Guild Wars 2

mercury ranique.2170:

Zierk.4289:

Hey man don’t feel bad, my account got hacked and I was told they wont restore my account because and I quote: "Please understand we cannot provide more items for the gold sellers to steal and sell. If you require assistance with anything else, please let us know. " way to go AN.

Just to tell the full story (again).
You got hacked due to a security breach on your computer. Depsite warning from support and members here your rushed in for an account restoration instead of first making sure you are ok. Then you got hacked again (I wonder why?) and demanded a second restoration while still refusing to take all steps needed for an account restoration.

They made you aware of the account restoration faq’s. One important for you is: ‘We offer one restoration during the lifetime of a Guild Wars 2 account. To safeguard your account, please be sure you use the best security processes, as outlined in this article.’

So I will admit to being ignorant to the 1 restoral for the lifetime of the account as I only breezed through the restoral FAQ since they told me to respond back quickly as you should know. What are you an incognito GM flaming people on the forums under a regular user account? W2G. I guess Arena Net already got my money so why bother helping a customer who gets hacked TWICE instead of once… And for the record the second account restoral was requested not demanded thank you. Even with everything that has been brought to light Arena Net can not dispute the reason they will not perform a second account restoral is because of this: "Please understand we cannot provide more items for the gold sellers to steal and sell. If you require assistance with anything else, please let us know. "

Almost as bad as PWE with the money grubbing. I can’t believe Arena Nets total lack of customer service when it comes to this. You guys re-victimize your players, how do you expect them to keep playing your product?

650+ hours, around $350 spent in gems and this is how I get treated by a game that I supported. The bad part is I was deployed overseas when the original hack happened and wasn’t able to respond in a timely manner. It’s all good at this point, me and my guild will find another game to play.

Hey man don’t feel bad, my account got hacked and I was told they wont restore my account because and I quote: "Please understand we cannot provide more items for the gold sellers to steal and sell. If you require assistance with anything else, please let us know. " way to go AN.

Some people in my guild had this issue. Waiting in queue for 2 hours while I got in in 15 minutes… re-queue every 15-20 mins. Works like a charm

How am I suppose to complete the Clock Tower Jumping Puzzle without using my mouse for turning. I am physically disabled and am not able to use a mouse very well.
Can anyone offer advice on how to defeat this puzzle plz!

@Prototype:

I don’t think many will get on to our server. Our server has been full for a while now. Should keep the bandwagon out

Current score as it stands:

It’s a bug that sometimes happens when the borderlands reset. It happens this way to everyone. Best thing I can tell you is to NOT run out the middle exit from your BL WP.

lol wow nice link SteepledHat.

I think they should simply make the orbs invulnerable until the keep lord is dead. Just like the orb keeper has to die to be able to hit the alter _.

Then instead of the single fly hacker you will see an entire zerg of people flying over walls, ganking the keep lord and stealing the orb.

Minoru.1237:

As of 2 pm the altar is still broken.

Walk up to broken alter, spam F. You’ll see it heal. There is no indication that it is healing outside of you targeting it. the prompt will say “Place Orb at Alter” or something like that. Try it and see, I’ve done this personally a couple times and it works.

Sounds like it’s time to merge some servers so everyone can have a queue and be happy. Then they can all complain about having a queue for WvW.

Odynol.4786:

Keep in mind that HoD usually does dominates during the weekdays. They’re doing well now as is so I want to see what happens then

Not last week =]

Raffie.7865:

@zierk
Well the latest thing is the Mesers ‘FLY’ into a keep and then portal for a fast cap.

I’ve seen thiefs do it also. You can look up how to do it on Youtube. Pretty crappy.

It would be nice if when you get badges in your loot drop, you simply get ‘awarded’ the token. Keep the loot bags with the sell-able items inside, but as far as the tokens go, make them a type of currency or automatically placed in your inventory.

You can do it with ballistas if you can target the treb. You set them up where ever you can get a target on the treb at. Usually 1-2k yards away from the cliif.

So anyways to help debunk this orb drama.

