Guild Wars 2

Needs hidden cat room.

- Live in the Bay Area.
- Created the NODE guild recruitment video and it would be fun to see how it is used and people’s reactions to it.
- Original GW1 player because ArenaNet was a spin-off from old Blizzard, where some friends used to work in QA and Support. I am an uncredited tester of WC2.

Second day and I see others also choosing walls over gates….

Well, ArenaNet’s gamble worked. The F2P account purchased HoT. He has to wait three days apparently before restrictions are lifted. He’s not quite level 80 yet, but has had the chance to run in WvW with us after unlocking it, on FA, in T2, a tier most players would consider to be bad at the moment…

Seems to me the system is working as Anet intended.

IMHO it is unfortunate that necro is so bugged in this beta because necro provides some of the best AOE damage in the game and the lack of necro damage may be offsetting the time it takes to kill a keep lord. I’ve been running around in a zerker guardian build to try to make up for it.

Yea I think people who were in the last stress test don’t realize they are able to play in this one too. I want to see how this map plays with a big zerg rolling around.

I have a feeling that players are going to be hitting walls more than trying to attack gates. The gate areas feel way too hardened against an attack compared to walls. It’s those auto-turret things right above the gates that might be doing it. Walls have nothing comparable.

Most of the time I was tagged up I only had 5-10 players around. We hardly ever had the supply to deal with sieging an upgraded gate area.

Hi!
Check out the fort-aspenwood.com forums. There are quite a few PvX guilds recruiting.

Oh man maybe I’ll roll another class then.

You can’t use siege either. Says unable to use while transformed.

Crashed when trying to talk to the Arcane Eye Agent in the desert fort on the east side… sorry I don’t know the name of it.

—> Crash <—
Assertion: CParser::Validate(buffer->Ptr(), buffer->Term(), true ) == buffer->Term()
File: ..\..\..\Engine\Text\TextApi.cpp(632)
App: Gw2Stage.exe
Pid: 3408
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 01360000
ProgramId: 105
Build: 52772
When: 2015-09-08T19:43:31Z 2015-09-08T12:43:31-07:00
Uptime: 0 days 3:58:10
Flags: 0

—> System <—
Name: PC
IpAddr: 192.168.1.85 192.168.235.1 192.168.18.1
Processors: 8 [AuthenticAMD:15:2:0]
OSVersion: Windows 6.1 (64 bit)

—> System Memory <—
Physical: 7628MB/16300MB 46%
Paged: 11585MB/20394MB 56%
Virtual: 1894MB/ 4095MB 46%
Load: 53%
CommitTotal: 8809MB
CommitLimit: 20394MB
CommitPeak: 9123MB
SystemCache: 8497MB
HandleCount: 25293
ProcessCount: 72
ThreadCount: 1171

—> Process Memory <—
Private: 1837MB
WorkingSet: 1768MB
PeakWorkingSet: 2190MB
PageFaults: 479775223

—> Game Context <—
MapId: 1069
Flags: 0×241
ElapsedTime: 00:52:32

—> World State <—
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[DbgHelp.dll is C:\Windows\system32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 6.1.7601.17514 (64/32-bit compatible)]

—> ClientContextThreadProc Thread 0×14ec <—

—> Trace <—
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—> Thread registers <—
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—> Error Logs <—
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Debug token ‘0×3e683’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Texture missing mip chain: 0×050c75
Texture missing mip chain: 0×050c76
Debug token ‘0×366cf’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Debug token ‘0×366cf’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
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Content is referencing a propID that doesn’t exist propId=‘1777865426238210572’
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Content is referencing a propID that doesn’t exist propId=‘1777865426238210572’
Debug token ‘0×3e683’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Model ‘0×005cc0’: Failed to resolve AimIK bone indices.
Map load hang on STATE_MODELS_STREAM detected: MapId: 1069, Position: (14920.700195, -24572.800781, -4120.029785), Completion: 0.000000
Content is referencing a propID that doesn’t exist propId=‘1777865426238210572’
Debug token ‘0×3e683’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Debug token ‘0×366cf’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Debug token ‘0×366cf’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Debug token ‘0×3e683’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Debug token ‘0×366cf’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Debug token ‘0×366cf’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Debug token ‘0×366cf’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Debug token ‘0×366cf’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Debug token ‘0×366cf’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Debug token ‘0×366cf’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Debug token ‘0×366cf’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Debug token ‘0×366cf’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Debug token ‘0×366cf’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Debug token ‘0×366cf’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.
Debug token ‘0×3e683’: Lightning ran out of space for new bolts.

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chaly.7638:

Chaba.5410:

..Or will there be an API method available to detect if an account is free-to-play?

From my point of view the ability to access the world-vs-world (f2p account without lv60 character) is needed in the account API. We’re using this information for server affiliation.

