Guild Wars 2

People have most likely mentioned the problem with WvW gear before.
Now that transmutation crystals are out of the game, it’s not possible to transmute the item and then salvage it afterwards.

Since it’s in WvW, many people will be buying that because it doesn’t require gold and put sigils/runes on it. They do that without knowing that they won’t be able to return it.
In a case with 6/6 strength runes and you want diffrent stats armour, there is no way to regain those sigils, and u will need to trow away ~90g worth of rune what is unfair if you ask me.

Currently I have a 15g sigil what I’d like to sell, instead of trowing it away.
If the gem price isn’t so expensive, I’d have bought the “Upgrade Extractor” in the gem store, and then it’s the question if you are actually able to use it on the gear, but it’s not worth to buy it when the gem price is 12g for 100 gems. (250 gems for 1 use).

My question is; will this ‘bug’ ever be fixed?
or,
Lower the price for the ‘Upgrade Extractor’ to a “better” price (Based on the current gem price, I’d say 50 gems for single use, or 75 gems because the more you buy the cheaper it is.)

I understand the reason for the ‘bug’, so people with loads of Badges of Honour can salvage the items for ecto’s, what will have influence on the market.
Isn’t it possible to remove drops from the gear but only a chance of getting the sigil back?

It isn’t a big problem for me, but that there is no indication of a warning that you can not salvage it can be annoying.

Rgrds, Zyram.

I am looking for an EU or NA server that got enjoyable community commanders during day/prime time.

I have transfered 4 times and I enjoyed Desolation and Blackgate, but that was couple of months ago. A lot has changed I guess.

How is WvW currently on Desolation / SFR / BlackGate?
I am open for other suggestions.

Q1. What kind of issue are you specifically having that could be related to lag?
– Skill lag, rubber-banding, etc.
-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-A1. Skill Lag / Rubber-Banding.

Q2. What server are you on?
-|-|-|-A2. Desolation.

Q3. Has there ever been a time when you or a friend are experiencing lag, while others in your party are not?
-|-|-|-A3. Not that I know of.

Q4. Has there ever been a time where one party in a map is experiencing lag, while other parties in that same map are not?
-|-|-|-A4. Skill lag is noticable by everyone on that map.

Q5. Do you experience the lag at very specific times?
For example, when 1 zerg is facing another zerg.
If so, can you estimate how many players are in each zerg?
-|-|-|-A5. Skill lag is often happening at in the evening when most people play in WvW.
-|-|-|-|-|-|It’s noticable when there is a fight going on between 80-100 people.
-|-|-|-|-|-|At 3 ways (130+) it gets unplayable.

Potential EU specific fix:

Re-do the EU Server route.
I’ve heard that it goes to many places before it reach it’s destination. (like 5-10 diffrent locations)
Back in NA I didn’t notice any skill lag, even my fps was smooth.
NA’s Server route goes right to its destination instead going around the globe before it reaches its destination.

Rgrds
- Zyram -

JonathanSharp.7094:

Awesome post Olli. Especially the points on new game modes. Definitely some cool ideas in there.

Incoming Moba Style Gamemode.

Creeps: range=Skritts/Melee=ooze/Bunkers=Risen Ambomination.
Towers: Mini-Conduit-Towers shooting Orb of Light projectile (Guardian Staff #2).
Wild life: Wild wolfes/Earth Elemental/Shade/(important ones=)Grub/Lupicus.
Playable Characters: Races/Ice Golem/Small Wolf of Modniir/Centaur/Harpy/more.

\o/ lets do it.

DanyK.3842:

Was it
19 – Mercenary
29 – Avenger
39 – Ransacker
49 – Marauder
59 – Ravager
69 – Reaper
79 – Mist Walker

…originally, or rather if you got that far by hot join games only? Because that is a bit sad considering I’d potentially have 2 more titles if I didn’t waste my time with ranked games. Also by rank I’d be Ravager by the time I get Ransacker which is a bit sad.

Oooooohhhh, that’s why.
I was already wondering why it takes so long to get a new Title.

