Guild Wars 2

QuickRain.4735:

Best Guilds? Other then BoRP and KeK no ones else stands out and the rest should just be labels as best by servers

See that is useful. As a returning west coast player, I did not find the original list helpful at all.

We can get all crazy on the sexist or not topic, but at the end of the day this thread is about armor choices. The OP would like armor to show off her fur. When you look at the current Char Armor Options, the word Options does not belong. They are for the most part one style.

This thing about equality and such can really get out of hand. The simple matter is that some females prefer to show their fur/skin. Some males prefer to make female characters with skin/fur showing. Every other race has better options for people like this. Why can’t the Char? Several images have been posted as a great starting point. Just like the other races should (and mostly do) have better conservative clothing, the Char should have better revealing clothing.

Giving women choice is supposed to be the key point of equality. To simply replace what the ‘Male Shamans’ of the past made of women to what the ‘Female Shamans’ of present want of women is not choice, it is the same slavery. Set them all free and let them wear whatever styles they want.

It is a slippery slope when as a balance change you open an ability to more classes. I’m not saying that ‘this’ change alone is bad, but it does place us further down the line of all classes being the same.

GW2 is already a game where to some extent all classes are the same. I would hate to see them go further in that direction.

That’s all well and good, but MS has the dominate OS on the market. Windows 8 is their latest version. Valve, ANET, and every other game developer is going to have a hard future if they don’t support this OS.

That simple. All tech heads in the world can hate it and it won’t matter. Granted Windows 8 adoption right now is small, more people will be using Windows 8 in 1 or 2 years than Mac, and they have a full client to support that.

Valve using linux, I garuntee you that is only for their set top box / support of linux. Valve won’t be ditching Windows, that’s what most people in the world use.

August 09:
2.5% Windows 7
66.2% Windows XP
4.2% Linux
6.1% Mac

August 10:
22.3% Windows 7
53.1% Windows XP
4.9% Linux
6.7% Mac

August 11:
40.4% Windows 7
38.0% Windows XP
5.2% Linux
8.2% Mac

August 12:
54.5% Windows 7
24.8% Windows XP
5.0% Linux
8.7% Mac

Back on topic, where is the support for opening Pay Pal / Wiki from the game? At least use your custom in game browser to accomplish this.

As the title says. I browsed the other Windows 8 threads and they were all lag and input issues (I don’t have those).

Specifically, GW2 can not open a desktop based browser when running Windows 8. If you type /wiki Something, nothing happens. If you try and buy gems, nothing happens.

I would like to buy Gems with Pay Pal direct from ANET but I can’t! Oh well… Guess I’ll give them more money with they fix it so I can give them more money!

Title, can’t use the in game store to buy Gems because when it takes you to pay pal nothing happens, then it says thanks!

No mention of ending free transfers…

260 kills wuv wuv kills, 50 deaths total in the game including pve, level 35.

Its not a lot of kills, and kills don’t matter, but the point is play defensively and you can enjoy yourself. You get a couple kills, you get killed when you over extend, you get great exp.

NightFire.7563:

And Focus give a great speed boost which everyone in WvW will very much appreciate.

I agree on that, I prefer the torch for the extra stealth. If the party I’m running in is slow…. as in no one else has speed buffs I’ll swap to the Focus.

What I really like about focus line, is if you listen (or look behind you), once whoever is chasing you down crosses the line, hit the button again to pull them further backward / knock them down. Gives me the giggles each time.

It even works on the smart ones who go around.

For group events also, you can typically stack your ranged clones (in staff) / ranged phantasms on the boss (all 3) and then focus on running around tagging the extra mobs.

I’ve found that just having the 3 ranged clones/phantasms on boss is enough to get gold while me micro managing the add tagging = more loot.

Tagging in group events, shoot off a clone / phantasm (1 each) at random mobs and then shatter.

Bust out staff / greatsword to spread more damage around. Your Sword does AoE damage as well and using focus offhand you can group everything up nice and tight with your speed line / pull coupled with your warden.

To counter NightFire… I roll Staff most the time with Sword/Torch offhand. Seems the Scepter is the only weapon not listed.

In short, learn about the class, and find your play style.

I solo’d an equal level Champion (Group Event).

Don’t let others deter you from the Class. If you have the time watch (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-The-Comprehensive-Mesmer-Guide-all-Parts) and you’ll do just fine.

I’ve yet to do dungeons though, so will see on that. But in Solo PvE, Wuv Wuv and SPvP I’m having a blast on my mesmer.

Thank you very much for posting this together like this!

Suggestion for a payment to higher pop server or tier 1 server = win.

Suggestion of INSTANTLY stopping free transfers and giving everyone a token for 1 free transfer is also WIN.

The 2nd suggestion made in this post is just, amazing. Give everyone 1 free transfer and be done with it. They could use it a few weeks from now or a year from now, or right now.

THIS is what will balance the servers. Give someone a 1 shot at something free and they won’t throw it away. This will giver guilds the time they need to make informed choices.

