in Sorrows Furnace.

What your proposing is an interesting idea. Iv’e considered doing something like this in the past, but I have two major concerns.

1/ Server. We are based in SF, and I don’t think there would be much point to having a split cross-server guild (especially for WvW) and I don’t think many of our members would come to a new Server.

2/Control Myself and the other GL would be more then willing to share control, but with the way Guilds are structured in the game I wouldn’t be possible to be kicked from my own guild- And I could never give up everything we have built wit the possibility of loosing everything and starting over.

What are your thoughts on these issues? Do you see a possible solution? If so we might be able to discuss a merger.

Hi there,

My Guild is Masters of Ascendance [MOA], based in Sorrows Furnace. We are a small guild with a tight core group of players. we are friendly, casual and welcoming bunch. We schedual a few events in, but mostly just let everyone get up whatever they like. Then agaiun if you ever want a team up or company all you have to do is ask.

We’re into almost every aspect of the game, but so far none of our active members are into pure PVP (WVW however we love).

We have members scattered across USA Canada, the Pacific and Australia. So theres usually someone on at most time.

Drop me a line if you’d like and invite.

Hi there,

My Guild is Masters of Ascendance [MOA], we are a small guild with a tight core group of players. we are friendly, casual and welcoming bunch. We schedual a few events in, but mostly just let everyone get up whatever they like. Then agaiun if you ever want a team up or company all you have to do is ask.

We’re into almost every aspect of the game, but so far none of our active members are into pure PVP (WVW however we love).

We have members scattered across USA Canada, the Pacific and Australia. So theres usually someone on at most time.

Drop me a line if you’d like and invite.

Hi, My Guild is in Sorrows furnace. We are small but firindly and open to new players. Happy to help you learn the game and lend support of missions/story/dungeon whatever.

Let me know if you’d like to join, or like to learn more.

I have been trying for over a month to get some gems. I have tried buying them with my Card, but received error messages (often differing ones). I have also tried excahnging Gold, but every time I Load the exchange it refuses to work, not loading up properly.

I’ve have don a Repair. I have searched forums for solutions. I’ve put in a ticket (no reply from ANET at all).

Can someone offer some help. I don’t know what’s going on and i want to support the game with my $$, but I can’t.

I don’t see how you see a Gimmick here, I just fail to see a correlation between your complaint and a Gimmick. So I’ll ignore that part of your post, sorry.

As for why the Scale up is there, it’s simple. It’s so new players, or people who’ve yet to level to 80 for whatever reason are forced to miss out on new content in patches. I’ve played other MMO’s which release special event’s at capped level and it sucks if you’re not capable of enjoying it just because of your level.

It is also so (as you said) that you can play with your friends. While the scaled up 20 level toon may not be as capable as a real 80 – it has much better odds of survival then an un-scaled 20 (Trust me, I accidentally took a low level character to this zone before this patch and creatures came from across the map to kill me in one hit!), and this is even more the case playing with a group or Zerg.

As for 3 hit kills. Some 80’s don’t get much better then that, depending on their gear and set up. I suggest getting the best gear for your level you can easily acquire and joining a group. I doub’t you will have crazey-big issues after that.

That noise Drives me nits, I try and break the Cage as quickly as I can so the Guy shuts up!
(Alright it’s very 8-bit-sound-effect-nostalgia-Retro-cool: But dam if it isn’t like Nails on a Chalk-board!)

We are also supportive of New players who are still learning the ropes. We are happy to answer your questions and to Party up and Quest with you.

Home World: Sorrow’s Furnace
Guild Name: Masters of Ascendance [MOA]
Guild Website: http://mastersofascendance.shivtr.com/
In-Game Contact: Saxon.1908
Focus: PVE, WVW and basically anything members WANT to do.
Quick Notes: We are Casual players, who like to socialise and do events/PVE and WVW together. We have a strong USA/Canada/Australia Membership so people are online all sorts of hours.
We have NO Requirements for Representing. You can belong to other guilds.
We are attempting Guild Bounties Weekly, We’d love for new members to come and join us.
We have Team Speak
We are Awesome

AS of today my Guild ’Masters of Ascendance [MOA] in Sorrows Furnace can not introduce new members. If I attempt to add new ones it informs me we are at our maximum number. We only have some 60 members and it will not allow me to increase our maximum capacity yet. I even removed some inactive members- but still i can not add anyone.

