Guild Wars 2

Cunnart.6519:

Busko.7408:

wow.. been up a few night and was wondering why we have like 75 points only and where BT got all the manpower from all of the sudden would be very sad if its tru specially after sticking for them when they first joined.
I will wait and see.

If you are implying that our points are night are coming from ruin you are incorrect.

I have no idea where your points are coming from, it’s insane :P Every time I look BT seem to have a huge increase in points, even during the times where I expect the scores to be more equal.

Are your Russian forces playing longer than usual? Have you got an even stronger EU prime time than I thought?

You guys have really impressed me. The organisation we see from your server has to be respected. GJ guys

Hey there Paris.

We’re a small, tight knit community of 36 members, with a core of 15-18. We speak every night on TS and TS is always full of banter and random larks.

We regularly organise guild stuff, such as Orichalcum runs, Dungeon Runs, WvW and we even dabble in sPvP.

While the majority of us have already got 80s, we’re always willing to help someone new to the game with any parts they need help with, be that questions or a story mission or crafting mats to buy armour. Anything we can do to help as a guild we will.

We’re an 18+ guild, with ages ranging from 18-39 (although we do have one 16 year old, but he’s cool, so it’s all gravy).

We are currently saving up to level up my officers alt and get him a commander title to help in WvW.

We play on Desolation (EU) and we’re an official part of the alliance with the largest WvW guild on our server and are slowly building up a WvW reputation. (Very slowly :P)

We have a website at brothersofaesir.eu. If you’re interested just PM me here or whisp/mail me in game with any questions you may have.

Cheers,
Brunners.

Knasher.5607:

Ianervan.3415:

Ok, I stand corrected then. So the pugs shifted the balance

Well I was a pug myself at the time so I don’t want to take all the credit, but I will.

Seriously though, it was down to a small group of players (I know players from iron were involved, and probably players from the closely allied guilds as well, I wasn’t in iron at the time so I’m not 100% sure) rearranging their schedule to stay up late and try and turn the server around.

That is indeed how it happened. One night the server pretty much went “kitten this” and decided to do something about our lack of night presence. IRON started staying up till 5/6/7am every night and all of us smaller guilds that could manage it helped our where they could.

RUIN jumped on on the Thursday night of that match against Kodash, IIRC.

Otaur.9268:

Here is a thought, remove Repair costs on stomp for WvW, add in an Attackers event system like you guys have for Defense. Spent about an hour tonight fighting 12 – 1 odds trying to take a keep. I realized they are being rewarded DEFENSE CREDIT and making Money / Exp / Karma, while my team of only 5 people, who were fighting this zerg and trying to take the keep was being awarded NOTHING. That seems a bit harsh, where is my ATTACKERS CREDIT?

When you successfully take that keep you get WAY more credit than the defenders got for defending it.

If you attack it and fail to take it…well, that’s a failed assault. Why should you be rewarded for failure?

I have a norn rifle warrior and I love him to pieces <3

The way it’s been described is that you won’t be able to put runes into the Ascended armour.

What will probably happen is you’ll get a few extra stats as if you’ve got an orb already included in your armour, rather than being able to put a rune in yourself.

At least, that’s how I’ve read it. I have a feeling most people will continue using exotics in their day to day playing because of the versatility runes give builds that I don’t think will be replicable with Ascended.

Of course, I could be TOTALLY way off the mark. Wait and see I guess!

Because we’re not a cool magic class?

Zanthrax.6538:

dirtyklingon.2918:

Arius.7031:

Metafrank.9017:

If we wait till it’s released we wait till it’s too late. If we wait till we get official information on it, we probably also wait until it’s too late, because the GW2-Edition of ArenaNet prefers not to inform players wtf is going on.

I don’t wanna ruin things before they start, but I prefer to step on the brakes BEFORE the car hits the wall.