I logged on for the first night and had some fun. I’ll likely log on a few times before the end of this match, but to be honest, I have to compare my options….

sPvP where I can do well and win / lose matches based on my team’s skill.
WvW where there is no point as we are matched in a tier that we no longer qualify for.

When we drop down into tier 2 I’ll be back in wuv wuv and hoping for some good matches. If it still ends up being a slaughter I’ll offload on sPvP until we are in the right tier.

Henge not even trying? We don’t stand a chance at 2nd so I would say you are spot on. The new alliance forming up and people getting their feet wet under new leadership, in a week or two you’ll see a lot more of henge trying. Just don’t expect it to be in Tier 1.

Check out the SSS group on HoD. They are opening up vent and such organizing a new rough alliance. I’ve been fortunate to be under their command already and they know what is going on, just need more bodies.

Also, give HoD a week or two more to drop to our new tier.

The player base is not fixing itself with the world transfers. The once most populated server is now a ghost town and now people are transferring to the new super server.

The free transfers need to end now.

I have to agree with this. And…. this has been posted many times.

On my server, that we played on since beta, a large alliance formed up and started the live game on our server. While wuv wuv weekends were awesome where the top 3 servers would fight back and forth, the weekdays dragged on as people gave up.

Once everyone else saw our sever doing well in wuv wuv, they all transferred to it. Q times out of control….

Then, this alliance disbands and transfers off and now even on the weekends, wuv wuv is a drag.

Going further, other guilds are looking or have transferred off because the server died.

I’m fairly certain that if we started with only 1 or 2 weeks of free transfers, this would not have happened.

There is no server pride or community. There is no hope to create it when you consider anyone can just jump ship at any moment.

Server transfers are a good idea at the start of the game. It is a good way to ‘merge’ low population worlds into medium. It is a good way to ‘offload’ players from heavy populated worlds.

They need to put more limits on this. Let people only transfer off highly populated worlds for free. Everyone else pays.

Can you have a history function to show the individual score updates? It would be useful data for others who chart the progress (like me). An example is here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/GW2/WuvWuv/20121005HoDvJQvET.png

I agree with this post 100%.

Yeah, but a silly solution.

Leveling with a stack of HoM skins just got to be more of a hassle.

As of right now:
“Armor that is currently equipped can no longer be transmuted”

Please change this back. I don’t know what exploit was being used but this is a big pain in the kitten.

Why can’t I transmute a skin onto the armor I’m wearing?

Before:
I could just double click on the HoM transmute skin, then drag my equiped armor onto the box, then it ok and what I was wearing became transmuted.

Now:
I have to unequip the item, then transmute, then reequip. Big pain in the kitten.

What was the reason for this change anyway?

I would like to throw out there I would like official comment too.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=368880

SweetFX is the one I like. Some HD Video of it toggled on and off:

I have made 4 videos, the first one below shows mostly the HDR process. You’ll see a higher contrast in images while still being clear. The ice will be shiny while still showing most its detail. You can also see a higher color saturation in the jeweler station.

The only indication of the toggle will be the change of how it looks. The more washed out image is the default for the game.

Video of a sunny jungle beach with shade. Lots of colors for display here to see how far the saturation can be pushed without being washed out. Also shows a nice contrast of how the shaded parts get darker while the sunny parts stay bright.

Video of a bridge/forest scene with a castle. This will show the enhanced details for rocks on the road, and then show the bloom from the sun bleeding through the castle tower. The sun can also blur out the clouds.

Last Video shows just the map at various zooms. This should show the differences in the color (to see if it changes it too much), difference in dark/light to see if it contrasts too much, and also shows text at various sizes to see if it sharpens them too much.

Either way, the out-manned buff needs to be improved.

A well tweaked system would have an out manned server still losing, but being competitive enough to keep the first keep / supply in borderlands.

There is already a thread on this located here (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/links/Extra-Life-2012).

We have yet to hear anything from Arena Net if they will support this. Rift did, so I hope they don’t get shown up. Especially since it would be really really easy to add support for this event in game.

Any word yet on Arena Net if they are sponsoring this or not?

I know the Gaiscioch community is sponsoring it, as are a few other good sized guilds. Would be very cool to get official support in my chosen game to spend those 24 hours.

Report him for exploiting and let them look through the logs and figure it out.

So far the majority of my /report type activity is the Gold Seller Spam in either Mail or /map.

To combat this requires too many ‘clicks’ from the user considering how much I see this happening (especially when you get hit with the overflow on Lion’s Arch).

Suggestion:
- When you right click on a player’s name in chat, have Report Spam be one of the options.
- When you report spam either from chat or mail, have the game auto add this person to your ignore.

With these two items (either or both), you’ll reduce the number of clicks required by users to police the game. The second option is HUGE as it will cut the clicks in half and greatly reduce the time required to report and ignore gold spammers.

Thank you in advance for considering this change.

http://twitter.com/GuildWars2

They know about it and have called the Devs, they being the Twitter Gods.

