Guild Wars 2

Question: What is ANET/NCsoft doing to mitigate the DDOS attacks?
These attacks have been going on for 4 days straight as of today. The hackers are not going away anytime soon, as the cyber wars continue. Is something concrete being done to mitigate the attack, besides meetings, PR, … etc? Do not need details, just some communication that changes to hardware/software are in the works to stop or reduce the effects of the DDOS attacks.

Can we have a Gold only reward track? I do not collect skins, and the tomes of knowledge are just taking up space, all of the rewards are just salvaged or sold to vendors. Wastes a lot of time empting bags. You could just add a option to convert the rewards to gold and deposit into the wallet. Just my opinion.

A real concern of mine with this idea of parings, will they be permeate or change regularly. Our server funds our TeamSpeak for WvW. To prevent spies only members of our server are allowed in TeamSpeak. We can integrate the new server pairing, but if it changes constantly then there will be problems. Reset night would be come a mess, necessitating locking out the paired server from TeamSpeak. Maybe someone has a solution for this, but other than making the pairing a one time thing not sure how to solve the problem.

The ranking is still going to be important. Coverage will not be solved by the pairings as there are only so many SEA, OCX and EU players to go around, most are on the top ranked servers. There is also the question of overall skill at playing WvW, probably not PC but not all players are created equal. The Ranking once settled match the teams with the best coverage and skill against each other. I have been in a WvW tournament where our Team just made the cut to be in the gold tier, 9 weeks of losses and we lost a lot of people who never came back to WvW. That is the effect of round robin matches where everyone is of different skill and coverage levels. People complain about stale matchups, but they complain even more about lopsided matchups. If you reset the scores, but start the matches based on current top level rankings, then in a few months we will settle back in to our ruts ( not necessarily a bad thing). Just my opinion after 3+ years of playing WvW.

I expected the Tactivators given EBG and they are tied to Guild Scribes. But, what about Shrines the other HOT addition to WvW? And what will they control? If it is rocks popping up blocking your path, the answer should be no. If they create snow storms that blind the enemy (same as the sand storms), then maybe. ANET what are you planning?

You are not alone, i have been seeing this for the past 2 days on dragonbrand. Prior to that had no problems applying upgrades and tactics to camps and keeps. On keeps that had upgrades applied around reset and that have flipped recently, you can no longer apply upgrades. Those that have not flipped but where missing some upgrades, you can not add upgrades. Appears ANET has disabled the ability to add upgrades. Can anyone add upgrades now? I have sent in bug reports, hope everyone else has too.

Scribe is broken. No recipe or source of Resonating Fragments, Bolt of Embroidered Silk, Wood Glue…. Also, if you try to make softwood planks using the drill down from softwood dowels, you get a window that runs but produces no planks.

Opinion: None of the materials needed for the scribe should be soulbound or account bound, as this is a craft for making guild items and guild mates should be able to contribute materials to the guild scribes. Also, all the materials should go in the collections and not use up bank space.

I do not see the need to repeat what has been said in 14 pages of replies and multiple threads. The WvW community in general does not want the day or time changed for RESET. The reasons that have finally been stated for moving the Reset time is for ANET’s convenience to handle problems associated with the launch of HOT. How that effects the Reset time in unclear and has not been explained. Does it take a team of ANET devs to do the weekly Reset? If so, then for then next week leave the scoring turned off, if that would make it easier for ANET. We need time to get used to the new maps anyway. But, leave the Reset time and day where it has been for 3 years, it works for the majority of the community as has been stated repeatedly in this thread. As for the comment I saw of it being a done deal, it has changed 3 times in as many days, nothing is done, until it is done. Please leave the Reset where it is and let us enjoy the HOT expansion. And Thank you Gaile for communicating with the community, more communication up front may have reduced the current Drama.

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omica.6548:

If you move to early Saturday, I and my +300 guild will not be playing.

