Guild Wars 2

Hmm…looks like the game is back up. No post in “News and Announcements” though..

Guess “Twitter” has an update..

Thanks Araushnee. Guess those of us that want to maintain a level of privacy on the ‘net are SOL with communication from A’net, since they prefer twitter to official, company hosted, and company moderated forums.

Lol. Every server is going to extend an invitation. If your guild is truly looking for a home where you will be most comfortable, then split your transfers among a few servers to try them out and get a feel for them. While you will not have your full guild on any server for a week, you can get a preview of many servers and hopefully choose one that is best for your guild.

Good Hunting!!

TY Mishi. Was reading the previous locked thread and this one this evening. Your sanity is greatly desired in a sea of chaotic accusing minds that have posted in this thread and the previous thread.

We are all human. All servers can have exploiters / hackers. Anyone who continues to bring up past events (not letting them die) just makes themselves and their guild look bad.

I was pulled by mesmers at least 20 times tonight when they did not have LOS on me. It is the result of a broken game mechanic that needs to be fixed. While it is irritating, I will not say that any of those mesmers exploited, because it is valid under the current game mechanics / game rules. It is up to Anet to determine if it is valid and to implement a fix if it is not valid.

Thrumdi.9216:

Parthis.2091:

Like if you have a mindless melee ball getting in the way of healing your ram operators, get them away from the gate. It’s not like they’re doing much there anyway, and they’d make better scouts.

So, the net result is consistent healing where it’s needed (siege operators) and a considerably smaller chance of being rushed.

“Other protection skills are now also limited to 5 men.”

Yes… indeed. I mean this in the nicest possible way; there isn’t another button to press, players need to get out of this mentality. Adjust your strategies, as ultimately, these changes were made as a result of the strategy you’re clinging to (i.e. spam healing a stack of players without thought).

Nope, it’s nothing to do with spam healing.

It’s just trying to heal the guy standing right next to me.

A game is broken if you can’t heal the guy standing right beside you.

Invite the ram operators to a group? I think your abilities will hit group members first. It’s not an ideal solution, but it should work.

If you think this game is broken because you cannot direct heal, then this game is not for you. It was not designed for direct healing.

If the ram operators need heals then what is damaging them? Oil? Have ranged take it down. Other players on the walls? Counter with ranged or mortars. Or back off the door and hit it with catapults.

I tried to get into WvW after the kick happened and I got an error that stated some like “World vs World is temporarily unavailable while the maps are being updated.” Then 5 min later I got the 3 min countdown for a patch.

Sotaudi.1265:

Brunners.7251:

zoobaby.7804:

Warlord.9074:

All the players upset by this patch are the ones who turtle.

And the ones that farmed badgers from them….

Well they shouldn’t have been carrying around a bunch of badgers in the first place.

Well, badgers can do a lot of damage, and if you have a bunch of them in a group, then I can image than a lot more than 5 people are going to be injured. If the badgers are rabid on top of that, the complaints about limiting the healing are beginning to make sense.

Especially if they are Honey Badgers.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFF63A342669890D0

:)

HabibLoew.2590:

We perform the same score calculation for each world and then plug those results into Glicko 2. This means that ratings change over time as a result of battle outcomes and that the rating for a given server reflects the history of that server’s performance.

The system and formula works well, but with free transfers in play, servers can change quickly and no longer be as strong as their rating indicates. HoD is the prime example. When the Titan Alliance fell apart, it took time for HoD to fall out of Tier 1. A possible solution is to take a page from the NASCAR Sprint Cup series. After the ratings are determined, baseline them by making the gap between each place 10 points (for example). This would make it easier for the places and match ups to change from week to week.

I’m assuming that the previous week rating is used as a starting value (r in this case) for the calculations.

Zenyatoo.4059:

pseudosapien.4076:

Xyanide.8650:

btw, anyone know this guild in sbi? claim stonemist everyday without any buff. pl if u read this stop claim it unless you can benefit everyone.

Lol. My guild on BG has a similar similar logo — red heart with a white beaver.

I think you guys took AB once when we were trying to claim it. And then you didnt throw out any guild buffs either

When was that? I don’t remember my guild ever claiming a Bay keep.

Xyanide.8650:

btw, anyone know this guild in sbi? claim stonemist everyday without any buff. pl if u read this stop claim it unless you can benefit everyone.

Lol. My guild on BG has a similar similar logo — red heart with a white beaver.

BG player here. T1 is not determined by the weekend. T1 is determined by the 24/7 weekday coverage. We’ll see how things look Monday evening.

Leiloni.7951:

pseudosapien.4076:

Leiloni.7951:

Kristine Heath.1483:

morganabanana.3517:

Don’t forget these items can be made after halloween is over. All you really need is the 250 candy corn and 100 of either nougat, p. fangs, c. skulls for the item you want. After that you can take as much time as you want to make the weapon.

You’re forgetting you also need 40 elonian wines which is about 12 gold. Not everyone has that to blow on JUST recipe, let alone the 300 gold in mats you need to actually make it.

Yea but you don’t need to gather those this week. As long as you gather the Halloween items this week, you can discover the Gift Recipe in the Mystic Forge at any time of year.

The recipe will be discoverable as long as it remains in the game. A’net can remove it anytime they wish. They could remove it at the end of the event.

