Guild Wars 2

Whenever Guild Missions were released, ArenaNet said it would take coordination from your Guild to complete these tasks, but as time has progressed and even further through I have one searing question in my mind that I can’t help to ask.

Why are people outside your guild able to participate in GUILD Missions?

Guild Treks are so mindlessly easy that I’ve completed Tier 3 with less than 10 people.
Guild Puzzles have not been unlocked yet, so I cannot ask about these.

Effective strategies for Bounty Tier 3 are as followed:

1) Send 1-2 people to search a zone for each bounty before hand.
2) Split up into 3-6 groups of 10 players and start the bounty.

I haven’t used any other strategies that were successful at Tier 3.

Effective strategies for Rush are as followed:

1) Everyone becomes a creature and races through the traps, encounters etc.
2) Separate into groups of players, one group clears the path for the other group and vice verse.

I haven’t used any other strategies that were successful in completing the Rush.

Effective strategies for Challenge are as followed:

1) Massive amounts of players swarm the event, event doesn’t properly scale thus making it simple.
2) Use strategy 1.

Clearly, ArenaNet wants these to have a challenge for guilds and I agree that a disorganized, undermanned guild would struggle with the highest Tier Bounty, and possibly the Challenge. However, when you factor in other members of the community able to help out it becomes a moot point. The Rush is so overly easy that whenever you set up to run them all you really and truthfully need is 2 members to complete some of them, one running the other protecting.

Currently whenever running guild rushes there is a bug that I have ran across that is extremely annoying as a Guild Leader.

• Non-Officer guild members can start the Guild Rushes countdown/event.
• Repeatable by:
  Activate the Guild Rush as an Officer.
  Watch guild members run to the starting location and activate it before we are all there or even ready.

Some people state that it’s the Guild Leaders job to maintain their guild members, but I disagree. There is an option that clearly states WHO should be able to activate these missions. It should be a global control to not allow people to do such things.

I don’t think that’s exactly how that works.

This chest isn’t giving rares like the other world events. Can this be looked into?

Take this into consideration.

Other games: You need 23+ other guild members to get the end all be all of gear and it takes 4-6 months to fully deck yourself out.

Guild Wars 2: End game content can be done solo without the need of 23+ other guild members to get the gear. It takes 4-6 months to deck yourself out.

I said deck yourself out, not your entire account out. You shouldn’t be able to deck an entire account out in 4-6 months of game play because otherwise companies will lose money. While you might be able to get some pieces in other games you won’t be able to deck more than one fully out unless your guild is led by idiots or it has really kitteny loot drops.

I love this game for the simple fact, I don’t need 23+ other idiots to get the gear I want. I don’t fight over it with a DKP system or lose because of some stupid RnG. I earn it by completing dailies/monthlies, doing guild missions, and no I am not fully decked out in ascended gear and won’t be for a long time.

The biggest selling point of this game is you aren’t fighting 23+ people for the loot you earn. Note: I take 23+ as this is a normal raid system in most other online games. This has been brought down to 10+, but you do not receive the end all be all gear of a game with that little people.

As Vexiq stated we do not tolerate any cheating of any kind. If we find out whoever is behind this we will terminate their membership with the guild and they will be reported as hacking. This has been brought to our attention that a few were doing such a thing and they were dealt with in this manner. I would like to extend our apologies for these incidents and I will personally handle it.

Regards,
Illusionary Ally, Co-Leader of [RED]

I guess those people that missed out on 2/27/2013 won’t get their loot?

Could we get some type of reply to the actions that will be taken for those that did not receive a chest? Are we going to be given the chest or are we just out of luck?

Any word on if we are going to actually get the rewards for this daily achievement? I have taken screen shots to prove that I have completed it.

Some one forgot to add an if statement to the daily completions…

bool chest_given = false;
int dailies_complete = 0;

if (dailies_complete <= 5)
{
if (!chest_given)
{
//GIVE CHEST
chest_given = true;
}
else
{
//DON’T GIVE CHEST
}
}

Completed 9/5 Dailies and didn’t get my chest either.

Finished Gathering and Leveler at the same time which was for 6/5 completed. I am guessing this is an issue with not completing only 5 dailies at once.

Recycle.5493:

Just completed personal story completer, and got error=7 right after that. And the game just kicks me to character selection screen every time I log onto that character.

