Guild Wars 2

Arius has my vote for GW2 President.

sephiroth.4217:

Myself and many others just got to T2 over the last few weeks, T2 feels like it did in t8 2 years ago, it’s active 24/7 (australian so perfect), you have choices of roaming, small groups, guild raids and zergs…

After being on GoM>FA>GoM>IOJ>GoM>IoJ>CD>IOJ>FA over the years I’ve played this game I feel that the crap you guys a spewing is completely wrong… It is in no way or shape the communities fault or the players, in fact it’s not even Anets fault, the game will die out eventually as will any other game when people become bored of it or they have real life stuff or just a game that’s in general more fun.

Some of us (myself personally) only came higher up in the servers because in lower tiers the game is dying, you have a choice of solo roaming, 2 man roaming, 5 man roaming, zerging with a 20 man because that’s all that will rally to tag, yes we paid for a better experience, yes it’s our game and we most likely screwed up tiers and server population issues but at the current state of WvW unless it gets fixed magically then the game will continue to die as time goes on and people will continue to pay for a higher tier transfer…

Will Anet fix population issues? probably not.. Anet knows the game is dying, they also know people will pay for a better experience which is probably why they have not made any changes to servers as that is the only thing currently generating revenue from the WvW playerbase for them…

Bolded the part that confused me.

If it’s not the players, then who is it that creates such population gaps? Anet didn’t force anyone. Nobody magically popped into a new server. New players couldn’t possibly account for the massive gap (if they all went to WvW instantly when they finished installing). Old players leaving the game could dent a server, but only a select few?

It is 100% the players fault and it’s about time people hold themselves accountable.

Chaba.5410:

Dhemize.8649:

Your server doesn’t tip their defense? Akwaaard.

Usually our people running and destroying things tip those that stay behind to scout/refresh/defend/upgrade. Guess we have it down to a science though.

Your server tips? Anyone tries that on my server and the scouts usually send the tip back, feeling insulted. They do what they do for the server and take pride in that.

For anyone running upgrades and lack funds it’s a way of getting them started quicker. Thanks for playing.

Chaba.5410:

BTW, send home all those players on your server, especially the ones who started on FA. Destack your server. Put your money where your mouth is. Kthxbai.

We never payed them to join us. People come and go on their own without us tying a carrot to a stick.

Thanks for getting baited yet again. kthxbai

LittleBlackGate.5410:

Dhemize.8649:

etrigan.4213:

Dhemize.8649:

I’ve seen a server outright attempt to buy another server.

This has been going on since the beginning because certain people are “mad cuz bad” and buy help.

Everyone take a look at this classic example of someone mad that people want to go to a competing server, and not his.

And when they go to his, they don’t stay.

@etrigan.4213 (aka Nox)
I never specified WHICH server, and yet you’ve deduced exactly what server I’m talking about. I’ll leave the readers to form their own conclusions based off your defensive stance and your signature.

lol

And to anyone else suffering down in lower tiers because of “certain server” tactics, we know it’s not fun for you and my server knows buying out your population will only further ruin the game. This is exactly why we don’t go down that path. You have our sympathy and hopes that one day people will destack and return to their home servers.

As for people on the “certain server” who pay the spammed “daily tax” fund to buy others from lower tiers, you have my pity.

Says the guy who’s server went about buying out the guilds on SoS as part of a campaign to actively implode that server and prop up another.

Fixed your name.

Your server doesn’t tip their defense? Akwaaard.

Usually our people running and destroying things tip those that stay behind to scout/refresh/defend/upgrade. Guess we have it down to a science though.

etrigan.4213:

Dhemize.8649:

I’ve seen a server outright attempt to buy another server.

This has been going on since the beginning because certain people are “mad cuz bad” and buy help.

Everyone take a look at this classic example of someone mad that people want to go to a competing server, and not his.

And when they go to his, they don’t stay.

@etrigan.4213 (aka Nox)
I never specified WHICH server, and yet you’ve deduced exactly what server I’m talking about. I’ll leave the readers to form their own conclusions based off your defensive stance and your signature.

lol

And to anyone else suffering down in lower tiers because of “certain server” tactics, we know it’s not fun for you and my server knows buying out your population will only further ruin the game. This is exactly why we don’t go down that path. You have our sympathy and hopes that one day people will destack and return to their home servers.

