Guild Wars 2

Right Toe Of Grenth.4032:

Replace SMC with a vertical JP in the same zone where everyone can set up trebs and ballistas to shoot the jumpers, making it challenging for them.
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OMG you’re a sadist, lol.

Hydrophidian.4319:

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- I’d get rid of most/all precipitous drops in the BL map. I don’t see the point of them, especially when the EB map doesn’t seem to have them.
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Aw but what then what would you call the Cliff of Derps? It would totally wreck your map and lord knows we don’t need another Starbucks there.

Or you just wait to zone over to your own server and out of overflow.

1. Get rid of the quaggans. They are too easy to kill off and really add no value to a map other than buggy issues. Cute as they are, they have to go. Perhaps BL quaggans can be harvested for these new backpacks. Replace storm island with a 15 storey tower in the middle of the lake that first has to be sieged and broken into, then run up the stairs and finally take (this tower would be a pure stamina attack/defense because it’d be next to impossible to get bodies in if you’re defending, and attackers would be forced to deal with siege, stairs, etc and final brute force to win it. Of course if left unattended, it’s a cakewalk).
2. Put a 24 hour timer on siege — to feel like you get your money’s worth. Have a mouseover ability to know when that siege is set to expire. Of course siege killed by the enemy is still fair game. Otherwise this ticking/reticking/magically disappearing siege issue is tiring and really needs to go — I realize there’s some game mechanic that makes it necessary, but I would bake cookies for any dev who can solve this. I can’t think of one single person who enjoys this.
3. Make dolyaks harder to kill. Whether that means you have to kill the guards first (if purchased) before the dolyak, or the poor beast wears armour and takes longer to die, either option is fine. Have an option at supply camps to add a speed boost as an upgrade so your dolyak trots to your keep, not plods along.
4. Fix any area that has been diligently reported by players as exploitable terrain. Ban players that abuse this (no, not the ones who take the time to make the videos and send them in or post on GW2 to give devs a heads up). First time for 14 days. Second time caught, permanent ban with ability to petition. Third time, you’re out forever, no petition, no recourse.
5. Increase the rewards you get in WvW. Give PVErs a reason to come into WvW. Something simple as this would do a lot.
6. Keep the waypoint “bug” the way it is. 1 second of chance to portal into a keep is nothing compared to hours of griefing that is often done by a solo player keeping a keep contested. (I’m looking at you perma stealth thieves, lol).
7. Allow titles and rewards for players that do the less than glorious grunt work. A person who gains a Siegemaster title, gets siege at a discounted price. A person who gets the Supply Runner title, gets a speed boost any time they’re in WvW. A person who gets the Defender title (defending x many towers and keeps during attacks, I’m thinking specifically of the people who play sentry and aren’t out running with the zerg) gets a defensive boon when their health reaches 10%.
8. Map wise .. bear with me, I know folks will object, but I think it’d be cool if there were three different terrains for the BL’s that rotate week after week, but randomly so you never know what map you’ll get — swamp, tundra, desert, etc … This would force different strategies on different maps, and make the game more interesting. Your position as blue, green or red would not change, so you’d still occupy the same “map space” with the same vistas and POIs, just you’re subject to a changing terrain and you never know what you’ll get each week. Have a fourth map in the rotation, so that 3/4 maps are used each week. Leave EB as it is. It’s an entity unto itself anyhow.

I’ve gotten into the habit of using /say to say “dropping sword” …. Because most folks fnd it hard to see the sword in a high pop battle. They DO see my chat bubble though and 90% of the time the sword gets picked up.

Thank you hon!

Score anyone? Pretty please?

Entitled Death of a Boxed Golem? Your choreography was superb!

Have found the “sweet spot” for levelling in WvW is around level 50. Before that, your gear and spells/specs aren’t really that powerful enough to make a dent .. but for whatever reason, after 50 the xp gain is significant. I have taken two toons through WvW this way and typically, with very VERY casual gameplay, I can get my level 50 toon to 80 in about four days.

I’ve actually gotten a few exotics from drops off of enemies. I think only one was applicable to my class though .. but there’s always alts

This was my fun!

Not sure if you heard about the ratings/server resets but this could potentially bode well for you getting Veloka! I’m crossing my fingers for you … if you don’t know about it, hit the wvw forum and read the sticky red post at top.

Lol doh. I see Supergica already beat me to the news

Maladon.5760:

Nodrey.3948:

I remember waking up to a sea of Green one morning and telling myself “Surely, TC will be resisting with every fiber of it’s soul” and instead, a TEA PARTY on a friggen bridge.

Wow, not sure I could deal with that

Eh, sometimes a little levity boosts morale. You are a prime example of this. It’s the same concept.

lol don’t listen to him. The EU RP server is Piken Square.

You can get a list of events happening on both unoffical RP servers by going here:

http://www.guildwars2roleplayers.com/home

The only question that hasn’t been answered is if there are badges of honour still in the small loot bags.

Envi.2460:

What the heck is dunking? All are your fights in a pool or something?

I believe it has something to do with donuts.