Same error I was receiving from completing the Mystic Frogesmith earlier.

I am sitting at 4/5 completed for my daily doing the Mystic Forgesmith and it continuously kicks me from the game whenever I complete it.

Philosopher Stones, Crystals, etc…

All these items should be made Account Bound instead of just Soulbound. I understand the concept of you wanting people to use them on the toons they buy them with but, with how easy it is to get skill points it’d be nice if I could just stash them on my storage character until I actually need them.

Just food for thought.

Could we get an indicator in the guild roster window of people guesting on other servers, right now it displays the location in Orange if they are guesting or transferred. Could this be changed to a different color whenever members are guesting so guild leaders do not have to constantly keep track of the members who guest and are not transferred off your server.

Sylvari Mesmer – Illusory Ally
Asura Mesmer – Illusionary Ally

Wanted something to confuse my enemy and my allies. It works about 90% of the time…stupid clones always gets revived before I do.

Does this recipe exist or are we out of luck on this venture?

Mystic.5934:

yes, the TP is very misleading. they did say the necessary info, but it’s misleading. here’s the breakdown:
if you sell something for 1g:
5s is paid by you at that time for a listing fee (5%)
10s is taken from the final sale before you collect it (10%)
total fee = 15s (15%)
The ‘projected profit’ the TP says is actually the projected return, meaning how much money you can expect to collect when that item sells. this number is the listing price (1g) – final sale fee (10% = 10s) = 90s. it does not include the listing fee (5% = 5s). If you want to know how much profit you make from selling an item, take the ‘projected profit’ and subtract the listing fee stated.

Did they actually fix it for being 15% because I’ve always used 14.5% and been the exact amount of money I get back.

Jasher.6580:

Underwater Trident clones (Since the last patch they don’t give confusion on attack) (extremely bad)

No but, they do give Bleed stacks, who can argue with 25 stacks of bleeding, and yes without time warp you can get 25 stacks in like 10s of a fight.

You cannot use superior runes in the mystic forge to do that, however, there are certain superior runes you can use in there to do different things. I have not figured out what yet though.

Vatras.2806:

Malediktus.9250:

Very risky investment, as anet could reintroduce this temporary recipe at any time without a patch.

They took it out for some reason. Why should they reintroduce the recipe angain, if they dont want these items to be in the game? Just to fix some little part of the economy?

They were introduced to be a limited time recipe, which they took out but, made very clear they could activate it again if they so wished.

If what I read is accurate, condition damage does not effect the % of a single vulnerability effect. Condition Duration improves the duration of the vulnerability effect but, the only way to increase the % of the effect is to stack multiple vulnerability effects.

Awesome.6120:

I will be really upset if something like this gets added before basic “last online” functionality.

QFFE

When can we actually get that function. It’s really hard managing a guild of 500 members when you don’t know they were last online.

Enjoy life as you only have one life to live, if you can’t enjoy a game because of this issue; you don’t need that game in your life.

Sorry about your failed Portal bombing on the garrison in Devona’s Rest but, I just love my arrow carts.

I know what build you are using! Hehehe, congratulations!

I just want to chime in here to let everyone know that has been saying things about [RED].

[RED] is not a World vs. World guild and we have never claimed to be a WvW guild. We are a casual guild who enjoy spending reset night within WvW. A large part of our members are still working on their characters and do not know many strategies. We play for fun, so I ask that you do not think otherwise.

Sincerely,
Illusory Ally Officer of [RED]

Bugged on Devona’s Rest as well, very irritating when trying to do world completion as it stops progression completely.

The ONLY way to cut down on botting is to limit the number of ‘BUY ORDERS’ that you are able to make. Guess what? It also hinders power traders.

I’ve had this happen a lot the past few days. It always happens during North America prime time which is between 6:00 p.m. EST and 1:00 a.m. EST (Note: This is because the difference between Eastern Standard Time and Pacific Standard Time.)

One thing I can always rely on though is it works during the morning time.

Just wanted to give a shout out to the Anvil Rock crew that was out in Devona’s Rest borderlands. You guys did a wonderful job stopping us from completely recovering our tower. Too bad right as I left we were camp spawning you.

bradderzh.2378:

Commanders are constantly dropping gold on siege and upgrades because a large number of the Zerg is there solely to level and get gold, karma and exp which goes against their reason for being there. Also the amount of time it takes drop your own siege, and to ask around ‘does anyone have a ballista for these 3 rams breaking down our gate’ is sometimes the difference between keeping a structure or losing it.

