Guild Wars 2

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Grimezy.5679:

Don’t help noobs then? No major loss really, they probably struggled through it after hours and you saved yourself a frustrating experience of people who don’t know how to talk or play.

I adore teaching noobs!

I do too!

EnemyCrusher.7324:

The kick system isn’t broken. Just right click on the offenders’ names in chat and report them for scamming.

You must be joking. Have you ever been kicked and done what you mention? No. Because I never ever got the /p chat kept after being kicked. Did you?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You say everyone uses and knows UTC. I don’t think that is true. It may be wherever you are from, but I can’t say it is worldwide, as much as it maybe should be.

Many, many computers use Windows Vista or higher, and it comes with an automatic time zone converter, right in the corner. =)

No, I don’t say everyone uses and knows UTC. Reread. What I said is that if people know two timezones in the world, it’s more likely to be theirs and UTC (except the US, but wake up, US isn’t the whole world… yet).

I use Windows 7, I just checked and I see no converter. Plus, if it existed (which is not the case on my system) it’d be a third party tool. ArenaNet should give straight information in UTC without us having to use a third party tool.

Stars.2179:

Astralporing.1957:

Stars.2179:

If they remove time gated, then these will increase even more which devalue their true worth.

What true worth? They are not worth anything more to me than exalted were before ascended gear got introduced. Yes, the cost is greater, but the worth is not. A BiS gear is a BiS gear.

10% more damage and defense, Armor alone: 14 major, +22 minor total 36 stat points. With 6 infusion slot each adds +5, total 30 more stat points with total 66 more stat points. With possible future infusion of masterwork +7, rare +8, exotic +9 and ascended infusion +10 per slot. Totaling up to possible: +6036 = 96 stat points more than exotic. On top of that they could release ascended runes / sigil which will fit only in ascended armors and weapons. Nope, it’s not worth anything. Don’t get it. You don’t have to. You’ll do fine with exotic.

If you want to do the maths, do them properly please. This is just biaised beyond possible.

Short answer: get the ascended armor only if you play fractals.

phys.7689:

you get the trait for killing the risen priest, not cleansing the shrine. Your ele would came for the wrong event

Thanks for clarifying this. Is it written like that in the game (when you hover the glass next to the trait name)?

If I put it correctly, I had the choice to either lead the event, make it succeed for everyone and not getting the trait or let it fail because no one would respawn without being given the command by a commander?

Also, this is a major reward, it should be rewarded at the end of the event chain, not in the middle of it.

From bug, this issue goes to fail.

For the next season, please change the system. Swiss round is really boring for some servers. Basically the server that rolls over everyone is green. The server in the middle stays blue and the server that gets beaten by everyone stays red.

I don’t know for other leagues, but Silver EU, we have Gandara that keeps the top spot, Gunnar’s Hold that keeps the fifth slot and Fort Ranik that keeps the ninth slot. So Gandara stays green, Gunnar’s Hold stays blue and Fort Ranik stays red.

Also, since the servers stabilized in their position, Gandara has never fought us (Gunnar’s Hold) again and we absolutely never fought Fort Ranik (I don’t remember fighting Ring of Fire as well, but I might be wrong). I guess, Gandara will only fight 3 servers in the rest of the time (Piken Square, Abaddon’s Mouth and Far Shiverpeaks). And Fort Ranik will only fight Aurora Glade, Drakkar Lake and Ring of Fire.

In the lot, by staying in the 5th position of the silver league, we are the luckiest ones since we see nearly all servers.

So you actually made it so what you wanted to avoid a year ago with a random factor in the pairings has appeared again.

I’m against this idea.

I’m a stoopid zerker elitist, if you write gearcheck in your lfg I’ll ping my gear (my real gear, not another I have in my inventory).

But if you want to inspect me, it’s only to know the skins I use. You want more? No.

Azure Prower.8701:

This is working as intended.

Yeah, the only problem here is the intention.

Tybalt because he’s the best.

Honorable mention for Poobadoo because we get him at every single guild bounty we do and we started stories about him.

Well, a lot of people experience lag these days. In PvE, it’s not much a problem: it’s annoying. But in WvW, yes it is a problem.

