Guild Wars 2

Marxist Breakfast.9613:

There plenty of apps out there that track WvW server score… but I couldn’t find any that tracked WvW guild activity. So I hacked one together over the weekend: https://aduros.com/wvw

The app simply polls the wvw/match_details API, and keeps track of when an objective is newly claimed. This isn’t a perfect approximation of guild activity, but it’s not bad. It’s really useful to have a little more insight into how much your guild is contributing!

There are probably quite a few bugs still. Let me know if it doesn’t work right

When you say claim, do you mean when a guild physically goes to the supervisor to claim that area for their guild, or do you mean simply capturing a point?

We are Wolves of the Falling Stars guild on the Yak’s server. It is a 130 member guild and are openly recruiting. We do a lot of dungeon and fractal runs and teach people how to run them properly and quickly. We do some PvP and a little bit of casual WvW too. We have weekly guild missions and working to unlock the rest of them soon. Our guild also uses a ventrilo server for those that enjoy that too.
WtFS is also an LGBT friendly guild (all this means is we don’t like hearing slurs in chat. Cursing is more than okay… to an extent). We are a very fun, social, and silly group of people who still like to do some butt-kicking in the process . If you feel like joining you can message me in game on my main toon, Eight Samurai.

Definitly megaserver because u can see there were many guilds doing the same guild rush as us. Plus this was Hirathi Hinterlands, a low level area so no reason for their to be an overflow. We were put in two different maps and we decided to move the other team before starting by letting the team that got separated to party with someone on the other map and then right click to join.

Anet team really needs to work on Megaserver. I know it just came out and is being polished, but even when they just announced it they sounded so confident that friends, guildies, and party members would be put together on the same map. When we went to do our guild rush today, one team went to one map of Hirathi, and the second party went to another. Considering we are all of the same server, same guild, and all partied together and many of us on friends list, it was very strange to see half the team didn’t arrive at the same location. If this did happen during a bounty we would have spent precious minutes transferring people over.

There is also the issue of having your bounty killed and having to wait for it to reset due to another guild with megaserver going on. Either the mechanic of guild bounties must change or every week guilds will run into problems.

So my biggest concern as a guild leader is how the new servers will affect how we do guild missions? I know it’s going to group us based on friends and guild, but there is a possibility that several/many during a guild mission get put into a different map for some reason. This will waste time during guild bounties to get everyone on the same map and can be especially hard for medium sized guilds to do this and complete a bounty at the same time.

foofad.5162:

Nerelith.7360:

Eight Samurai.6840:

Nerelith.7360:

Eight Samurai.6840:

I have a guildie who is very upset that He spent months making money to buy multiple gem store items such as armor or weapon skins. To him, this feels like he had wasted months of his time on GW2 that he could have been doing other things now that the wardrobe is coming. I can sympathize with him and others who spent real money on the gem store to improve their looks. Just by making it unlimited does not mean their time had not been wasted anymore. I really do have to agree that anet should give refunds to these people if they request it.

So Anet decides that all His changes all the dyes he used on his character, are now account wide. And all the armor skins he bought to unlock it for that character, …are now account wide. He can in other words use the skins he paid Money for… and for free use them on alts… for example, and he has a nerve to be upset?

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I Like the changes, it means I can easilly copy over all the skins that My mesmer unlocked, onto my elementalist and necromancer. All the dyes she bought, expensive ones Like Icing…Abyss…. I can save money by just using those On all my alts, not have to pay for each character to have abyss dye… if we do that math, that is a LOT of Gold saved.

I am confused. I do not see why your friend is complaining.

The point is that he spent real money to buy gems to buy the skins, but spent x-times as much as others did who only bought one skin. Anyone who did what he did paid more for the same product. When you spend real money for in game money and something goes wrong anyone would be upset.

I can understand that he is upset. What I am saying is, that he is Not automatically entitled to anything, simply because he is upset.

he CHOSE to buy in game gold with real cash? You stress this over and over. So what?

That does Not entitle him to a refund. Will Anet give him one? maybe they may, maybe they may Not. if they did I would send an email thanking them from the Bottom of My heart… because they do not owe your entitled friend a thing.