Yeah, it’s already been in development long enough that you’re probably a few months late. And besides, you don’t know at all how it’s going to be implemented at all. It could be no different than how exotics behave compared to rares. Anyone else notice that it said “slight”?

even if it’s +1 stat budget over exotics, it’s still a betrayal of the core concept this game has been sold on for the past 5 years.

Anet have stated before that end game gear progression is horizontal more like side grades perfecting your gear not in large jumps or " tiers " of gear like another MMO we know of. I don’t hear protests that the legendary has a +1 over normal exotic weapons. Calm down. You are not forced to get this new gear…If you can’t still do whatever it is your doing currently in all aspects and including wvw with the exotics you have already obtained…then I will literally give you a million dollars…

legendaries dont have anything over regular exotics.

Been talking to a guildie and I was a little bothered by it too. He, however, thinks it’s going to be a similar situation to Ascended Armour in GW1. I.E. You get your current armour ascended at the end of a quest or something similar.

I hope to god that he’s correct.

XxTAFxX.6741:

Brunners.7251:

I just want to point out that you’re right. IRON don’t go in EB, from what I can tell it was sorted very early that IRON will take the BL and RUIN EB.

IRON put in a kitten hard shift every night to try and keep some semblance of dignity for our server.

They can always be found with at least one commander on, trying to rally the PUGs.

The unfortunate thing, and the thing that differentiates us from the other servers is our PUGs are horribly disorganised while both the other two servers have PUGs that listen and help out.

Ours just sort of do their own thing.

It’s not the pugs,it’s the commanders.
if they don’t do there job right and just run back and forth capping stuff,then the pugs will follow there ways.

Also i would like to say sorry to vs for not putting there name in this part of the msg i put.

“Just look at bt they all had food buffs.Also they held a few back to defend.
This is what we are lacking.”
even vs tried to defended the stuff they just capped.

It’s just annoys me how ruin gets all the lime light and makes out they carried us,when there was more pugs and small guilds in eb than them.
In the end some smaller guilds moved over to there guild,but still it’s not all about ruin.
It’s about team play and that seems lacking in the bigger guilds eyes.

its like it’s all about them and pugs means nothing even thought we have put in the hard work as well.
oh well i guess i will step down in wvw for now,why should i bother wasting my hard earned cash on upgrades and armours fixes,when us small ppl mean nothing to the bigger fish.

I don’t know about RUIN, I’ve never entered their TS or been in EB beyond getting the map completion.

But I can tell you the IRON commanders do a kitten hard job in trying to defend points and communicating. They leave scouts at every fortification we hold and often at strategic points along the routes as well.

The thing is, they do most of this over TS (details for which they hand out regularly in map chat). The best way for us to be organised is to make use of TS, and there are a number of guilds that help out in the borderlands.

We’re not the unorganised mess people assume. We’ve got a highly dedicated and very organised core. We just can’t get the pug’s to help out.

Rystlwulf.1476:

So let me understand this – when a warrior specs for high dmge and low survivability that’s okay because the guy doesn’t know his own class.

However, when a class that is built for high dmge and low survivability actually has high dmge – that’s just wrong a needs a nerf?

Thieves need a nerf because they can kill warriors, but warriors should be able to spec higher dmge and still have more surviviability than thieves?

Let’s be honest, people don’t like the thief class because no one likes getting owned 1v1 and that is what the class is designed to do.

Want an effective counter to the thief – run in a group – problem solved.

Except the thief is inherently highly survivable because it has insane escape ability. The thief can waltz in, spike damage and then he’s off again.

The warrior doesn’t have that option. If he’s speccing to do damage he’s hanging around to do that damage because he’s got very little option to go anywhere.

Thief = Spike damage AND escape
Warrior = Spike damage OR escape.

Where did they go?

XxTAFxX.6741:

I’v been on des server since the three day head start.

Now i’m only a one man band,but i play many hours during the day and night in wvw.
This is just my opinion but i’m close to the truth.

I’m sick and tyred of ruin and iron trying to get all the glory,in eb i did not see one iron guild in eb anyway,maybe they don’t do eb,i and many other smaller guilds have put sweat and blood in playing eb.