So if you lag, you must know that your download speed has nothing to do with it. So the biggest is not the best. If you lag, it’s actually because there is a high latency: it’s the time of response that is unusually high.

And regarding that, there is currently a huge fight between a spammer host and other companies with unprecedented levels of hacking.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html?hp&_r=0

I’ve had lag issues since past Wednesday. No doubt I’m impacted by this war. On the other hand, not everybody is impacted by that war, explaining that some of you still have a good latency and some others don’t.

So please, don’t blame ArenaNet yet. Wait for that fight to be over, then if you still lag, go ahead and resume. But as of today, the fact is that the Internet is slow (again, in latency, not in download speed) and ArenaNet is not responsible for it.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

So let me get this straight.

1) You joined an AC-selling group and tried to kick the seller to be a troll.
2) The seller had taken precautions against this and kicked you instead.
3) You came here and starting whining about how he is a scammer because he kicked you.

That about right?

You’re clearly trolling, but I’ll feed the troll this once.

1. Lots of complaints on the lfg about a specific seller.
2. I check with several guys complaining. They paid the gold and didn’t get the path done. At one time there was 4 different guys complaining about that particular scammer.
3. Meanwhile I observe some strange dance around that LFG, it disappears then reappears quite often. This means people are massively being kicked out from that group, and it’s a “seller” group.
4. I go check in the dungeon and proceed to votekick by explicitly stating it’s a scam. I get kicked instead.
5. The “dance” of the lfg appearing and disappearing from the lfg tool continues for 10 minutes. They still don’t kick one guy, but all the three others.
6. I’m not complaining. I’m amused because they outsmarted me. I’m pro legit sellers, I’m against scam and I’m against exploited selling.

Why am I sure it was a scam?
- AC p3 is easy to do in group even as lowbies, much harder to solo/duo.
- The path was overpriced regarding the difficulty to play it in group.
- Over the course of 10 minutes, I see lots of players coming in and out of that LFG. I mean like every 20-30 seconds the LFG disappears because it’s full, then reappears with only two members: the two same people. It’s impossible to run AC p3 in 20-30 seconds. I know you’re good, Guanglai Kangyi, but can you duo AC p3 legit in less than 1 minute? (when I entered, only the boss was left, no other event was active)
- Over those 10 minutes, older “this guy stole my 4g” lfgs disappeared and newer appeared (different guys making those assertions).

tom.7468:

Why did you even buy the path in the first place 4g down the drain.

I didn’t buy it.

So you
- acknowledge the weakness in the game
- can reproduce it
- insinuate it shouldn’t be present
- acknowledge it isn’t fair
Yet you
- keep using it when it does happen
- provoke that scenario

That’s the exact definition of an exploit.

I give up. People just can’t read/understand/see further than their nose.

I play a pure rabid necro build (rabid is condition dmg as main and tougness and precision as secondary stats). I’m full exotic and got 4 ascended items (all except the accessories). I’ve spent some traits in the toughness line. All, in all, I have 1882 toughness.

The other day, I played my necro in AC story. The group was the following: 1 level 80 guardian (full berserker), 1 level 80 warrior (full berserker), 1 level 60 mesmer (unknown equipment) and 1 level 30 ranger (unknown equipment) and me, a level 80 necro.

During the whole dungeon, I was the first and only target of the game. Even if I was the farest player from the boss. We went like that: I was running in circles, the bosses were following me, the other guys were killing the boss by standing still, except for the warr who ran after the boss. For ALL bosses. But… the group wasn’t bad.

In the end, I spent half of the time lying on the ground. I reran the story with another similar group. It started the same, but then I removed my trinkets, all of them, and all of a sudden it was bearable, I could play normally, getting the aggro only once in a while.

The same happens in fractals: I get too much aggro, even though my party plays mix of knight’s and berserker’s equipment, and I lie too much on the ground. However less than when I played that AC story.

It strange, because if I play with my other light/medium-armored characters, I have much less issues standing still. When I play in WvW with my necro, it’s the same: I stand still. So the problem is really linked to the aggro.

A small thing to know: lying on the ground is not fun. Lying on the ground when you gear to not lying on the ground is even less fun!

