Guild Wars 2

If you’re struggling with the first jump because you can’t see your character, start from the small platform on the left side. This platform is a bit more challenging to use, since you have to time it properly to jump as the rubble is forming: go too quickly and you have nowhere to land; wait too long and you’ll be obstructed by a piece of rubble that forms in front of you.

I’ve talked to the player you said had hacked, and he says he’s being framed. I don’t have any clear evidence that singles him out as the hacker that I can present to him, so I can’t go any further; I think he very well may be right. Given how hard he’s worked to help the server, a stranger’s word isn’t nearly enough to convince me that he’s lying or report him.

You’ve given good evidence that someone hacked their way into the altar room, but it doesn’t identify who did it. If you have a screenshot with the hacker targeted, showing the guild tag and/or the character model, that would help a lot. If it turns out he’s been lying to both of us, then I won’t hesitate to report and do all I can to have his guild drop him.

SoggyFrog.4170:

Asura
Mesmer
No boosts
~5 hours

I’ve now done it on 4 alts as well: Asura, Charr, and 2 humans! Much less problematic once you know the route.

Entered from normal server and also got split from my party. Tried soloing it but it just takes too long.

You are using your blink as well, right? It won’t make up the difference but it helps.

Cool, I didn’t read that mistake in his post either hence my confusion.

I never said culling was client-side.

I felt the same way, then I realized that the puzzle rewards are very PvP oriented (2 blueprints each time, which can be quite an investment if obtained using regular methods) so that there can be a real incentive to block people from other servers who are trying to complete the puzzle.

Yup. Never really got a chance to see where I was supposed to jump from the big gear, so instead of failing there until I figured it out, I did what worked for me. Anyways, I was eventually able to complete the puzzle using the small platform. It’s an alternative for those who are struggling with being unable to see their character at the first jump.

Rolling an Asura, I gave up on jumping from the big gear. The higher small platform is doable once you can time it properly, and barely anyone uses it. You land in with the zerg afterwards but you should know where you’ve landed which makes moving forward that much easier.

Osicat.4139:

Eath enought candy corn and you can puke on teh dead … just saying.

Great tip, duly noted.

Tip from an Asura: I gave up on jumping from the big cog, you can do it from the small platform if you time it right, which I did almost every time. You have to go as soon as the lightning strikes (as the platform animation is unfolding) otherwise a little block will get in your way. If the griefers are still causing trouble, just switch instances.

Asura
Mesmer
No boosts
~5 hours

That kind of preparation is admirable, we could tell that your strength wasn’t just in numbers, unlike the server that beat us in our previous match-up. A couple people also pointed out that you have climbed the rankings a fair bit, would you say that the organization of your server has increased a lot in recent weeks?

I was on most of the night as our numbers gradually decayed and bit by bit we conceded our holdings. Most of our commanders were fighting but we didn’t have a good number of people.

We had Stonemist for a brief period but the Germans kept on coming.

Yar, I’m not defending the GW2 engine so don’t make it out as such; it clearly has some issues given that I’m used to 40+ players total being huge numbers. But it’s already been pointed out that the invisibility issue is both a result of culling and rendering issues, and some people are able to fix the latter clientside even if the former is out of their control.

Anyways, what I’m calling out is this guy immediately jumping on portal use as exploit abuse. Whether or not you’re a fan, the difference in these videos is organization, not exploitation.

Culling is only an issue when there’s tons of people, rendering is more client-dependent but if your machine can’t handle the small number of people in these videos you need to readjust your settings. I didn’t see huge numbers (ie 20+ on each side) in any of these videos, which is where culling/rendering issues tend to happen and where portal use can be labelled as an exploit.

Keep the videos coming Osicat! Haters gonna hate.

^ Short answer is that you’re not playing like Osicat, but don’t let that discourage you.

I don’t think there’s a need for any official system to determine who gets to be commander and who doesn’t; I think, in due time, the good will be sorted from the bad.

If we have a limited number of commanders, that puts an unnecessary burden on individuals who have their own personal schedules. Besides, if people can’t judge which commander to follow, how can they decide which ones to vote for?

On my server (Gandara), we’ve had a couple of solid commanders who have been leading for a while, but we’re also getting an influx of new commanders as each week goes by. I don’t really recognize any of them, and from what I’ve seen they don’t have as good of a sense of strategy, tactics, logistics, or communication but if there’s a zerg with them I’ll try to support and shout out commands along with them or propose new targets. There’s a learning curve and it takes time.

I get that having a lot of commanders running around can be detrimental: this was the case at the last reset, we had 6 commanders on our borderlands and no coordination, and it was disheartening watching our efforts disintegrate despite the abundance of people.