As for people on the “certain server” who pay the spammed “daily tax” fund to buy others from lower tiers, you have my pity.

sephiroth.4217:

pepper.6179:

Liston.9708:

Server loyalty died with megaserver IMHO…

yup megaservers messed up wvw. Almost all of the new players have no idea at all of what server they’re in.

And you could no longer go to LA and say “Hills being rushed need help” and have half your server show up to help

lol Good times recruiting casuals.

You know server loyalty is dead when you see baddies repping a guild tag with the name of a different server. It makes little sense as to why you would name your guild after your home server and then abandon them (but still rep it to live the dream?). Funny/sad.

Chaba.5410:

Dhemize.8649:

I’ve seen a server outright attempt to buy another server.

This has been going on since the beginning because certain people are “mad cuz bad” and buy help.

You know nothing. You were not there.

I am everywhere. You only know what I allow you to.

I’ve seen a server outright attempt to buy another server.

This has been going on since the beginning because certain people are “mad cuz bad” and buy help.

You can condense them into +200s for later use if they come out with anything in the future.

If not then drag and drop.

Remove people from the game and let the golems play in peace. It’s better that way.

^
I guess this explains why I see the minion master build everywhere. …oh.

But this was all for the OP and since he’s currently content with it in his sPvP rank then there’s no point in arguing with you.

One helpful piece of info for inventory:

A lot of things you collect are materials and if you click on the cog icon in your inventory it will have a drop down menu with “deposit collectables”. Those items will go directly to your bank and will save you a ton of space and item shuffling.

There are a few servers that have a good amount of EU coverage if you’re interested in WvW. But if you’re just starting then it’s not so critical right now as you’ll probably be in PvE where your server is not a real concern.

Class.. Ele is pretty open to different play styles and engie can be a safe bet for new players using turrets. Don’t pick thief because they are squishy and require a decent amount of dodging to stay alive.

Legacy armor is for one character only (soulbinds on use) and is a slightly higher stat boost of beggining armor. You do get an outfit that is account wide but contains no stats and is only for appearances.

I thought GS was used for a makeshift thief reset ability.

Can’t handle the fight? Time to jump away! gg

I vote for an elite skill that drops a blob of minions on an enemy and instantly rek them while they’re stunned/imob.

As for names for this new minion elite, I suggest “Iwinbutton”.

Tenrai Senshi.2017:

Hey guys.

these include, but are not limited to, things like Bloodstone dust and other T6 mats, Geodes, Bandit Crests, Spinal Blades, Heirlooms, Festival Tokens, WvW Claim Tickets, Black Lion Claim Tickets, various Wintersday clothes and more.

You kinda answered your own question. They are crafting materials and should not be counted as currency. Geodes and Bandit Crests, agreed… but the rest are seasonal or no longer available.

lol at “pay to win” when that’s how the entire game is played. Or have you forgotten how the mojority of servers purchase guilds for easy wins? Golems are an extension of that. They’re also a means for a smaller populated server to quickly take out a fully upgraded and sieged keep before a blob appears. Thier price is already reasonably priced for what they can do.

Fully upgraded keep (with no added siege): About 6g
Price per omega: 5g

To answer the thread question: no.

I would also like to propose the addition of adding laser beams onto the heads of trained sharks.

Dravyn.4671:

I’m all for better minions, but the GW1 minions were just as bad, imo. I want to see some zombies and skeletons, undead knights and such, not shapeless blobs and weird scorpion things, or floating turds. Nothing about either game’s minions really says “necromancer” to me, except that in GW1 you summoned these weird things out of corpses.

This goes back to my first post. GW1 minions looked more unified and zombie horde-ish. I mainly want the GW2 bone minions to look like the old GW1 minions. And to summon maybe 3 instead of 2 (or add a new skill that summons 2 of another kind of minion).

If caught by a thief that keeps resetting the fight then there are a few things you can do to get out of it or lessen the amount of cheapness.

- Keep moving your battle to where other ambiant creatures are to refill your DS.
- Jump into water in hopes that he will chase. Their ability to reset a fight is limited underwater.
- Have a waypoint clicked and be ready to port when he runs/hides to reset the fight.
- Oddly, make the thief chase you. By doing this you can tell where he will be (running behind you) and leave marks/wells/etc for him to pass and be damaged. Do this until you can do any of the other steps above.