So please, to make it playable for all players, including those who think about putting some defense on them, by opposition to those who focus solely on damage, reduce the importance of the toughness in aggro, or take in account the fact that light-armored professions may have high toughness but still remain light-armored.

Challenge: do this quest while actually drinking IRL as it’s shown on screen.

The more I think about the world bosses, the more I think it’s a bad idea.

To be able to play the big world bosses you have now the following choices: get one of the three standard event times (01:00-03:00 (UTC), 10:30-12:30 (UTC) and 16:00-18:00 (UTC)) or have a guild to start a fight.

So we went down from twelve occurrences a day to only three, but we can have extra ones by spending influence.

On my server, the timeframe of the Tequatl or Wurm attempts is never in the three suggested timeframes. I’d be surprised if any PVE guild has currently uses these times in EU. I personally cannot join any of the suggested times.

So we can skip the three standard times: they are bad IMO. But hey, there’s an alternative! Make your own time. So first let make the guild spend some of their stashed influence. Yeah, well first you gotta have a guild with enough members to want to start that fight. Secondly (that is, if you don’t have a guild big enough), you have to have that guild be kind enough to share their event. Because if they don’t want to share it, they basically are allowed to keep it for themselves with the megaserver. Thirdly, you have to be friend with them.

So yes, this is indeed social play where you only can play if you’re friend with everyone. But… you are not! There are a lot of people I know on my server, I like them but they are acquaintances, not friends.

So what do I do? Well, I should join guilds that will specialize in killing those bosses beause my guild is too small. Probably more two than only one. In addition to my current ones.

Yet, the other news of yesterday said that “someday you’ll simply have one guild!” What is this I don’t even

So I see two possibilities here: either ArenaNet want to force people in a few guilds where people barely know each other or there’s some larger agenda to which ArenaNet gives us some facets but no actual view.

So what we have here is a complete lack of information that instills FUD in small guilds members. At first sight, people in small guilds will not be able to play with others of their server anymore. People will answer that the metrics show a clear indication of the contrary. Well, they might indicate a tendency, but they actually don’t mean anything as they are not excerpts from the real life. Theory said that we should all have played the Karka event very smoothly all together. Oops, no.

For all of this, I’d like more insurances that me, member of my small guild (70 people, but 20 active, playing PvE, WvW and PvP), will still be able to play Tequatl or the Wurm and have chances of succeeding in it. Because if people don’t get those chances to succeed those events, they will soon be reserved to a small elite and barriers will be put in place because that’s how human nature works.

As from the “Fractured”, we will get fractal skins rather than fractal “no stats” weapons and the current “no stats” weapons will not be converted to skins.

Please make sure that the “no stats” weapons are transformed to skins one way or another. Here are a few ideas:
- Add a vendor to change 1 fractal weapon to the corresponding skin.
- Set up a Zomorros recipe: 1 fractal weapon gives the corresponding skin.
- Automatically change each fractal weapon into the corresponding skin.
- Allow the support team to withdraw our skins from the bank and send the corresponding skins by mail.
- Give us a unique special salvage tool that gives the corresponding skin from a fractal weapon.
- Allow, like when you removed MF, to put stats on the weapon.

I’m not asking refunds for already transmuted weapons: only that the current ones we have in bank become skins rather than weapons.

Scootus.3251:

A little embarrassing for Arbor in their borderlands tonight wouldn’t you say? We’ve decided we like your bay so much we are thinking of decorating.

I’m thinking about Humiliation dye. It would be nice in AS BL, wouldn’t it?

Impale.2503:

Fror.2163:

Impale.2503:

The Final Point spreadsheet for every fractal will be published 48 Hours before the tournament, and each registered team will be notified ingame.

Could you elaborate a bit on this, give a dummy example of a sheet?

Is it something like this:
First fractal – Swampland: 1 point
First fractal – Aquatic Ruins: 2 points
First fractal – Urban Battleground: 4 points
Second fractal – Urban Battleground: 3 points

Is this what you mean?

Impale.2503:

The Final Point spreadsheet for every fractal will be published 48 Hours before the tournament, and each registered team will be notified ingame.

