Guild Wars 2

Oh I was going to complain but just got the lightfoot achievement

And short-circuiter.

It certainly does seem tough to get. I’ve done the fight about 8 times now and have none of the achievements, although it wasn’t until today that I worked out what I needed to do.

But the good news is that I think you only need 1 of the 5 to get the 11/11 for The Origins of Madness Competitionist achievement and the reward.

How do I tell when dawn is? With all the cloud etc over Lion’s Arch it’s impossible to tell if dawn has passed or not. My weapon that normally glows as night has stopped glowing, but I don’t see any fireworks.

I’m thinking the fireworks event is tied to the time of day in game. So it’ll probably only happen at night… although it’s night in the overflow where I am now and nothing has happened. I’m giving it another half hour and then I’m off to bed.

I am using the one from Kessek Hills… hmm might need to head out to the Cursed Shore tomorrow I think.

I was on the overflow server for 40mins watching the workers construct a catapult. It never happened and I went to the main server after the event finished there. Complete failure of an event imo.

The Lionguard seem to still be building their weapon. They used union labour so they are running a bit behind after the 27 drinks breaks these guys have taken so far.

As far as I can tell there is no reward for completing the investigation mission. I spoke to Inspector Ellen Kiel after collecting all the pieces and got nothing but thanks.

There was a reward from Head Researcher Levvi of 1 jug of karma and 5 captain’s commendations.

I’ve seen many occasions where a smaller group can defeat or chase off a larger one. An unorganised zerg group breaks pretty easily once a few start to die and it isn’t long before they start running.

To comment on your points.

No Real Reason to WvW

How about for fun? WvW can be a lot of fun if you don’t worry about rewards and just enjoy yourself.

Lack of Community Building

Most server are forming alliances of guilds to take on the enemy. I know Isle of Janthir has forums set up and last weekend there was a big meeting of guild leaders to discuss WvW strategy. Even tonight we were coordinating with other guilds to get our defences in place to counter Sea of Sorrow’s golem rush on our main keep.

You don’t need to see an enemy players name to form a community on your server do you?? Anyway, you can see their guild name. It can be just as satisfying to know you have defeated an enemy guild.

Surely structured PvP can give you plenty of opportunity to defeat players on a more personal level. WvW is well world vs. world, the idea is to defeat the enemy server and you are but one part of the glorious war machine poised to crush those evil Sea of Sorrows scum.

Too Hard to Kill People

I don’t find it hard to kill people in WvW, but most players there seem to be pretty bad and stand still while my beserker kill them. I’ve take down multiple people on the top of keep walls just with my illusionary beserker. I’m also usually the one that escapes on 5% life so I’d like that kept as is thank you very much. Repair costs are quite a lot at level 80 and I’d prefer nights like tonight where I don’t have to repair at all because no one can kill me.

Most of what I read in your suggestions is that you can’t kill people so you need help doing it. That is a you problem, not an issue with the game.

Just my thoughts…

The idea that the repair cost prevents people throwing their lives away isn’t really true. People still do that, they just do it naked now. We had a naked norn elementalist throw himself at one of our catapults and die a few times, the repair cost isn’t punishing him.

Personally I dislike it because I think it punishes people for taking risks like sending a small team to assault enemy supply camps and if you die you are already punished enough by having to run the entire map to get back. Also most of the time you die it isn’t your fault, it simply because you turn a corner and run into the enemy zerg and get slaughtered in seconds.

It would be better to lower the rewards from WvW events and remove the repair cost.

Hope it’s not another roll back situation because that’s going to cost me a lot. I was just crafting my way from 70-80 and if I lose all that I’m going to be annoyed.

Hi have Artificing/Cooking, but I have other characters that are all the other crafting skills so I can make myself whatever I need.

Isle of Janthir 49,019 (215) **
Sea of Sorrows 31,282 (190)
Fort Aspenwood 29,750 (+290) *

You stopped defending something, the enemy team took it. End of story.

It wasn’t even necessarily US players. A guild from your time zone could have seen they were getting nowhere and decided to log off, get an early night then wake up at 2am so they could steamroll over your stuff.

You’ll get them eventually. I haven’t really been aiming for them and I’m now only missing 3 or 4 that are inside enemy keeps… they are all inside the red keeps/towers though.

I made 1g 90s from WvW today, even after repair costs were deducted. That’s at level 50 (well 58 now). Repair costs are negligible, the only time they would be an issue is if you are fighting away from a point that gives you a reward and even then you’d have to be getting 0 loot from enemies. If you killed 75 enemies as you claimed the loot you got would have far outweighed your repair costs even with no other rewards.

The only solution then is the server that are benefits from these cheats to not protect the keeps where the hacked orbs reside. Give them up and let the other team take them back so you do not benefit from the hackers.

The do give rewards. The last one I killed dropped for hooves.

The fight fro Stonemist has been interesting. IoJ took it early but soon lost it to SoS. We then took it again only to lose it to FA. We took it again and now we’ve lost it to SoS.