I don’t know if the poster above you is on Devona’s Rest but, obviously this differs from server to server. A few DR commanders are children who have no clue how to use strategy and have big mouths. They don’t purchase any types of siege equipment and are only there to be an annoyance to the server rather than a service. I know several people feel this way about a few of the commanders, other commanders are excellent in their execution and their knowledge of strategy.

While your statement is whole heartily right about most commanders but, unfortunately the statement above yours is also correct about several commanders getting into kitten fights over whose ego is bigger.

Osicat, what do you use to record your gaming experience. I would love to find out.

Had loads of fun today in WvW, to the Anvil Rock guys that were trying to kill me in the Hills Keep on Devona’s Rest Borderlands I give you all mad respect. You all never gave up even after I made it ever so difficult to kill me, finally falling to my demise off the bridge after you called the zerg to kill me. I have mad respect for you guys sticking to your guns and tossing me out of that keep.

You’re respectful friend,
[RED]

Astraea.6075:

plasmacutter.2709:

Astraea.6075:

Avan.1540:

Likely not when a very large number of people started recording these issues; there’s a thread with well over 1000 posts on it in the general forum.

Look up the phrase “confirmation bias”. I’m not saying there isn’t an issue with drop rates, but citing numbers of posts that support your view doesn’t actually prove it.

It does when you’re trying to confirm people are not delusional.

Generally you can confirm something is “real” when a significant number of people observe it.

when was the last time over 2000 people were kitten enough to go post in a thread?

Was it a real in-game issue then?

And what about people not having an issue? They won’t post at going “omg… drops are unchanged”.

Again, not saying there isn’t an issue, but citing post count isn’t evidence.

I think the biggest issue isn’t that there was a change in the loot parameter but, there was an actual change or more people are hitting the diminishing returns curve of loot.

Urthona.3198:

Another tip is to avoid killing Toxx for as long as possible (while keeping her out of the center, of course.) Have a couple people kite her while the rest of the team rebuilds their defenses.

I got the achievement on the third try. It can be done!

This is the biggest tip anyone can ever give you, keep Toxx alive as long as possible and just fortify fortify fortify. As long as people kite him, you can produce enough catas and balistas to kill toys in one shot. Its hilarious whenever you are looking at 75+ cata/balista firing in one direction.

Nice man, I’ve solo’d it at 80 all 5 days.

Embolism.8106:

The problem with Confusing Cry is that almost all Mesmer specs defend themselves by not getting hit in the first place, which makes Retaliation somewhat wasted most of the time. Now if it also gave your Clones Retaliation…

I actually agree with this post. The entire design around Mesmers is to not be hit at all by confusing your opponent into hitting your clones. Confusing Cry just seems like its a waste of a trait.

Embolism.8106:

GamerToukotsu.4219:

Xavi.6591:

While Illusionary Elasticity (bounce attacks have one additional bounce) is great, I don’t find it compulsory for pure Shatter builds.

I much prefer Compounding Power which gives you 3% more damage for each active illusion. This 9%/6%/3% also affects your Shatters (your first illusion shatters for 9% more dmg, 2nd illusion shatters for 6% more dmg and 3rd illusion for 3% more damage).

This is actually a very nice suggestion but, couldn’t you choose this as the adept Select-able trait instead?

Maybe they want Illusionary Invigoration too, or Precise Wrack; although IMO Precise Wrack is not worth a trait.

Yeah I wasn’t actually inside game whenever I made that post. I understand now why you would want it. Shatter reset + Improved Damage is going to leave a lot more damage than a single extra bounce.

I wanted to create a topic of discussion on the best Mesmer traits and why they are the better than others in the same line. Hoping this will show people why you don’t use some traits vs others.

Guidelines: Please only compare them to other traits within a single tree and please give combos you use if any with the traits.

• Dueling:
• Far-Reaching Manipulations: The range of your manipulation skills is increased.
  I like to use this with blink, it allows you to blink a lot farther than normal. Going from 900 range to 1200 range.
• Deceptive Evasion: Create a clone at your current position when you dodge.
  Clone generation ability for shatter builds, for confusing your opponent.

