Guild Wars 2

I really wanted a ticket so I overspent:

40 gold for 1,000 regular coffers = no ticket
60 gold exchanged for 2,000 gems for 25 rich coffers = no ticket
40 gold for 1,000 regular coffers = no ticket
80 gold for 2,000 regular coffers = 1 ticket (Finally!) with 50 regular coffers left

Total = 220 gold for 4,000 regular coffers and 25 rich coffers = 4,773 taffy, 21 risen knights, 422 fireworks, 34 potions, 1 ticket

I kinda freaked out on how much gold I spent so I sold all the taffy, a bunch of extra mats, ectos and snowflakes from my bank (still keeping 1 stack of 250 of each). Then I farmed for 5 hours and got around 800 coffers that I sold. In all, I’m still down 35 gold, but I’m really liking my dragon staff!

I have bank space! Lol!

Look at my butt…to see fireworks :p

And SoR LA fireworks timing was at 11:50am pst so “dawn” not in overflow in SoR server is every 2 hours….next fireworks here will be approx 1:50pm pst, enjoy

Dawn in game? The sky looks brown all the time. Is there a sun or moon we are supposed to track? This is really bad implementation, again.

I’m not surprised, just another dissappointment as usual.

-81k to our overall ppt just for getting this matchup. Anet makes it so SOR can’t let SOS get anything or we lose rank. It’s the ppt and the way Anet has this set up that makes our server feel like we have to camp SOS at their spawn to maintain overall rank.

On a more positive note, hopefully this will allow for some smaller teams/squads to form if SOS and TC don’t have a 50 man Zerg running in all 4 maps. Smaller guilds running more on their own this week sounds like fun.

I can hope, right?

I am happy to finally not have the same matchup regardless.

Default key on your keyboard is Ctrl for seeing loot bags. Hold that down and look around. The words “loot bag” are above your bags in yellow text which makes them easy to find.

Thrashbag said ~500dmg or so for a tag. I like to see that I’ve hit over 1,000 damage with my ele. However, if my first hit is over 1,000, I usually try to hit just once more. In my head I think that gives me more bags.

I don’t think there’s a real % of health or any real measure of how much damage you have to cause to create a good roll for a loot bag?

I get lots of bags though, so I’m not deviating unless I hear something concrete.

I doubt it needs to be cut in half, lol.

Anet must know by now what the approximate max number of players spamming skills are in one wvw map that causes this skill lag and I’m sure they could adjust accordingly. My guess is that the number of players is set beyond the skill lag bubble because they don’t want to limit the number of players in a map to a number that would be equal to the skill lag caused by almost all fighting each other at the same time?

I’m also guessing they allow more than the skill lag bubble so the map has more players in it with the assumption those players are more spreadout and not all using their skills at once?

Just guessing…and hoping for a fix of server optimization rather than cutting the numbers from wvw maps. /doesn’t hold breath

I think we all got a preview a while back when we could only get about 40 into a map and it seemed like a barren wasteland if you weren’t with the zerg. I know I don’t want that.

Mif.3471:

I love it when players who don’t have a 3 screen setup tell me what is and isn’t possible on my 3 screen setup.

I can clearly see over walls…
/faepalm

LOL! What big WALLS you have….

Maybe you did tons of damage to just 1 person and not much to a bunch of others? I really don’t have a clue why you only got 1 loot bag.

I run as a staff ele in wvw and I “tag” a lot of enemies with decent damage to get a lot of bags. I’ve found if all I do is throw out a meteor shower and hope I get bags that I don’t get much. But, if I’m using a static (aoe hold with damage) followed with a meteor shower (aoe damage) then using tab and a high damage ranged attack, I can help finish enemies and get an insane amount of bags in one zerg fight.

Maybe focus more on finishing enemies or doing more damage to each one to earn bags?

The damage when you are outmanned is like the damage from fall damage from a high cliff. You get downed and die but you take no damage. You just get the downed penalty is all.

The information stating you have to go to the repair npc or you take damage just fighting is incorrect.

You most likely were very close to the number of players that is “outmanned” vs not. I’ve seen this happen many times where it says you’re are outmanned, but one or more happen to log in just as you die and you weren’t outmanned anymore. Sometimes the outmanned buff will flash on and off as players are coming and going if you are teetering on the number for outmanned or not. Once in a while you even get that big zerg that transfers in just before you died and now you have to pay for those repairs.

