Guild Wars 2

TheMagickDoll.7594:

24 hour? Even if “preview,” it is an unhanded marketing tactic that is unfriendly to our community and unfriendly to us as a consumer. Weapons behind RNG boxes and now this? PLEASE STOP THIS NON-SENSE!

Weapon SKINS* Behind RNG boxes that offer nothing to gameplay at all and are merely Aesthetics while are also TRADEABLE meaning you can purchase them from other players, what’s the problem here? There is none.

I just think he deserves a more involving fight to be honest instead of just sitting on a turret and mashing #1.

All i want is a /charge and /taunt emote.

Now, not for Heart of Thorns, as this is all about mordremoth, but should Zhaitan be bought back at some point in the future so he can be given the boss fight he should’ve had to begin with?

I mean, he’s meant to be the “first big boss” of guild wars 2, and the battle was pretty cack.

Red Queen.7915:

Joshua, the OP can advertise their guild any way they want as long as they don’t breach the ToS. Just because you feel uncomfortable seeing an ad for a gay-friendly guild doesn’t mean everyone does (or anyone should; what century are we living in, again?). I’ve seen ads for women-only guilds – essentially a safe space for those who are sick and tired of being harrassed etc. simply because they are women and (insert shocked gasp here) playing a video game. There’s nothing bad about this; our server has a couple Turkish guilds floating around, for anyone who wants a Turkish-speaking guild, but wants to keep playing on a German server. So what? Doesn’t hurt me, and it seems like there are enough people out there who want to play that way. I’d appreciate a German-speaking guild, too, if I were to ever move across the pond and play on an NA server. What’s it to you?
Besides, how is “being welcoming to gay people” treating them differently? Isn’t that literally how you should treat any player, guildie or not? I fail to see how this is giving preferential treatment… Unless you’re a kitten to everyone else, which OP doesn’t seem to be.
The message you are sending is “I don’t hate gay people but I’d rather they don’t band together to avoid being harrassed and tell others that, too”. Really? Maybe that’s not your intent, but that’s what it sounds like to me.
In an ideal world, emphasising that one’s guild is gay-friendly (or anything/one-friendly) should not be neccessary because every guild would be. As it is, clarifying that the guild is a safe space and nobody has to hide or fear harrassment and insults might help people find a guild who would’ve otherwise been too scared too try.

As for the nitwits insulting you in mapchat, OP, if I’d tell you my exact opinion I’d end up with a litter of kittens, but you’re not in the wrong here. If they bother you, block them and maybe report them, depending on what’s been said exactly. And then keep expanding your guild.

I really cannot be bothered to give you a lenghty reply, all i have to say is where on earth did you get the impression that i was uncomfortable with the seeing an ad for a gay friendly guild?

I was offering up alternatives so the OP wouldn’t be bombarded with hate and abuse in-game by petty-minded individuals, sorry if my suggestions offended you.

Also, If you think the message i’m sending is i don’t want gay people to be banding together, then you have serious reading and comprehension skills.

There’s more to the game than just the silverwastes, and as Diovid mentioned, you don’t HAVE to play guild wars 2, you’re free to play any other game.

Zoltreez.6435:

Maxodon.5243:

There is absolutely no huge lack of engineers in tpvp. Right now they are one of the strongest classes in tpvp and the meta build uses the celestial amulet, rifle, grenades and tool kit. And did I miss something during the stronghold streams? I thought players would be unable to damage the doors.

the only build i see is

Turrets turrets turrets………

Then you play against very bad people, you can shut down a turret engineer by just walking away and going to another point, or simply cleave his turrets.

crosknight.3041:

any information on how to get on the list for the closed beta? and if you make a Revanent character there can you transfer them to live once the game launches or will you have to reset?

I highly doubt you’ll be able to transfer content across from the beta to the main game, because the beta is not intended as an early start to the HoT content.

It’s there as a way to test the content before it’s released and give feedback, not the ability to get a headstart over everyone else.

It stated in the article that they would be coming back in the future, so why are you complaining?

Really, any guild message is fine, just don’t openly state that “gays are welcome”, because it’s treating them differently to how you would treat anyone else, and they don’t need to be treated differently.

Zmodd.5427:

Electro.4173:

Mesmer could get a 5th. Maybe a time-related shatter, like freezing enemies or inflicting slow on them.

