Guild Wars 2

report them for selling gold. anet responds if they think someone’s stealing their monies.

i want to give a suggestion too. how about the guild that controls the tower/keep ‘own’ the supply or even have power/control over siege placement within the territory. they cannot hoard the siege but they are able to ‘prevent’ siege griefers from taking supply and/or dismantle those that he builds.

but this will become just a race between siege griefer vs guild claiming tower/keep. my suggestion to this would be that it should take more than 1 person to claim an objective. maybe 10?

launcher updates to 26MB then drops down to 0KB/sec than just stops.

I had the opportunity today to face a p/d perplexity thief and my question is, does my phantasms cause confusion damage on me? I can’t make sure because it doesn’t show on my combat log.

Now that with the upcoming patch, a lot of aspects of the game will become more convenient by lifting the soulbound qualities like wxp and ascended equipments… but i haven’t read anything about crafting. i guess i will have to keep switching after the patch. but explain to me how this is different from say wxp?

*sorry if this has been discussed before, forum search isn’t coming up with anything worthwhile on this topic for me.

try guesting on a different server. it let me in and i got to move my characters out of the problematic map.

I created new characters and walked them to wayfarer through hoelbrak and they disconnect during map transition screen.

I am unable to access my characters parked in wayfarer foothills with this error code. (BUT i’m able to login with my other characters parked in other maps.)

Obtena.7952:

That doesn’t even come close to what I would consider grinding. I guess you are new to MMO’s? I’ve played games where it takes HUNDREDS of hours to get an item or even get a level. THAT is grinding

so it’s not a grind because it’s not as grindy as other mmo’s that you’ve played before.

new to mmo’s? not really, but even if i was, what difference would it make? so what’s your point? by that logic, a 7ft person isn’t really tall, because you’ve seen 15ft people. an elephant really isn’t that big because you’ve seen whales. god forbid, a killer isn’t really a murderer because he doesn’t compare to a tyrant (sorry that escalated quickly for argument’s sake).

oh. don’t get me wrong. i can get more ascended if i wanted to. i’m part of a big guild that does the weekly guild missions in about 2 hours. you miss the call time, you miss it for the week. don’t tell me you’re some big shot that can demand other people’s time to run guild missions for YOUR commendations.

don’t get me wrong, i CHOOSE not to use my laurels on ascended items because it will limit my build.

stop arguing about how it’s not required. it IS. you don’t need exotics too by that logic, but unless you can back that up with a video of yourself in all yellows against an equally skilled opponent in exotics/ascended in wvw, then you can’t deny that it is required. don’t kid yourself.

it IS a grind.

i’m not rushing for ascended items at all and i’m not pressured to. but i can’t understand how anyone can defend it not being a grind.

prove that it’s not a grind: show me all 8 characters with at least 2 sets of complete ascended gear.

to those who say that it isn’t a grind…

it IS a grind. don’t kid yourself.

please tell me how to get ascended accessory. yes, i know how, but please let’s review how you get it. enlighten everyone now how you have to be in guild that runs all the options that give commendations, how you can’t miss that weekly run and how you get 1 item every 2 weeks. or you can do your dailies EVERYDAY for 1 month (30 daily laurel and 10 monthly) for 1 accessory. tell me now how that is not a grind. now compare that to how i can acquire exotic accessory and how it opens up variety of builds.

we don’t need ascended you say? well, we also don’t need exotics, what’s your point?

i’ve had 8 80s for a while now. all in multiple exotic sets. i play around with different build setups for all of them. but i only have 1 ascended item.

Just a bit of clarification here – Items that were soulbound prior to the change are still soulbound.

yeah it’s bugged. I had an mf longbow in my bank. it wasn’t bound to anyone prior to patch. i took it out today to select it’s stats on my ele with the intetion of giving it to my ranger.

it soulbound itself to my ele.

choosing stat will soulbind it.
GG.

Rewording is not right! Just re-reword it i guess and say it was “intended”

._.

i hate this island and everything in it!

yes i do switch. very rarely though. i use axe and focus. but they’re mostly there because i used them playing minionmancer. i switch to them in 1v1 vs tanks for the vulnerability and as an ‘oh kitten’ when i’m running away and i’ve used up all my cc – one weapon has hydromancy and axe 3 for slow.

a lot of the playstyle revolves around, as you’ve said, placement. For example, the map with the trebs (yes i’ve got memory issues too lol) if i’m not on the trebs, i’m jumping on structures. stay up on those things, you can move between protecting your treb, the clock tower and 1 more node. I try to stay up there as much as possible because it is safe. You are hard to reach and if they get to you, you can just fear them off.

As a fellow ’i’m too old for this’ gamer, this has worked for me: 30/20/20/0/0
Get necro runes, all staff/marks traits and increased condition damage/time.

