If it is a ghost town when you log in move servers. My server is packed when I log in so I don’t have any issues. You do realize there are multiple instanced dungeons right? AC, CM, TA, SE, CoF, HoTW, COE, Arah. might have missed some.
And how many people are playing and player retention means what to you? It doesn’t affect your enjoyment of the game in any way shape or form. .
Because if the number is too low, the game will be canceled (see City of Heroes). NCSoft is not shy about killing slow games.
Rest assure GW2 is far from being canceled. Look at GW1 it is still around to this day.
/e puts his tinfoil hat one..
Maybe they are robo spamming the wiki site to make it look like there are more people than there really are. They are just trying to give the issusion that the game isn’t failing.
/end conspiracy theory
/end sarcasm
You do know that when you infuse an amulet you lose the infusion anyway. So really it is a moot point right now since you will lose whatever infusion you put on there anyway.
If you are worried about it put it in the rings.
And how many people are playing and player retention means what to you? It doesn’t affect your enjoyment of the game in any way shape or form. There is no need to go omg omg the sky is falling. If you don’t enjoy the game anymore the door is that way —→ there are however plenty of us that still do. Obviously if performance was abysmal they would not have the capital to keep the game running since it is buy to play and the only income is from the gem shop.
He is Eir’s son and he was told that Rytlock could help since he was part of Destiny’s Edge. He is then told that Rytlock will not help him and then he checks in with the norn. The norn won’t help him and Eir tells him to stay there. He takes it upon himself to save his people.
As far as I know this isn’t available yet because no api exists to pull this info from ANET. If ANET gets this rolling then other sites should be able to pull the information as well. It would be very nice to see though since our guilds site runs on ENJIN
probably not intended and I would imagine it would be hotfixed. although who knows it might be intended.
I think the reason they were not put on a fixed timer was specifically to prevent farming like is happening now.
I for one am enjoying Flame and Frost. I feel it could have been shortened by quite a bit but that is about it.
More sign fixing, lost and found, and snoozefests killing of dredge and charr please.
I do think that quickness needed a nerf, taking down a boss in 10 seconds was kind of silly. Killing another player in 1 second was also kind of silly.
Not everyone plays COF 1 to infinity. And you are talking about only three bosses in COF out of the dozens in all the dungeons + fractals (mini bosses counted). No one can say with an honest face that TW is OP in PvE. On the other hand I think mesmer shatter builds are OP in WvW and PvP.
As I said the prelude could have been shortened a bit. The problem is people complain if its quick because they don’t get to do the achievments and miss out. People complain when it takes to long. You can’t please everyone. Keep in mind they stated that Jan-Mar is teaser content and not full blown for the story. It is designed to start slowly and build making you wonder first why are the refugees fleeing, why are the flame legion and dredge working together and what drove them to do so, and with the last patch with the living story dungeon what are they doing with the prisoners they took.
The good thing is they are learning from the pace of this one and will adjust accordingly and find that sweet spot.
I think they have already said there won’t be any more elder dragons yet but I could be mistaken. I am pretty interested to see what is coming though.
I for one am enjoying Flame and Frost. I feel it could have been shortened by quite a bit but that is about it.
I don’t really have any problem with the change myself. It is still usefull and longbow still hits very hard in berserker gear. I never get left out of groups either because I am in a guild and run all guild groups. You should try that sometimes it works wonders not having to rely on pugs.
I appreciate the time and artwork that went into them but I would have liked to see a little more flare and less blocky personally.
If 80% of the playerbase was using them I garuntee it wasn’t for flavor or to look cool. It was to exploit some mechanic somewhere.
The disabled the gun because you could use it even in places the mesmer couldn’t. I know in AC you can use it to get up onto a ledge on one of the last bosses where you cannot be hit.
I just run with guildies and never have a problem :-D and yes I play a ranger.
I am sure there were more exploits that you don’t know of that they disabled them for. Just because you don’t know about it doesn’t mean it wasn’t exploited. Chances are they had a good reason to do it.
They hack accounts to get the gold. The days of farming for gold are over so you should change the title to chinese gold hacking. Hacking is much more profitable and easier.
Bind a different key to dodge and disable double tap. Trust me you definately want that. As far as how to choose the direction just hit that directional key then dodge. You will definately start wanting to learn to dodge soon though because as you get into dungeons and fractals if you don’t dodge you will likely die a horrible death.
