Guild Wars 2

Actually I never pve. Haven’t since October last year. I spend about 10-12 hours a day in WvW, seven days a week, although taking it a bit easier before leagues start. I am pretty decent in 1v1s and can say I’m a reasonably good scout, as well as good in a big epic open field battle. I was likely the one you cursed at last week as I ninja flipped SM/Bay/Garrison with a few of my portals. I just happen to like setting up our towers and keeps properly before I head out to fight. That’s how I got my 120K.

You know what happens when you assume …

Next time Piken is up vs SFR, look me up. We can go duel. Always looking for new challenges.

Drat. I was oddly proud of being at 120k. Was chipping away towards the title … And no title anymore huh?

A new achievement group has been added to the Living World category for WvW Season 1.
Twenty achievements have been added.
Completing 15 of the achievements will reward the Premier Season Veteran meta-achievement, a title, and a key that will unlock the final reward chest for Season 1.
Several of the achievements have reward chests with a variety of items, including ascended crafting materials.

Brace yourself folks, lol. That ground shaking beneath your feet is the oncoming pve hoards.

Be patient with them. Some may actually choose to stick around and do great things ….

Interesting convo this morning my friend. Talk to your people! three more days!

From what I’ve read the rewards are as described above with extra rank chests depending on what your server placed, plus a special WvW finisher if you come first place in your particular league. However, if the following week another server wins the league, you lose the ability to use that unique finisher and that ability goes to the winning server. Temporary WvW finisher and some chests, is all I’ve heard about so far.

Yeah he apparently had a fight with two people and unless they “treat him nicer” he has another 190 treb bps to use.

The guy has openly admitted in map chat he’s griefing.

morrolan.9608:

Jayne.9251:

morrolan.9608:

Gone from the game now I guess.

Why though?

People get bored of the game, maybe the move to a T1 server is a last attempt to reviving some interest. On SOR I know tsym for one are on hiatus but say they will be back at the beginning of December. I don’t think SOR has lost many guilds but the guilds have reduced numbers.

That makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to explain

morrolan.9608:

Jayne.9251:

My only question is if there are no queues on the maps where did all these players go from the countless guilds that have gone there? That’s the only thing that’s odd. And be honest, T1 servers have absorbed more guilds than any other servers out there. You guys should have eight hour queues by now … At all hours.

Gone from the game now I guess.

Why though? If T 1 NA is the best WvW …. You see what I mean? The constant T1 NA arms race is something every server below just scratches their head over …. I’m not meaning this to derail any T1 push, you guys have set it up that way for a reason, but it almost feels like people go to T1 NA and then stop playing shortly after.

Heck two medium guilds transfer to any server in EU and people start to freak out over the resulting queues. Most think 30 minutes is too long a wait.

Well wait till all the pve crowds flood the map for achievement completion…..

My only question is if there are no queues on the maps where did all these players go from the countless guilds that have gone there? That’s the only thing that’s odd. And be honest, T1 servers have absorbed more guilds than any other servers out there. You guys should have eight hour queues by now … At all hours.

What they could do is:

“You are number 50 of 100 players waiting on X map.”

“You are number 1 of 100 players waiting on X map.”

They couldn’t reliably give you a time until you get to play, but they could give you what spot you are in the queue and then you can figure out over experiencing that queue what it translates to in time generally.

The good thing about EU is that aside from one or two servers, there’s none of this massive tier population difference that you see in NA tiers. T2 and T6 can reasonably spar with each other, offering competitive fights during the whole match. You can’t say that in NA with the massive population disparity between tiers. Another bonus: EU players don’t suddenly throw in the towel if pitted against a server with a higher population — in fact, some of the best matches I’ve been in have been with servers with lower population who are coming out fists swinging and proving their strength.

