Guild Wars 2

Pavel.8531:

On our server we have one player like this. Killing golems/wasting supplies, insulting people in team/map chat… for months. We reported and reported, and reported him… and nothing ever happened.
I even made a support ticket recently. The 1st reply was that they were investigating, the 2nd was that we should use the ingame report system, because all reports from it are immediately sent to their “team”. …………. After I replied, when asked for feedback on the “problem resolution”, that I am not happy at all, the 3rd reply was: “We are currently looking for ways to solve the issue with trollers but we have not found a good solution for the isuse since the same ideas that are supposed to help players are causing that players abuse of the system. This has been reported to the Development Team in order to find a possible solution to the issue.”
Sigh…

Interesting. So they are willing to indiscriminately mass ban supposed exploiters only to reinstate a few days later, but refuse to do anything at all in these situations.

You can report using the “support” link on the upper left of this page, then following the “submit a request” on the upper right of the page that opens.

You’ll get a reply pretty fast (form letter) and nothing will be done, as usual. But the best part: you’ll sometimes get an email a few days later asking you to rate the support you received. Clicking “Bad, I’m unsatisfied” in that email at least gives some satisfaction — that’s the best conclusion you’ll be getting out of the whole episode.

I wonder how prevalent this type of griefing is. I’m guessing quite a few matchups have trolls/spies doing this.

Buttercup.5871:

Lord Kuru.3685:

By the way, you can forge doubloons using gemstones:

3 pebbles + 1 lump.

Not sure what gemstone and doubloon prices are right now, but you used to be able to make very good money this way (a few months ago) — so you may want to look into this as a way to get doubloons.

If I recall correctly, I’d get on average 5-6 doubloons every 100 forge attempts while I only needed 2-3 to break even (always put in buy orders, do not buy instantly).

I made a bunch of gold doing this, but it’s HUGELY tedious — your button clicking finger will not be happy.

It’s 1 gemstone per 100 forges. I know, I’ve been there. It takes about 25000 gemstones hovering at about 2s each to get a stack of silver doubloons.
Alternatively, you need to open about 75.000 of the right bags (which are expensive) to get a stack of doubloons. Any way to acquire them is neigh abusive gameplay.

For further reading, see https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Silver-Doubloons-a-year-of-ignore/

Interesting…. maybe they nerfed the rate because I put thousands in and was seeing around 5 per 100… I remembering being “angry” when getting fewer than 3.

There’s nothing you can do because Anet doesn’t act on reports unless it directly affects their precious gemstore.

By the way, you can forge doubloons using gemstones:

3 pebbles + 1 lump.

Not sure what gemstone and doubloon prices are right now, but you used to be able to make very good money this way (a few months ago) — so you may want to look into this as a way to get doubloons.

If I recall correctly, I’d get on average 5-6 doubloons every 100 forge attempts while I only needed 2-3 to break even (always put in buy orders, do not buy instantly).

I made a bunch of gold doing this, but it’s HUGELY tedious — your button clicking finger will not be happy.

Arnekun.6170:

I was thinking seriously about this issue, and it’s one of the few things I am most bothered about, because spending 420g for a stack of an item whose obtainment methods are extremely limited due to lack of foresight by developers feels ludicrous even if I had the gold, which I don’t anyway…

Are you sure it’s not working as intended?

Flissy.4093:

My masterwork champ box from CM game me better loot than the 7 exotic ones put together. All because it contained 10 Linen.

Yep. Broken.

Hopefully a decent place to farm this will be found soon, and bots will appear in force to regulate the price to a more reasonable standard.

You can get linen out of CM? According to the wiki, linen is a level 46 – 60 material, but CM is a level 35 dungeon.

Lévis.5489:

Ascended gear should be available through tokens (you know, by actually play the game instead of sitting at the crafting bench) instead of being a costly grind like it is now.

The whole point is to create the costly grind.

Ronah.2869:

nexxe.7081:

where did you get that number? where’s the source or link? you can’t just claim something without it. lol.

Google is your friend
http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/08/28/guild-wars-2s-first-birthday-by-the-numbers/
although you are right. he should have put the link in there

The article says “460K peak concurrent” users during their first year. So this is the numbers at their highest point. Most likely just after launch. Plus this article is from August 2013. Who knows how many (or few?) players the game has now.

Silberfisch.3046:

For one, i don’t think they changed the LFG tool, when they did the fractured update.