300+ pvers will still play other game modes.. Don’t lie

Did not say they would not continue to play in PVE, just not at WvW reset. I would love it if they all logged on at the same time. Does not happen, our numbers peak 1-2 hours after Reset on Friday. 6 hours later they drop off. They peak again late Saturday evening. During the rest of the time, people come and go as there RL time schedules permit. For the guild Reset is a major social event, that I do not see happening in the middle of the day Saturday.

Strike two ANET, leave the Reset on Friday. Read the posts, the majority do not want this change. The reasons for leaving the Reset where it is are clear if you can read what actual WvW players are saying. If you move to early Saturday, I and my +300 guild will not be playing. A lot of us actually work for a living, those who do not work on Saturday have a lot of more important Real Life things to take care of in the middle of the day. Friday works for our OCX/SEA members and most of our NA members. GET this right before HOT launch, Leave Reset where it is.

Adding to the growing list of people who think this is a bad idea. As the leader of a large guild on NA, this is not going to go over well with the guild. The two biggest days for our guild are Friday and Saturday. Why make the change? If it is to allow for all the glitches that will happen with the launch of HOT. Then let WvW take a week off in terms of Glicko scoring and restart the following Friday. This would give everyone, not just the few who got to do the beta tests, a chance to explore and understand the new maps.

Why Monday? Better day would be Friday same reset time as WvW. Easier to remember the date. As others have stated guilds tend to run missions when they have the most people online, which tends to be the weekends. Our guild like others run the missions twice per week to accommodate those who due to RL can not make it on the weekends and encourage as many guildies to participate on the second night as well. As the one who runs the guild missions for our guild, it is hard to get people to come to both nights meaning some times we skip guild challenges and puzzles due to lack of people. Now you are going to make it harder to get people on the weekends to show up if they do the missions during the week. This really will mess up the community spirit of working together to do the guild missions. Please reconsider the day for reset. Or explain why raids can not coexist with the current schedule?

Thank You. About Time. A little to late for DB as this was the exact cause of 200 people leaving DB for HOD, to get away from the full status. We still have the full status on DB making it a pain to recruit. Hopefully this will help.

They should at least reset the glicko scores at the end of the week, as if this mess never happened.

Question for those watching DB. as of noon pst 4-23 DB is at FULL status again, any ideas who moved in?

Where do we lodge a formal complaint? The matchup were suppose to be Swiss Style. After the first match, 1st place servers play other 1st place servers, 2nd place playes 2nd place servers. That worked up to this last round. DB came in second in the 3rd round and should not be playing Yaks for the third time. Clearly Yaks is the top server of the NA Silver league. With this last matchup ANET has placed DB at a numerical disadvange. At best we can come in third place, even though to this point only Yaks has beaten us. The glicko score shows where we should be place overall. I cry foul on ANET for changing the matchup for the final week.

Torsailr.8456:

John Corpening.9847:

Here are some parameters and questions we should consider:

• Can we come up with a system that doesn’t involve constant policing from GMs?
• What are the characteristics of bad behavior that are different than good behavior?
• How do we prevent bad behavior without making too big of an impact on good behavior?
• What restrictions might we be able to live with as good players in order to prevent bad behavior?

I think a fundamental problem here is that we’re trying to find a game mechanic to predict/fix player decisions. Any mechanic that gets put in place would just shift the troll behavior to something else without fixing the issue. I don’t think you can program your way out of this kind of problem.

I honestly think sending some GM’s out with a banhammer to exterminate trolls with extreme prejudice would do a lot at combating the trolls. It’s gotten out of hand because there’s no fear of repercussions. Show them there are consequences and many of them will either leave or get banned. Those that are left will be the die hard griefers but at least there will be fewer to deal with.

Once the majority of trolls are gone it would be easier to re-evaluate what kind of programming fixes could be made.

I agree this is really the only way to stop the trolls without impacting the game. The banhammer must not just fall on the troll account but also on all accounts logging in from the same IP address if this is to be effective.

