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No money @ level 80 issue...

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There is no problem in this game when it comes to giving yourself a stable ecconomy.

15-30 minutes a day is enough to give you 2.50-3g with litte effort, this is by just mining 10 simple nodes in Orr. Add some kills on that, some trees, some mithril and you get maybe 5g for very little work, its usually how I start my day before doing other things.

There is also no good way to “play the trading post market”. The TP doesnt work like an AH, you risk alot by putting stuff up here, because the game always picks the lowest price that is up. I’m still not sure people understand the concept of highest buyer and lowest seller. If I wanna make fast and good money (on most items) I sell to the highest buyer and get payed on the spot. If the current buyers are too low for my taste I can bank my things or put it up for sale, but doing so might rob me of my listing cost.

Getting a full set of exotics should take you maybe 10 trips of farming nodes after hitting 80 if even that. Depending on how much you play those trips can take you anywhere from 5-10 days or less if you play 15+ hours a day.

And regarding what to do after you get all exotic gear? WvW, BGs for fun, dungeons for fun, farming gold to get a the next expansion for free (probably), level an alt or maybe level all crafting skills. There are endless things to do.

What imaginary server do you play on where 10 mining nodes nets your 3 gold.

Stop covering up issues / more consistent forum moderation.

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Well, they kept infracting my posts on one thread because it was out of context. So I made my own thread, and it got locked and the moderator directed me to the original thread. There is clearly no communication between the moderators.

Let's Start the Karma DR Dialogue

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Sounds like the change ONLY applies to Ori node respawn. That means nothing will change with the Karma DR and nothing with the drops from killing lots of mobs.

Not how I read it at all. If anything they said the only thing it isnt going to effect right now is ori nodes.

Night Capping and YOU

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It can’t be debated, it is fact.

Official Orb Hacking Treaty

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I agree we can’t label a server for the actions of a few. But at the moment when people hack your orb, you don’t care about that logic. Its kitten “kitten Server A!” and “Die Server B!” “Hacking $#$@ from Server C!”

In any case, I doubt you’ll ever get commanders to return orbs. They’re just too powerful of an advantage. I wish Anet would wake up and address all of the crap that is wrong with WvW.

12AM PST "ET" had no Wait.... for 2 Borderlands

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Both JQ and HOD borderlands had no queue… where did everyone quit to?

They obviously jumped to the top servers because arena net refuses to lock down top tier servers so people don’t jump to them, just making the unbalanced servers even worse.

The remaining people are either in there with you or just tired of the unbalanced game and waiting for anet to notice it.

Build the WvW community - show names

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Dramatic drop off of players? Have you looked at the realms, they get more players everyday.. more and more realms are filling up completely. A lot of people enjoy WvW and sPvP and tPvP, and I’m sure they will adjust and improve the systems in the future.

The game has its flaws sure, it only just started, other MMOs weren’t even half as good as GW2 at launch, and even after two years they didn’t get as good as GW2 is at launch. I’d say have some patience, enjoy yourself in the places you can, and trust Anet will evolve the game towards player needs and desires.

Server population =/= WvW population. Even right now on a saturday, my server has the outmanned buff on two borderlands.

With that said, I don’t want to know who I am fighting or want them to know who I am. The last thing we need is whisper wars.

Harvesting tools

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My issue with harvesting tools is both they are soulbound and the fact that I can’t stack them.
I have several stacks in my inventory of low level tools.
I can’t sell them, can’t give them to my other characters on the same account.
As my other characters level up, they are getting the same thing.
My only option now is destroying them. =(

I understand the need for gold sinks, but making tools account bound wouldn’t hurt the game economy. Either that or the option to sell partially used stacks to vendors at a reduced price.

Yeah I’d really like them to be account bound. all those low level picks/axes/sickles in my bank. Feels like such a waste to destroy them

Guild system should change...

