Guild Wars 2

No thank you. I’ve completed the expansion story as of last night, going around solo, in exotic gear, and while some fights were tough, nothing was out of place regarding difficulty. I enjoyed it, and fights were far more rewarding when you won them. The only things I couldn’t solo were certain Hero Points, which is fine by me, I wasn’t the only one struggling with them, and a shout out in map chat soon brings other players that were struggling with it.

There is no way to cater to guild with 1-2 members without breaking the whole experience for guilds that consist of 5+ players. The larger guilds would rocket through everything and lose any sense of real achievement, something I felt the previous system lacked to a degree.

To expect 1-2 people to be able to achieve what 10+ people can achieve just isn’t a realistic expectation. I’m in the boat that a guild is a community of players that band together to achieve goals that are otherwise unachievable.

These would be unlocked after you purchased them from the gem store

Having this problem here as well while playing my condi necro. Going to run through again after reading this and just use non-condition skills to kill it. Will update this post if it works.

EDIT

Yeah it works, there’s a short period of time where the Chak needs to walk over to Braham, and the conditions clearly kill the Chak off too quickly for it to go over to him and start the cut scene.

So to get round the issue until it’s patched, don’t use any damage inflicting conditions, get the Chak’s health so low you can’t even see the red in its health bar, and it will begin to walk over to Braham and trigger the cutscene.

Currently in-game getting my moneys worth. Very much enjoying the new content

Thunderhead keep was a great mission before the nerf, really enjoyed it. Same with the doppleganger before they nerfed him too!

If you did your Guild Missions last weekend, you will not receive commendations and/or merits this weekend. Already put a poll up for my guild, and the vast majority have voted to continue as normal due to most of us doing them for the social aspect, rather than the loot.

Thane.5726:

A lot of us pre-purchased Heart of Thorns to get access to the beta with the intention of experimenting and testing the raid content. As soon as the beta went live, we updated, made new classes, and waited outside the raids, only to get inside and get booted immediately. If you were lucky enough to get to make it inside of the raid, you would grind through three trash mobs, only to get dc’d by the boss. Most of us waited for hours for the UI to be fixed outside of the portal, only to be greeted with forum posts saying “we’re working on it”. After having it confirmed as working by a developer as “fixed”, we logged back on in an attempt to get back into our raids. If you had the misfortune of being tagged during this time any change of map or dc would leave you done for the night.This didn’t just affect those of us attempting to test raid content, it affected the commanders who were participating in reset night on wvw, Guild leaders taking their guildies through missions, and even people who were generally helping others and were tagged up at the time.Due to the extent of the issues and the hype that came around the raids and the Beta Weekend in general, I feel like some form of compensations would be a nice condolence to “heal some of the wounds” not just to the beta players, but everyone affected by the unfortunate bugs yesterday, as well as to boost the moral of the community for the expansion to come.

Diesel Dog [Obey] Tarnished Coast

The self entitlement in this post hurts me

It’s a beta weekend, it’s for testing purposes, not early access. The Squad UI was severely broken and caused issues across the entire game, not just raids. They need to test this stuff on the live server’s so that they can find the bugs, and later down the line fix them. Rather it now than when the game actually releases.

You won’t get an official reason for the increased level of communication from the dev’s. But I believe previously they weren’t allowed to communicate freely as a matter of policy.

Hello there sdluca, are you playing on an NA or EU server?

We’re starting a recruitment drive ahead of time for the release of Heart of Thorns! If the information in our original post sounds like something you’d really like, then don’t hesitate to get an application in to us and we’ll get in contact

There aren’t requirements that force a player to do something against their own will.

My community has a 100% rep rule, but the trick is to advertise clearly, and recruit people where this rule never needs to be enforced. If someone decides to submit an application regardless of the clear notifications, and still wishes to not represent 100%, or reckons we’re going to make an exception for them, then they’re wasting their own and our guilds time.

Simple solution, only join guilds that don’t require you to represent them 100% of the time if you don’t want to, there’s plenty of them out there. If you want to be in an environment with very high representation, be prepared to also do the same.

Ovalkvadratcylinder.9365:

I can’t find the post but I think devs have stated in other threads that it’s actually not possible to create an option for NA and EU players to visit eachothers worlds

:/ which is abit sad

Yeah, I think it has something to do with how/where the data is stored.

Narrrz.7532:

Baamoink.4281:

I feel it’s a false presumption that because a guild has this rule that they’re inherently a bad guild.

perhaps – but what’s the alternative? Either you demand rep which which people would not give willingly – which i would say would make you a bad guild – or you don’t need to require rep to the extent you do, because people would rep your guild anyway, which makes the rep requirement redundant.

Of course, those are absolute positions – in reality, i imagine, most of your members would rep the guild regardless, while some few rep the guild only because they are required to. I would venture to say that for those people, your guild is a bad guild.

consider also: what do you actually gain from forcing people to represent you if they wouldn’t really want to? for every person who grudgingly complies and provides you with that extra influence boost, i bet you lose or fail to recruit 2 or 3 who object to being required to exclude their other acquaintances. people with a preference also seem more likely to be veteran players who would bring & contribute more to the guild were they to join – even if their time & resources are divided amoongst several guilds.

