You’ll have to check and try periodically. The servers do sometimes drop to very high and reportedly are more likely to do so late at night. ANet also has in the past increased the server caps when a number of servers are full but they don’t do this on a schedule.
And imo, farming ambients is so boring it would fall under doing it “the painful way” ^^
That’s what I was referring. To getting torch, warhorn, focus and shield without killing ambients is even worse though.
Those achieves are really hard and imo if anyone got them without ambient killing then they are in a distinct minority. My guess is most people who are trying for those do the occasional bout of ambient kills now and then, if not the majority of the kills
Same thing applies.AP will garner rewards, thus it’s the same.
If you need to try and figure out loopholes it’s most likely not ok.
I’m not trying to figure out loopholes, but honestly, I don’t see how it could be an exploit, bot, or anything like that, in any shape or form. I guess I’ll just do it the painful way then
It is not an exploit or a loophole. There is no rules against farming ambients for the achieve. As long as you are personally doing it, it’s fine with ANet.
But from what I’ve read of the terms, setting AA and Alt+Tabbing, is not “wrong” so to speak. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not deadset that I won’t get banned if I do, because I won’t do it, but I’m just saying, logically speaking it doesn’t make sense that it is, especially since I haven’t seen it explicitly in their Terms.
If you don’t feel comfortable doing it, then don’t. However their rules apply to people who get rewards without actively being on and controlling their character and who circumvent the kick feature for being afk for extended periods. If you recall they used to have a daily for killing ambients. I used to work on weapon kills when they had that daily.
And imo, farming ambients is so boring it would fall under doing it “the painful way” ^^
Same thing applies.AP will garner rewards, thus it’s the same.
If you need to try and figure out loopholes it’s most likely not ok.
I’m not trying to figure out loopholes, but honestly, I don’t see how it could be an exploit, bot, or anything like that, in any shape or form. I guess I’ll just do it the painful way then
It is not an exploit or a loophole. There is no rules against farming ambients for the achieve. As long as you are personally doing it, it’s fine with ANet.
Hrmm… well what if I wasn’t farming anything, but just wanted to get the torch master achievements by killing ambients…
Are you actively playing? Are you getting rewards while afk? That’s the things they look at. People who engage in unattended extended play are the ones that get in trouble. Farming ambients is playing if you are actively at the controls and moving your character around.
Here is one thread where a guy would set a ranger pet on attack and go afk for extended periods, and was banned.
A comment about using turrets and going afk
CC Dalmarus Source
Community Coordinator
Anything that enables a person to play the game without actually playing the game is a problem, such as using third party programs to automate game play.
Going AFK with turrets running isn’t technically an exploit, but players should be playing the game in good faith.
And this comment by Gaile Gray
Gaile Gray: Source
ArenaNet Forum Communications Team Lead
We do not consider “not answering a whisper” as an indictment. Please do not worry about this; as long as you legitimately are playing, or are not gaining undeserved rewards when not playing, you’re just fine.
If they are going to make new content that requires changing your build to do it efficiently, then they really need to put this in. It’s too painful to open up the trait panel and remove trait points, add trait points, remove then add traits and also remember all these changes consistently for the next time.
If only everyone would do this. Sadly they don’t. They lay there expecting to be revived in a chaotic environment and scale up the event.
Yah. Downed is one thing but dead takes several people to do it with any speed and with mordrem charging all around you, it’s hazardous to your health to rez the dead.
I thought it was awful so I opened up my wallet and bought bank slots. I figured the game was worth a few bucks a month to me, seeing as how they don’t charge by the month and the last time I had to pay was almost 3 years ago.
A wise unanticipated choice. Castling. Danger is near.
“Accidentally” knocks over chess board. Oh. What a shame. I was only one move away from winning this game. I guess we’ll go ahead and call it a win for me. Better luck next time.
If I wait until it’s a misty morning and I throw my pet rock into the mists and my dog brings it back to me, It will definitely be a Revenant rock then as it fills all the requirements.
I tried it and my dog came back wearing a blindfold. Why is that?
There is not only the problem with the race based personal story tied to the hero panel but what city has your home instance and any changes made to it due to the personal story. They have already said they can’t reverse story line choices that people wrongly chose so this indicates these things are “hard baked” into the hero panel. It’s possible that character race choice is also “hard baked”into the hero panel and irreversible, since it’s tied to the story.