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That whole multi-guilding thing, as you call it, is nonsense to me… If you join a guild, you join that guild. You don’t hop from one to the other… That’s called guild/kinhopping, and personally I despise that…

Stop q.qing, you’re the only person I’ve seen complain about multi-guilding. If I want to join a good PvE guild, I join it. But I also enjoy PvP, so I join a PvP guild to fill that need. Now I also have my casual guild where I can chat with my friends.

Night Capping and YOU

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This is the current score my server match-up has after just under 12 hours of the new match.

Please tell me this isn’t intented, that one server can get such a huge lead just because they had a force present in each map where the other two did not. I hardly played the last match we had because over one night we went from 10k points from first to 20k. To have such a huge point disadvantage has taken out what little motivation I had to play this broken mess.

Please, to keep WvW enjoyable for all, make point gain scale depending on the population of each server throughout the WvW maps. If server A has 20+ people on each map taking everything and the other two have no presence, server A should gain a tiny amount of points to reflect that.

This is getting ridiculous as I’m sure like in our last match up we will do great during prime time, yet lose overall because the top server takes everything at night with no opposition.

I really, really want to enjoy myself in WvW and while the large scale fights are fun, seeing this when you log in after just 12!!! hours is a huge disincentive to play.

Our match result has all ready been decided and nothing we can do will change that. Any effort we make during the day/evening will be erased by a night zerg taking everything back, leaving them with a nice +20 points overnight.

Sorry, Anet can’t help you. They want it to be fair for everybody /sarcasm

Night Capping

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I will change the terms, I will say day and night players only. The point does not change. If you only thing you have to add is semantics, don’t bother.

Predicted Rankings

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SoR shouldn’t fall, they are crushing DH and SF.

They wouldn’t be falling, they’d be moving up

Sorrow's Furnace vs Darkhaven vs Sanctum of Rall - WUVWUV

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It’s ok we don’t want the guilds that left anyways, they are free to leave. Darkhaven has some work to do especially in morning, I’m hoping that unmanned buff 20 hours a day will start to change soon too but who knows. Good fight with both of you will probably see you both next week too lol

I sure hope not, not that it hasn’t been fun, but that would make our 3rd week with DH and our 4th week with SoR. They need to at least mix up the colors. I’m tired of being green.

Night Capping

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Every time I try to bring this up in the Night Capping thread it gets deleted as off-topic. So I’m going to bring it up in its own topic.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Night-Capping-and-YOU/first
Part of the statement is that

We feel that everyone should have the ability to contribute no matter what time of the day it is. How we’ve came to this conclusion is that no player’s time is more valuable than another.

How come it is completely fair when the Oceanic/off-hour players undo all of the effort of the day players. But it is unfair when any form of balancing is requested?

The very logic of not making sure North American players time is equally important in the game, is giving more value to an Oceanic players time. Which is a direct contradiction of the statement above from the Matt Writer post.

I will continue to play and I won’t bring this up again unless somebody wants to have a real discussion about it, but I am kind of disappointed that the expected result is that some time in the far away future these servers will magically balance themselves out and that guilds will just decide randomly they want to leave the winning servers for losing ones and lose all of their influence in the process.

I wouldn’t go as far as to say we disable WvW or make it useless for night players to play like some other people have suggested. That is just selfishness. I would however like to see if anybody has any sensible suggestions to solve this problem.

A start would be to disable the ability to move between servers you are currently matched up with, and taking it further and locking down high population servers.

Thank you for this wonderful game Arenanet, I truly do love it, and I know you do too. I’m off to eat before the WvW match-ups reset later!

Harvesting tools

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I kinda feel like the way it works now is by design. If you want the convenience of just using one set of tools, you buy the orichalcum harvesting tools and you just eat the cost because they are still relatively cheap for a level 80 player. I never both with multiple sets of tools and always use the max tools at 80. Swapping the tools out feels really anal retentive and miserly. You can do this if you want the maximum money savings, but its on you.

That said, if there were a software change, I would prefer the idea of a scaling durability and the quality of the harvesting tool limited which items yo u could harvest, but also had more durability points than lower quality tools, etc.

Oh I agree that is is a bit weird to keep every set. But if you’re running around mining a bunch of copper with high end tools you’re just being silly.