If you are paying for damage repairs with the outmanned buff on the entire time, that would indeed be a bug.

I like the thoughts floating around in those “ideas” to improve the game. Making guilds and smaller skilled groups more powerful than an unskilled zerg sounds great. Look out for the skilled zerg though, lol.

What’s lacking from that message is server improvement. How can you talk about the future of WvW without talking about skill lag or lag in general? C’mon Devon. What is being done to address this?

Here’s your cool new patch we’ve been talking about since January. Look at all the things you finally get!

Now, let’s see…in exchange we will take….siege, yeah, we’ll take your ability to place siege.

Maybe we should put siege in the store? Let us think about this overnight.

Can’t place siege to attack anything = no fun. SoR main organized guilds almost all logged early last night and are hoping to log in to a fix today.

BG seems to be doing their best with so many logged off. Finally, BG has a solid ppt lead.

Fix wvw so we can finish this week strong…please?

DevonCarver.5370:

We’ve found a bug in the siege cap and are working on addressing the problem as soon as we can.

19 hours and no fix. Any ETA or update on this?

Skill lag is also a huge issue. Has this been acknowledged as something you are working on also?

VOLKON.1290:

Eyelusion.8205:

VOLKON.1290:

Eyelusion.8205:

Mek.2947:

rice.5376:

Mek.2947:

How are laurels only accessible to PVE players? Are there not PvP dailies too? I’m not following.

PVP != WvW.

While they did add a WvW Daily, that’s one per day, and for those who don’t touch PVE or PVP, they don’t get the monthly.

I’ll let you do the math on that one.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Daily

8 of those you can do without leaving WvW….you need 5 to complete a daily…I’ll let you do the math on that one.

Mek,

This is an unfair assessment. I’m a wvw player myself and every wvw player knows, or should know, that some days you can get the daily with only wvw as your snapshot dictates. But, on other days, the achievements change and are not as easy as your snapshot dictates. Some days you have to go into PVE or at least do a JP, fractal, kill 40 enemies, do 5 events or whatever in PVE.

Given it’s some days you could get a laurel in WvW and some days it required PVE, I think it’s only fair that Anet to allow a discount to those who wvw only to get their fair share. Maybe it’s a laurel discount for wvw’ers over the next 4 weeks. Something is better than nothing.

What isn’t fair is for PVE players who got so many more laurels to be able to get their wvw ascended set first because they have more laurels than a wvw player.

Picking a previously PVE, Fractal mostly currency to use now toward wvw just isn’t a good decision, but that’s a different subject.

Have to disagree with you there for the most part. I’ve found that anything that needs to be done outside WvW ultimately supports WvW anyhow, such as making food or superior siege or gathering the materials for superior siege. Plus they’ve added additional WvW only items for the daily and there are now three slots designated to WvW for the daily. It wasn’t hard before and it’s easier now.

Oh, laurels have nothing to do with Fractals btw.

Laurels are a PVE, Fractal based currency rather than a wvw currency before this patch is what I was saying. I still believe that is true.

…

Laurels are from Dailies, not Fractals. You could never and still can’t get laurels from Fractals. I think you may have your currencies confused.

I see where you are coming from. For clarification, I’m speaking of getting laurels to buy ascended to do fractals, not doing fractals to get laurels. As ascended is required for fractals to get thru the agony resist or you can’t do any higher level fractals.

VOLKON.1290:

Eyelusion.8205:

Mek.2947:

rice.5376:

Mek.2947:

How are laurels only accessible to PVE players? Are there not PvP dailies too? I’m not following.

PVP != WvW.

While they did add a WvW Daily, that’s one per day, and for those who don’t touch PVE or PVP, they don’t get the monthly.

I’ll let you do the math on that one.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Daily

8 of those you can do without leaving WvW….you need 5 to complete a daily…I’ll let you do the math on that one.

Mek,

This is an unfair assessment. I’m a wvw player myself and every wvw player knows, or should know, that some days you can get the daily with only wvw as your snapshot dictates. But, on other days, the achievements change and are not as easy as your snapshot dictates. Some days you have to go into PVE or at least do a JP, fractal, kill 40 enemies, do 5 events or whatever in PVE.

Given it’s some days you could get a laurel in WvW and some days it required PVE, I think it’s only fair that Anet to allow a discount to those who wvw only to get their fair share. Maybe it’s a laurel discount for wvw’ers over the next 4 weeks. Something is better than nothing.