Interestingly whomever hold SM seems to drop in score. When we didn’t have it we were pushing well into FA territory but when we took it we ended up getting pushed back and lost all the FA territory we had taken + our two supply camps.

In the other zones it’s looking pretty even as well so this fight is going to come down to which server can keep up overnight after Australia logs off… although really that should be around the time East coast US players log on.

“We are looking into the log-in problems. Hang tight!”

From Twitter. I’m going to take a 15min break and come back and hopefully it will be fixed by then.

You have the same processor I used to have and I got similar performance with roughly the same setup. I upgraded and now I get 30-60 fps in WvW.

The login server is also broken now. My queue finally went off and I tried to log into WvW, the game crashed and now I can’t login at all.

It will be good to see some SoS players around, all the ones I saw last week were from ET guilds.

SoS vs. IoJ vs. FtAspenwood

Eredon Terrace: 486,760
Isle of Janthir: 87,681
Sea of Sorrows: 71,714

tbox.2307:

God, I hope they don’t use that formula because IoJ will be stuck with SoS. I don’t dislike them but two servers with the exact same time zone gaps ( Ioj’s is less, thus why we came in 2nd place) causes too much of an imbalance because there is not a 3rd large oceanic server.

I would have thought that SoS was exactly the team we on IoJ need to be matched up against because we hate them kittencowardly backstabbing evil scum) and they play at the same time as our peak times and we are better than them.

It’s the third server that is harder to pick.

Well we are into the last day of the first 1 week matchup. My server Isle of Janthir has had a pretty tough time of it, but what can we expect for the upcoming week long matchup.

Currently the top 3 servers look to be fairly even. The only score I’ve seen so far from their matchup saw HoD on top with SBI slightly behind and JQ a bit further back. All were in the 230-280K range for their score.

In bracket 2 the score is very lopsided. ET currently has 460K vs. 85K (IoJ) vs. 70K (SoS).

I haven’t seen anything so far from bracket 3 which is Crystal Desert vs. Gates of Madness vs. Blackgate but going from the queue times I’d say CD is winning there.

So anyway after running them around in my head for a bit here are my prediction for the matchups for next week for the top 9 servers.

Bracket 1
- Henge of Denravi
- Stormbluff Isle
- Eredon Terrace

Bracket 2
- Jade Quarry
- Crystal Desert
- Blackgate

Bracket 3
- Isle of Janthir
- Sea of Sorrows
- Gates of Madness (or some lower ranked server that moves up).

What does everyone else think?

ET also transfers people over to SoS so is often fighting IoJ with 2x their numbers.

As an example we were fighting to take Garrison this morning and doing pretty well it looked like we would take the keep when suddenly 40+ SoS player came out of nowhere and attacked us. After we lost the fight for Garrison they vanished without taking any point on the map.

Just another example of why free transfers need to be stopped as soon as possible.

I personally use greatsword and sword+focus for most general questing. A good amount of AoE damage with beserker and warden and both 2 attacks from the different swords, also some good control abilities with the knockback and the focus 4 ability.

All gone now, but it was fun while it lasted.

I was playing fine, then got kicked out of the game and now I can’t even log in properly. When I do eventually login I get this error.

I think reducing the reward might have been because people were running it over and over and over. I know at least two people who were running CM story mode constantly just for the gold. They said they were getting about 1.5g per hour from it.

Yes, although it might take more than 2 deaths. I died 5 times tonight, it definitely took under an hour, probably something like 40mins to complete. If you have a good group it shouldn’t be too hard… a bad group is going to suffer.

I did CM story mode tonight at level 40. I died 5 times in the run, last time through at level 45 on my guardian I didn’t die once. So the difficultly has certainly increased significantly.

Where did I die.
1) To robot at the start. I avoided him for most of the fight then he turned on me and one-shot me. No one revived me, he kept hitting me and I died.
2) To the door guard. Again he turned on my and one-shot me while I was trying to revive one of my team mates. No one revived me, I died.
3) + 4) To the group that spawns near the drunken Norn (I believe this is new with 4 new mobs running into the fight). The rest of my team died and I was left vs. the entire group of enemies and I wasn’t able to defeat them all. This happened twice, the second time I killed most of the fighters and we were left with two fighters and a champion when we tried again so it was much easier, although I still lost 2 teammates again.
5) To the 2nd group of dogs. For the first group my team ran off and I was left solo vs. the champion guy. He was easy to solo but I think they had trouble with the dogs. For the 2nd group I was fighting both the dogs and the boss. I eventually ran out of teammates and died.

Overall I think it was more a failure of my group rather than the dungeon being too hard. I never got revived once (I was only downed about 8 times in the dungeon and 5 of those I died, the others I either recovered or healed up). The rest of my team seemed to be very squishy and were constantly being downed so I had to spend almost as much time reviving them as fighting them. They didn’t do basic stuff like CCing enemies or avoiding the snipers and bombers attacks. The toughest bosses are still the first and second ones because they one-shot me. The rest was quite easy once you learn to avoid enemy attacks. The champion enemies after the door guard boss were pitifully easy.