Well I usually only keep mithril and ori tools on hand. If I intend to farm copper/silver/iron/etc I buy that specific tool for that moment. If I am just running around and decide to grab this random iron, I just use my mithril pick.

Either allow add ons or give us some way to measure our dps

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I think Anet doesn’t want a dps meter because it becomes too much of a “you don’t do enough dps, /kick” kind of thing

Please don't fix what is not broken.

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This sounds like an argument against somebody else’s suggestion and not a suggestion itself. In any case, Night capping makes the game unbalanced, should we punish night players? absolutely not. Should Anet step in and coordinate a method to balance the servers? Absolutely.

..about warrior's Kill shot and downed state.

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my ranger hits for 17k ? with rapid shot want to talk about that too QQers?

I was going to bring up Rangers, they hit like trucks. Its scary how hard I get hit Rangers at times.

Night Capping and YOU

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The root of this problem is thus:
WvWvW is and should be a 24/7 game mode; servers are not designed for 24/7 player loads.

wholeheartly agree with the philosophy

I think the best possible solution to this problem is threefold:
1) Eliminate NA and EU designations. (language designations would be fine)
2) Announce a finite time remaining for free transfers. (at least 2 full matches)
3) Continue focusing developer attention on bugs/exploits/hacks.

disagree
that wouldnt solve much, if anything. I think that is impossible to achieve balance just by letting the playerbase self control itself, it will never work. human nature, specially on the internet, equals egoism.

24/7 balanced servers is an utopia. it will never happen. lets come into terms with that.

my solution is simple.
abandon the idea of 24/7

1) IP Ban/ Lock NA and EU regions
2) create new Asian/SEA region
3) Announce a finite time remaining for free transfers. (at least 2 full matches)

anyone that doesnt take advantage of that free transfers to go to a region that fits him will see that chars locked.

These two while seeming similar are light years apart. One is about opening things up and the other about closing things off. The latter is counter to what Anet has been trying to do. That is create a game where it doesn’t matter where you live.

and good on them for doing so, too.

i fight as hard as any of you on your own timezone. i don’t see why my “efforts” should be considered less than “yours”. we’re all even, despite the zone shifts. and it’s kind of amusing that only one “shift” is actually complaining. everyone else in the world is okay.

Because the problem is this
Server A has 100 NA players who play from let’s say 12-8 pm
Server B has 100 NA players who play from 12-8 pm
Server A has 20 players who play from 9pm-11 am
Server B has 100 oceanic/EU players who play from 9pm-11am
The problem is that YOUR efforts are now being defended by an equal number of players in the day-time as the other server has which makes it almost impossible to deal with because thanks to your superior night numbers, guess what, you took every fort+keep+orb and everything is fortified and already defended with tons of siege weapons.

Everyone’s’ contribution in WvWvW is currently NOT equal as a result. That’s what is so hilarious about A-net’s response “well you all be good community members and make sure to spread your population out evenly ok? We’re gonna be over here making sure people are buying gems. Oh, P.S. we’re gonna leave server transfers free and open so you know, if you’re getting crushed feel free to transfer to a winning server.” absolutely NO ONE is going to say to their guild “hey guys I know we’re winning and currently enjoying tons of bonuses to our server and we’re 150k points ahead of the enemy team but let’s go ahead and transfer to that other server.”

Couldn’t have said it better myself. I’m done, hopefuly Anet wakes up out of their dream world where the player population magically balances itself out.

Where is my Geomancer, Hydromancer, Pyro...ect ect

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So then Eles and only Eles, who already have more skills than everybody else, will get even more skills.

Material List for Legendarys is just Ridiculous

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I guess if you have no life like me then maybe, but I can spend 15 hours playing each day and I still find the hoops to jump thru to get a Legendary weapon plain stupid… what a grind… as a matter of fact the game after 80 as become a grind to get materials for armor etc… just not worth it… I regret ever even investing in the game.