There will be more commanders as more people accumulate wealth, but as that happens the associated prestige and the commanders’ ability to act as a beacon should diminish in turn. Those who first acquired commanders books gained much more notice than people who are just getting their books now. New commanders will have less sway in peak hours, although they’d get the chance to hone their skills in off-peak. Those who fail repeatedly will lose interest in the novelty or will be ignored by core/active players.

It’ll take time for server communities to become more cohesive, as a lot of people are still entering WvW for the first time. There will always be newbies and casuals but if there is a solid base of WvW regulars when they enter then their actions can be directed in a good way.

I think the squad system is something that needs work (and will get it) and certainly there need to be some options for displaying commander icons on the screen. But the current system is something workable (its main advantage is that it provides a high barrier to entry, so it’s something people need to seriously think about). I doubt there’s any system that could be proposed that wouldn’t have some flaw to it.

I assume that’s Osicat’s stubborn way of referring to staff #2, which recently had its mechanics changed (ostensibly to fix the teleporting out of terrain bug). A good player is a flexible player, I’ll give him that.

If you’re in a zerg, you’re not going to deal enough damage to get badges often. If you’re playing support then you should be playing with a group of people. It doesn’t make that much sense anyways to be randomly applying boons to the crowd. When you’re in a smaller group of people, it’s not that much of a hindrance to be dealing less damage. You do need to be doing some amount of damage though. No class is meant to exclusively support others.

We also have a couple of great skills/traits for reflecting projectiles which can help with the damage you do. It isn’t as direct but if you really want to stick with support it’s probably the best way a mesmer can support, and it can be super effective if you do it properly. If you’re not willing to switch for another weapon like the focus now and then in WvW, I’d say you’re holding onto your staff a little too stubbornly. Utilizing both weapon sets is always important.

Where are your traits focused, anyways?

I think going forward Arena Net has a great opportunity to take out Trahearne and bring a personal touch to everyone’s stories in one swoop. They’d be off on the right foot by giving a race-themed demise for Trahearne. Here’s a few ideas that I think really complement the kind of personality that each race embodies:

Asura: Trahearne is annihilated in a freak accident involving the hero’s latest invention, or is captured by the Inquest and used in experiments.
Charr: Trahearne and the hero are out on an expedition in Ascalon when they are ambushed by the Flame Legion. Trahearne is captured, chopped up, and used to create an effigy which the hero must then defeat.
Human: Trahearne and the hero save orphans from a fire, and Trahearne decides that orphans are so great that he retires so that he can spend his days working at an orphanage.
Norn: Trahearne and the hero are walking on a glacier and Trahearne falls into a really deep crevasse.
Sylvari: Trahearne, the hero, and a third sylvari become embroiled in a 3-way love triangle. The third sylvari is eventually pushed out and jealously plots revenge against Trahearne and the hero, and successfully kills Trahearne before being defeated by the hero.

Don’t be too eager to thank us, our kind is just as ready to yank the rug out from under you in PvP puzzles

They definitely can add a social aspect that isn’t always present in the rest of the world, since you’re committed to them for a certain length of time and there might be times when you want to exchange information.

Today there were quite a few people exploring the new Malchor’s Leap, after finding about half the energy sources I ended up pairing up with another person to figure out where the rest were, it still took us a couple hours.

Link works if you copy/paste it. Looks shatter heavy, not sure how well that works in big WvW settings because illusions that get killed before they hit their targets aren’t much use. WvW dictates my trait setup and I tend to roll more support in that situation: feedback the utility + Warden’s feedback are handy with tons of projectiles flying around. Make use of distortion (with self-shattering you should be able to do this all the time, not something I have experience with), and obviously getting your clones to soak up the damage.

If you are going with glass cannon then I assume a lot of the time you’re hanging back with GS, in which case projectiles are what you are most worried about. You should be able to see those coming, you have lots of tools to reflect them, and for AoE ones all I can say is that you should be dodging faster, and really just moving around all the time minimizes how much you get targeted by AoE.

Academic conference. Speakers presenting their research from 6 am to 9 pm, with a few poster sessions through the day to mix it up a little.

Cristina P.6241:

I really dislike the class Mesmer , Everyone knows they are to Overpowerd, And they can confuse you like nothing and just walk away. I think ArenaNet, Should NERF these characters abilitys because it is unfair. None of my characters can kill them…? I GUESS WE, ARE ALL GONNA BECOME A MESMER. You guys mest up there ArenaNet.