Your account information is stored in the data centers in Texas or Germany, depending if you are NA or EU. The download is for the client itself to access your account.
What does it mean to be undead, anyway? Suppose you have a pet rock. It’s not alive. It’s not dead. Is it then, undead? All those free-range rocks out there, wild or tame or feral — are they undead? Are we in the midst of a geologically-paced zombie apocalypse? Why isn’t there a movie?
I think my pet rock is dead. I turn it over on its back and it just lies there.
I wonder, if I throw it and the dog brings It back to me, is it then a Revenant rock?
It’s easier to blame the new players. If they blame the old players then they are blaming themselves. The commanders or experienced players should be giving out instructions and getting enough people in each lane. If they are not doing that then they can’t be blaming the new people for not knowing what to do.
I was in one guild once with terrible permissions. As I understand what happened, they had it set up so that every officer could admin the ranks. What that means is they were leaders in fact, if not name. One member emailed an officer and and told him that he was a new officer who had accidentally kicked himself down to member. Instead of checking the story, he promoted him. The guy promptly kicked the leader, the officers and then the members and kept the guild for himself. ANet could do nothing because the guy was promoted by an officer and he did have the permissions to do what he did.
That guild tried to remake itself but fell apart later.
I never have more than 10g-20g in my wallet at all times. Whenever I get anything more than that I put it into my gbank at the end of the day.
It adds up fast.
Just a comment on this. Personal guilds are not covered by account restorations. If someone is hacked and their account and personal guild are stripped of everything, an account rollback will restore your account to the state it was before the hack with all your items and gold but any gold and items in the guild bank and vaults are lost forever.
Sorry. While what he did was pretty scummy it also doesn’t cross TOS. When you gave him permission to withdraw items from the guild storage that means he can, up to every copper in the guild bank and every item in storage.
The only way to minimize member “theft” is to limit removal of items to officers only or restrict to the first vault and be prepared to occasionally lose all in it.
Reporting him to support will do nothing but waste support’s time for them to tell you that there is nothing they can do.
I’m not dead sure what you’re talking about but I has been almost 3 years so I guess there was an acceptance of terms procedure before first login. Try checking your email they sent you when you bought the game for the serial number.
Or perhaps post a screen shot. (Make sure it has no filled in log in information)
I haven’t had any problems myself but I agree the block system in this game needs work.
For one thing, someone you have blocked but who has you friended can still see that you are on and what map you are in. You can still see emotes that person is doing and since people can speak to each other with emotes, they can talk to you this way. They can enable game messages and will be informed whenever you log on or off even if you have set yourself as invisible. They can join any party you make and spam invites to you to harass you.
It’s a very poorly thought out system. I’ve read posts where real world stalkers, such as angry exes, use the flaws in the system to know when someone is playing, which means they know either where they are in game and use that to find them or that they are home and in one case that they are probably alone since that person lived by themself.
I rather would prefer it, if anet would finally remove this stupid follower crap first.
Theres no need of that, either you are a friend, or you are not, there should be no grey zone between that.
No friendly acquaintances in your world? No people who feel like you are their friend but you don’t feel as strongly about them, or you did but now you don’t but their feelings haven’t changed?
In the real world there is a lot of gray between friend and stranger.
It’s sad that he died but did he have a tie in to this game? Eventually everyone dies. All the famous people now living will eventually die. Do they all get a mention in the game even though they have no ties at all to it?
It’s a nice thought but the game can’t put a reference to every important person who dies.
some guy is spamming join invites to my party over and over, kicking us out of PVP queue. we both have him blocked and are both invisible and he is still spamming invites.
Idk how this is possible, since joining and leaving a party 3 times in quick succession will get you suppressed, and will prevent you from joining any more parties with the LFG tool.
Are you certain it was the same person every time?
he wasn’t joining through the LFG tool. IDK how he was joining because we both had him blocked we were set to invisible status.
…so if he wasn’t joining through the LFG tool….. why would you accept him into your party to begin with?
When it comes to accepting a join request….
THE POWER IS YOURS !
I don’t think you understand. he is requesting to join my party and I click decline. he then continues to ask to join over and over and over again.
Don’t you only get a few party tries before you are blocked from joining a party? If so, let him join then kick him until this happens.
apparently not because he’s been doing it for hours now.
I thought you said you were declining party.