I am currently rank 36 and [Mercenary] and 6/10 to get Avenger.
Felt bad by only having [Mercenary] title

Karril Daltaya.4980:

TheUltimateBackStabber.4863:

Keep in mind that this isn’t ‘The Feature Update’ with massive changes (acording Anet).
This was more a patch for the Living Story/Glory, and they putted some small changes to other mechanics like WvW/BLC/Thief trait fix.

I agree with the OP about wxp. Would have been nice to be able to fully enjoy the many possability’s of the Account Wide WXP in the very beginning of Season 2.

We know hat the big patch isnt going to be months away, because they said so. However, we also know that we arent getting a wvw reset during the season, again they told us that in the note today. So we know that account bound wxp isnt going to happen in the ‘big patch’

Sorry for my unclear post, but with the last sentence I meant that it would have been nice if it came with this patch. Not saying it will come in the Feature Patch or something. Anet knowing, it can take some time

Keep in mind that this isn’t ‘The Feature Update’ with massive changes (acording Anet).
This was more a patch for the Living Story/Glory, and they putted some small changes to other mechanics like WvW/BLC/Thief trait fix.

I agree with the OP about wxp. Would have been nice to be able to fully enjoy the many possability’s of the Account Wide WXP in the very beginning of Season 2.

Why I think Lion’s Arch will take over a year to rebuild it?
Because, at the first Halloween Event the Lion Statue got destroyed.

Right after the event you could see it getting rebuilded.
The building progress lasted ~3 months or more, and that was only 1 statue

Now Lion’s Arch is destroyed it will take longer than a year till it’s finished.

Guess we stick around Vigil Keep for a looooong time.

P.S. If we succeed in re-taking LA then this might take place.

I’ve been playing Condition Engineer in pvp, but I have seen numerous of De-Cap engineers.
I’d like to try it out but I don’t know the build for it. Does anyone know the build by any chance?

+1

I support this idea

I crashed out of Lion’s Arch 15-30m ago and now my client is downloading 20.000-25.000 files. 1.25GB downloaded and 9.000 files to go.

Why did it happen?

A year ago ArenaNet released the patch with the Karka attack on Lion’s Arch.
When the Karka’s attacked LA the game was unplayable, lagfest, crashes, skill lag…

Please, don’t let that happen again.

Q. Anyone thinks that the history repeats itself?

The idea behind the process of making a Legendary is that it requires the maker to experience the whole game; Dungeons/WvW/PvE/Events.
Only doing the JP’s ones a day for the badges isn’t what ‘WvW’ is all about.
This way the player experience what WvW is, rank 30 sounds unrealistic for a player who doesn’t know a lot about WXP.

R1-5 is only 5k WXP, then it’s 5k WXP all the time.
By going in eb or other BL to follow a commander who does a lot of PvD and you use the WXP boosters from rank up chests, you can get 10-15 ranks a day.

It’s the choice for the crafter of the Legendary,
You want a Legendary? Sometimes you need to do things that takes time and what you don’t enjoy doing.
It’s like me when I had to get 100% world completion, but that only takes longer and I didn’t enjoyed it either. I wanted a Legendary, so I didn’t had much of a choice.

Only problem I agree with is the people on less populated WvW servers, bit there is Eotm now

It will probably take forever to get r30 on Vabbi or other low populated server, I assume.

Few tips that can speed up the process,

Get PTV gear on Heavy classes,
Dont ever have Zerker gear on when following a commander.
Stay on the commander at all times (not the range)
Get on their TS (no need to talk, listen is fine).

If you survive longer/win the fight you get: More WXP = ranks – Tasty loot bags and maybe you start to enjoy it and the time goes quicker

They should make more tiers in the Current old achievements.
Ultimate Dominator: 100 – 500 – 1.000 – 5.000 – 10k/15k/25k/50k/75k etc

In WvW before the Quaggan’s got scared away out of their waters and had to leave, they had gear on.
Would have been nice to have a Battle Quaggan tonic

Wish that there was an build-in translater that translates language to your personal choice language. :/

Unfortunately that’s impossable.

