Guild Wars 2

Lord Vold and finkle, this post is nearly a year old. While feedback is always nice, I think this ship sailed a long long time ago.

We will be leading an EotM farm in 3 hours, come out and join us!

Join us tomorrow at noon AEST for some EotM fun!

TL;DR Add 5 asterisks to the top of the commander tag, each one unlocks at +500 WvW ranks. Add popularity bars that grow and shrink depending on how many players have joined your squad in the past week.

Hey guys, in lieu of the upcoming changes I started pondering how to make the commander tags also changed based off of experience and popularity.

I drew a very rough sketch to help explain this idea. My goal was to keep the functionality both simple and tie into existing mechanics for fluid implementation.

Here I’ll describe the functions, each numbered explanation correlates to the numbered image.

1) Basic commander tag. Either as it currently is, or an updated version to better flow with parts 2 and 3.

2) Add 5 asterisks above the tag. Each asterisk is unlocked as the player hits X WvW rank points (ei. Every 500 ranks).

3) This image shows all 5 asterisks unlocked (ei from the player having hit 2,500 WvW rank points) in addition to popularity bars.

Popularity bars are based off of how many unique accounts have joined the commander’s squad at some point during the last week. There are 3 sets of bars and they progress outwards. For example, if 100 players have joined your squad in the past week, you will display the first set of popularity bars. You’d gain the second set at 250 players and the third set at 500 players.

The reason it’s based off the past week is to track and show off how active the commander has been recently. So if a commander takes leave from gaming, he will always retain the unlocked asterisks, but the popularity bars will reset since he hasn’t been playing.

This will also put some importance on actually joining/liking a commander. Ideally new squad abilities/features would be released with such an update.

Name Dragon Empire Alliance [DEA]
Website DragonEmpire.us
Server Tarnished Coast
Focus PvX
Size Medium
Time OCX and NA prime times
VoiceComs Mumble

About
Dragon Empire was founded as a NA guild in Q1, 2014. Our primary goal has been to build an active and competitive, yet friendly roster. We have a forum, facebook group, gather 4 times a week for guild events and use mumble. We have realized that part of having an active roster means having players in game around the clock, so we are happy to announce we are now shifting to an OCX/NA split roster!

OCX Players ~ What you can expect
We are a semi hardcore PvX guild with weekly events that hit every area of the game. We currently have ~70 NA members and a handful of OCX members. Because we want our guild to be tight knit we don’t plan on exceeding 125 members and wish to fill up the remainder of our roster with OCX time zone players, so over the next several months we will be exclusively recruiting OCX players and starting up guild events during OCX prime times. We boast a family style atmosphere for mature players that just want to have a good time. Our forum and facebook group help all members to get to know each other despite time zone differences.

Current Weekly Events
(These are our current NA events, days and times have been adjusted to AEST for easier reading)

• Tues: Dungeons/FotM
• Thurs: Random Farm
• Sat: EotM
• Sun: Guild missions
  Current events held at 12pm AEST (7pm PST on the previous day for NA members).

Upcoming OCX Events

• Tues: Dungeon/FotM
• Thurs: Random Farm
  Upcoming OCX exclusive events planned for 10pm AEST.

*24/7 Guild Buffs

It’s a convenience item. yes it costs the same as master kit, but no you never have to visit the merch again for a a kit or have a kit run out while out exploring.

Allaraina.8614:

Yes. There are some very helpful guides floating around on the internet.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guide_to_earning_Hall_of_Monuments_rewards

There is one.

Tehehe, I authored that guide back in my gw1/wiki days

OP, in addition to a gw1 campaign you must also have the Eye of the North expansion, as that is where the actual HoM is located that you’ll need to access.

Every friday night my guild runs EotM and we just started recording our runs. I told our map I’d post one here. So here it is! Had a great time, thanks to all who were there

http://youtu.be/os5jhwpiZKY

The skin is now perma unlocked in your wardrobe so you can re apply it forever going forward on any light armor wearer. It will cost transmutation charges to apply it, like all other skin unlocks.

Next time read descriptions more indepthly so you know how they work.

You can submit a trouble ticket for a refund.

Every Monday night is guild dungeon night and this week we opted to have some fun with an all engi flamethrower run. I must say, we had a flaming good time!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_rMYqFBhahE

Come join us for dungeon runs tonight and earn some sweet loot!

guild missions tonight, come on out!

