Guild Wars 2

I’m looking to change up my game experience by doing a server transfer. I’m currently on a bottom tier server. 90% of my play time is spent roaming late at night or other odd hours of the day. I have one problem though, I’m just not sure where to go exactly. I figure “middle tier” will be a good mix of players.

Michael, I have a really simple question to ask you. Personally I think more needs to happen to battle hacking than just reporting. I do care about this game and love playing WvW most of all. What can an average person do to help battle the hacking other than reporting? I don’t want to just report, I want to be proactive in other ways as well.

lol if anything this just shows out ridiculous this game is, no class should even be able to do that beyond hacking

Let’s just close this thread. I think the point has been taken and then even corrected by Michael. There is no reason to continue this thread.

No one communicates. Hackers running rampant in every part of the game. Stagnant content. Slow and small content delivery. Price gouging on the gem store.

Why are you still playing this game? I’m genuinely interested because I myself and frustrated beyond belief and would like a second coming.

I don’t think you understood that paragraph. They are not reasons or justifications to mass report. They are a symbol of people creating their own solutions where there are none. The solution isn’t even using the reporting feature at all. The solution is in putting up a wall to prevent common intersections for having the game hacked in the first place. There just really aren’t any in place and it takes more than a novice to see where. He may not be able to do much beyond his ticket queue but he could at least probe the dev team to take action and bring it up in company meetings, and maybe he does. That would be going above and beyond to solve the problem but we have no proof that occurs. When communication doesn’t happen you’re going to find people doing some crazy stuff regardless.

I want to reiterate that I myself have not said that I am the one doing the reporting. I was simply being a beacon for the actions I’ve seen happening. I don’t, the guild doesn’t, no one wants to report 1,000 people while playing a game. I’d rather that one person that is causing issues get chased out instead, but that isn’t always the case.

Michael Henninger.7451:

epborden.7492:

we are now reporting every member of a guild should it have members that have been caught.

Do NOT do this! False reports make getting to legitimate reports take longer and in a cheating report there is a very short window for our GMs to react. Actions like this (false reporting) will lead to your account being terminated.

Well you know what, maybe if you guys actually did something to prevent hacking across the TWO YEARS your game has been out on the market people wouldn’t have to take drastic measures to try to improve the game experience for everyone. You think it is my fault that people have to come up with their own solutions when your company won’t even communicate what they are doing to combat the problem? It’s not exactly an unknown issue and any Google search can illuminate that this has roots going back to the beginning. I don’t think it is fair that you shut down my actions when it is clear as day that you guys know about it and are doing nothing to effectively alleviate the issue at hand. Your game is wide open. You’ve got no external software to protect it that ships with the game. You can hack kitten near every part of it besides what resides server side.

Because of the actions of several members of different guilds caught hacking, our realm has taken it upon itself to create new rules as to how we report hackers. Guild members have both individually, and as whole groups hacked. It has been with such flamboyant disregard for being caught that we are now reporting every member of a guild should it have members that have been caught. So many different members are hacking that we just don’t know who is innocent and who is not, and because of that we have no choice but to report every member of a guild.

If you are a member, commander, or creator of a guild and hold your guild in high regard please find members that hack and take action against them soon so your whole guild is not penalized for the actions of a few. Hacking has become so rampant in WvW that many realms are now reporting any member of a guild should any member of that guild be caught hacking. This can lead to YOU being falsely reported and possibly BANNED from playing Guild Wars 2.

Will this ever be available? I might be in the minority, but I don’t use Paypal much but instead use Google Wallet.

There should be a warning with this. If you transfer to Kaineng we don’t have many players at all. You will be facing insane odds practically all the time. If you are a glutton for punishment but want to play beside some elite players that have been forced to become very good at the game to even compete, then transfer. If you don’t feel like going through all of that then don’t transfer.

I was actually doing this a bunch today. I didn’t even know it had been through so many cycles of fixed and not fixed. I just assumed it was part of the game. It does seem a bit advantageous though. I can basically just run around SMC invincible because I can stealth off any wall.