@Green BLs:
Tonight we got double-teamed(not implying ET/HoD organized a team) at out Bay which was holding the orb. Siege lasted around 2 hours with HoD at north, ET in the south. Eventually JQ was supply starved and ended up losing the orb and bay to the Borg of ET =]

We recapped the bay immediately after respawning, but the fight was pretty good. It’s always fun to test out your limits and see how the team reacts to certain ‘dire’ situations. Props to ET for getting the cap and HoD was closely behind. I think HoD actually breached inner first.

I’ve noticed a step up in your game tonight ET, hopefully that will continue into the work week. It’s always fun to have those 3-ways. Next time lets make it in your keep and not ours =]

EDIT: Forgot to add, I guess now we know what if feels like to be HoD last week. Constantly getting double-teams by JQ/SBI at the garrison

Current scoreboard:

I always find re-queuing every 15 minutes helps me out. I also stand in low populated city zones (DR/BC/HB). Also seems to work better when using the WvW menu vice using the LA portals.

But yeah, wish it would get fixed already =[

I’m sitting at 2630 kills and 388 badges. 6.7 kills/badge. I’m sure there is atleast 50 or less badges missing from not looting. Wish there was a true autoloot, even if it was just for badges.

Morning stats: 12:18 PM EST

my bad, posted it the correct way above

stupid 3 and 4.

RedRings.6285:

Vel.1653:

I know it is not all of ET nor ET’s fault for doing this. But to have all 3 of our orbs being exploited at the SAME time this is not by one guys doing alone it has to be a group. He could have just took his guild tag down so if he got caught it would not smear his guilds name.

or probably to stay under the radar as we cannot see enemy players’ names in WvW

Can’t see player names but if you target, right-click, report: it gives you their account Id which is why we know it is “lambshanks.1430”.

Wow that’s a crazy spread so early in the match. I play on JQ and you would never see that so early. Do people on the red/blue server’s not WvW much?

You can also clearly see no green dots on Vel’s minimap, there was no fight there. He was the only guy there.

rndmize.9274:

This is pretty frustrating stuff, but I can’t really blame ET as a whole for it. Anet should implement something simple, like requiring that the altar take damage from 3+ different people before breaking, at least as a stop-gap measure. Or perhaps provide a bounty for detailed bug/exploit reports (as Google and Microsoft do). 2k gems for a bug report that leads directly to a fix, or something.

This is straight hacking. You get into the keep by fly-hacking. Easily found on Youtube.

It’s hard not to want to blame ET as a whole when it appears to be a coordinated effort. Literally minutes after we discovered this was happening the other BL commanders started going into different channels asking if it was happening to them as well. Again it’s hard to not blame ET as a whole, but you really cannot. Especially if this was the work of a couple individuals. It’s sad how disruptive a small group of individuals can be to a match with so many people playing.

EDIT: Funny thing, you read back a few week’s worth of WvW posts with ET as the subject and you see that this happens quite frequently. Am I really naive thinking this is the work of individuals and not shady tactics?

They hit all 3 orbs at the same time and ninja’ed 2.

Lambshanks.1340 – you caught son.

Got screenshots

Same in JQ, I posted a thread about it also earlier.

blink.4239:

Blix.8021:

Currently in JQ borderlands: ET is attacking our only tower, while JQ is attacking our only supply camp. This has been going on for ever. Fun times on the HoD side of things.

Believe me. There’s no treaty between us. ET just used an exploit to bug-out one of our orbs for crying out loud.

Just happened again right now in all 3 boarderlands.

Are you sure they aren’t using portals? We use a tactic where 3 mesmers can use portals to get the entire zerg from garrison to hills in 30 seconds. 3 portal jumps and your there.

EDIT: We have done it before with literally: jump, 2 steps forward, jump 2 steps forward jump, there; took seconds.

anyone else getting endless loading screens when WPing to your BL entrance? i posted an additional thread about it. It’s getting a lot of JQ players in green BL tonight.

Anyone having issues with getting a loading screen in your borderland entrance? Seems like when you WP back to your BL entrance, start heading out the center exit, as soon as you step onto the grass you get a loading screen. Multiple people on my server getting this across all 3 borderlands. Requires a client restart to correct and thus a 2 hour queue to get back into WvW =[

Why should I be forced to transfer to a low pop server?

Necro/bump because this is a good idea.

Derek.9254:

Zierk.4289:

Fate.3025:

@Casia.