Yerffejy.6538:

Woops!

You were a little late SoR. We took our garrison back. Let the record show we had garrison.

SBI has officially won this week.

Hooray!!! Good going guys!

Akamon! Congratulations on your new baby! Getting any sleep? hehe.

You must be over the moon

Avenge.1478:

I feel like the server reset wont be such a bad thing. The servers will be ‘Tiered’ as per the rating from this week anyways, and it seems as if the majority of the servers will be in their proper tier anyways, considering the free trade period has come to a halt and servers are essentially set with who they have guildwise. Most of the upcoming matchups will be relatively even, with major a couple of shockers here or there. It’s not like we dont know whos falling and whos on the rise, and next weeks matchups will reflect that.

Completely agree. I see only good things come of this.

Sunspots.9861:

Indo.8629:

You do realize you lose more than anyone else? Blackgate and FA are going to eat up your rating. You will be in a lower tier than even us. I mean unless you guys want to go to T5/6.

At least if things stayed the same, you are fighting a T1 server(BG or SoS) and FA. You would have gained rating against BG. Now you’re just going to lose it completely and fall down to such a low tier.

I think you really don’t get TC.

Yep.

Love this. Thank you!

Any news on our naughty quaggans?

Thundar.3910:

I am upset, I worked my tail off getting into TC’s little cliff area near WH, I was trying to defect. But NOOOOooOOOOOOOoooo you just have to attack me, fine! I’m taking my ball and going home.

You. You can come. I’ve read your posts. You are hilarious. We will smuggle you out via the water gate .. shhh, don’t tell anyone.

Jeda.5209:

Just want to say to Yaks Blend. You guys are relentless even with your back against the wall. It would be interesting where you guys would be if you had coverage 24/7.

This is why TC loves them. These guys have a ton of heart and skill. They’re well respected for that.

Kiexcolo.2416:

For WvW, they should have a ranking system based on your kills, how much you build/repair, how much you heal/buff your team, how many objectives you capture. When you reach a certain rank, you can choose to be a specialist. Like a siege specialist get bonuses when using siege, a commander gets his commander icon/def buff, a supply specialist can carry more supplies and gets movement buff. And whatever else you can think of.

Love these ideas!

Yep TC since bwe2

No they do die quite easily. Even if you’re not a thief.

What do the boxes do/have?

Envi.2460:

SEXY SCORE UPDATE. You have nice teeth COO.

Poor quaggan has been gutted and a zipper added Cooo!

I like outspoken aardvarks idea about dynamic map populations …. So that another server can at best have 15-20% more population on map than their opponents, otherwise there’s a queue, but I can see problems with player harassment happening —- the so-called elite players yelling at the more casual ones to get out if WvW to make room. However, maybe this idea can be fleshed out more … It’s at least one stab at trying to get server balance, which makes for no fun gameplay for all involved if one server has significantly higher numbers. Any thoughts on how to tweak this?

To the OP. Yes Tarnished Coast is the unofficial NA RP server. While I don’t RP myself, I find it completely delightful to encounter random groups in my travels around Tyria. It adds an extra layer for me in my gameplay and I love our RPers. You’ll likely find the bulk of RPers in Divinity’s Reach at the taverns, but you can also find them in Charr territory, Sylvari territory and particularly in Rata Sum. (Those Asurans are tough little buggers, lol!) I’m not sure about the above discussion about censorship in /say conversations, but I’ve run into a ton of players using it. I think the issue is language, in that profanity is not likely accepted. Otherwise, I see RP conversations all over on Tarnished Coast.

I was out yesterday in Timberline Falls and I ran across a sizeable group of RPers doing an event. I loved it!

There’s also organized events on the server every Sunday, you can check out http://www.guildwars2roleplayers.com/events for more details (that’s also the official site for both the EU and NA roleplayers on GW2).

Good luck in your decision and hope you find a happy home!

Mjolniir.2541:

Next Match-up: Major jumps.

I honestly think it’ll come down to the last day of match before we know for certain who lands where. There’s so many variables.

Indo.8629:

Your response is we are vocal about cheaters and exploiting?

No, it doesn’t go both ways. You don’t want to be called out on cheating/exploiting, then don’t do it. Games have rules, follow them.

Notice we never do it though? We actually take the time to contact one of your guys in game instead of spreading the drama to the forum? And most of these accusations have been explained, and surprise, surprise, turn out not to be exploits.

Indo.8629:

Wow, the vocal TC’ers are really ruining the rep of the general server.

Sadly, I think this forum hatred from TC has resulted in the transfers from the TC to SoR server the past 2 days. You guys have lost about 30-50 WvWers to us because of it and 2 of your larger WvW guilds came inquiring.

For your own good, just take it easy and let it go. All the anger, hatred, jealousy and general animosity isn’t helping your cause at all and it changes nothing about the situation. If anything, you guys are now bleeding players and creating dissension amongst yourselves.

You’re my opponent, but for your own good, get it together.

Same could be said of your folks running screaming to the forums every time they suspect a hack, instead of taking the time to actually contact someone.