There is a lot of QA that has to go into these patches I would imagine. If you have ever developed a game you know when you change one thing it can break three others so everything has to be thoroughly tested over and over and some things still slip through the cracks even then. Not making excuses of course but there is probably a reason for the delays. I think a patch dedicated soley to bug fixing would be awesome myself. I love the new content but getting all the bugs squished in one moth would be awesome also.
http://dulfy.net also has great guides on it
I think the whole Idea is to check the heralds and see whats new. Part of the fun is finding stuff on your own. For instance they ninjad the last two items in for scavenger hunt without telling anyone. I found them before they were even up on dulfy.
A good way to find out what to do is check to see if achievments were added for the new stuff and that will give you an idea :-D That or wait for a guide to pop up.
If this .net guy would make his own data base – as some one suggested above – then the community will split up. And after this lots of other LFG sites will come up and the community will b e shred apart.
I think complaining for the copy rights in this case just shows that the LFG was not made for the community as a helping but it was made for the profit.
So, it is like you are saying that wikipedia in other languages is stealing data from the English language. Well, it is like that if you consider translating = data leaching.
I think the .net guy should make his interface in more languages and so his site can be considered an international LFG site which is not restricted to English speakers.
Just use whatever site you like guys, and the many others that might appear as long as all the data is centralized and not spread apart.
No one steals anybody’s work.If you are using an e-mail client like Outlook or Thunderbird and you add a google and an yahoo account there and open them, do you that considered data leaching?
I think not.
First off the outlook analogy is bizzare. It would not be considdered leeching because Outlook is a client for checking email. Yahoo and google bost host their own data for email independantly. I can’t even figure out a way to make that data leeching in my head.
At the heart of the matter is the fact that the .com site has gotten a lot more traffic than it did originally and hosting has gone up as a result. He pays for this out of his own pocket and with donations. How would you sugest he pay for the bandwidth if not with donations or some ad revenue as he has to pay for the bandwidth of not only the people hitting his site and using it but the people hitting the .net site as well.
The .com site initially had no ads and no donation area. It quickly grew a lot faster than anticipated and hosting and bandwidth costs went up. If you factor in all the hits the site gets from people going to it and all the mobile apps for it (IE windows phone, iphone, and android) that adds up to a lot of bandwidth and data charges. Then add another site on top of those just using the data and taking bandwidth by pulling from it then it gets absurd.
Just for statistics there have been Total LFG’s created: 3,102,324 since the site went live. The site has been live 137 days exactly. That equates to 22,644 groups per day and that many hits per day minimum. That does not count hits for refreshes as well or hits from .net pulling data recently.
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I do fractal 30+ all the time (36) and usualy get very nice drops. These are not necisarrily off the chest mind you but just the other day I got two exotics and four rares the whole run. This not counting the greens and blues I can vendor. I usualy make a decent amount per run. Of course some runs I get crap but that is the luck of the draw I guess.
The Sentinels [SENT] are recruiting. We are not on Tarnished Coast but if you are willing to relocate we are on Stormbluff Isle which is a great server. We are a multi game guild that is medium size in GW2. We currently have events scheduled for most nights of the week including world boss night, bounties, WvW, and other guild missions once we have them ulocked soon.
Our founding principles are that The fate of an entire guild should not rest on the shoulders of one person, nor should the decisions that affect the entire guild be left solely to one favored group. A successful guild is a brother- and sisterhood whose members understand how they can work together. To that end we believe the membership should decide what they would like to see eventwise in the guild and we try to accomidate as much as possible.
If you are interested and want to check us out take a look at our website http://the-sentinels.net We do require 18+ and a very short application (no requests for your firstborn I promise)
if you want to contact me ingame feel free to send a tell to me when I am on. I am usualy on as Liara Rina or you can just send it to Syphen.1980
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
If you haven’t already found a home I would like you to consider The Sentinels [SENT]. We are located on Stormbluff Isle and have been around as a guild since 2007.
We are a multi game guild that started out in AoC with the founding principles that The fate of an entire guild should not rest on the shoulders of one person, nor should the decisions that affect the entire guild be left solely to one favored group. A successful guild is a brother- and sisterhood whose members understand how they can work together.
