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Precursors

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So what you mean is, of the total number of precursors that are being given by Zomorros, are there more and more of that share being given to newer players?

Then I’d guess at saying the answers is yes, but not because of some unfair broken code in the system, but mainly because the older players have probably already made their choice of legendaries, so are moving on to making other things, such as Legendary backpacks, spending in guild halls, doing new legendaries (which require the precursor crafting) instead.

So you suggest that ANET made a conscious decision to alienate all the older players that have never received not one precursor in the 3.5 years the game has been out? That’s a pretty messed up suggestion if you ask me.

Either that or are you suggestion that older players should take their accounts and sink tons and tons of gold into making precursors and that because of this system they don’t deserve precursor drops?

For me, I would like to see one precursor drop before they force me to use a system that is built to cost me more gold because I am an older, more loyal player who has played this game pretty much since release.

I see your point but I disagree. I think that drops for older players should remain the same as drops for newer players. yet I see more newer players receiving special treatment (more fruitful success at obtaining precursors the free way) and not being forced to use the spend all the gold in the game new system.

I think you’ve mis-understood what I said. I haven’t suggested in the slightest ArenaNet are making a conscious decision to alienate older players. I’m suggesting the exact opposite.

I’m suggesting there might be fewer of the older players trying to create precursors, due to already having made a few legendaries over the years. The drops for an older player are still equal to the drop for a newer player, I’m saying the total share of the precursors dropped can go to newer players.

For example, if Zomorrow drops 1,000 tomorrow, 800 of them might be accounts under 1 year, 200 over 1 year, based on fewer older accounts actually trying. That’s what I’m trying to theorise. Of course, I could be wrong, but I’m only coming to this theory based solely on your conclusion that more new players are linking precursors than old ones.

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Can we please get a working Mac Client [Merged]

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Forum bug.

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@Anet, so you asked for my feedback

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It’s not about getting help, i already used the official ways.

It’s about giving them their feedback they want.

If you mean the feedback request you received via e-mail after a ticket is resolved, you need to click the link in said e-mail so your feedback is tied to the correct ticket.

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Make Largos a Playable Race

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I am against any further playable races as we already have 400% more choice than we got in Guild Wars 1.

However, I certainly wouldn’t say no to a Largos and/or Tengu tonic for RP purposes!

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What are you guys doing while waiting on Hot?

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Personally I’m doing two things:

1) RP with my guild as usual!
2) Doing map completion with as many characters as I can ready for the switchover from Skill Points to Hero Points. I want at least one of each class with 100% map completion. Currently working on Elementalist, then I’ll only have Revenant to go.

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Punished for Temple Defense events?

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If there’s always a lot of map chat drama (and maybe even if there isn’t) ArenaNet will address this issue in due course like they did with the Queensdale Champ Train, The Coil Fail Farm, The Plinxx Fail Farm, the Rata Sum Ambient Farm etc. and those who use inflammatory abuse to others for wanting to play the game normally will only have themselves to blame.

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Please, a clear statement re: AFK farming.

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The players do not decide, they just merely interpret the rules of what the GMs set.

This is absolutely correct.

The GMs do the decision making. We merely interpreted, and we interpreted correctly it seems.

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Take away the exploited achievement points

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I don’t understand why you’re upset about other people’s achievement points. I mean, the aim of the game in Guild Wars 2 is not to get more achievement points than other players. You can certainly play it like that if you wish, but to be honest, it doesn’t really affect us how another person got their AP.

And it all seems like a lot of effort to get rid of what would be about 10, maybe 20 achievement points at the most, because that’s all that could have possibly been earned through this monthly ‘exploit’ as you call it, since it was dealt with pretty quickly.

Edit: And as Arianhod rightly says, the Monthlies are capped, so all it means is that the players who got ‘extra’ monthly points will hit their cap 10 or 20 APs early anyway.

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Can we please get a working Mac Client [Merged]

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Speaking of graphics, I wonder if they spotted or not, if you see the map grid lines we Mac Beta players see whilst in indoor areas like caves or the throne room? They’re one of the few minor irritations I have of the Mac Beta! >.<

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Consider bringing the old trait system back

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Even though I have lost a couple of my characters’ builds, I do like this new system a lot more.

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GW2 releases Story Journals: Feedback/Questions [Merged]

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$50 to buy season 1.

EXACTLY.

$50 = MORE than the price of a MMORPG’s EXPANSION.