They’ve already said the weapons will be available to craft after the event. Our friendly neighborhood ANet Halloween designer Anthony Ordon said:

Hey guys, since there’s been a lot of questions, here’s the deal with the weapon skins. Basically there are two types of weapons for this event:

• Craftable – There are a number of weapons that can be crafted from materials that come from Halloween content. They are exotic and they have their own stats. You can craft these at any time of the year, but there are certain components that will only drop during Halloween. Since these weapons are really cool, we allow you to rent them from an in-game vendor in Lion’s Arch. They’re pretty cheap (you can buy them without paying gold) and yes, they expire in four hours. Basically, everyone will have a chance to get in the spirit of the season. To that effect, these weapons have auto-scaling stats but you can’t transmute them. For those of you who want to stay “festive” all year round, you’ll have to delve in the content and put the weapons together.

• Purchasable Skins – These are available in the Black Lion Chests. They are a one-time use skin that you can apply to anything, I believe, and from there transmute that appearance to something else if you need to. You cannot rent these from that vendor in Lion’s Arch.

There’s also a bunch more gear, goodies, and crafting recipes to be discovered in the content itself!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/halloween/Are-the-Halloween-skins-permament/first#post501197

Thanks! I obviously did not read that post as closely as I should have !

Leiloni.7951:

Kristine Heath.1483:

morganabanana.3517:

Don’t forget these items can be made after halloween is over. All you really need is the 250 candy corn and 100 of either nougat, p. fangs, c. skulls for the item you want. After that you can take as much time as you want to make the weapon.

You’re forgetting you also need 40 elonian wines which is about 12 gold. Not everyone has that to blow on JUST recipe, let alone the 300 gold in mats you need to actually make it.

Yea but you don’t need to gather those this week. As long as you gather the Halloween items this week, you can discover the Gift Recipe in the Mystic Forge at any time of year.

The recipe will be discoverable as long as it remains in the game. A’net can remove it anytime they wish. They could remove it at the end of the event.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Blackgate-VS-Henge-VS-Eredon/first#post498278

Had it happen multiple times. And the fly hack was used to destroy the altars in bay and hills keeps in one BL.

Guild Wars Fan.3249:

you do know you can just target them, click on Report and their name is there in plain sight don’t you? Then just cancel (no need to report them after all and /w <name> <msg>

:)

Thanks for that as well.

Guess it depends on the borderland. I’m on BG and I queued for our borderlands this past weekend. In that borderland, it seems that both IOJ and SBI are against us. Every time we take back the supply camp north of our citadel, either IOJ or SBI are taking it back. We even had both IOJ and SBI on our garrison either at the same time or pretty close to it over the weekend.

This is not saying that we are against any adjustment to scoring, or against developing another mechanic to improve the capping system. This is simply saying that we will not be changing WvW based on some players’ idea of off time hours.

If this is the part of the post to which you are referring, I read that as “We are not against changing the scoring system for all hours of the day to improve it, but we will not be making a change based on someones definition of night capping or prime time.”

Lol chanw and I were thinking the same thing.

Um. I have not taken the time to read the sticky post “Night Capping and You”, lately but afik, it is part of the game according to A’net. Did A’net’s opinion change?

Blackgate: 282K
Gates of Madness: 139K
Yak’s Bend 137K

As far as I can tell, this match up did not have any overnight map sweeps. I checked for the first couple of days when I got up for work in the morning, and the map was pretty close to what is was at 1 am when I went to bed. It is the 10,11, & 12 place matchup, but the prime time fights have been a lot of fun. I’m on Blackgate btw..

kelman.9451:

Spying is lame, and your idea may be good, only other way is to limit all toons to the one server you pick and that is it. So one server must have ALL your toons. So you want to transfer you don’t transfer one toon, you transfer all of them. Then some lamer would have to own two game accounts and log out of one into another to spy, discouraging it even more.

When you “transfer”, you change your home server for your whole account, not just one character.

Carsormyr.3950:

I’m from Crystal Desert, just to clarify something with our current match up. When we were initially matched with Blackgate and Gate of Madness it was very competitive. Basically each server had capped their own map with Eternal being split evenly.

Then something weird happened. We started pushing in and very slowly gaining ground on them. Then it seemed once we capped a few towers and camps that a bunch of people just stopped coming into WvW. There was just less opposition in general and over the last day or so they’ve been completely contained to their spawn. Which would only serve to discourage anyone from joining WvW at this point.

Which sucks, because when we started it was an evenly matched fight and was fun to play.

That is interesting. I am on Blackgate and I observed something different. On Monday morning (9/18) @ 1 AM before I went to bed we were in 2nd place and within 40,000 points of Crystal Desert. I don’t exactly remember all of the holdings, but we had a decent amount. It seemed fairly even as you stated. Through Sunday evening Blackgate actually was scoring more points per tally than Crystal Desert.

When I checked @ 8:30 am, Crystal Desert held all but 3 supply camps, 3 towers, and one keep. Their score gap increased to 70,000 in just 7 hours. Crystal Desert’s overnight krewe capped the maps.

This is not a complaint. I am just clarifying things, since I made it a point to check. And as stated earlier, after a couple of weeks of this, the servers with strong overnight krewes will bubble to the top and get matched with each other.