Guild Wars 2

We welcome all open-minded Tyrians and advocates of equal rights to attend Pride March Tyria 2017. We especially invite those gender identity and sexual orientation minorities to gather for support and solidarity. The march will begin June 24 half an hour past daily achievement reset time at Tangle Root Outpost [&BHAHAAA=] where we will march to Field of the Fallen [&BKUEAAA=] in Lion’s Arch. There we shall spend a day in mourning and remembrance of those in our community who cannot join us in person. The march will pick up again June 25 at the same time and head to its end point at The Hawke Heart [&BBsEAAA=].

Note that these times are intended for the US servers and if the EU servers organize a co-event it likely will have different times in order to be more convenient for their prime server times.

The march timing is intended to give 10-15 minutes leeway time per map for fun, screenshots, ease loading times, and allow easier grouping/meet up times.

Saturday times: Brisban Wildlands 40 min, Kessex Hills 40 min, Gendarran Fields 30 min

Sunday times: Gendarran Fields 15 min, Snowden Drifts 40 min, Frostgorge Sound 40 min, Fireheart Rise 30 min, Iron Marches 30 min, Blazeridge Steppes 45 min, Fields of Ruin 30 min

We ask that participants keep to Say, Party, and Squad chat to minimize impact on non-participants. We also ask that participants refrain from engaging trolls, bigots, etc and instead block and report as necessary.

Volunteers and organizers will be greatly appreciated. If there is a demand from the community to create a roster of such I will be glad to oblige.

For those who might complain to the necessity of such I offer this: We shall march until the day when we are no longer harassed, attacked, and killed for being who we are. The easiest way to put an end to it all is simply to help foster a world of peace and tolerance.

Some reminders and thoughts to consider on this advent:

I. Live life well and fully, and waste nothing.
The pursuit of happiness is oft thought to be a basic human right. To be able to live your life like any other, secure in who you are and who you love is a goal we can all share.

II. Do not fear difficulty. Hard ground makes stronger roots.
While we can hope for a time when such strength and courage to simply be oneself, we are not yet there. Until such time, gather those things to stand tall and proud in who you are.

III. The only lasting peace is the peace within your own soul.
We cannot change minds that do not wish to be changed but we can nurture the peace we desire within ourselves and hope that in time it will take root in others.

IV. All things have a right to grow. The blossom is brother to the weed.
Humanity is a diverse and beautiful thing, we need not agree with each other but nothing is served by alienating those different from ourselves.

V. Never leave a wrong to ripen into evil or sorrow.
Many who have chosen to believe in the ideologies that oppose our lives are in a way victims as well, having allowed ideas that would harm others to take root and grow within them. Consider pitying that such dis-ease has taken root and grows within them and sorrow that they may never know so many wonderful persons as our community holds. At the same time, try to wash such ideas from oneself rather than give into the hate and bigotry or its mirrored counterpart against those in the majorities.

VI. Act with wisdom, but act.
It is upon each of us to do what we can to promote love and tolerance however we can. We cannot guarantee others will do such for us or without us.

VII. From the smallest blade of grass to the largest mountain, where life goes – so too should you go.
Wherever you may live, whatever you may do, this world is everyone’s and all places should be safe places supporting all who can live and let live.

Contact email: PrideMarchTyria@gmail.com

There was great turn out and awesome people all the way. From what I’d heard there was five maps when we started out and fairly few trolls/haters who had quickly been dealt with.

Thank you, everyone, for making this the wonderful event it was.

Hope to see you next year.

Hugs and loves <3

Since it’s come up a lot, I found the time to put together a spreadsheet for commanders and entertainment providers both in the US and EU.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VlQ6UROGm6rgmclDvB98gYNTGkznLq5YJZeO0nxl6A/edit?usp=sharing

If you’d like to be added to the list send an email to: PrideMarchTyria@gmail.com

Sorry that this is so close to the event. Hopefully this will help make things a little more organized.

In all I’m both overwhelmed and amazed at the show of support. I wasn’t expecting even a third of the interest I’ve seen and I’m honored and humbled that my small attempts have drawn such incredible and heart-whelming response.

bows

I hope I can do my best for all of you next week.