Since F2P accounts have many other restrictions in addition to not being able to play WvW until lvl 60, it would allow for a wider variety of applications to expose account type through /v2/account. The same can be said of core accounts and HoT accounts since core accounts will not have the new class, masteries, or access to HoT maps.

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

If the ‘free to play’ players love it so much they want no restrictions: solution is easy, buy the game. And don’t give me ‘but some players can’t afford crap’. While it’s true for some player, those are a huge minority. The permanent ‘test account’, that’s free to play basically fixes a bit issue: People don’t want to spend money on something they are not sure of. With the current f2p account, and if you are serious enough to want to wvw (wich is pretty much endgame content), then you gotta pay the bill. Make Anet a healthy company. That’s the sign ‘ok i like the game enough that I shoudl buy it’. 45 euro is a steal for f2p player if you consider how much they get.

It was ArenaNet’s business decision to offer these free accounts and allow them into WvW at level 60 just as it was their business decision to originally sell GW2 as a buy-once game with no subscription fee. I’ll leave it to you to spam messages at F2P players to buy the game.

SEA players please contact Dx Discreet guild contact wxyzabcd.2569 (alphabets) or GK Ghastly Knights GzBiker.1927 (Alderbarran) for more information about SEA on FA.

XIII is recruiting all OCX players looking for a more casual WvW experience.

danofzi.4870:

Disagree about WvWvW restriction for F2P players.

I introduced this game to my friends, and I want to let them experience the funniest things of GW2.

I agree with you.

Everyone says +1 to this until you get a guy, a friend of yours or a friend of a guildmate, etc., who gets one of these F2P accounts. Case in point: friend of owner of the FA ts server is on a F2P account. He wants to join us in WvW, expects it even since F2P is advertised as WvW at lvl 60. And we want him in WvW with us.

windwarrior.6139:

Hi all,

I wanted to raise the topic on how sad it has to be a wvw player in BG or JQ.
I am a member of Yak’s Bend, and all i see during our runs vs BG or JQ or even TC for that matter when they are in tier 1, which ill doubt theyll come to again, is that unless someone from the other servers doesent hold their hand, they cant do anything. So BG,TC and JQ have decided to form alliances, have people log in their other accounts on Yaks Bend and spy on locations of commanders, and lately even DDOS. Talk about tier 1 servers being pathetic. First of all…. all of you who are doing WvW on BG,JQ or TC…. learn to play WvW. Because even the spies u send or the Alliances you make, cant do **** against Yak’s Bend, but resorting to DDOS’ing. Thats a new low. All I can say about you people is just that I’m so disappointed. Instead of playing the game properly, you decide to hack and cheat, so that you may stay on “top”. Just pathetic.

Clearly this poster did not know what was in store when notorious BG/JQ and BG/TC cross-server guilds made an alliance and transferred to Yak’s Bend to push that server into T1.

Hardcore OCX player looking for a home in T2? Consider Fort Aspenwood, home to the only GvG-focused OCX guild in T2: Embers Rising [ER].

Calling all SEA players interested in rebuilding T2 into a tier with well-rounded coverage and great fights without the blobs of T1!

Clearly it is alphabetical order.

Grav.3568:

I liked the second one, when they had that event in the Plains of Ashford where players faced off against Kralkatorrik’s minions, and whoever died actually became a minion themselves. It was like GW2’s version of the zombie apocalypse…

Oh you mean this weekend? Most of the time I was in WvW, lamenting at how much the game is turning into nagware for this kitten ed expansion.

That was fun, but got messed up cuz not all the servers started the event when it was supposed to start. My server started the event like 2m before shutdown. Lol.

Muntedface’s OCX guild on Fort Aspenwood is looking for players who want to be hardcore. His guild ER Embers Rising focuses on GvGs and zerg-busting.

Liston.9708:

I will present the idea if it was as big a group as you think, good business practice would lead anet to devout the resources. Resources are a finite number and will be devoted to the largest group of players (or that spend $$)….

See, that’s where players get kittened off. Because there was a large group of players who were around. The GvG players are like 5% of what they were these days. They got OS and now finally guild halls. Three years for guild halls, something that not only GvG players were asking for.

I second this!

It was really nice to have groups of players who would come out of structures to fight.

phoutthasinh.9765:

Chaba.5410:

Hi!
Check out http://www.fort-aspenwood.com/index.php?/forum/53-sea-guilds/

There’s a few other guilds in SEA too, like MKN, who are Japanese.

Hi Thank you your help! it seems MKN is not in the link you gave me? maybe they are on different world?

MKN Mikan Guild has a video thread here. They are a casual WvW guild. You can try contacting them directly: Suzukisan.3107

I also recommend GK, Dx, and WB.

Nah. The ‘trajectory’ you are talking about, yea I get it. I’ve been there myself. That progression is logical. Militia zergs get too easy to fight at some point so we move up to fighting against other guilds and then eventually we may dominate other guilds until there is no longer any challenge.

