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Question, If both factions, Aurora Glade and Far Shiverpeaks like open field fights so much. And some “resistance” Why don’t you attack each other? It’s always Underworld Borderlands that gets hit by both groups.
Fact is, we can’t split our zergs to hold double Golem Rushes when both teams are superior to us in power/size.
- Archi
you seem to have trouble looking at things in an objective, scientific way. let me help you with some things to think about:
1. maybe the factions that talk on the forums about open field battles are different players than the people who run their whatever-sized-groups?
2. its always underworld that gets hit by the others in your point of view because you obviously cant see the view of others. this seems also to be the case with all the conspiracy people who are convinced that double teaming happens.
it is just an opportunity. little commanding lesson for you since you dont seem too experienced: if you see a battle marker on the map, grab something else while people are busy.
I think you hit the nail on the head and I am an Underworld player.. shame I missed the fun today, sounds like our chat channel would of been filled with whines and tears.. though likely tears of laughter after reading yours and Terro’s replies to the whiney commander
On a personal note I have seen no such evidence of double teaming and as for open field sieging I think we have done our fair share of it as well this week so not sure why “Eagle” is so incensed about it.. especially as the “Underworld Commander” has been strangely de-tagged most of the week, instead choosing to hole up in Quentin or Bravost for the duration…. guess numbers superiority weren’t there to be confident of accomplishing map domination under his tag.
Siege is part of the games mechanics, its there to be used by all and there are ranking points to add into it, sure none of us like to see nothing but siege wars, but it has its place and everyone has their own preferences especially if a player has decided to pile ranking points into AC’s.. otherwise why bother.
It’s been a decent week, some good battles with both AG and FSP and I wish you both all the best in your next battles
- Archi
Considering you used the FoG tag, it kind of shows how far behind you are, we haven’t used that tag for what 4 months now?
SWD pull those numbers daily. SPGR and the new SPGR cut off guild also pull large numbers, PAX, TKON, Mayh also pull good numbers too. I cant talk for the eb guilds since i don’t visit there often but they always have a full border so many of them will pull daily numbers such as RAIN and APE.
Mayh is a mixed focus guild, we run events of every part of the game not just wvw so we dont go daily but we have at least 2 wvw events a week not including reset always, with many players running together at peak anyway so please don’t talk about something you know nothing about. In fact mayh pulls over 30 players each week to reset and have done for longer than your guild has existed, i brought up the number when speaking to the AG clan we were fighting on reset, it wasn’t boasting in the slightest. For a Guild which isn’t WvW focused im fine with those numbers, 46 out of 70 players in wvw is awesome so of course i was excited :P
On reset the server teamspeak had closer to 100 players online from 5 or so guilds and pugs, which is fine in my eyes considering we recently moved here
WvW isn’t a job, and not many guilds on UW are only wvw focused, so spend less time slating everyone else and work on your own guild… look at the rest of the thread, the rest of us are having plenty of fun, maybe if you spent less time raging on the forum you would enjoy wvw.
Do you really think slagging off all of the other guilds is a good way to unite anyone? :P
I support this idea of fun
Its pointless responding I just spent the best part of 20mins in game being told by Archi that UW needs serious training cos no one listens there’s no decent guilds putting numbers out and many of us shouldn’t be WvW cos were all too PvE focused so don’t belong in these matchups…. talk about trying to unite the clans with ways of praise ):
As for guilds, it seems there is only one guild that is putting out (according to one person) but I have to agree its not all about EB and across UW there are some pretty decent guilds putting consistent support into our matchups, but unfortunately many of us cant be on 24/7 let alone 6-7 hours a day.
I log in most days for some fun but I have began to drift from EB to UW or opposing maps where actually there are some very good, very aware guilds and commanders who don’t need to rely on berating others and choo choo trains
I’ve been trying and trying and trying to get the General Explorer achievement “The Long Way Round” but to no avail.
Due to the mix of poor camera system in GW2, the seemingly impossible amount of risen hands surrounding each datapad and … yes my obviously pathetic ability to dodge and time the corruption AOE… I find this achievement to be a little beyond me.