I agree, many of your points would be a problem for us, if it wasn’t for the fact that we advertise these requirements at several stages prior to an application ever getting to us. As for losing prospective veteran members, we aren’t a shoe size fits all, and no effort is needed to try and cram as many players into our roster as efficiently possible.

Our turn around is very small, and as a result of our requirements, I know every single member of my community on a first name basis, and many of us have met each other in real life, with a lot of us having travelled to Sweden last month as a community get together. Something that takes some very dedicated people to arrange may I add. This is something that cannot be achieved in what you’re suggesting. I have no interest in veteran players, after 10 years as a community, we have plenty of those. But what I am interested in are people who are willingly looking to dedicate themselves to a single community, and achieve things together outside of the game as well as in the game.

Narrrz.7532:

Astralporing.1957:

Narrrz.7532:

Biggest turnoff for me in a guild ad is “100% rep req”

Basically, “if you want to be our friend you don’t get to have any other friends”

Oh yes, it is definitely beneficial for the guild and its leaders. Noone disputes that. But if you have to enforce that, it only means that you and your guildmembers really aren’t friends.

Basically this. To my knowledge, my ‘main’ guild has no rep requirement at all, but are still the guild i most prominently rep, because it’s fun to see and play with them out in the world, they’re fun people to talk to, guild chat is commonly amusing… etc.

A good guild should make you want to rep them and play with them, if they have to require those things, well, that’s probably a sign that that guild isn’t actually all that fun to be a part of.

A good portion of our current community joined in the GW1 era, and we don’t exactly ball and chain people into staying with us. Maybe it’s the sense of solid community, or the annual real life meet ups that keep them here. Our rep rule exists, and very rarely needs enforcing.

I feel it’s a false presumption that because a guild has this rule that they’re inherently a bad guild. We’re from the GW1 era where there was no ‘rep’ system, you either enjoyed being a part of the community and stayed. Or if it wasn’t the right place, you moved on. I dislike fair weather players or anyone that takes a foot in foot out approach. Our length of time together, and low player turn around is testament that how we do things has worked very well for us.

As I initially mentioned, that’s the great thing about so many guilds, there’s somewhere for everyone. We may not have the approach you’d want in your ideal guild. But to call us a bad guild based on personal preference is not correct. We’d just be bad for you.

Narrrz.7532:

Biggest turnoff for me in a guild ad is “100% rep req”

Basically, “if you want to be our friend you don’t get to have any other friends”

As the leader for a Guild Wars community guild that has been active for nearly 10 years, members representing us 100%, with the exception of bank guilds, has been essential to our long existence. For a time we had members that represented at their own convenience while we adjusted to GW2’s multi guild system (something they didn’t have in GW1), I found they became very detached from what our guild has and continues to achieve as a community, and simply became names on the wall of our roster rather than anyone of value.

But that’s the great thing about so many guilds, there’s something for everyone. For our members, there’s a friends list you can add non-guild members to

Always considered the fact that Charr run on all 4 legs as something that makes them so different from all of the other races.

So your reason for not purchasing HoT is something entirely unrelated to HoT?

For a moment there I was expecting constructive feedback.

The price of the expansion would have been exactly the same even if it did not include the base game.

They have been and gone, maybe they will appear again.

http://dulfy.net/2015/08/21/gw2-third-anniversary-sale/

Day’s 2 and 15, for the sake of reference.

Hello Gaile!

Here’s our submission from the Mantle Assasins community.

Link: https://youtu.be/T4qoStdiXQs

We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we did making it

Giving our thread a nudge of encouragement, we’re still looking to bolster our roster with passionate and enthusiastic GW2 players!

We’re kicking up recruitment again and looking for mature, level-headed people to join our cause!

I would also like to add this video upload of our community doing a Guild Puzzle to give potential recruits a rough idea of the kind of atmosphere we operate in. Video here

I would like to bring attention to this thread, I’m still suffering with the same issue. I’ve recently upgraded my CPU + Motherboard, along with kitten referred to in a previous post on this thread. Takes a good 5-6 minutes for the GW2 process to stop. It’s faster to just restart my PC each time.

Unlikely, that would mean having to take it back from the player that legitimately purchased your dye

I’ve been having this issue for close to 2 months. Whenever I close my GW2 client, or lose my internet connection, the process will continue to run in the background for the next 4-5 minutes. Preventing me from starting the game again because there’s an instance already running.

Usually in this scenario, I’d just open up Processes in Task Manager, find it and kill it. However, if it were that simple I wouldn’t be making this post right now. When I do go to kill the process, it just sits there, nothing. The GW2.exe process WILL NOT DIE. So when I get dc’d during a dungeon, or a PvP match, it becomes an incredible inconvenience to myself and those whom I play with.