Other than that, a resetting perplex thief will eventually wear you down for a stealth stomp.

I’ve seen [SCTY] run around on WvW for quite a while now and know you guys do a great job. Fun to run with too.

Nice to see others gathering during early mornings when I jump on. :)

Free bump.

Step 1: Join YB
Step 2: Fight unlimited baddies with us in WvW
Step 3: Profit

Or join YB. We usually have one map queued on NA but the rest are open. We have the occasional siege troll from other servers but our community is especially strong (and stubborn to not give up).

Bluefox.9580:

I thought they took them out because I used to put fake cannons on towers and keeps to scare people away.

lol

If costume brawl made a return to WvW I’m sure SoS would still use brawl cannons.

It would be fun to see zerg vs zerg in brawls though. That by itself would draw in a large crowd and revive the usage of all those Boxes of Fun collecting dust in storage. That custom scythe ability would be OP and new meta.

I don’t see why the commander would ever be off limits, even if during an even fight. If he’s red he’s dead. Bonus points for dragging a single guy from his group of 20 gaurdians as far as I’m concerned.

lol Any time there is anything related to FA (even a BM spawn camp against dramatically low populated servers) it always turns into a 2v1 conversation.

Mr. Moderator, you may shut down another toxic thread now.

Infractions! Infractions everywhere!

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Dhemize.8649:

Minions are currently only good for fighting certain NPCs as a meat wall, other than that they’re bad.

As for why they’re bad:
-Most of the time they glitch and idle in place.
-Most of the minions do not regenerate after a battle.
-Enemy players will focus you and easily bypass minions.
-When hit they sometimes engage in battles when you just wanted to run by.
-They keep you “in battle” until they die or you run extra far until they appear beside you.
-Their DPS lacks.
-Some minions die the moment you go into water.
-Using certain abilities kills all minions instantly.

Wow, there’s some really bad misinformation in here.

Like where?

OP, if you really want to see for yourself why not go into WvW or sPvP? You’ll quickly see what I mean. Anyone looking to progress beyond PvE carebear will find running minion master is weak in all of aspects of the game compared to a variety of other superior abilities.

Minions are currently only good for fighting certain NPCs as a meat wall, other than that they’re bad.

As for why they’re bad:
-Most of the time they glitch and idle in place.
-Most of the minions do not regenerate after a battle.
-Enemy players will focus you and easily bypass minions.
-When hit they sometimes engage in battles when you just wanted to run by.
-They keep you “in battle” until they die or you run extra far until they appear beside you.
-Their DPS lacks.
-Some minions die the moment you go into water.
-Using certain abilities kills all minions instantly.

Jurassic Park confirmed.

I use necro as main and even I find most of your ideas sound broken. Just the thought of me popping DS and gaining upwards of 300+ toughness for all the minions crawling everywhere after 30sec is rediculas.

Back to the drawing board.

Yeah, just looking at the picture is sad. A megablob with added treb support for additional insult.

Good for the commander trying to keep people motivated during this BM camping though. I doubt his plan to get in their face to make them turn and run worked out, but still good for him.

Help current NA gold’s situation by:

Not moving to already stacked servers. If you’re on a lower tier then stay where you are and entice people to join lower tiers. Somebody will have to take the first step, but once that step it taken the burden will decrease and others will be more willing to help out. There are plenty of NA guilds out there jumping around- convince them to be the guild that makes the first impact.

@Grimm Some people/guilds may not be available during the time everyone else is running around.

@Astral That wasn’t the one I saw before but it looks like they help out people just starting the game. I guess my aim is to give help to those who only lack the manpower.

@Silvatar Yeah, I don’t have a lot of the higher bounties and such unlocked yet. I only have about 4 bounty training missions stocked up and will help others until I unlock the other missions. I’m not sure if I can activiate them one after another, and if so I could probably just have a sort of bounty hunt day.

So I guess for me:
-Contact Dhemize.8649
-Bounty Training Missions
-Any time between 9AM-12PM PST

And it continues. If you want to vent for anything that happened during [enter obligatory time period here] go to the community troll forum.

The OP set up a sketchy tone for this thread to begin with and all that has been produced is more 2v1 conspiracy theories and grudges. Enough. Let this die off on page 5+ with the other “solutions”.