My Guild MOA has members from Australia as well as USA, Canada and others. Me and the other GL are also Australians (Brisbane). We would love to increase the number of Aussie players.
We’re a pretty casual and friendly, and we are based in Sorrows Furnace (US). Let me know if you are interested.

The Dailies are great. IF you only have 30-60 mins to play you can go and focus on the Daily to get it done- but if you are going to settle down to several hours of Game time then you can just slowly collect the Goals as you play.

If we changed it to a weekly system I think we would lose some of that ability to just get it done by the ‘natural’ motion of playing the game. And that Would make me sad.

Falcon Night.4653:

Finally. No PvP needed.
I actually have a hope of getting this monthly.
WvW should go under the Monthly PvP tab.

WvW is not just PVP in a different pair of pants. It is possible to spend hours in there without fighting another player- and still accomplishing something. In fact it is Very possible to get most or all of your Daily complete in the WvW maps BECAUSE it is a mix of PVE and PVP.
The Reason it;s not in the PVP monthly is because it more closely resembles PVE. There’s no MVP stats, gathers, Veteran Guards (ok 1 or 2 exceptions to that one) or variety of creatures in the PVP maps.

Nibiru.1423:

Im just going to get on with it, hell i might even enjoy my self :P

“Quick Guys, He’s enjoying himself! Grab your pitchfalks, we can’t let someone have any fun!”

:D

I completely disagree. Yes there is some Grind here, but it’s the stuff that you don’t need- and definitely not a level-grind (which I think was probably what they ment by no-grind anyway).

Legendary. Completely a Vanity/Prestige item. How else do you make something like this rare without a time-consuming Grind. I mean if a Legendary had a 100% drop rate off the Last Boss in Arah no one would give much of a care for it.
Gold Grind. I’ve managed to fully Gear 3 80’s in Exotic gear without spending Hundreds of Gold, (actually I’d say I spent less then 10), I’m just not sure what you feel you need Hundreds of Gold for (Unless you are talking about using it for a Legendary, in which case ‘See above’).

Ascended gear. OK AC gear is more then a vanity increase, but it’s still only a small upgrade- and what do you need that upgrade for? mostly for doing harder Fractals. Basically the fractals are there to get gear that you need to do the fractals. You can skip it completely if your not interested,. You’d hardley be missing out.

Karma. Using a Karma Booster you need less then 40 Karma Jugs for a complete set of Karma Gear. That’s one month of Dailies and Monthlys, Not including the KArama you get from events. This is not only acheivable, but you should be getting your dailies simply by playing the game. And if you can’t get the monthly for some reason it’s only another 10 days of Dailies to make the numbers.

DaBleuberry.1780:

I suggest that instead of asking on the forums, you join a guild within your server so they can teach you and possibly help you and make obtaining this gear/gold a much more fun experience. But if you are anti-social and do not want to be in a guild I suggest doing Citadel of Flame and Twilight Arbor, which is both easier to do with a guild.

Yeh, why even have these ‘pesky’ forrums at all. LEt’s get rid of Players Helping players and just tell everyone to “Ask your guild!”

To answer you’re question, I don’t think there IS a “Best” way. Choose whichever suites you best.
*You can Go to Karma Vendors and spend 42k KArma per armor peice. These vendors are in Cursed Shore/Orr however and Much of the time are unavalible while Legendary NPC’s Camp the locations (need to find/join a Zerg to take them down so you can access your Vendors)
*Gold. If you have plenty of Gold you can always buy from the TP
*Craft. If you get the appropriate Crafts to 400 you can start making your own Gear. I find this very rewarding, but also time consuming as you need a lot of High end materials. You get the flexibility of making the piece with the Stats you want, but the cost in mats is either high in Farming time, or close to or higher then buying the finished item on the TP.
*Dungeons. Dungeon Tokens Can get you a wide varied amount of gear. Obviously it’s time consuming to do multiple runs of Dungeons for each Gear peice, but on the up-side you gain XP, Karma (influence) and Loot from dungeons runs- so you may end up relitivly rich by the end.

