Uhh if you havent notice, the way you look IE COSMETICS is a competition, so this game IS pay to win in that regard. Since when was only fighting a competition. Theres competition all around you, look, and it doesnt invovle smacking someone. Therefore its cheating, paying to get a head is cheating, its like paying the refereee to score points because you dont want to or cant score yourself. Cheating plain and simple, I dont know how any game can call itself credible when they ALLOW CHEATERS TO CHEAT in their game. How am I supposed to play a game where known cheaters are allowed to play?
A skin isn’t going to help you win in tPvP no matter how good you look 
Won’t help you get Dungeon Master either.
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I tried that website last night and got a group within 10-15 min.. i was doing AC story mode too. I seriously hate using 3rd party sites. Hopefully A-net is reasonable and gives us a LFG tool for dungeons.
Cool thing about this site is it was created by a player, a well-known member of the community. He’s a great guy and takes suggestions on how to improve it.
So it’s not just some anonymous 3rd person site 
Don’t think the game needs too much support since it’s exploding worldwide in popularity
But I will say it’s hands down the best MMO I’ve ever played.
Thanks for the awesome!
I mentioned the difficulty since I saw you’d posted just yesterday that you were having a bit of trouble with mobs in the open world that were at your level.
As a fellow new player I have to second this, I’ve found leveling to be more often then not a frustrating experience on most of the classes I’ve tried.
Ranged Mobs seem to be massively over powered, it’s like they were designed with full action combat in mind – the idea that a good player could avoid 90% or more of their damage. But GW2 is not full action, it’s a hybrid between old hotbar mmo combat and new actiony combat.
On my thief I routinely come upon ranged enemies my level or even a level or two lower that can take off nearly 1/3rd of my health in one or two basic auto-attacks, which most spam once a secondish for what I’ve fought.
Melee mobs are nearly as bad but they can be kited, though it would be nice not to have to run in endless circles just to kill standard mobs.
The whole damage system seems really overtuned at low levels and it’s severely limiting my desire to even try getting certain classes up despite the fact I enjoy them.
The mobs and bosses in the dungeons are more like Champions in the open world. But if you’ve got a handle on things since then – great! Jump on in and don’t look twice
The dungeons are a lot of fun, especially the Fractals.
There is a LFG function on your Friends List, but it’s not very good.
Everyone that isn’t running with guildmates or friends is using http://gw2lfg.com/
Excellent site, over 3.6 million groups have formed over the last couple months using it.Generally takes a minute or two to get a group.
Thanks for the link, I suppose that’s something at least. Though the idea of having to resort to third party websites for what should be a basic in-game utility is really really jarring in 2013..
Just feels like a really glaring oversight.
Not so much an oversight as it is a low priority feature.
Remember this is a fresh game and they are all about building community at this point. And the community in this game is one of the greatest I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing with
Also, these dungeons are hard. Not some mindless little loot chute like in WoW. Better to go with friends and guildies, at least for your first times through.
I broke it down For Science.
3/26 – 2
3/27 – 4
3/28 – 3
3/29 – 7
3/30 – 3
3/31 – 5
4/1-4/17 – 473
It looks like March 26 is the oldest date.
So out of our guild of 497 members we have 2 possible inactives – yay us!
A well executed zerg is a beautiful thing (and fun too!)
It’s very confusing if you’re not familiar with this type of fighting, but please don’t dismiss this type of gameplay simply as “zergfest”. Sure, the players are using a lot of AoE attacks, but the placement of that AoE is crucial, as is the positioning of the players even when they’re not engaged. There’s a great deal of tactics, skill and organization involved in fights like these, even if it is difficult to spot for those who aren’t used to this style of fighting.
In the opening there’s a lot of feinting, changing directions, false retreats and whatnot as they come together, each side attempting to get the other side to waste its AoE or Veils prematurely.
And when the AoE’s go down the commander has to decide whether to pull his group away from a disadvantageous situation (which you see a lot when Timewarp goes down) or to stay and press whatever advantage he perceives he has.
And this is made harder if the group becomes too split up and scattered, but that tends to happen somewhat as everyone dodges attacks or moves out of AoE toward whatever edge they’re nearest to. And then there are some burst/finisher AoE’s like Ele’s Teleport→Churning Earth that can’t be run out of only blocked or otherwise mitigated.
If the group gets too split up they’ll outrange each other’s protective AoE, giving the opposition an opportunity to pick off stragglers.
Add in terrain differences, siege differences, objective differences (attacking or defending) split forces – some pushing towers, some distracting at another gate, some resupplying to reinforce the main zerg, some split to take supply camps before the tick or just to cut off supply from getting into a tower. Consider builds intended for running supply, scouting, dokyak sniping, dolyak escorting, siege shielding, open field combat etc., and you start to understand the complexity of this war.
Really fascinating to watch and analyze, imho – and even more fun to play.
Here’s some excellent footage from T1 EU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=iwJ34UecxNk
As you can see, it gets very intense.
You’d probably have a better experience by joining your server’s Teamspeak or running with your guildmates. Worth a try, it’s lots of fun
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I imagine they went with percentile since ranking numbers would change so rapidly on millions of players.
If you are in the top 1000 on your world, your name is highlighted on the page. 25 ranks per page – just count it up
Umm no this is what I’m saying it is not showing the top 1k by world only. It is ONLY showing the top 1k players amongst ALL worlds.
Oh, lol – when I said world I was talking about the planet Earth in the grand all encompassing universe like way
I imagine they went with percentile since ranking numbers would change so rapidly on millions of players.
If you are in the top 1000 on your world, your name is highlighted on the page. 25 ranks per page – just count it up
Your best bet would be to join a guild
Funnest MMO I’ve ever played. I’ve had more laughs in this game, more smiles, more walking away from a game session happy than any other MMO I’ve ever played.
Great fun There’s a reason it’s the fastest growing MMO ever made.
Extremely little grind in the game -unless you want a grind, then you can grind out a legendary or you can simply take the more leisure route and get it along the way since it doesn’t OP your stats.
and there’s a few thousand people using the trade post at all times,
…more like a few million