" [PRX] did no such thing. " — Let’s break this down.

Exhibit A: Now, the person in question did use our mesmers to get in past outer.

Exhibit B: I can not confirm or deny how the orb was taken, as none of us were there.

^ So why are you attempting a PR clean-up / defend [PRX] when ..

Can’t confirm or deny.
You admit they used your mesmers.

Pretty sure that’s admission; regardless of confirmation or denial.

Nothing to see here. 10/10 would read again for LOL.

It’s fine, I have screenshots along with 40 other people from JQ who saw a thief with [PRX] tags run off with the orb. I would also question your memser as well. While yes the outer wall was down for a while and a mesmer got inside. Putting a portal on the inside of water gate while your zerg was able to use the portal from the outside when the gate was still intact is an exploit in my eyes, but ultimately poor design.

@PRX:
You guys got slaughtered in the water and didn’t even get a quarter of your forces out of the water. Yet you were able to take the orb. It’s only a matter of time until they fix this issue and make it so you can’t use a portal when it’s inside a wall. The only way you can hang on to the lead is by using exploits. Really sad.

They just keep giving discredit to themselves and their server.

Honestly pls go. PRX did not do any exploits. Are you aware that a gate can be repaired to 1hp and reappear looking brand new again?

If what you say is true and isnt just blatant trolling and hate. This goes for all large guilds. It is impossible to know if one of the 400+ members has a cheating mentality. If one person exploits or whatever that in no way means the entire guild is. Essentially i could say that your entire server are a bunch of cheaters/hackers/exploiters because a few people are doing it.

Please next time rethink what you are about to post before contributing to the already large amount of dumb/unintelligent posts that already exist in this thread.

Regardless, when you raid a keep and know that you haven’t breached the inner walls yet you have the orb that should be a common sense red flag. I call it like I see it. An individual in PRX does something stupid, it makes you all look bad. Being ignorant to your member’s action is your problem and not an excuse or defense for their actions. Take responsibility for your people. Otherwise your no better then they guy who performed the exploit.

Fate.3025:

@Casia.

" [PRX] did no such thing. " — Let’s break this down.

Exhibit A: Now, the person in question did use our mesmers to get in past outer.

Exhibit B: I can not confirm or deny how the orb was taken, as none of us were there.

^ So why are you attempting a PR clean-up / defend [PRX] when ..

Can’t confirm or deny.
You admit they used your mesmers.

Pretty sure that’s admission; regardless of confirmation or denial.

Nothing to see here. 10/10 would read again for LOL.

It’s fine, I have screenshots along with 40 other people from JQ who saw a thief with [PRX] tags run off with the orb. I would also question your memser as well. While yes the outer wall was down for a while and a mesmer got inside. Putting a portal on the inside of water gate while your zerg was able to use the portal from the outside when the gate was still intact is an exploit in my eyes, but ultimately poor design.

@PRX:
You guys got slaughtered in the water and didn’t even get a quarter of your forces out of the water. Yet you were able to take the orb. It’s only a matter of time until they fix this issue and make it so you can’t use a portal when it’s inside a wall. The only way you can hang on to the lead is by using exploits. Really sad.

They just keep giving discredit to themselves and their server.

alphillyboy.2064:

Zierk, if you think about it, there will ALWAYS be spies in a war. Its up to how you deal with it and how its countered that determines which team will be at an advantage (theoretically you could send someone to a server and build their reputation and join a top guild, just to relay information secretly on voice chat or other communications… its hard to catch sometimes and not as easy as just an unguilded never before pug standing there afk or building flame rams in open field).

I think we can actually use spies to our advantage, by making use of commander/guild chat private voice channels, and false information to confuse and throw off the other team. Counter-intelligence can be used to gain advantage and perhaps even discredit the validity of spy intel.

And while you are correct, if it is allowed per ANET then I will simply quit complaining about being spied on and start spying myself. Hell I played EVE for a long long time, lets do this.

@ANET:

Is the use of spies in WvW officially allowed?

To have players sit on an enemy server and relay team/map chat information?

To have people access voice communication channels and relay information?

To have players follow around enemy commander’s and livestream troop movement?