And when you look at it Agony damage wise, the tiers promoted by the LFG tool still make sense.

Poor programming practices as usual by Anet. The LFG tool shouldn’t have to be manually updated for information like this.

KarateKid.5648:

rofl, that’s two completely 180-degree different answers. Glad we cleared that up

You referring to my post?

I guess it does read a bit weird… What I meant was that there’s a bit of RNG and so those are the two possibilities. However, you definitely don’t get loot of the level you were at when you got the bag.

Then why put it in the game?

johnnymiller.5968:

Lord Kuru.3685:

johnnymiller.5968:

Is it an exploit or are they using the ‘noclip’ hack to get through the wall?

Speaking of odd things, take a look at the screen shot & advise me if you are able to climb to the top of the structure (Valley Keep). Never seen this before in the months I’ve been playing.

It’s a legit jumping puzzle… there are features that are pretty clearly specifically placed to help you get up there.

Had never taken any notice when my server had that keep. Hence why it pays to ask. Now I know.

It’s great for defense of QL as well.. a cat/treb and an AC can hit most areas that people attack QL from.

I’ve done this with Queensdale Champ bags — I saved up bags that I got while leveling and opened them at much higher levels. My conclusion is:

The loot bags give either loot from the level of the champ or loot from the level you’re at when you open the bag.

GeorgeisLucas.5340:

Just randomly found this out. Iron will skill from ram mastery works on friendly gates and walls meaning if the buff applies correctly they will take 50% less damage from siege.

Another thought is do walls/gates have a ‘toughness’ value and does the guardians strength in numbers trait, which increases toughness by 150, affect the damage taken?

Interesting. Maybe this will help balancing out the (IMO) OP structure vuln stacks.

johnnymiller.5968:

Is it an exploit or are they using the ‘noclip’ hack to get through the wall?

Speaking of odd things, take a look at the screen shot & advise me if you are able to climb to the top of the structure (Valley Keep). Never seen this before in the months I’ve been playing.

It’s a legit jumping puzzle… there are features that are pretty clearly specifically placed to help you get up there.

RoyHarmon.5398:

Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on at this point. As I see it, there are several possibilities:

1. They’re reading this thread and know about the problem, but they don’t have any updates and don’t want to admit it.
2. They don’t read the bug forum at all.
3. They have been reading and do care, but they’re waiting for the guy in charge of this one to get back from a 2-month vacation so they’ll know what’s going on, and they don’t want to tell us anything because they don’t want to admit that the reason for the delay is they don’t have anyone actively working on it.
4. They don’t have anyone actively working on it because they don’t care, and they don’t want to tell us that because they know we do care.

I don’t know which one it is. Maybe there’s some option I haven’t thought of, some scenario in which they really do care but are somehow incapable of responding in any way. Oh! I know…

5. A bug in the forum system currently prevents anyone from ArenaNet replying to a topic in the Game Bugs forum.

6. They’re putting a ton of effort into it but just can’t seem to find the bug. Those minus signs sure are tricky!

Trice.4598:

As a Arah seller, I had friend making proxy party (make a fake party and advertise in the lfg tool) and sending only legit buyer to me, this way if someone was going to destroy the instance, he only merge a fake party and mine stay intact. But if you are truly looking for people and need the LFG tool to find people, no there is not.

I wonder if we’ll see a mini-economy come out of this, with some people selling dungeon runs and others selling proxy services to dungeon sellers.

Leamas.5803:

Mireles Lore.5942:

Lord Kuru.3685:

IMO, it’s gone a bit too far and the game has moved a bit too close to real life where you “farm” money in a soul-destroying job to buy the stuff you really want.

Not the game just people’s mentalities.

Its only like that if your only focus is getting stuff you want using the quickest and most tedious means possible as apposed to just enjoying the game’s playable content and letting gold and mats come to you as you go. Then yeah you are laboring in a game like its a job, which could happen in even the most casual of MMOs.

That’s true to a point, but it’s gone so far that if you don’t farm you’re looking at years to complete some of these things. That’s a lot of dedication.
When I was playing in around November 2012, I figured that at the rate I was playing and getting drops, it would take me more than 3 years to get a legendary weapon, and things were A LOT cheaper then.

Yes… people’s mentalities has some to do with it. But the drop rates are so low that it’s pretty unrealistic to expect to get T6 mats via farming — and that’s what drives much of the need to champ train.