Yes i do agree ruin had it easy,but also lacked a lot of stuff as well,to me they seems like they was farming rather than tactics most of the time.
(example what happened in sm,hanging at the top let vs take it and charge down to take it back,rinse and repeat.)
No one on our server had any food buffs at all or defend the garrisons.
That alone shows we are not rdy for t1.
Just look at bt they all had food buffs.Also they held a few back to defend.
This is what we are lacking.

We take a garrison then run off to another or a supply area,then come back to take it back again.
this seemed to happen a lot,not once did anyone stay behind to defend it.
Now i know it’s not all down to ruin to do that,but if they was leading the groups.it is down to there commander to sort it.there was no defence in most of there tactics tbh.
I’m not trying to bring them down far from it,all i’m saying it there a lot of stuff lacking.
it got that boring on the night.even i use an alt and got it lvled quite far.

Now they got some competition,it seems like the excuses are coming out.

Hopefully we do go back down in ranks,because maybe the big mouths that have brought our server down and gave us bad rep.will move to other servers so they put up with them and get to know what it feels like.
not all des players are like them.
We was a good server,but now we have so much bad rep and hate because of this.

Just watch out bt,i hope you don’t get these type of ppl when you hit the n1 spot.
It’s going to take a long time to fix the dmg this server has got because of them.

I just want to point out that you’re right. IRON don’t go in EB, from what I can tell it was sorted very early that IRON will take the BL and RUIN EB.

IRON put in a kitten hard shift every night to try and keep some semblance of dignity for our server.

They can always be found with at least one commander on, trying to rally the PUGs.

The unfortunate thing, and the thing that differentiates us from the other servers is our PUGs are horribly disorganised while both the other two servers have PUGs that listen and help out.

Ours just sort of do their own thing.

supergica.8652:

Waar Kijk Je Naar.8713:

Sure you can block Backstab, if you are a Guardian. It’s hard to block if you can’t see it coming. It costs Initiative so you can use it atleast 4 times, probably more if traited into initiative. Block it once, no problem.

I don’t even play Rifle Warrior. I’m against unjustified nerfs. I’m posting the same thing in the Thief forum where people whine about exaggerated 20k-in-1-second bursts.

Montages such as provided in this thread (and others) prove nothing. Yeah, you see him downing (=/=killing) people with glasscannon builds in a short time using certain skills, but you don’t see him being useless for 60-90 seconds afterwards.

Like I said, you are not familiar with how the Backstab works. It doesn’t matter how much initiative it cost. You can only use it once and then you are out of stealth and have to wait 3.3 to enter again (if you break stealth you get the debuff that you cannot enter again for 3.3 seconds). And why do you say you have to be a guardian? You have the 5 skill on the shield IIRC, it will block everything for 5 seconds. If the glass canon thief hits his opening skills on the block he will try to run away, he has nothing left.

I agree that such montages should not be used for balancing, but the thief’s forum has been spammed with nerf cries in response to such videos and examples provided by underleveled chars. And so anet has taken notice and repeatedly nerfed the thief despite abundant contrary evidence. It’s only fair that the same approach should be taken to the other professions wouldn’t you say?

Abundant contrary evidence? All I’ve seen is evidence to suggest that not only can the thief have a (very high) chance of hitting some insane burst damage, he can then very easily escape if it all goes kitten up.

Warriors can do one or the other. Thieves can do both. That’s where I see the main difference.

Also, the fact that, no matter what you say, a warrior would have to have a run of good fortune to block a backstab.

Kuroin.1703:

Brunners.7251:

In my mind they’re completely different scenarios.

99% of the time you can see the warrior kneeling and pointing a large gun at you, and if you can’t you need to pay more attention.

100% of the time you have no idea you’re about to die to a backstab from a thief.

Warning, stupidity will be found in overflow above.

If you can’t see a thief moving in on you or having your teammates ping him or anything such then perhaps you need to keep your eyes open sir.

