Guild Wars 2

Yeah, you don’t see this too often in higher tiers. There are usually a lot of big guilds and commanders online at most any given time who really take control of the map. In the SoR/BG/IoJ match right now, it’s a pretty awesome sight to behold. A lot of great tactics with back and forth group fighting and epic sieges.

If you aren’t happy with how your server is performing, start organizing. Find or form a WvW guild. Read up on effective tactics and try to teach people.

Me and my guild leader claimed Anz in our borderlands map one night when no one was really on. For two hours we kept up Speldans and had a constant stream of supply. We even maintained the Dredge camp nearby. We had Fortified Walls, defensive siege, the works. The two of us held that tower and even participated in a somewhat hilarious 5 man breach of Stonemist’s Northwest wall (didn’t get much farther after that :U).

I agree with you. I’d like the map to feel a bit more persistent. Only Stonemist sees regular permanence, but I’d like to get on with a small party of guildies and hold a tower for awhile. We were only mucking around that night, because we would have never sunk so much effort and resources into an outpost like that otherwise. The frequency with which towers and keeps get flipped takes the worth out of it.

I love wuvswuv. It’s by far my most favorite thing about the game. But they could definitely make it more engaging, and I really look forward to that. They could definitely start by reintroducing a more balanced system for the Orbs.

The 100g, in Anet’s own words, is there to discourage anyone from buying it. You only nab it if you really, REALLY want to be a Commander; a trait possessed by people who will do something with that title. And if they don’t, then whatever. It’s not like you’ll see them around, anyway.

They took them out. Oh, and then they said they’re gonna think of something else, lol

Also; putting an orb defense keep in the NW of the map heavily unfavors whoever is camping in the SE, so that creates a balance issue.

What Alarox said, but also; this isn’t Alliance Battles from GeeDubs the First. These are epicly long, multi-map spanning battles. When you spend ten to twenty minutes trying to take a keep, is it really that big of a deal for three people to scan it for mesmers? I honestly think it ADDS to the gameplay. It’s not just about roaming zergs and facerolling objectives; there’s an element of subterfuge and cunning involved.

Besides, we should all be super happy that mesmers are flourishing instead of being the last kid picked for the team like in the old days.

The only mod I’d put is that you should get badges of honor for destroying siege equipment. Right now there’s little to gain from killing siege except the siege not being there.

If you take a tower and leave the enemy’s rams sitting at the gate, you deserve to lose that tower.

IoJ nobody here, just popping in to say last night (early morning?) was a lot of fun. While most of my North American friends were hitting the hay I logged into our Borderlands when we had almost nothing and didn’t leave until we had just about the whole map covered. Thanks to Noms, of course. But also to everyone else who took the game seriously enough to organize teams but had fun doing it.

Really looking forward to the next matchup, even if it is against SoS again. I feel like we’ll get off to a much better start, and with the general mood in chat being positive, I can tell we’re gonna have a much stronger showing. See you guys in EB ;D

A lot of people are getting this error, myself included. My build is very current, yet incredibly different from yours. In fact, I’ve had this issue happen on two completely builds as well (one on an Intel with an ATI card, and now on an AMD with an ATI card).

From the posts I see, there seems to be no common factor with these black screen hangs. They just HAPPEN to certain people. No one in my guild experiences them but me.

Sorry to not have anything for you, but just thought I’d let you know you aren’t alone in this problem. It’s been happening to me since the three day headstart. I can’t do dungeons, WvW, sPvP, or anything except leveling in PvE. :C

I overclocked my CPU and saw a jump from 20-30 fps to constant 60 (using vsync). A lot of other people see the exact same results. The point is, it wouldn’t hurt to slowly up your clocks and see what happens.

Strangely, I get the weird black screen hang where the music will continue to play, but I digress. Don’t bother tweaking your GPU first, everything starts with your mobo and CPU.

As someone who has been experiencing this problem since day 1 on both an HD 5570 and now an HD 6670, I am sorry to say that you likely won’t find a ready solution to this problem at the current time. I understand your frustrations; what’s the point in grouping for a dungeon if I’m gonna black screen during a boss? What’s the point of doing WvW if I’m gonna black screen and have to log back into Lion’s Arch? Oh man, better not change zones too many times because that seems to trigger the black screens more frequently!

It’s really painful, because I’m level 50. Yes, my one and only character is level 50 and I’ve been playing since the headstart. I check the Tech Support forum every day looking for an answer and there isn’t one.

My one hope is that I’m running the 12.9 Beta driver. I haven’t played more than an hour since installing it, but no black screen yet. I’ll post here again if it happens though. Til then, good luck sorting this out. If you figure out a problem, be sure to send me a message!

P.S. The sticky about the black screens don’t help. I’ve tried every configuration for anti-aliasing in Catalyst and in the game’s own settings. My new computer couldn’t be ANY MORE different from my previous one; the only similarity is that I’m using another ATI HD series card. But either way, the sticky doesn’t mean anything to me.

Recently I started using a Scepter and Focus and I noticed strange behavior for the Fire Attunement skill, Dragon’s Tooth. The whole strategy of this weapon combination is to use the combo field for Fire Wall with a bunch of blast finishers to stack might on yourself and burning on your foes, but Dragon’s Tooth seems to activate its blast finisher the moment you cast it and not when it explodes.

You can try this yourself. Stand in the middle of a fire field, target an enemy outside of the field, and cast Dragon’s Tooth. You’ll see the Might heart from the blast finisher putting three stacks of might on you, while the actual tooth spawns far away and explodes completely apart from the combo.

This is a potential balance issue. I can get 12 stacks of might in a second using this method. It also ruins the skill’s ability to be a long range blast finisher, i.e. an enemy is engaged in some other effect field and you drop a Dragon’s Tooth on them, nothing will happen.

This isn’t just an enjoyable read, it’s also some of the best written fiction I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing. My favorite part of any fiction—the characters—are superb int he this story. I’m definitely following this one!

I want them to produce more stuff, and if they don’t, then I owe it to myself to step forth and fill that void.

Oh my god. I think I just ascended while listening to this.

So far it’s been a great read. I’ve been looking forward to some fan-fiction for awhile as the world and lore of Tyria fascinate me like no other fictional setting. I’ll definitely be following!