Yeah, loggin is down, when you try to change zones, especially big ones like going from a borderland to the mists, it will kick you.

kitties kitten kitty ; )

as I’m logging from wuv wuv and thanking some people, boom disconnect.

As expected, SBI, ET, HoD for the top tier.

DeLLy.1897:

maddbomber if you did more pvp you’d see lots of organization. TA is very organized and tries to organize the HoD militia. Though TA does most of its organization inhouse or over teamspeak.

While I’m sure it lacks sometimes, there would be very little chance of HoD being undefeated if the server wasn’t coordinated.

As another poster mentioned, I was commenting on how HoD is organized at the Militia level. Most likely the 1 or 2 leaders in the maps I play are TA giving us guidance and people are following it. This is something I really appreciate. Being able to log into a borderland at a random time and knowing there is some order to the chaos is great.

Yeah, I had no issues on a Human Ranger Street Rat until the level 20ish lines.

Place your mouse over the Guild Icon on the top of your screen. It will display a list of all active guild buffs (not banners as mentioned).

Place your moue over the WvWvW icon on the top of your screen. It will display a list of all active server buffs.

Oh man, we are on the same server and while I’ve not seen any grumblings about transferring, it would be sad to have to upgrade everything to level 4 again…

I’ve just started having some issues with sound in Cut Scenes. Example, when the Human Street Rat gets to meet the Queen for the first time, she only says half her lines. The other lines are just silence.

Asking in Guild / map and other people have recently started to have this issue to. Maybe one of the updates broke it?

Anyone else with this issue?

I was rather sad not getting to hear the queen’s voice the first time meeting her as it was a significant event in my eyes. YouTube offers a workaround as many people have uploaded the video of that meeting and doing a search for the quest video was easy, but still, annoying bug.

As a HoD player who occasionaly does PvP, organization maybe is what is missing?

When I log into a borderland on HoD, there is very little [T] speak. I would say someone posts something every 20-30 seconds.

What is posted, is typically 1 or 2 players who are saying things like, Guild 555, take Green supply back.

I’ll see, large force coming from behind, Ascalon Keep Northern Wall at 50%, 2 Trebs on north supply run.

I’ll see have we taken those treb’s out yet? No, 10% left we need another wave.

Granted, its not super organized, but the culture is there. Some random person is giving basic guidance on what needs to be done, and all the mindless zergers are following the direction.

I’ll still see after a wave clears the front of the keep the ‘leader’ will request a small force of the zerg go take back supply, and then the full zerg takes back the supply and has to come back to redefend the keep….

Is this not what the outmanned buff is supposed to do? It does it by giving an advantage to underpopulated servers.

Giving undermanned people more power I believe is a better option than giving them more points.

Tweak the outmanned buff, don’t do a population based point buff.

Hey, the added +1 to the side? Kasama gets my first!

I played some wuv wuv this afternoon and I want to say it was JQ and SBI, anyway…. (I am an occasional HoD player).

Anyway in the JQ battleground we were pushed back to having only 1 tower and being attacked from both sides. It was like this for about an hour it seemed. We would keep retaking supply camps and pushing one server back and then having to push the other server back.

Edit: There was no Q during this time as it was a few hours before a match reset.

Short point there, HoD (not due to me, much) may be on top, but there is still great pvp to be had.

Second point, you got spawn camped? At all 3 exits from your camp? I’ve seen the front exit camped before, but I’ve not had issue in my limited experience slipping out one of the two side paths.

Last point, we were just having a conversation about how we always get matched against one of the same 3 servers… The same points were brought up, #1 vs 2, 3, 4; but….

I see your point. It is nice to face different people from time to time, but I don’t see a way to program this in.

50 gems should buy you a skill called kill the banner holder with a cow…. just sayin.

On the opposite end, today I saw a banner, the tide had shifted and we were moving forward. I picked it up (i’m a ranger) and plopped it down at our new line. Then an asura came and ran with it to the hills….

I was annoyed and it wasn’t even my banner!

Not sure a good solution, but I would love to keybind loot to a different button.

Having the F pop up such as at portals for taming other people’s pets is getting a little annoying.

Any chance at a fix?

Create an overflow WvWvW server.
- This is overflow only (not you fight for an upopulated server)
- There are no server bonuses, just a map to WvWvW on
- You are automatically popped back onto your server’s WvWvW map when its your turn.

Thought process:
- Let people WvWvW while they wait to WvWvW
- Separate unaffiliated servers as not to affect server pride

I agree. Oh, and let us do overflow wvwvw

Tyrindor.5049:

You need to research the game you are playing more.

There’s level and effective level. You downscale depending on the zone your in.

^^^^^^^^^^

One day, my wife asked me why her health kept getting lower. After being punched for saying ‘because you are being hit’ I saw what she was confused about.

Your stats are auto adjusted down for any zone you are in that lower level than you. You are brought down to be 1 level more powerful than the level the zone was designed for. This is to make everything still a challenge yet reward you for being a higher level.

As for gear upgrades, I can’t mention too much about that as I am constantly upgrading my gear with drops so I have not had any drastic changes in power.