As usual, the best thing to do is farm for gold (dungeons/champ trains) and buy off the TP.

OP: If Anet didn’t want you to PvP in the JP, then why did they put the JP in a PvP zone?

The best way to do practically anything in this game is to farm gold and buy off the TP.

IMO, it’s gone a bit too far and the game has moved a bit too close to real life where you “farm” money in a soul-destroying job to buy the stuff you really want.

Nabrok.9023:

How many times do they need to say that content traditionally associated with expansions will be released through LS updates before people notice?

If the LS updates added up to being an expansion’s worth of material that would be ok. BUT:

We’ve seen the LS updates and they are nothing close to what an expansion traditonally gives.

Currently, each infusion carries +5 stats. I predict:

• April: raised to +7 stats.
• July: raised to +10 stats.
• October: raised to +15 stats.
• December: raised to +22 stats.

Each stat increase will be an epic grind.

Oh, by the way, Ascended gear is the only gear that has infusion slots. Anet loves its vertical grind — and will make you love it too!

I promise that every single person who posts in this thread will have a Legendary weapon drop by the end of next week.

(This offer is subject to change without notice; and RNG, of course.)

Reverence.6915:

Something like capture the flag would be awesome too. They have something similar in the wintersday events, so I can’t see why they can’t add that into regular sPvP

Because: eSport!

• When you promise stuff and usually deliver, but can’t once in a while, it’s ok.
• When you promise stuff and usually can’t deliver, but do once in a while, it’s not ok.

Anet is definitely in the “can’t deliver” department.

What’s coming in 2014:

• Max stats for infusion slots raised to +7 per slot. Then:
• Max stats for infusion slots raised to +10 per slot. Then:
• Max stats for infusion slots raised to +15 per slot.

That should just about take us into 2015.

skullmount.1758:

Hule.8794:

Skullmount well some people are waiting to new matchups. Seems silly making new thread day before reset

I meant last weeks (DH/ET/AR(?)), not the upcoming one (or this weeks).

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skullmount.1758:

Fuzzion.2504:

skullmount.1758:

Fuzzion.2504:

Matchup threads being deleted very soon.

Fill the wvw discussion with all the matchup threads

We already have a community site. Free from Anets control.

Except people aren’t gonna know to go to it. And it didn’t have all matchups (at least didn’t see mine on the one site, when I checked last week).

Feel free to make your matchup’s thread. Nobody is stopping you.

Oh, I could make one, but if one is not already created, then that means theres no one from my matchup that wants to participate in that forum (or they just don’t know about it), so why create one?

The site just went up last week after mods decided to wipe the matchup forum.

Ralron.8124 … you might want to delete your post because that is considered a bannable exploit (there was a large ban wave between Christmas and New Year’s)…. not only that, spreading knowledge of exploits is apparently also bannable.

Edit: apparently they patched it out.

Stand The Wall.6987:

True but the number of potential trolls would decrease significantly. Identifying them would be a lot easier as well.

It’s easy to identify them anyway. It’s not like Anet will do anything even if you have irrefutable evidence.

robertul.3679:

It’s fair to respect the requirements of the lfg post. I’ve seen a lot of lfgs for arah lately with things like “first time” and “no skip kill everything” which I find quite a progress.

But could that be because there are fewer people wanting to run this way and thus these LFGs stay up longer for you to see?

Downscaling has been a total fail. Level 80s easily 2-shot foes in lower level areas.

Khayoss.2019:

Posting exploits on the forums is against the code of conduct, as is character assassination. Read this, it’s what you agree to when you come to post on these forums:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/rules

Report this kind of stuff inside the game and escalate using the support channels, as the rules state. Do not post videos/screenshots/accusations on matchup forums or the WvW discussion forum. It’s that simple. The fact that people keep doing what you just did here despite being told not to over and over and over and over and over and over is part of why the matchup forum is being closed.

Everyone knows this. The reason they post in the forums is that Anet doesn’t do anything about the exploits/griefing. If Anet actually acted, people wouldn’t need to post about it.

Lexandro.1456:

The “speed clear” teams and the “anyone but speed clear” groups are just the same thing. Demanding players stick to some arbitrary rule-set they came up with or follow.

Hardly arbitrary for “speed clear” teams. People have limited time and want to do as much as they can in the time they have. That’s pretty reasonable.