Missy.6803:

This is a GREAT guild! I love hanging out with you guys in mumble, so fun

We <3 you too Missy

Also…EotM run tonight! Popping guild karma, magic find and bonus gold from kills so come and get some!

What does the f…

Had a HUGE turn out for dungeon runs last night and are def looking for more speed runners and those looking to learn

1-20 = pop a lvl 20 scroll
20-32 = max cooking and jewelry for 15 gold total
32-68 = dungeons (1 lvl per run) and/or EotM
68-80 = run through your personal story (also helps unlock whole map)

I’ve leveled 13 lvl 80s, it’s not hard.
I also pvp so tomes from that helps too.

Just had a thought, and forgive me if it’s already been discussed.

If anet ever starts supporting GvG it would be sweet it GvG matches actually boosted your servers WvW scored points (in addition to other guild/personal rewards). You could queue up from WvW and wait for your match timer pop, and then be ported to the current arena for the match.

Happy FOURTH errbody from merica!

Had a great time tonight rocking out some missions.

Tomorrow night we run and train dungeons, come on out!

JOIN US IN GAME TONIGHT

Next week we are hosting a community event: Cannon Ball Haul.

We hope to see you in game!!!

Learn more on the EVENT PAGE.

Cannon Ball Haul ~ Community Event!

Summer is here so get your trunks on and head down to the swimming hole! Together we will tour the map, visiting diving goggle locations required for the Dive Master Achievement! Our goal is to knock out as many locations as we can (of the 38 total) in ~3 hours.

Learn More
This community event is being hosted by Dragon Empire Alliance. Visit the EVENT PAGE for more details.

Awesome Sladen, let’s chat in game, looking forward to meeting up

Excited about all of the new members and upcoming events we have planned. Still looking for more cool gamers to run with

while it would be nice to feel like we’d be giving feedback the truth is that only a portion of players would even use the poll.

anet get’s tons of stats based off of numbers we can’t even see, like how many are logging in, for how long, where, what do they do, when do they quit etc which gives them the best data they want.

during beta they even had a live map of tyria up that had dots on the whole map so they could see where the largest groups of ppl were going and when.

Guild Missions tonight, come out and join us!

We are now actively looking for folks interested in WvW raiding 1-2 nights a week. Contact me for more info.

So my friends and I were talking about how we’d fondly remember this as the worst event ever, so we made this t-shirt to commemorate it.

Check out our new and updated website!

Guild Missions tomorrow night, come join us

Updated weekly events.

Come join us tonight for dungeon runs!

We are now looking for WvW players that want to raid twice a week.

We are currently looking for ~15 to 20 seasoned WvW veterans that want to competitively raid twice a week.

Dragon Empire Alliance is a new and growing PvX guild with many veteran and new players. We are currently in the process of developing a core group for WvW. We will focus on PPT and open field fights.

Our roster is currently 50 members and we are looking to grow it to 100 max.

Weekly events are:
Sunday > guild missions
Monday > dungeons/FotM
Tuesday > Surprise event
Wednesday > WvW
Thursday > OFF
Friday > WvW
Saturday > OFF
…events are at 7pm server time

Check us out at:
www.DragonEmpire.us

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guild missions tonight!

Blink Squish.7605:

I joined this guild and if you’re awesome, you will too. Don’t worry, the apples are put to good use.

P.S. Dungeon night was a lot of fun, thanks for having me along!

Best dungeon run. EVER.

Tonight we’re back with some WvW!

I’m a guy and I’ve converted most of my characters to guys bc I hate getting sexual PMs from other guys that think I’m a chick IRL. -.-

< DoA vet Loved the elite missions of gw1.

I wish we had elite missions that required 8-12 players.

Honestly though, anets solution was to give us FotM, a dungeon that scales. It’s nice, but not the same

This just made me so happy to watch!

We’ve all either been in a zerg that destroyed a loan roamer, or the loan roamer that fell victim to a zerg. So this is only fair and I’d like to see more of it. Hope it doesn’t get nerfed.

http://youtu.be/ABCya_k0zLA

Had a great night in eotm this evening. Looking forward to seeing all of the new faces tomorrow at guild missions.

I decided to get new stats for my armor, but I can’t transmute my old runes onto the new armor bc we don’t have xstones anymore…

So I tried a perfect salvage kit, but I’m not allowed to salvage the original armor set bc of where it was purchased…

So….???? Did anyone ever think this out, it’s so rediculous that certain upgrades get lost for forever bc anet decided to make some items unsalvageable!!!

