Guild Wars 2

xarallei.4279:

I have plenty of fun. And Raine is right. When it comes to difficult group content, it’s not just about YOU. It’s about the group. And someone walking in with a Celestial guardian or Soldier necro is a detriment to the entire group. You don’t need perfect meta to raid. You can get away with exotics. You can get away with a class that might not be meta, like a condi rev or a necro. But even if you play a class that is not considered meta you need to play it to the best of your ability and you need to play the best build for that class. You need to put some effort in. Otherwise you are being a drain to the group. You are just being carried. Now if you are upfront with your group and say you want a carry and they are perfectly ok with it. Then hell, go ahead. But don’t lie or try to be sneaky about it. You are just going to be found out in the end when people look at their dps meters.
(the “you” here is a general one, not one specifically directed at you op.)

This is probably why I run solo 99% of the time and don’t get into group events. I don’t want to be scrutinized by those who spend 14 hours a day played and know every aspect of the builds. I have played on and off for almost since release, have a couple of 80 toons and others 40-60-ish, but I’ve never completed a single dungeon in the game.

I have done PvP very little and found that while my level 80 hits people for about 20 damage (yes 20), they hit me for 4000. I can’t for the life of me figure out why there’s such a discrepancy.

It’s like political parties. I’ll bet anyone here who is registered belongs to a single party. You can’t be in the Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Green Party, Peace & Freedom, etc. all at once. You pick the one you most closely identify with.

Groups are for people to get together for various activities they enjoy, not guilds. Some people don’t know a guild is, I suppose.

Thanks for the responses, especially those who do get it.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

the guild system is fine.

too bad there is only a max of 5 guilds to join.

my guild members do not represent 100% and i do not force them to,
thus, in the end, those who will stay and become core members, will continue to do so,
those who do not fit in will simply leave.

Well, this could easily be fixed if everyone in the game were just automatically in every single guild in the game.

Isn’t it also true that if you are not representing, there isn’t even the guild tag by your name, you can’t see guild chat, which also means you don’t see the guild’s MotD?

Dante.1763:

… now i can feel like a part of all my guilds…

That’s the problem. These things should be group activities. A guild is supposed to be more than a group. It is supposed to be “like-minded” people who are more tight-knit. If everyone doesn’t like the same things, they shouldn’t be in a guild together. I just don’t buy the “I like this activity, but this guild doesn’t, so I need to be part of another guild” thing. With the thousands of guilds, I’ll bet there is no combination of activities that are not covered by many guilds. Just group with people when you want to do like things. There’s a group chat as well.

I think about the historical guilds and what it would be like had they used the same system. Say you’re a Templar in a Christian guild. Are you going to say “Thanks for this meeting, guys, but tomorrow I’m going to be hanging out with the Catholic guild. And the next day, the Pagans.”

I like just about every aspect of GW2, but I feel we’re being a bit slighted with this weak implementation of guilds. The other thing that bothers me is not seeing guild names over people’s heads. Maybe I’m a traditionalist, but there’s a reason they have “groups” and “guilds”.

P.S. I think the use of the word “kitten” in the forums to censor harmless words is ridiculous.

kylania.6924:

One main guild and another smaller guild of some RL friends just to stay in contact. It’s awesome that we have this option that’s missing in many other games.

What is it you can accomplish being in multiple guilds that you can’t from being in just one? Why can’t you and your frinds be in the one guild and still do everything?

Thanks everyone for your reasonable responses. I am so used to being attacked in every forum I post in that I’m a bit guarded in even bringing stuff up. I have noticed that even in-game, the community inm GW2 is far more civil than others and I’ve played dozens, if not a hundred, different MMOs. So thanks again for this.

If I misunderstood the Wiki (or it’s outdated), it seemed to state that the cap was 50, not 500, unless you’re assuming an expansion of some sort. I don’t know what this requires (gold?), but unless it’s very simple, 50 would be an issue.

I do have my own thoughts on guild systems and most of you would probably not want me to design the one used After having run several in different games, I know the problems incurred. I’ve also noticed a general change in how people participate in MMO guilds. People used to be willing to register on guild websites and participate in them and try to do things in the game to better their guild. Now people act like they can’t be bothered and they just want to join a large established guild in order to tap them for all they can get for free and then hop to another.

GW2 appears to have more restrictions on guild leaders than members. Maybe I don’t fully understand the current system. I have not been a continuous player but have been around since launch. I have recently only leveled my first 80 toon. Maybe you can help me with exactly how the system works.

I created a guild and all my toons belong to the guild automatically. If someone joins, are all their toons in my guild? Are you always in every guild you join with every character? Can you be in eight guilds if you have eight toons? Can each of these toons be representing a different guild? If so, I don’t understand why a player would have an issue representing each guild but with a different character.