My condolences to everyone who loved/cared for him.

† R.I.P. Starscream †

Zoid.2568:

Can i go into Edge of the Mists directly or do i have to be Queued for Mist Wars to get into Edge of the Mists? what if i like Edge of the Mists more than Mist Wars.

Looking at the picture on their news post (https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/47506EN-Queue.jpg)

It looks like you can join the EotM by clicking on the bar below the EotM picture.
I don’t think you are forced to queue for wvw to get in EotM, cause that will be against Anets way of thinking. (I think)

Best thing to do is, wait till ‘Ready Up’ friday 31/01/2014 Livestream, January 31st, at 2PM PST goes live on: www.twitch.tv/guildwars2

Hello mr/mrs,

When the Beta Weekends ended and the game got launched I started playing on Desolation (EU).
I have been on BlackGate (NA) for a few months (Around the time when Season 1 started) and now I’m back again in EU, but the Connection between NA/EU are noticable.

I’m not talking about Latency but about FPS/Skill Lag/Time outs/Crashes.
- In NA I had stable 20-30 FPS in blob fights and 15-20 in 3 ways in EB;
- There is hardly any Skill-Lag in NA when fighting in a 3way of blob fights;
- I rarely crash randomly when play on highest settings (shaders/shadows low);
- Rarely time outs;

In EU I do have
- Random FPS (Lowest settings – same place/ 1 blob) then I have 20+ and other time I have 5-8fps.
- With high settings my game doesn’t freeze or time out, just gives me a random crash error in a big fight where I had 20-30fps and shuts down the game.
- Skill lag a lot more common.
- Randomly time outs (People runing straight/warping/unable to use skills-> Boots to Character Screen.

Lately I have heard that the EU servers route are insane, that it goes to multiple locations first and then to the server.
In NA in goes straight to the servers.

Q. Is it true that EU server route is that complicated what causes issues?

Rgrds Jack.

HellsPriest.6745:

Arnath.2319:

World firsts are incredibly stupid, it creates nothing but a toxic atmosphere amongst players. Now what will these world first players do? Stop playing? How long before they start begging for another hardmode boss and more vertical progression? How about the other 99% of the GW2 playerbase that will never get the chance to kill this boss because of the horrible way it was implemented.

It’s also pathetic to call this a “world first” when only one or two servers had the chance to compete, the overwhelming majority of servers have abandoned the Wurms because its to hard, every player just flocks to Blackgate. If every server had a equal chance to aim for this completely pointless “world first” title then perhaps you would have something to boast about.

These two new bosses have dont nothing but bring the elitists of this game to the surface, so much fighting and name calling in map chat its toxic.

This game is NOT World of Warcraft, if i wanted to do hard mode raids and compete for world firsts i would go play WoW.

I thought GW2 was meant to be different from other mmos, why then have ArenanNet copy/paste hardmode raids from WoW?

Snip.

Possible that u can add a TL;DR? x)

You can always buy another Account, one you play on a t2/1 server for constant wvw action, and the one you currently use.
Also, “less people than normal” it’s maybe because of the new LS update.

Looking forward to this. Can’t wait.

These are all opinions, it doesn’t mean that they are right or wrong, you can have a total diffrent perspective on the subject.

My personal opinion is that Solo Queue leaderboard doesn’t mean anything.
I think it’s really RNG to get in the top 1000.
I know many people who are really good but they don’t get in the top 1000 because they lose by either, people leaving, people who run around and not helping your team or low lvl/rank (r19 or less. Many people dislike a player if they see a “1” as first number or below r10) who are new to it.

This is just my opinion, you may disagree or agree, but keep it for yourself, thanks.

206.127.159.191
Battle of Kyhlo/Spirit Watch/and in PvE maps. (Queensdale/Lion’s Arch, haven’t been anywhere else yet the last 3 days.)
17:30pm GMT+1/16:00pm GMT+1/13:00 GMT+1

I can’t use any skills, people are moving straight into a wall or standing still, get booted to Character Screen multiple times, when I load back in it crashes sometimes because it couldn’t make connection to the login screen.