We are 18+ and believe in playing the game however you want. We are a PvX guild with scheduled events most nights of the week We use mumble for voice coms and encourage participation in it as it lets you get to know gild members a little better. We tend to move together from game to game and currently have active branches in AoC and GW2. We are looking at moving into Defiance as well as possibly Elder Scrolls online, and perhaps Neverwinter. I realize these have nothing to do with GW2 but it is a nice thing if you play multiple games or don’t feel like looking for a new guild everytime you start a new game.
Check us out at http://the-sentinels.net and read our charter to see if we might be right for you.
I look forward to possibly hearing from you.
Are you looking for a medium sized guild where you are not just a number? The Sentinels are based on Stormbluff Isle and we are a medium sized multi game guild. We are a PvX guild with organized events during the week. We are fairly laid back and encourage people to play how they want but we do encourage you to get involved as much as possible in the guild overall.
The Sentinels were formed in 2007 in Age of Conan with the philsophy that
The fate of an entire guild should not rest on the shoulders of one person, nor should the decisions that affect the entire guild be left solely to one favored group. A successful guild is a brother- and sisterhood whose members understand how they can work together.
If this sounds like the home for you feel free to stop by our site and check us out http://the-sentinels.net We do have a short application to fill out but nothing major and we don’t ask for your firstborn on it. You must be 18+ and follow our charter.
Ingame you can send a tell to my ID or send me a mail and I will get back to you ASAP.
I look forward to hearing from you.
because the weapons cost nothing and you can resigil them for free? Not sure why you would need more than one as I don’t think they are soulbound. (I could be wrong though) They are probably account bound.
Why in the heck would you possibly want 250 of each weapon and armor? that is a ridiculous amount of overkill.
I tried to use a password that I’ve never used before, not on GW2, not anywhere, it had 20 characters and my e-mail is used ONLY for GW2. (9 quadrillion years to crack!)
“This password has been logged or used before”
Whaaaaaaaaaat?
Its possible that someone else had used the password before on some forum somewhere that got hacked or whatever, and that password ended up on one of the password lists that the hackers spread, which ANET probably picked up on, and in order for account thieves to not simply go through the list (assuming they knew your email adress and wanted to steal your account)
Impossible since GW2 has it’s own entirely unique e-mail address I have used nowhere else online. One of my friends (Who I know and trust) had his account hacked early on in GW2 and he had very robust security precautions – obviously they blamed him for having weak security.
So I implemented extreme security measures (unique e-mail, unique password, extreme strength password); and twice now my account appears to have been compromised. So, either gmail is both compromised and has someone using that data to datamine for GW2, or arenanet’s security is compromised.
Because the password itself not necissarily the email was compromised. If that password has ever been on a forum, mmmo, network anything that was ever compromized and distributed they disabled it.
The infamous PSN hack that exposed everones info, Curse has been hacked numerous times, banking sites, and much more. Basically if that password has ever ben compromised at at point in time ever on any network and was on a list of known passwords that have been distributed or tried against a gw2 account they locked it down.
So if you can use that password now you can rest assured that it has never been on a password distribution list that A-net could find.
They did this specifically to block any passwords that were known to have been hacked at any time in the past. This is why they instituted a manditory password change after the blacklist was created.
This ensures that your password is unique and has never been on a list of known hacked passwords. I had to change mine as well even though I garuntee it is unique. Just deal with it and realize your account is safer because of it.
If you are getting a message that you or someone else has used that password before then your password sucks. Try using something more original than
L337P455\/\/0RD
Or heck that is probably better than what you are trying even.
Here is a hint to save your passwords. Get a password manager such as Roboform to manage them. Roboform syncs across every device and your password list is available in every browser and on your mobile devices.
I probably have kitten near over 100 different loggin and passwords saved in mine. I would never be able to remember all my logins and passwords without it.
http://www.roboform.com/ <—— awesome
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There is a bug that makes the banners permanent and it is more than likely being abused. There is a guild that has done the same thing on Stormbluff Isle.
If this is done legitly and not by an exploit then there is nothing wrong with it but I highly doubt this since it is a known bug.
On that note though Stormbluff isn’t nearly that bad. There are only two permanent banners in front of the bank. That screenshot is a little obnoxious.
