Guild Wars 2

Whichever member of TUP I just fought about 10 mins ago outside Bluewater, that was fun.

Our nightcrew is a bleary-eyed drunken mess of about 10 people. 20 on a weekend or holiday :P.

genowefapigwa.5769:

Thank you for badges
Luranni go to the kit.. pff come back to your home Woman ( to us warhammer combatants)

Which who what where when and HOW MUCH?

:D

Nooooooooooo not you!

And no, there isn’t. Some queues for EB at primetime and even fewer for Gandara BL at same. Never queues for the other maps.

I’d say awesome-sauce all round. The negativity from some individuals is unfortunate coz there have been some wicked fights and some truly epic stands from all servers.

I’d definitely say honourary draw to all concerned.

Plus I killed Ravezaar. (wuvoo!)

Livius.2465:

I’m a Piken Square fighter and I’m proud of my server. My pride persists despite the best efforts of the disgruntled few, whose posts in this topic demonstrate their subscription to the principle of “never let the facts get in the way of your conclusion.”

Their conclusion: Piken Square is a shameful, degenerate pack of low-lifers because they entered an alliance with Augery Rock to defeat Gandara.

Against this, two facts:

1. Three commanders — not Piken Square the Server.
2. Duration < 12 hours.

Concerning Point #1 … PS has an active website where we organize ourselves. Despite this, the commanders who made this “alliance” did so of their own free will and without consulting the server at large. When the issue came to light, I promise you: the outcry you’ve engaged in on this forum is a pale shadow of the outcry that occurred on our forum. Nothing you’ve said here is more effective than what we said amongst ourselves.

Concerning Point #2 … Not only was it less than half a day, but respected by only a minority on either side. Personally, I played during this mystical, 12-hour period without even knowing about some alleged “alliance” (only found out about it post-hoc) and I promise you: there were plenty of dead PS and AR bodies littering the battlefields upon which I fought.

When faced with facts that challenge your conclusion, you have a choice:

1. Graciously adjust your conclusion to fit the facts.

-or-

2. Ignore the facts, continue to stand on your self-proclaimed moral high ground, keep up your inflammatory rhetoric, wave the bloody shirt and milk that situation for every gram of sympathy you can until the truth finally comes out and silences you.

And the truth will come out. It always does, no matter how many exaggerations and falsehoods we must endure in the short term.

And the truth is, the short-lived actions of a few on Piken Square tarnished our image. We accept that. It happens. (It will happen to you, I promise). We regret it. We resolve that it will never happen again. We know that everyone makes mistakes, including us. We know the value of those commanders who made this ill-advised decision. We have fought with them on the field of battle, we have discussed this sad affair with them internally and we remain convinced of their worth. We affirm that the only unpardonable sin is to make the same mistake twice.

Does Gandara wish me to judge their entire server by the few hackers, exploiters and cheaters I’ve seen, who brazenly wear the Gandara tag on what should be a field of honor?

Then I challenge Gandara to rise above the rhetoric and judge Piken Square by the whole and not by the few.

For I tell you this from the heart: Gandara is the worthiest foe Piken Square has yet faced. You are unrelenting on the attack … tenacious and uncompromising in defense … you counterattack in force at the very moment when you looked beaten and routed … you bring a fiery spirit to the battlefield, the like of which I’ve not seen in our previous matchups. When I ram the finisher into a downed Gandaran, I know that he gave his all and I’m acutely aware of the absolute priviledge I had in facing him … and when he rams the finisher into me, I take comfort in knowing that I died at the hands of one worthy.

See you on the battlefield, Gandara.

Liverius
Piken Square

I loves you!

Figures. Epic 3-way fight for Longview on Gandara and my guild all crash in the middle of it.

Anyone else get booted?

Seed.5714:

Hey everyone and luranni,
Like it has been said merry christmas and happy new year, only this time from me Dee Namo/ Oken Toshan and the Gnou. Loved fighting both of you specially pikken before xmas and i guess i ll see you in january.

Btw Lurrani (dont know if u remember me “Shivice”) but i remember you well, the witch of eltharion or karak norn, can t remember when eltharion closed and we had to move to karak norn. are you on pikken, gandara, AR ? Is pikken for gw2, karak norn for war ?
And i say hello to tainted, 7, hob if you remember me shivice sorceress of the fallen before the guild shrink to no manner and many stopped at the same time like me.

Really good to fight against you guys, so much pleasure/pression while fighting.

See you on the battlfield,

Dee Namo/Oken Toshan Gnou( casu for fun)

Hello! You had me stumped for a moment then I remembered Fallen And the Shoooooooo!

I’m on Gandara mate – how’s you?

EDIT: I was Eltharion ftw. Then yeah we got moved to icky KN.