In WVW as that was recorded in, it can be chaotic and very hard to see when a warrior kneels down to shoot you since he can do this from 1500 range. Obviously the same goes for any class that has burst. But saying people need to pay better attention for one thing but not the other in such situations is to be frank just ludicrous.

I keep my eyes open, all the time, and I am amazed if you genuinely think the warrior and his Kill Shot are even in the same ball park as the thief burst.

Your best bet is probably either Desolation or Devonas Rest.

Desolation has RUIN and DR has PRO. I think they’re the only two largish american guilds that I know are over here at the minute.

In my mind they’re completely different scenarios.

99% of the time you can see the warrior kneeling and pointing a large gun at you, and if you can’t you need to pay more attention.

100% of the time you have no idea you’re about to die to a backstab from a thief.

Letifer.4360:

only have 60 +/- need 400 badges for legendary (that’s why they are so hard to get) the amount of time lost to get that crap was more than the time it took me to get a full dungeon set plus a full karma set

You need 500 for the legendary.

Jamais vu.5284:

BrunoBRS.5178:

by that logic, WvW ia broken too.

The similarity ends at the upscaling. I am talking about convenience of accessible mobs, gathered in a single location, an easily resettable instance with likely higher rewards (both EXP and loot) than your random PVE monster or player-kill in WvW.
You do not find anything like that in WvW. And it’s much healthier for the game to have a large subset of low-levels spreading out in WvW and working on a multitude of different objectives, than the same large subset grinding a single dungeon over and over again (and believe be me, it will happen).
This all of course if we don’t have a misunderstanding here and Colin was talking about something entirely different.

There’s all sorts of PvE mobs in Wvw and they give you an absolute crap ton of exp for killing them…? One of the complaints people have in wvw is people spend to much time farming the pve mobs for exp.

captaincrunch.6731:

Well, all I can say with certainty is that the supposed 100% ecto rate (at least 1) on high level exotics is not true in the slightest – no matter what kit you use.

You can get anywhere from 0-3 ecto’s from a weapon.

There’s no 100% ecto rate.

Not that I’ve ever seen or heard, anyway.

I don’t even think Ecto’s count as the “rarer materials” either, they’re just a regular material and you can get anywhere from NONE to THREE.

These are small sample sizes that seem to indicate more a string of bad luck than a necessary nerf.

Now I’m not saying there definitely WASN’T a nerf, but these sample sizes are tiny, so it’s impossible to say.

and that 5000 rares dropping 0.6…well, I’m no good at maths or stats so I have no idea if that’s significant.

Sent you a PM regarding our guild.

Ianervan.3415:

Main problem isn’t even the high cost (which has not been adjusted after badge drop nerf). Main problem is: WvW set is ugly, and with only one stats.

EnoLive.2367:

WTF hell why not just make everything free.
Why is it that when a little effort is needed to gain something peeps always want it easier

And why does every no-life player think that time wasted equals difficulty?

Do you think getting 100 gold in PvE is a matter of difficulty? Really? Like, farming orichalcum daily is difficult? Farming dragons? Anyone ever lost to any of those three dragons?

The point here is that WvW armor is ugly and costs so much that by the time you get 1 WvW armor, a dedicated PvE farmer can probably get 10 exotic armor.

We could talk about difficulty if we had 10 sets of WvW armor, with 1-3 being “difficult” to get.

What I don’t get is if you find it ugly, what does it even matter to you how expensive it is?

You clearly don’t like it, so why are you so seemingly frustrated at your inability to get it?

SneakyErvin.3056:

Its a question of player to player priority.

You cant base everything around the mind of one player. I also doubt that the Lost event will take up too much time. It will probably be something along the lines of MK popping up in LA, then you can do Lost when you want, since it will change the world and probably bring a new zone into the game (without Risen I sure hope).

The lost event has a couple of one time only things that I imagine will be those cutscene type things, but it also has a one time only couple of hours long event chain on the 18th

for anyone having issues viewing the thread, here’s how to fix it.