I ask for example (not extract) and you answer with nothing. If on one hand you make interesting tourneys, on the other hand, the communication is lacking.

You get 2 level 70s… Make them 80 already, then the world will be open to you!

You end up dead though, don’t you, even if your counter is at 0.

But I think this challenge is more about personal honesty.

The farthest I went was level 23 personally (without any leveller item) so gratz to you Liberis since you beat that by a margin!

JackDaniels.1697:

Anet always responds, and it’s only been 7 days since the patch, you honestly think they won’t respond at all?

Fractured? Does that ring a bell?

Proposal overview
Make Fractal weapon chest available

Goal of proposal
“Fractured” was advertized with the fractal weapon chest. This chest doesn’t drop as of now. Keep your word and provide the fractal weapon chest as soon as possible.

Proposal functionality
Currently 50 is the highest scale players can play. For getting there, make them get their rightful reward and add the Fractal weapon box to the possible rewards. Make it so one in four fractal weapon skin is such a chest.

Associated Risks
None.

Most of the 12k+ AP guards I played with were cleric staff guards. Doesn’t this say all?

Please stop with these GvG requests… When our total scores will be 33% each, then why not but meanwhile WSR prefers to spend its time playing WvW than GvG.

Because of this basic math with example numbers, not actual ones.

WSR is 80 wvw player total. GH is 100 wvw players total. That’s a force ratio of 4/5 => 0.8

A 20v20 GvG is requested. That means 60 wvw players for WSR, 80 for GH. That’s a force ratio of 3/4 => 0.75.

So when you ask for a GvG, you actually ask that we give you a number advantage on the actual WvW game.

Roman numbers are fine.

You can transmit your build easily over a game chat, and it is different from arabic numbers which, if they were used, would be confusing with the number of trait points spent.

TL;DR: it’s an effective way to show your trait build.

Chris,

From our point of view, creating a full ascended armor takes hundreds of gold, thousands of mats. I’m happy since I have to build the heavy armor, I can farm the ori/mithril needed. But the light-armored have much trouble finding the right mats.

Why did you decide that it would require that much components to get the ascended armor for, regarding stats, 60 armor, 14 major, 11 minor (or 1% if crit dmg). Ok, we get the infusion slots, but that’s only really useful for the fractals.

Also, at the moment, on my main I have 4 sets of armor (1 for pve, 1 for wvw, 2 I use based on situation in both wvw and pve). Do you really want me to upgrade those to ascended given the time investment it represents? Also, because of ascended, I need to decide now which alt I want to play in which environment.

Maybe you should just make ascended “unlocks” and require only a few, more common, components to build a piece of the unlocked category. Now I feel like when I had only 1 gold and decided who would get it first, making me look more than one year back.

This way, I also don’t feel like I’m progressing, but regressing. I have the BiS, then you release something new and suddenly I don’t have the BiS anymore. So from my point of view, I’m losing. I now have 3 pieces of ascended armor in addition of everything else ascended, meaning that I can beat level 50 of fractals right now. You’ll open levels up to 60? When that happens I’ll already have the rest of ascended armor. Then when you’ll open levels until 70? I’ll already have the 3 +10 infusions. So for the next 2 releases of new fractal levels, I’ll be ready.

The vertical progression in this game just doesn’t make any sense.

You know what, just get rid of the levels and stats all together. And of the vertical progression while we’re at it. I’m very happing collecting skills, skins, utilities, etc.

This way you can reassign the people on it to make fights more challenging, because so far, all fights are really easy. The hardcore community doesn’t ask for better gear: only better fights.

You want this game to be accessible to casuals again? Well, the current vertical progression is not an option. Also, don’t make the rewards for skills-based fights vertical-progression-items: make them nice cosmetics items. In that regards, your pvp section is perfect.

Spiky.8403:

Adian.8756:

No one wants ascended armor.

Hello, my name is No one.

Neo from The Matrix told me to trust you!

Anzenketh, you asked about how we deal in real life in a multi-lingual environment.

I think I can answer that.

I’m a Belgian of nationality and I live in Belgium. In Belgium there three official languages: Dutch (mostly in its Flemish variant), French and German. English is also known amongst the younger generation (aged under 40).

