Guild Wars 2

Let the devs have their game time now and then. I’m grateful they’re playing their own game, gives better perspective when they decide to make game-wide changes during their work hours. I’ve seen someone from ANet zerg with TC a few times as well. Also, portal can reach all the way up to near the chest platform from the bottom part, nothing suspicious about that. Kind of a chore to keep doing it from all the way up there, though.

I think TC’s been hit with this as well. Couldn’t build a single thing earlier in EB, despite some of our siege having been destroyed by invaders over the course of combat.

Maybe until this is fixed, ANet can just lift the siege cap for now?

Getting a lot of lag in WvWvW as well compared to other zones, particularly in EB. Skills that trigger 5-10 seconds later, taking a long time before I can exit a keep door, etc.

That was a pleasure to read, Bedinar! Really makes me wish I’d been there to witness it. Thanks for taking the time to write it up.

Also…

Bedinar.1754:

The ranger was moving closer and closer, still yelling “Phree Badgers ov Oner!” over and over.

Bedinar.1754:

“Phree Badgers! Phree Badgers! Phree Badgers!”

My month is made if this actually becomes something people say in-game. <3

insaneshadow.1654:

I’m not here to complain, but I’m here to ask a favor to Tarnished Coast and Fort Aspenwood players in EB.

Can you let this Charr (me) get through the EB jumping puzzle without killing me? I just want the badges, I couldn’t care less about the siege blueprints.

If I see you in there, I’ll leave you alone. Can’t speak for anyone else, though. There have been too many counts of broken temporary truces in the JP from all sides at this point, and I think people who go there regularly might be a little tired of non-aggression pacts at the moment.

Had a ton of fun with last week’s matchup, hoping to have more fun this week. Thanks and good luck to all three servers.

Erm…the OP’s just proposing this agreement for non aggressive players, he’s not asking it of absolutely everyone. So if you enjoy PvPing in the puzzle areas, keep having fun! He’s not asking you to stop.

Either way, I’ve been seeing players bow to each other (alongside waving) in the puzzle areas, so this feels a little redundant.

Whoever this dude is in the attached image, thank you! Hope you got your chest loot as well. Wish the peace lasted longer than it did.

It might end up the same as /wave, which hostile players have taken to using as a lure tactic to convince others that they’re peaceful. But I’ll join in and give this a couple of tries!

Boom.9304:

To those of you CD in the jumping puzzle that are friendlies – we acknowledge you and happily cooperate!

Was a pretty interesting time earlier in the EB JP. Things were peaceful, but someone from TC started camping the chest area. I reached the chest in time to see the upleveled CD we’d let through earlier being killed, and when I asked if he’d been hostile, the response had been “Eh.” Sorry for that, CD, in case any peacefuls were harmed. Though TC was wiped twice from the puzzle after that, so I guess it’s all good!

It’s definitely not during daily reset. I did the EB and a BL puzzle last night, then checked again three hours after reset , and the chests (EB loot and BL keys) were still open for me and wouldn’t let me loot.

I’m iffy on saying every 24 hours, because I can remember a particular instance where I made sure to return to the EB puzzle a little later than when I did it the day before, and the chest was still unavailable for me. But as I didn’t really time it accurately, I couldn’t say for sure.

I think the chest loot rewards scale according to your character level. You will get less rewards if you do it with a low level character compared to when you do it with a higher level one (I could be wrong, though, but I’ve gotten 4 badges on a pre-20 character then received 12 badges on my 80 from the EB). The puzzles are also named differently from each other and doing one Borderland puzzle doesn’t equate to having finished the other two as well.

Glad to hear the matter settled. Iohanna, thanks for coming forward like that.

I remember trying to fight off a very persistent thief from an enemy server in our borderland northern supply camp around two weeks back, and Zarthias’s description matched what I experienced, except for the blind spam. It was incredibly frustrating. Thief didn’t know when to quit though and kept staying in the camp to keep us from re-capturing, so we eventually got him by standing in AoEs, Retaliation/Confusion spam, and a Warrior spamming his attacks. Still took us quite a while. Hoping this won’t be as difficult when ANet eventually fixes the loading issue.

TCer here. I can’t speak for most, but I sometimes camp the puzzle(s) for two reasons: 1) out of frustration from previous failed runs due to being repeatedly killed by a large group while trying to do the puzzle peacefully (and repeatedly waving my arm like a loon), and 2) to make sure the rest of my server gets through safely and doesn’t experience the same thing (often with my underleveled Mesmer). I don’t use the siege equipment, but I leave the people using them alone.

To clarify, I never initiate siege building, but if someone lays something down, I’d be happy to contribute my supply to it. I like puzzles, I think perhaps a lot of TCers like puzzles as well, and this personal adjustment from “let’s just do the puzzle peacefully” to “hit me and I’ll slap you so hard” mentality wasn’t born in a day. If someone is clearly peaceful, a lot of us will gladly just let the person through. But there are jerks in every server, and we can’t control whether or not some people from ours finds glee in initiating battles. Overall, I do wish the jumping puzzles were a no-fight zone, but until ANet decides to impose that, the “win at all costs” mentality is going to leak over there.

Anyway, if you’ve been unfairly affected by this, try to do the puzzle at different times of the day. I’ve seen siege equipment in there left unmanned and vulnerable.