Finally after over 2 years and more than 5k hours of game play, I think I have to call it quits for GW2. I have run a very successful guild for over a year, attained Dungeon Master, lvl 50 fractals, tiger rank in pvp, rank 340 something in WvW, crafted 2 legendaries, and have lvl 80 of every single profession and more. More or less, I have done everything and beat everything in game, as far as I know.
I have unfortunately (or fortunately) come to the realization that for the past 3-4 months, I had been logging on and playing just for the sake of playing. My time just idling kept increasing trying to convince myself that I want to play still.
The lack of new content such as not a single new dungeon in a year, last one being aether path in TA, the same redundant world events and WvW game play is one of the major reasons for my leaving. The Living Story season 2 was nice but was very easy and very quick, and now have to wait months just to start the second half. In 2 years time, there have been virtually no new USEFUL skills added, no new professions, no new races, no new weapons.
I think I’m done trying to convince myself that I still need to play, that I still need to run my guild for the sake of running it, and trying to give Anet patience in being smarter about their game content and design. It’s been a fun run overall and made lot’s of friends. But, I think this is it for the time being for me. Take care all!
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Yeah our guild organizes daily for tequatl many of us are approximately 100 or so kills for teq and I think only 1 or 2 in the guild have claimed to have gotten his hoard chest. On a side note, we have plenty of spoons!
Not in EU but I also have major latency issues. Before the balance update, my FPS was very stable no matter how populated the area was. Now, after that update several weeks back, my FPS jumps anywhere from 50-15, just back and forth. This causes my game to seem as if it is freezing for a millisecond over and over and over. Occurs most in Lions Arch and any WvW map.
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Server: NA, Yaks Bend
Time: Only dependent on population of the area I am playing in.
1. Alliances with alliance chat (PLEASE ANET GODS MAKE IT HAPPEN SOONER THAN LATER!)
2. Guild message notification
3. More guild misisons
I think there are some misconceptions that those that rep multiple guilds might be having from reading this. As a guild leader of a medium sized guild, it’s not the influence that I’m too worried about, it’s the community.
I think most guild leaders are more concerned that their guild is ‘that other’ guild that members join. Seeing half your guild roster with the white line for not repping on most days is very discouraging to leaders and officers not so much that those non reppers aren’t getting you influence. Leaders and officers want to build up a guild, and it takes time and lots of effort recruiting and organizing activities on a daily basis. So, when you see that a large amount of your guild isn’t repping because they have other guilds that they want to do stuff with it gets a little frustrating in my opinion.
This is why guild alliances can be very useful in building loyalty, as well as closely interacting with guilds that specialize in different aspects of the game.
I will jump in on this because I am a HUGE fan of alliances. Alliances can/will solve nearly all existing problems with small and specialized guilds.
Goal: Guild Alliances
Purpose: To create guild alliances between multiple guilds, while at the same time, individual players create loyalty to a single guild (rather than rep one guild for one activity, and another for another activity).
Functionality: Guilds will be able to ally/join an alliance (with limited number of guilds) both in and out of different servers. Guilds will be able to scout out other guilds that they may have interest in and agree together to join one another. Different RP guilds for example can ally themselves as well as having other types of guilds join them. Another example would be PvE/PvX/WvW/PvP allying themselves together to gain access to specialties that their one guild does not have by themselves. Leaders of guilds in an alliance can implement a voting system for letting new guilds join the alliance, OR have an alliance leader who has the final ‘word’. An alliance chat feature would also be needed in order to not have to rep individual guilds to see what is being discussed
With this implemented, guild loyalty will stabilize and become more constant. By not having to worry that your guild does not do a certain aspect of the game, you can rely on your entire Alliance to achieve ones personal goals, as well as goals for individual guilds. The alliance chat will further help players rep one guild which will help increase loyalty.