Rahvun.4729:

ROUGH TRADE (RTGC) is very excited about this and will be joining up!
We are in the middle of our week long PRIDE celebration and giveaways and we were planning to parade this Sunday until Orlando happened.
In lieu of the parade we will now be having a memorial at the Field of the Fallen in LA @ 2:00pm PST.
Then we will celebrate with everyone on the 26th!

RTGC is the world oldest and largest LGBT+ MMO Meta Guild with almost 7k members spread across 5 games. For more info http://rtgc.enjin.com

My condolences. I’ve been grieving out of game since it happened and I’m sorry I missed out (was having my computer checked out till about half an hour ago).

Maethor.2810:

Definitely plan on coming! As well as the questions on whom to look for to get on appropriate map(s), is there a meet up/organization time that we should be aiming for before the start time?

Kyrii – Purple and gold it is, at least for me. Thank you for suggesting that, as I know others would be more than happy to do so in light of the attack. <3

I’m in the habit of getting to places a half an hour to fifteen minutes ahead of a scheduled time and was planning to be at the starting point around then to help with coordinating before it all begins. I could arrange earlier if you think that would be necessary.

Asuth.8164:

Is this going to be on a specific server (ie: Blackgate) or is it not specific at all

It’s not planned for any specific home server.

jeaux.7935:

Count me in! Any plans on how to get everyone onto the same map? Any leaders or commanders to watch out for?

From the replies and messages I’ve received it seems like this may turn into something spanning multiple map instances. As such any volunteers that want to get people grouped together would be enormously welcome.

Thankfully, unlike last year’s ‘test run’, there’s some advance notice, a shared route map, and attempts at organizing times going on and hopefully that will mean that we’ll be able to approximate multiple instances of groups somewhat together.

For those willing to volunteer their time and tags, post here and we’ll try to keep a look out.

As for me, I think I’ll be tagging up on my main: Katrina Seryu.

Rayons.3076:

Count me in, have you reached to other LBGT guilds?

While I lack contacts with other lgbt guilds I’ve been made aware that some of the members in the same guild I’m in are members of others and am hoping that word has spread that way at least.

Whatever happened on reddit it was rather quick. I finished the posts, logged into game to do some dailies and by the time I’d checked back in it was locked. Though I am glad I missed the vitriol.
Such a pity really for the loss of positive contributors that can’t post there now.

Argon.1563:

I was going to ask this on the Reddit thread, but it got locked: Is this event occurring on the NA or EU server?

NA server. Still crossing my fingers and hoping to find a volunteer willing to organize and lead in the EU.

It’s more than merely opinion, feel free to note the references of the article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_time_event#Use_and_critical_reaction

To be honest, it almost sounds as if you’re stating that: ‘because [you] can do it, it’s fine’ completely disregarding anyone and everyone else. Also kind of callous to disregard what is often the largest percentage of a game’s customers, the casuals. My apologies if that’s not what you meant in your response.

I can, to very limited degree, agree that there is a good way to use instant death mechanics, but in a game whose gameplay revolves around content and challenges that do not instantly deprive players a fighting chance wouldn’t be such.

Justdeifyme.9387:

Well One shot mechanics rely on reflex timing, yes, which is also a part of Skill and training, so you need to train to succeed in an encounter, and thats a good thing.

Sorry, but it’s not a good thing. It is one of the most critiqued and hated things in games (second to escort quests). It is a mark of lazy design to make something that is better suited to an AI than a real life player. It also encourages people to bot and exploit as most are going to consider it far too aggravating to be worthwhile otherwise.

Would also be nice if they could offer challenge without having to rely almost solely on one-shot kills. Kind of hard to get better at something when there’s no skill involved, just reflex timing.

With the recent new content, an idea came to mind for a third soldier profession, one based on the aspects. A more mobile and elegant warrior that draws upon a combination of their skills with weapons and Wind, Sun, and Lightning to combat opponents.