In the url https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Project-Desolation-Recruiting-Additional-North-American-and-Russian-Guilds/page/3#post669613

See the 3#post at the end? turn that 3 back into a 1.

The thread is trying to display a page three that doesn’t exist.

MagnusLL.8473:

Brunners.7251:

I really don’t think we need any more Americans. We seem to do just fine the way we are. We need morning players, not more night ones.

We are doing fine now during the EU night but the maps are very far from being full. The moment another server emerges with a better night presence we will be back to being nightcapped.

It’s really pretty easy: unless you’ve queues on all 4 maps you’re playing with less than the maximum amount of players. And at the moment we only have queues during EU prime time on Desolation.

I agree than the EU mornings are our weakest spot right now, but we could do with increased coverage on all the other non-prime time slots too.

Also, west coast US is on pacific time i.e. GMT – 8. That means 9 AM CET is their midnight so that would already be a start for covering those mornings.

We don’t really want massive queues though. I’d hate if I (who’s been on Deso since the headstart) had to start queuing for 2+ hours a night because of Americans.

I don’t mind the 5-15 minute queues we have at EU primetime now, but I’m hesitant to suggest making it so our queues increase is a good thing.

Also, I’ve noticed that when Desolation has queues, we’re normally performing worse in WvW. Whether this is because the queues are stopping the hardcore WvWers getting in or what I don’t know, but I’ve noticed we always seem to do better when there’s little to no queue.

I really don’t think we need any more Americans. We seem to do just fine the way we are. We need morning players, not more night ones.

We’re seen as the server that thought ahead first and got the help they needed.

Wandred.4583:

I hope Anet saw this thread. And make some decisions about NA guild.

…?

What NA guild?

You realise the people who did this (IRON) are EU, right?

Hey Frosted, just to say I sent you a PM, cheers

ComeAndSee.1356:

I can solo camps + non-buffed Supervisor’s on my Guardian.

Still missing the point.

Hey, just to say I sent you a private message

You realise colours are based off of what rank your server is in that tier?

1st: Green
2nd: Blue
3rd: Red

It sort of makes sense that Green might win more regularly because they were number 1 anyway, meaning they probably have more coverage or are stronger than you. It’s not unusual to see green win.

I think the thinking is something along the lines of:

Having the organisational skills and abilities to form a nightforce of your own time zone players is a skill to be respected.

However, having the organisational skills and forethought to fill a hole that you realise you couldn’t do by yourself with some overseas help is cheating and not fair.

I think often times we forget how much the French sacrifice to stay up that late, but at the same time they point blank refuse to acknowledge the work put in and the organisation required to keep our server ticking with the increasing community.

If you don’t think the score is important why not just…not pay attention to it? Just because it’s there and you might be losing doesn’t mean you have to sit and stare at the score the whole time?

Why can’t you go on about your business in WvW without being worried about your score?

Raehvyn.4530:

It had been a while since we had taken the keep. A good 20 minutes? I don’t know, I mostly spent that time dying trying to get to the keep in the first place. Just seems implausible that they would be hidden for that long with so many people inside the keep. They eventually left of course and the moment they did the keep just got completely zerged.

I hate that it works like that even if a mesmer is in there. I have a hard time really accepting that a single class could completely bypass the defense of a keep taking an entire zerg along with it. Sort of ruins the element of back and forth struggling for a keep.

Especially with our commanders being so thorough about hidden mesmers just seems implausible but then it happened so somewhere along the way something went wrong.

I have personally seen a mesmer successfully hide in a keep for an hour and a half waiting for the opportune time to portal a zerg in.

Don’t under estimate how willing to hide those guys are.

If you’d only just taken the place you’ll probably find you hadn’t cleaned out all the mesmers from inside.

Some of them are slippery kittens who can hide for ages without being caught, if you don’t look hard enough.

And if you don’t look hard enough you’ll quickly find an enemy zerg inside your tower/keep

NA has it’s fair share of non english speakers too. They seem to be doing ok.