What you’re not realizing though is that a lot of us “retire” from the GvG scene eventually. We either have quit GW2 completely or we’ve gone WvW casual because we can no longer commit to the time requirements to be at the top of the game.

I don’t really see a point to trying to reconcile differences because it seems such a minuscule thing to the bigger picture.

I was laughing so hard!

Hi!
Check out http://www.fort-aspenwood.com/index.php?/forum/53-sea-guilds/

There’s a few other guilds in SEA too, like MKN, who are Japanese.

Reeinoz.8017 and Kendrox.9583 are available to answer any questions for OCX players.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

different servers have different cultures. WvW is not a mega-server system. Veteran players become familiar with each other and habits and strategies form.

Agreed. It is different solutions to same issues IMHO.

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

Also I don’t recall anywhere there are rules against multiple accounts and sharing information between servers

Any rule against that would cripple legitimate uses such as when guilds on opposite servers message each other to discover which map they are on so they can meet and have some fun battles. Or GvG guilds arranging a scrim. Or when roamers come across each other and duel then message each other to say go again or good fight. Or when players have accounts on opposing servers so they can duel/small man fight their friends.

Players seem to often forget that there is no open world PvP in Guild Wars 2, something that players from other MMOs are used to, and WvW is used as the replacement for that.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

I only left because I hated Fort Aspenwood so much.

A much more interesting question in this forum would be “Why do you hate another server?” After all, servers are random collections of groups of players.

I personally have played on servers that would be considered a target of hate for FA players: TC, SOS, and YB.

When you challenge your own personal feelings and preconceptions, you pretty quickly realize the fallacy of your hate. (Unless you are one of those people who never think critically and grow.) I won’t say all server communities are the same just like not all guilds are the same, only that server communities all face the same issues.

Good point PariahX. There are legit players who will get those accounts just as legit players purchased the $10 accounts. How the rest of us approach them says more about ourselves than the player using those accounts. Will it be a witchhunt or a welcome?

Jayne.9251:

Spies can also demoralize the map by negatively commenting on a commander until A: commander gets fed up and logs; B: players start to believe the spy and abandon commander; C: people start to fight back in map chat and cause a big toxic mess that makes people log out.

That’s agent provocateur. Many players who criticize commanders on their own servers are unintentional agents provocateur.

Something a guildmate wrote that is extremely useful to this discussion:
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Not everything you see is mere spying. Let’s break it down.

Spy {specifically gathering intel

We know it’s done by many servers, but consider that spying is basically just gathering and reporting intel. So someone has an account on another server, we can presume that they are seen as a ‘friendly’ to that server and they report position or intent to our server. Or vice versa.

Saboteur {specifically damaging stuff

This is commonly your siege troll. Someone who throws down inappropriate build sites [or too many] in front of inexperienced or distracted players in order to waste supply. They walk golems off edges, build ridiculous numbers of balli’s inside keeps to deny upgrades or repairs. But it isn’t limited to siege trolls, some can put down portals that send people off cliffs, lead militia in to a choke or other obviously deadly situation.

Agent Provocateur {specifically misleading players, creating drama or convincing some to do unwise things.

This is incredibly effective but requires a higher level of skill, unless you do it unwittingly.

The skilled AP must be patient and create a reputation and relationship with their target. Personally I can’t imagine doing that in a game and finding it not tedious work. However some people find it to be rewarding.

What most players don’t understand is that they can be unwitting or de-facto agent provocateurs when they instigate drama only for drama’s sake. Sometimes conflict arises legitimately as people storm together for a cause, however sometimes people intentionally troll purely for the glee of experiencing drama. They might also be wholly uncomfortable with another player who they have unresolved issues with and therefore (consciously or unconsciously) have less than constructive communication whenever this player is involved. When someone does either of the above, what they’re doing is deep-sixing the morale of the server to the benefit of our opponents.

We can’t root out the AP merely by suspecting that someone is such because they create drama. This actually is more destructive as the paranoia creates a bigger, more toxic and tedious specter than any effort by even the best AP’s.

Instead we can look at the wisdom of our actions, especially when someone asks us to join in.

Remember, it’s just a game, but it’s a group game and success depends on the group’s success.
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My own opinion about each:

Spying, the passing of information, is in my opinion a complete waste of time. The game gives plenty of feedback and the ability to read that feedback and predict enemy movement is one of the aspects I measure a WvW commander by. Spies are only saving a few seconds time.

Saboteurs are not necessarily from opposing servers. They can be your servermates since release. These are the really damaging types of actions.

Agent Provocateurs are also not necessarily from opposing servers. You’ve all had experience with that one guy who becomes known as a negative nancy on your server. Many GvG guilds and players that tour other servers can fall under the class of unintentional Agent Provocateurs.

