Guild Wars 2

Neil, Very well done, not only on production etc, but on making the showcase! Gotta love that British sense of humour!

EU: FSP : Where Wolves Fear To [PREY]

Basically the same issue as everyone else, nothing is building properly, only one thing is building and we have lost a load (10,000’s of influence) and time (means we need to spend more influence to catch up) because of it.

Only one build running (Guild workshop seems closed and they are out to lunch)
Builds cancelled by the last patch and had to be restarted.

On top of this guild chat is bugged at best, and i’m being PM’d by my guildies all asking what is going on, and when are we going to do Guild Missions…..

Ela

I think one of the things that people really miss from GW1 to GW2 is the guild hall, and the obvious additions e.g. merchant, it was a great place for RP guilds and social guilds to hang out, and everyone just went there and used all the facilities…

Proposal 1: Guild Hall customisation
Potential guild hall customisation. In GW1 we had to choose a hall, when not allow for customisation e.g. selection of rooms and boosts or you have standard starting hall or merchant, bank etc, and gave leaders the ability to ‘fit them together’ in a design that suited your needs…. bigger guilds could spread out etc…

Additionally the ability to customise the decor, even if it is change a few colours, add a few banners / trophies etc.. (This is along the Dojo lines for the game Warframe if you want to research it).

Proposal 2: Guild mission selection…as they stand some are set for large guilds, some for small guilds. e.g. challenges, Save the supplies really needs 25 people to do it, the quaggan one 15 etc.. how about a wager e.g. guild gold or something to give better rewards to up or downscaling the challenge so it came be completed by smaller guilds, or completing a puzzle in a certain time limit.

Proposal 3: Another guild puzzle… 3 doesn’t give enough variety.

Proposal 4.: A forum for advertising guild missions and a seperate one for the guild missions themselves…. the current one is just full of adverts.

Proposal 5: Lets face it, guild members are going to hop between guilds in order to get the benefits of each guild hall, so (1) guild bonuses are based on what is active in the guild only.
(2) Give them something to do, in order to get it… so… for XX guild commendations you can buy a guild hall portal stone that allows you to travel to and from the hall…i.e. don’t give it to them for free, make them earn their loyalty… or complete something to gain it…

Proposal 6: Influence/guild booster changes. Banners are generally meaning less, in comparison to guild wide boosts. The only benefit of banners is portability/being able to drop one when you want…30 mins isn’t enough time….increase to 1 hour and remove/rationalise some of them?…. why would you want a speed booster marker for 20s of swiftness, I can get a guardian to do that (and better). I’ve never seen anyone spawn a crafting station to be used seriously.

Proposal 7: A commander or commander style tag (can be earnt/baught) for the guild leader(s) (maybe green) for use with guild missions etc.

Proposal 8: Better guild wide PvP boosters… just 10% influence ? (kill bonus, defend bonus, points scored, XP bonus, MF on rewards?)

Lots of the other ideas, e.g. calendar, message of the day etc have been mentioned so I won’t cover them.

Ela

Blink/Mantra of Conc vs Mirror Images?

I tend to like Mantra of Conc for the small about (would like a small buff) of stability and two uses. I can see pros and cons to each, and suspect it will come down to personal preference.

Starting with staff (i’m not sure, it is a defensive weapon)?, i’d start with scepter (torment whilst they are gap closing seems good), and getting a few free clones. (I wouldn’t waste a stun breaker for a couple of early clones). Then shatter then when my foe was close or more condistions, then swap to staff and phase retreat to maintain the distance.

Ela

I like them as they are. Might stacking with ‘symbols can heal’ won’t do the game any good.

Critique should only apply to the next drink.

AC now bugs at Colossus, where no player can change their 6 -10 skills at all. They don’t disappear, you just can’t switch them

Well with the Dragon Bash, Fractals etc all going on, you would have hoped that they would have put the entrance someone else than the overloaded, lagfest that is Lion’s arch.

Anet, you have Divinity’s Reach, one of the most beautiful areas in the game, and you constantly fail to use it and no one goes there! Why does everything have to be in LA? Chaos comes to Lion’s Arch…. indeed it does!!

When we completed it last night, it was just us…

The previous week when there were two other guilds doing it, we were the filler in the sandwich so to speak, and completed it twice, firstly for the guild in front of us, secondly on our turn, so to speak.

Ela

Potentially isn’t this always going to be a problem with the quaggan paddle and devious Tessa, as an example, with the ice drake turning up? This could also affect other areas.

Ela

Hate: Tarban + Kamali (before they changed him) and Sotzz (again before they changed them)

Like: Trillia, because we had a low turn out and completed with 3 guildies, Wildman (but only the idea, not the area, which is now very difficult for small guilds).

Incidentally, should ANET run a competition for the best name/story for us, and put that into the game as a bounty?

In short we (my guild and I) completed it last night…. 15/15 etc…. but the reward did not trigger. I checked again this morning and it says we failed it.
I know we completed it, as most decent guilds do after 15/15 we went back and helped everyone through so they could get the chest etc.

This happened to us last week, although there was some confusion as there was two other guilds doing it as well.

Has anyone else had any problems with this guild event?

Ela

We drew the Quaggan Paddle as a trek last week, someone else was doing it there, but I am sure we got 15 though by checking which guildies had received rewards. It didn’t give us any merits, so we did it again… no merits. It was late so we left it, and I posted a bug report.

This week… we drew the quaggan paddle, again at least 20 guildies completed it and got rewards, and it is showing up as incomplete. Hopefully we won’t loose another weeks worth of merits, but I am not confident!… also… fingers crossed we are not stuck with the Quaggan Paddle… will have to wait and see what turns up later!

Ela

I’ve just run a guild bounty, I know other guilds have as well, as their bounty has also appeared on the map, the problem is that we have the exact same bounty, so there are two of the guys running around the same map, and we as players can’t tell the difference.

Could ANET put the guild tag underneath/along side the name of the bounty so we know which one to go for?

Ela

For reference: in Mumble

Configure > Settings > Audio Output > Positional Audio (needs ticking)
(you may want to tweak the positional audio settings here too)

Configure > Settings > Plugins > Reload the Plugins
Configure > Settings > Plugins > Link to Game and Transmit Position (needs ticking)

Ela