Actually, I have the exact same thought, a shatter skill that applies 1s Slow per illusion shattered and possibly a trait that makes it also applies 1s Quickness per illusion to the mesmer.

That would have to be on a pretty hefty cooldown.

Dayra.7405:

fireflyry.7023:

Ever consider it’s more your computer at fault?

Not really an explanation why ON THE SAME computer, the MacOS version of GW2 crashes showing them and the windows 7 version does not.

Because there may be a Software issue with your Mac OS?

That and if you have a Windows OS that guild wars 2 works fine on, why do you even attempt to play it on the Mac if it repeatedly crashes?

Dayra.7405:

fireflyry.7023:

People use such items to show off. Period.

Haha, showing off with lower char-deatil settings looks like that

Not everyone plays with their game looking like a title from the early 90s.

There will always be someone who complains, as someone has already stated, if you merely actually bothered to read the article you’d see that they would be released again at a later date.

It’s a pain in the kitten , but you eventually get used to double tapping escape to de-target a mob.

One button press should be enough though, I’m not sure why it isn’t, at first i was thinking “in-case you accidentally hit escape” but who ever accidentally hits that button?

I think the majority of the abuse you receive stems from the fact that you’re advertising yourself solely as a “gay friendly guild”

There’s no need to say you’re gay friendly, going by your message you’re practically stating “you’re different but we’ll accept you” that’s how i look at it anyway.

To put this into perspective, yes Gays aren’t a race, but, what if i were to make a guild and in the guild recruitment message put “Blackfriendly guild” you’d call me a racist and a prick, no?

If you’re not fond of people skipping the cutscenes as you would like to watch them, then simply start your own group with the tag “First time” or “Watching cutscenes” it’s really not hard.

Get a razer naga.

Because it’s new, new classes introduced in MMO’s are never balanced well, they’re either vastly overpowered or vastly underpowered, people are hoping it’s the former because many people are going to flock to the revenant when it’s released.

Tyrannical.9348:

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

BrunoBRS.5178:

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Sure, give me back 200 gems per episode then or give me something that those with Ls2 not unlocked will not get.

it’s a ridiculous notion that you should be refunded for something because it was bundled on another product a year later. do you also ask valve for refunds when games go on sale? do you lose your kitten when humble bundles happen?

the funniest part is that more likely than not, you didn’t even pay for the episodes.

No, because when a game goes on sale, i have my chance to purchase it, if i miss said sale, that’s my fault, i don’t complain saying “Sorry i missed X deadline, can i have it for free now instead?”

ArenaNet gave you 2 weeks notice to unlock each episode for free, missed that date? Then purchase the episodes, support the game you play.

Also, I had to pay for 4 of the episodes as I wasn’t aware of them being free for the first 4 during my time of not playing, but I’m not surprised you jumped the gun and made an assumption just to try and make my point seem null.

Bear in mind this expansion is also bringing in a heap of new players and returning players to the game, who would not have the S2 content because… well, they weren’t here, were they? how could they know?

I wasn’t playing and i eventually found out, pretty sure emails were dished out too stating that if you logged in within a 2 week period you’d receive them for free also.

7 Billion people in the world, no you’re not the only one.

BrunoBRS.5178:

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

Sure, give me back 200 gems per episode then or give me something that those with Ls2 not unlocked will not get.

it’s a ridiculous notion that you should be refunded for something because it was bundled on another product a year later. do you also ask valve for refunds when games go on sale? do you lose your kitten when humble bundles happen?

the funniest part is that more likely than not, you didn’t even pay for the episodes.

No, because when a game goes on sale, i have my chance to purchase it, if i miss said sale, that’s my fault, i don’t complain saying “Sorry i missed X deadline, can i have it for free now instead?”

ArenaNet gave you 2 weeks notice to unlock each episode for free, missed that date? Then purchase the episodes, support the game you play.

Also, I had to pay for 4 of the episodes as I wasn’t aware of them being free for the first 4 during my time of not playing, but I’m not surprised you jumped the gun and made an assumption just to try and make my point seem null.