DavidMonthen.4398:

I thought it was time we got our own community forums for Desolation.

Here you go: http://www.we-will-desolate.net

So…do we have…two forums now?

God, wait so long for one and then two come along at once. Typical

Doyen.7063:

I just want to put some information into circulation about the location of the servers.

Forgive my lack of the internet and network knowledge, but to me this is the most that I can do.

I’m on Seafarers Rest, an EU labelled server.
I live in the UK, so i’m GMT.
I’m logged into the game and stood in EB after just porting in, the time on my mini map reads 20:25.
I go into options and UI, change the time to read “Server time”, it changes to 13:25. 7 hours behind me, indicating that the server is in the US.
I type /ip into chat
206.127.159.140
I then type the ip address into www.whatsmyipaddress.com – it indicates that its geophysical location is Texas, US.

To me that suggests that despite playing on an EU labelled server, i’m actually playing on a server with its location in the US.

This leads me onto my second point. There is something fundamentally wrong with wvw at the moment. A huge part of this is pvdoor.

If all the servers were to be dismantled and new ones created they could quite feasibly be global servers, with all nationalities on them speaking all languages. Truly cosmopolitan server, with multitude of cultures all mingling and interacting with each other, as the internet should be.

Final Fantasy XI used a feature called (auto-translate) almost 10 years ago now, to get over the language and communication barrier, a genius thing. Keywords, landmarks, items, skills – everything fundamental to the game belonged in it. A similar feature could be used to help over come any communication issues.

If people really hate foreign languages that much, just ignore the speaker.

It is time to remove labelled servers and merge them all into global ones, the “nightcapping” issues would eventually settle themselves out. The only argument against it that makes sense is language issues. A simple solution as I pointed out above could help to resolve this.

The other hint that the servers (for WvW at least) are all located in the States is that when you hover over a portrait of a party member, in brackets it always has an American Server. I think atm when you hover over for my party we’re all apparently on Yaks Bend. Changes every week.

Ravenblade.7685:

Brunners.7251:

Yep that’s what he said. He created it with the intention that only about 5% of the playerbase would be able to finish it.

Huh? He said “maybe 5% of people” not “5% of playerbase”. It was an ad hoc guesstimate not a statistical constant. Meaning the real number is probably a bit higher.
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Here’s his exact quote:
“I designed it with the goal of having only ~5% of the population able to get all the way”

Also, he actually said that when he first dreamed this puzzle up he wanted it to be single player, which is why it’s all zergy at the bottom, because there was only meant to be one of you.

Puz.8529:

I am actually a bit worried about glitches as well. Twice in one hour I had a non Thief/Mesmer disappear on me while I was hitting them.

First one was a warrior trying to kill one of our guards. I jumped him, then at 30% he was just gone.. Poof

Then about 20 minutes later, a necro was hitting our supply camp, I ran out, shot him once on the run. Then again, poof…

Couldn’t report since without a target, no more name/account to be reported..

That could be the old alt+f4 trick.

Gankfest.4965:

I’m not going to get into why classes are un-balanced, it’s just a lot of explaining and I could create a whole thread just on that alone. If you do sPvP and Wv3 enough, you’ll see the problems for yourself.

You do realise that WvW isn’t SUPPOSED to be balanced, right? That’s why they changed that Guardian skill for sPvP but not for WvW. sPvP is supposed to be balanced and equal, while WvW is meant to be….well, what it is now.

Saying classes are unbalanced in sPvP and saying they’re unbalanced in Wuvwuv are two completely separate issues. The former will be fixed, the latter will not.

I think if you complete two paths in under 30 minutes your next run will have time based DR on it. Not 100% on that though

Yep that’s what he said. He created it with the intention that only about 5% of the playerbase would be able to finish it.

On Desolation EU I’d have to say the ones I’ve had most fun listening to and following orders from are Cyanidestar of [IRON], Nox Wrex also of [IRON] and Gray Hatheon of [LoR].