Now here’s the best part: i don’t even switch weapons! Arthritis friendly!
3 minions, op fear wall and consume cond heal.

Play style is straightforward: drop marks.

For spvp though, playing smart is greater than teenage reflex. Support your team. objectives>ego and your 1vx kills. Know when to run and know when dying will help your team more than living (for example, kiting 3 people away from objectives, staying up as long as you can and keeping them busy and away for your team to take nodes). Chill enemies trying to get to nodes, fear them away from nodes and stomping. Raise your downed teammate if you cant rally them. Etc etc…

LOC: Philippines
ISP: SkyCable

can’t.

yet,

hopefully.

been getting this lately. again.

i’ve attached the networkdiag in case it might help.

the constant dc has gotten worse. it started after the southsun patch. the dc occurs every ~10min or so now.

LOC: Philippines
ISP: SKYcable

The funny part is people were resistant about anet incorporating lfg into the game because “it might ruin the social aspect” of dungeoning. hah.

What I do now instead is just run around and do random stuff in tyria with my 6 yr old niece. None of the pseudo-leet attitude and discrimination with kids.

Funny how everyone just immediately go “QQ moar” and “you just want to be carried noob” and just skip the part about me having 6 other 80s and how it’s because constantly running dungeons is what burned me out in the first place. I dont need to be carried thank you for assuming that. I do however want to play with my new toon. /shrug

No where did i say i discriminate against lowbies. Here is the problem (which seems people mistakenly assume even when I’ve just stated it in writing), people seem to assume you’re noob when you run with a lowbie in lfg and don’t want to associate with you, instantly jumping to conclusions (and what’s wrong with being a noob anyway?). I know how to lfg. thank you for assuming i don’t. yes, i know gw2lfg. thanks. Yes i state state that i’m a lowbie on there. thanks again. No i don’t say I have other 80s, because it shouldn’t matter. but that’s not the problem.

the dungeons atm are not casual friendly for a game that boasts that it caters to this crowd. and the community certainly isn’t forgiving or helpful about it. /rant

I stopped playing GW2 last January because I burned out doing dungeons. I came back to level my 6th 80 in WvW. Now that I’m leveling my 7th 80, my server is doing really good that now we’re in a tier where we’re almost always outmanned so at certain times it’s useless to even try walking out into the battlefield.

Despite my hesitation to dungeon, I tried looking for a group to run dungeons. The same reason that burned me out in the first place is now even more rampant. People only want 80s. they want runs that last 5 min. or only certain classes. this is really sad.

Before you tell me to ‘l2guild’ or ‘run with a group of friends’ etc. NO! That’s exactly the attitude why dungeons are this way atm. We should be able to pug dungeons. We should be able to pug them when our level allows us to.

This upcoming weekend, I really hope this elitism gets exposed and people get turned off by it. Maybe then people will realize how awful it is. It really is sad.

I didn’t believe it myself.

Firstly, we were greatly outmanned that everyone was pushed back to defending langor. No commanders were present; everyone on the map was called back to defend Langor, it was really our last tower before they take our main keep. You could argue that a party of 5 could ninja other towers and supplies but I don’t think 3 minute caps on other points (because surely they would just be taken back quickly) was worth risking our last tower and eventually our main keep.

If you are familiar with Langor, putting up arrow carts on the supply hut will give you vision and reach to ~1200 (a rough estimate) beyond the gate. Yes there were no rams, I kid you not. If they placed one, it was promptly taken down. And yes, I wouldn’t believe it myself, NO ONE died. Downing players is not killing them.

No, I’m not saying that a small group should be able to deter a very large zerg. That’s ridiculous! What I’m saying is that a small group within a reinforced tower/keep SHOULD be able to THIN them.

This is why I believe that wvw should implement a DR on reviving.

In wvw today, I proudly participated in defending Langor from the biggest zerg train I’ve encountered. It was so scary they didn’t need rams or any artillery. They all just clumped at out super reinforced door and autoattacked it down. They took, by my estimate around 20 min maybe even more, to finally break into and take Langor.

Everyone was on siege yet not a single invader died. I would assume a combination of aoe limit, passives and revive, made the zerg train invincible… literally. no loot bags dropped for any of us.

We were really proud of our defending but it was really disheartening. It’s been pointed out many times that there’s really no point in defending points, let alone upgrading and reinforcing them. I’d like to think that we gave a good fight and I’d like to think the zerg train enjoyed taking it from us too despite us slowing down their wxp per hour.

But again, as it has been pointed out numerous times, THIS REALLY NEED TO BE LOOKED INTO.

There have been many suggestions and I’d like to add too.

1. I think siege aoe limit is a bad idea. I think the reasoning behind it is that to deter a bigger army of invaders, you need more weapons. Logically so. But at the moment, it doesn’t make a difference- a zerg will always out-heal the damage.

