Guild Wars 2

So, I noticed today that the “invite new members” power and the “admin lower ranks” power have been merged. This has caused problems for my guild, because previously we had a system whereby older, non-officer members could recruit freely to the guild, while not being officers.

For obvious reasons I don’t want to give this “Trusted Member” rank the ability to promote, demote and kick other, lower ranked members, but I would still like them to be able to recruit. Is there a reason for the merging of these powers, and would it be possible to revert this? I appreciate that it is a small issue compared to many other fixes and changes that need development resources, but I would at least appreciate an explanation so I know what happened.

Thanks.

Hi everyone!

Discount Smurfs [DcS] is a small community that has been around since launch. Having recently fallen inactive during the slow period of content after the expansion announcement, we have woken from our slumber to rebuild and grow for Heart of Thorns.

We pride ourselves on being welcoming for new players and veterans alike, and partake in most content, from Fractals to farming to PvP.

Moving forwards into Heart of Thorns, we have set up a dedicated raid team, but will also be doing runs for those who don’t make the cut, and potentially will be creating a second team if interest is high enough. DcS’s founding principle is “No Smurf Left Behind” and we aim to carry that forward into raids, allowing everyone to get their legendary armour eventually, should they want it.

The Details:

Name: Discount Smurfs [DcS]
Gameplay Choice: A bit of everything
Server: Ruins of Surmia is our home, but we accept players from all European servers.
Active Time: Peak activity is in the evenings, European time
Contact info: Xarlan.9421

Hi there, I am the leader of Discount Smurfs [DcS], a small, semi hardcore to casual guild on Ruins of Surmia. In addition to looking for more members (feel free to send me a mail if you are interested) we have a proposal for other small guilds on RoS:

Until recently, we have had success in guild bounty missions despite our small numbers by allying with another guild. Unfortunatly, that guild is having some trouble, and are unable to take part any more, and that has left us with the skill to complete bountys, but not the numbers. Becuase of this, we are looking for a replacement partner.

The way this would work is first one guilds mission would be done, with the other guild assisting in the scouting and making the kill where needed, then the other guild would have their turn. Who goes first would alternate every time. If your guild lacks voice communication, we can provide it for the duration of the mission.

If you are interested, please send me a mail, preferably with “alliance” or something similar as the subject line.

Thanks

So, for about a month now i have been getting long load times, then a wierd bug when i finally load into the map. My character model is invisible, as is half the scenery. On top of this, my camera becomes detached from my model, so while i can see that my character is moving on the minimap, my camera doesnt move.

Strangely, i can actually attack when this is happening, so with events such as the dragons, i can still get contribution, as long as it is just a matter of autoattacking. However, events like Claw of Jormag, that are firther from a waypoint that just a staight line, are impossible to navigate to.

Occasionally the camera bugs between the point i entered the map from, and the actual position of my character, and more occasionally, my weapons load in, but do not move, instead just hovering at the waypoint/portal.

Is this a problem my end, or a bug with the game? Is there any way to work around or fix it? It is so crippling i have had to temporarily quit the game, leaving my guild in the hands of my officers, so any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Hmm, i must say, i havnt actually read Ghosts of Ascalon. If PC and Joko’s necromancy are the same, why then do Joko’s undead display some signs of indeviduality, rather than just being shambling minions?

I am in full agreemant regarding Zhaitans minions though. On a side note, icebrood are corupted corpses? i always assumed that they where just very corrupted living beings. where does it say that they are allready dead?

So, I was discussing the lore of guild wars with a freind the other day, and we got talking about necromancy and undead. Now, it is clearly apparent that the necromancy used by player necromancers is diferent to the dragon-magic used by Zhaitan, but there also appears to be a third type, namely that used by the lich Palawa Joko.

Player necromancy seems to be a very simple form of necromancy, whereby flesh and bone is used to create what is essentially a golem, an unthinking tool, with none of the soul, personality or memories of the corpse or corpses used to make it. It is basically the same as taking apart a few Charr-built tanks, then using the spare parts to assemble a new one.

Zhaitans magic, on the other hand, seems to trap a part of the soul in the body. This seems to have two effects: the first is that it causes the bosy to go through sone of the basic, repetative tasks it would have done in life, seeming unaware that it is undead until Zhaitan gives it an order, or it senses the presence of the living. The second effect seems to be that it traps the soul, either on Tyria or in the mists, preventing it from going to the afterlife. This is shown by the NPC in, i think, Mount Maelstrom, who is a ghost who claims to be there because her body was raised by Zhaitan. The trapping of souls, compared to just using the body, is why Zhaitans magic is reviled, while player necromancers are alowed to practice their art in relative peace.

The third source of necromancy, Palawa Joko, seems to be very different to the other two, though it shares more similarity with Zhaitans magic. It seems to take the whole soul of the person being raised, but doesnt enslave them. As shown by the dialogue and the numerous quest lines in Guild Wars: Nightfall that revolve around dealing with rebel undead generals, the raised person retains most, if not all, of their personality, and is also very aware that they are dead. Joko seems to have created more of a nation of the dead than a shambling horde of minions. This actualy lead me and my freind to some specualation that Joko’s undead may become a playable race, possibly a rebal faction of them, but this was quickly cast aside for two reasons: one being that Joko has such a wide varity of undead, from humans to centaurs and giants, and the other being the ever-present issue of “WoW did it first.”

Now, what we where unable to think of was what the source of Joko’s magic could be. It is so different in nature to Zhaitan’s dragon-magic and the player’s from of necromancy that it has to come from an entirely different source. Does anyone have any ideas? Does anyone have some information that adds to, or completely overturns our observation? Being the lore nerd i am, i would vewry much like to hear it :P

Tl:DR: Player necromancy good, Zhaitan necromancy bad, Joko necromancy ????