50 gold of runes are now useless. Not to mention all of the sigils and other runes I’ve lost in the past bc of this.

IT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED PLEASE!!!

Samantha.6380:

I am interested in joining

Nice chatting this morning, if even for only a moment. Guild invite sent, see you tonight!

Wow, only a few weeks old and we are already pushing 50 members! Welcome to all of the new peeps

Has the mega server been fully implemented on all maps now? I thought it was going to be over the course of several weeks/months, but in game chat says it’s everywhere already.

Weird. I fought an organized MM guild team twice in a row. My pug team destroyed them both times.

Heltzer.2435:

A random bug that took a few hours to correct is way different than the removing of glory that has been communicated over the last two months.

Perhaps people should accept some personal responsibility over their glory loss instead of looking to blame the other guy. Anet overall did a good job with this patch.

It’s an example of how unpredictable and unreliable their communication is. Thus, it’s hard to blame players for lack of being informed when we never know where to look.

And I have accepted all responcibility on my part. I also came to the forums first to see if anyone was in the same boat, and since there are, it would be nice if anet also took responcibility for their part.

The rest of the patch is outside of this issue, just because the rest was great isn’t an excuse to ignore what’s wrong.

Aliatis.7836:

Sylanna.1947:

Aliatis.7836:

Beorn Saxon.4762:

they NEVER mentioned you’d lose all of your stored glory and the glory merch would be removed.

They did. I answered such a question many times in this sub-forum and I got an official response from a dev through a PM.

You should have simply asked.

That sounds like a great system. Every player come to the forums and individually ask and hope that a dev sends you a PM. Wonderful idea!

I haven’t asked on the forum hoping for a PM. I did PM a developer, and he answered me. It’s better than writing randomly on forums and hoping

Okay great, so once that dev starts getting hundreds of PMs a day, maybe they’ll start improving their mass communication efforts.

Heltzer.2435:

I believe Anet should have had some sort of mass communication center where players of their game could log in and have access of all the newest offical information. Perhaps it could be divided into forums and sub forums for easy selections…oh and players could add their thoughts and opinions as well.

Oh wait….

What’s the point if anet doesnt make official threads with the details? They only leave comments on existing player threads or tweet it out. I’d come here for official info if they actually utilized it that way. They don’t.

Yesterday tons of players lost the ability to type in game. I came to the threads, tons of ppl posting they had the same issue…for two hours, no responce. So i check twitter, oh yeah, they made a tweet acknowleding the issue over an hour ago. Great thanks -.-

Point being, their communication methods are unpredictable and unreliable. You never know where to find the info you need.

Darnis.4056:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/phasing-out-pvp-glory/ this ? :/

Thanks, I re-read over this and it is in here. I read it when it first came out two months ago, but I don’t recall noticing that detail when I first read it. I remembered reading…

1. Losing the ability to earn it
2. Merch would stay for you to spend it

The phrase ‘until the patch’ must have been overshadowed by the rest of the blog so that is my bad. A bit more emphasis may have helped me out there. But for everyone else that didn’t read that blog, there was no other notification for them. It’s still an unfortunate situation for many players and I honestly don’t see what the harm would have been to let the merch overlap with the wardrobe system :/

Can anyone link a blog or thread (that was started by anet) stating the merchant would be removed along with your saved glory?

Darnis.4056:

:/ I dunno, If you think your argument holds water put in a ticket.
…

I have a friend who lost 600k glory, but he was like ’hey, my fault"

I plan on submitting a ticket. But getting results is a combination of submitting tickets and getting out awareness of the issue via a thread. If it was my fault and I was the only one that was in this situation, then I’d be more prone to deal with it. However, if there are a lot of players in the same boat…I’m not so sure it was our fault.

The reason I’m upset is because I play a lot, I read nearly every blog post and official thread, I watch most of the videos and social media. I’m extremely well informed compared to the typical player, and if I missed this bit of detail then it wasn’t obvious enough. I read a lot, but I can’t read every single comment. Nore am I going to make a post every time I have a question. I shouldn’t have to make a post every time or search for days for something so important. It shoudl have been WAY more obvious than it was. And when I say ‘it’ I’m not talking about the removal/replacement of glory. I knew that, in fact I gathered that way before they ever announced it and specificically began saving glory 6th months ago. When they finally made the announcement I was already ready, and I opted to not spend mine until post patch bc I wanted to see the wardrobe first. The ‘IT’ im referring to is that I wouldn’t be able to access what I had already earned and that the merch was being removed.