Do you REALLY think that the instanced living world content of SEASON 1 was AS MUCH content as an EXPANSION?

So THAT’s how good ArenaNet’s new PRICING model is.

I’m pretty sure that Living World Season 2 will be free since all you have to do is log on once every two weeks. You don’t even have to do them to unlock them, just log in, log out if you want. Is that really difficult? And Season 1 – I very much doubt they’ll charge anyone for that, if they include it in the journal system at all, since it wasn’t designed with that in mind.

Why so many conspiracy theories by paranoid people? ArenaNet want the best for us all, not just themselves guys. Don’t like what they’re doing? You don’t have to like it, go play another game, preferably one with a monthly subscription fee.

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Stripped of Legitimate HoM Rewards

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It’s a bug I believe. I think you can rectify it by logging onto GW1 and off again, then back to GW2. Can’t remember though.

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Being invisible to blocked people!

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I also find it annoying that I have two dozen people on my followers list, and I know almost none of them. Adding someone as a friend should be a two-way process where the other person either accepts or declines.

Also, you’re pretty bad at tic-tac-toe, Computer. 3-3-1 in my favor.

Personally, I like it – if someone is kind enough to think of me as a favourite to them, I always return the favour.

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7.5k Hrs... IMO worse part of gw2 QQ rant.

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There was already an ‘instant WC thread’ about an hour ago and I still say no. Each one two has to be earned, not bought.

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Biggest fear of next expansion?

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Lack of solo-ability.

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Please change dailies to monthlies

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They are “Log-In Rewards” – you have to log in for log in rewards. It’s as simple as that!

Can’t get things any easier than that! In my personal opinion, it is responsible for any company to reward their loyal customers and give them incentives for services, and this is a nice easy, in-game example

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No bathrooms

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I think we’ve officially ran out of things to talk about now

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Something MUST be done about the RP in DR

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But they don’t have a right to make everyone else see it. Unfortunately, however, they really don’t have a choice BUT to make us see it. Because they’re forced to use channels that everyone else uses for non RP related things.

You’ve got it wrong. You’re first saying that roleplayers are MAKING you see it. We’re not making you see anything. We’re just using the tools currently available.

Then you say we’re FORCED into using the channels that are currently available. Well, the channels that are currently available are actually IDEAL for roleplayers. We hardly feel ‘forced’ into this.

A separate chat channel is not required. What is required is a little common sense by non-roleplayers, and a little bit of tolerance by us all, and understanding that everyone uses the chat channels for different reasons. Some use it for RP. Some use it to say hello to friends they are near. Some simply use the /say chat to troll and make distasteful jokes (who aren’t actually RPing, but again it’s roleplayers getting singled out).

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Irritating ingame question

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I know exactly who you mean and he has whispered me on one occasion I immediately blocked and reported him after he asked for ‘bed fun’.

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does anyone play without youtube?

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I’ve only really used YouTube for a few of the jumping puzzles really.

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Jumping Puzzle Dailies

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I do need to complain about today’s JP though.

It’s bad enough that I actually have to travel to these things rather than just do them from LA but today I actually had to do a small amount of jumping just to get to the the lazy-kitten portal. Can you believe that????

The Daily Mystic Forger is the worst one. Forcing you to go to either LA or use the Royal Terrace Pass and double click a few times. I’m getting carpel tunnel syndrome here, time to use an Auto-Clicker I think.°

(°Obviously sarcasm – don’t use Auto-Clickers, kids)

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Please, a clear statement re: AFK farming.

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I’m with TwoGhosts on this one. There are not enough AFK’ers to affect the economy for now. Anet act pretty quickly when there is a serious outbreak of botting or exploiting but small scale AFK’ing for small scale rewards is just not that important to me. Don’t sweat the small stuff.

Because if a green light was lit for this kind of thing, it would have an impact, and would affect more than just the economy when swarms of AFK farmers come out of the woodwork.

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Suggestion- Name Purge

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Massive Long Rant

I recommend you try to relax every once in a while. A system we have in place that you personally don’t like, doesn’t make it ‘dumb’, ‘idiotic’, ‘ridiculous’ etc. etc..

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Is this a roleplaying game?

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Flipside, I’ve run into some really kitteny RPers. I will hunt them down to add them to my block list, /cry nearby, and otherwise be a dumbhead when they pollute the most public areas of the game with their drunken CW-worthy blather.

If you are truly serious about this, then it’s you that is the problem and not the so-called “kitten-y” RPers as you put it.

