Guild Wars 2

I haven’t posted in the forums in over a year or so, but have been keeping track of changes and logging into the game on patch days to pick up the new story chapters.

About a year ago when Ranked Queues were added, my guild hit its peak. We had Dueling tournaments every week, and the more serious PvP players would queue in small groups for good matches, but we were primarily a PvE guild. Once Solo Queue was implemented, however, our PvP players split. Those of us who enjoyed Duo and Trio queue couldn’t do so anymore. When we played Solo Queue to make up for it, we missed the ability to play together without being required to make full groups. This caused most of our PvP players to seek other guilds for full groups which decimated any PvP our guild had.

With this latest patch, I was able to convince my old guildies to come back. I played nearly all day Sunday in the Unranked Queue. I Queued Solo, Duo, Trio, and Full team several times each and have to say I had a blast each time.

My Solo games were pretty balanced overall even against premades. Even when it was inevitable we’d lose, our PUG would always manage a crazy comeback if only for a time.

Duo and Trio games were similar, though I noticed that we faced premades more often. Still fun matches though, and we even won a close 5v4 after one of my guildies DCed.

Full team matches we always were matched with premades. Sometimes they were way better, but even when we lost we felt that with better teamwork and coordination we could win.

Since none of us had seriously played in ages, we enjoyed the casual environment of the Unranked Queue. I’m feeling that old spark again: looking up builds, theory crafting with my guildies, discussing team comps. It’s wonderful.

Improvements could definitely be made, however. Since those of us left are mostly PvE players, we’d like to be able to queue in unranked while doing other activities. Make this happen and I’m pretty sure we’ll be coming back for the long haul

Ludovicus.7980:

I had this suspicions on my own and I didn’t saw them in the web before posting.
Was I the only one suspecting this before I posted it?

Honestly the thought never crossed my mind til I saw the title of the thread. She’s doing a darn good job I guess

Konig Des Todes.2086:

For Jennah to be a non-existent being, there’d have to be such a huge massive conspiracy going about that the very minds of nearly all Krytans would require to be brainwashed; official documents forged; someone other than Anise requiring to know and orchestrate it while Anise was a mere baby to fake that Jennah existed, and most important would require the claimed-to-be-near-fanatical Shining Blade to break their solemn duty of upholding the Krytan monarchy with Salma’s bloodline. Because Jennah not existing means, there is no more heir, because Jennah is the last heir. It means her father – be it the one-time-mentioned King Rodrick or someone else – would require to have never had a child.

I at least, and probably most in this thread, acknowledge this is a ludicrous theory. It’s fun to attempt creating a sound argument even if it will only remain valid, though.

However, you’re looking at it wrong. It isn’t that Anise has faked Jennah’s entire existence. As you said, that’d be difficult to accomplish. Jennah is masquerading as Anise and creating an illusion of herself. For this theory to hold any ground, Anise has to have the fake backstory. Jennah could very easily appoint someone to be head of the Shining Blade, so she appoints herself as Anise and now is her own bodyguard. Heck, the Shining Blade might even like the idea. As to their holding a conversation it would be only natural to do so if others are watching or if you’re paranoid of others watching. Better to do so habitually than not.

Simplest answer is best, of course: they’re separate beings who both happen to be powerful mesmers; though Jennah disguising as Anise and creating illusions of herself is quite a fun idea

Logically, if Anise is the queen and Jennah the illusion then seeing Anise away from the queen does not disprove the premise.

However, seeing Jennah away from Anise when we know of Anise’s whereabouts, that would be something to look for.

Honestly I think this is entirely bogus but fun to analyze. I haven’t read the books so I don’t have anything to go on with those. Is there nothing in the books where we can conclusively prove Anise and Jennah are in two different spots at the same time?

If this were the case, here’s how it would work:

Jennah grew up and lived a normal royal life, but when she became queen made an illusion of herself and then recreated herself as Anise. Anise would be the one with the fake back story, not the queen.

Since she’s the queen, she could probably go over the heads of the Shining Blade commanders and make herself as Anise the head.

How much do we know about Anise? I’ve played through all 3 of the human story lines, and I can’t remember ever seeing Anise and Jennah apart.

Been looking forward to this!

Robin Thorun
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What about the Tengu? I know in game they are mostly hands off and waiting to see what happens, but given they have a large area to themselves I assume there’s lots of them around. At least one is helping the pact, and several are fighting corruption in Kessex Hills.

Tengu are also major candidates for the next playable race. If that happens, we’ll have 6 races versus the now 4 dragons (maybe 5 with Mordremoth)

I searched and didn’t see anyone else with this problem. I hopped into spvp today and on the pvp panel it showed I only had 200ish glory. As you can see at the bottom left I’m rank 8 so that number can’t be right. I haven’t been pvping long, but I checked at the character select screen and I had 6k. I have the correct amount at the vendors so its not like I lost anything, but I thought the devs or anyone else might like to know about this.

I’m testing the limits of my machine later today with WvW, SPvP, and large events. I’m guessing that’s where the low end of fps will be. Anywhere/thing else I should test as I mess with the graphics?

Whoops, forgot about that!
It’s 21.5" 1920 × 1080

Hi everyone, just thought I’d give my experience playing on the basic 2011 iMac model.
First off, the important stuff:

OS 10.8.2
Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB

I downloaded and installed without issue. My first launch also went swimmingly, I had zero issues and 30-40 fps on the auto-detect graphics settings, most of which are medium or low. I care more about smooth play so this is fine with me.

Played that night without issue. Haven’t had any issues since save one that I haven’t been able to replicate. One time after logging into a character, I right clicked to turn the view and the camera went crazy, circling my character at the feet any time I held down either left or right on the mouse. Otherwise it was fine. I had to restart the game to fix it.

All in all, I’m happy with the client. Its not being native isn’t ideal, but I’m glad to be able to play on OS X.