Then uninstall and leave, Legendaries are supposed to be a grind. They said it without even hiding it that getting a Legendary will be no small feat and will require a lot of grinding.

only accept alpha numeric keys for chat please

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Why would you want to be typing a message and having your character start flipping out because you’re constantly jumping and walking and spinning. Do not want

~ -1 disagree

Allow me to pay other players "in-game" money for "in-game" services

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Why do you need to pay people? I usually do stuff myself, but if I do need help I usually just go “Can somebody help me with X?” and somebody usually replies or shows up and helps. I know I make it a point to help people who ask for it…

Sorrow's Furnace vs Darkhaven vs Sanctum of Rall - WUVWUV

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Hmm never payed attention to that always assumed the icons were all commander. Not sure why he turned it on after he entered during combat then.

You can’t turn the star off, its the reward for 100% world completion.

Night Capping and YOU

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Their plan is more of a hopeful long run sort of plan. They are counting on the player base to spread itself out evenly and have the stronger servers with a night game to end up at the top by themselves. I feel like it will be a painful WvW killing few months before that happens.

..about warrior's Kill shot and downed state.

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It is true that the warrior can be counterd but to do more then then the base hp pool of 4 classes in this game does just sound not right. It should be changed. Also it is not ture that the warrio only can do burst dmg. He has several great condition builds but no one loves that builds becaus you can’t leech loot.

A warrior would have to sacrifice most if not all of its survivability to do 14k kill shot, it would also need full adrenaline and probably some debuffs or a crit. Not to mention OP is a necro who has an equal if not greater hp pool than a warrior. I also don’t believe the OP’s statement about the warrior doing 1900 damage throw rocks, since my throw rock is pretty useless against real people. and Vengeance is kind of a get up and hope you kill the enemy, but you’re going to die anyway in a few seconds.

A Kill shot of that magnitude is an all or nothing situation. And since kill shot can easily be dodged rendering the Warrior a walking cool down, I don’t see the problem.

I could argue that when I’m fighting necros it is ridiculous that they have 9239293 pets to kite while fighting them, but that makes no sense.

Night Capping and YOU

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The root of this problem is thus:
WvWvW is and should be a 24/7 game mode; servers are not designed for 24/7 player loads.

wholeheartly agree with the philosophy

I think the best possible solution to this problem is threefold:
1) Eliminate NA and EU designations. (language designations would be fine)
2) Announce a finite time remaining for free transfers. (at least 2 full matches)
3) Continue focusing developer attention on bugs/exploits/hacks.

disagree
that wouldnt solve much, if anything. I think that is impossible to achieve balance just by letting the playerbase self control itself, it will never work. human nature, specially on the internet, equals egoism.

24/7 balanced servers is an utopia. it will never happen. lets come into terms with that.

my solution is simple.
abandon the idea of 24/7

1) IP Ban/ Lock NA and EU regions
2) create new Asian/SEA region
3) Announce a finite time remaining for free transfers. (at least 2 full matches)

anyone that doesnt take advantage of that free transfers to go to a region that fits him will see that chars locked.

These two while seeming similar are light years apart. One is about opening things up and the other about closing things off. The latter is counter to what Anet has been trying to do. That is create a game where it doesn’t matter where you live.

and good on them for doing so, too.

i fight as hard as any of you on your own timezone. i don’t see why my “efforts” should be considered less than “yours”. we’re all even, despite the zone shifts. and it’s kind of amusing that only one “shift” is actually complaining. everyone else in the world is okay.

I agree, I never wanted to make night capping not beneficial, I just want Anet to admit we need to work on a way to make it a nice fun, clean, fair game all across the board, or at least try to work with the community to balance out servers.

I don’t expect big night guilds will spread out.

WvW Spies: Bannable? Allowed?

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Spies should not be allowed unless Anet plans on making them killable. If there is no way to deal with the spies, then there is no reason to allow supplies. As it stands “spying” is an obvious exploitation of the free server transfers, and should be treated as an exploit.