What isn’t fair is for PVE players who got so many more laurels to be able to get their wvw ascended set first because they have more laurels than a wvw player.

Picking a previously PVE, Fractal mostly currency to use now toward wvw just isn’t a good decision, but that’s a different subject.

Have to disagree with you there for the most part. I’ve found that anything that needs to be done outside WvW ultimately supports WvW anyhow, such as making food or superior siege or gathering the materials for superior siege. Plus they’ve added additional WvW only items for the daily and there are now three slots designated to WvW for the daily. It wasn’t hard before and it’s easier now.

Oh, laurels have nothing to do with Fractals btw.

Laurels are a PVE, Fractal based currency rather than a wvw currency before this patch is what I was saying. I still believe that is true.

As for doing PVE outside of wvw to support wvw, that’s true if you choose to do that. However, you can still get your superior siege crafter in wvw and you can still gather mithril oil and elder wood for superior siege and craft it in a forge in wvw too. You don’t have to go PVE for those as you suggest.

As for adding wvw to the dailies, yes, this helps going forward. But it still doesn’t address the potentail stockpile of laurels a PVE only player has over a WvW only player when it comes to completing dailies.

Originally, if I was told I would have to run PVE almost every day to support myself in WvW, I’m not sure I would have tried this game out to be honest. Looking back, it’s easy to see how I can stock up on laurels to spend on the current WvW ascended. But, what about those WvW players that didn’t do PVE to support their WvW? Using laurels as compensation gives the PVE who now goes WvW a potential big advantage over the strictly WvW player. It should not be this way. WvW players should have a distinct advantage in getting WvW gear over a PVE player, in my opinion.

Mek.2947:

rice.5376:

Mek.2947:

How are laurels only accessible to PVE players? Are there not PvP dailies too? I’m not following.

PVP != WvW.

While they did add a WvW Daily, that’s one per day, and for those who don’t touch PVE or PVP, they don’t get the monthly.

I’ll let you do the math on that one.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Daily

8 of those you can do without leaving WvW….you need 5 to complete a daily…I’ll let you do the math on that one.

Mek,

This is an unfair assessment. I’m a wvw player myself and every wvw player knows, or should know, that some days you can get the daily with only wvw as your snapshot dictates. But, on other days, the achievements change and are not as easy as your snapshot dictates. Some days you have to go into PVE or at least do a JP, fractal, kill 40 enemies, do 5 events or whatever in PVE.

Given it’s some days you could get a laurel in WvW and some days it required PVE, I think it’s only fair that Anet to allow a discount to those who wvw only to get their fair share. Maybe it’s a laurel discount for wvw’ers over the next 4 weeks. Something is better than nothing.

What isn’t fair is for PVE players who got so many more laurels to be able to get their wvw ascended set first because they have more laurels than a wvw player.

Picking a previously PVE, Fractal mostly currency to use now toward wvw just isn’t a good decision.

Kimbald.2697:

GuardianOMS.8067:

Rising Dusk.2408:

GuardianOMS.8067:

Make it karma based. Moving along!

We’re not allowed to get anything useful out of our Karma. Didn’t you get the memo?

I’m not getting memos now either?!

Memo’s are bought with gems.
Laurels next patch.

Oh boy…please do not put laurels in the gem store. NOOOOOOOooooooooo!!!….

I love that they made this backlog so we get our previous rewards going forward. They could have easily have just made it without any backlog and just gave the rewards going forward. They did the right thing rather than overwhelm the market with so many rares/ectos and other items. I’m very pleased they did it this way rather than a big fat nothing, which seems like the way most games do it these days.

I’m happy with it.

naskarpa.5972:

Shouldn’t it read like
“Defensive infusions provide players with -1% damage from guards and lords.”
instead of
“Defensive infusions provide players with -1% damage to guards and lords.”
?

It should read that way, but you already understand it so it’s no big deal, right?

AntiGW,

I’m sure there’s some stealthed stuff that fell into this or things changed or added that they didn’t dictate as there’s always a few things. As to what they are, we’ll probably have to wait till the mass logs on as everyone gets home from work/etc as the patch just got done about half an hour ago.

I hope they added some crafting recipes. It’s getting rather stale for my chef. If not, let’s press for additions in the next patch.

There was no additional crafting in the previous Southsun patch that I could ever find, just more crafting with karka shells that were more expensive before the new events.