F1-F3 keys would be each of the aspects in combination with their current weapon set.

I’d probably go with sword(s), dagger(s), off-hand mace, off-hand axe, main hand pistol, shortbow, and rifle; maybe focus or shield.

Maybe introduce a new tactic with them: ‘distracted/disarmed’, which would disable the opponent’s slot 1 for a short time (1-2 seconds).

As far as utility skills, possibly have some taunts, dirty tricks, and some lunging maneuvers inspired by the aspect movement skills we’ve seen (dive attack, sun rush, lightning ambush, etc) and definitely some things to help round them out for survivability and situational necessities.

Trait lines: Wind (Power & Critical Damage), Lightning (Precision & Condition Damage), Grounding (Toughness & Healing Power), Sun (Vitality & Boon Duration), Adaptation (Aspect recharge rate/Aspect strength & Condition Duration)

Some immediate critiques:
It could seem like a cross between warrior and elementalist, with a bit of thief.
Adding a profession to the game at this point would be a ton of work, especially balancing and testing.

I’d personally like to see a change where the ‘world bonuses’ are either eliminated or restricted purely to WvW maps. It’s pretty much a case of the rich get richer and the poor stay poor in whole worlds depending on player populations and sadly it’s pretty much completely from other people’s efforts making it happen.

Kind of hard to see the justification in players being rewarded for someone else’s work or getting deprived of such opportunities because their world can’t regularly dominate an entire map all day week after week.

Eliminating it altogether might even put an end to the zerg problem as there’s MUCH less incentive to mindlessly smash and capture everything in sight for persisting bonuses outside of WvW.

I know, radical idea, rewarding players in accordance to their own efforts and rewarding different styles of play independently of one another. But given ArenaNet’s history of implementing this style of idea (gw factions) probably never going to see a day when the PvP/WvW players aren’t affecting PvE play for the worse somehow.

You make a decent point. Might as well just toss the loot altogether. Then only the people that enjoy it will go after it, those that would be doing it for a reward will move on to alternate activities that do reward on par with effort put in, and it would likely eliminate the “cheating” altogether. Eliminate the achievement portion and it’s just the joy of exploration and setting a personal challenge for oneself; heck, even I’d begin to feel jumping puzzles are no longer a distasteful chore at that point.

I’m going to weep for a while from knowing your server world is even social enough to consider such a thing.

But in the end, I’ve come to support removing the achievements related to crab toss altogether. It seems far more likely to promote hostility among players than respect or enjoyment.

After giving it nearly four hours today, I’ve learned a few things:

1) getting in second is the same as last or any other placement
2) the reward at the end of the game stays the same regardless of effort
3) the mini game was most likely made by a sadist as it is non-stop frustration that only gets worse the more you try
4) playing this thing for hours on end until one’s hands are in pain is the closest thing I’ve merited to a notable reward

So it’s basically all or nothing if one is playing for the daily achievement, much less the other winning achievement. If you’ve gotten far enough behind, just sit out the rest of the round, the only way to even hope for something equivalent to a desired reward is to just rig the outcome with the other players.

If they’re going to put the mechanic into the game, then they’ve already decided it’s a legitimate strategy. Personally, I have no problems with using such a short cut, beats spending multiple, frustrating hours trying to do something that’s more likely to become hated by a player than enjoyed by them, especially for what is essentially crap loot that will never be worth the time and effort it takes to get them by other means.

As for achievements and titles, I cannot honestly believe anyone respects the things, it’s just something on a to do list. Get it done and never feel any compulsion to do it again.

Having just checked firewalls to discover nothing had changed, completely resetting all networking hardware between my computer and the ISP and seeing information here suggesting occurrences outside of a local area, I’m skeptical too of the user error message.

Reclaimers of the Lost guild, Tarnished Coast server, cannot access guild armorer in Divinity’s Reach even though the Guild Armor Contract and all prerequisites are met.

Tarnished Coast world
Gendarrin Fields
Party of two
Speaker of the dead instance

and the event following it back in Divinity’s Reach

my friend was running the alternate option, couldn’t join in those either.