Guild Wars 2

Separation between PVE/PVP and whatever a MMO game give you, it is a thing asked at every beta of every MMO by many players (if not majority).

The reason is quite simple, for example in GW2, when they will nerf something because “is imbalanced in WvWvW” it will hurt PVE players, for no reason, or they will keep imbalance hurting WvWvW players. On the other hand this game have no challenge in PVE, except few bosses (es. Lupicus) so it does not bother me too much.
PV kitten eparated from PVE in Gw2 and that is good, but WvWvW and PVE not.. and this may cause problems in future.

But as general philosophy of game design… I completely agree…. every sector of the game MUST be separated and accessible at players at the same time, may be is asking too much, but I hate when patch notes from an MMO comes and I read that my main is being nerfed because few players have found a combination of talents/traits that perform too well in PVE or PVP.

My 2 cents.

Lopez.7369:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Backstab thieves I pretty much never have issues with in WvW. The difficult ones are the ones that spam the crap out of stealth and have the “Remove conditions on stealth” trait. They don’t really do much, but they are annoying as hell to deal with.

Yeah, they can be annoying, but I don’t mind them two much. Thieves come in two kinds: They either do huge damage at first and can then be easily avoided and controlled, or they have a ton of survivability but essentially do zero damage.

The last kind of thieves you said never pick up a fight alone, while the first kind (all damage on opening) yes, so I’m more concerned about the first one….

Sorry to say it, but…. NO.

I’m a necro since beta, currently specced conditiomancer full rabbid.

1700 CD (With food)
1850-1900 tough (2700 armor)
20k healt
52% crit.

I do not see my self dying too much or any difference with others… mistakes apart.
(And I’m an average player… not Hardcore or particularly skilled.)

Only a Necromancer can easily master Cooking.

Just don’t ask where the meat came from…..

Here lies Radamantes, he mastered Death Shroud.

(Only true necros can understand )

Thank you for your video and explanations, I’m going to try that

Just a quick question and a provocation.

Question : Instead of spectral grasp, for a “continuous” life force regen isn’t better the signet of undeath ? (The grip may be too situational )

Provocation : (evil here ) don’t you think that is more useful for a pve party a warrior sonic boon ( more damage and healing via shout) instead of a necro berzeker ( low damage compared to war and no utilities for party) ?

VOXofSD.7085:

Im a member of OP’s guild ….

The thing about written words is, that they are often read the way the reader wants to and not how the writer ment it.

People put to much into loot and grind !

We are both a soicial & raiding guild, strong social bond both in game and in RL, it is not about the loot “items”, its about us wanting large scale raiding, its about having somthing to strive for personaly and as a guild after hitting max level, again not for the loot as much as having some quality game time with the guildies.

sadly this game is falling short, but what a great start it had, such potential …

Best regards ..
Vaxul

I was writing my post when your came up. I agree with you.

May be it is me, but reading some comments here remind me that every human when read a text, read what they want read, not what it is wrote in the text.

The OP want to talk about a main aspect of GW2 and guilds, not about gear grind or kind of game progression.

Many player do not want feel bound to another group of players… it is ok and respectable, but many other (like ME) like group play where actions are carried together to succeed.. it is also OK, there is nothing wrong in both play style.

Now.. can someone of the “enlightened” solo players that do not like competitions and challenges, explain to me why there can not be contents for guilds in a MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER ON LINE GAME ? I’m fine with contents for solo players, but solo playing is a CHOICE, do you like it ? Do it, but do not complain about guild features… it is stupid make comments about something that you never do/did.

Now.. can someone of the “enlightened” solo players that do not like competitions and challenges, explain to me why there can not be contents for guilds in a MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER ON LINE GAME ? I’m fine with contents for solo players, but solo playing is a CHOICE, do you like it ? Do it, but do not complain about guild features… it is stupid make comments about something that you never do/did.On footnote, please do not say “They will implement guild housing in a future” because I bought the game sometimes ago… not “in the future”, when you buy a product, it is for the present not for a future that “probably” you will see but may be not.