Road goes both ways in this thread Indo. Your server has not exactly been the shining example either.

Last time they said that it happened at noon pst right?

Ongoing matches can be monitored here:

http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA

Samiell.1259:

I hope this thread gets closed. I’ve never been so embarrassed to even read through this collection of trash.

Here, this will cheer you up. It did me immensely.

VOLKON.1290:

Jayne.9251:

Folks.

Simple solution. Log out of game. Go into your documents>GW2 folder.

Look for a file called local.dat

Delete it.

Let game reload it.

This file is your UI settings file, but for whatever reason, it grows daily. After a period of time it gets too big and corrupts apparently. If it’s larger than 15mb, that’s your culprit.

Deleting this file has worked for countless people. The only hassle is you’ll have to go back in and readjust your settings after it reloads.

Adjusting the sound settings works for a while, but ultimately the sound bug returns. The only way I know to get rid of it is deleting this file.

This doesn’t work. I’ve had the problem before, deleted local.dat and still have the problem. Happened a few times over the weekend.

There’s a few folks who have reported back that it doesn’t work for them, and I wonder if it’s a hardware issue for them …. I know this has worked for countless others, who have come back and said they don’t get the bug anymore after doing this.

Sunspots.9861:

As for spawn camping, its a valid tactic that has been in T1 for a long time. We were aware of it even in T3 when dominating FA and CD but I don’t think anyone had any real interest back then at sitting in a spawn with a balista when there were other maps to play in.

Actually I distinctly remember our commanders saying in map chat NOT to spawn camp when a few TCers began doing that. Was pretty proud of our team for that.

Had fun on SORBL this morning!

She’d have to pay to come back tho … server transfers are no longer free as of today.

It can be useful, in that while you can’t get in, it drains the castle’s supplies.

There was a promotion in November for three days, but other than that, no.

Oh hon, it’s ok and I do understand map frustration ….. Odd that you’d have trouble with veloka … Particularly if you take the keep next to it. But I guess different servers have different priorities and fortify accordingly. Certainly having veloka sieged up gives them the opportunity to treb the keep, but you’d think they would want the keep more, particularly for all the beneficial upgrades you can get.

Heck, I think you can even place catas and hit veloka from the keep, it seems so close.

Must be frustrating. Hope your guys flip it soon.

Yeah that`s pretty bad.

JaNordy.6149:

hahaha morans.

I had to go look this up. Thank goodness for urban dictionary:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=moran

Make friends with the WvW community. Show up (as it sounds you do) every day and more importantly, stick around. Don’t expect things to change within a half hour or hour, although sometimes they do. WvW maps change constantly, particularly on EB where it’s most volatile. I can’t profess to know your server’s situation, but it’s been my experience at least that EB’s towers and keeps change ownership quite frequently. I got all of my pois and vista by doing a week’s worth of 8-10 hour days. Plus I got to help out my server too and learn WvW, so it was win-win-win.

The borderland maps are far harder to get map completion in my opinion .. I suspect the reason you haven`t gotten your EB map completion is because you haven`t stayed around long enough. Be patient, help out. It will flip.

Braxxus.2904:

Jayne.9251:

Braxxus.2904:

Jayne.9251:

And that would translate into cancelled accounts.

Ummm, noone can “cancel” their “account”. This is not a subscription based game.

You forgot the sentence after the one you quoted.

About the gem store?
Pffft, that’s nothing to worry about. People will do that, or they won’t. If a person got upset that they could no longer bandwagon around for wuvwuv I’d wager they’re not a huge gem store income for ANet anyways. Still, it’s not a sub based game so it really doesn’t matter in the long run.

Oh I’m not talking about the WvW bandwagoners … I’m talking about the significantly larger pve community …. I think many aren’t realizing they outnumber wvwers and have to be factored in when it comes to announcing/not announcing. To not consider them and only focus on the WvW fallout is a bit short sighted. Folks are rightfully upset about the havoc created by the announcement in wvw but I assure you it would have been much worse if it hadn’t been announced. And would have had greater repercussions over a couple of months of resettling the WvW arena.

Braxxus.2904:

Jayne.9251:

And that would translate into cancelled accounts.

Ummm, noone can “cancel” their “account”. This is not a subscription based game.

You forgot the sentence after the one you quoted.

Ruruuiye.8912:

Does anyone getting the bug get it while NOT using any voice software (ie no Ventrilo or Team Speak etc)

Yep. I never use mumble or any voip program and I get it. I’m not overclocked either.

Only solution for me (and many others .. lol, I should really make a macro of this) is to go into your documents >GW2 folder and delete your local.dat file, then let the game reload it.

I can’t recommend any EU servers, but I’m on Tarnished Coast and we have people playing from all over the world here. It’s very rare I’ll go onto a pve map and find it empty .. often I run into at least a dozen or so folks doing the same events as me. WvW-wise: It’s not a bandwagon server, but what has happened is folks that come don’t leave, subsequently making it a very stable server. We’re currently in Tier 2, fighting off the SoR hoards ( ) … but we’re holding our own.

Hope that helps!