Our guild leader was banned and we GOTL want him back. I have known Derehk for over 10 years of mmo playing. He has been the guild leader of GOTL for 10 years from Everquest 2 to RIFT to GW2 and many other games. We have over 300 members in our guild. Derehk has been the scourge of gold sellers, sending numerous reports.

Pyriall.5027:

zone.1073:

omica.6548:

Not a sPVP player, but would like to use a custom arena for WvW training. Would like to know if it is possible to use the same gear and traits used in WvW for the custom arenas?

You can recreate your WvW build in the Heart of the Mists, and use that build in custom arenas.

Yes, you can test your WvW builds in custom arenas because all gear, all traits, all sigils and runes are available to be used in PvP for free. Simply re-create your WvW character in PvP and jump into a custom arena.

I think they get more customization with their pve gear as far as attribute point allocation.

Yes, there is significant differences between my PVE gear and the gear i see in the mists. Thanks for all the replies, now i will have to give this some thought, i have some guildies that also want to do sPvP so might setup a arena for practice anyway.

Thank You. That was what i wanted to know. Saves wasting Gems at least for that application.

Not a sPVP player, but would like to use a custom arena for WvW training. Would like to know if it is possible to use the same gear and traits used in WvW for the custom arenas?

Just wanted to give Kudo’s tothe three man havoc groups from SOS and EBay last night. Could not kill you guys no matter if it was 3v1 or 3v6. That was the most fun of the evening. The open field zerg fights were a little disapointing, I guess your A teams were off PVEing. But overall this matchup has had some challenging fights. Hopefully the A teams will rejoin the fight for the rest of the week.

Mine Fields – purchased same as traps, not hidden, use the graphics for mines in the PVE world. Both on land and underwater (underwater mines have been used in the guild rushes). The mines can be disarmed, but if you set one off they have a large AOE and large damage. Can be placed only outside of towers and keeps as a defense against zergs. The mine fields should damage both friend and foe, so be careful where you place them.

Moats(with alagators) – placed around walls of keeps and towers to defend against flame rams on walls.

Ladders – Used to scale ungaurded walls, make it important to defend keeps and towers. Easy to push off if you have a defender there to do so.

Similar experience on two different computers with different internet connections. game would freeze on a black screen in Lions Arch. Several crashes to character select and massive lag in WvW EB map. While escorting a Yak with no else around on screen, the Yak would come to a complete stop, then start moving again, this went on for a couple of minutes. Typing keys to slap the Yak would not even execute for almost a minute. Never had this happen except in massive zerg on zerg fights. Also was talking to friend in vent when i crashed and they experienced a game freeze at the same time (note they live 3000 miles away). I think the optimaztion is going the wrong way.

Ayrilana.1396:

Where your server spawns on the maps is randomized every week. It’s possible to get everything with time. Time that you have since you’ll still need all of the other components.

Ok, i did not know that, our server has been on the red team for as long as i have been playing in WvWvW. Been at 93% completion for over a month. But, i did as one suggested and put in a suggestion for a day of peace in WvWvW.

A day of peace in WvWvW for those working on Map Completion.

If removing WvWvW poi’s, vistas’s and skill ups from the Map Completion is not possible. Can we get a day or two of peace with no combat? Or maybe a temporary non-combat server for a Map Completion run. Many ways to give those on a server that is not dominating WvWvW a chance to complete the map.

i acknowlege your achievement in completing the map. But, depending on the server you play on, your chances of getting 100% completetion varies greatly. How about a one (maybe 2 for time zone issues) day WvWvW exploration day, where there is no combat?

I have tryed my server is in the tier two group, there is no slack time in WvWvW for our competitors, they are all on 24/7. So makes it tough to get to all the poi’s.

If you do not care for PvP and/or your server never holds all parts of the WvWvW needed for the POI’s, vista’s and skill up’s, then how do you finish the Map Completion? Changing servers is risky as you may not get back to your home server if it is full. ANet should remove the WvWvW from the Map Completion. What do the rest of you think?

So when can we get First Person Veiw?