Now.. can someone of the “enlightened” solo players that do not like competitions and challenges, explain to me why there can not be contents for guilds in a MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER ON LINE GAME ? I’m fine with contents for solo players, but solo playing is a CHOICE, do you like it ? Do it, but do not complain about guild features… it is stupid make comments about something that you never do/did.On footnote, please do not say “They will implement guild housing in a future” because I bought the game sometimes ago… not “in the future”, when you buy a product, it is for the present not for a future that “probably” you will see but may be not.My 2 cents.

-Dual spec
-bug fix
-Features for guilds that makes guild useful except chatting
-Dungeon improvement.. with better fights and less HP (for mobs)
-WvWvW rewamp.

To OP : nice tread, I agree all, guild are just a chat atm. And… Does someone have understand what a guild bank is needed for in this game ? Changed 2 guilds (one small, one large) and no one use this “game feature” called “guild bank”.

1) A viable power/axe build that is not a joke.

2) Bug fixes

3) Total rework of minions art design to fit better a necro, not a clown with rats

4) Total rework of minion AI (they need badly) and minions utilities

5) DS interface fix, we can not see condition on us….

Thank you for the post.

I did not played GW1, looking at the art side GW1 minions looks better than GW2 and fit more necromancer, jagged horrors especially.

I’m one of the unjustified banned of the first mega-wave of bans , my account was restored intact and unchanged when they had not the “technology” to roll back accounts or so and left me with a suspect of hack, without a clear response. I hope this time that the bans are more accurate and hit only hard exploiters.

This:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/151wsw/punishment_for_the_snowflake_jewelryexploiters/

When you accept the user agreement you know that this kind of actions are against rule of conduct.

Be realistic…. They will never let you make 500 golds in 18hrs… they need to keep farm slow. You will never make (without gold sellers or exploits) the legendary in short times(few days).

EDIT: Anyway I can agree that sometimes as deterrent may be useful an “account roll back” prior to the exploit (if the exploit was not too much).

I did few, but I stopped because:

- Zerg vs zerg

-Smashing door and the next second smashing another door

-Trebs on a structure hitting another structure without the possibility to do something.

-Lords of Nothing (Lords of keeps or structures) being vaporized in 20 sec by zergs

-Small groups are useful but in the end useless

- Commanders do not have a real role except creating a Zerg mass.

-Exploits

- Night capping rewarded as daily capping, but without the same effort.

- Small maps, or too many structures in maps that make feel the maps crowded.

-Lacking of a scout role (rewarded).

-Random badges are just random: Effort not rewarded . You can be the best player and save the world and receive one badge, or just a mindless aoe zergling and being rewarded with more badges.

- Lacking of emphasis of impact on realm by WvWvW, I will spend few words here: Back on DAOC when a realm that held relic got the whole population buffed with 10% of magic damage boost or 10% physical damage boost, depending on which relic you got. Buffs where visible and everyone know that realm was holding a relic. Here we got good buffs, but they are just hidden… if you do not press B you got the impression of nothing, your gaming experience can go on with or without that passive boosts of WvWvW.

I do not understand this kind of topics.

Grats for legendary… but calling a “journey” like you have done something difficult except farming , it is too much.

Have a nice gaming year… possibly with something that reward skills or group efforts.

Hi there,

I’m necro since beta weekend 1, I started this profession convinced to be a useful support.

I discovered that running in dungeons do not need a support, while WvsWvsW is a zerg fest 75%-90% of time so… healing during AoE zerg fest is like attempting to dry a sea wave with a kleenex in a hand, pointless. I can not say many things about sPVP because I do not do it.

Then…fractals happens …..

Actually with the gear progression (aka fractals) I’m playing condition-DPS, with a pre made group, and I have noticed that Ele full cleric with rune and for boon duration (close to 100% boon duration) and guardian shout (condition remover), shine above all support spec, I know that ranger have most than one support specialization, but I have not seen in action someone.. so I can not say much about this.

Now, it is not matter if necro is able to do or not support, of course there is the build and gear, but when you put the necro in an environment of fractals after lev 18-20, it does not shine like the elementalist and guardian properly traited and geared for support.