Night Capping and YOU

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The problem with everything being captured and the points is, that by the time a regular server gets back on, they need to first manage to kill all of the people hanging out, outside their spawn, then they need to spend the next few hours, just retaking their part of the map. By the time they do scrape the map back together their playtime is over and then the night cappers come on and do it in small groups against uncontested towers and keeps and hold it all night again.

WvW Spies: Bannable? Allowed?

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Considering anet initiated the 24 hour server transfer lock down to try and stop people from transferring to other servers for spying and sabotaging. That anybody claiming it is a valid tactic is simply in denial.

Should they make HoM rewards available in Black lion trading company?

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Currently im playing GW1 so i can gain points towards the GW2 HOM. Great game i must say! Only fit I have with it is that a lot of the gaming community moved on to GW2 making it very slow to progress. Finding help is very hard when wanting to complete missions and dungeons.

Because of this I find myself having a hard time gaining those points. Was it easier to group up before the launch of GW2? Was the server much more full too?

Its a shame play a game with too low of a population. Getting into groups is not possible anymore. Almost like your giving money away to to do something not achievable as a result of the population going way down.

Because of this I find myself wanting to see some of the HoM rewards on the store, although ill still try to plug away at it.

Even when GW1 still had a decent population nobody really grouped up, Heros are better than people most of the time because they work for you, and dont have a mind of their own to ignore where you’re going

..about warrior's Kill shot and downed state.

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Many characters would have been one shot by that 14k hit, or actually less than one shot because some classes don’t even have 14k HP unless they stack it.

You mean squishies are… squishy?

A warrior specced to do that much damage is effectively the warrior version of a squishy spec but he has far more HP and defense (and in some cases damage) than the classes that naturally have small HP pools. That is OP by itself and being able to one shot is also OP, not because they have small HP pools, but because 14k is too much and doesn’t give the player a chance to fight back. There’s no strategy involved in that.

I wonder how you’d feel if your Warrior had the 10k base HP of a Guardian/Ele/Thief, or even the 15k of an Engi/Ranger/Mesmer. That 14k would look different.

Are you seriously crying? Warriors are hardly the hardest hitting class in the game, nor are they the ones with the highest HP pool. Warrior is probably the middle ground of everything else.

..about warrior's Kill shot and downed state.

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Kill shot can hit like a truck, but you would absolutely have to sacrifice some level of survivability to do it.

Sorrow's Furnace vs Darkhaven vs Sanctum of Rall - WUVWUV

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I must say that whatever SoR is doing this week, unfortunately is it ruining my experience in WvWvW (a personal problem, you guys are just doing what the game is intended for, and that is to capture everything you can), But it sucks that I cannot log on and even hope to take/hold anything due to the massive amounts of SoR running around.

I don’t see how their numbers could be so bolstered without receiving a bit of transfers, they never seemed have had this many people out before, but what do I know, I am just some guy.

So saying that you don’t have transfers seems fishy to me, but its ok to deny that fact, I still give you guys props for winning. but don’t lie about how you guys are winning, Darkhaven’s WvWvW numbers have seriously declined and SoR have increased. I played last week, I saw who all was out there, I remember how even it was and how un-even it is now.

So I am not saying SoR cheats, I am not saying that they are only winning because they zerg, I mean, they are pretty organized I will give them that, but the server transfers are, at least in my opinion, is what is ruining..literally…everything wvwvw related across all servers in guildwars2.

Its not SoR fault that Darkhaven doesn’t want to pvp. It’s not SoR fault that people transfer to their server (or perhaps it is, guild leaders talking to other guild leaders getting them to transfer there). But the overarching issue is the fact that transfers are still free and can be done every day. It isn’t anyone’s fault but Arenanet. They could fix the issue that would help lead to a more balanced WvWvW, at least a stable balanced WvWvW, because as we have seen this week, there are bandwagon jumpers, and when you pair servers based on population, then allow everyone transfer basically whenever they want, the whole point of pairing servers based on population/points kinda goes out the window.