This is happening the last 3 days.

Same here, got this problem for 2 days.
Couldn’t use skills, everyone walked into a wall or stood still.
When it happends it stays, so I wont be able to do anything the whole time.
I disconnected from A solo Queue today bcs of that. Re-entered and got it again.

I wasn’t downloading and my ping for eu is ~30ms.
Btw, I live in EU.

I think it’s gw2 that causes the problem.

Uhm, tried looking here?: http://forums.intothemists.com/index.php?/topic/46-top-gw2-tournament-builds/

Might be outdated tho.

Currently I also run a build that doesn’t require skill (S/S – Bow, warrior) only because I haven’t found a new build for my warrior/ d/d ele.

D/D is hard to play and requires a lot of thinking. (Glassy)

Because you need to think when you use condi cure. If you go into water attunement without having any condi’s on you or the enemy didn’t use his condi burst but only landed a few condi’s on you and your water attunement is on cd, you are dead if you get burst with a lot of conditions.
I’ve heard that D/D elementalists are bad in spvp, but they are really good in doing quick bursts on the point.
I’ve downed a whole team who fought on a point against 2 from my team, it’s amazing how quickly you turn things around.

S/F Fresh Air is for me a build that doesn’t require skill.
Mostly, because you can down someone instantly before they even got to you, or putted some pressure on you.
But thats just my opinion :P

Does this also fix the problem with the reward chest when you won a match and you transfered from EU → NA and NA → EU?

robocafaz.9017:

Also, these Blackgate Roamers have been giving me some of the most intense fights I’ve ever experienced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T43zqnix9E

Such a breathtaking 1v1 :>

Yee ^^

http://youtu.be/0mtctl8ba4g

These ones are mine:
Asuran Elementalist:
Asuran Warrior:

Ogre.1750:

Well.. all those you mention kinda make up for a beefed enough episode, so yeah, expect it soon.

+1, upvoted.
Looking forward to the GvG showdown.
I hope that GvG’s will happen more often when the Arena gets implomented.
(I think that the GvG scene died a bit)

I bought WvW lvl 80 exotic armour and used 6 Scholar runes on it.
Now I have a new armour set because WvW one was just temporary and I don’t like the skin on it.

I am going for new Runes on my other Armour set so I wanted to salvage the WvW armour to regain my Runes and sell it on the Trading Post because they are worth some gold each.

Now it turns out that I can not salvage the WvW armour and wasted ~16g on runes.

Is it a bug ingame? Or is there a way to return the Runes?

Plz, let there be a way to return my runes

Scrimms happen in NA, but not a lot of Official GvG’s.

I think the problem is:
Last week the Bloodlust buff was still OP (if I remember it correctly), and this week in NA Gold league (I think that most of the GvG’s guilds are located in the Gold League) we got long queues and skill lag most of the times, so guilds aren’t really looking for GvG’s this week.
I hope to see some GvG’s happen next week.

Q. Will Edge of the Mists effects the original WvW map in terms of skill lag?

(not sure) When there are massive fights going on in 1+ diffrent borderlands I notice a little bit of skill lag, and when we get into a little fight of ~25 vs ~50 we get a lot of Skill lag, normally with those numbers we rarely have skill lag, if we do, it isn’t much.

So my concern is, when there is a big fight going on in Edge of the Mists map, will the original WvW map have more often skill lag, so it’s already noticable in small fights (~80) instead of 3 ways (150+)?

Will there be a Karma Train this week? Like the one from previous week.

I notice people linking it in chat but I never got one if I remember correctly.

O.O Must… read… every… matchup… forum… from… EU… Silver… league O.O

EU Silver League does look amazing I’m sure to keep an eye out for GvG footage/matchup forums

My 2 favourite servers in 1 league
Go GH and Deso \o/

P.S. If someone from [PHO] (GH) reads this, tell IC to contact me ingame if possible ty

nothing.7941:

TheUltimateBackStabber.4863:

Bloodlust:
1 – +30
2 – +50
3 – +60
——————

I guess that the new changes aren’t that bad.