For an update every 2 weeks with 3 in 6 weeks, I’m not underwhelmed by the content in each patch. However, over a 6 week timespan, I was hoping for a greater improvements in the wvw skill lag area. This can be a game breaker for some. I know content can be too, but broken areas I can always hope will be fixed before new is added…too bad it rarely comes true (can’t say never after wvw culling was fixed).

Yargesh.4965:

Eyelusion.8205:

HeliaXDemoN.1208:

Thx Obama

My15Chars

ROFL! That never gets old.

yes it does

Haha! Mine was sarcastic. I should have ended with /sarcasm :p

HeliaXDemoN.1208:

Thx Obama

My15Chars

ROFL! That never gets old.

LMAO @ this copy/paste animation! LOL.

Hopefully they’ll change it. Thank god they can change it in a MMO and it’s no stuck like this.

A for adding it to the game, F for effort.

I like the idea of a whirlwind affect around the plant area. It makes more sense than hitting the ground so hard you get a water spout, lol. OMG, who the hell came up with this one? LOL, LOL…..lol…i can’t stop…

LOL!!

Renny.6571:

Lead.1784:

Well, with JQ bl it’s just not worth going there with the awful dcing and lag. As far as SoR BL we simply kicked you guys out!

Zero lag for me on JQ bl. Some Merc members have reported that deleting local.dat in the gw2 folder fixes it. :o

Then go fight in JQ bl. We can’t keep a group there for some screwy reason.

Last night, I was with a group of about 40 and we all went to JQ bl in hopes of taking everything. But, we could barely get past the south gate of Hills on our first attack on the borderland with 40 getting reduced to about 5 due to disconnects. My game seemed fine till we started to attack, then it seemed to stall and then speed up over and over. Everything just froze and I disconnected within maybe 2 minutes of hitting Hills?

I don’t know what the hell is going on that would cause only disconnects in JQ bl, but it’s the reason there bl was completely owned by them last night and will continue to own until the disconnect issue on that bl is fixed.

Forces have to go somewhere with only 2 BLs and EB playable.

Maybe you can help with submitting bugs about JQ bl rather than try to make it sound as if SoR is double teaming you and lying about the dc’s in JQ bl. We all know BG dc’s in there too. If BG doesn’t lag in there, then why don’t you own their bl?

My local BestBuy has gem cards for 2000 gems for $25. There’s still a big stack of them next to all the other gaming cards on the side of the PC games section.

It’s a Beta which only the top 50 EU and NA players can do and it costs gems to build and to buy time to play. /not impressed

Ursan.7846:

Christopher Walken.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9PLCqe9Tbo

I’ve never seen that. It was hilarious! Haha

Thanks for the link, kids

It’s definitely broken. The lag spikes when 2 big zergs hit each other, or when a third is in the mix are so bad that most are getting skill lag: inability to use their skills for 1 second, or 5 seconds, depending on the spike. It’s really bad.

It wouldn’t be that bad if it just happened once, but the big fights in SM is where I started to see this. Now it’s even big fights in garrisons and elsewhere. Anytime a big group of players fight each other, it’s lag spike after lag spike.

Combined with the culling, you can run around 30-40 of the other team and not get hurt unless it’s in between lag spikes and you’re down without a chance to heal/react, nothing.

Worse yet, I’ve seen a lot of players log out, entire guilds, entire zergs…out of pure frustration with the lag to the point where we go from winning to outmanned in just a few seconds. The gameplay is really poor after the last patch.

My guess is the last changes in the last patch let way too many players into WvW along with the culling changes or the servers need to be upgraded/reset and nobody’s doing that? Just guessing. It’s definitely not a player client issue.

shortcake.8659:

What if you hit the ceiling?

That’s what some refer to as the “que” or “queue”. Enjoy it!

Extremely obvious that SoS is intentionally losing now with only 75 ppt. I know they are attempting to drop into 4th or 5th so they can dominate the T2 matchup next week before the reset in hopes of a t1 reset standing.

I’m not surprised.

I killed one of these “employees” twice in EB last night while fighting to hold SBI out of their SBI keep. Needless to say, I took him down with a lava font and some well placed AOE. Oh noooo……more nerf bats?!?

Ascii.9726:

Oh cool! heres a quick video of TC’s TV guild and some others “Legitimately” entering SM and trying to cap, if you would like to check there progress.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj-5XD6p4zo

LOL! This video actually had me laughing at loud and my wife wondering why I was laughing at that strange sound. Haha!