Michael Henninger.7451:

1282543 No harassment found, ticket closed
1158386 Closed as a duplicate ticket. Solved.
1179588 1
1151171 1
1234716 1
1216921 Decision to terminate is final.
1219570 Decision to terminate is final.
1189512 1
1160252 1
1249978 1
1279401 Solved
1186650 1
1275987 1
1206251 1
1274803 1
1281037 Solved
1268243 1
1167009 1
1265778 1
1264250 This is either a bug or a connectivity issue which CS can’t help with. If you’ve submitted a bug report then that is handled. If it’s connectivity then you’ll need to work your ISP.
1282693 Solved
1281738 Solved
1282011 Solved
1160158 1
1210155 1
1151171 1
1181766 1
1185853 1
1287738 Moved to the payments team. You should hear back soon.
1287251 GM is sending your item after his lunch. =)

Everything marked with a 1 is for Guild Wars 1 and I don’t review those here. However; I am looking at policy to speed up our response times. This will involve upholding banned accounts under all circumstances so if you’re appealing a ban from 2010 you won’t see a response from us.

Thank you for the response Michael, I only just learned that you (apparently) received over 10000 tickets last month alone, so i can only imagine the stress the support team must be under to get them all answered in a timely fashion, but thank you for letting us know that our tickets are still being looked in-to and haven’t been abandoned.

A week? Get in line, I’ve been waiting 40 days.

Sure, give me back 200 gems per episode then or give me something that those with Ls2 not unlocked will not get.

Definitely a lot of ways that it can be done, but it’s finding the one that works best. As with all intended “Money sinks” in games, the players always find a way to make it profitable.

Can’t see them giving mastery points, that would give some players an incredibly huge edge over others.

They’ll probably be changed to either grant skill points past level 80, or do nothing at all and unable to be used on a level 80, but who knows, this is just what I would do.

It’s sad he died, yes, but what on earth does he have to do with guild wars?

Berserker, Celestial, Dire/Rabid are all good bets.

Conditions while relatively weak in large scale pve, in PvP they’re absolutely kittened and way too strong for how little effort can go into running them.

Nikaido.3457:

Chris Cleary.8017:

WTFast runs through shared service VPNs like most tunneling services. Unfortunately when they change servers or providers, our systems detect a large quantities of accounts suddenly being accessed by a different network. Standard preventative measures dictate that we close access to these accounts to try to insure that the account’s holdings remain secure.

As we currently don’t have an “account identity lock” system, we rely on preventative banning in this case. We are working on a better solution for this, but this type of issue doesn’t happen very often, and when it does it can quickly and easily be fixed.

In this case it looks like this hit WTFast VPNs running out of Frankfurt, Germany which was brought to our attention because of high GoldSeller activity on it along with a flux of accounts hitting the same and new network at the same time.

Sorry for the inconvenience, I am still looking into this issue.

Thanks for lifting the ban, but unfortunately a decent VPN service like WTFast is essential to being even able to enjoy the game at all depending on the time of the day here so I’ll have to ask: can we use it again in good conscience?

I’d say you’re fine, chris stated

“but this type of issue doesn’t happen very often, and when it does it can quickly and easily be fixed.”

Not a fan of people who have posted tickets recently are getting replied to, yet those of us with tickets 30 days+ are receiving nothing.

Ticket: (1179588:Lost account details)

I’m all welcome for people being able to see the skins I’m using, but not the stats. I don’t care what stat gear people use when they group with me, but i know many do, and with it being far easier to view what people are using, there will be many people being kicked from groups simply for not wearing full exotic or ascended zerker gear.

1. Specializations.
2. We don’t know.
3. We don’t know.
4. We don’t know.

“is this real.”

No, you conjured it up out of thin air in-game, it’s a fake link that just happens to have a graphic attached to it.

/facepalm.

Macro’s that affect combat, farming, loot, etc, anything related to gaining an advantage over other players gameplay wise, no.

Macro’s that affect instruments? I’m fine with, that’s aesthetic.

Your retaliatory evasion ‘revamp’ is bad, and here’s why.

It’s fine as it is, if you’re spamming dodges to get access to 2 seconds of retaliation, you’re only hurting yourself.

Proccing retaliation for the duration of the dodge roll (even proccing from evaded attacks) is a very bad trait that will never be taken simply because that gives the opponent a mere 0.5 second window to actually proc the retal.

GiraffeRampage.6420:

expecting players to dish out 40-60$ for a boxed extended geographical part of maguuma with one new proff…gimmie a break, thats a slap to the face to players who have put thousands of hours in..

1. $40-$60? You have no source for how much the expansion is going to cost, no one does.