Someone just posted a thread and two posts saying this. Free thread bump!

Churchland.7524:

Basically, they got greedy, got caught, now they are going to throw us a bone. Sorry, Too little, too late.

Um, how would it be less greedy of them if they gave more rewards and everyone spent just as much? I didn’t realize it saved them money to make digital items rare. Or does their making these items rare make them greedy? How? Is it because people have to spend more to have a decent shot at acquiring them? But then if people are spending that much, it’s because they know they have to spend that much to have a chance of acquiring them… Then why are they complaining if they had that kind of inkling of what their chances were before they spent the money?

Morfedel.4165:

That reminds me, anyone get any good use out of blink?

Frequently. For one, it’s my stun breaker, and it’s also handy if you use a main hand sword and want to land a bunch of whacks on a boss then get to a safe distance.

ozma.3498:

It’s fairly obnoxious for people to think that just because Anet said the skins had “a chance” to drop from a chest it makes the whole situation okay.

It’s not comparable to a lottery, either. When people go in for the lottery, they expect not to win. They think “I’ll probably never, in my entire life, win the lottery – but there’s a small chance, and it costs hardly anything to enter, so I’ll give it a go”.

This is a carrot and stick – many people bought keys assuming that if they bought 5 keys for 450 gems, for example, they’d at least get one skin. I mean, come on – real money for a “chance” at something? That’s got to be a one in five chance, surely?

But this is GW2. In any other game, I would have expected the chance to be high (say, 50%), but based on Anet’s decisions in many other aspects of the game (for example, the very unforgiving RNG element of legendary precusors from the MF) I guessed it would be like this and unfortunately I was right.

I expected not to find a skin. The keys still cost the same amount and the chests still give the loot they gave before Halloween. There was a part earlier in this thread about Girl Guide Cookies and groceries or something, I can’t be bothered to find it; the way I see this is that each chest you get gives you a chance at the Halloween skin sweepstakes, like buying a case of Coca-Cola when they have a contest going on. You’re not going to buy 50 cases of Coca-Cola with the hope of winning. I opened one chest and didn’t get any Halloween skin, I still get my regular rewards, end of story.

Coming from the viewpoint of someone not familiar with the typical spending habits of a MMOer, this furor is baffling to me. While I agree that this aspect of the Halloween event would have been more fun if there was more variety in BLC rewards, I think it’s patently unfair for anyone to say they were swindled, cheated, or misled by ArenaNet. For my own part, this didn’t strike me as an event where BLCs would be made so much greater that I should be compelled to buy keys, let alone a stack of keys, with the hopes of getting a skin. It just seemed like something that added a hint of excitement to the chests, but on the whole I expected to get the same sort of loot as usual.

The disappointment, obviously, is from those who jumped the gun on buying stacks of keys/gems in anticipation of getting skins and potentially some other loot, and either got very few special items or none at all. That said, I’ve seen some complaints levied by those who managed to recoup their investment through the TP, but are nevertheless complaining. That people sunk so much money into this within hours or perhaps even minutes of the update being released suggests to me that at least some of those people were trying to game the system – that is, trying to make a profit on skins while markets were still volatile, or getting gems at lower rates – and deservedly getting burned for it. The information is out there now: Halloween skins are rare, and there’s no other Halloween loot in the chests. The first fact can be taken by tracking the Halloween items on the TP, the second by opening just a few chests (to add to that, the update notes only explicitly mention the skins).

Given the enthusiasm for Halloween skins, though, it’s also likely that a lot of people were able to get their money’s worth, and perhaps even make a profit. The fact that a lot of people didn’t is the unfortunate reality of the lottery system. They, of course, will be the readiest to criticize but that doesn’t mean their criticism is fairly placed.

Probably fighting Brangoire in Twilight Arbor story mode with my guildies. We kept getting wiped out by this guy’s exploding spiders, but finally managed because I survived to keep him from regaining his health while everyone else was running back from the respawn. The guildies are too proud to acknowledge my contribution, though.

I was also doing this underwater puzzle thronged with flame legion in Diessa Plateau, and a bunch of other people were doing it too (though I was already level 80, they were not). When we realized we were missing a piece and I had to go back and retrieve it, I did that. Once we opened the last section, there was a champion who promptly wiped out everyone else while I kited and used down clones to slowly bring it down. It wasn’t so challenging, since we’re so strong underwater and I had better gear, but I’m sure they were impressed.

It’s spotty but getting there, 66%.

Arkk, I agree on Illusionist’s Celerity, there’s few if any situations in which that traits isn’t necessary because it affects what mesmers do across the board. If it is cut, I think it’s fair that not all illusion skills have their cooldowns automatically cut by 20%, that needs to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis according to the balance of each skill.

