Guild Wars 2

I’m sure I’m not the only who feels somewhat cheated by the way dungeons end. You can spend an hour (or more) going through swarms of Veteran enemies, fight a couple Champion level enemies, and capstone it off by killing a Legendary enemy. And when you drop the legendary, you get…tokens.

Conversely, you can go to Orr, knock over a Temple in half an hour with an unstoppable zerg of players and get a Glorious Chest. Or, you could treat Orr like one big Dungeon and knock em all over in a couple hours. Guaranteed tons of loot and rares.

Frankly, the only thing out there for the end game is Orr. Outside the long grind for precursors for a legendary weapon, there is no need to go dungeon crawling. In fact, from a purely economic standpoint, its a rather inefficient use of your time. The time spend doing 1 dungeon could have been spent flipping three temples.

I try and avoid this by speaking as little as possible, but occassionally when things get hectic I’ve had to give out rapid fire instructions. Place the arrow cart here, close the gate, Push!, fall back, etc.

Nothing ruins my day (and a zerg fight) more then “Your message was suppressed”. I know there is a fear of a Spammer putting on a Commanders hat and then spamming away should A-net decide to remove message suppression for commanders, but couldn’t they at least make the threshold much higher?

Just so long as they don’t nerf Necromancer Plague form.

That is honestly the only weapon short of a ballista that can counter an enemy zerg.

Afraid not. You must complete each personal story module completely before logging off GW2.

They are a special event enemy anyhow. They are not supposed to a cakewalk.

As an added suggestion, a Guilds Mist War keep could be persistent, that everyone in the guild can visit and spend resources on to upgrade, and expand for various bonuses and effects, that of course, could be conceivably lost if an enemy guild manages to take the keep. In which case, the Asura Gate is accessible at all times for members of the guild, so they can visit their guilds keep. The war itself would be triggered from a location inside the Keep. The Keeps doors would of course remain sealed until a battle actually begins.

Guild Wars is not a normal MMO, in that you stand in place and get hit over the head repeatedly. Its very strategic, you have to time your few abilities properly, and move about the battle space in a tactical manner.

For instance, you can dodge attacks. Either through rolling, or, if you have sufficient speed, running out of reach of the enemies while you wait for a particularly useful skill (like a healing ability) to become ready. Also, when fighting multiple enemies, AoE attacks are the most useful. Its possible you don’t have the right weapon for the job.

Most players have two weapons keyed for melee and ranged, and switch between them.

This suggestion will effectively function as the highest tier “Guild Mission” with similar rewards and some extras for winning. At the Lions Arch WvW Asura gates, a new gate will be added for a Guild Mist War that is only accessible to Guild Officers.

If the Officer of a guild with sufficient influence points enters the gate, they will be automatically added to a que of Guilds seeking to wage a Guild War. From this menu, they be able to issue challenges to other listed guilds. Once a challenge is issued, guild officers from the challenged guild may choose to accept or deny.

Once accepted, everyone in the guild will get a 10 min warning notice that a Guild War is about to start. This’ll give em time to vendor and get to lions arch. At the end of the 10 minute warning, the Guild War Asura gate will become accessible to all the members of the guild.

On the other side of the Asura Gate will be an open world PvP map. It could be a carbon copy of Eternal Battlefield (but you would need 3 Guilds for the war then) or a special map specifically for the Guild War (Which would be better). Complete with 1 Keep per guild, a Stonemist style cap point in the middle, towers and supply camps.

Some key differences though will be the time and cost needed to upgrade positions will be greatly reduced, and I would suggest that Yaks either move faster or spawn at a greater rate.

This is because unlike a normal WvW match that runs for a week, a Guild War will have to run for much less. I would suggest 4 hours, but you could conceivably shorten it to 2 hours, or if you want to have fun with it, have the guild agree on a time limit based upon a scale.

The Guild that loses the guild war will just get guild achievement tokens. The winning team will get the bonus chest and tokens, a Grand Chest accessible in their Keep, and bonuses for WvW (like being able to carry 15 supply and so on) for a day.

Sure, but that is because they don’t possess higher level thinking and don’t know any better. I mean, we see animals eating other animals too because they don’t know better. As sentient plants though, we can choose to make the moral choice and not consume our fellow plants. Like our lesser brothers and sisters, we can eat plants, but thanks to our minds we can make the ethical decision not too and just eat meat.

So, while running Grenths Temple, in a fit of Magnanimity, I tried to set my 1 bonfire to to the Magic Find boost. One problem, I already had the Magic Find buff myself, and the Bonfire would not let me set to that buff because “I” already had it.

Which kind of defeats the point of the Bonfire, which is to give a buff to everyone else, not me. Even worse, I could not put the thing away, so we all had to settle on a much less important Karma boost buff.

Please change the Bonfires so all the buffs can be set, even if the owner already has one of them.

My Graphics card spazzed out in the fight for Bay just now.

Whoever is handling the griefer who likes building mortars and cannons on our SM whenever we take it must really be having red face right now. We just used both to butcher Ebay and AR in their effort to take castle.