English is the language spoken on map and server-wide TS. People communicate, guilds are allowed to go do their own projects and pushes independent of the rest of map, and there’s a newly solid force of defensively minded folks who are helping maintain our maps and structures. Piken’s reputation is grounded in guilds and their skilled playerbase. A daytime “friendly” zerg is markedly more skilled because typically it’s comprised of trained and experienced guilded players out in map before their raid starts. It is known as a tough server. If you wish to be part of that, then I welcome you to drop by the Piken forum at http://pikensquare.info and say hello and get more information.

For anyone else interested in Piken or has more questions, please ask here or talk with me or Doda, or Oracle Of Glint, Harmonizer, Khrum, Tifawnia, or Durray.

The server is full to the brim with EU guilds and players though, so while it wants to be a welcoming spot for any tough and serious WvW guild to transfer to, adding to the EU prime numbers will only create more queue times and frustration, for your guild and everyone else. In EU a queue time of more than one hour is a travesty — mostly because people are there to play, not stack to win. It’s one thing I found so refreshing — it’s all about the fights and the play, not the trophy, so they covet their queue times zealously.

Piken basically needs two NA prime guilds, with about 15-30 active WvW players each, and maybe maybe two Sea guilds to give SFR and Vizunah a run for its money. The rest of the time? We’re a force to be reckoned with

And it’s very likely Piken’s NA server time population (or early morning hours) will dip to medium and let you transfer for free — watch for it.

With the leagues starting this coming friday, now’s the time to make that leap and surprise everyone by taking Piken from second/third place to steal first. It’s not outside the realm of possibilities. Especially for Piken.

ViRuE.3612:

Are there any NA guilds on Piken currently? If so do they have much to do or just PvDoor? I’m looking for a new server (currently SoR) and old guild disbanded.

Bear with me, I’m writing a short novel, but I figured if you asked, others might be curious too, so trying to encompass all.

Most servers from rank 1 to about 12 or so can hold up pretty well against each other and offer decent fights during EU prime (about 2pm EST to 9pm EST). That’s when the bulk of the numbers come out and when things get the most “zergy”. (I took a peek at your posting history and have seen you’ve played both sides of the pond, so you at least have some idea). If you look at the MOS this becomes more clear as you see the difference in ratings between one server to another is minimal, compared to NA — which is also the reason you get some pretty exciting matches and servers change ranking pretty constantly.

During NA prime, starting let’s say 7pm EST, there is overlap a bit from EU prime into NA EST. Piken players start to head to bed typically around 9pm EST, but we have recently gained a few late hour guilds that help push our competitiveness past that hour. You will typically start your evening on Piken with some well coordinated guild pushes, along with a fairly large “friendlies” force. At about 11pm-midnight the Russian forces start to log into the various EU servers, including Piken, and start their pushes. (This is perfect for PST-based NA guilds btw). You will seldom have a PV-door situation as compared to what you’d get in NA. The whole PV-door thing is largely a myth. (As is latency btw, I’m in East Coast NA and hardly ever have lag issues, and some oceanic friends have actually told me the ping is better EU side than they experienced in NA).

Yes there’s a distinct difference in the actual number of bodies on the map compared to EU prime time, but there are guild groups to fight and also coordinated guilds on Piken to join. At the moment there is no one dedicated NA guild on Piken. But there are guilds that run numerous timezones. What it basically means is that instead of fighting massive skill-lagging 100 man blobs on a map during EU prime, you’ll be facing 50 man blobs and actually be able to press a skill beyond spamming 1. And you won’t be alone during that time either.

Of course there will be easier matches where the action isn’t quite as intense, but you’d get the same thing on any Gold League NA matches. In fact, I’d wager the pv-door factor during the leagues will be worse for some NA servers, particularly your current one. It’s only fun to steamroll another server for so long before it gets incredibly boring, and the leagues are going to be some seven painful weeks for some stacked servers in NA.

My issue isn’t exactly the same as yours Saalle. Once I change the password in the morning, it works all day until I log out for the night. I’ve even tried logging in again several times before I head out to see if the password still works and it does. Logs me in no issue.