2. “Extended geographical part of maguuma” It’s expanded content, it’s a huge update, for the past 3 years every single content update you have received, you have paid NOTHING for.

3. “Slap to the face to players who have put thousands of hours in” no, it’s really not, you whinging over the expansion having a cost tied to it is what’s a slap in the face, for the past 3 years you’ve had the ability to play guild wars 2 for nothing other than the initial cost of the base game while also receiving updates that cost you NOTHING.

4. You have NO idea how much content is going to be in the expansion, we know we’re getting 3 biomes, but we have no idea how many maps will be put in to these biomes, each biome could have more than 1 map, we do not know.

So stop whining and feeling like you’re entitled to everything for free, A-Net put time and money into making this content for us, if you’re not willing to pay for it, then you do not deserve it.

I was wondering why they haven’t already put out the Revenant Class forum, would be nice, would cut down on a lot of the threads in this subforum that’s for sure.

Golems are a Racial asura skill, they won’t be a specialization.

I’m with MaXi.

You’re not really a guild if you’re just 2 people, you’re not even half a group.

I do agree though that HoT needs to bring more accessibility to smaller guilds, but 2 members?

Guardian: Main or Offhand Axe.
Warrior: Staff
Ranger: Scepter
Thief: Greatsword
Engineer: Scepter simply because it does not fit.
Mesmer: Hammer
Elementalist: Pistol
Necromancer: Pistol

The weapons I’d WANT the class to get

Guardian: Longbow
Warrior: Pistol Offhand
Ranger: Hammer
Thief: Rifle
Engineer: Hammer (Confirmed)
Mesmer: Shortbow
Elementalist: Sword Mainhand
Necromancer: Sword Mainhand

Bit harsh, as sometimes people really do need to afk.

If something serious happened and i needed to immediately be away from the computer, the last thing i’d be thinking of is “oh, better leave the game first.”

It’s because in guild wars 2, you’re not punished for helping other players, you’re rewarded for it.

Take any other MMO for example, you come across someone fighting a rare mob, you don’t want to help him, you want him to die so the mob can reset, you can tag it and get the loot.

No such thing occurs in GW2.

There are times when i (or others) just like to sit somewhere and play some musical instruments in-game, now, some people love this, and some people hate it, but having to completely mute a certain volume slider is a bit too much for an individual problem, especially as this also negatively affects the game in some way.

I may wish to play my instrument or listen to someone else playing theres, but then this will be ruined by someone popping up spamming the same note on a bell.

I’m unsure if this is even possible or not, but it would be nice to have a feature where blocking someone will also mute any sound they produce via an instrument, as when you get people who spam the same note over and over again, it can be considered as a form of harassment, no?

Just a warning, you could potentially be waiting a while, a lot of us have been waiting on tickets for 25+ days.

Aethelbert.1497:

Don’t need it, don’t like it.

Housing in general is a nail into the coffin, like it was with Wildstar. After all, the whole point of MMORPG is player interaction, not sitting in your instanced “home”. Plus we already have home areas in main cities, which could be visited for certain things you get for getting achievements/buying with laurels/gems/name it, that are not required in any way, which is okay by me.

I cannot believe that you’re implying that Housing is what killed wildstar.

On topic though, just look at the housing system in Everquest 2, it’s fantastic.

I utilize my blocks effectively and try to dodge the big hitters, but i just can’t seem to outsustain them, if i can catch a necromancer without a Deathshroud bar, It’s pretty much free game as i can burst them before they can get anything off, but if they have that bar full, It’s guaranteed i’m going to lose.

The main problem i have is dodging those fears, it’s impossible to tell when they’re coming from a good necromancer because they have no travel or cast time, they’re just “boom” done, and once I’m feared, I can pretty much say goodbye to 30-40% of my HP just from the conditions applied while feared and the damage from the fear itself.

As a medi guardian, how do i actually go about countering these guys?

In Spvp they’re just incredibly tough, take insanely little damage due to the toughness, the extra 20k or so HP from deathshroud, the constant chills, fears, cripples, blinds, the pressure from the conditions is too much for me to handle, how do i counter you? Or am i kitten out of luck with the basic medi build?

rotten.9753:

runeblade.7514:

I just want my nomad warrior to feel like a tank.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1mxlA13ICk

You just can’t generate aggro reliably in a group.

Why did i just sit here for 12 minutes at 7am in the morning watching that.

I doubt they’ll remove them.