Guild Wars 2

Been on FA through the thick of things since the release of GW2 and honestly the community here is one of the main reasons I keep playing this game for so long. Honestly, the dedication of the wvw community leaders and guilds here are top notched so if you are an individual, a small group of friends, or a guild group you really should hit us up and see what FA is all about.

As a former member of HOPE (ran with them on FA for a while until RL took over), I can personally say this is one of the more hardcore ‘fights’ oriented groups in NA.

They are a tight knit group of players that focus a lot on individual and group improvement. Drigan is hell of a driver (horrible multi-tasker though :P) and running with them was one of the more pleasant experiences I’ve had in game.

So if there are any exceptional players that want to test themselves with and against the best I would highly recommend you consider applying to HOPE.

Recently, PACT on FA attempt to aid everyone by doing a temple run. After a large group cleared Grenth without any issue by anyone other than the game mechanics, we moved to Lyssa. As of now, Lyssa is unplayable by the majority if not all players. FPS drops to 2 and the events are unplayable due to this. Please look into this because the fps drop can’t be tracked to changes of group size, etc, since it was the same group doing all the content without noticeable changes until Lyssa. Thanks.

lol same worked long enough to submit another report and get into wvw for a bit of farming and then it comes back…gw2 you tease let me play.

Same thing happening to me (just recently occurring for the last 10-15 mins (over 20 client crashes)). Error is 7 11 3 191 101.

Submitted bug report in game, but internet connection is still available so not sure what the issue is.

I’m going to have to confirm the EB disconnect issue. A player gets booted within just 3-4 mins of entering EB.

No one is blaming SBI or SOR as most of us know the difficulties of not having the population to match overwhelming forces. However, we are blaming the way the system is that a lower ranked server can leech enough rating to make the ratings inaccurate.

Echoing the sentiment that in no way is FA wanting to drop to silver league and in fact we are trying harder than ever to stay in T2 since the only good thing about WvW is the fights, not the PVD. DB has been leeching rating off of SOR for far too long so currently its an inaccurate picture of the actual ratings imo. During off peak coverage lack the times the OP mentioned, the best advance is to take whatever forces are available and either havoc the borderlands that the massive SOS pug blob isn’t on or siege the kitten out of an objective (sup acs and trebs work wonders) and give the blob the finger.

I would suggest you find someone in TTS (Tequalt Terror Squad, etc) and worked with one of the leaders to use HoD as a rally spot during one of our normal raids. We have successfully done it countless times and I’m sure we wouldn’t mind helping you guys out.

Evon Skyfyre.9673:

Guild Wars 2 is a generic mmo. Guild Wars 1 was a complete, well thought out world of imagination and loads of fun. Anyone reading this should know. If you loved GW1 you will not be happy with GW2. they share a name only. Jeff Strains vision is no where to be found in GW2. Anet has said they feel pretty much every aspect of GW1 was wrong and purposely made GW2 the exact opposite. Recently the co-founder of Anet left to join Dead Labs founded by Jeff Strain (founder of Anet, and driving force behind GW1.). MMO’s are all making the same mistake it seems they make their game a WOW clone and it fails. Hopefully the future is brighter. SWTOR is a 300 mil failure financially. Blizzard put their new mmo back into alpha testing and moved some of it’s development teams to work on other projects. All the mmo game co’s need to do is listen to the players. But they absolutely refuse to do so. I think I can safely say in 5 years or less, MMO’s will no longer exist as they do today. Even a former developer from WOW said they killed the genre. There are no inventive or creative games anymore. They all seem the same. I read an article the other day that said as of it’s posting GW2 had sold 3.6 million copies, but only had approx. 460k of regular players. That is a pretty big gap. I’d call it a failure except they do not live on subs. I suppose it’s possible the 460k of players bring in enough money via in game purchases. But I doubt it. Chat in game seems to lean towards little or no real money being spent. Most say they would never pay real money for anything offered.

Sad.. I was so excited when they announced GW2. Now.. I play because it’s free and just to pass the time.

