Guild Wars 2

Thanks for all the efforts on this. Much appreciated!

I don’t think this is a good idea because it can cause toxicity. Adding this would cause people to be frustrated with those who don’t know what they’re doing — more than what already happens — and are making it harder for the rest of the group. People will ostracize people who are underperforming.

It works better in fractals because there is a limited number and it’s easier to avoid people. And in worst case scenario, you kick a person out of the group. It wouldn’t be very easy to avoid people in WvW and there’s very little that can be done to avoid someone who is accidentally or deliberately getting people killed.

Anything that causes people to be less happy to see other players is usually not good for the game. GW2 has been mostly trying to avoid that, by having exp/loot tables/gathering nodes be unaffected by multiple people for example.

People already complain about uplevels, rallybots, etc, but in general it’s always more welcome to have extra bodies rather than not having them. I’d much rather see something else implemented to address population imbalance.

For something in limited areas, it would be much preferable to have this in guild halls and such to spice up GvGs for those who want it.

The first time I did CoE and we fought Bjarl the Rampager. Watching him run into columns and seeing his body bounce on the floor was one of the most amazing things I’d ever experienced.

Then there are the runs where everyone is stacked behind a column waiting for him to run in, and he runs in some other direction into a different column for seemingly no reason. It never gets old for me!

Gaile Gray.6029:

Dinks.2478:

I don’t know, but it would be nice if they would stop harassing me to set up the SMS authenticator every time I try to load the game.

It’s every fifth time. The team will review that frequency in the future, but for now we’ll leave it there, given the proven security advantages of authentication.

One thing I have noticed, is that it’s not the fifth time per account, but seems more like the fifth time per any login on the same computer. Because I log into my main account (which has multi-factor authentication enabled) far more often than an alternate account, it essentially means that any time I log into my alternate account I get asked to set up MFA. I’ve definitely seen the reminder more often than not, and might even go as far to say that I’ve never not seen the reminder when logging into that account.

I went ahead and set it up on my alternate account today, so this is no longer going to be an issue for me, since the main thing stopping me from doing so was just laziness, but the factor of it not being per-account may be part of the reason that people find it so noticeable. I don’t know how feasible it would be to change the reminder to come up on a per account basis, but that could possibly alleviate the issue for people who have multiple accounts.

That said, I am in full support of having MFA in place and I’m glad this feature was added.

Jay Em.5128:

Dand.8231:

/whisper was working inconsistently all last night.

1. I tried to send my guildy a whisper by targeting them, and right clicking their character portrait, but the chat box never changed to whisper mode (it was still stuck on /say chat). Odd.
2. So I manually typed /whisper name message and pressed enter… and it never showed up in my chat box or went out. Very Odd.
3. Then about 5 minutes later, suddenly that outgoing whisper showed up in my chat box, and right then my friend got it and replied normally, and then we were able to whisper normally back and forth after that.

Later on, whispering a different friend, again I was unable to send them whispers at all. Right clicking their portrait did not change the chatbox to /whisper and typing it manually never sent it out at all (it didnt even magically appear later on, like the first time did). I eventually just party invited them and we used party chat to converse.

Intermittent, and hard to reproduce, but very very odd.

I’ve had this bug for like a year and yeah it’s hard to reproduce since sometimes it happens every day and sometimes doesn’t for a week.
It’s kind of annoying when you’re asking people for fractal run for example and go through like 20 people and can’t whisper any of them. Then suddenly 1 to 30 minutes later the chat box goes active as many times as you tried to whisper (and the recipient changes according to how you tried to whisper different people). Kind of ruins whatever you’re doing at that moment since all your key presses will go to chat until you close it but at least whispers work normally after that.
For a long time I thought it only happened on my laptop but then I had it happen once or twice on my PC with i5 and GTX760 so I don’t know what causes it.

One thing I noticed is it tends to happen to me when I have the guild panel open and try to whisper someone. I don’t think I’ve ever had it happen to me without the guild panel being open. I think it has to do with looking at the guild logs first.

It’s especially noticeable when my guild is getting ready for guild events and I start whispering people who aren’t repping due to being in RP guilds and such. I haven’t noticed it happening lately, but maybe I haven’t been looking at the guild logs as often.

Not sure if this happened in today’s patch, but I just tried to do the Arah personal story step “Victory or Death” with a friend, and neither of us could interact with the cannons in the use the reflector cannons to combat the risen giants phase.