I got 1 last night in WvW and sold it for a little over 16s.

I get about 1 every 3 days, unless I’m farming repeat mobs for a few hours. When farming, I’ll get 1-2 in 3 hours.

Eurlin.4256:

From Eyelusion:

“The Guild Wars 2 Support Team,

I’m replying again because this wait is ridiculous. It’s been 9 days since I sent this ticket.

I fully understand the need to look deeper into accounts you think might be behaving incorrectly, but I didn’t do any botting. Does a bot:

1. Play 400 hours on one character, mostly in WvW?
2. Get over 5,000 kills in WvW?
3. Complete the Wintersday achevement?
4. Get all mini endless potions and minis for Wintersday?
5. Never sell gold?
6. Buy approximately $150 in gems with money, not gold?
7. Buy Wintersday presents from the gem store?
8. Buy black lion keys from the gem store?
9. Complete 40% of the map?
I can keep going. What I did was farm in an area and you mistakenly think I was botting.

Because this ban is now 9 days old, I’m getting seriously close to the end of my patience.

If my account isn’t reinstated soon, I’ll be forced to demand for a full refund of all gems purchased in your game and I will not touch it again. I do not want to do this, but your obvious avoidance of reasonably responding to your false botting accusation and ban is more than insulting and a deficiency of good service.

I’ve been upset, but I’m getting mad now. If this continues without an appropriate response, I will pursue action.

Sincerely,

Eyelusion"

Incident: 130109-002425

Thank you for whomever read this post and reset my account so I can use it again. Although I believe it took way too long, I’m happy to report I have full access and nothing was taken from my account.

If you accidentally delete them, you will lose them. Other than that, you’ll have them.

I converted all my ugly sweaters, hats and socks to gifts as there is no answer on this and I’d rather be safe then sorry.

Time converter says:

18:00 GMT is:

10am PST
11am MST
12pm CST
1pm EST

Day Trooper.3605:

Op – in the last paragraph you state: “Building snowmen and opening giant presents provided decent encouragement to travel around the world for special tokens that unlocked skins.”

What are these ‘special tokens’ you mention? I’ve built snowmen for the achievement and have opened many giant presents and have yet to see any Wintersday drops aside from the small/giant gifts…

They are rare, but I got one. I had to take it to the AH in TP and exchange it for a cool looking weapon skin of my choice.

The other skins I’ve found in the wintersday presents are not as rare but aren’t as cool either, like a wooden dagger skin or toy staff skin, etc.

I saw someone with one of these next to me and it was opening and closing with golem sounds. Was I seeing something you aren’t or is this not the type of animation you are looking for from the minipet?

This argument doesn’t hold up now anyway. The upgrade has been on a special discount at 1600 gems and still is right now.

sfarhessi.4591:

As if you needed any more inspiration, here it is.

Inspiration.

Well, maybe I misjudged TC and their ability to bring it! Or, is this video correct and you are going to fight THIS day and not the other 6?

Turn it into an endless tonic. You squeak when you play as one.

Emissary Vex.5690:

No the different size presents have different loot. For example the giant ones have a chance of dropping magical stuffing/glue that I can use to get a tonic I want. As where the small presents that drop for my alts do not. You can see what all the different size presents contain here.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Present

I’m not doubting you, but I did open over 1,000 giant presents and got 0 stuffing/glue. Those are some crappy odds or the aren’t in there! I even got a couple weapon skins. I would think those would be less likely than stuffing or glue. Maybe not?

SeeingBlue.8453:

I am wondering the same. I ended up with 200 account bound cogs, & 250 stuffing. With seeming no way to get 250 glue, & 50 more cogs.

Like above, there’s no way to get more cogs. As for glue, you have to buy it from the TP, like stuffing.

1. Too hard.
2. No.
3. Yes… 10 boxes – No mini
4. Yes.

I got 5 cotton doing Toypocalypse. I’d rather spend the 5 silver to buy it off the TP.

Griffin – Got in 3 tries
Princess – Got in 2 tries
Going to try for others but not today

JaredKincade.9761:

To our IoJ friends moving to tier 3, Merry Christmas from ICoa! Hope to see you back sometime.

I think your Siegeraiser got snow in his ear from our snowballs. 2:10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViGcZRqMjK0

This video is awesome! Thank you!

The suspense is killing me….um, I’m downed…somebody heal me?