I, personnally, can speak fluently French, Flemish and English.

When I go somewhere, I first listen and check what language is used. I adapt to that and use that language. When I don’t understand the people because they use another language, I ask if we can use a middle-ground, usually by naming the three languages I know in the language they use (because I learned the names). Then if we can agree on one language, we go further. But this is a whole concept of negociation between willing people.

The problem here is not that people use different languages: it’s that when people are at home, they mostly want to use their language. People had a hard day, translating for some is a real work for the brain and they just cannot afford that at that moment. We often forget that: people are at home playing to relax. Okay, they want to do some challenging content that requires coordination and people in their own language are not present in high numbers to do that content, so they are a little forced to use another language. So they adapt, but not really willingly: it’s only because their will to do the content is bigger than their will to stick to one language.

The language negociation is something quite complex that relies on the knowledge of the people, the interest they have in speaking another language and their will to do so.

Come the megaservers.

Suddenly their map chat is not understandable. People are comfy at home and the game puts on them a whole level of language negociation that was not something they are used to. Most know some words in the other languages, but they don’t want to use that language (because they didn’t have to before that) or they don’t know enough of that language. Why the hell should they use another language when they bought the localized game in their local store with a box in their local language, and on top of that ArenaNet gave them language-specific servers (it’s one of the first thing they see when they install and play the game).

Now ArenaNet is removing the language-specific servers. How should people react? Well, they’re still comfy at home and their preference isn’t taken in account anymore: they registered on a language-specific server to be able to not have to speak another language and they are forced into that. If I didn’t know English, I’d thought ArenaNet would have broken a promise and I would strongly ask for a refund of the game. Yes, even 1.5 years in the game.

Now people are trying to settle this issue by forcing people into their language of preference (usually English) as middle-ground. This is bad. People are still comfy in their chair and you are forcing them to make efforts they didn’t have to do and they now don’t want to do. So you should think about those people: why shouldn’t the other people speak their language? Oh, but everybody is making an effort to speak English, isn’t that some middle ground? No, not everybody is making an effort to speak English: Brits are the first amongst those, so they come back to their first question: why should they make any effort as well?

The main thing with the megaserver here isn’t that there is some discussion about what language to use, but rather that such a choice has to be made. ArenaNet is removing something granted for more than 1.5 years.

This, of course, doesn’t apply to people who are already on international servers because they consciously made the choice to play a game that was available only in 4 languages and potentially not theirs, but that’s only a bit more than half the people of EU (assuming the same number of people on each server).

Don’t transfer to WSR: we want fun and balanced combats, not victory at all cost.

You seem to be looking for “your own server” and not socialize with existing guilds. Maybe you should change your mentality rather than your server.

laharl.8435:

If one is not using exploits, why do you care that one person can solo a dungeon?

Probably because he cannot find a group for AC because there are like 8 sellers for 1 running path. So he probably prefers to blame the sellers that appear on his screen instead of the groups he expects. But finally he probably doesn’t create a group himself.

Probably also, he cannot bear the fact that people can solo a path that he cannot do with 5 people.

People can still stack!!!11!!!!1

Also, zerker is still viable as build!!!!!111!!

That’s why that JP is in WvW, and not in PvE.

maha.7902:

We and other dungeon guilds have either been using one warrior or zero warriors for world records. Guess why? The DPS isn’t good – you just want them for banners and empower allies. Thieves, non-fgs eles and triple phantasm mesmers surpass the DPS of warriors. Necromancers and guardians are on-par or maybe even slightly higher.

But but… I spent 200g levelling my warrior with crafting! I want him to have the best dps in the game!

Well, the fact that it was readable was sarcasm.

I don’t care about standardization of this topic at all. I’d say the more original one topic name is, the best it is. I’d accept standardization only if Anet created all those topics along with the reset.

Also, a personal preference: use long server names.

Victor.8327:

Fror, it should attack everyone, as in no stacking/exploiting combat, everyone is affected by it. Defending an exploit is useless, same as telling lies to yourself.