I have a long experience of healing as a player in MMOs, while I’m not the best healer of the world (I’m an average player that read theorycrafts ) I know for experience that the incoming damage dictate the way you play-and specialize you character in this kind of game. Type/ Frequency/Amplitude of the incoming damage will tell you many thing about the encounter (be it PVE or PVP) you have to do.

Since after lev 18-20 of fractals everything hurt, you need to min-max everything to succeed, unless you plan to go in a fractal run do be downed or dead 90% of your time. So why someone need a necro support while we can have the best elsewhere ???

I know that this kind of thoughts are against the mantra “I want to be free to play as I want”….but hey…once “someone” introduce a gear progression….. the mantra go….. well, you know where it goes.

My 2 cents.

(P.s Sorry for grammar !!! Not a native Eng- Speaker here, I hope it is readable)

Superior Rune of Undead, do not use Necromancer if you go in Fractal, agony mecchanics punish high health pool, and we have already high health pool.

Oldbugga.7029:

Here is the ANet view of the necro:

“Necro

The necro boasts the highest natural health of all the caster classes, and also has death shroud to extend that life total even higher. While they don’t have some of the escape or damage reduction capabilities that other classes boast, they do have a lot of ways to win attrition fights. They have access to poison on multiple weapons, they are able to combine condition damage with raw damage, and they have multiple disables to interrupt enemy skills. Necomancers also have multiple movement disabling abilities, while allows them to chase down enemies who are low on health."

Looks impressive doesn’t it?

IN THE SPIRIT OF EDUCATING THE PLAYERS (not unreasonable thing to ask for any software package) in what is a complex profession, could the devs please show us a build that incorporates at least a good part of that vision an a meaningful way. I keep running in to the either/or choices that leave me only one, at most two, of those aspirations being fulfilled and leaving me with a very narrow pidgeon-holed outcome.
Please avoid using broken traits and abilities like we have to.

Honestly that description apply well to sPVP… while I do not see any use to chase or immobilize a fractal boss that hit for 7-20k of damage with a cloth user….even with DS.
Also..in PVE high end (read fractals) dagger- axe and horn are pretty useless.

During fractals, I have noticed that when I use death shroud to absorb the agony damage the tick number is always higher than out of DS.
Since Agony is a damage over time calculated on your total HP, I have some doubts about that… :

1) Is agony resistance applied to DS or not ?

2) DS healt pool is used to calculate total agony damage ?

Thank you in advance.

Just out of curiosity….

When a fix is made… who the hell test it before the release ???

It is not possible that a similar bug went unnoticed… unless no one did that fractal before the release of 3rd dec.

So in the end we got no answers. Silence talk for it self.

This forum is a chaos….. treads are disappearing… merged… disappearing and coming back again….. I do no know if my post was here.. or in the old tread….

I re-add my voice: Lost last 5 mins of the event… got stuck on loading screen and lost chest… no rewards ofc….

the old topic is gone for a forum bug….. I’m tired of writing too…. but I will rewrite here:

I just spent whole night on the final event of lost shores … was not fun because of lag… the last 5 mins of the event all “raid” died, we went back to nearest waypoint but i got my client stuck on loading screen… lost last part and chest…. then I was unable to log in because of log-in server problems…
Now you will come here to say “sorry, we can do nothing”… well… I just want to know why in 2012 game designers (or whoever do this thing) obstinate to create events that group the whole player base of an MMO on the same pixel of a same city/region … just to see frame slowing .. lag or server crash…..

Was not just too easy spread the event around the world at the same time and forcing players to spread in the world ?

Disappointed (to say less ).

I add my voice :

Crashed the last 5 mins of event, unable to get back i was stuck on loading screen… no rewards…. great moment.

So now…. I guess that you will say “sorry” but “we can’t do nothing”……. bha..

Also add an insane server lag.

EDIT: I do not understand why game designer (or who create this sort of things) do not spread players around the world with a coordinated event, instead of concentrate all game players on the same pixel….. just to see frame lag… disconnections or server crash…. bha…

No skill involved in having a legendary, only a long farm, and luck with the precursor… or more farming for gold to buy it at BLT.

No particular bosses to deafeat, or PVP rank to obtain

No hard modes to be done.

No particular skill, except completing the map.