Rewards were 13s + the helm (which I note no longer matches the noble set so something seems wrong there). I also got a rare trident as a drop which was level 39 and a major upgrade for me and roughly 2/3rds of a level. All up, after tallying repairs and selling worthless drops I made about 20s which I was satisfied with.

The orbs make a huge difference when one server has 3 of them constantly. We captured one last night for the first time in the current matchup and my life went up 2K. That’s a pretty big difference. Add another two orbs and I’d be getting a 6K boost to my life (21K base in WvW atm).

The problem is not everyone on those servers is playing WvW. The additional servers might be need to support the PvE population.

Mind stab has always been a problem because it roots you in place which is a major issue when you are a squishy class that relies on keeping moving and summoning illusions to distract your foes.

I’ve been using the GW/Staff combo since about level 20 and love it. Nothing touches me and I have constant spawning of illusions to keep enemies busy.

RandomPixel.1675:

You just need to pick up a mesmer yourself for a short amount of time.
They’re a lot easier to deal with once you’ve actually had some experience as to how they should be played.

Indeed. I’m currently levelling one and now at level 38 I can easily pick out which is the real target among the various illusions in PvP where before I used to have a lot of trouble.

Nokaru.7831:

I’m not too sure what can be done about this. It seems to me that if the brackets have different, drastic tiers, then every other week the loser of a higher tier will fight in a lower bracket for two weeks.

Aside from the bottom couple of servers, 1 server extra at the top is throwing the whole system out.

For the first time since the start of the week long matches we now control one orb of power. The evil forces of Eredon Terrace are howling at the gates, but their strongest keep in our borderlands has fallen to combined assault of our mighty guilds and we have reclaimed our orb of power.

It may be a temporary victory in a long war, but it was a victory nonetheless.

Aragiel.6132:

well, you of course can´t check and speak to all people on one server. But if the majority and organized groups start to use this – then the remaining solo players will have to adapt as well.

but maybe it just need time. People are now like animals.. looking for whatever they can take in game

I am talking about Sea of Sorrows as a collective server of morons. They spent a good part of the past 3 days attacking Isle of Janthir territory instead of attacking the true enemy.

Unless they are Sea of Sorrow, then they are the sort of friend that stabs you in the back constantly.

I have done a large amount of WvW over the weekend on IoJ.

Our woes and those of SoS can be traced to one particular time of the day. I found that for most of the day were held onto our territory and and when the aussies logged on even gained a bit, but as soon as the aussie players went to bed the score nosedived into oblivion.

It’s interesting looking at the screenshot the OP posted. When I went to bed the previous day, the score was roughly ET: 300+, IoJ: 200+, SoS: 150+. So not too unbalanced. But by the morning you can see the results.

So ET is winning the timezone bracket between Aussie peak time and US peak time, so I assume they have European players who log on around that time and stomp over everything.

And to comment on the posts above I have only seen RUIN in EB. I’ve run into other guilds, e.g. RES that seem to hit us later in the night Australian times.

As for a solution. I think let it run it’s course. Players are either going to transfer off the server which will cause it to drop down in rankings or they will toughen up and fight back which will benefit everything. The lack of players in that one time bracket though does kind of make it difficult to hold onto territory.

You can also treb at least 3 towers from the top of Stonemist completely safe from any attack until you lose that castle (which hasn’t happened once in the current matchup as far as I am aware).

I use it a fair bit in PvE, especially big event with lots of enemies to hit that are grouped up.

I am currently using greatsword + staff and generally open with Mirror Blade + Phantasmal Beserker. If I had Decoy to that (until I open the create clone when dodging major trait) I have 3 illusions up. Use Mind Wrack followed quickly by Mirror Images and Cry of Frustration and that’s a lot of aoe damage.

Zutha.5091:

I play a thief

The one thing invisibility always has in common in all its skill sets.

Once you attack, you’re not invisible any more. What this does is allow you to attack while invisible for 5-10 seconds.

Speaking of thieves, they are apparently able to finish someone off while stealthed. I’ve seen it happen twice now and not when large numbers of people alive. I was watching as 2 people were reviving someone downed when the downed person suddenly died and a thief appeared and ran off.

Psy.6153:

Except Isle of Janthir are ranked 8th on the official rankings list.

Not correct. It was 8th on Thursday, but zoomed up the rankings after the last 1 day matchup because we slaughtered the opposition on Dragonbrand/Gates of Madness. That then put us at the top of the 2nd tier servers, leaving us to face the last of the 1st tier servers.

NoobieOne.4167:

We don’t like this either we were really hoping for a matchup vs HoD trust me this type of match isn’t fun for anyone.

No you weren’t. It’s common knowledge that your threw the last matchup before the 1 week battles started specifically so you didn’t have to face HoD and got a nice easy match for this week.

The main problem with this is that it isn’t going to get any better for IoJ/SoS unless both of them do so bad as to drop down to the next tier. Once reset comes again we will still be up against one of the top 4 servers.

Jumping into a full set of crafted rare gear at level 35 makes the Mesmer seem exceedingly overpowered, more so than the other two classes I have levelled past this point (both of which had full rares at 35).