Personally I use a combination of all the above.

Happy Hunting.

There are a few things you need to consider regarding your POV on XP gain.

1/ Comparing this to MMO’s is fairly irrelivant. This MMO is intentionally trying to Break established conventions within MMO’s and does not and should not do something just because ’it’s standard MMO procedure’

2/You are not Expected to complete each zone as you go into them. You certainly Can, it’s a totally valid way to play the game- but the game has not been structured so that you complete a zone, move to the next sequential zone and rinse and repeat. It has been designed so you go where u want when you want.

3/As you say yourself, you have also gained EXP while you were levelling through other exploits (such as helping a friend in a lower level zone). Questing is only one of MANY ways to gain XP.

4/ You can still play the game at 80. Being level 80 really only means 2 things. You can go to any zone and not be outclassed, and you can start ‘gearing’ properly. So you can still go out and get zone completion, Do story mode, run dungeons: Basically do what you are doing now (with extra freedom). AND you still keep getting XP so you can keep getting those skill points.

I See why you feel the way you do. But I think you’re Argument comes from this false expectation the the game ‘ends’ at 80, or that you can’t keep doing at 80 what you are now enjoying at 60.

Hi, my Guild is Masters of Ascendance [MOA], we’re located in Sorrows Furnace [US] .

We are a friendly Casual Group aproaching 100 members. We Are Supportive of and happy to help new players. We do PVE, Dungeons, Fractals, WVW (not to big on PvP just yet).

Many of our members are from USA/Canada or similar time zone, and we are attempting to find people who are typically on at night either in Australia or a similar time zone. We hope to boost our active numbers in these hours so we can more easily do Dungeons or WvW as a Guild.

We welcome people from any cultural background (although we are primarily English speaking at the moment).

Drop me a Line if you’re interested in Joining.
(Contacts: Saxon.1908, geekOnaught.4571, dylanhamada.2761)

I didn’t have a clue what polymock, thanks for the info.

I’m pretty sure this portal wasn’t hear until December (maybe November) at some point. Does anyone know anything about it? I assume it’s intended for some future patch.

It’s located on one of the Crafting areas (cooking) and the portal symbol even appears on the map.

When you come out into the World aft your starting area look around You. There is a large circular portal nearby (West on the map), this leads into the Asuran Capital City and in the centre of the level below the top you will find the Bank, Guild Bank and Trading post. Also the Crafting halls surround this central area.

The above Post makes me think of the Show ‘Monkey Magic’, specifically the opening credits where Monkey jumps out of the Broken egg. Perhaps this is how Asura are born….cloned out of a chest?

:)

1/ Asuran Racials fit the engineer Asthetic…..buy that i mean you get to summon Gollums!
2/ Story. I havn’t played though the Charr story much but I can tell you that the Asura Story is based on the idea that you are an inventor of a great device.

Personally I don’t agree that the Turrets seem un-asuran. If anything I think they seem generic. the one race I would not play an engineer because of turret Ascetics would be a Slyvari. Hopefully in the future each engineer will get a turret look that conforms to race, but I think the default one is acceptable for Asurans for now.

My Engineer, Zizi Lightningcraft.

Peacemaker Napp.
I like it 7/10

I made a Family of Asura.
Zizi Lightningcraft, Asuran Engineer
Her Brother Kuko Lightningcraft, Asuran Guardian
And the Black Sheep cousin Tuti Lightningcraft, Theif

Once I decided on the surname i was limited to 4 character first name- but I’m pretty happy with my choices.

Seems to happen A LOT. Can’t imagine why you wouldn’t invest the tiny influence needed to make an emblem.

Quite often after taking a guild I see no one has claimed it for their guild (the banner remains blank), but If I try to there just isn’t an option to.