My friend is a mesmer so we put down some mesmer reflects that seemed to reflect the projectiles but we eventually gave up because the risen giants never went away.

Are mashed potatoes a guild? Probably not, but this is just as good.

Thank you guys for rolling this change out! A few minor changes mentioned above would make this perfect. Thank you for listening to our feedback.

Maybe this could be reworked to be more similar to how Teq’s rewards work? Instead of getting a Bronze, Silver, or Gold Wurm chest, you get all three as personal reward chests, in addition to the map chest for successfully completing the event. This also allows the option to put rewards in each chest without having to worry about overflowing a character’s inventory.

I think this idea requires more data on what is actually contained in the Bronze/Silver chests and adjusting this accordingly, as there’s no data for this on the wiki, but this could be the vehicle that can be used for improving the rewards.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Well, it seems they have changed the policy, and now will exchange Karma-type, etc. items that are soul-bound for you, if you just submit a request.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Orr-Karma-Gear/first#post4445022

Thus, no longer an issue, though sounds like a headache for CS.

This was actually the inspiration behind making this topic!

I think that a proactive solution would be better than a reactive solution. Having to force CS to refund items every time it happens is going to be a huge pain for them. Think about how much work it would be if this happened even once to every single player? That’s a lot of work that can be avoided by a one-time change to the current system. It’s a non-trivial amount of development work, but it would be a much-appreciated quality of life change — especially for new players.

One clarification I want to make is the items should still be soulbound on use, but start out as account bound until you equip them or use them.

Items which I think should be account bound on acquire, soulbound on use:

-Karma merchant items
-Dungeon merchant items
-WvW merchant items
-Guild Commendation merchant items (Guild Backpacks, Guild Weapons)
-Achievement Chest items? I’m not sure if there are any soulbound items that come from them anymore.

Essentially, anything that can be bought with currency in your account wallet shouldn’t be soulbound on acquire.

Items which should stay soulbound on acquire
-Personal story rewards specifically tailored to the character, but not things that come from loot bags.
-Deluxe edition Golem Banker
-Deluxe edition Hero’s Band
-Birthday Blaster

I’m not sure how I feel toward cultural items or order items, but these are mostly bought for the skins regardless.

It doesn’t seem uncommon for someone to buy an item for another character and not realize it would be Soulbound on Acquire. This isn’t the game’s fault — it says in the tooltip what you’re getting yourself into. At the same time, I don’t see the advantage of having such a mechanic in place for most cases.

I can definitely understand for personal story rewards or other character-based rewards — such as deluxe edition golem banker & hero’s band — but I don’t see how this mechanic is really justified for items that can be bought with account-wide currency such as Karma, Badges of Honor, or dungeon tokens. For the most part, this mechanic only serves to punish players for making simple mistakes.

I think this problem could be heavily mitigated by making these types of items Account Bound on Acquire, and Soulbound on Use. This would go a long way to make the system a little bit more forgiving than it is right now, without having to move things into complicated menus and make UI changes.

This wouldn’t stop players from buying items they can’t use or with the wrong stats, but at least the player would have the potential option of moving it to a different character who might be able to make use of it.

Anyone know why this is the way works right now? Could this system be improved, such as the suggestion above? What kind of exceptions should there need to be to the rule if it were to change?

Simon C Tahlt.2934:

I’m on the IoJ server… but does that matter anymore with the megaserver system?? I don’t want to pay to transfer, so if it matters maybe I’m looking for an IoJ guild.

Home world only matters for WvW. It seems like you’re open to the idea of playing WvW once in a while, so it’s up to you how important that is. I think ideally you want to find a guild on IoJ so you have the option open to you.

For any other content, you can play with your guild with minimal issues (you might have to taxi to a party member sometimes to get on the right map).

Best of luck to you!

You can turn the content guide off in the user interface options. It’s not that obvious in the options, but I hope the screenshot makes it obvious where to find it.

Flux Capacity is a PvX on the TC server. I love dungeons, and if you love dungeons then I already like you. A lot of us like to show others the ropes, so don’t fret about not being an expert. We’ve all been there!

Which world do you currently reside on? This matters if you want to do WvW eventually, as you have to be on the same world in order to participate — guesting doesn’t work.

That said, Flux Capacity is looking for members. Check out our forum topic and website and if you like what you see, you can join on our website. Let me know if you have any questions!

Flux Capacity is recruiting! We’re a PvX guild on TC looking for like-minded individuals. Many of core members love to help teach people and answer questions.