Those that have personal guild banks and do not wish to lose them, can include their ‘guild bank’ in the alliance if need be as well. One can also keep their guild bank outside the alliance and will then only have to rep it when they have to interact with it (which should only be for a short period of time) and go back to repping their main guild
I just want to say that after this last update with all the tidal-wave of bugs and complaints on the forums, having a serious discussion about guild Alliances is making me very happy, and as the forums are showing, MANY people are interested in this. Please Chris (and other devs), do your best to make this a coming priority for the game, you will see happy campers here if you do.
Ever since the big update couple days ago, I have been lagging (slightly rubber banding the moment I enter somewhere that has a higher population). This problem had never occurred before until this update. It might be on my end or GW2 end. Any way to fix this?
Warriors will run past their enemies when they use Rush, the great sword number 5 skill. This is the same exact thing that happened when I was playing during the Beta weekend events….
Hey OP, I don’t know if you watch DBZ abridged… but you should really learn how to DOOOOODGE. Anyway, stop complaining and get good. You know, if a beaver is hindering your progress you can:
1. Run around it.
2. Dodge past it.
3. Use blocks/invuln skills.
4. Condi cleanse.
5. Kill it (I’d prefer that you didn’t beavers are amazing).
This isn’t WoW so stop comparing GW2 to that game. There are a lot of things this game can do that WoW can’t, so what?
I was talking to a guildie last night when I finally got my gift items, and was at first upset by the scrolls and booster. The gun I thought was cool, but was more kittened originally by the other gifts. My friend starts to laugh and I ask why. He says the devs probably did a ‘kitten you’ troll thing to all the cynics on the forums about the gift and the only real gift was supposed to be the gun. After thinking about it, it kind of made sense, I mean honestly a 5 skill point soulbound scroll for a 2 year old toon??? That had to be a tactful troll move! Kudos ANET you won this round!
shall we list the huge number of pve skins that aren’t available in pvp?
or one time only pve skins that we’ll never have a chance to get?
Yes you are right I will agree with you there are lots of skins that only pvers get that aren’t available by doing other things in the game. Or skins that you can never get anymore, you’re right. But why should Anet continue doing ‘exclusive only’ skins, I find it only counterproductive and doesn’t make sense to me. That’s the part I find unfair.
You need to read the blogs dude… I don’t know what to tell you. There is a balance update coming in September. 99% of new skins that are released are black lion gem skins which means it’s not pve skin. And again my point isn’t only about pve and pvp, but also WvW who have nothing. And it’s not easy making a legendary if your a pver either. And whether you think this thread is productive or not is your own opinion. But if you plan on replying to threads your supposed to keep it on topic.
Ooooh man we got a bad kitten over here lelz.. I never claimed to be a pvper and this topic has nothing to do with the original purpose of this thread. No one likes to lose, but the point is you are still rewarded. And again…. they received an update in April but yes you’re right it’s been years lol.
But again what you’re trying to talk about is nothing to do with the thread of the skin being exclusive. Don’t post if you have nothing productive to say.
Edit: yes @Naus ill agree with you on point 5 I forgot you need to unlock traits and skills now, which in pvp doesn’t make sense.
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buying arah paths is the equivalent of a pvper doing spvp cus that entire part of pvp is a joke. Iv’e done enough pvp to understand that much. Also you can lose in pvp as much as you want and you will still be rewarded. You lose or fail to complete a dungeon and you get no reward at all. And don’t pretend pvpers are all amazing. I started pvping only couple months ago and last week made it to top 700 on the leaderboards so don’t make it sound like pvp is the ‘end all be all’
Yes, some can solo arah, it’s not easy and is very time consuming and only works if you have the skill and know the tricks. With pvp, win or lose, you still win.
PvE gets new content twice a month, no one bats an eye.
PvP gets a single armour set and everyone loses their minds.
Yeahhhh idk what your talking about considering pvp had a MASSIVE update in April along with tracks and rank changes.
Massive update? Let’s see what happened:
1. PvP’ers now have to use transmutations charges, previously it was free.
2. Ranks were nerfed to oblivion – suddenly everyone is rank 60+.
3. Armours are no longer locked behind ranks, which removes all prestique.
4. Raid On The Capricorn was removed.
5. You no longer have ALL skills in PvP, which means it is no longer 100% fair game to newcomers.
6. They stripped EVERYONE off their PvP gear, forcing them to use PvE gear and use transmutation charges to get back their previous looks in PvP.