I’d have mentioned merging from top down, but I feel like that would be undeserving of not only the money those folks that transferred spent, but to the loyal player base of that top server. The difference between that kind of a server and Kaineng, for example, is that the player base on Kaineng is completely distraught. I see people literally every day, and not just your average complainer… loyal people, distraught over the situation. Some of these folks just can’t justify spending the money to transfer to fix their problem, and I don’t blame that at all for that. The fact is that there is just no reason in my mind, and I’m sure others can agree, that Kaineng actually exists at all. There is just not enough people over all to justify the reason for it to exist. That kind of situation when prevalent as it is is the reason for merging bottom up instead.

Well, guys you know they did hire some new people recently, one being a raid designer. Hopefully those folks can contribute to the pot.

Over the past year we have seen Kaineng continually bleed players to other servers. Now, at the end of this year we are seeing the server almost completely void of players. The point of this post is to outline that because of the blatant and factual missing player base, and complete inability to compete, I think it is time to merge Kaineng into another low population server. I can’t comment on other servers at the moment, but it might also be true that we start merging some low population servers into other lower tiered servers.

Cool, thank you, I will do that!

I’ve been playing on Kaineng for almost two years, and started out on Gate of Madness. I’m primarily a roamer. I like to roam with my thief and warrior, and occasionally I might hook up with a small group or zerg. I really don’t care for the blob fighting at all. I guess I’m looking for a server that has a moderate population where I can roam and find folks often enough to keep it fun, but not so much that it gets ridiculous. This is basically my last ditch effort with the game to make it interesting before I abandon it so I want to try to switch things up.

You guys haven’t tasted dead WvW until you’ve played on Kaineng. I think it was Monday, and I was the only one on my server in EB. The only one. One person in EB.

http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=US&view=map

DJRiful.3749:

NA East, my connection to GW2 always pass-by Level3 datacenter, and they suck.

I am also NA East, specifically North Carolina just outside of Charlotte. For what feels like months it has been steadily getting worse.

It’s so bad now for me that I can’t even play the game. Of all the things that imagined would bring this game to an end it wasn’t a DDoS!

Hey there! I’m Codesniffer.

The absolute most challenging and best server for this kind of play is Kaineng. We are one of if not the lowest ranked server and are constantly getting outgunned. If you’ve ever wanted to improve your skills while roaming or against almost impossible odds then Kaineng is where you should come. The benefit of transferring to Kaineng right now is it is super cheap. You also get to play with some great players, a lot of which play every day. I play every day and you are always welcome to roam with me.

I’ve faced EB, AR, DR, ET, FC, SoR, and more, and murdered them all.

I totally agree with this. This is one of the first things I did when I installed the game! The default settings is rubbish you can barely turn to kill anything at all!

The setting can be found at: Options > Camera > Rotation Speed.

Deli.1302:

Randomized matchups. This won’t happen every week. If it really bothers you, transfer. Otherwise, get over it.

I did not know this. Is this a new thing? I can give it more slack if that is the case although it still doesn’t make any sense at all to me why they would even do that. Trust me, we really really really tried to make some headway on ALL of the maps. No matter the group we made we would get obliterated as there were at least 1-2 zergs on each map all larger than ours. We were getting totally stomped in our borderland and even at that point there was still a zerg larger than our own in eternal. When all you can do to have fun in WvW is roam another map where even your own zerg is considered a havoc group I have to think something is wrong. It’s just very, very discouraging.

Our poor server can’t even hope to counter the opponent zergs. It got so bad tonight that we literally just sat down at the main spawn point. This is just pitiful and I’m seriously contemplating leaving the game because I don’t want to pay 20 bucks to transfer to solve my problems. Just look at the screenshot (we’re red).

Ringworld is awesome. When Halo came out I thought it was such a ripoff of Ringworld. I mean the title of the book is RINGWORLD. Halo has a world, ON A RING! Wake up sheeple!

Here is my warrior, the goal is to strike fear into my enemies!

Crimson eyes mask
Charr tier 1 shoulders
Hellfire vambraces
Vigil chest
Vigil legs
Vigil boots
Firebringer sword
Ghastly grinning shield
Static spinal blades

I disagree there is no challenge. If there is a guy running around that is specifically setup to counter you it can be a tough fight. I consider myself a pretty awesome fighter but a condition build is not the end all be all of warrior builds.