If it were me, I would Not refund it, simply because people feel they are entitled to refunds. As I said before… if you Buy a latte from starbucks for $3.99 do you come back the next week, and demand a refund if they are suddenly on sale for 50 cents less?

I feel bad your friend paid real world cash for multiple copies of the same item. But that doesn’t entitle him to a refund, No matter how badly he feels… “s*** happens.”

Your example isn’t even remotely applicable to the situation. There is no real life analog to this situation. The analog to your Starbucks analogy is “I bought some boots on the gem store, then they went on sale a week later.” There’s nothing wrong with that.

That’s also not what happened. What happened is that you bought three copies of a product, two of which have been taken from you as part of a redesign that allows you to infinitely make use of the third as long as you keep paying Anet for the privilege. They are taking it from you and not compensating you for it at all. That’s a problem.

Thank you, his answer was so condescending and false that I didn’t want to lash out at that person.

foofad.5162:

Cue the legions of ignorant corporate apologists…

Anyone who spent more money than they have to after the patch should absolutely be compensated. They don’t have to have their money back, but at least give them their gems back.

Yeah exactly, Anet should give the option to get one’s gems back for any extra duplicate is my opinion. Will they let them… I don’t know.

Nerelith.7360:

Eight Samurai.6840:

I have a guildie who is very upset that He spent months making money to buy multiple gem store items such as armor or weapon skins. To him, this feels like he had wasted months of his time on GW2 that he could have been doing other things now that the wardrobe is coming. I can sympathize with him and others who spent real money on the gem store to improve their looks. Just by making it unlimited does not mean their time had not been wasted anymore. I really do have to agree that anet should give refunds to these people if they request it.

So Anet decides that all His changes all the dyes he used on his character, are now account wide. And all the armor skins he bought to unlock it for that character, …are now account wide. He can in other words use the skins he paid Money for… and for free use them on alts… for example, and he has a nerve to be upset?

…

I Like the changes, it means I can easilly copy over all the skins that My mesmer unlocked, onto my elementalist and necromancer. All the dyes she bought, expensive ones Like Icing…Abyss…. I can save money by just using those On all my alts, not have to pay for each character to have abyss dye… if we do that math, that is a LOT of Gold saved.

I am confused. I do not see why your friend is complaining.

The point is that he spent real money to buy gems to buy the skins, but spent x-times as much as others did who only bought one skin. Anyone who did what he did paid more for the same product. When you spend real money for in game money and something goes wrong anyone would be upset.

Yeah people bought multiple skins of the same thing for different toons or armor sets. Essentially what this update is saying is that those who did buy multiple spent X-times as much for the same thing as those who only bought one set

I have a guildie who is very upset that He spent months making money to buy multiple gem store items such as armor or weapon skins. To him, this feels like he had wasted months of his time on GW2 that he could have been doing other things now that the wardrobe is coming. I can sympathize with him and others who spent real money on the gem store to improve their looks. Just by making it unlimited does not mean their time had not been wasted anymore. I really do have to agree that anet should give refunds to these people if they request it.

We are Wolves of the Falling Stars guild on the Yak’s server. It is a 130 member guild and are openly recruiting. We do a lot of dungeon and fractal runs and teach people how to run them properly and quickly. We do some PvP and a little bit of casual WvW too. We have weekly guild missions and working to unlock the rest of them soon. Our guild also uses a ventrilo server for those that enjoy that too.

WtFS is also an LGBT friendly guild (all this means is we don’t like hearing slurs in chat. Cursing is more than okay… to an extent). We are a very fun, social, and silly group of people who still like to do some kitten kicking in the process . If you feel like joining you can message me in game on my main toon, Eight Samurai.

Any NA servers have Grenth open?

I like how Anet can’t even be bothered to reply to anyone’s concerns. Since day 1 my Black Lion is almost always bugged, every new update is untested before it is launched, now they release this messed up update as well as once again changing AC em for who knows what reason, and no matter how many times you tweet them with problems they’d rather reply to funny pictures people post (ie. otters). There is no forethought in their updates. We actually purposely as a guild did not spend any influence yet on the Guild Missions (or lack there of) because we knew it was going to be bugged for several days at least. No surprise there…