Guild Wars 2

First great was WoW? I played Wow for 6-7 years, saw several guilds born and die. I still wouldn’t call it anything more than the right game at the right time. Here are several others that are at least as good if not better than WoW:

1) Meridian and Ultima – both set the framework for all MMOs to come
2) Everquest – Set the bar for an expansive world and raiding content – my personal favorite MMO. Who can forget Corpse runs in places like LGuk or Plane of Fear, hoping you get there in time to loot your stuff
3) DAoC – First to bring real realm war via RvR – my personal second favorite. Biggest rush ws some of the first nights we went out in Emain and had three way battles where everyone was still noobs
4) SWG – great sandbox till they ruined it, loved the gathering aspect of it (especially mining)
5) CoH – great game

In my mind, all of these were at least as good or better than WoW (except Meridian, never played it so can’t speak for it). WoW built on the best of several of these, just like any other game does. GW2 has built a solid framework, they made WvWvW work better than WHOL

DanScott.4839:

I think it’s about time that I added my 20 cents to this thread; I think you all need to cut the developers some slack. As stated before in this post, they have lives and while I appreciate that yes they had a deadline that would have been nice of them to meet, I think we should all allow some breathing space to those that make Guild Wars 2 possible. These people that your slating, that you’re cussing at, are the people that allow you to log in every day, customize your characters the way you do and play them the way you do. But believe me when I say that’s no easy task. Coming from a programming background, I know some of the difficulties of developing software, this piece of software specifically being an MMO. Tbh I think the devs deserve a pat on the back for achieving what they have already and I look forward to what else Arena Net has in store for this game as the possibilities are endless.

So let me ask you this. If whatever company you program for put out a product that:
1) Did not deliver what it promised (rewards from Season 1, which by the way were supposed to be handed out in December 2013, 6 months ago)
2) Spurious promises were made to your customers about fixing said problem (see here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Issues-granting-Season-reward-chests/first)
3) You never resolved the first problem
4) You programmed an update and released it to your customers on top of the initial unfixed problem (season 2)
5) Which also did not deliver what it promised either (Season 2 rewards)

… where would you stand with your customer? First, why would you release on top of the initial problem? And second, why shouldn’t people be mad and why should anyone trust what they say? Then to read the two news releases congratulating the Season 2 winners as well as the news release today talking about winning a legendary in the new tournament of legends is pretty much a slap to everyone involved in both Seasons 1 and 2. Other problems are swiftly resolved (PVE, BLTC), but anything relating to WvW is not communicated nor is it swiftly fixed (troll through this forum if you don’t believe many of us).

I can’t help but think a lot of this could be resolved if ANet did a better job of communicating. Even if it was to say we know you are out there waiting and we are so sorry, it would buy a lot of credit with many gamers (more than the few scraps they have thus far given). Yeah it doesn’t fix the problem, but it does let your customer know we appreciate you and want to make things right. Unfortunately they have taken a “kick the can down the road and hope all of these losers eventually go away and leave us alone” approach, and I really don’t think they will ever mend fences with most hardcore WVWers

Add me to the list. I wasted a ticket as well. Very annoying and sloppy on ANets part.

Ysoac.2835:

Perhaps I should ask it this way, when you toggle the layers on your map do you see Hunter’s Hearth Shown? I am stuck at 174/175 and that is the only point in the map not showing I have all others including cragitead.

This is exactly my problem. When I toggle the area’s, it’s not there. I have checked everything else off going by the list on the wiki here:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/User:Bluestone/Explorer

Ysoac.2835:

I too am stuck at 174/175 and the only area that doesn’t appear on my map is Hunter’s Hearth. I have them all yes including cragstead. Can someone please tell me if you toggle your map does Hunter’s hearth show. I have been in there 1000 times and it’ not showing on my map but all other home locations do.

This is exactly my problem. I have walked both floors, gone in circles, even gone into Knut Whitebear’s loft and walked circles there (knowing that wasn’t it, but don’t know what else to try). Hunter’s Hearth is the very last thing I need. I just don’t get what I missed.

If you have a ranger, the easy way is set your pet to avoid combat, wield your greatsword, and only autoattack. The 3rd chain skill, powerstab, evades. If you get a mob high enough level (I’m 80/exotics, fought level 8o melee mobs), then the fights are long enough to get sometimes 2-3 evades, but usually at least 1 evade/dodge a fight. Also, rezzing NPC’s/players mentioned by 2-3 people above is the fast way to finish healing.

Tarnished Coast has virtually no queue times most of the time except reset night. I took my wife to dinner last night and didn’t make the reset, so when I got home an hour after reset we had a 45 minute queue on EB and 2 of the border maps had a queue (I am guessing shorter, didn’t queue for them). No queue on the 4th map (I think it was SBI BL). Most other times you can go right in. I occasionally have a short queue on EB when I get home from work around 5-6 pm eastern, not all the time, and max 10 mins or so.