Ever fight a zerker warrior with maximum condition cleanse and healing stacks and/or healing signet? Their constant high damage and condition cleanse can melt you real quick!

In WvW I would really argue against going S/S. The added damage from torment is nice but normally people will try to cleanse quickly enough so that it negates torment. It is better to use a shield for the added block as you still need to protect yourself. I find myself needing to use my shield for a stun much more often than torment. Better to stick with bleeds, fire, and poison from doom sigil on swap.

Your choices of gear should be full dire, full apothecary, or shaman’s armor with apothecary weapons and trinks. The last two choices are if you are doing a condition healing build.

I find myself using full dire or the mix most often. Full dire makes you very tough but you have almost no healing power to benefit healing signet so you have to run with melandru runes and a condition duration reduction food to make up for it. The mix makes you much tougher but your damage will suffer unless you go heavy into power and precision trait lines to make up for it. If you do that you lose the ability to use the banner but your healing power will be so high your signet will tick for more and make up for it most of the time.

Another option I want to throw out there is running full perplexity runes combined with distracking strikes and physical training traits. Run this build with a shield, bull’s charge, and stomp. Confusion is one of the best conditions in the game as almost no classes can remove it without using a cleanse and getting hurt in the process. Confusion is a thief stomper because they cannot remove it in stealth.

I almost exclusively run Quality Tuning Crystal and Bowl of Poultry and Leek Soup because they are SO much cheaper and are about as good a combination as you can get for a condition warrior in WvW.

This is the same issue as is discussed in these two threads:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Warrior-banner-pick-up-disables-all-skills
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Serious-skill-lock-bug-with-all-interactables

Apparently it has been around a long time and nothing has been done about it. I never noticed it until the past few months myself. Very frustrating.

draconx.3102:

This can happen with any bundle. It is caused by the bundle disappearing while you are picking it up. You should be able to unbug it by dying — I think any loading screen might unbug it too.

Since you are picking up your own banner you can look at your cooldowns before doing so. If the banner is about to expire, don’t pick it up.

This has been reported many times in the past, but Anet has no interest in fixing it.

Awesome, I did not know that. So generally I should not try to pick up my banner if it is close to expiring. I will try that out! It’s really annoying when you have to traverse the entire map and get all your stacks back just to get back to where you were.

So first let me say I understand the entire point of the map floating in the sky is that basically you should keep your butt on the map. Being feared or knocked back off the edge makes total sense.

Here is a basic scenario:

You’re a warrior and you’ve got a sword. You savage leap towards the enemy but before you land they commit suicide by jumping off the edge. You savage leap off the edge too because the skill follows them. In one way this is a crafty little trick to screw with you and that makes sense. My only issue is if that situation played out and it was accidental and there were no crafty tricks, it just happened. Another example would be using rush. If you can’t do a weapon swap you’re kind of screwed because you’re “locked in”.

This is just an example with warrior which is what I play. What do you think about this? Does this annoy you?

This happens to me in WvW as that is what I exclusively play. I haven’t seen this yet, but this has been happening to me for months. Sometimes, but not always, when I go to try and pick up my banner I will receive this bug. The situation is when I try to pick up my banner my character will glitch and will not pick up the banner. If I try to pick up the banner after that my character will glitch around the banner and I can never pick it up again. Additionally after that happens ALL of my skills become disabled. Weapon switching, trait changing, item usage all do not fix the bug. I cannot get any of my skills back until I exit and reenter WvW.

I’m looking to make a transfer. My server right now is at times even hard to find folks while roaming. All I basically do is log on and do some roaming. Sometimes I group up with a few other folks, but 99% of the time I am roaming by myself. Which server has lots of 1v1 and 1vX?

Belzebu.3912:

That is why there are multiple maps of the same level range, you are meant to complete sereval maps of the same level, in your case you can go to the Blazeridge Steppes (40~50), that is how the game was designed, you can also do some dungeons, crafting also help a lot with leveling.

EDIT: Oh, you can also join in WvW battles, Edge of the Mists is very friendly for lower level characters, look for a commander tag (the blue taco icon :P ) and follow it.