Indeed, its appalling. And lets not even talk about what has been done to Wheat over the years. Not only have they been selective bred into mutant strains, but then they are killed by industrial “threshing” machines that decapitate their bodies and then rip the unborn wheat children away from the parent stalk where they are later on ground to pieces. Scary stuff.

Yep, right now its useless.

There are some humans who are Vegetarians against their Omnivorous nature for many reasons. One of which is because they feel it is morally wrong to eat other animals, since humans are animals too.

But Sylvari are plants. So I suppose the reverse must be true for us. For ethical reasons, we cannot eat fellow plants and must make do living off the flesh of animals. It is the ethical choice.

Salad is murder!

transmutation ftw

Should a human feel bad when he eats a cow?

Yep, same issue. Can’t log in either. I got booted when I activated a WP.

Screenshot attached. Basically, the thief was able to port just to the edge of the cliff so only his feet were actually touching the environment and the rest of him was suspended above the ground. We tried to “Finish Him” but all our Finishings never connected. I assume because the spike was not impacting with the ground? Anyway, the dude was able to rally and we had to chase him down again. Not game ending, but was annoying.

Yeah, I hate how you have to drop hundreds of gold on some lucky slob who managed to get the random precursor drop.

Glow seems fine to me.

We had quite a group of saboteurs on last night. Pic related.

Tuomir.1830:

There is an ingame clock. You can set it to show from your options, either on your local time or the server time.

Perhaps it should be standard to turn it off rather then on? I had no idea this option existed.

Playing Guild Wars 2 can sometimes be a frustrating experience for a chronic clock watcher like me, as the only way to know what time it is is to minimize the game to see my computer clock, or go to the trouble of finding where I set my cell phone down.

Yeah, this may seem trivial, but sometimes when you really get into a gaming session you lose track of time. This can be bad for a couple reasons. Either, you are staying up too late or you miss the time when you need to go somewhere for an appointment.

Its a problem easily fixed by simply adding a clock to the User Interface. The player should be able to decide where to stick the thing, either in a corner, or the upper or lower part of the screen, as well as what time zone to set it too. The player could also have the option of disabling it if he or she wishes. Seems like this would be a simple thing to do.

Onward to tier 4, BP :P

Borlis approves of the training of new commanders. If somebody is willing to spend (waste) 100 gold on the blue hat, then clearly they must think they are competent. If they are not competent it does not take us long to figure out and they never have people following them again.

Fun story, its not uncommon to see people following well known commanders, even when they don’t have the hat on.

No, not really bragging. I was just curious. This usually does not happen unless the other side is seriously outmanned. We pretty much just walked into lowlands keep, there were only about 5 defenders.

has Ebay given up? Its 6 PM on the East Coast, and this is what is going on atm.

Or some WvW guilds could take those servers on as a special project. Like those in Tier 1 for example. Frankly once you reach the top of the heap it kinda takes the drive out of things. To me, getting to the top is way more fun then trying to stay there.

Besides, how else can we make all the pretty lights in the Grove? Fire is bad.

I demand that the Sharks in lowlands keep have FRICKING LASORBEAMS. Is it too much to ask, for the Sharks to have Lasorbeams on their heads?! Is it?!

I’ll be curious to see how the marathon lasts now that the Weekend Sprint is over. In the long slog against Anvil Rock and Northern Shiverpeaks, Borlis Pass was always neck and neck with them before the weekdays and then we pulled away by fairly good margins. The same happened when we traded NSP with DH

So really, we are on top of our game during the work week rather then the weekend. Whether that trend continues though, we’ll have to see.

How dare Borlis Pass win. We should be good sports and lose with style. Amiright?

I’m still a fan of the idea that there is an Elder Dragon of Earth that is benevolent rather then Malevolent like his/her/its kin. Would explain the connection Sylvari have with the Dragons too.

The only issue I see with Zergs is loading of the zerg so it can be seen. Take for instance, the infamous portal bomb where an entire Zerg is teleported on top of another Zerg. Everybody is dead by the time anyone can actually see they are under attack.

Other then then load speeds and reducing lag though, I don’t think Zergs should be nerfed. The whole point of WvWvW is grand strategy. The Zerg is essentially an Army. Strategic maneuver of that Army is what leads to victory in the game. WvW is NOT a Game of individual skill. It is a game of teamwork and leadership.

On my own server, we have well known “Great Captains” who people gravitate too and who command with a great deal of skill. These people know how to direct the forces of our world to achieve victory on a grand scale. The Servers who win are not the servers with the most skilled individual players. The servers that win are the ones that are able to organize effective and mobile zergs that know when to defend and when to lash out at the enemy.

Individual play and small groups have their place in WvW. They are essentially “Special Forces” or Commandos. Their role is merely to harass and lay the ground work for the main army. The best servers are the ones able to coordinate multiple Armies (Zergs) with a healthy contingent of Commandos in a grand strategy that ends with an epic capping of the enemy Garrison Keep or Stonemist.