There is supposedly meant to be a cheats way round of course, but that’s for those that prefer that course of action. I have also ran this countless times with another player in group to pull the corruption shots to them while I attempt to turn off the pads but there in lies another issue.. having to stop and troll thro the shut down process for a couple of seconds just gets me tagged by another risen hands corruption AOE and so after countless hours trying I guess I am resigned to failure on this one, unless anyone can offer some hope.
Lazmira I dodge and all still die when I am in a higher level area cause its for level 80’s not levels lower then that. And as for the website I read them and go in game just as confused as I was before I read it. Cause the Show me Email shows a circle that is not even open half the time. Them telling us what is going on and what things are does nothing with finding it and when they put it in a level 80 area its a waste of time for lower levels to go after it when its to hard even at an upscale to do anything. We do not have the armour or the weapons or the build to get through it.
superbeast….we have been through this already that show me email shows absolutely nothing other then a circle in a area thats covered up. So how would anyone know how to even get there. I have not done events since I started playing the game cause they are always to hard and places I cannot get to. Sorry but some of us are not fanboys and can just run through stuff like everyone else. I never played the first Guild Wars so I do not know nothing about it. All I know is that I die anytime I try the event content and half the time I cannot find it less I am dragged along by someone thats just going to take my loot and xp for partying them anyway.
Wow 4 hrs to get round Lions Arch to find a dock, that’s impressive I have to say and then you still obviously failed to look at the map and see the Living Story graphic icon there when a map zone is uncovered. I really wouldn’t advise you to actually step outside your own front door for fear of getting lost and certainly never making it to the shops in time before they close.
The email doesn’t just show you a circle in an unexplored part of the world map, you need to read the mail not just open and close it.. it states how you get there.. the docks in LA… and the map has a graphic on it pin pointing the docks. I sense you want everything to be spoon fed to you. Surely the first thing you do in any game with explorable areas is to explore your home map then.. Lions Arch (in GW2’s case) then you move out from there.. even your personal story takes you to places in order for you to explore.
As for level scaling, there is nothing wrong with it at all.. you wanna solo everything then expect some tough stuff especially if you want to upscale onto a map that you don’t know what to expect, so get into a group.
Of course as it is Openworld PvE then you can just jump and engage mobs, bosses and events that are already activated by others in the area…. you still get rewarded if you do enough to tag for a reward. To say you can’t last more than 25 seconds is more to do with you than the game mechanics…. knowing your enemy moves, skills and when to use your dodges, counters, interrupts just comes all the way back to L2P I am afraid.
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Re Stealing – Oh please cmon your telling me your crying foul cos someone in an OPENWORLD environment happens to run past and grabs a kill or two is really an issue. Sure it maybe un asked for but the key is… its OPENWORLD and as such if another player or players enter your immediate vicinity the first thing that happens is trash mobs will respawn faster.. if its a vet/champ/boss mob you will have more than enpugh time (or should) to get enpugh of a tickle on it to ensure your chance of a loot drop is registered….. stealing – — – please be more sensible and less sensitive.
Re Griefing… yip I agree this has been a paing, but then again show me an MMO where there is no opportunity to do this… maybe a few but many still allow it, mainly because you cant always eliminate human nature or maybe even a call of nature.
Re Griefing – its an MMO with global participation and has been in game as long as RNG has. Added to that you mention WvWvW… which part of that don’t you understand, what you call griefing in WvWvW, I call good tactics. Its not just a jump puzzle, the main prize from OS is the badges and the blueprints for.. oh yes using against your opponents. I Any good WvWvW server will want to try to limit an opponents siege supply – that is not griefing that is sound tactic. Sure ANET have placed a cache in there for a limited amount of time… but if you want it and the achievement then you first have to weigh up the risk and rewards based on the fact it is in a battlezone and you might just fall foul of enemy tactics.. you call it griefing, I call it fair game.. consider going in with a group or rally others on the server to help out., cos I believe going solo can make you too cranky anyway!