It’s only when I get up the next day that it seems to be borked overnight.

Theftwind.8976:

The main thing is timing. Know how many seconds he has in stealth before reveal or he has to reuse blinding powder

Yep, and that comes from learning the class by playing it yourself.

Looking for duels this week. Whisper me in game

I picked a class I was particularly bad at countering and then sought them out, typically thieves, until I learned how not to faceplant to them.

I’ve also asked for duels in current match threads which has worked, because the onus there tends to be learning and growing in your class, at least it was for me. Don’t give up if you die over and over in duels. Sometimes it’s the best way to learn as you try new things each round,

Good luck! Roaming and 1v2 or even 1v3s are a lot of fun.

So was wondering if anyone else was experiencing this. I have put in a support ticket, but wondered if others were seeing this happening too?

So I had a password that I had been using for a year suddenly stop working a day ago. I checked the password 10 times, checked to make sure there were no capslocks, etc .. all the basic stuff and nope, GW2 forums and game rejected it.

So I went through the process of resetting the password, and put in a support ticket and went back to playing the game. My account was not inactive, I’ve played every day pretty much since launch.

Last night when I went to bed, the new password was working correctly.

Today, I wake up and try to log in, and same thing as yesterday. The new password is rejected and I have to repeat the process of resetting my password all over again.

Anyone else seeing this?

Nothing has been taken from my account and all appears normal when I log in. Resetting my password yesterday should have worked today, but it didn’t.

My concern is that player database accounts have been somehow compromised like that SOE disaster in 2011 (http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/sony-online-entertainment-hacked-some-credit-card-info-taken-123509), and player credit card information has been accessed.

Otherwise it’s just an annoying bug.

If it’s just me experiencing it, could be a glitch with my account. But if there are others …

Why oh why did I open this thread?

Now that stupid song is stuck in my head. ><

Anet has a good sense of humour.

And if it wasn’t them, then the moose provided entertainment. Didn’t think you could use potions while dead.

Told you I was patient. Two hours playing dead at a gate tho, that’s something.

I assure you I’m the more patient one. I have a great book to read at the moment. Lots of time Twenty minutes so far, pretty good!

Update: haha it’s been almost an hour now. Have you figured out that I’m not leaving? have a nice cuppa tea now too.

Hour and a half now. Realllly hoping you’ll stay there just a tiny bit longer. Please don’t port! Like 10 more minutes max.

Lol. Thanks for proving my point. Why on earth would anyone help you with that attitude?

Rane.4079:

Jayne.9251:

The best way to beat a skilled d/p thief is to make your own, learn the tricks and timing involved, then you can reasonably predict and counter on your main class.

Congratulations on missing everything in this thread. Playing as a D/P thief does not magically grant your ranger the tools to kill them, etc, already covered in this thread.

Thanks for being mature and respectful to people trying to help. Seems you’ve spent the bulk of this thread insulting people when they were offering suggestions. I would recommend people don’t waste any more of their time.

I have no issue killing d/p thieves btw. But perhaps they either weren’t skilled … Or maybe it’s because I took the time to learn the d/p thief class.

Maybe this?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Diminishing_returns

The best way to beat a skilled d/p thief is to make your own, learn the tricks and timing involved, then you can reasonably predict and counter on your main class.

Lol this thread.

Reminds me of this:

http://youtu.be/_JmA2ClUvUY

(Clearly these two are doing their own version of “Put a ring on it”).

I have a dream that one day our servers will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Eternal Battlegrounds, the sons of former low-tier servers and the sons of former Tier 1 servers will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even Anet, a company sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my teammates will one day live on a server where they will not be judged by the color of their gear but by the content of their kills.

I have a dream today!

And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tower and every keep, from every borderland and map, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Anet’s children, red server, green server, blue server, will be able to join hands and sing in the words:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

I’m a regular trebber. I get credit all the time for the tower flip. Not sure what you’re doing that you’re not getting it? Hrm.