This is exactly what I had to do when I first started playing. I would complete a zone before reaching the max level for that zone, so I would have to hop to other zones of the same level range.

Before I could take a transmutation stone and put two items into it and choose stats from one to use over the other. Is this still possible? How do I do this?

Wow, 26k armor, I am definitely using this build!

Cool, thank you for your suggestions! I know it might seem farfetched to have all that ascended but I actually do have all of that on my warrior. I could craft the armor and weapons for the ranger now if I wanted to. The trinkets would take more time of course. Anyway, I will try any suggested builds here. I steam roll rangers quite often so I’m excited to flip the script and see what I can do from the other side of the equation. I’m tired of all the hate they get, every day I play I see people trash talking rangers, so I want to set an example people can respect.

Hey guys, I’m starting up my ranger today. I mostly play my main, which is a warrior, and it is one hell of a bunker. I use a condi/healing power setup on it. I would like to ask suggestions on how I can get the same feeling with my ranger once I get him to 80. I really like the play style of my warrior. Please first check out my warrior build, then check out my ranger build so you can see where I am drawing similarities to try and achieve this. The focus of my warrior build is to sustain as long as possible and whittle people down with my conditions. The warrior build is a bit different in the fact that it has a trait which allows for me to add confusion into my play style, which ranger does not seem to have. We can disregard that portion but you get the idea. I was thinking I could use Spirit of Nature as a substitute for Banner of Tactics, and Signet of the Wild as a substitute for Healing Signet.

Warrior build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNAseTjMd06ZZHugwJagfgC5t3CGDgjO9UUEZBA-TVyCABUq+DAPAAkPEAEqE0P9Ncp8b59Hm4IAIxJAIAACwMLzycmB+5P/5P/5PbmzcmzcmzsUAMpsC-w

Ranger build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNAsYVnMqQNL2KIWsARLGIToaGAJ7za4GcXBJQEfyiSRL-TVyCAB+pvhS1fA4BAI9+Dcp874DBwEHBAJOBAEqEMAACwMLzycmBG6QH6QH6QboDdoDdoDtMAMrB-w

2800 toughness, 22k hp, up to 1700+ condi damage, 1200 healing power… combined with all the regen I am very close. It seems like this would be a monster build.

Thanks!

I’m a condition warrior and I play WvW. In WvW it is a little different because you want confusion as well as the other conditions. You can’t run with just bleeds, fire, and poison. Thieves will be a nightmare for you especially, but other classes will smoke you if they can counter those three. I don’t think there is a class in the game other than Necromancer that can remove confusion natively (without using a skill like a shout), so it is the ultimate condition in WvW. My build is focused around a balance between condition damage and healing power.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNAseTjMd06ZZHugwJagfgC5t3CGDgjO9UUEZBA-TVyCABUq+DAPAAkPEAEqE0P9Bcp8b59Hm4IAIxJAIAACwMLzycmB+5P/5P/5PbmzcmzcmzsUAMpsC-w

Your BASE stats WITH FOOD will end up being about 3k armor, 29k hp, 1100 condition damage, 1200 healing power. When you combine that with 25 corruption stacks and guard killer WvW ability your condition damage will be about 1500 with NO might. With 5 might it will be 1600. Nothing says bunker like an insane regen warrior with a ton of condition damage. I bunker better than most players and 1vs1 you’ll be able to counter pretty much ANYTHING.

Which just goes to show how broken and backwards this game really is. Yeah! Let’s let our mage class use a two-handed sword that is probably three times as heavy as they are! That is so awesome even though it doesn’t make any sense what so ever!

Ok guys… seriously… let’s get some D&D rules straight here. This is ridiculous.

Light armor wearing folks can’t wield heavy weapons like great axes, hammers, or two-handed swords. They would use daggers, short swords, swords, staves, books, or other lightweight magic-based weaponry.

Medium armor wearing folks can’t wield heavy weapons like light armor folks. They would also NOT wear staves, or other magic-based weaponry that is meant for cloth wearing folks. They would use daggers, short swords, swords, short bows, crossbows, and small shields.