There are a number of other respectable commanders on the server though, along with a few absolute melons that you need to avoid at all costs (they usually only turn up when we’re winning though, thankfully)

Hey there OtakuD,

I’m the leader of a guild on the EU server Desolation.

We’re called Brothers of Aesir, and essentially we’re a PvX “do a bit of everything guild”. While our primary focus is currently in WvW and Dungeons, if you ask our members for help at any point you will get the help you require!

Need help clearing a zone? That’s fine. Need help on a story mission? That’s cool too. Need some crafting mats? No problem, we’ve got a bunch spare.

We are about 35 members strong at the minute, with a core of about 15 that use teamspeak every night. We’re dedicated to making BoA a community in which we can be proud to represent and as such we’re very picky about who we recruit, we don’t want to disrupt the beautiful community and friendships we’ve already started to form in Brothers of Aesir.

As I stated, TS is used regularly and this allows us to effectively run dungeons, play wvw and have a ton of banter. We love to have fun while we play. Also, we’re 18+ with a one week trial period. This is to make sure that both parties are a fit for each other.

If you’re interested just send me a whisp or in game mail at Brunners.7251,

Cheers
Brunners
brothersofaesir.eu

Wayshuba.5912:

All those defending ANet in this case need to remember one thing – this is a festival not an END GAME raid.

In any other MMO I have played, all festival gear was always put in easy reach of players. It is meant to celebrate the time of the year. The only other time I have seen this type of behavior from a company (though not as bad as ArenaNet here) was LOTRO’s four year “grindaversary”. That Grindaversary became a pr and financial nightmare for Turbine and, quite honsetly, they still haven’t recovered from the customers lost over it (as a long time shareholder in WB, I am well aware of what the effect was).

Please name any, just any ONE MMO, that has made their festival gear as RARE as end game raid loot before you come back with “it’s a gamble, you should know better.” Any experienced MMO players have never been subjected to festival stuff (especially skins with no stats) that has been treated as raid level rarity. So of course many were taken off guard by this (just for the record, I wasn’t one of them). I feel for them. Some human beings still have empathy in this world – apparently a lot of other don’t.

They are applying MapleStory success tactics to GW2. Unfortunately, they have entirely different market demographics and in the long run, like the other company I mentioned, they will feel the effects of this and suddenly be making content light expansions and selling them for $70 because their player base has become to small and they are desperate to get the needed financial targets.

Like it or not, regardless of your stance on this, ArenaNet just tarnished their reputation over this. Same as the other company did over their grindaversary. It would be wise to remember an old truism: “It takes years to build a good reputation and minutes to destroy it.”

You’ve experienced one of four parts of this Halloween event. You have no idea what the rest of the Halloween festival gear will be. Hell, I already have one pretty cool looking back piece for halloween, as well as a pair of free devil horns.

You should really wait till the event is over before you complain about unreachable festival items. The skins are supposed to be rare. Doesn’t mean they’re the only festival gear.

EnoLive.2367: “Simple solution:
Kill WvWvW and make it GvGvG.
Lets face it the game name is Guild Wars Not Server Wars.
Problem solved”

You do realise the name Guild Wars has nothing to do with the ability to have guilds battle in game, right? The name is entirely to do with the lore and history of Tyria.

While GvG would be good, claiming it should replace Wuvwuv because of the name of the game is incorrect.

As for nightcapping…well. Who cares about the score anyway? If (as others have said) I come home to a map entirely the other colour, it just gives me a ton of stuff to do when I get in. I live for those moments.

That screen is for sPvP stuff, so that question would be better asked over in the sPvP forum

tealover.3491:

A guild can claim camps, towers, ect. to buff and add the guild logo to the flags; but is there anyway for a random other person to find out the full name of guild that has claimed the location?

Not unless there’s a defender of said guild also stood around then so you can click on their name (at which point their guild name is under their health bar).

Otherwise it’s just the emblem you’re looking at.