That’s pretty bad. Hope you filed a support ticket under violations with those video links and time/place, etc.

Elona, I’d hunt down this guy and get his account name and mass report him. Nobody on ANY server wants that kind of thing in game.

I guess I was the only one to google translate the meme in Russian on page two of this thread eh?

Oh my …. Is all I can say.

That fight in Bay …. Was lots of fun, Ty Elona and SFR

The only thing that drives me nuts about warriors is their massive speed escape buff they use when fighting out in the field .. those buggers can get down to 5% and still escape, even with a good number chasing and cc’ing.

Oh wow, I thought only Deso fought amongst themselves publically on the forum.

Pikeneers, have some dignity. Let your voice be heard on the battlefield, not the forums.

That’s when I moa them

Click on the person. Type /invite. If they’re in a group already type /join.

suprNovae.5410:

Wolfheart.1938:

This thread needs more silly pictures

How dare you! We are the majestic race in GW2 and no stupid pet cats!

Hrm, let’s see if any of these work ……

hihey.1075:

Jayne.9251:

Were you one of the ones I had a duel with last week when we were matched hihey?

Maybe! But if you were to tell me your server and the class you were using (along with the race and sex) I might recall more I “duel” with a lot of people, so it’s hard for me to keep track of them.

lol you trying to pick me up! O.o

Sylvari, Piken, mesmer .. remember I was asking for duels last week in our match thread? Had quite a few scheduled ones and a couple of impromptu ones, wondered if it was you

Were you one of the ones I had a duel with last week when we were matched hihey?

I’m actually an odd roamer. I use it mostly to scout. But that’s when I find most of my 1v1s or 1v3s (although I find 1v3s much harder EU side — just means room to improve )

But yeah I’m actively doing stuff for the server while I roam, including flipping stuff. The fights just come along with that. Although sometimes I’ll spoil myself and schedule an actual duel, but that’s maybe once or twice a day, if I’m lucky.

Immolator.5640:

Also:

Jayne.9251:

Jayne.9251:

I’ve run into a number of Second Law guys who if you are out and get into a 1v1, they only hit you till downed and then run off. It so impressed me that I go out of my way to do the same any time I’m 1v1d with any of them. Was a nice standard to set and I hadn’t seen that prior to running into them.

I don’t really get that. It seems needlessly cruel.. if you weren’t there to really defeat him, let the poor guy do his thing in peace.

It’s like mugging a guy but not taking his wallet after you stab him.

It’s really more like mugging a guy and not stabbing him after you take his wallet. Or tbh it’s even more like defeating an opponent and sparing him to live and fight another day, having asserted your fighting (1-spamming) prowess.

How’d you get me talking to myself there? lol. Misquote! gasp!

I actually enjoyed fighting Viz. They had some nice challenging players in their mix.

You mean like with a ball of yarn and pouncing?

Ah I took it as a sign of respect myself, for a good long fight. It’s why I do it anyhow.

Edited to add: I don’t do this for every roamer btw, just the ones that don’t die in the first five minutes.

Mmmm scrubcake.

Now I’m hungry.

I’ve run into a number of Second Law guys who if you are out and get into a 1v1, they only hit you till downed and then run off. It so impressed me that I go out of my way to do the same any time I’m 1v1d with any of them. Was a nice standard to set and I hadn’t seen that prior to running into them.

To the person who whispered me today about a duel: apologies. I got dragged into a family thing. Tomorrow? Sorry, sorry

Wolfheart.1938:

It’s simple to explain really, all mesmers on Piken are cheaters. Amiright Jayne?
Jokes aside, me wants a rematch because I didn’t learn much this time around.
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Lol sure love. Find me in game. Need coffee first though.

I roam. But only one whisper today for a duel. Thank you Wolfheart for that, was a lot of fun. Any other takers, whisper me in game. Great way to improve and learn.

Wait, did GD come back from T1 NA?