7. You cannot have a fully equipped character at level 1 anymore, because you now need to be level 15 to get a helm and shoulderpads.The reward tracks was the ONLY good addidion to PvP in the April Feature Pack. Everything else was a big middle finger to PvP’ers.
This is of course just my opinion.
Ooookay let’s take this one at a time shall we…
1. PvEers NEVER had it free to transmute. Now you in pvp you get like 5 trans stones per day which is not possible to do anywhere else in game.
2. There are no rankings in Pve so this doesn’t really apply or mean anything if ur not a pvper. The fact that 1.5 years in and no one was rank 80 yet just says something about how it was implemented from the start.
3. That very well may be but pvpers now can get arah armor which is an end game armor. I wonder if wvwers can get arah gear hmmm?
4. Just stop… that map sucked and everyone agrees.
5. To make it more balanced…. cus you know… it’s pvp.
6. And all skins you had before were unlocked in the wardrobe, what’s your point? And with the constant supply pvpers get of trans stones it’s kind of a joke.
7. Armor doesn’t mean anything in pvp AND you get tons of tomes of knowledge if you want to lvl up.
PvE gets new content twice a month, no one bats an eye.
PvP gets a single armour set and everyone loses their minds.
Yeahhhh idk what your talking about considering pvp had a MASSIVE update in April along with tracks and rank changes.
Yes, it is very fair. Just like when PvE has skins that those that prefer PvP could not easily acquire.
I don’t PvP, but I certainly don’t begrudge those that do their shinies. Geez!
Pretty much this. I don’t PvP either, but both PvP and WvW rewards were underwhelming to the point of laughable for a long time.
Yeah, I can agree that WvWers have NOTHING in the game at all. After the April update, PvPers have almost as much as PvEers do, considering now that almost all the new skins are gem store skins.
In my opinion, I don’t find it fair that PvPers can get Arah dungeon armor and weapons (Arah is considered by far the hardest dungeon in the game) by doing pvp only, and now they are releasing PvP exclusive armor that is not available anywhere else. I feel like PvPers are being babied because most don’t want to step foot outisde heart of the mists.
I pvp on occasion as well as doing dungeons, fractals, and wvw. This new armor looks crazy good looking actually and I wish there was a way in pve or wvw to receive those skins.
To be fair, the dungeon becomes routine once you know what to do.
I think it presents a nice option. Instead of grinding the same dungeon over and over for the armor, players can go do PVP matches to gain it at a very very slow rate.
Yeah, you are right about most cases for dungeons, but Arah explorable is very different and many consider it end game content. PvPers have to do nothing different to get that armor or weapon skins if they wanted it. Why then should PvEers or WvWers have to be forced to do pvp to get this new skin
In my opinion, I don’t find it fair that PvPers can get Arah dungeon armor and weapons (Arah is considered by far the hardest dungeon in the game) by doing pvp only, and now they are releasing PvP exclusive armor that is not available anywhere else. I feel like PvPers are being babied because most don’t want to step foot outisde heart of the mists.
I pvp on occasion as well as doing dungeons, fractals, and wvw. This new armor looks crazy good looking actually and I wish there was a way in pve or wvw to receive those skins.
Update: One of the guildies I was runnign with earlier wanted to try a lvl 38. Was completed because no cliffside or molten fractal. BUT no reward at the end, all I got was a gold a prestine relic and that’s it… sigh
That’s actually a really cool concept. Unlocking individual sigils per legendary sounds like a great idea
I haven’t done fractals in about 3 or 4 months time. I forgot why I stopped doing it. I knew that the reward was almost likely going to be kittenty, so I stopped doing lvl 30+ higher fractals completely (and later all fractals).
Not too long ago my guildies start doing some again and I keep seeing them ping ascended weapons and armors that they get. So I start thinking, ‘maybe I should get back into it.’