The don’t say when exactly it will come because like any game that is around even if the feature is in testing there could be last minute show stopping bugs that prevent it being pushed out. If they say it will be out next month then something happens and it gets pushed back that irritates people even more. Case in point when there were supposed to be WvW updates in february and they got pushed back a month.
I quote from another thread "Colin Johanson: “In February, we’re going to do a whole bunch of expansions on top of that world vs world area, to make that experience even more uniquely Guild Wars. But that’s something where we took a lot of inspiration from a previous game, and take that and then build on it and make it something even more.”
and yet there were unforseen bugs so it got pushed to march.
I realize a name change is not the same as a WvW update but the same rule applies really.
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So much drama, who cares.
I’m going to do a test overnight to see if this supposed memory leak exists on .net, but if it doesn’t then why not use it? Makes my experience better over-all.
For real though, ANet needs to just integrate this into the game.
The person who cares is the person who’s bandwidth this person is leeching without permission. The .net owner has beeen given a cease and decist by the owner of the .com site and he has refused to do so and continues to leech data.
Whether or not the site has a better format or not is irrelevent at this point unless you really just don’t care about ethics.
Then the .com owner should handle that issue. It’s well within his power, why he hasn’t done it by now is beyond me and also not my problem.
I care about ethics in the real world, not on the internet. What do I have to gain on the internet by choosing to use the website that has more shortcomings to organize my groups?
Because obviously running a site on the internet doesn’t cost any money. To say you care about ethics in the real world and not on the internet is kind of laughable.
So your saying it is the .com owners responsibility to forcibly stop someone from stealing data through litigation or removing the feature that lets the mobile apps work simply because another site wants to steal the data?. I don’t see why the .net owner can’t just say ok I have been asked to stop I will. At this point the continued leeching of data is just the .net owners way of saying they really don’t give a crap about anyone elses rights or costs.
So much drama, who cares.
I’m going to do a test overnight to see if this supposed memory leak exists on .net, but if it doesn’t then why not use it? Makes my experience better over-all.
For real though, ANet needs to just integrate this into the game.
The person who cares is the person who’s bandwidth this person is leeching without permission. The .net owner has beeen given a cease and decist by the owner of the .com site and he has refused to do so and continues to leech data.
Whether or not the site has a better format or not is irrelevent at this point unless you really just don’t care about ethics.
easier fix would have been just make it so you couldn’t guest to do the chest again.
It is not really kittening people with alts. The market was tanking with all the rares flooding it coupled with the fact that you could guest and get the chest again. This was making it so people that actualy were on the server could not do the event due to overflow. It is a sad change but a needed one.
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Hi guys,
We’ve updated gw2lfg.net with some new features including some UI changes and we now save what you were last viewing (Europe, North America, Story Mode, etc)
Sawnic if you’d like to get in contact with us please use the ‘Contact Us’ at the bottom of the site in gw2lfg.net we can go more in details about what services we use in case you’re interested
and yet still no compliance with the cease and desist that was requested.
I qoute from your contact us page.
“fohtoh
fohtoh 4 days ago
Cease and Desist.
You do not have permission to scrape my site. This is my first attempt to contact you nicely with a cease and desist now.
What you have done is attempt to use my name “gw2lfg” and pulling data directly from my site to populate your site.
Cease immediately.
You have not attempted to ask my permission and we have given no such permission for this activity. "
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So if the only reason you were scraping data was to showcase the technology and power of what you are doing then stop doing it since you have proved your point. At this point if you are not stopping even after he has sent you a cease and desist request then you are just showing how much you just don’t give a crap.
In short he asked you to stop officialy on your support site yet you refuse to do so. It isn’t your data to scrape so stop doing it and host your own data and stand on your own merrits instead of leeching data and calling it your own technology. Especialy if you don’t want to work with him now.
and lol at the mass spam. The only way to mass spam your site is to post it on the .com one since that is the only place you get your data from.
I also think it is hilarious when you go to your site and it says no listing found then you see a popup that says please wait while we contact our server then it shows all the listings from the other site.
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It is all in how you play your build. I play a ranger and routinely run 37+ fractals with a regular group and I am far from useless. I played a trap condition build and recently switched over to a power prec crit build. My survivability is quite good, of course most of the time I am at 1500 range and I actualy know how to play and dodge stuff rather than just try to sit there and soak it up. Rangers are also really good at kiting mobs around if needed.