I’m sorry but IDK what you don’t understand about this. Me and a friend are in a two man party in sPVP. We are both set to invisible, and we both have the person blocked. He self invites himself to the party somehow and we click decline. Then he self invites himself. we decline. this continues. over and over. He just keeps inviting himself. also it breaks out PVP queue.
It’s my understanding that if a person fully joins a party more than a few times within a few minutes, the game blocks them from joining another party for a period of time. If this is true, then I suggest allowing him to fully join then kick him. Don’t hit decline. Hit accept then kick.
Allowing him to fully join and then kicking him after each time he fully joins will trigger the “unable to join party” restriction once he hits the limit. It will give you some space before he starts again and you should be able to get into PvP while he is blocked from trying to join a party.
I would say that it counts as harassment. Let him know that if he does it again you are going to report. Then do so if he doesn’t stop. Unfortunately that’s all you can do at this time.
some guy is spamming join invites to my party over and over, kicking us out of PVP queue. we both have him blocked and are both invisible and he is still spamming invites.
Idk how this is possible, since joining and leaving a party 3 times in quick succession will get you suppressed, and will prevent you from joining any more parties with the LFG tool.
Are you certain it was the same person every time?
he wasn’t joining through the LFG tool. IDK how he was joining because we both had him blocked we were set to invisible status.
…so if he wasn’t joining through the LFG tool….. why would you accept him into your party to begin with?
When it comes to accepting a join request….
THE POWER IS YOURS !
I don’t think you understand. he is requesting to join my party and I click decline. he then continues to ask to join over and over and over again.
Don’t you only get a few party tries before you are blocked from joining a party? If so, let him join then kick him until this happens.
apparently not because he’s been doing it for hours now.
some guy is spamming join invites to my party over and over, kicking us out of PVP queue. we both have him blocked and are both invisible and he is still spamming invites.
Idk how this is possible, since joining and leaving a party 3 times in quick succession will get you suppressed, and will prevent you from joining any more parties with the LFG tool.
Are you certain it was the same person every time?
he wasn’t joining through the LFG tool. IDK how he was joining because we both had him blocked we were set to invisible status.
…so if he wasn’t joining through the LFG tool….. why would you accept him into your party to begin with?
When it comes to accepting a join request….
THE POWER IS YOURS !
I don’t think you understand. he is requesting to join my party and I click decline. he then continues to ask to join over and over and over again.
Don’t you only get a few party tries before you are blocked from joining a party? If so, let him join then kick him until this happens.
Use items that improve karma gain if you have them (food, banners, guild boost, birthday blaster, karma booster, karmic infusion) to boost karma gain from doing events. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Karma
When he shows up document it then guest to another server and see if you land on another shard. If he doesn’t follow then good. But if he does follow, document that. A clear pattern of leaving a perfectly good map to follow you to yours to kill the ambients you are farming is what you need to show stalking and harassing.
If you are an engie then whenever you use a kit the engie backpack will replace any other backpack (not cover it) so, size (of backpack) does not matter.
Is this a serious question? How are we supposed to know what you and your friend’s tolerance for repetitious and to some extremely boring content is? The number of key farms that people can do per day before they get burned out range from zero to “a lot”.
on the other hand I don’t really believe this story is genuine, there must sth more
Unless they’ve changed it, even if offline it still shows what map you are on and will update when you change maps. What offline does is keep people from messaging/whispering you.
Astral, I’m using a definition that was used extensively on this very forum in two developer-led discussions about progression. It does not seem to fit with what wikipedia says it means, and yet it was good enough to go unchallenged during both progression CDI threads. I’m sorry for the confusion, but it’s how those terms were used then.
Ok. I see. Well, just a comment then. If you are using a non dictionary definition but a definition drawn from 2 threads among the group of people posting on those threads on just this forum, you might want to define it or refer to it with a link when you use it later somewhere else (and not just say “By doling out skills in small chunks, and later in the experience. I thought that would be fairly obvious.”) as not everyone will have read those 2 threads and know what you are referring to.
They do punish for harassment, though I’m not sure what the limits are. If someone is stalking you in game, start keeping a record of it. If he appears, document it, leave and go elsewhere and see if he follows. If he follows, document that. You will need to show a clear pattern of stalking to prove it and not just a claim of stalking or harassing to make your case because in theory it could be coincidence that he is showing up.