Is there some requirement for this to be achieved? Maybe a certain number of my Guild members needed to be in the attack with me? OR is it that Guilds with no emblem (if there is such a thing) are taking Keeps?

This is a concern for me because most WvW Guild perks require your guild to hold a fort, and lately I’ve not been able to capture one- even though I have in the past.

Thanks

So it appears every single elite skill as a Human Elementalist is a ‘Not underwater’ skill. This seems like a huge oversight. Surely they weren’t intentionally designed to have NO elite underwater skill?

It’s in the Sewers, you need to find a broken sewer grate in the Waterways (aproxomatly S/E of the bank) and enter the sewers, then that the right hand turn at the T-section.

There already IS dungeon Solo Play, it’s called PVE. You could even say your story mode is a Solo Dungeon.

The 5 man Dungeon mechanic exists to encourage teams, friends and guilds- To give a reason for it to be an MMO. If you just want to Solo Everything I would question you’re choice in game.

Mini’s DO drop, it’s just that they are extreeeeeemly rare.

Why is it needed at all?

Here, here.
You can also add something about the Fun Tixx events. I enjoyed them so much I found myself up at 4am waiting for it to appear at a new City and go again!

Hey I don’t PVP, lets take that out. Frank doesn’t WVW, so thats gone to. Amanda hates exploreing- Gone. Now that I think about it I don’t like Water, Toss it. Who hates running into Tree’s? A bet someone does! Let’s thake those out, mountains too.

Dyes, gone. Trade Chat, hate that. Mini’s and Pets? BOARING. Who like’s Charr? I don’t, GONE. Actually I hate all races but human. And since Jimmy hates humans they’re gone too.

Seriously dude if they removed every feature because one player wasn’t interested in doing them there would literally be nothing left. Infact if they removed every feature that 10% of the players didn’t use I doub’t there would be anything either.

If you don’t like it. DON’T do it. No one is forcing you. You don’t even need the JP to get the tittle!

And what of the person who makes the decision to forgo a little damage in order to add extra support features. This game doesn’t have a ‘Healer’ Roll so you can’t just say ’He’s the healer he doesn’t have to DPS anyway’. Infact I have read articles many times say how the Dungeons are best run by a support team then a DPS one, and I agree.

With a DPS meter people will start kicking out the guy who stopped to Revive a player, or who decided to forgo DPS traits for ones that aid in reviving/healing other. DPS meters don’t and can’t take someones’ effectiveness in kiteing, Crowd Control or How much of a Buff-monkey they are. They won’t track how man conditions they removed from allies, or How many they applied to enemies.

It has been discussed on the forums many, many, many times. But this is not WOW, or any other MMO. GW2 works very differently from Holey Trinity MMO’s ad there is simply NO place for DPS trackers.

When was the last new 25 man in WoW? Realy? What 3, 4, 5 years? The don’t get made anymore because People Don’t do them.

I don’t have this problem at all. I agree that a Level 1-15 zone will have a smaller population then a 75-80, but 1/there are probably more lelve 80 characters then new ones now 2/ There are more Level 1-15 then 80 zones.

I also Don’t see any way to fix what is basically a player issue. What reason does a high level character have to come back to Metrica Province, except exploring? What reason could Anet possibly give them? Seriously I’m sure they would love to hear ideas on how to do this (I can’t think of any).

Also keep in mind how many players only have 1 or Few characters. Altaholics will probably keep rolling new toons, but one-character-players will probably only go to each starting zone once- ever.

You seem to be using this Term ‘Grind’ in it’s broadest definition, while only discussing one sort of grind: a Gear-Grind. If you are going to define the game ONLY in terms of how loot drops then yes, it’s highly possible you won’t the the experience you are after.

Are you saying a Dungeon Run should be a GUARANTEED Rare Drop? Because that seems to me to be going to far, and would certainly devalue Rares. When a Rare Drops I get mildly excited, “Hey look I got a rare let me take a look at it”- I For me the ‘Rarity’ of rares is what makes them fun.

Me and My guild mates resting before opening a Mysterious Box