Nothing… only farm for mats and more mats…

“Necro bugs ? I have seen only few ones !”

come on guys… ok…., they are not able to duplicate items, but you are going to tell me that if someone lost or delete an item bought with gems (real money), they can not refund even the gems? Or take an item from their own shop and transfer to an account? (after a proper verification).

ticket 121028-001299 7th day update:

I received the automated message but I did not received the mail, maybe this information is useful for you.

Anyway I have sent the required Info, and yes was a mistype.

Waiting.

To my point of view :

1) WvsWvsW is become all about mass zerg a castle, and if you cant, place a Treb on a wall of a castle and destroy the nearest structure. I have played DAOC for a long time, frontiers xp too.. and I do not even recall a memory of 2 structures close to each other. Some sige weapon are too powerfull or can be placed too many times…. WvWvW is become also a SIGE vs SIGE.

2) Dungeon: The excuse " lack of holy trinity" is become a sort of “shield” to craft poor boss design. Some encounters are fun in dungeons.. but many are not… and also the effort put in a dungeon do not reward the time invested. It is ok craft an hard dungeon, it is not ok loot jokes from chests… Also tokens skins have a negative impact on dungeons, because players select the fastest path to farm skipping the rest.

3) Farm for legendary: This is the top of absurdity, the mats needed to craft the legendary instead of being skill and effort based, are only a long..long farm that seem created perfectly for bots (see point 4)

4) Events: The fabled events are only scripts that do not impact the world, cursed shore is become the “farm plinx” (and few related events) for mats (see point 3)

Orr is all about farm plinx event Because this game is farm in the pure essence.
The mantra “Swing a sword again” is become “farm for a skin (or legendary) again”.

EDIT: Players involved in farm actions tend to be very unpleasant

Ticket 121028-001299

2/3 days ago got on forum : Under review as a compromised account

then nothing again

6th day.

@rafaelhen.4397 I don’t think, Italy here and still banned for nothing. 4th day.

Ticket : 121028-001299

4th day after first submission, no answer, no customer care, just banned for having done nothing.

I had my voice to this, I’m in the same situation, and I’m in TS whit my guild mates discussing about that.

@ Gale Gray

In relation to the response at the user grim west.3194
here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/If-your-account-has-been-blocked-suspended-terminated-Read-this/page/5#post591092

Part of the confusion is that the details of the incident seem to indicate a hack (like an RMT worker stole your account) and yet no evidence of an account compromise can be found. I’ll see if I can ping someone to dive into this one.

This is the worst thing you could ever say , even if it is the truth, banned someone for nothing ?

You do realize that players have payed the game to play… so that it mean that Anet are running a payed service, and Anet terminated the service without justification?

Hi,

ticket 121028-001299 reached 3 days, no response, no contacts. Worst experience ever in 13 years of on-line gaming.

Banned for gold selling or trading actions that I didn’t have done.

For the record, just in case, I have scanned my Pc with kaspersky anti virus updated to latest definition and with spy-bot search and destroy also updated to latest definitions, and I have found nothing. And yes I used a strong password.

@Einzelherz.1497 just to let you know, I did not received any advice, last saturday night I was playing, sunday morning I was banned for something I didn’t have done. No advice.. no question, no mail… nothing. Pure American style…. first you are guilty, then you prove your innocence (if you can……).

Sorry aszemp.8594 but I will not trade my rights for some candy in game. And I’m not giving the benefit of the doubt…. while they are still human so they can make mistakes, they are not correcting nothing, this is not the first time, we are not the first nor the last.

@aszemp.8594 Compensation ? There is no montly fee here, also more important, how can ppl banned for nothing trust Anet anymore ? Will you consider them serious ? I will not, and I’m spreading the voice with my guild, IRL ppl that I know (and was about to buy the game).

getzzzonked.7609 I do not know why all of this, the only thing I remember is that one…and nothing. From what i know my account has not been hacked or anything else, and I had not bought nothing except some gems from anet shop, that all.
I can not trust no one or nothing at this point. I’m starting to consider my money lost for nothing.

Dear Anet,

I want to explain few things by my self, English is not my mother tongue so it will be hard to me explain all things and my feelings, but I will try.