I have a 80 guardian, Necro, and Ranger and I have to say I really like playing my ranger. That being said though the guardian does offer a lot of support to the group in the form of boons, healing (if specced right) and just outright survivability (if specced for it) It all really boils down to people not being closed minded.
again if you walk the path counter clockwise they can’t do this. rule of thumb never pop your bounties unless you have found most of the npc’s and problem solved.
or if you go into a zone and you have already popped your bounty mention that you have an active bounty for them and 90% of the time they will tell you where they are.
Or maybe the people on my server aren’t quite that immature for the most part. Who knows.
there are maps all over that show the bounties path. follow them counter clockwise and profit. you can’t hide the npc off the path.
He does not have the ads simply to make money for real world use. He has had to upgrade his bandwidth to 3 servers just to handle the load and amount of hits. I know this because it is a guildie of mine that created it.
I can’t prove it but I suspect the purpose is to drive traffic to his site and then slap in a unobtrusive ad to make a profit. He states he has tried to contact the owner of gw2lfg.com site to make arangements multiple times and I know this is a flat out lie.
Just shady all around. If you really just want to help the site out and have it better looking work with him and give him your design to put on his site. End of story, he gets the support to pay for the hosting and bandwidth and everyone gets the nice new format.
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it won’t cause a divided community since he is leeching directly from gw2lfg.com. All he did was put a pretty skin on it and put the other site in an iframe.
Since it is set up that way things listed on gw2lfg.com are listed there since he is pulling the info directly from the other site and inputting the infro to there from his site.
I wouldn’t really be that upset about it but it was a guildy of mine that created the original site and this is merely using his bandwidth since all the data is still being processed through his site. Yet if people use the new site he will not get any kind of donations of any kind to support his site and keep it running.
Bandwidth and hosting is not free after all.
He has two banner ads up on his site simply to help pay for the hosting and bandwidth.
Of course if he has permission from the original site to cross link the data it really doesn’t matter. Although I suspect he doesn’t.
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I tend to agree that some of the sugestions while they seem good would horribly break other aspects. They do have community relations people that post here on the forums as well as the devs themselves occasionally.
The developers do read the forums. With all the upcoming content though they do not have time to respond to every thread.
If you are going to try to steal links at least try to make it less obvious. Very low and unlclassy. You really should not say that you are the same as the .com sister site since you are in no way affiliated at all with him at all. I know this since it was a guildy of mine that has been running the other site since the game was released.
I would at least remove all reference to you being better than the original site and try to stand on your own merits.
Unless you have permission from Fotoh to link the other site I would remove the using his bandwidth for your site and just have your own database for the LFG.
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I don’t really have a problem with the 20+ fractals honestly. They are challenging and I really like it. The only ones that really need to be nerfed to hell are the control room with the dredge, Flame shaman adds somewhat, and the kitten elemental on snowblind. Collosus isn’t that bad although the loot kind of sucks for the effort and it takes forever.
The dredge control room is a lot easier with a thief to shadow refuge the panel since the adds are just so ridiculously nasty in that room with the close quarters. It wasn’t bad with spy kits but now it is just plain anoying. That is the only part of that instance I don’t really like though. Flame shaman also isn’t that bad but can be fustratng on higher levels without excelent communication and tactics but I like the challenge.
Concerning cost to unlock the types of missions I do agree with the statements on that. My guild is pretty decent size and it is still taking a lot to unlock the different ones. I can see the cost being unobtainable for smaller guilds personally and it is bad to exclude them from the mix just because of the influence barrier. The level 5 and 6 of that tier already cost a bit to research and on top of that you need 50k more just to unlock the mission is kind of insane. If you haven’t already researched 5 and 6 you are looking at roughly 100k influence just to unlock bounties which are required for the other mission types.
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honestly ascended gear is not that huge of a stat boost and the only reason you really have to get it is for the added AR for higher level fractals. So in essence you are not “forced” to do dailies at all. You can do them at your own pace or not and still get stuff that is usefull to you.
Also since the recent changes on the dailies they really are not that bad now. You can practicly get most of them without even trying since there are so many options. You typically don’t have to go out of your way and do one particular thing like you used to. Heck I got daily condition applier on accident the other day on my ranger. I got it on the first pull of a fractal.
use temple timers. easy to find when stuff spawns