I must applaud the meager attempts to begin to open up the conversation to the player base by ANET in the recent months with the CDI discussion posts, but overall its hard not to think about the past mistakes, the broken visions, and the eternal carrot that is being offered most players. To be completely honest, most players I know of only log on nowadays because of a lack of anything else to play (although more and more players are going to individual games which might explain the large gap mentioned above) and the fact that there is no subscription and therefore is little reason to completely uninstall. One fact that I never did understand about the discussions taken place is that if player ideas were taken a bit more seriously then financial opportunities would be easier to see. (Prime example is the WvW community and wxp ability reset via the gem store)

To the OP, no you are not wrong to quit a game because it isn’t fun anymore, games are meant to be fun.

1. ranger
2. necro (so many useless traits and bugs….fear interrupt anyone?)
3. elementalist

Good to see TC has regained their large fairweatherer population. Picture shows the tail end of a 20 person pug group chasing down 2 mag mes and 1 dd ele. Hilarious especially after they used over 200 supply to recap a paper tower from a single defender with 70 supply. Mad skills.

4 months later and still this is a bug in game, can we get a reply about the status of fixing this bug. Thanks.

On the dropping on field siege, I have been a part of a couple instances (3 way battle with 40+ SoS and 35+ TC facing our group of 12-15 at south camp early this week or last), but in our defense we were just trying to troll the slaughterfest especially when the TC group ignores the SoS and pushes us (we kited them forever….so much fun). But unless you are clearly outnumbered and want to fight instead of run then siege = noobish imo.

How in the world is anyone suppose to craft 6 pieces of armor per character is the ascended one a day materials is one per day over all the professions. I have light, medium, and heavy class characters but must wait per day just to get a little closer to a piece on one of these classes instead of each profession individually. Rant over.

Loot bags are plenty during SEA/EU with SOS playing second fiddle to TC and the waves of enemies are always coming to the outmanned FA force. Shame that SOS could get second but they rather they take the path of least resistance instead. Good fights everyone even if it is a bit pvdoor.

Fort Stackenwood.

Sad that all the PVF is surrounding a name instead of taking objectives and other killing achievements.

electriette.8952:

Mirah.5613:

The view from your garri TC … es magnifique

Did you take our cookies?

They were delicious. Thanks for the diabetes.

Wanted to thank all the participants in this matchup for making it one of the most entertaining of the entire season.

Also, planned or unplanned 2v1’s happen all the time (any FA players can remember the matches against CD/TC or BG/TC long time back) but overall if you find yourself on the side of one of those you have options:

Option #1: Whine and complain about how bad it is being hit from all sides. (not very helpful, makes you look weak, and overall bad for server morale. See example SBI in this thread)

Option #2: Praise the matchup for delivering you non stop fights and more loot bags than you could possibly have merchants for.

Option #3: Find a hardy objective that will undoubtly be a main target of the 2v1 and follow some guidelines posted by [HL] on FA and enjoy the lootbag service that the enemy alliance has given you.

and finally Option #4: Leave to PVE, or to the next bandwagon server so that you can feel superior again.

Main point being, no point is so much whining, do what you can, and if you have the right minded guilds on your server you will preserve regardless about how overwhelming the odds may be.

We have finally gotten to the point that was described in an older South Park episode…..butters tries an evil plot, “Simpsons did it”, but sadly this is worst because no matter the plot we always know Scarlet did it.

This isn’t even considering the total lack of depth of the character and overall gameplay in some of the encounters or even more frustrating the taint of her presence on good instances and good combat mechanics.

Just my two cents on the topic.

Wanted to give a good shout out to [HARD] for the hard fought gvg earlier tonight. It was a pleasure, and hope you enjoy yourselves as well.

ANET I respect your efforts to bring in new challenging PVE content every two weeks, but you must start considering that until mob scaling matches the actual activity of your instances no one will play your content during off peak hours. Case in point is during early morning hours there are approximately 10-15 in all of the nightmare tower and thus it is very unwise to have normal elite mobs spawning in addition to the veteran and regular mobs that spawn approximately every 3-4 mins. These types of barriers prevent people from experiencing your content during these times. So I ask your development team is this what was intended because if so then I can always move to another part of the game or another game entirely.

So let’s hear your appreciated feedback on this matter.

Bongrimm.8439:

I think using golems to take the IoJ keep in EB is ok, we (IoJ) would have used them as well.