It’s like saying that I must use all tools at my disposal. This is plain wrong. If I need to plant a nail and I have both a hammer and a screwdriver at my disposal, then I’ll hit twice with the hammer then screw the nail twice, then back again to the hammer. Does screwing a nail make sense? Because I don’t think so.

I’m not defending an exploit, I was only explaining you why this mechanic exists and is the tool for the Spider Queen. So please leave my shoes so I can get back in them: I know what I’m telling to myself and… you don’t

I’m not saying it is not doable. I’ve soloed half of AC story like that with my guardian, only moving where it couldn’t be done otherwise solo (like to transport the stone to open the gate towards the fire room, doing this with several people is possible).

I’m only giving a challenge. If no one does it, I’m ok with it, but I’d prefer to see it happening. Also, I might increase the reward.

I’m running full zerker on 3 toons with the best builds available and I don’t want a dps meter. I know that I’m being useful to the party no matter the toon and that’s good enough for me.

25g for a fractal run at level 37 ? oO

Wow, just wow!

Welcome back to September/October 2012.

Nobody that is experimented runs AC outside of guild or predefined groups. The guys that come to AC now are the guys that started GW2 recently (I very rarely see someone with 2k achi in AC anymore) and they just hit level 80. They want to get into dungeons because they lost huge amount of time trying to do it at level 35 and at that time they received answers like “no, you’re not level 80”. So instead of having level 35 unexperimented guys with whom nobody plays, they are now level 80. They think they have worked hard to get there so they think that they know better than having to listen to you. And there you are with people more stubborn than before that listen less.

Are you doing always the same 7 puzzles? The monthly wants 12 different puzzles accross the 43 or 44 JP in the game.

Yep, block, then check in the block list the guy(s) that is/are in your BL.

Apparently, I wasn’t clear.

The problem is that people are not rewarded for playing the game as they want : they are rewarded for playing the game as Anet wants. That’s a problem.

Furthermore, the dailies are tightly tied to the achievement system, giving even more rewards for doing the dailies. So players really are pushed to do them even if they don’t like it. And players are pushed to now do all the daily items. That’s a problem.

Right, you’re still free to not do it, but given the rewards, it’d be dumb to not do them. So, by default, this choice is bad.

READ: Selling AC p3, first boss down, 5g.

When I want fun, I take my necro. When I want to get things done, I take my mesmer. That is, when I’m not taking my other characters, of course.

Nick.6972:

What To Do After Making a Legendary?

Make a second one?

I got the longbow achievement on my guardian. I play a lot of reflects and at the time I got it I was in harpy fractals using my wall of reflection. So I seem to have killed that harpy with her own weapon.

ArenaNet mentioned several times in the past that they won’t mention exploit-patching. In the dungeon community, we see this is more than true with all those numerous ninja-fixes. So numerous that no one could list them all.

Yet, in these patch-notes, we clearly see the following:

RubiBayer.8134

• Fixed WvW queue-related exploits.

This is rather specific. It’s not like “fixed various WvW exploits”. No. With the text RubiBayer wrote, we know there were exploits with the WvW queues. If I can think a bit about it, there was probably a possibility for people to bypass queues and either make one side more advantaged than the other or people going on the WvW maps before others.

When there are the dungeon ninja patches, there is nothing written. For instance, in this very same patch, the dredge fractal was rather well fixed (well, in the ArenaNet way of seeing this, not players’). No news about it in the notes. At all!

So please stop this double-standard: either announce all exploit fixes for all parts of the game, including but not limited to dungeons, or don’t add any for any part.

I love how AS say they get focused 90% of the time and they prove it with current numbers of points. What I see, myself, is that, unlike AS, WSR actually cares about defending its borderland. I kill hundreds and hundreds of opponents, I get killed dozens of times, yet I play only in my BL. So how is this possible if we don’t defend what’s ours?

AS, stop using the flawed system of Anet to say that GH, Dzagonur and RoF all focus on you when all you do is attack and not defend. Because yes, attacking grants you point on the short term, but you seem to forget that defending grants you points on the long term. While you don’t learn that, please avoid the “they all focus us” complains.

Nike, who says one of us wasn’t on a full OF? I personally tried on each of my friends and they tried on me. Never two of us could change his OF.