Initially I thought it might just be my computer, I hadn’t reformatted in a long time. Until I recently purchased a new SSD and made a clean install of everything on it as my new primary storage (also where GW2 is currently installed). I thought maybe this will also resolve the issue with the gw2.exe process not stopping.

Low and behold, it hasn’t, and I’m still suffering with this bug where the process will not stop! There is no other process (except for the Windows OS essentials) that I have this problem with, only the gw2.exe.

Oh Veji

/15 char

Location: UK
Time and date of incident: All day, every day, GMT.
Game World: Far Shiverpeaks.
Brief description: Check image attachment of tracert in cmd to GW2 server IP.

I have been skeptical in the past with the Living Story, but this hit it out of the park for me

Best episode in the Living Story so far, that is MY opinion.

Can I have your stuff by the way?

I quite like the addition of Courtyard in ranked matches, throws a bit of a curve ball on the game when it does get voted for.

Remember, if nobody wants to play the map, then nobody will vote for it

I have always been a keen supporter of ArenaNet and Guild Wars 2, and I have frequently opened up my wallet to support this game via the Gem’s Store. Due to the difficult pricing on many of the gem store items, such as the 1,000 gem harvesting tools, but only being able to 800 or 1600. I’d buy 800, and then do a tidy top up of 200 gems through in-game gold. No wasted gems, and kept the balance looking tidy.

This is now an incredibly tedious task, as there’s a large margin of wasted gems that just cannot be used any longer (1-14, 26-49, 51-74, 76-99), which annoys me to no end. So from this point onward, I refuse to purchase anymore gems from the store until the gem exchange is either reverted, or updated to support smaller transaction amounts. I am appalled that there are players that got confused by the previous system over some simple math, and that Anet then decided to make such a change.

If new players that can’t do maths got confused, make an in-game guide of some sort to clarify the process. Far less development time for the dev’s, and an optional resource so the rest of us that can add numbers together, can get on with something that worked just fine.

So we’re in the mid-season break for the Living Story! Looking for a close-knit community of friends to progress through the next chapter of Living Story with? Come check us out, & if you’re interested you can submit an application here.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Baamoink.4281:

False analogy’s Sytherek.7689.

Wrong person I think?

Ah yeah! Corrected, thank you

False analogy’s Fiontar.4695

The purchase of a living story episode in no way gives that player some form of statistical advantage over other players in the game. Can a player get more loot, or gain some unfair advantage over other players in dungeons, open world of PvP for having purchased an episode? No. It’s merely story content.

Your ‘ethic’ is deluded as well. As it appears you have no knowledge on business models, and the minor fact that it takes money to sustain a game like this. They promised no subscription fee’s, and we have no subscription fee.

Start claiming ethic issues when they actually do some of the ludicrous things you mentioned, before claiming crazed conspiracies.

I would much rather see tier unlocking in an environment such as Guild Halls :P

Still kinda going through them, don’t have quite as much time for gaming nowadays. So the pace of these releases, as well as fact they’re now permanent content works really well for me. And I dare say many others in my position. Not everyone has time to burn through the content in the first day

Phoenixlin.8624:

It is either lack of care (“dont fix it forever, just fix it to save the day”) or QA in the company (it is a known fact that they outsourced their QA to a third party company)

No amount of QA can ensure a flawless and bug-free release before they hit the main servers. And I’m fairly confident dynamic events do not work as simply as an on/off switch, as stated by an Anet dev.

Paul Belz.7351:

These issues are indeed proving quite tricky to nail down (it’s not as simple as they simply won’t restart)

Events were working fine for me after the patch

Are you based on an EU or US server?

As long as one of those new players does have it unlocked, you can help them Vesuvius. Or, if you have it unlocked, you can bring them into your instance, both are free alternatives for someone that has missed out on the content.

I’m under the assumption that it’s still bi-weekly content.

Far Shiverpeaks EU here, always had an active map with people running about everywhere.

It’d be nice. It’s just a shame I remember pretty much none of the characters from my personal story since having finished them a few months after release. Due to that I’ll unlikely feel connected to any reintroduced characters from way back when in my personal story

GG Anet, really enjoyed the start of the story in this one. Plenty of dialogue & prospective lore to get through til the next release in 2 weeks

Enjoyed it myself, looking forward to the next ‘episode’.

Even if Anet did extend it by a week. We’d still get another thread exactly the same as this one, asking why it isn’t 2 weeks. Spiraling dilemma with people who don’t cash in their tokens soon enough before these events end

For once, the content is more worthwhile than the rewards! I recall the rewards being more worthwhile than the content for most of season 1

Rage.9723:

Yes I am not a fan of the dialogue of this living story and don’t bother reading much. I skip and go for the rewards. Probably one of the worst story lines and characters I have seen in a long time.

Skip dialogue, complain about dialogue that you never read. Sense?

I just pressed 2 once, charged into him, shield went down. No other buttons needed pressing.