My Sylvari Necro is amazing too. I just love the effect of wide eyes innocence of a pretty plant lady that looks like a flower suddenly going “This rose has thorns, and here they are!” while drawing two daggers and proceeding to lay the gift of death to something :P

Actually, the point I was going for is a guild trying to golem rush at an odd hour can work well. On an active server though, this could backfire by generating enemy activity at a time when your own server is not so active.

There is a lesson to be learned here I think. That lesson is to not launch a Golem Rush at 2 AM :P

SolarWind.5693:

I notice that BP and EB are for the most part avoiding fighting each other and are concentrating on DR. I vacillate between being honored that you guys fear us so much that you must team up on us and smfh at how strange you look in the skirt and pig-tails..

You missed all the fun in the BP Borderlands just now then. Ebay did a 10 golem Rush on Bay before the alarm could be sounded. We beat them back though. Borlis never sleeps…

It would be interesting to see if there is an Elder Dragon that does not want to destroy the world. Here is another fun thought, based kinda on the lore of the Elder Scrolls. Tyria is the creation of the Elder Dragon of Earth. It is so amazing a creation, and the existence of sentient beings upon it so unusual that it draws the ire/jealousy of the other Elder Dragons and thus they seek to remake it according to their vision. In that respect then Sylvari may be Dragon Minions, but they are purpose built for the environment rather then imposed on it by an outside invader.

Keep in mind, the lore says that the 6 humans Gods came to Tyria. This implies Tyria was here before they showed up, so there has to be a different creator. Should also be noted that Sylvari have no comprehension of the 6 gods and in random conversations about them are quite adamant that they don’t know anything about them. Considering how much mystical knowledge the Dream gives the race, it is strange that they would have no knowledge of the Gods that otherwise seem so important to the world.

Good lord, tell me somebody filmed that battle for Stonemist just now? An entire hour of three servers fighting in the Lords room that finally ended with Borlis Pass successfully defending its capture.

Life just won’t be the same without desperate efforts to capture the valley keep or getting trebuchets stacked inside Durios Gulch.

Or, better yet, they stop being lazy and actually create useful underwater helms. It can’t be THAT hard, can it? I know when my pouch was bursting with Gold I tried to find a new underwater helm, only to discover they don’t exist.

For shame, all of you. Can you not forget the brave Scritt soldier who joins the pact assault on the Temple of Balthazaar? Into the legions of Zhaitan and the corrupted flames of the Altar of Betrayal, a Scritt bravely goes. How can you call them test subjects of the Asura? Do you see see any Hylek or Krait trying to take that lofty peak? No. Only Humans, Asura, Charr, Sylvari, Norn and Skritt.

Yeah, but the Nightmare Court does not act like Dragon corrupted. After all, Dragon Minions are mindless slaves, unable to do anything but what the dragon wills. In the first part of the Sylvari quest, you meet a fairly “decent” Nightmare Courtier, but still have to kill him when he attacks the grove. I think its also a mistake to say that the Nighmare Court is corrupt. Certainly their world vision is radically different and darker then regular Sylvari, but none of their domains or creatures appear unnatural or innately corrosive. Just more fierce and deadly.

Another possibility is that the Sylvari are not fully incarnated in Tyria as is the case with other races. The Dream is a good way of looking at this. The Sylvari body emerges fully formed from the Pale tree, but it is itself inhabited by the “soul” of an entity that existed before the body was even formed. Also consider, an elite skill of the Sylvari is to summon a druidic spirit that looks alot like the Oakhearts. Its possible the Pale tree serves as a bridge between the the mortal world and the spirit world and the Sylvari are nature spirits that are given physical form through the pale tree.

If that is the case, then the Sylvari are of the same primordial power as the Elder Dragons, being spirits of Earth. I don’t think there is an Elder Dragon of Earth now that I think about it. I also have never run into a corrupted Earth Elemental either. You see plenty of corrupted fire, and ice elementals though. No branded oakhearts either.

Being someone who has done the Temple of Balthazaar meta event quite a bit, I have noticed a marked increase in the difficulty of the Brassclaw Landing for the North Invasion. Initially, it was a fairly normal event that 3 or 4 people could swing without too much trouble. Now though, I am seeing groups of 8 or 9 people failing it. For an event not labeled as a [Group Event] I find this puzzling.

And its not really that they are failing by wiping, rather, they are failing because the you just can’t kill the mobs fast enough. Several times We’ve had the occupation level almost to 100% only to get swarmed again and see that level drop back to Zero. When its taking 15 minutes to clear an event (and getting nowhere the whole time) you have a serious problem.

Its not so much the difficulty of the enemies, though their added buff makes them a pain to kill even for a fully specced Necromancer dropping AOE’s with a crit hit chance of 85%.

I would suggest either save that bonus buff for the actual temple event, or else prevent the Zone of occupation being reverted back to 0 when the pact has already gained some level of control over it.

Awww, mommy not loving you enough? Maybe she’ll give you a sword too if you are extra good :P

That was an epic fight in the AR zone for EB just now. Where were you guys when we were attacking your keep? :P

Don’t think the plant thing is it, since you see Branded bushes around. Really annoying things too.