AehAZE.1867:

As the title says, Great job with the match making this week.. Can we have TC and JQ back now?

The match-making system is working as designed.

Bumping for SEA.

Hammerstun!

Reichii’s Reapers [NODE] – Fort Aspenwood

We are a new guild rallying in WvW once a week to play WvW the way it was really intended. That’s what all these resource nodes in WvW is for, right?

P.S. ArenaNet, I found your next voice actor!

Trinnitty.8256:

Chaba.5410:

Trinnitty.8256:

FA and SoS are not t2 quality anymore. They are more t4-t5 stuck in limbo. Since anet is helpless to help themselves move servers where they need to be. The ratings take forever to change. We don’t even need ratings to find where servers need to be. A dev that can manually control tiers is all that’s needed.

I’m curious. Are you on FA or SoS? It seems that you are just making guesses.

While the NA is lower than previous T2 standards, FA and SoS both have more off-hours coverage than some of the T3 servers and definitely more than T4 servers. That’s why they are “in limbo” in T2. Look at coveragewars2.com if you don’t believe me. On top of that, FA and SoS have been able to hold relatively stable against a T1 server in the T2 match without any server going major overtime to do it.

While T3 would be a good place to rebuild for FA and SoS, T3 isn’t going to happen unless T3 servers start working to earn T2 or T1 servers start pushing hard. T2 rebuild isn’t going to happen unless players like Stormbolt start transferring to T2.

And you’re right: “The ratings take forever to change.” Doesn’t it make more sense to preserve rating instead of waiting forever for the adjustment?

I’m on FA. I’ve been on FA since a month after release… I don’t play NA prime time very often. I’m normally on for few hours just before prime time. A lot of guilds that were on FA for a long time have left and theres not much leadership. It’s basically karma train, taking keeps and towers back. Covn, Dcon and who else is left playing? TK, fort, Bomb . I see tyryon commanding more now.

Yea, there’s no major guilds rallying during your play time. The few hours before NA prime had no guilds rallying like a year ago before all the stacking into T2. CL was the only one because they are Chilean timezone. TK is EU timezone guild and the others you named are NA prime. Stormbolt apparently plays late night, when we have some guilds rallying. The WvW participation of a few hours out of the day doesn’t make a server T4-T5. That’s one of the issues with the glicko 24/7 system unfortunately.

I invite you to join fort-aspenwood.com. Leadership require participants seeking to organize. It can’t be done by leaders alone.

TF is SoS’s largest Oceanic WvW guild. If you’re interested in roaming I’m unsure of such Oceanic guilds on SoS. Check out their forum: http://www.sosgw2.com/

Spazzoni.1703:

Who’s QQ’ing about BG being in T2?

True story. BG is way more loads of fun to fight against than YB.

Trinnitty.8256:

FA and SoS are not t2 quality anymore. They are more t4-t5 stuck in limbo. Since anet is helpless to help themselves move servers where they need to be. The ratings take forever to change. We don’t even need ratings to find where servers need to be. A dev that can manually control tiers is all that’s needed.

I’m curious. Are you on FA or SoS? It seems that you are just making guesses.

While the NA is lower than previous T2 standards, FA and SoS both have more off-hours coverage than some of the T3 servers and definitely more than T4 servers. That’s why they are “in limbo” in T2. Look at coveragewars2.com if you don’t believe me. On top of that, FA and SoS have been able to hold relatively stable against a T1 server in the T2 match without any server going major overtime to do it.

While T3 would be a good place to rebuild for FA and SoS, T3 isn’t going to happen unless T3 servers start working to earn T2 or T1 servers start pushing hard. T2 rebuild isn’t going to happen unless players like Stormbolt start transferring to T2.

And you’re right: “The ratings take forever to change.” Doesn’t it make more sense to preserve rating instead of waiting forever for the adjustment?

Hey Anet, please lock this thread. My question was answered and posters are turning it into a match-up thread now.

If the match ends with BG gaining rating and YB losing rating, the wall is going to be higher. I hope that trend doesn’t continue with subsequent matches.

Tier Two is opening back up again!

Fort Aspenwood is looking for players and guilds who are not afraid of challenges and are not overly concerned about score or fighting outnumbered. Come be a part of rebuilding a WvW tier.

• Highlights from Aug. 29-30, 2015 militia fights

Bumping!

Fort Aspenwood SEA guilds are looking for new faces!

Welcome to T2, Stormbolt!

Honestly, I was a little surprised when you showed up on FA, but T2 is definitely the place to be for players that enjoy challenges and are looking for good action from NA to OCX times. We will be building upon that.

After reading the FAQ, especially the bit about mailing gold, and seeing a positive response from Anet on my question regarding API exposure of free accounts, I’m not too worried anymore.

Awesome! Thanks!