Guild Wars 2

Thrumdi.9216:

Same problem with Tarnished Coast. We are matched against Dragonbrand (4 ranks above us), and Maguuma (2 ranks above us).

I was there, Dragonbrand pretty much had everything so there wasn’t much to do on team Tarnished Coast but hit and run.

But on the positive side, I won my first 1v1 battle while upscaled (don’t have any level 80s yet). I was trying to reach a battle spot and a Maguuma elementalist jumped me. Instead of spamming keys and hoping he died (like I usually do) I used a bunch of CC tricks while spamming keys and hoping he died (and it worked).

I’ve been doing WvW off and on since about level 10. You can pretty much jump in and out of it, run with some groups, defend something, whatever you want. Although I do feel more useful as I get more traits, I’m not sure that my gear upgrades are making a difference. I still wonder if my level 65 yellow gear is any better than my level 35 yellow gear in WvW.

I was in PvE on Tarnished Coast and a ranger was pinging all over the map all around me. I didn’t report it because I’m not familiar with level 80 skills, but looking at that video it looks just like what I was seeing. Basically teleporting across the map.

Kaia.6859:

I would argue that sPvP requires more individual skill, whereas WvsW requires good leadership above all.

Being a retired war veteran I fully support this position. In the chaos of WvW, just as it is in reality, it helps to have a trustworthy and calm voice directing traffic for the folks not sure of what to do. I know in WvW I’m definitely in the “what am I supposed to be doing” group.

Being that we’re all total strangers, however, WvW requires a player with not only game knowledge but true leadership ability (no matter what age or background they’re from). It’s always effective when a calm player is giving directions in plain language with motivation after failures, and less so when it’s a passive-aggressive player getting angrier with each setback.

Gilgamesh.2561:

I remember in WoW PvP some people would rage to the degree they would log onto your server just to insult you. No thanks, I much prefer how GW2 handles it with anonymity.

Agree there. Since I played an assassin rogue in WoW my role was specifically to kill players when they weren’t ready. That led to many, many instances of getting some really nasty whispers in game and cyberstalking on forums. No thanks, I much prefer to be a nameless invader.

This happens sometimes after an account gets returned from being stolen. The rest of the thief’s minions keep sending their booty to the stolen account.

After I got my stolen WoW account back a couple of years ago there was a ton of money on it (after only a few hours). For a week or so I got emails with stacks of even more money.

I reported each instance and the GMs told me to keep the booty.

In WvW you can right-click on names in “Map” channel and the menu works. However right-clicking on names in the “Team” channel does nothing.

The only way to block or report abusive players who are using “Team” channel is to search for them in “Contacts” and block or report them from there. Not sure if it gives the same information as reporting them from the chat window.

It’s casual in that it’s always running and enemies are anonymous, but it’s non-casual in that being level 80 with top gear makes a difference (as well as running with a group using voice chat).

It’s sort of like the DAoC frontier. There’s mobs, dynamic events, skill points, gathering nodes, roving gank groups, castles and keeps. It’s pretty much got it all.

Cimos.4923:

I agree with everything you just said. So do you want to be good or do you want to have fun? For me, whatever class I am the best at is the funnest class. I don’t see how playing a class you suck at could be your favorite class, but to each his own. There’s only 1 thing I don’t understand.

I always envied ranged players who could do their thing and manage to escape from attacks. I tried and failed to effectively play those classes in every game, but I was very effective as an assassin rogue in every game. In fact I was especially effective at taking out ranged classes and was always impressed if one escaped from me. If my pride was not an issue, I’d have played a ranged class.

I always envied healing classes who could stand in the middle and keep their team alive, while escaping from attacks. I tried and failed to effectively play those classes, in fact my attention span was not nearly as good as it needed to be to keep all the right people healed. If my pride was not an issue I’d have kept trying to play healer.

I’m a retired military war veteran, not risk averse but definitely favor acceptable risk. Not ashamed of pride in doing a good job, even if it’s not the job I favor. I want at least a greater chance of winning than losing.

Cimos.4923:

So you would not play the class or weapon you thought was the funnest because you were scared it would hurt your PvP reputation? Lol, this is not a problem of anonymity, it is a problem of self esteem. Sure everyone wants to win and play well, but if you cant have fun because you are scared that one guy will remember your name and say “that guy sucks”, well then that is not the games fault, it is yours. Why do you care what people think that live 3000 miles away that you will never meet

I’ve played on PvP servers on other games, for many years each, very familiar with grinding to the end and getting beat down by higher-level players along the way with the resulting in-game insults. But at some point you realize that you’re just not effective with class “A” and never will be, but you are effective with class “B” even if it’s not your favorite.