2. There really SHOULD be a DR on reviving someone. It’s already very hard to thin out a zerg, outmanned, let alone have them be unkillable because it self-heals and self-revives.

I hope I’m making sense as I’m not a wvw pro or veteran. Thanks for reading.

the past few days i’ve been getting this error too. it’s been crashing rather frequently now. my screen just turns black with this error window. when i click ok. it stays black. i have to force close the game and reopen it in windows.

edit* and yeah, /clienport 80 doesn’t really help. it won’t even let me log in.

The drops for passion flowers are still horrid.

am i missing something? has passion flower drops improved for others? is there a secret passifora “vine” that i’m missing?

So, I’ve been farming dungeons religiously for everyday since the lost shore update in hopes of the jewelcrafting recipe drop for me. I’ve yet to see one drop.

Meanwhile, the lucky few are able to corner the market and selling these to up to 80g.

Why can’t I discover this instead? Why can’t anyone mystic forge it? Why can’t I buy the recipe with tokens?

Please, stop it with the RNG already.

My current frustration about dungeon is that it is the only place where exotic jeweler recipe drops. this is particularly frustrating because it’s starting to be that ‘grindy game’ that it’s not suppose to be. i have tons of tokens sitting in my bank. but no recipe.

Even more frustrating is that I’m trying to get my hands on the recipe for nightmare coil from TA. and as a necro with no reliable stability. it gets frustrating when you plead and beg to your team to clear mobs and yet they still run past and leave you behind. I’m spec’d tanky (vit/tough) but no way in hell am i getting past chain knockdown mobs. don’t get me wrong, I’ve run past many of them too myself. but if you’re the lucky all the knights or husks decide to chain knockdown, no way are you getting up from that. most of the time too, your group won’t go back to run with you.
(and no, i will not respec 30 pts into DS 3 sec stability just so I might survive, maybe, running past mobs. I created my necro to play it as a minion master, full of bugs as it is, that’s how I want to play it. I’ve got other characters if I wanted to play a different style)

I’ve ragequit many groups this way. Even stopped using gw2lfg.com because I don’t want my name tainted anymore than it already is as a rage quitter. But people don’t realize that not all classes can skip mobs this way. I should know. I have 4 80s. And I’m stuck with using my necro for dungeons because she’s the jeweler (another frustration since reports say that the recipe drop is soulbound on acquire).

1. why are jewelry recipes only dungeon drops on RNG?!
2. not all classes can skip mobs. not everyone understands this.

I made an engineer for turrets. geared him up to full exotics and then retired him because his turrets were very frustrating. since then, i’ve levelled up and geared 3 more classes and currently levelling up a fifth. i’ll play my engr maybe when anet finally fixes turrets. /sad

it isn’t ideal. and i sure as hell don’t like the idea of being the elitist asking you to link your gear. i don’t hate noobs. it does sadden me because i do enjoy pugging. i enjoy doing SE despite multiple wipes. i’d even go as far as saying that it is fun sometimes. i run first timers through SE and i do enjoy teaching tricks that i’ve learned from other pugs i’ve ran with. it is such a great feeling to run a pug, wipe, regroup and discuss our next strategy, try it and succeed.

i might stay away from pugging in the meantime and try to think of a good and mature way to go about it. i sure would like to hear suggestions.

so far though all i could think of is typing this out in the invite:
MF gear welcome, but please link and bring a backup set. does not need to be exotic. keep in mind this is a pug and you can’t expect everyone to be decked out in which case, if the run doesn’t go smoothly, must adjust accordingly.

i agree. it is a very tricky situation. i kept my cool. i myself have run SE with mf with no problems together with non 80s in blues and greens.

so how do you weed them out?

mf sure is not to be blamed. but this whole mf ordeal makes noobs think they they have to run mf gear so as not be left behind. i have no problems with noobs. i will be glad to run them through any dungeon. but they have to spec willingly and not be expected to be carried. they have to try to be less of a liability.

so where does this leave us who are trying to approach this maturely?

my point is, from now on, i’m being forced to be the kitten that has to inspect gear first before inviting you to the group. which i haven’t done before.

Yes, from now on no more playing nice. I was trying to be patient. Speaking very calmly and motivating the group, keeping the others from rage quiting.

That would be the last.

…warrior running MF and constantly dying leaving us to pick up the slack. he died so much his armor broke and still wouldn’t repair. he fought the boss in his underwear and during fights, he transformed into the candy corn monster, for the MF buff.

Now me and my brother who were leading the group were very patient. we knew from the get go, as soon as he died from the first encounter, that he was running in MF but we were very patient up until the last boss. I hate being that elitist jerk that will ask you for you to link your gear. I’ve never done that.

Up until now.

I wish engineers could deploy turrets.