Stand The Wall.6987:

+1
Something has to be done. It would be helpful if commanders could pick up ready to build siege blueprints as well, to mitigate the dumb troll who throws siege on top of siege.
On a separate note I need to stop foruming so hard…

You’d just get trolls with tags who pick up siege that other people drop. That’s possibly even worse.

In any case, the troll in our matchup this week is still around after being reported Friday. Anet just doesn’t care. Maybe if they realize after they ban them, they’ll likely buy the game again to troll again — that’ll cause them to act.

So I’m not the only one experiencing this! Any bets on whether this or the slayer potion bug will be fixed first?

Gobbles.4902:

And wiping because you took precautions against wiping is painful…

It’s actually funny, in a tragic kind of way. As for the bug, Anet’s never going to fix this are they?

It’d be nice to have a personal DPS meter to help you tweak your build. Never gonna happen though (at least from Anet).

Kentaine.4692:

I’m never going to bother with ascended gear

You can bet that infusion slot stat grind is coming next (I’m betting they’ll periodically release higher and higher stat infusions) … and only Ascended gear has infusion slots.

Grindy game is grindy.

Flissy.4093:

Dungeons
Champions
Skillpoints
Daily Completer
Events.

Tell me again how you need to do “not PvE” for your Monthly.

Champ train in Queensdale for the Champions, Events, and Skill points..

If you’re just looking for commendations and not necessarily finishing the mission, I’d recommend doing the Tier 3 bounties. Your goal would not be to finish the bounty but rather to just kill 1 bounty — you get the commendation for just killing just 1.

Here’s what you do:

1. Pre-scout one of the easier bounties — not Poobadoo.
2. Activate bounty. You’ll have 6 targets and thus a 56% chance of getting either the bounty you’ve pre-scouted or Poobadoo (the easiest bounty to find as his path is short).
3. If you get the pre-scouted bounty, fight him and get your commendation.
4. If you get Poobadoo quickly get to Kessex hills to find him. His path is short so you’ll likely find him within the allotted time.
5. If you get neither, you’ll just have to pick the bounty on the list that’s easiest to find and hope you can find him/her/it in time.

Note: If you’re not 100% sure on your ability to kill the bounty solo, wait until your pre-scouted bounty is near a WP before activating the mission — that way you can res-rush when you are killed (if WP is too far and bounty resets, then you fail and that bounty respawns randomly on the map).

One more thing: Queue several bounties (I’d say at least 4). That way if you fail, you can just try again in a few minutes — otherwise it gets a bit discouraging to have to wait 12 hours for another shot.

Karizee.8076:

GW2 respects my time investment, something I never got from WoW.

I take it you never leveled fractals past 30 before the Fractured patch?

Obtena.7952:

Content that requires more AR than you can get from Ascended trinkets and Weapons will.

Rising player stats means content that’s created for exotics gets trivialized. Content will have to be adjusted for the rising stats. And then if you’re not on the grind train, you’re going to be left behind.

Chrazel.7085:

Target.6379:

Xavi.6591:

Are potions still bugged where you take more damage when using them?

To my knowledge they still are.

Who was the first to confirm this and when did they test it? I’ve very vague memories of reading bugged dungeon potions on the forums.

You have vague memories because it was so long ago that this was reported. Of course, nothing has been done LOL.

cranked.3812:

Lord Kuru.3685:

MagicSlurpees.4851:

Lord Kuru.3685:

You enjoy sitting in traffic when going to the grocery store?

cranked.3812:

Glad to hear. Please come to TC and keep CoF open for us at all times. We would really appreciate it.

Also, your analogy doesn’t make sense. First, as said above, you like traffic? Second, you CAN teleport in this game. In fact, you can teleport straight to the entrance, so I guess I am not seeing your point.

~Whoosh~

LOL.. yeah.. you’re right

Not getting it…..

Can’t tell if I am being made fun of….

The quoted post was being sarcastic.

They’re just terrible at balancing. They need to hire more people.. preferably the top players (PvP, PvE both) to help them.

I think he means that Eternity is so expensive he had to take out a loan (Black Lion Mortgage Company) with a14g downpayment, but now he’s having second thoughts.

SniffyCube.6107:

Although I understand the reasoning, I don’t understand why anet couldn’t just permanently ban the same idiots that troll every thread in every one of their match ups.

They could have, and that would have clearly solved the problem that they said was the reason for closing the forum. So perhaps we must conclude that their reason for closing the forum is not the one that they stated.