Yesterday I try to do 3 fractals, the first a level 38 and then after reset 2 level 49’s. First one went great no issues at all. After reset we do a 49 when we get to Molten fractal and it bugs at the last room. We say oh well, reset fractals and go again. We speed through and get Cliffside the third fractal. Someone with the hammer falls and it’s gone. We do everything we could to try to bring it back and kittening nothing at all.
Today, we try a level 49 again, and AGAIN cliffside is the third fractal. Same exact kittening bug. I hit the seal, it pushes me back for some reason into a whole, I fall which it immediately re-spawns me in the downed state and the hammer is gone
After that, I finally remembered why I avoid what USED to be my favorite part of the game. Unless someone can convince me otherwise, I will avoid any and all fractals, as will my guildies, until there is a guarantee this is fix. There is no way to be compensated in these 4 hours of wasted time and with these bugs since nearly the start of Fractals still here, how can ANET possibly make us trust them again in that aspect of the game.
It’s complaints like this that make me crack up!
i know fair enough… just frustrated is all
Again, it’s up to them to see if they want to take a look I can’t do anything to prove it on the forums. They have to take initiative and decide for themselves…
For the guild rush it was our guild banner everywhere. Never in the chat log did it say guild rush completed but it did apparently even before we had 15 people cross. And yes because when accounts get hacked they have the ability to reroll an account and look at what happened. They can do the same here.
I mean they can go see the history and see for themselves just now that when we just completed the guild rush not one person got a personal chest reward. We just completed this about 20 minutes ago. It’s just very frustrating that this keeps happening to us over and over again, there have been many other times too.
I know it’s impossible for anet to reward individual players for broken missions. What i want them to do to at least show they care about my problems is to send us some influence boosters for the guild. Just show us that you guys still care about these issues and I’ll be happy…
Yep that was exactly what I did to make sure we got the reward. Waited till the timer ran out and no prompt came up.
3 times in the past week we have failed guild missions because of bugs with the game, and because of this we are missing rewards such as guild merits and commendations…
On Wendesday we ran guild bounty. We beat the first bounty then had to fight Sotzz for the second bounty. We found him on an island not as an asuran but as a glowy ball NOT inside a barrel and was impossible to interact with him.
That same day we did our first Guild Puzzle and completed it with another guild. We ran all the way to the end with about 12-15 guildies going and we did not receive a prompt to accept the reward, which became fail number 2…
Then Saturday, we were the ones to start the guild rush, for some reason when we reached 7/15 completed, the prompt in the guild missions tab said there was no active guild mission. Those that completed it ONLY got the big chest reward and NOT the personal chest.
I am sick and tired of organizing activities and not being properly rewarded for them. I expect our guild to be compensated either with influence or guild merits or other reward. It is simply unfair for this to keep happening on a constant basis.
During the last episode when Destiny’s Edge 2.0 and us head into Scarlet’s old house, and Taimi pretty much gets a nerdgasm from the minator head and wants to stay behind to look things over again, I couldn’t stop laughing! Very good chance she will be the next ‘Scarlet’ hahaha
Yeah my friend had the same issue and Reddit solved it for him, just collect all ur stuff from the BLTC and your set to go!
They do crit and yeah that’s what I though but not 100%
Does the effect of blood sigil which is chance of stealing health on crit work with turret if it crits?
but….but….. the howler O.O
Remember when the GW2 forums weren’t so toxic? Oh wait….
Okay gawys here’s the plan glances left and right secretively!!! We map in, we kill a monster or two and get the lootz! Then when no one is looking you go up to a ‘merchant’ and be like “Hey dude, I got your ’stuff” and he will give you like tree fitty for it! Then it will be like you never spent any money at all… it’s the perfect crime!
lmao I kind of like this idea even that kittenty game Runescape i remember way back created this dungeon which dealt with online security.
I just made a forum post about using a pin for banks. Thought of it after my friends account got hacked the other day. Today they got back to him they allowed him to change his email, rerolled his account because all his stuff was taken and 3 of his toons deleted. Happy to see my guildie back in action so quickly after a big incident!