• Chaos
• Debilitating Dissipation: Clones apply a random condition to nearby foes when they are killed.
  Adds additional condition damage in condition builds. Very useful whenever your opponent starts killing off your clones.
• Chaotic Dampening: +50 Toughness while wielding a staff or trident. Reduce rechage of staff skills by 20%.
  I run staff so this increase my clone generation, chaos armor, and chaos storm abilities.

• Illusions
• Illusionary Invigoration: Recharge all of your shatter skills at 50% health. (90-second cool down.)
  I really like using this ability because with enough clone generation you can go through 50+ illusions in about 2 minutes.
• Illusionary Elasticity: Bound attacks have one additional bounce.
  This one is a lovely trait, allowing out staff or great sword bouncing attacks to hit a greater number of people.
• Illusionary Personae: Shattering illusions creates the shatter effect on you as well.
  I love running in before my clones, shattering on the opponent and dodging out twice to toss up more illusions.

These are the ones I use mainly, hoping to see what everyone else thinks of our select-able traits.

I love new competition, too bad I will not take part in this weeks WvW. I wish SF and HoD the best of luck. A valiant effort on pushing DR back a few towers, its nice to see a little push here and there, it got rather boring not fighting Kain and Ferg last week, they gave us the victory to move up only to come into this tier with full force and show our hand right off the bat, I have a feeling after the holidays will be different if we are still paired together.

Surbrus.6942:

GamerToukotsu.4219:

3+ minutes of regeneration and protection from this combo

I had the understanding that buff duration caps out at 1 minute when smaller durations are stacked up.

The tool tip only says 1 minute but, I’ve had this particular combo last a long time. far longer than a single minute.

For clarification: I and an Elementalist stacked swiftness for about 2+ minutes before it ever wore off. I don’t know if this is intended but, something funky is happening with buffs stacking from multiple sources.

I think people really under estimate the healing seed, if you are preparing for a large battle and you have a few engineers in your guild here is what you should do.

• Healing Turret(Engineer) + Healing Seed(Sylvari) Combo
• Place as many of these as possible in a single location.
• Watch protection and regeneration stack insanely.

This is one of the most useful combo’s IF you have time to prepare, as you can get 3+ minutes of regeneration and protection from this combo. In a large battle 3+ minutes of protection and regenation for your allies can make or break fights in a huge way.

Attended/Looted/NoMail

I am confused if they are just going to give everyone the box or if they are trying to give people who haven’t gotten the loot.

penatbater.4710:

It’s still down? Can’t get in atm. Idk if its just me and my sucky internet connection (CURSE YOU CHINA!!) or if it happens to others as well.

I cannot access the login server as well and this is from launcher so it has to be something wrong with the maintenance.

I put in 10g and pushed out 50g, all from dyes. Its not hard to make a turn over in profit whenever you know what to buy, and you have to be aggressive with the tradiing post if you want to make money.

Some nice little tricks I have found to work which are actually pretty funny whenever your opponent is new.

• Mirror Images, Decoy, and any shatter skill.
• Scepter 2 spawns a clone on a successful block.
• Sword 4 (Off Hand) spawns a clone on a successful block.
• Scepter (Main Hand) and Sword (Off Hand) spawns the most clones possible of any weapon combination, has the most blocks, and ultimately makes your character hard to kill.

I spam illusions even whenever I know they will die.

Whenever we launch Guild Wars 2 and we are downloading patches specifically can we get the total size of the update as well as the files remaining? Some people are on ‘limited’ down stream for a month and it would allow them the chance to see exactly how much they have to download before getting into the game, really helpful especially at the end of the month.

Yes some ISP companies have began limiting the amount of data you can download each month because of all the stupid US government laws that are trying to get passed to stop pirating which has a negative effect on the gaming/video streaming community.

ShunsuiKouKyoraku.9106:

A Guildie of mine observed what seemed to be bot like behavior on the TP. He was attempting to flip some items from a few weeks back and found that he was selling them for 4 silver by the truckload. But as soon as he raised it to just 4s1c he had no purchases. He looked at current orders for the item at 4 silver and found a measly 7. But once he switched it back to 4 silver he had over 100 sell within a minute.

A new bot?

I wouldn’t go as far to say this is a bot but, it very well could be. I have had it happen to me several times with lower cost items but, I just chalked it up to players. Remember the trading post is game wide and there are countless players accessing it all around the world, so it might just be coincidence.