There’s a race-specific phase and unfortunately the quality of the personal story just drops off after that period. Just be thankful you started with the awesome Asura storylines and didn’t meet Trahearne early on like anyone playing Sylvari would have done.

Tortun.5946:

SAVE BESSIE!!!

- Gandara

Most definitely.

Counter blade and chaos storm also produce daze. Sure, there aren’t many sources of daze and mantras aren’t use by most players, so I’m still uncertain how viable it is overall. I’ve experimented with builds but I don’t run dungeons or play sPvP a lot, those environments seem to be the ones where that kind of control is necessary.

That said, Wastrel’s fits within the scheme of what has been designed, and unless you are proposing an overhaul of the class you don’t have a good case for moving it. If your issue is with the lack of viability of daze, then you should advocate making it stronger. It’s potentially a great and mostly unique option available to mesmers.

Taldren.7523:

Well Domination XII needs to be replaced, IMO … but that is beyond the scope of what I was going to bring up here. (I personally think all the “on interrupt” traits should be at least changed to “on block” if not outright replaced)

That said, it doesn’t matter the theme … but the application. It just doesn’t work in that trait line, especially at 25 points in the trait line.

The problem is that’s just your opinion on the Confounding Suggestions, which makes it no longer clear cut that Wastrel’s Punishment is out of place… I thought that was the intention of your thread. As I indicated, the interrupt traits are clearly there as a complement to daze; I don’t know how you can discard those without making daze much less viable.

So including Wastrel’s, Confounding is just one out of five daze-oriented traits available in that line. I’m not sure how you can say the theme doesn’t matter when you’re saying you want to alter traits to fit trait lines.

What I’m saying is that domination seems like quite a daze-oriented line: There’s two traits that apply specifically to daze and two more that apply to interruptions; your reasoning is the pistol, which is one of the weapons that can daze/stun, synergizes with dueling, but there’s only one dueling trait that applies to interruptions.

I think Wastrel’s fits in domination because there’s a lot of focus on vulnerability and controlling your target. Your signet changes make sense to me, but the rest could be a matter of opinion.

It wasn’t a bump since the thread was active, and now we are having a conversation. There is information out there and now people know the jist of it. There could be more information, and there could be a timeline, but you can’t complain that there has been no response.

If they are working on the problem, then there’s not much good telling them that there is one. They’ve said they are and they’ve said it recently. It also sounds like they’ve decided on an approach which means that proposing alternatives is unlikely to expedite the solution.

You realize there is no system in place to make transfers paid, and that shutting down transfers altogether just has its own can of worms, right?

The glue factory is making arrangements for the dead horse.

Necronic.8134:

which is very expensive when it costs 2 gold a time to alter your traits

It costs 3 silver and 50 copper to alter your traits at level 80. You do realize there is a “I’d like to retrain” option separate from the manuals, right?

This doesn’t sound like trolling or griefing, it sounds like legitimate way to tie up enemy manpower and maintain a presence inside a captured keep. Unless there’s a bug involved, you should be able to get your teammates to help you clear any such belligerents.

My second two posts were addressing Godmoney, who seems impossible to satisfy. I’m certain he had something different written when I made my last one, so don’t take that too harshly.

There’s a pile of threads in this forum that express your opinion. There’s one on the current page that nearly has the same name as your thread, which I linked to. While you may have a constructive intent, you are not contributing to the discussion by simply repeating what others have said and splintering the discussion even more.

If all you want to do is affirm what as already been said, is it so hard to find a post to which you can say, “I agree”? By writing another paragraph with the same complaints as others you are just making it difficult for good ideas to gain notice and easy for important points to be overlooked. I’m a fan of brevity and perhaps that’s why I’m coming off as rude.

Faul: That sounds like a transfer problem to me, not a free transfer problem. Maybe it’s a matter of perspective, but you can’t say for sure that the call for limiting free transfers is being ignored. We do know that free transfers were always meant to be temporary, so that’s how I’m interpreting it.

Players helping players

Before you complain about not being heard, maybe you should listen.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just wanted to quickly add we’ve got people working on fixing issues with free server transfers as well, its proven far more complicated than we originally intended/expected to get done but is absolutely being built and is coming as soon as we can possibly get it in and bug-free.

We’ll also be working on a number of other WvW features we’ll talk more about in the coming months once they’re closer to being implemented!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Small-update/page/2#post484472

Read before you post.

Why are you bringing this up again immediately after Johanson made a statement on its progress?