I will offer some of my ideas, take them or leave them:

I think if someone joins a guild, they should have to submit an official “document” in the game (game mechanic) that the guild master receives. They could then decide to give the player an “honorable discharge” or other action, if they choose. They would have to respond within a time frame (24 hours?) or something and if they did not (perhaps they are no longer active), the player would get a free release from the guild. They could then rejoin another.

If the player did not want to file a petition to leave, they could exit without notice but would have to pay some kind of fee (gold) to the guild. They would also suffer a cool down before being able to rejoin another. A week would be my suggestion.

I also believe it should be more difficult to create guilds. My reasoning is that there are just too many guilds and not enough people in them. Tera Online comes to mind here. When the game was first released, within one week there were over 1000 guilds in my server alone and 98% of them had 1-2 members.

In Rohan: Blood Feud, on the other hand, it was an accomplishment to create a guild. You had to be level 30 minimum (I believe cap was 70), pay 2,000,000 Crones (gold), supply 30 Sweetfish (rare item) and fulfill a chain of seven (some difficult, some timed) quests. That game is pretty old now but they had the best player shop of any MMO ever.

Anyway, enough of my rambling. Thanks in advance for your answers and politeness.

Not trying to start a war here but I’d truly like to know why this game allows people to be in numerous guilds, thus contributing nothing to those they are not “representing”? I’ve played maybe over a hundred MMOs and have never seen this. I would like to understand the reasoning for this system.

There is a restriction on people who create guilds, like you can’t dissolve them and make another until so much time passes. Is there a restriction on people leaving and joining another?

I see guilds as something akin to teams in sports. You can’t play on multiple teams, so why multiple guilds? People should take pride in their guild and try to support it. If you aren’t representing, aren’t you really harming the guild by taking up a slot that someone else could use? I’ve seen a lot of posts of people hating on guild leaders because they “hassle” them by asking them to represent.

If I create a guild, all my characters are part of the guild. I think it should be on an account basis for everyone as well. You join a guild, all your alts belong to that guild. If you don’t like a guild, you are free to leave.

I think the current system weakens the guild system. Respond only if you have constructive insight.

Could this be an overcrowded server issue due to a special event?

It is 11:22 PM CST (Friday 10/2/15) and I can’t connect. Gives error code:

Build: 53778
Error Code: 42:1000:7006:1219

Is the server down? Worked fine this morning.

Ayrilana.1396:

This change was months ago. Some people brought it up, Anet explained why they did it, and no points have been reset since then.

Once you get to level 80, the problem disappears.

But between now and then, there’s a big problem.

Narrrz.7532:

Ayrilana.1396:

Once you get to level 80, the problem disappears.

This exactly. The system spent points to make available all the skills your character had equipped at the time of the update, even putting you into negative points in the process if that was how many points it took.

By the time you hit 80 you will have in the region of 80 more hero points than you can actually spend, even if you’ve never poked a skill challenge inquiringly.

No points were put into skills I had equipped. I had all Fire skills equipped and all my points were put into Earth.

I shouldn’t have to level up to 80, which likely will never happen, with broken skills.

(BTW, these forums are terrible for trying to make a post and edit it)

Why must we be impeded by the update and change in the skills system by having our Hero points spent for us? Why didn’t we get the chance to spend them how we liked? When I logged in, it said the points were spent in a manner that most closely followed our current skills, which is not correct. As an Elementalist, I was mostly using Fire and Air but 100% of my points were spent in Earth. I do not wish to play to level 80 before I can use the build I want. It would be easier to start over, but I shouldn’t have to do this. We need a Hero points reset.

Censored the links, not that anyone would want to actually go there, but thanks.

And, of course, the visible links are not where you’d go anyway. The easiest way to tell if someone is trying to defraud you.

Just wanted to pass this pic along to those who may not be aware. Do not click the links if you get this email:

http://i.imgur.com/Bwsr89g.jpg

Yeah, so this trading post “Jaklan” on the island in Queensdale was reported here as not working two years ago (I read the post) and still does not work.

Is this ever going to be addressed? Are bugs ever fixed? Why not just remove the trading post if it isn’t going to be fixed?

Thanks.

At the risk of necroing this thread (oh, what the heck!):

“Unique” tends to mean one of a kind. Since millions of toons have access to the same “unique” item, it is not really unique in the truest sense. Obviously then, the term is being used to mean unique to the specific toon, in which case they should have programmed it so once a toon purchases this item, it will not appear in any market again to this toon. This would make it truly “unique” and impossible to purchase again.

I can’t put my name in the box. It says:

“Error Loading Character
We couldn’t load that character, please check your spelling.”

The spelling is correct. Is there something special you do if you have spaces in your name? I’ve tried underscores and putting in double quotes.