Guild Wars 2

ESOL could use a few more oceanic players to join us!
Good community, generous helpful playerbase. Someone to group with when you need some backup.

@Magnus – ESOL does a bit of PvE during off hours, we have maybe 2 groups of players who can commonly be found doing dungeons or playing low alt’s. Just ask in gchat!

-Echard Yarghol
ESOL Member, Scout

Will the special event (That a lot of the player base seems to be complaining about the inconsiderate timing of) relate directly to one of the required achieves for the Halloween title?

Or any achievement at all? Because I had a bad feeling about “attend the party”
(RED PLEASE?)

Supported as its sunday, religion is > event.

I live central US, I cant complain about the time, but I do feel bad for European & oceanic players. ANet drops the ball again.

those .40g exos where usually salvageable for .70+

Sould have spent the last 7 hours farming with my guild who I think roughly made around 20-50g average? Insead I’ve been loosing to the jumping puzzle that truely needs nerfed over some chest rates.

GG Anet!

I find it humorous that the theme of the holiday is madness, between the confusion from the lack of instruction for the events, the bugged doors, and the absolutly rage induging tower puzzle the only thing missing is player to player hate.

Oh wait… Nope. Im charr. I get multiple tells per tower run telling me to shove off in not so kind words. This puzzle already has everyone on nerves end, and its difficulty needs some serious ajustment. 6 hours, almost 7. 0 Clears. hundreds of insults.

I know its not just me. Norns, and chars, even big humans are getting a lot of hate right now due to bad camera angles and a skill ramp up a sheer cliff.

EDIT: this -almost- made me forget about the chest rare rates. Almost. I didnt even buy keys!

Asum.4960:

I can do it blind by pure muscle memory, and i did it together with 3 charrs, a norn and a asura (farmed those bags for 3hours, just because it was so much fun).

Don’t see your problem (except you being bad).

My record atm is doing it 18 times in a row.

Some is clearly full of *

a challange shouldnt take average players HOURS of attempts.

6 hours… still failing…
Completed almost every other puzzle…

This is rubbish. Those defending completed and are bias.

This puzzle is complete rubbish. the level of focus required is absurd.
Even if you land every jump on the way up, 9/10 the chest platform is already under mist and your just waiting to reset.

The precent of community who defends this puzzle are the ones who where lucky enough to finish it. THIS NEEDS A NERF. Total rubbish.

6 hours…. 0 finished.

As a charr, the hate is equal. not only are our animations clunky, but you try guessing where your feet really are when your mid leap leaning over yourself.

still annoying that not all passive speed boosts work here… some classes cruise up quickly. others struggle.

I find it harder to long in each week, my friends for the most part never made it past 20. Most went to Mop and never turned back, because the content while the same as always was challenging and rewarding. Even with all the RNG trying to get the items you want, at least they where obtainable, and served a use. Not just looked cool and make others spam /w or focus in wvw.

I still get on because I enjoy wvw, hell I avoid combat like the plague in wvw, and scout 99% of the day. Reporting movements, predicting attacks with fair accuracy, and generally influencing my commanders, helping us win.

Outside of wvw, I mine…. and mine… and farm…
not even able to try the RNG fight for a precursor yet since the economy is still rough.
Prices continue to rise as players leave, chances of getting a legendary “skin” drop as the % of sucess seems to be secretly nerfed with every update.

Dont get me wrong. I have gold. I toss it around. Hell I throw gold at keeps in wvw to get the orb (golems). In handfuls, but its not anything that satasfies the quest for something “better” because we are all equals.

I wanted esport spvp, but normalization forces most viable spvp to be 1 of maybe 3 things. THere is little variance because we are so normalized that we know what “could” be out there and can stop it. Theres nothing to fear, no one is better geared, only better or lucky enough to have a better connection.

And then theres the gem shop. Launch week, hell I must have burned 20 keys I looted. I have not seen one drop since week 2. Occasionally they come in quest/zone rewards. But thats just as rare. usually its gear my class cant use and I have to horde it or sell it off. EVERYTHING costs gems. Bag slots, character slots, skins. Sure I can understand this but the transfer rate is climbing and only getting worse. This may be f2p, but its still p2w or at least look nice and enjoy. And only if your lucky it seems after shelling out massive wads. (or having godsend luck)

Anet, your cash shop for profit only hurts you. Sure you get money from gold farmers and people hyped for skins, but the average player hates you. Because you put RNG on real money. If we invest actuall money we should be able to get more than a chance at what we want with more than the probability of literally getting trash.

Woo…. more greatsword and staff skins…

Meh, don’t worry about the rest of us with lousy weapon skins and poor legendarys… We dont mind useless rewards not even being worth the skins.

Don’t know, having an orb hacked twice is bad for moral even in first place at the time. Was fine until then.

Anywho update.
JQ 69,148 +190
IOJ 67,782 +240
SBI 67,639 +265

I do appalude IoJ this week has been great with you guys here, and you not only bring some great fights to the table but you fight with honor and humility!

SBI exploit/hack orb in their own boarderland again….
From hills to garrison in seconds without any attack or damage.

Loose first place in points 2 days in, and gotta bring out them hacks!

Clearly those complaining are not on the stealth side of invisibility.
You have to 1. Micromanage a internal cd to restealth or 2. Stack it hard(results in not doing dps while doing so(usually by exploit)) to use it well.
Once stealthed you are still able to be hit, cc’d, bleed burn and everything else.
Stealth has a fade time, watch your foes as they fade and follow them. Dont sit still leaving a back to stab.
Keep attacking, we are not invincible. We are invisible. HUGE difference. I have died while invisible, and reappeared downed after the duration ended.
Stop being stupid and learn to deal with it like everyone else. The counter is simple: Keep attacking and dont think, OH I CANT SEE HIM I CANT DO ANYTHING NOW kitten

RE: HoD.
TA may be gone, but thats not a big deal. Your top bracket until we beat it down to where it belongs.
The claims at “victory” by TA for HoD only made this worse because they knew they couldn’t hold out against the pressure coming at them and bailed before their ship sank.

It’s a shame it hurts the server, and messes the matchup’s all to hell still. It was some good fighting and it was expected to be better, but some folks got scared about loosing their titles of #1….

Thats nothing new… just logged off since it was spawn camp in EB with hod in the keep and sbi just sitting in the field next to it. not attacking on another just watching. We push up to the keep; thin out hod after 10 or so min, push them to the gate and finally sbi moves up to hit our side. few minutes later reinforcements from hod come the long way around the fort and go right up to the gate and sbi backs off.

Its not new; mostly its stupid pugs playing follow the blue dot kitten dot needs to be removed so people actually pay attention instead of following a map icon. (I laugh when I watch a force from any side run off a cliff to death following the dot… I mean really when did people become hamsters?

Also saw this; pulled the fight before the door and ran out. Magg dies. Mobs vanish in explosion. Door still standing. Everyone jumped on the torch and over the wall, into the next room. Final fight as normal; dodge aoe, kill adds etc… get the chest. No one left so I waited a few minutes. After 3-4 minutes the shard respawned killed it again, looted the chest a 2nd time (smaller rewards no tokens just loot) and the wall was destroyed like the explosion event was completed; revealing 2 chests inside that room as well.
Resulting in 3 bonus chests for one run…
The torch needs to be ethereal so its not a stepping stone; or the wall needs to go to the ceiling.