The guild itself is not an RP guild, but we have several members who enjoy it and participate in it.

Let me know if you have any questions!

I think you two might feel at home with Flux Capacity. We’re a PvX guild based in the Tarnished Coast server — though we accept people from all servers.

We could use some more people who like dungeons, fractals, world bosses, etc. I have dabbled only a little bit in sPvP (I think I’m rank 9 or 10), but I definitely found it more enjoyable when playing with a couple of guildies.

Feel free to check out our website and let me know if you have any questions!

Norn necromancer was my first, too! Still my favorite character, though now I have a few others I love as well.

I’m in [FLUX], and we’re recruiting! Our primetime is around 8PM EST. If you’ve got any questions, feel free to ask.

I think you should check out [FLUX]! We’re a PvX guild based in Tarnished Coast and we’re looking for friendly new members. Let me know if you have any questions!

I had the same crash just now. Redownloading the .dat file did not help, apparently.

The difference this time was that I froze as soon as I tried to put my commander tag up at Sparkfly Fen.

I was standing in Sparkfly Fen waiting for Tequatl to spawn. My client would “freeze” but not emit any error messages. I could still hear sound effects, and the game itself was responding to my inputs.

• I activated “For Great Justice” using the hotkey and I hear it a few seconds later and my party members could see it.
• Autorun also worked. Sound effects changed as I landed in the water.
• Interestingly, attempting to put down a Banner of Discipline didn’t work by hitting the hotkey, but worked when I clicked in the area of the screen where it would be in the skill bar (which plants it where I’m standing as it normally would).

Timeline (in Pacific Time):

• 4:35PM – Initial login.
• 4:40PM – First crash. Left the game open until 4:47PM, thinking it was just some kind of lag. Initially, I thought I might have been overusing memory, so I closed programs until I was at 25% RAM usage.
• 4:50PM – Logged back in. Repeatedly attempted to join my party’s megaserver, eventually got in.
• 4:56PM – Second crash. Stayed logged in until 5:00PM, at which point I tried repairing the data files using the -repair flag on the Gw2 executable.
• 5:10PM – Logged back in. Was already on the correct megaserver. Killed Tequatl. Got personal reward chest, map chests, etc.
• 5:19PM – Crashed a third time.

I haven’t experienced this issue prior to today. My computer more than exceeds the minimum specs (i7 4770K CPU, GTX 770 GPU, 8GB RAM, Win7 SP1, and game files reside on SSD).

The next step I’m going to take is to move my Gw2.dat file and see if I experience the issue after that.

Hi Jon! Flux Capacity is a small PvX guild on TC that does a little bit of everything. Our prime time is around 8PM EDT. We use Mumble for voice communication. Let me know if you have any questions!

You should check out Flux Capacity! Our home server is on TC, so hopefully that’s not a deal-breaker, since you’re on SoS. You’d still be able to participate in everything other than WvW, via guesting (for guild mission credit) and megaserver (for everything else). Let me know if you’re interested!

Home server is required for WvW, and guesting is needed to get credit for guild missions. Other than that, megaserver will allow you to do basically anything else!

Flux Capacity is always looking for new members! We’re an NA guild, though, so I’m not sure how late you’re generally on. Our prime time is around 8PM EDT (GMT-5). Our home server is Tarnished Coast, so you would have to guest over to receive credit for guild missions, as previously noted.

Best of luck to you finding a guild!

I think people get offended more when you bring a condi necro to dungeons, one major reason being that the condition cap is low and everyone has conditions that they put on passively (e.g. a minor trait that gives bleeding on critical hits) which overwrite yours. There’s other reasons and been tons of discussion on it in these subforums, so I won’t go into the nitty gritty details.

No one is really going to mind what you run in open world PvE and, regardless of whether they did, they have no control over it anyway. People would get far more offended if you use fears on mobs that people are trying to AoE/cleave/melee, because that prevents others from being effective.

In open world PvE, conditionmancer can actually be pretty nice. One example is fighting champions that have tons of adds. Since the champ is going to have every condition ever, every Epidemic will make short work of 5 of those adds, in addition to the AoEs you’re already dishing out. Even though you might not be doing tons of personal damage to the Risen High Wizard, you’re making it easier for others to do damage — not to mention the loot you’re getting! Once you learn how to use the tools at your disposal effectively, you start to learn what to use to your advantage in a given situation.