In other words, clear proof will make your case and get you what you want, this guy sanctioned if he is stalking and harassing you.
They had this before launch, during the betas. However they changed it to the current way and iirc it was because people were getting the best traits from each line and not selecting the others.
So they’ve already tried and discarded OPs suggestion.
I remember there were a lot of unhappy people who couldn’t get the best trait at the lowest trait level any more and the threads back then complaining about the change.
Sorry to be super dense here, but what is it exactly that you have to purchase? Just getting back into the game, and have been saving everything while I figure out what I’m doing, and so this would be a great option to have.
You can start a guild from basically anywhere for 1g, then you’d need to visit a Guild Promoter to purchase influence for gold. Then, per the wiki, you need to buy ranks in Architecture. First rank costs 500 influence (1g) and 12 hours, second rank costs 1000 influence (2g) and 36 hours, then you can build the smallest type of guild bank for another 1000 influence and 48 hours. More ranks in architecture will let you upgrade to a 150-slot guild bank and finally a 250-slot guild bank.
You can get cheap 20-slot bags from fractals by exchanging fractal relics, from the Uncanny Canner achievement (for finding jars, most of which come from hearts), and the Bandit Weapons Specialist achievement (for having every bandit weapon skin — they’re the first set of rare weapons you can make, and you can also get them cheaply for karma at your home citadel — and a Bandit Combat Journal, which costs 20s and 150 bandit crests in the Silverwastes).
By the way, if you ever get a personal guild in which you are the sole leader or member, never leave guild. If a guild is left without members it will disappear and the other members must have inviting privileges to get you back. The guild will be leaderless if they can’t promote you.
Standing down from a 1-person guild wouldn’t be a problem, surely?
Wiki says it causes your char to stop repping but not leave. However I’ve been too suspicious to try it. Lol. The only button I ever touch when I’m switching between guilds is the one to start repping
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild
“To end a character’s representation of a guild, choose Stand Down. The character will still belong to the guild, but not be able to use any of that guild’s perks.”
also on the topic of a personal guild bank if it costs 2g per 1k renown then to get the 2500 you need to buy 6g worth plus 1g for the creation of the guild so it should be around 7g to make a guild bank without doing any events to earn the renown
Sorry to be super dense here, but what is it exactly that you have to purchase? Just getting back into the game, and have been saving everything while I figure out what I’m doing, and so this would be a great option to have.
The guild bank
To start a guild costs one gold.
Creation: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild
“To create a guild, open the guild panel (G) and click on the “Create Guild” button. You will be asked to enter a guild name (up to 31 characters) and a tag of up to four characters. Guild tags are not unique, but guild names are. Alternatively, speak to a Guild Registrar in any of the major cities. It costs 1 to create a guild. You will be unable to create a guild while representing another, so you must Stand Down before creation."
Then to create a guild vault you must have enough influence, usually gained either by repping the guild while playing or buying influence from a Guild Promoter. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Influence
By the way, if you ever get a personal guild in which you are the sole leader or member, never leave the guild. If a guild is left without members it will disappear and the other members must have inviting privileges to get you back. The guild will be leaderless if they can’t promote you.
I for one will be glad when I will finally be able to wear this on my mesmer after years of waiting. Not too fussed about it not being a set of armor – the outfit is perfect as it is.
I’m with you. My ele will wear it, my guard will wear it, and my ranger too. I like outfits in this regard.
The nice thing is, for all my chars to wear it it’s one purchase. As armor it would be 3 purchases and that’s assuming they can make the armor look the same for all 3 weights, considering there are differences in where the seams are for each weight.
That’s annoying. You can contact support and talk to them. Maybe they can help. However if you are planning to make a Revenant, the hammer is one of their weapons. You might still have a use for it.
My only question – what is the NPE folks keep mentioning?
you are new, you are better off not knowing about npe
LOL. OK. I guess what I don’t know won’t hurt me. But my overall point is that I have found levelling enjoyable and pleasant, and very non-grindy (the only aspect I tried that I didn’t like was crafting).
If it was even better before something (NPE?) then I am jealous.
I think there are a lot of new folk like me who came in with the $10 special.
It was better before NPE. It was better before the megaserver, for high population servers, anyway. It was better before every critter under 80 has been nerfed because of the trait changes.