[Suggestion] Pin number for guild/personal bank and wallet
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No I’m sorry accusing him of buying from gold sellers and having bad password were all wrong (he used upper, lower case, and symbols for his password and dungeons spammers don’t need gold sellers). All I’m saying is it’s possible for anyone to get hacked, and if it is there is nothing you have to protect yourself as a last resort. Even if they make a pin reset they can have a couple days for the new one to work which by then you can change all your passwords.
Luckily he’s being a good sport about losing his things for the most part because he doesn’t want too many things atm…
[Suggestion] Pin number for guild/personal bank and wallet
in Account & Technical Support
Posted by: Eight Samurai.6840
My friend’s account just got hacked and lost over 750g, lots of tormented and phoenix skins, along with all his ectos. If an account gets hacked there is no last stand of defense for your account.
Having to type in a pin to enter your bank/wallet can potentially save your account and losing your possessions. Any chance of this being implemented?
Ever 5 minutes I am being pmed with gold sellers. Getting very annoying to keep blocking and reporting all of them. Any chance of a purge soon for the known sellers?
Or just you know lol… don’t use it haha. It was brilliantly done during April Fools and glad to see it back!
Sorry, trying to be patient but it’s been a while since season 2 of WvW ended, they already claimed to have found the issue in the coding, why do we still not have access to the vendor yet? Just an update would be nice or an ETA though that might not be the best thing to ask for…
You guys do realize they will probably do this the same way they did your Personal Story. You can go at it alone if you want, OR you can get a party and have them all enter an instance with you. Everyone is worrying about nothing. Besides Anet tried to do massive world events for LS and 90% of them fell apart due to tasks being too easy, too hard, too long, not enough reward, etc. I hope they go back to their roots of GW1 with these missions. Grab a group of buddies and beat your story.
GW1 missions were much more fun than any personal story/living story quest that I’ve done in GW2. Some of you may remember missions like Thunderhead Keep, where a team had to work together to get the mission accomplished(and fail a lot in the early days.) It was a good design and very fun. Zerg fest events with 200 people running around pressing 1 isn’t my idea of fun.
To be fair I loooooooved the very first LS which was flame and frost dungeon (I’m a dungeoner so biased and was also instanced) and the last one where we had to kill Scarlet because the way they designed it was that zerging actually makes it harder to beat and easy to fail.
To add, I think most people who are complaining about the new stuff are the ones who skimmed through the article that clearly answers all their questions or contradicts them… sigh
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You guys do realize they will probably do this the same way they did your Personal Story. You can go at it alone if you want, OR you can get a party and have them all enter an instance with you. Everyone is worrying about nothing. Besides Anet tried to do massive world events for LS and 90% of them fell apart due to tasks being too easy, too hard, too long, not enough reward, etc. I hope they go back to their roots of GW1 with these missions. Grab a group of buddies and beat your story.
Fine… I guess I’ll go.
1. A sense of community and friends who I’ve been playing with since GW1. I like growing my guild and teaching new players and getting to know them.
2. I like to do WvW, dungeons, and PvP to get some variety when I play. I find all 3 fun in doses.
3. I played GW1 and I’m not really a gamer exactly. This was familiar to me and lot’s of the friends I made there moved to this one.
HOWEVER…. there are several things that are getting on my nerves such as poor coding by the devs which cause problems in games, lack of creativity with bosses and other areas in the game, and besides the three I already mentioned there is a big lack in endgame product or big updates to add new professions, weapons, or races.
half an hour into this problem and still nothing all my toons port into the old tpvp match along with other guildies. So while this is happening, i can’t dungeon, make gold, gain rank in pvp or anything except whine and complain here hoping that one person from the ANET staff actually reads something I write…. My patience for your broken patches is running so thin, that it’s times like these I’m glad I don’t spend any real money on the gem store.
Ever since the new patch, I dced 3 times in a row after seconds of loading in. Then we enter a match THE GAME ENDED 15 MINUTES AGO and no matter what we do we can’t exit. Logging out, changing toons, exiting gw2. NOTHING WORKS how long do I freaking have to be here and do nothing until anet gets it together?