It has been a typical sight the past weeks where players would either use an alt account or their main account, transfer to whatever server their “home” team is facing and relay information back to their team via 3rd party voice communications. Information that while yes is public to the server, but is intended to be private to the server’s community and not released outside of the world’s own players.

Is this behavior allowed? If it is not how can we go about reporting it to ensure the guilty face the consequences.

I think it’s funny how [PRX] of HoD gets on in Blue Boarderlands and bugs/exploits/hax the orb out of Bay without breaching the inner walls. Then proceeds to put a spy in voice comms. We caught you tonight, we clearly gave instructions that we were going to take hills and watched your zerg stop dead in it’s tracks and run to hills when in fact we were moving the opposite way just to see if you would respond to false commands given in TS. Then to have people come in comms and spam noise to disrupt communications is pretty desperate.

Shame on you [PRX] from HoD. Your actions tonight have reflected a dishonorable image for your server. I guess you didn’t like coming online to find JQ with 3 orbs and at 415 points to you at 145. I guess if you can’t beat them, cheat em. See you tomorrow at the reset. =]

Daily contribution: 4:42PM EST.

sachiel.8051:

There were some great fights last night with both HoD and SBI. No one should say SBI’s demoralized, especially when JQ and SBI were pushing on HoD’s garrison from opposing sides, and SBI took it and then was able to push us out as well. That was so much fun. Really loving the JQ community so far and our leadership. First, second or third, taking the castle or not, still having a great time.

I’ll assume you were in the SBI BL? Typical nights this week: JQ takes NW tower; SBI takes NE tower. Both teams siege garrison. JQ/SBI breach garrison outer walls, both attack separate inner doors. Inner doors go down, sexy 3-way in lords room. 5 hours later, no walls or doors standing in garrison, HoD still owns garrison. Best fights ever.

With the occasional SBI attempt to ninja NW tower from JQ while we raid garrison.
Always fun to mix it up a bit. =]

Very pro keybinds indeed!

It is 100% ban-able. Per ANET on reddit post:

“Basically, anything that touches the game client in any fashion, including but not limited to visuals, overlays, controls, inputs, outputs, automation, sounds, or play experience is going to be referred to as a mod. The Guild Wars 2 software package is meant to be delivered and used AS-IS, with zero flexibility for the end user. If your script changes anything about the game itself, how it’s displayed, or how it’s played, then it’s forbidden 3rd-party software.”

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/103n56/update_guild_wars_2_combat_mode/

Post on official forums with ANET backing up the reddit post when “Combat Mode 1.0” was questioned about being ban-able:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Will-I-get-banned-for-using-Combat-Mode-1-0/first#post234824

I must say, the Fire Elemental world boss in Metrica Provence is the hardest world boss IMO. There is always a dangerous feel when doing that one. The others though, meh. I agree with all points. I mostly log in to WvW and that’s about it anymore. The anti-farm code and restrictions on speed running dungeons pretty much killed my desire to do dungeons or any kind of grinding. I don’t really like SPVP, feels too much like battlegrounds in every other MMO.

i like the idea, it has that pzazz!

What happened to Guild Halls from GW1?

i love this idea.

Screenshot of the mists.

@OP

it’s not griefing it’s PVP. Siege weapons? Yes because what happens when the 5 man group of people camping other player’s runs into another teams squad who wants to do the puzzle? It’s the same concept of people defending a camp or tower, use siege because it makes you that much stronger.

Sounds like another QQ thread. Plz close this ANET!

We don’t even have a means to directly trade with another player, I can’t see them implementing a system where we can donate to another player. :/

Good idea but I don’t see it happening personally.

EDIT: trade securely. Sending someone an item via mail and saying pay me back after you get the item doesn’t seem very smart to me.

Jayne.8749:

Behold the Borg of Denravi

Was that the golem army that went to bay and utter destroyed by the JQ zerg with no seige? Or was that the second golem army to replace the first?

@HOD/SBI on Blue BL: Good fight at garrison tonight. I don’t think there has been a battle on the garrison with all 3 teams fighting at the same time ever. A couple times JQ/SBI breached inner gates at the same time on different sides and had a nice 3-way. Props to HoD for defending successfully. At the time of this post the battle is still ongoing but I have to go to sleep.