If I recall correctly, if you stay on the surface of the water and don’t dive under, you will keep your Flesh Golem from dying.

This is a video guide I’ve used that I thought was pretty well done. It’s an hour long, but you can get to the different sections of the video via the table of contents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QwiTyE5vqw

Tater Spudbringer reporting for doody. Also for duty, but mostly the other one.

I personally preferred the minion build when I was first starting out, because the minions scale to your level even when your gear doesn’t. Generally a minion build uses staff as the main weapon.

A wells build could definitely also work, so could a general power build. Feel free to experiment!

There isn’t really any “wrong” way to level. Try to get familiar with the different weapon combinations and see what feels right for you, and if you start to get bored of one you can switch to something else. Is there any particular build that’s piqued your interest?

Because the game tries to encourage players to play however they choose, playing full DPS becomes the lowest common denominator in terms of dungeon composition. Most of the time it’s more about what kind of utility you can bring to your team in addition to damage, such as reflects, condition clears, might buffs, etc. Fractals are a different story, at least in my opinion, but I digress!

We’ve got several members in FLUX who love to show new players the ropes and help progress through dungeons and other content in the game. Take a look at our recruitment topic here.

Just to note, Flux Capacity is a guild on the Tarnished Coast server. Being on the same world makes it much more convenient to do guild missions, as otherwise you currently have to guest to the relevant home world in order to receive credit, even with the megaserver updates. Being on the same world is required in order to participate in WvW, if you become interested in that.

If you think FLUX might be a nice fit, feel free to submit an application on our website at http://fluxcapacity.enjin.com/. Let me know if you have any questions!

Break a leg! (Someone else’s, I hope)

If you want to stay alive for a long period of time, Plague is amazing, but it shines more when you’re up against more than one player. In a 1v2, for example, it can keep you alive on the point long enough for your teammates to come help you and turn the tide. There are examples above for uses in a team fight situation.

Plague does very little damage, so in a 1v1 it is much more limited in usage — you’d probably be better off trying to kill the enemy instead. I mainly use Flesh Golem in sPvP due to my build and current playstyle. In the end it really depends on your style of play and the composition of your team.

Remember also that you can cancel your form early if you feel that you’re getting hit too hard by conditions.

I would so love to have a cleaving weapon for necro. Trahearne gets to use a greatsword, why can’t we? (also: when do we get to learn the “summon 5 flesh golems” skill?)

I feel that the burst AoE on necros with wells, locust swarm, and death shroud is adequate for most of the things I’m doing. A condition necro with Epidemic might be more well-suited for sustained AoE damage, but it requires building up and managing conditions on the targets.

I know how you feel. I initially was playing with a bunch of friends at launch, but almost all of them started quitting for one reason or another and slowly my interest in the game started to wane. I took a break for almost a year, and an old friend dragged me into FLUX last November and I found that the members were pretty like-minded and it brought back my interest in the game. Having friends makes a huge difference!

It looks like there’s no shortage of welcoming players (in this thread and in the game in general) who want to help you learn more about the game and let you be a part of the community. I’m sure you’ll be able to find a guild you’ll fit in well with.

If you’re still looking for a guild, Flux Capacity is also recruiting! Our guild recruitment post with some basic info about our guild can be found here, and if you like what you see, you can submit an application on our website at http://fluxcapacity.enjin.com! Let me (or any of the other officers) know if you have any questions!

I hope you find a guild that is a good fit for you, even if you don’t end up joining our ranks. Best of luck to you!

I think you might jive well with our values in [FLUX]. We’re a casual guild on TC, but we don’t let that stop us from taking part in everything the game has to offer! I think we’d love to have you in our ranks.

Our guild recruitment post with some basic info about our guild can be found here, and if you like what you see, you can submit an application on our website at http://fluxcapacity.enjin.com! Let me (or any of the other officers) know if you have any questions!

Most of us are in the US, as far as I know! Our prime times are during NA afternoon-evening hours, though some of our members are on at strange and downright bizarre times sometimes.

Feel free to check out Flux Capacity! We have several members who don’t mind showing people the ropes when it comes to dungeons, fractals, and other content. We even hold a guild event on Saturdays to get people through harder paths of dungeons for their Dungeon Master achievements.

Our guild recruitment post on these forums can be found here. If you think we’re a good fit, you can submit an application on our website at http://fluxcapacity.enjin.com! Of course, we are more than happy to answer any questions you might have!