/kill thread

I thought I saw a similar thread before but cannot find and assume it’s dead. Sorry if it’s still organized somewhere and I missed it…

Are there any other tiny guilds out there looking for help in order to complete bounties, guild rushes, or anything in particular? I am, and would be willing to temporarily rep other guilds and help them complete missions if they return the favor. This is in hopes that tiny guilds can band together to collect merits and gain quick influence.

If you’re interested please provide your:
-in game contact (to message for a guild invite)
-what mission you need help with
-when you plan to do it

Thanks in advance!

Of course they’d have an ability just like any of the current minions have a command. Unless you’re talking about the jagged horrors that do like 10 bleeding dps and die off 10 seconds later regardless of being hit. Yeah.. not sure what they’re for other than providing temporary traited toughness just for existing.

Chaba.5410:

Dhemize.8649:

Ew, another troll thread for server champion warriors to lobby for ganging up on a server.

Doesn’t this kind of garbage belong on the garbage forum? Can this joke of a thread be shut down and deleted now?

If you don’t like to read explanations of the thought processes behind certain PPT-oriented server-wide strategies, then no need to comment.

Please don’t prattle on about other servers in hopes of trying to convince others to gang fight for you. Your anger is spilling out all over the official forums now. Back off.

Ew, another troll thread for server champion warriors to lobby for ganging up on a server.

Doesn’t this kind of garbage belong on the garbage forum? Can this joke of a thread be shut down and deleted now?

But… but what about my personal storage guilds and upwards of 700 slots of materials and other horded items? :o

I hope they give a warning if they ever change the 5 guilds per person idea to clear the way for an alliance style. Or i’ll be a sour asura.

They should just “boot” people off a server when their account is inactive for about 3-4 months. When they log back in they can pick whatever server they want. In the mean time it’ll reduce the inflated population on that server and show its true population, making it cheaper for the active players to move around.

It’s not a complete solution but it’ll help to get rid of the dead weight.

I’d guess before the expansion since they’ll need to eat up the dead time until the expansion arrives, assuming the LS comes to a halt until you play in the expansion storyline.

Golem rush hour inc.

I think the current minions all clash with each other both in appearance and in functionality.

Also not sure if the DS reserve idea would be completely broken by spamming blood fiends at the cost of one utility slot and constantly being healed.

Maybe they should just create new minions in a future update so we aren’t stuck with these sad little creatures. I would love to have an elite that was like a mini bone dragon that flapped in place above you.

1) Wasting objective supplies on useless siege (usually within keeps).

2) Running golems off cliffs to destroy them.

3) Throwing ballistas or trebs down at a gate while a commander is throwing down rams (hoping people will build and waste supply on the wrong build sites).

4) Turning any properly placed siege in the opposite direction before an attack occurs.

5) Upgrading objectives in “the wrong order” to delay any effective upgrades to finish. This can also be used as a last ditch supply waste before the objective flips, but it’s easy to spot when it’s a troll doing it.

6) Spamming lots of weak siege in order to hard cap the map (usually this works with #1).

7) Jumping on a critical piece of siege with no intention of using it during an attack. Example: using a cannon or treb and standing idle so nobody can use it.

For a live demonstration, visit YB and stand near a depot. Any depot.

I mainly go k-train since it’s the easiest way to get exp, karma, badges, and wexp (especially with a booster).

If I wanted bags I’d wait for a mindless zerg not paying attention and fear them all off a cliff. 20+ bags and no train needed. /laugh

Does anyone remember the last time they used an asura elite that wasn’t used as a joke?

“Quick, jump in the power suit!” -said nobody ever.

I would pay gems to see this happen.

It was fun back in the days when GW1 was alive and the MM necro could eventually gather up a horde of minions from slain foes. The flesh golem had a massive bone helmet and an axe he’d chop and cleave with, the bone minions/horrors shambled around clawing and upheld the vision of the ideal undead army, bone fiends would get that last ranged hit in to kill a fleeing enemy…

Now we have little rat things and a bland golem sitting idle. wtf

I just want my flesh golem to look like the golem in GW1. Heck, even the bone minions and bone fiends were superior looking.

I wish they would create a sort of “GW1 section” tab in the gem store to bring back all of the favourites and sell minion skins among other old school things.