Imagine playing a sport where you’re competitive at a position you can tolerate, but never will be good at the one you want to play. If you want to be in the game at all you have to play the position you’re good at.

Omega.8573:

I was the same way. And it is fun to change from being competitive for a while, but I can guarantee it will get dull after a while. Competitiveness is why those games (aside from Rift :P) were so successful long term. However, ArenaNet already has our money, so they have no reason to keep us entertained in the long run.

I have a different opinion about that. Since I’m playing classes now that I’ve never touched there’s a lot to do and will probably keep me entertained for a long time to come. I’ll probably not do sPvP unless I feel confident in my competitiveness with any of them (which I don’t feel right now).

Another area to consider is that ArenaNet does a good job of removing the “bad guys” from the game, eliminating the reason some of us PvP in the first place. In other games I’ve kept KoS list of players with nasty attitudes to hunt down. But since ArenaNet takes care of that for us, we’re free to PvP for the fun of it and not to be a vigilante.

I think it’s refreshing to be able to PvP for the fun of it on any class I feel like making with any weapon setup I feel like using regardless of the outcome. Once I realized that WvW was completely anonymous I started becoming more adventurous. I’m doing more in PvP in GW2 than I ever did in any other game.

In DAoC, WoW, and Rift I played PvP extremely competitively and would not even enter PvP until I had perfected my gear and rotations (standard PvP preparation). I admit I did enjoy having characters with good PvP reputations. However I played classes I was good at, not always classes I enjoyed or wanted to play.

I’m really really enjoying the freedom of PvP in GW2 WvW.

I had this happen yesterday. My daughter and I were playing on laptops right beside each other so we could see both screens. We were both in the same zone and NOT on the overflow.

Her location dot was showing in the wrong place on my map and mine was not showing up on hers at all. We were both standing at the same location but could not see each other.

We bought the game to play together, so it is kind of a frustration not being able to port anywhere without being separated again.

Last couple of days in WvW the right-click menu has not been working on names in chat.

talamoth.9674:

Kataclysm.1374:

Missing a feature like LFG or LFR in Guildwars 2 just screams to the community that you want groups but are too lazy to form them yourself. Please keep trash ideas like the aforementioned out of the GW2 forums.

Wow. Trash? Seriously? The last I knew, all players were free to express their opinions, wishes, ideas, etc. in this open community. What rock did you crawl out from under or were you just born nasty?

Same thing I thought when I read that, completely unacceptable.

What I’ve been doing is opening up the Contacts and searching for the player, then reporting their actual name for “Scamming”.

SiNoS.2147:

In my experience if i use a higher level tool in a low level area i tend to crit more on my harvesting. Where with copper picks for example i get 3 ore i’ve had multiple times using my steel picks where i get 5 ore per node and i’ve had up to 17 from a rich node.

I’ve not experienced this yet. I’m trying to not carry around 18 gathering tools, so if higher tools do indeed yield more than I’d do that. Will test it again.

Metaphorical.3207:

…as far as price comparisons go, remember that it’s not one tool per one piece of gathered resource. If that resources sells for 1c each, then you’ll get about 100c/1s back when your item us used up…

I tested this using copper nodes and both a Copper Pick and a Mithril Pick. I got the same amount of copper regardless of which pick I used. The Mithril Pick did not collect more ore.

That means mining copper with a Copper Pick yields 4 times the cost of the picks (profit). Meanwhile using a Mithril Pick for copper yields only 62.5% of the cost of the pick (loss). Hence why I’ve been using the lowest tool for the node.

In reality you can use the Trading Post to make way more than vendor price, but when the TP is down it looks to me like you have to carry around 18 different tools to make profit.

Finding the tools is not a problem at all.

A zone like Bloodtide Coast (level 55) might have iron (tier 2) not far from platinum (tier 4) or gold (tier 3). You can use the tier 4 mining pick for all of them, but from what I’ve seen it wastes money to use a higher pick on lower ore.

I’ve been carrying around different tiers of tools, but it takes up 15 bag slots + 3 equipped. Seems like there must be a better way, this seems inefficient to me.

Do we gather everything using the highest tier gathering tools or do we carry multiple tiers of tools around?

It seems too expensive to use a tool that costs 4 copper to gather an ingredient worth 1 copper, but conversely it would take 18 bag slots to carry every tier of tool.