I hope to see the new GvG area arrive soon.

And with this there is no reason not to gvg anymore, and no reason to hold off until the arena arrives, especially with no assurance when that will happen. These buffs are pretty inconsequential even during the rare occasions when one of the guild’s server has all 3.

ikr, was being ironic with the last sentence because now it’s more duable with the bloodlust changes.

There is no rush in adding the gvg area now, I think.

Bloodlust:
1 – +30
2 – +50
3 – +60
——————

I guess that the new changes aren’t that bad.

I hope to see the new GvG area arrive soon.

I’m looking forward to our Squad Events to face [IRON] as a guild.
It’s going to be fun to fight [IRON] in open field

I personally would love to do a scrim this week, but it’s not my decision.

I’m really enjoying NA t1 so far
Great fights ^^

Bloodwort MacFangho.4638:

TheUltimateBackStabber.4863:

I’d like to thanks everyone I followed in off times, [CS] for the fun times I had at raids (Heard Candy Fluxx left, real shame )

You too, Zyram. CS always had fun with you guys and I’m sorry you felt you had to go.

As for Candy – he’s not ‘left’ as such. His Real Life commitments make it very difficult for him to find the time to play, and rather than make himself miserable by only coming on occasionally, he decided to take a break until his work commitments change again (hopefully in the new year). In the meanwhile, CS keeps his traditions going!

That’s good to hear
Wish you luck with developing [CS] while he is having a break

._. Gonna miss some friends from Desolation and not to forget Ins Pain Train.

I’d like to thanks everyone I followed and fought with, and my previous guild I was in [CS] for the fun times I had at raids (Heard Candy Fluxx left, real shame ).

I Hope that I come back to Desolation in the future o/

o/
Really looking forward to play WvW in Black gate.
Really curious how NA T1 WvW is like

Heard/seen some of it and that is really positive, can’t wait to get into the action ^^

Gonna love BlackGate soon and might forget my home server where I’ve been in from BW1 (Desolation (EU)).

Will get used to it, just needs some time ._.

I hope more GvG’s will follow someone have to be the first who does it, after that, people often follow.

Bifrost on a guardian is a No No.
Got Bifrost on my guardian and only skill 2 is changed (healing orb with ~9s cd).
I personally never use it because it’s bad.
Why not change the skill 4 effects?
So at the end of the skill you have a light blast effect, why nt update it to more collourfull or rainbow blast?
Think #4 is getting used a lot more.
Or somethig with auto attack.

:( why does Deso kill Tequatl when I’m not there o.o
Gratz tho:)

I’m enjoying this matchup so far ^^
Kodash BL got blobs and Guild groups to fight.

Since Desolation dropped a lot in ranks, I hope we wont get matched against servers who doesn’t have many guilds or not much coverage ._. Or it will be EB whole week.

O.O so, was great fun yesterday in Kodash BL.
Really enjoyed the fight in bay vs 2 servers ^^ forgot the guilds but I’d like to thank you for the amazing fight ^^
One of the best I’ve ever experienced <3

This can be placed in Suggestions but looking trough the first 2 pages, no dev answered so I post it here with a WvW twist.

Everyone is known with titles as “Ultimate Dominator” (250k kills)
What would be a nice touch is specific icons for getting a title like the one I mentioned before.

So, what do I mean by “Icons”? (Just explaining for fun and better understanding)
- I assume people seen some guys with a golden star beside their name because they got 100 world completion, epic.
What about more multiple icons what a player can have beside the player’s name for certain achievements that takes a long time to get?
Like: “Ultimate Dominator” it takes a long time, why not reward the player with an Icon (maybe a black skull with some swords crossed) what the player can choose or switch with a diffrent one what the player achieved before.

Or in PvP with titles “Champion (class)” and than reward an icon for it too that shows the profession. (Intothemists site got icons for professions to make it more clear)

Maybe makes the idea in having the icon for 100% world completion less profitable but that is PvE mostly. Other people like to do PvP or WvW most of the times, and maybe some more Icons available would be nice feature.