Either way, good job SoR, you have killed the enjoyment of WvWvW this week for me (but hey thats my personal thing, you guys are just doing your job and winning), so such is life. If we are paired with you guys as well as sarrow’s furnace next week, I am not sure what I will do, play it by ear but if I cannot enjoy WvWvW due to “whatever” is happening (lack of my server organiziation/players, enemy realms or my own realm exploiting/hacking/cheating, or just massive server transfering of people leading to a lack of people on my side playing and overwhelming numbers on the opposition’s side) then there is no point to play the game when all I am doing is getting spawn camped. I like my friends I have made on darkhaven and don’t want to server transfer, but it is definitely frustrating, lol, which sucks because I play a game to have fun, and frustration isn’t fun! (maybe I just need to take a break from wvwvw and not care)

But again…good job SoR, whatever you are doing (being super organized, convincing people to transfer to your server, convincing your pve-ers to join pvp, cheating, hacking, exploiting, dancing, eating donuts, whatever.) good work.

Its the effect of winning, Players who normally don’t look twice at WvW will suddenly decide to play. Same with the opposite. Losing teams generally have a lower morale and won’t even show up to the fight.

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No point Soj, every time someone claims SoR people hacked into a tower, everyone runs around shouting it was a Mesmer that waited inside. Tbh, that’s ridiculous, anyone being honest with themselves knows it just doesn’t happen that often.

And why can’t it? Maybe the tunnel-visioned, “Follow the leader” type players/sheep at Darkhaven are just really bad at scanning their newly-taken keeps for Mesmers.

I can’t speak from experience as to if SoR has hackers, but if it was a hacker, I don’t blame the whole server. But it is still unfair and unreasonable to expect people to scan for “hackers”.

Also Mesmers who wait inside after a keep was flipped for example is completely legit, but as it stands Mesmers can also use portals to exploit and bypass gates from the outside which could make them just as wrong as a hacker.

Except it doesn’t count as an exploit in any way shape or form. Not only that, but you can counter the strategy by sweeping for Mesmers after taking a keep. SoR may have a few hackers, but we’re actually very good sports about them and do what we can to report them on our side. When we get them, they are quickly noticed and reported.

Keep ignoring everything I say until it sounds good to you. There are currently classes that can use buggy skills to bypass the gate even if they’ve never been inside. THIS IS AN EXPLOIT. If a mesmer does it, then they put a portal down and let everybody in, they are cheating.

Mmm’no it isn’t. You can say that it is until you’re blue in the face but doesn’t matter because hiding a mesmer in a keep to pop a portal down is a valid strategy for quickly recapping keeps from sheep players who don’t bother to look around for any stragglers.

So far, I have yet to even hear a whisper of a single person being warned, let alone banned for using the portal this way.

And you keep ignoring me, Because I’m not arguing about mesmers hiding in the keep. I’m arguing about them exploiting their way into the keep using their portals and then portaling people in.

Bot solution - Glob of Dolyak Dung

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Then the bot will just be added to check if skill 1-5 have changed and look for “Yes” on the screen.

Make it randomly move around the screen! And then they slowly turn into dolyak dung! They become the tool to stop the next bot!

Night Capping and YOU

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I think one of the possible solution of "night capping " problem is to deny access from EU servers to American and vice versa.
Main part of night cappers – people from another time zone, for example Canadian people play for EU French servers. Of course, there is the way of using VPN, but the major part of night zerg wouldnt use that…

I hope Anet make this, in this way, you can see this change absolutely nothing …
Ppl really need to stop with the Canadian excuse every time they lose a match up :/

Yes we have guild playing 1 to 6/7am, but they are all in metropolitan France.

This doesn’t fix the problem. North American night cappers are Oceanic players. They don’t have their own servers, the NA servers are their servers. They’re just in a vastly different time zone.

Complains from a GW1 player regarding GW2

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" If you haven’t gotten to a higher level or did WvW yet, just spamming isn’t going to get your anywhere. I don’t spam my skills, because if I did in the places I currently enjoy playing I’d be dead."

Thanks for calling me bad, I have multiple 80s and usually bring back top place in my sPvP matches.