How you think this would help anyone, including yourself, is beyond reasoning.

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Choose a Name for Tyria’s Heroes!

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There must be a plot twist because Dragon’s Watch means they’re working for the Dragon. LOL

Unless it’s a prelude to the currently unhatched egg of Glint? Our future ally?

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Make Movement Great Again 2016

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Why are you trying to avoid combat anyway? You’re meant to be a hero! Heroes don’t run from a fight!

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Jumping Puzzle Dailies

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PvE is supposed to be cooperative.

This is probably the best analysis of PvE I’ve ever seen on any GW2 topic.

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Guild Bank "Theft"

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Not on this site, and even if there is elsewhere, I wouldn’t go there because if there were, who is to say the list of names you see are guilty? Someone could troll the list and simply put someone they don’t like in the list who is actually innocent.

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Suggestion, Patron Membership

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We’ve already got a small number of players who have paid for the game see themselves above Free to Play players, which is wrong.

We don’t need a third tier of ‘Holier than Thou’ players.

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GW2 Races need a Chubby option

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What about left handed characters?

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Can we please get a working Mac Client [Merged]

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We can login and see some graphics. Physics is the next major step.

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[Suggestion] Relocate Ambients in Rata

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Revised Suggestion: Move the Ambient Creatures in Rata Sum to the home instance.

Original Post:

No prizes for guessing why. It basically boils down to two questions:

1) Am I more entitled to kill an ambient creature for my Weapon Master achievements than someone who is using Maize Balm against creatures to farm Halloween Bags?

Answer: No.

2) Am I more entitled to use Maize Balm against ambient creatures to farm Halloween Bags than someone who wants to kill ambient creatures to get the achievements for a certain Weapon Master?

Answer: No.

The only way it can be solved without ArenaNet taking sides is to remove the ambient creatures altogether, so both sides have to get their ambient creatures elsewhere. We need an environment where people are respectful of each other.

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Why Is The UI So Bad?

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You can hide the personal story & seasonal text description by clicking the coloured headline and minimising it.

You can turn off the content guide in options (the bit telling you to find the scout).

If you really hate the UI, you can always play without it altogether by pressing Ctrl + Shift + H (this hides everything though including your map, soil buttons and chat box. I like to do this sometimes though as a sort of ‘hard mode’.)

As others have said, the UI is only bad in your opinion and I personally would have put my opinion across more constructively than you have done, without all the drama.

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Laurel system.

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Laurels were initially designed to be time gated, so I don’t think ArenaNet are going to change that. There are other ways of earning ascended gear, even trinkets. One example is what I did and I completed all the dungeon collection achievements.

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To Those Who Have Quit This Game

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To those who have quit the game:

Just go. Don’t hang around the forums expecting everyone else to be sorry for you leaving, bringing it up every two topics saying “This is the reason I left” etc – If you’ve left, good for you. Do you want a medal or something?

Please let the rest of us enjoy the game.

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Skill Scrolls for my Revenant?

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They did mention the new Hero Point system months ago.

The new system will mean in order to get PvE skills & traits, you have to do PvE content! Imagine that?? More specifically, Skillpoint Challenges (as well as through levelling).

On the bright side, they’ve said once you’re at level 80, you’ll have been awarded enough Hero Points to have a fairly diverse set of builds, even if you haven’t done a single Skillpoint Challenge.

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"Key" chains

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We’re getting more and more topics like this now. I can’t understand why ArenaNet can’t turn certain keys into a map currency so they go straight to the wallet.

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[FEEDBACK] Rising Flames

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As I said in the last chapter:

More Central Tyrian Masteries please!!!

(I haven’t done enough of the content yet to give more specific feedback.)

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Irritating ingame question

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In all honesty though, ArenaNet should at least warn him, if not ban him. The game is not a Chat room or a dating website. To some people it might be a joke, but to others it’s truly perverse the way he speaks if you are unfortunate enough to have had a whisper from him.

(Edit – and I’m not even a woman!)
(Second Edit – or from Sweden)

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New Tequatl Patch, Can't Play

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I tried all the steps, and GW2 wouldn’t load at all after I deleted the support folder, even though it did create a new folder.

—Leah

I’ve tried this step too – luckily I copied the folder from the Library to an SD Card rather than delete it. I’ve submitted ticket and updated with this information. I’m fairly sure it has something to do with everyone’s graphics options being reset at the patch. Last month’s patch my graphics were reset to lowest, though then I didn’t get the black screen then.