Google “new player experience gw2”, because I’m too bitter to get into this topic. One example, beforehand you didn’t dance for the cows in Queensdale. You fed them. However, your brain could not stand the strain of picking up the bundle and giving it to the cow. Therefore now you dance for them. Because kitten logic and everything you love.
Are you really complaining about logic in a fantasy game? I lol’d really hard, thanks for the laugh.
What if it had been reversed? Imo, this….
Old: people danced before the cows
New: people feed the cows
Result: numerous people complaining how dancing added charm and flavor to the starter zone and feeding cows is boring and unimaginative.
Yah, it’s wonderful being young, having good reflexes, living in an area with good internet connection or living close enough to the servers to have good ping, having good health and no hand/eye coordination problems and having people who are willing to spend the time each day (hours if need be) helping you through any JP you need to do to get these improved rewards.
Where can I sign up? I want to be among the deserving also.
Then they should never add anything challenging to the game since it won’t be doable by people with horrible internet connections or bad hand/eye coordination.
Jumping Puzzles have terrible rewards for the time needed to do them properly. In the same time it takes to do Obsidian Sanctum or Aetherblade Retreat I can do 10 events in SW, 2-3 dungeon paths (depends on path) or a fractal run while I will get a couple of greens and blues.
It’s no secret that the reason JPs have terrible rewards is because of camping and portals. Even the devs admit it.
So why not add both systems, so every single player is happy.
That’d be fine with with me too. I would prefer that achievements be tied to the harder version though, achievements should mean something.
As for the " being young, having good reflexes, living in an area with good internet connection" etc… no JP requires you to be young.. that’s ridiculous, keep this to the facts please. Most JPs don’t require good reflexes… as in they have no moving parts, these are the easier JPs. You can take your time on them and get it right no problem. Those ones also don’t require good internet connection. I’ll admit the more challenging ones that have moving pieces do require good reflexes and good internet, but that is a SMALL minority.
Uh huh.
One day Father Time is going to tap you on the shoulder and give you a preview of coming attractions and what is so easy now, won’t be.
Considering that the whole foundation of this game is helping others and cooperation, I don’t see ANet changing the JP system to the one he is advocating,
It would be nice if you could unlock 1 or 2 extra bank spaces through game play but its really not needed. Bank space is completely functional and gives you enough space for anyone that is not hoarder and there are things you can do even if you are a hoarder. Like create more characters and use them as mules. Email items to the mules and don’t pull the items out of them. Out of all the things being sold in the gem store, bank space and increased material collection size are the 2 things that I have no issues at all being there as they are only QoL items. Do they make life more convenient and make it so you waste less time with inventory management? Yes. That’s what QoL items are supposed to do. Do you need them to do any part of the game? Nope. Does it put something in to the gem store that should be earned in game? Yes and no. In DDO you can unlock a couple of bank tabs through game play and the rest of the bank slots unlock with real money. But DDO has way less space then GW2. GW2 has a normal bank space equal to DDOs entire bank space with unlocked tabs and bought tabs. The amount of space compared to guild wars 1 is about the same as the comparison to DDO. So I really don’t think we are getting screwed on space. I think they gave us a good amount to start with and made it so you can upgrade to an even better amount for a better QoL in game.
I’m am no defender of arenanet, I just think there is way more important things to fight for rather than some QoL change like adding more bank space. Which isn’t in a bad place anyways.
Just a point, you can’t email to yourself. You would have to either email to a friend and have him send it back (and this won’t work for account/soulbound items) or have an alt account to email back and forth.
At this point, since it’s past the time they would have reasonably put it in as an ingame achievement reward, if they do something like this it will probably be an RNG black lion chest node. The ones they sell in the gem store give out random low tier mats, not a one specific item.
Actually both the mining and the logging nodes gives a very exact result.
Ok, not all the gem store ones are random.
But they are still not a one item node. The black lion chest nodes are specific one item nodes and the gem store ones give out more than one type.
Yah, it’s wonderful being young, having good reflexes, living in an area with good internet connection or living close enough to the servers to have good ping, having good health and no hand/eye coordination problems and having people who are willing to spend the time each day (hours if need be) helping you through any JP you need to do to get these improved rewards.
Where can I sign up? I want to be among the deserving also.
At this point, since it’s past the time they would have reasonably put it in as an ingame achievement reward, if they do something like this it will probably be an RNG black lion chest node. The ones they sell in the gem store give out random low tier mats, not a one specific item.