Heavy armor wearing folks can’t wield staves, or magic-based weaponry (the only exception to this is the traditional paladin). They would also traditionally not wield daggers. They would use short swords, swords, two-handed swords, maces, hammers, axes, great axes, pikes (polearms, tridents, halberd, etc), small and large shields, longbow, and crossbow.

The reason it is segregated like that is because of the armor class. A cloth wearer doesn’t need a shield because they can summon magic barriers. A medium wearer doesn’t need magic-based weaponry because they rely on small, quick weapons and stealth. A heavy wearer doesn’t need magic barriers because they wear very hard armor.

As a follow up to the subject here, I have the chef outfit, but what I really wish is that you could use different pieces of it. For instance, I really wanted to use the chef “helm” by itself. I bought it with that intention, I was obviously ignorant, but needless to say I was disappointed I couldn’t do this.

Ok guys, what you have to understand is that the Charr designs come later than the Human and Nord designs. That’s why everything looks screwed up on Charr. Heck, most of the masks on the gem store don’t even show anything on the Charr model! Two more examples are the ascended helm and Orr temple helm. The ascended helm is a complete covered helm on other characters, not on Charr. The Orr temple helm is also a complete covered helm with sweet skeleton like mask, not on Charr. I have played a Charr as my main since day one, and since day one, it has been like this. We need more love Anet!

Flytrap.8075:

Jski.6180:

No sry that was about required gear and exotic is not even required you can do every thing in greens some ppl can do every thing in blues. That was also aimed at games like WoW where you get a new gear set that you NEED to get to the next level of progression and story in a game (its ever 6 months or so for that game i think).

Take a look at any serious WvW community or Fractal group and come back and tell me that Exotics or better aren’t mandatory.

I don’t understand the logical gymnastics that you used to reach this conclusion, but whatever.

lol. logical gymnastics. love it.

Anet, please let us buy any amount of gems for a fixed price! When some items cost only 150 gems, that may be all we want. Why would we want to be shoehorned into buying 800 gems when all we need is 150 gems. Why should we have to farm the gold necessary to convert to 150 gems if we could just buy 150 gems?

Thieves are not OP. All you need is some confusion and condition cleanse. If you’re a warrior like me, the ultimate way to kill thieves is using Distracting Strikes and a few interrupt skills to apply confusion. This works best with a condition focused build. They can cleanse everything except confusion. Since they are required to spam skills to even stay alive lots of confusion kills them in no time. If you combine that with the other conditions they melt like butter. It is actually pretty laughable.

If you want to kill a thief, then you have to know how to fight a thief. Thieves rely on stealth and “getting away”. Always keep your eye on them. Why they stealth create distance between them. They might be “invisible” but you just need to add distance. If you can leap or run away from them while they stealth they you are just counting the seconds until stealth gives up. When they try to dagger leap at you over and over just prepare a stun and then catch them in the middle of a dagger leap in reverse. Lay some damage on them. It’s actually pretty simple. Once you learn how to fight a thief, you can see how weak they are.

Here is my warrior;

Crimson eyes mask
Charr tier 1 shoulders
Hellfire vambraces
Vigil chest
Vigil legs
Orr temple boots
Destroyer sword
Ghastly shield
Static spinal blades

CrossOver works just fine. I got CrossOver and setup Guild Wars 2 through it using this page here: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=7951;tips=1

I’d say it runs similar to the Mac Beta, and the TP works, so there’s that. It’s good temporary solution. I’ve had it crash once and sometimes the performance isn’t as smooth as the beta client, but it works.

Confusion. None of their stealth abilities can remove it. If you want to stop them, then you need to apply confusion. Honestly though, you’ll need to apply conditions in general. There is basically no way to attack them otherwise. However with confusion applied, any time they even try to stealth they get hit with a wallop of confusion damage. The other conditions are just there to annoy them and drain their health. Use that technique along with a few interrupts and they fall quickly. If you don’t have confusion, then you’re screwed.

Note: I thought about using solely zealot’s gear for everything, but the gear itself does not have any vitality. I felt this would make the warrior come up short so I chose not to. Also you can see that you are lacking some mobility. Feel free to replace axe with a sword, rifle with greatsword, and rework some skills or traits.