Guild Wars 2

I just completed 100% on Lion’s Arch and Brisban Wildlands but didn’t get any rewards.

Stitch.1794:

Do you have all the hero challenges on the map completed?

No I’m in eternal battlegrounds.

Its actually only on my 1 thief that I can’t use them. If I try to use them on another toon it works.

I go to the notary, convert my proofs into scrolls, use my scrolls and they turn back into heroics instead of hero points.

Alin.2468:

I joined Twitch and watched Pro League. It’s so awesome. It has about 2500 viewers. I love all this enthusiasm players have for PvP ingame.

Thank you ArenaNet, thank you. These high numbers shows the world we are many players loving PvP in this game.

Do you get a cut of the action? What do you care how many people are watching? Are you a shill?

Maybe I’ll be able to see something other than the loading screen sometime…

Because that’s all I’ve been staring at for the last little bit.

Because anet.

You mean you still haven’t fixed this problem is why you’re reopening it.

Must be too busy counting gem purchases.

Anyone know what happened with him and Nhym that keeps getting mentioned?

ReaperJr.5967:

After 3 weeks of (almost) daily pvp, 333 matches, and 60% winrate (201w/132l), I’m finally legendary. I’m going to explain how I did it, and how you can do it too.

get a job. Do something useful for yourself.

Remove this stupid champions dusk moba kitten show from the playlist so i dont have to to be subjected to it while I learn to love esports like colin tells me I should.

No. Stay Away.

Kal Spiro.9745:

And then you post the same thing, expecting a different result? Did you use you ICC? Did you continue even once? If you did, then you don’t deserve a refund.

They took my money for an event thats been absent for 2 years. They robbed me and you’re defending thievery.

Anet infracted me for writing the following:

Anet refuses to refund me my money even though it is and will forever remain useless. Quite frankly this is outrageous and tantamount to robbery on their part.

Shame on you.

So they steal from me, and then tell me to post on the forums after 2 GMs refused to give me my money back and then infract me on top of it.

I demand my money back for this useless coin. I have made a ticket and was refused. Instead they basically told me to eat kitten and post here.

Give me my money back.

Being realistic there is no more server identity as guilds have disbanded, members have dispersed to join other guilds or left the game, only to repeat the process again and again, and people has transferred a million times.

Figure out a system where people have people to fight at all hours of the day/night and maps are populated . Megaserver if necessary, just do something.

So ive tried filling the void with this circle cap fest only to wait in queues to fight premade guild groups who are probably in voip with pugs.

also your new mode is a horridly bad misguided attempt at trying to bandwagon the moba nonsense. face it, no one thinks of this game as an esport.

New maps looks kittenty.

I purchased the standard version do I also get a slot?

I got my invite but I haven’t preordered yet.

Don’t think it matters TBH.

I’m having the same issues. Same message. Can’t even use paypal.

Omega.2687:

I’m looking for another Tier.
- I want lower queues in NA
- Fights
- GvG’s
- Stable server/tier
- Less blobs.
- Challenging
- Active guild with raids.

Guardian, Necromancer, Warrior, Thief.

lol good luck

I am also unable to use guild chat.

I have this same issue. Every time I drop party my game crashes. I’m in WvW.

Nice killshot. Almost 15k.

Just happened to me also.

kitten that’s pretty darn good. TY>

Is there somewhere I can see what kind of heals water elemental puts out?

Every profession forum claims the same thing. XYZ class is better. Our class is fodder.

Naw.

Sagramor.7395:

Every time you hit it you need to cross your fingers you’re even going to move forward let along be able to move after you’ve landed.

This so many times. The amount of times I end up not being able to move after using rocket boots is crazy.

Invoker.5462:

so many people make fun of great sword warriors.

I didn’t know people made fun of GS warriors thanks for sharing.

Warriors aren’t bad. They are jut boring. Too many of their skills are passive. Its become a passive class. Stances are boring. Shouts are meh. The physical skills SHOULD be the interesting options but aside from bulls charge they are uninteresting and boring. Not even talking about their lack of utility they are just not fun to use.

I made an elementalist in January 2014 but only recently started playing it and have fallen in love with how active a class it is to play. The arcane skills, cantrips and conjured weapons are all useful for some situation or another. Playing it has opened my eyes to how boring and unimaginative the warrior is. The so called physical brawler/weapon master class is all about immunities. Its not fun when your utilities are all immunities.

There are some fun zany builds out there (and I’m talking about wvw) but overall its lacking that something special that makes me want to get on it. How the Ele has to play around his attunements and long utility cooldowns makes my brain work in a way that warrior hasn’t challenged me to in a long time quite frankly. And I like it.

Same with Engi and the kit juggling. Or thief and the stealthing to heal or burst or whatever. Just something which requires me to WORK. Warrior is like, “hit zerker stance or defy pain. DPS. Run away when done”.