Ele is spammy, especially scepter and staff (dagger needs more control). You’re constantly swapping attunments and using your skill on the enemy – letting up is usually a negative for the ele since your AoEs usually recharge in 5-6 seconds.

Warrior is spammy. If you aren’t constantly switching weapons and mashing on the enemy, you’re probably not playing it full well. Low cool down skills make you offensive, other then the rare usage of a 90~ second elite or utility.

Mesmer is somewhat spammy. If you aren’t constantly summoning and sacking your clones, there’s a chance you’re doing it wrong (there’s also a chance you’re lulling your enemy in). Granted you have more prep type skills and emergy type skills then the other two classess I mentioned.

That doesn’t mean there isn’t strategic play at work. It just means some classess need to constantly use skills.

As to PvE. . . Most of those fights are determined ahead of time. Either your setup works or fails. Normal mobs? Hammer. Unstunnable elite? Strafe with bow. Dungeon boss? Team work or fail, usually. I can usually whipe out most of a a 5 to 10 mob pull in orr with my bow/axe combo.

Everything you described isn’t “spamming” You’re tactically switching weapons/attunements/skills to play.

Mounts [Merged]

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Would you like the list of things that were not in GW1 but are now in GW2 cause Anet stole the idea from WOW?

I have it both in PDF and Excel format. You might need Excel 64 bit to open it though due the number of rows.

That list would be empty, because everything WoW has it stole from somewhere else.

make me the list so I can laugh at you for thinking anything in WoW is original.

Night Capping and YOU

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Personally, I have the opposite opinion of many in this post: I think people playing at off-peak hours should gain more points, not fewer. This will incent more players to stop playing at the exact same time. This reduce queues and makes the game more interesting / competitive at all hours, instead of just a few each day.

I don’t think I live in the same world than you. There is a reason I play at evenings. It has mostly to do with the necessity to earn a living which tends to have a very string timer going on.

Most of the people telling us to play at different hours or to stay up all night are kids who don’t have to sleep so we wake up for work and then work all day to afford shelter and food.

They’re totally ignorant to real life and don’t understand logic. The point is, ignore them you’re just arguing with a child.

I’m done replying in this thread because Anet has made it clear they don’t care about the majority opinion and will continue to protect the very small minority from the “evil” majority.

Sorrow's Furnace vs Darkhaven vs Sanctum of Rall - WUVWUV

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No point Soj, every time someone claims SoR people hacked into a tower, everyone runs around shouting it was a Mesmer that waited inside. Tbh, that’s ridiculous, anyone being honest with themselves knows it just doesn’t happen that often.

And why can’t it? Maybe the tunnel-visioned, “Follow the leader” type players/sheep at Darkhaven are just really bad at scanning their newly-taken keeps for Mesmers.

I can’t speak from experience as to if SoR has hackers, but if it was a hacker, I don’t blame the whole server. But it is still unfair and unreasonable to expect people to scan for “hackers”.

Also Mesmers who wait inside after a keep was flipped for example is completely legit, but as it stands Mesmers can also use portals to exploit and bypass gates from the outside which could make them just as wrong as a hacker.

Except it doesn’t count as an exploit in any way shape or form. Not only that, but you can counter the strategy by sweeping for Mesmers after taking a keep. SoR may have a few hackers, but we’re actually very good sports about them and do what we can to report them on our side. When we get them, they are quickly noticed and reported.

Keep ignoring everything I say until it sounds good to you. There are currently classes that can use buggy skills to bypass the gate even if they’ve never been inside. THIS IS AN EXPLOIT. If a mesmer does it, then they put a portal down and let everybody in, they are cheating.

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No point Soj, every time someone claims SoR people hacked into a tower, everyone runs around shouting it was a Mesmer that waited inside. Tbh, that’s ridiculous, anyone being honest with themselves knows it just doesn’t happen that often.

And why can’t it? Maybe the tunnel-visioned, “Follow the leader” type players/sheep at Darkhaven are just really bad at scanning their newly-taken keeps for Mesmers.