But I am wondering why 2 big zergs of FA (Die guild) and EB (mixed guilds) just grouped up in IoJ-bl to try and kill a IoJ-zerg (of the same size as each of the other 2 zergs). You stood right next to each other on the other side of the bridge and didn’t attack each other, just us. Have FA and EB made some kind of a truce to farm the already outnumbered IoJ-bl?
not meant as flame, I just really want to now what was going on there

This is highly doubtful unlike the deliberate keep flipping on FAbl today. (Have evidence but going to take the high road on this one) Its sad when a few bad apples spoil the whole batch huh.

I just wanted to give a shout out to [Void] for the GvG tonight. Great fun and great fights. [HOPE] you enjoyed yourselves as well.

Banzie.5248:

Aldar.6271:

Aw, looks like the post was deleted… Good thing. DIE being difficult for Mend said more about Mend than DIE.

I said they were the only Ebay guild to provide a challenge— I was not on last night so I cant speak for then. A challenge does not necessarily mean it was difficult, it means they gave a decent fight while all the other ebay guilds just go squishys quish squish.They wiped us once, after that we wiped them a lot after that.

Still only FA guild I know of that gave us a challenge is CORE, Bomb continually wiped against us the nights I was on, I dont believe we’ve fought HOPE yet in the open field and RET.. Well we’d insta lose to that blob unless we holed up in some tower or keep.

BTW Mend doesnt run 40+, We run 20-25 nightly generally. The only time we approached 40 was reset night at 37 people online, but many were stationed hills or flipping camps back and forth that were with us, we had ~6-7 members in queue. So I mean that left us at our usual 25ish.

Msg me or drigan and hopefully HOPE can accompany you for some lovely fights tonight MEND

Outside looking in, I’m surprised at the results, but in terms of Alaric’s comment I’m even more surprised he hasn’t ate several pugs’ hearts yet (he has always raged against them even during his FA days). Anyways hope everyone on YB, EB, and BP keep it up and looking forward to our fights in the coming weeks.

Jyeoi.6027:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Mv3bCeC6M

Best bag farms are the fights that you are actually outnumbered instead of overwhelming lesser numbers, considering that though good fights.

Maguuma congrats on Gold. On that note, losing a fully fortified garrison and smc within 30 minutes of each other won’t cut it in Gold.

Great fights on EB late night SBI. I think you could use a few more trebs though to take the keep. I’m really tired of countering them every time. (7 total in about 2 hours)

I’m a big supporter for account bound wxp experience but character bound wxp builds. Besides this point I’m surprised that ANET doesn’t take the respeccing situation to make some money and hire more staff for WvW (both are positives for a company and for the most part the WvW commnunity) and make it a set 400 gems to respec WvW ability points.

As the OP mentioned, I was on the FA side of things and its real hard to do any type of skills even as simply as following the tag with fps down to 1-2. ANET fix this issue please.

Yes. I agree that WXP should be account bound as in a pool of ability points, but actual abilities being character bound. This would lead to the specialization that everyone wants. One point of note is that with lower level alts an amount of scaling must be accounted for in terms of abilities like applied fortitude. To summarize, yes to account bound wxp and on another point yes to gem based resets of wxp point allocation.

Obscure One.4357:

Gold account wallet
Karma account wallet
Badges of Honor account wallet
Dungeon Tokens account wallet
Laurels account wallet

Experience Points character based
Skill Points character based
Trait Points character based

WxP is not a currency, it is a progression system…a progression system designed so !#&%ing poorly it removes the incentives for playing an alt. WxP is akin to the Glory system in it’s mode specific structure, yet is treated as an extension of the Experience system that’s rewarded all throughout PvE content. The state of the system, if applied to sPvP, essentially states you can rank all the way up to Dragon rank on one character unlock every imaginable skin in sPvP, and enjoy any and all benefits of reaching that level…but the moment you log onto your alt you start at glory level 1, no skins, no rank, no nothing, start over, do it again.

WxP is a great idea implemented without prior testing, community feedback, or base logic in looking at the existing designs within the game. Making it account bound is admission of failure to meet any of their goals with the system, and ultimately be moving backwards with the design goal instead of forward. They said they want to make it so each character has a unique experience, and experiments with different builds? So far no good. Just encourages the player to have one experience and one build: their main character.