Lawful.5314:

I mean, why does mesmer have 21k in zerker gear and elementalist 14k, while both wearing cloth? Yeah, thats food for thought.

Because the mesmer doesn’t have the elementalist’s healing ability.

Go 4 in air magic for bolt to the heart and Zephyr’s boon. So 4 air, 4 water and 6 Arcana. More dps, still good cleanse and healing, but a wee bit less defence. Put a strength sigil on one of your daggers for more damage.

When I D/D Ele with Hoelbrak runes, I can hit 20 stacks in a fight by myself. Ring of fire is a long fire field. Frozen burst is a 15 second blast and earthquake is also one, though with a longer cooldown.

Arcane Wave also works. I also use a strength sigil on one of my daggers which has a 60% chance to apply might on crit once per second.

The more people around the better of course. But even alone in wvw with D/D ele its easy to have tons of might. I’m sure the pve crowd and ele mains will give you more precise rotations etc.

Poor you. You know how much I’ve flushed looking for a precursor????

Cygnus.6903:

Yes.

Been dying to rifle?

Nope.

Cygnus.6903:

Rifle auto needs another 20% damage boost to begin with.

Been drinking?

Wait I don’t see a ‘Music’ folder. I see a ‘Screens’ folder but no music folder.

In fact I did NOT realize or know this. Wonderful!

Anet for the love of God can’t you do anything with the fact that I hear the same few songs from the soundtrack over and over and over ad nauseaum as a WvW player? I’m in there hours upon hours and its the same few tunes constantly repeating.

I was in the Grove leveling my ranger the other day and I heard songs I’ve never heard or haven’t heard in forever. I know you want to maintain a certain ambiance about certain zones and maps but you really need to cycle in other songs to WvW. There is one haunting melody which players in Charr areas which I would love to hear but I don’t make it out to pve land.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY

This game is buy to play. You’ve bought the base game. Three years later you’re being asked to buy an expansion. If its that much of a problem for you, save up, get a job and if its still an issue, then you probably shouldn’t be playing video games as much, nevermind an MMO.

Man up.

I just bought a digital deluxe copy. Have the code, followed the link in the email to register it. Plug in all my information (name, e-mail address, etc) and then my password. Won’t accept the password. It keeps saying it needs to be 8 chars long. Of course it is. So I try other ones. Nothing works.

Also this being an alt accnt the e-mail address is NOT the same one as the one I’m using right now. The kicker is because I haven’t registered I cannot create a support ticket because I cannot provide a valid accnt name.

Junkpile.7439:

SmoothHussler.6387:

Let me put this simply (forgive the caps); THERE IS NO MECHANISM IN THIS GAME WHICH WILL ALLOW A SMALLER GROUP TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD WITH A LARGER – A MUCH LARGER – GROUP.

Try to move your troops better so enemy doesn’t have much larger group, use siege or you can always try to play better and kill much larger group.

Cheers bro. But I don’t think you quite understood what I was saying.

Cont….

Everything is designed to facilitate the crowding together in as small an area as possible of as many people as possible….all pressing 1. Or maybe 2. Sound familiar? Yes anet has basically transplanted their unimaginative pve boss mechanics into wvw.
But why would they do all these things? Why ignore wvw focused content? Why institute all these small group/guild group hating mechanics like siege mastery and dps nerfs and such? Why is because I doubt that anyone at anet actually plays their game. Everything is done with pve in mind. If not that, its being guided by a small circle of pvp esports wannabes. Yes guys, wannabes. Conquest style pvp will NEVER be the thing some people want it to be. WvW was where anet could have made GW2 stand out from the crowd; where it could have blazed its own unique path instead of trying desperately to ride the MOBA coat tails.

And its a shame too. Because the combat mechanic in this game is OUT OF THIS WORLD good. Its fluid. Its fast. The combo field system is imaginative and unique. Its just downright FUN to play. But 2 years and those little nagging things are just getting worse and worse. With no new expansion in sight, why bother? I think GW2’s combat saved it thus far, from 2 other competitors (you know who they are) which were clearly inferior. But now another challenger comes, and hell if it also doesn’t have an inferior combat system too. But you know what? It MIGHT NOT MATTER. At this point, people will and are leaving for an inferior game nonetheless.

Anyhow, just my 2 cents. I haven’t yet decided if my server’s death means I’m done GW2 for good, or if I’ll swallow my pride and transfer to TC or something. I liked my server. I liked that we would look for other groups to fight first, and slam faces on doors only to facilitate fights.

Why did the guilds quit? Its not any one reason. There is no single explanation for why this has happened. Its like death by a thousand cuts.