Re Living Story against player time.. sorry but how do you expect ANET to design their content.. go back to old game models and admit defeat with their ideas on creating a fresh method of delivering Living Story openworld content that is open to all and that incorporates its own set of goals in order to progress the story. The develop content that already incorporates lengthy timescales from chapter to chapter – what more can they do except maybe put in some kind of time freeze to extend the £experience" until all the players have gotten there achievements then move on
Re Grinding/RNG – Its MMO show me one that doesn’t incorporate a grind… you see that term is open to interpretation imo. what you consider to be a grind I may say isn’t (see what I did there). No one forces you to undertake any grind that you don’t want to, but if you really cant do without the achieves then that’s you choice.
RNG is as old as the hills, you perhaps don’t realise every time you looted a chest, scavenged items off a corpse RNG has always been hidden behind it. Some items can be bought some you just got to roll the dice and take your chance… if your buying things like coffers then that’s your risk.. your certainly not forced to buy anything in GW2 its player preference. Perhaps you had not realised but ANET/NcSoft are not charity organisations and as such needs hooks to entice you, me and all the playerbase to part with some cash, nothing wrong with that – businesses all over the globe utilise the very same conditions in order to generate a profit.
Re Achievements – What is it you consider to be the larger percentage of players… the few who have whinned about not being able to do the AR dungeon cos if that is your sample size I am sorry but I think your way off. I would hazard a guess that the larger percentage of the actual game population does not see any issues..
As I said in your other thread I can support dungeon scaling as long as the trade offs are absolute and don’t allow the game to be walked thro on EASY MODE… when you say it makes many players cranky.. care to prove that cos again I think your sadly in the minority on that one
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Snowballing was much better designed and thought out.. Dragonabll is nothing more than a waste of time imo… exploitable results.. who in their right mind is going to want to jump into to a Dragonball game when the score is already 460 – 40 with your team consisting of 1 try hard and 2 -3 AFK lay downs… ANET has so much fail when it comes to team match ups (WvW has shown this already). No idea what the solution is but before any mini game of this nature gets put into game it should at least be better thought through… snowball fights and the Mad King min games were a lot better by far.
As for Moa racing.. agree ….why would we want that to stay in game.. but of course we all know the real answer don’t we!
Yep I already posted my comments on this in another thread…
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/dragonbash/Marjory-s-Journal/first#post2250304
Cant believe how poor the story was allowed to unfold and reach its end.. damp squib much…. I just hope there is another piece of the story still to land, and that this really wasn’t all we got.
from firework displays that either failed to display or couldn’t be viewed due to trash camera mechanics, a dragonball mini game suited to cheats, and time wasters forcing the achievements to be pulled from the bash totals, an RNG bird race aimed at reducing in game coin so that we would all feel we had to go play the “Press F” mini games whilst chasing the elusive special snowflake tickets. Of course ANET knew all the coin killing through gambling on birds, waypointing to locations and of course placing a fruitless grind of coffers would likely steer us all back to the gem store… and it has probably worked handsomely for them… least they could of done was actually put some effort in making the story more fulfilling and less anti-climatical imo.. but hey ho I await the next batch of RNG chest threads for the next event
Seriously hope there is more to come to this Living Story.. kitten far its been nothing more than read mail waypoint to map, run or waypoint to a place on map where there is a star.. press F, leave .. rinse repeat.. smack a few candy sacks, gamble coin on a bird then enter a cutscene or two, kill a handful of trash mobs then … collect a journal (nice idea and I hope it gets more use as time goes on) but it needs a bank slot as others have said, otherwise it just takes up another item slot in the backpack.
Otherwsie release additional bank slot upgrades.
This whole event has been nothing more than a feeble way of taking in game coin out of the players while filling the carrot cake with RNG in an attempt bore us into buying more gems, coffers etc instead of farming them. Oooh and don’t lets even get into the mess that is called Dragonball
Sorry ANET, I like the idea of Living Story but you really need to actually make stories worthwhile getting to the end of.. this was just a damp squib, just like the fireworks.