I’m a on-line player from 13 years till now, I started to play with the 4th Prophecy (The 4th coming) , then other MMOs came , DAOC, WOW, AION, Allods, Rift, SwTOR and GW2, and the constant in the game that I have played was the people I have met, and from WoW through the other games I played with same players. I have to admit that things did not went smoothly always…but hey… you know… humans…

All things were going like always… until yesterday morning, when after work I logged my GW2 account, where I have found a “permanent ban for actions involved in gold trading”…well… I was quite shocked, because I know that I have not done any of the action contested, and the only thing I remember is that " one copper" in that spam mail that I have reported and left in the mail box.

This is my first ban in 13 years (and the record is all your), and I have done nothing, while I ‘m not sure that I have been the most polite gamer ever ( you know… humans…) I’m sure that I never had… even remotely contacted a gold seller.

While I have opened a ticket and I wait, I read the forums and I found other players waiting days for similar problems. Some questions are coming in my head, first and above all "How this is possible ? " after…“Why I have to be treated like I’m now ?”

So, this is how it is ? I’m guilty of things that I didn’t do? I received no advice of suspension just the advice of permanent ban, no options to talk… or reply….nothing.

You have to excuse me, but I feel my self frustrated, I know that in the end you will check (and I hope that you will use more accurate methods now) and you will find nothing except one copper in a received in game mail that I did’t ask to receive and I was not able to delete. While I’m not being assisted (or I’m, but I’m completely unaware ) I’m asking to my self If I really I want back that account… but I will go on… for now; what I’m sure I lack something for and from you since yesterday and that are TRUST and 74.99 euro.

This is my story.

Best regards.

Incident: 121028-001299

EDIT: sorry for grammar and punctuation, I hope is readable.

After reading I have updated my ticket: 121028-001299
with more information to help. Still waiting.

Ticket 121028-001299, still waiting, for having done nothing, and no response for all ppl posting the same problems.

welcome to the crew of unjustified bans

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/If-your-account-has-been-blocked-suspended-terminated-Read-this/page/3

Incident: 121028-001299

Surprise surprise, it is not the first time that unjustified bans happens, for a system fault.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Permanently-Banned-for-Modifying-or-Tampering-with-game

The funny part is that I left the copper inside the mail, in the mail box.

I did the ticket, and seem that I’m not alone :

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/If-your-account-has-been-blocked-suspended-terminated-Read-this/first

hereticgame.1908:

guys its ok common everyone makes a mistake and happens rarely its called bad luck just like it happened to me my weekend got wasted and from monday sad job again.its ok though no one is perfect they are humans like us remember ur past how many mistakes u made till now i only wish that anet doesnt permanent ban the innocent people just like me who buyed the account by doing hard work and didnt did any mistake or broke any rules.

No no no…… you are wrong. THIS is not BAD LUCK, this is incompetence at technical level, something in their system didn’t had the adequate level of checks to be sure that the account involved is really a gold seller or not…. a miserable copper in a mail can blow their system. This tell so much.

account banned for gold selling or buying, but i did not have done any of contested action.

The only thing i did was reporting an undeletable mail of a gold seller with one copper inside.

I have opened a ticket.

121028-001299

Hello Arena net, This account is perma banned for action involved in gold selling.

The only thing I did was reporting a mail from a gold seller with inside one copper, this probably have triggered some of your control systems.

Now, after the rage moment, I got some questions.

HOW you verify that the account you ban are REALLY involved in the gold- buying / selling …. and HOW can I demonstrate that is not justified ?

Is a software that decide ?

Wating for answer.

DING!…… we got a problem….. many account (like mine) were banned for action involved in gold-selling.

The only thing I did was reporting a mail with inside one copper (in that case the mail was not deletable), I did not took the copper and left the mail inside the box…. now I have the account perma banned.

I can not express my self now.. I’m too much enraged.

So the number 10.000 is pumped of unjustified banned account… I have already opened a ticket, and now I have to wait..

Thank you ….really much…..

seem that the problem is spreading :

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/If-your-account-has-been-blocked-suspended-terminated-Read-this/page/3#post565508