Someone said above that the reason is the stale nature of wvw. Yes this is one of the reasons. For 2 years now, wvw has been systematically ignored by the developers. Every few months there have been these little additions, like mastery’s, and bloodlust/ruins (pvp circle capping), and eotm. None of which are relevant IMO to the wvw game mode. 1 is power creep, the other is pvp disguised as wvw, while the 3rd is an unabashed pve champ train. So ya, the fact that it seems wvw has been treated as the red headed step child doesn’t help. Remember a year ago it was “dont ruin my game mode”. The OS was anet’s mea culpa, which was actually one of the better additions. A place for guilds and people to just fight. Too bad it was removed from wvw and made its own instance. Nonetheless, 2 years of no REAL wvw FOCUSED content. Its too long to hold attention.

But this isn’t the only reason T2 guilds (and we’re talking most directly about Maguuma here) are dying/have died. For some people, wvw is indeed a casual thing. Log in, follow a tag around, fire some siege, log off. For others, the server real system is something more. Persistent open world large scale pvp. Some of us play wvw primarily to fight other players – other guilds. Even if you dont gvg. Wvw is the endgame. The place where we can theorycraft our toons, make them look all perty and nice, and take our shiny new greatswords or hammers….and bash other players over the head with them. Its too bad that for the most part, there is no incentive to do this. Rewards are non existant – buying lemongrass and stones will eat your gold – in comparison to pve.

I loathe to talk about “back in the days”, but one of the most important factors IMO in the decline and death is the critical damage nerf. Alone its not enough to cause the exodus, but the problem is it is paired alongside other questionable decisions on anet’s part which really makes it a kick in the crotch. With damage builds suffering 10-20% loss in dps, it became that much harder to kill things. Guilds which could force downs early on in an engagement could somewhat equalize the situation vis a vis a large group through their coordination. This is much harder to do now. Some people call it ‘wet noodle wars’, and I agree. Which brings me to the next issue; rallying. In a game where it is ACKNOWLEDGED AND ENCOURAGED to have asymmetrical battles – guild group vs pug blob – where it is now tougher to down people due to the dps nerf, even if you do down them, they can be rezzed or rally. Why this mechanic is in wvw is beyond me. It servers no other purpose but to favour the larger group at the expense of the smaller on. Not to mention hard rezzing full dead people…IN COMBAT. This is a failure of game design.

So, with the ferocity nerf and the rally mechanic already favouring big groups, throwing in an AOE cap is the piece de resistance – the icing on the cake. Now, you can’t down people a easy, when you do, its more than likely they can rezz 1, 2 even 5 or 10 people off ONE of your people, BUT….you also can’t hit more than 5 people. The result ladies and gentlemen is the map queue blob. People can argue EU vs NA all day. Whats clear is that some of the guilds in EU figured out the guild group ‘meta’ early on, there’s no need to name names in this regard. But the meta has shifted. Now, you don’t need a guild group, or even complimenting compositions of classes or builds. All you really need is 60 people, following a dorito, pressing 1, preferably wearing full ptv. Now I’m not gonna claim that Maguuma or whoever doesn’t do this, or that SOS or whoever is strictly guilty of it, because that would be a lie. But the fact of the matter is, the guild as the main entity in wvw is GONE. Made redundant. Anachronistic. Don’t need it. If you just blob up into as big a group as you can, the damage nerf means a guild group of 20 which wants to fight you will not dps you enough, if they do they can’t out rezz you, and that’s if their abilities even effect you at all.

Let me put this simply (forgive the caps); THERE IS NO MECHANISM IN THIS GAME WHICH WILL ALLOW A SMALLER GROUP TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD WITH A LARGER – A MUCH LARGER – GROUP.

Yes I know this patch happened in April, but I’ve got a new level 80 mesmer and….I CAN’T PLAY IT because my traits are locked out unless I want to go chasing things all over pve land (which I don’t want to do).

Is there any way I can get my traits unlocked? Yes skillpoints I know, but rememebr I also need them for my….SKILLS, not to mention that something like 300 (!!!!) are required.

Also, why is this new barrier to alts here anyways? Who asked for this 2 years after release anyhow?

Indie.4129:

No officials from TA have made a single statement denouncing their members actions. As such by staying silent and taking no actions (evident by how long the same people have continued this), they are allowing these individuals to represent their guild for better or worse.
Also yes, there are numerous posts in the gvg scene stating euro superiority and how NA has always been 3-6 months behind, which up to this point hasn’t been disproven. Now the flood gates are open after 2 years+ of overwhelming smug. I seriously think all of maguuma had a simultaneous “accident” spiking keyboard sales after the victory.

As a Maguuma official I can neither confirm nor deny the above statement.

OP….

Please learn to play your class.

That is all.

I recently changed ISP’s and my email have changed. I want to change the email associated with my account. How do I do this so I dont get locked out of this game if I get another one of those occasional log in confirmation messages?

Syde.5961:

Zerg busting guilds run

“Zerg busting” is a term officially owned and licensed by Maguuma Entertainment Inc™. You’ll be hearing from our attorneys.

If you are playing wvw then 2700 is ideal for a DPS warrior.