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Change AFK farming spot in Mount Maelstrom

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I’ve been killing afk farmers in multiple games for a while. If they are specced efficiently its fairly easy to end them. If they spec for tanking, well let them be, and report. I used to afk farm on my engie (5 minutes at a time with turrets) when I had to afk during world completion. I first used them as defense, but then I noticed I got loot and xp. Very cool. For rangers and necros, well they could get the same 5 minutes despawn timer if they are afk. But, in all honesty, this doesn’t bother me at all. When is the last time you ran SW. My bags are super full in 30-45 minutes, tons of loot. I feel like afk farming is slower than slow, its more of an offshoot from trying to keep the game fun for pet classes.

I say leave it as is. However, I sure hope they continue to work on botting. It’s different if you don’t get logged out eventually, because a program is moving your character. Then you can farm all day, which is already against the game’s rules. Botting is not the same problem as afk farming. Unless there is some trick I’m unaware of, but I figured after 20/30 minutes you get logged off for being afk?

It’s not about how much they can get. It’s about getting it whilst being in bed or at school or work whilst not actually playing.

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4/9 revealed, no repetition of elite weap

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Necromancers got shouts. So did Elementalists.

Edit: And it’s 4/9 Elite Specialisations revealed.

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[Suggestion] User created content

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This would save a lot of time for the team.

The thing is, Devs would have to go through literally thousands of different submitted mods just to check they don’t contain profanity, check for bugs and quality of life, before they even judge which would ‘win’ as a release. That alone would not save any time at all, but would use up a lot more developing hours than them coming up with their own content.

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Mounts [merged]

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If you want mounts, there’s a great big huge one near [Maelstrom’s Waypoint] :p

/endoftypicaldadjoke

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Character Naming Policy

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Naming Policy:

We do not permit names that:
Have offensive racial, ethnic, national, or cultural connotations
Include hate speech or bigoted slurs
Reference sexual acts or real life violence
Are pornographic
Make inappropriate references to human anatomy or bodily functions
Reference illegal drugs or activities
Reference religious or historical figures
Reference real-life people
Reference names of copyrighted or trademarked characters, materials, or products
Use misspellings or alternative spellings of names that violate any of the above rules

And considering it is 100% illegal in countries like London, Berlin and Washington ( ), I’m sure action will be taken if someone Right Clicks > Reports for Inappropriate Character Name.

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delete a char

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buy a new character slot instead or you will regret this at a later point

Or buy a new account on the next occasion, that’s 5 slots instead of one for the same price in gems.

But you don’t share the same XP, Gold, Karma, Magic Find, Weapon Skins, Armour Skins, Dye Skins, Account Bound tools, legendary weapons, ascended gear and equipment etc. This needs to be remembered also!

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Removal Of WvW Map Completion In Patch

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Why are some posters segregating and labelling players of the same game? All this “WvW-ers” and “PvE-ers” is just going to cause un-nessesary discontent among players of the same game!

Don’t label each other. We are all Guild Wars 2 players, not soup cans!

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Lose the queendales champion train

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See, this just proves the complaints about Qd were mostly outrageously exaggerated nonsense. There hasn’t been one for 3 days and the OP didn’t even notice it’s gone. Yet, still comes on here to complain about nothing.

One person being behind the times does not mean that everybody else’s complaints are not valid. There was good reason why many people including myself wanted it to go.

One time I helped two level 5 new players kill the Bandit as both were downed when they stumbled upon it. I revived them, helped them kill it and got a ty from them. Then, I got called a C-Word by one member of the champ train.

Another time, I simply stated that the Bandit was ready in map chat. Not touching it, I even cleared the path to make way for the incoming champ train of all the low level bandits. I was called a jerk by one member of the champ train. Another member at the same time when the train arrived did a rude emote of them spitting on me. Just for announcing it.

Another time a player completed the bombing of the Skritt cave, and ran to Boar area where he stumbled upon the wasp and told map chat wasp was up. He was told to not be an R-Word by starting it and come over to troll instead.

Another time… (I can go on – is it really exaggerated nonsense?)

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Vanishing Guild Banners [Title Changed]

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Are you sure you didn’t just end up in a different instance?

Aye, was definitely same megaserver shard as all the people I was surrounded with on the first character were still there when I switched, including several guildies.

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Lose the queendales champion train

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But yes – to the original poster – your request has already been granted and the Champion Rotting Oak is the only champion in Queensdale now

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