I can’t speak from experience as to if SoR has hackers, but if it was a hacker, I don’t blame the whole server. But it is still unfair and unreasonable to expect people to scan for “hackers”.

Also Mesmers who wait inside after a keep was flipped for example is completely legit, but as it stands Mesmers can also use portals to exploit and bypass gates from the outside which could make them just as wrong as a hacker.

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Ever since SoR’s hard work grinding for a lead vs DH nightcaps our current server seems to be consistently participating because we are winning. People like to play when they are winning. It’s ok though SoR will be moving out of this tier to a more challenging matchup at the end of this week and it should even the skill level back out.

Might not move out of the tier. It depends on how the other servers do, you might just end up moving one rank, which would just swap your place with SF and result in the same matchup again.

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Yes you can see it on enemies in WvW, You can even see it through walls and mountains. I am actually at 99% with two vistas left and I’m reluctant to get it because then you can’t tactically take a small group and stalk a zerg to pick them off without being seen.

Complains from a GW1 player regarding GW2

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@ Gad Defence,

Seems the quote button is still buggy for me. Anyway, If you’re playing the class in a spammy way, you might want to reconsider. If you haven’t gotten to a higher level or did WvW yet, just spamming isn’t going to get your anywhere. I don’t spam my skills, because if I did in the places I currently enjoy playing I’d be dead.

GW2 isn’t GW1, it wasn’t advertised as GW1 and it shouldn’t be GW1. I understand that some people want certain GW1 features back, Me included. I would like costumes to function like costumes, and I’d like to be able to save a costume to the costume maker so I can get one for free on my alts. I’d like a few minor things. But I would never pass off a list of EVERYTHING about GW1 as a list of suggestions.

I hate to say it, but it looks like OP wants to play GW1 not GW2 which is fine, but GW2 is not GW1 and was never intended to be.

Do NOT force PvP down our throats.

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The monthly is optional and is by no means necessary to play the game. Anet rewards people who do multiple aspects of the game. This is not an issue. Suggestion overruled.

Magic find obsession needs to be addressed

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You can do perfectly fine in dungeons wearing magic find.

If you’re getting squashed wearing magic find, you’ll get squashed wearing any other gear, because you’re standing in the bad that’s squashing you either way.

It’s this mentality that is the problem.

It’s the player, not the gear.

You should probably realize that.

But the player that equips magic find is selfish and is not out to provide the maximum benefit to the group.

Agreed, people using magic find are leeching non-users for their own benefit.

I’m not sure where this mindset is coming from.

There’s still power and precision on the gear. You’re still providing benefit to the group.

You’re missing out on… what, maybe 10% combat effectiveness? If that?

Gear doesn’t matter much in this game. Player skill matters.

Even if you were wearing vit/tough/power gear, if you stand in the bad(like you’re saying they do) then you’re -going- to die. MF gear or not.

MF gear is like a glass cannon setup, Glass cannons die a lot, even if you’re good, being a glass cannon will get you killed when people in normal gear usually could shake it off.

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I think Tengu could be added with Cantha, since Tengu are both in Cantha and Tyria, and this would make sense since Lorewise it could have something to do with uniting the clans for the greater good, and stuff like that.

Also added Dwarves to Elona Expansion, since if Cantha is added first, Dwarves would help Elona expansion to focus attention back on Tyria as well.

I’d like tengu to be added as well because well tengu are awesome.

But from what I understand in the lore , Cantha exiled and forced out all non-humans including the tengu. So I think there are none left there.

Alternate solution to DR

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https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Let-s-Start-the-Karma-DR-Dialogue/page/5#post338359

They’re aware. Now its just a matter of waiting for them to fix it. They don’t mind farming as they said in that post, so I hope this will give you some hope to gold onto until they implement a fix.

Why cant we see the % completion of zone from the "M" world map?

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I agree, this was the lamest part of me doing world completion. I would do a few zones a day. So the next day I’d have to remember which ones I did. wasted quite a bit of silver checking some zones.