Sums up the issue very well.

First let me begin by thanking ANET for implementing this chance to identify if siege has been refreshed. It creates a simpler system and allows further work developing formidable structures to siege and conquer. However, the joint system of 30 minutes on all siege is a bit constraining especially considering the dynamics involved with maintaining supply routes and defenses. Personally I think 30 minutes for rams is enough, but the rest of the siege should have at least an hour timer and possibly more for superior siege (the upgraded versions should warrant that in my opinion). This is just my two cents to keep the labors that allow our servers to shine a little time to get our WXP as well.

Let me and ANET know about what you think about these ideas and feel free to throw out your own.

I completely agree that Megadestroyer is the proper ‘zone boss’ due to the fact that it is in the heart of the volcano, and a lot of the times it isn’t done due to no daily chest, when people can instead go to maw spend 5 minutes and get a daily chest.

So I’m sure most people have experienced the quite long chain available in Mount Maelstrom (a lvl 60-70 zone) where you take on the Inquest and the havoc they cause on the main aspect of the region, Mount Maelstrom itself. This chain involves multiple linked dynamic events and ends with a multi staged battle against the Megadestroyer. In my honest opinion its one of the most fun chains in the game, but often times it is completely ignored since the rewards have been left out of the daily reward boss chains. I mean if its good enough to warrant multiple DEs and a glorious chest at the end for a higher level zone, I believe it should warrant a daily chest as well.

What does everyone think, am I right, should I drop it? Please give me your thoughts.

Maniac.5163:

Sunspots.9861:

I don’t have anything to add

FTFY
You’re welcome. Moving on..

[HL] on FA have done a magnificent job sieging up Hills in KN BL. I actually want someone to come and take that keep, just so they can see how much it has been decked out. Pretty mindblowing stuff – I stopped counting after I saw 5 superior trebs and ~10-15 superior arrow carts on the inner perimeter..

As a part of the effort earlier today at Hills in KN BL, I want to extend a thank the people (and a special person) responsible for a large part of that effort (you know who you are), you are a great asset to FA’s prowess. Keep up the good work!

To the KN group that recently wiped at Hills on your borderland, this announcement is to notify you that your alpha golem blueprint you lost is now in the KNbl Hills lost and found. Thanks for your continued patronage.

Moments where you know you love WvW:

Finding that one special arrow cart (thanks for the crazy interest in lake TC and KN)

Favorite part of this discussion over transfers, bandwagoning, and long shifts to beat so and so is that none of this matters. I mean really what does the first place team really “win”. The only thing anyone can actually do is make sure that whenever you reach the battlefield you kick kitten and let the loot bags lie where they may.

Welcome Devon,

I wanted to thank you for answering some of the questions our community has cleverly brought up to you and hope that the open correspondence between our playing community and ArenaNet grows even more so in the future. Once again, welcome and remember don’t feed the trolls

Crazy defense of FA garrison tonight against the large forces of TC and KN, must have had 6+ waves of each with three way fighting for several hours with us somehow maintaining control at least for now. I want to thank both of you for the good fights and loot bags.

Enjoying the welcome to Tier 2 from Blackgate and TC, especially enjoying the bags.

As much of the FA wvw population can attest to, we aren’t a stranger to large enemy zergs like Maguuma supposedly has, and personally most of us (myself especially) are looking for to the bags that come with large zergs. Remember all we need is a choke point and superior ballista to start farming . As for next week’s matchup I’m looking for to DB and Maguuma because the fights should be fun and hopefully the forums more civil since this tier became the Grudge Tier with TC and CD.

Had fun tonight in IoJ borderlands after primetime FA time. Wish numbers had been on our side there at the end of our Bay hold (3 people total in the keep), but it seems like my treb work invoked the right amount of anger there at the end. Good fights and hopefully soon the numbers could be a bit more even in the future (that would be a lot more fun).

Surprised to see such little FA presence so far this week. Hopefully it changes quickly or things might get out of hand.

TC complains about our defense, but after fending them off in their home borderlands for 3-4 hours and upgrading a keep in the process, what happens at night you log in and go there and us FA have the outmanned buff. Defense is tough when outmanned 4 to 1 regardless of what server you are.