What’s worse you succeeded in fleshing out this poorly thought out content a month..
Was there really a need to put in an investigation box with nothing really to investigate, the suspects are all marked on maps so there is no challenge in finding them when they have supposedly ran away from a crime scene.. kinda like Ronny Biggs fleeing to his nearest Post Office to wait outside for the police to say can you go to your nearest police station if you don’t mind, when u have some time.
Sorry… 5/10 from me and that’s only cos I still like the idea of a Living Story in game but this one so far has been poor imo and tonight was such ante climax to what feels like it should of been a pretty big part of the storyline.
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Currently if you buy ALL the taffy needed it would cost 60g. That is the price the wings were selling for at the start of the event so it seems pretty reasonable to me.
The wings cost less than 15 g now, so it doesn’t seem al that reasonable at all. Also, its true that the wings will cost more after the event, but the same will happen to taffy (and for the same reason – no more supply).
And i don’t acually expect wings to rise too much – they weren’t that desirable even during the event, and after that the hype will be gone and there will be new flavor of the month skins to concentrate on.Also:
1. No.
2. The candy will be sticking around through the coffers that are available via the TP and the candy available there. Much like Candy Corn it will cease to drop in the open world but will still be available on the TP.
3. There is no current plan to offer Jorbreakers by any other reward mechanism.
4. Yes. The Zhaitaffy Merchant will be a permanent addition to the game sitting in Fort Mariner.so, the nr 2. answer is also “No.” it seems. Figures. Also, lol at nr 1. answer. I just can’t keep reading it as anything else than “We intended the price to be ridiculous”.
I think you will find there will be a constant supply of candy for a whiles to come… I think ANET will make sure its there…. just like the Halloween stuff… all this is nothing more than ways to leech in game coin out of the game to allow the gem sale carrots to a greater chance to be eaten. Even if the wings came down to 5g I would still consider it waste of coin tbh but thankfully mine dropped off a trash mob in Metrica within the first hour of the content going live… my one and only lucky loot drop since early Beta.. I don’t expect history to repeat itself anytime soon though
During my live stream on Friday I confirmed that the Dragon Ball achievements would not count towards the overall. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
So rather than sorting out the mess that is called Dragonball by dealing with the AFK’ers and the quitters that exploit the game in order to grab the achievements you simply wipe off the necessity to even jump into the game.
Cheers for wasting the time of those players that stuck it out, put up with the leeches.. I’m pretty sure a lot of us would of liked to take the easy route and forget about doing something that has no requirement to it anymore….
Pfft !
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Official response on the Lag issues please?
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Outside of WvWvW I cant say I have encountered anything like perma CC lock even before they changed Orr a whiles back.
Just need to learn what the signs are for impending CC from mobs, use your stunbreakers etc wisely, dodge when ya can and .. you can still fight back if you do get CC’ed.
I am sure if ANET were to change this to provide an immunity to CC for players when already stunned etc then they will have to do the same for mobs/bases etc – fair is fair.
However WvWvW I can see some mileage in an immunity period as we are dealing with “slightly better” organised enemies who tend to have differing levels of “AI”
Yes…but no word from anet even though this has been brought up in several threads. We can only hope it gets fixed by Tues when the other 5 achievements unlock.
p.s. I haven’t gotten any tickets and have prob opened over 500 easily.
Actually they have already commented on this… following the recent exploits etc they answered a thread in the bugs/support section.. and I can see that someone has already listed this above.. you might wanna check first cos this thread will likely be locked, chewed up and condemned to the duplication piles on Monday
well tbh the fireworks was nothing more than a damp squib.. lasted like a minute or 2, nothing overly spectacular if you can actually see anything, with the shocking camera system in game anyway. Anyhow maybe the finale will be better… there is a finale in overflow right!
In fairness to ANET…. the camera and targeting system in this game have always been a pile of horse poop… but they never said they had made it better just for the fireworks display
But yes.. for me its the worst camera mechanic I think I have played with, the zoom function is next to useless.. even SWTOR had a better system than this rubbish… buy cheap, get cheap I suppose tho