Saint Scarlet.2906:

There was an agreement between 3 commanders on each server that while they were on they wouldn’t attack each other. Now while the majority of Piken might have disagreed with this, we respect each other on the server so wouldn’t do anything to dishonour another commanders word. Yes one of our worst commanders then took it on himself with randoms(coz even his own guild wouldn’t betray the rest of Piken) to attack AR and end our gentlemans agreement. It doesn’t matter in the end, it was a valid tactic to join forces for a while as both us and AR are down on numbers by 2/3rds whereas Gandara PvDoored their way into top spot when we had virtually no-one on. All this agreement was doing was to balance out the score again to what it was before ungentlemanly(although a valid tactic) night cap when we were all celebrating Xmas. What a lot of you seem to forget, although we are friendly most the time, this is war and you have to expect everything that comes with that. There is nothing wrong in temporarily allying with another server to help your lack of numbers achieve the equilibrium that was there before. There were still plenty of fights and capping by AR whilst we were “allied” but we chose to stick together as a server and honour our commanders wishes.

Seriously enough of this.

You guys got on your high-horse that people played on Christmas eve OH NOES!, then you think its absolutely fine and in no way similar that you guys played all day Christmas day. On top of that you had to make an agreement? But that’s still cool.

Really don’t know why you have to be hypocritical about it – stuff happens and just get on with it. Stop crying no fair, stop making out that everything you do is awesome and everything anyone else does is bad (if they’re winning). Dear lord this kind of behavior reminds me why I left Warhammer, don’t need it here!

As I said before. EVERYONE stop belittling each other’s achievements and just enjoy the fight. If you see people doing really dodgy things then report them. Public mudslinging and all this whining does none of us any favours.

I was really hoping we were just uber paranoid (regarding the double-teaming). Thanks for your post Chrono.

I’ve had some good fights all in all and done a lot of /waving at guilds and old comrades/enemies from Warhammer.

Shame to see posts along the lines of “hey your points dont count coz xmas eve” in comparison with “hey our points count even though its xmas day and we made a deal with the other server”, but oh well and also lololol.

I don’t think any server needs to make excuses or belittle another’s achievements. It’s been a good match in spite of the odd time of year and the big PvE event. Let’s just /salute and hope for another good match up next week.

Erro.2784:

Luranni.9470:

Ahoy VII, the [FLEE] person laughing at you was me :P.

Zerg less, no matter what game.

Couldn’t wave back: No /puke emote in game…

<3

lol, good lord flashbacks of getting rolled over by a WB+ in warhammer when I was solo roaming and getting all the /lol /puke /laugh.

Felt a bit like that last night actually (without the nastiness, obviously) but I certainly got rolled over a few times!

Who else of your lot from WAR still playing out of VII? IS THERE SAMMOOOOOOO?

Ahoy VII, the [FLEE] person laughing at you was me :P.

Zerg less, no matter what game.

Erro.2784:

Oh dear, Luranni as opposition…

/wave

Ohai How are you lot?

Been on PS borderlands all day (excluding a brief stint defending our Bay from PS on Gandara). Had some fun fights already!

Plus we killed a couple of VII and HoB – but I meant it affectionately!

OLD????

pfffffffffffffffff!

Twinklefairy.6739:

Are Ithilmar’s still on Gandara?

Not that I’ve seen.

I second that Lurch, shame about the timing but I hope we can field enough to make it decent.

waves

Had some awesome off-peak fights tonight! Nice one everyone

Just saw some really PRO antics from AM side… nice one guys; bring the class.

I’ll be back in the fight with ze guild tomorrow – had to rest and make back some cash after last week! lol.

GG all! Lots of fun! Good luck next match.

Login problems and server-related issues are just.. super annoying in WvW or any PvP for that matter. Could just as easily gone the other way.

What’s going on here then? Can I sleeps yet? /passes out.

I recall seeing a post from a dev advising that we keep hold of the items from the scavenger hunt until the finale but have yet to see what we’re supposed to do with them – did I miss something? Are they trash now? Any help appreciated.

Thought I’d post on this as I hear so much negative feedback about specific classes and builds.

Most of this is to nerf the Thief or nerf the Warrior – nerf 100 blades, pistol whip, heart seeker etc. This makes me cringe because if there are nerfs to the base damage or abilities of -any- class its going to be a mess.

The problem, I believe, is in damage modifier stacking and the results of building for this. I strongly feel that 1-second win setups have no place in the game but rather than nerfing the base things which would hurt -all- builds, perhaps a cap on max modifier percentage needs to be looked at.

This keeps the base damage in a reasonable field but stops those ridiculous 1-shot spikes that make people so understandably frustrated. If base-damage of abilities etc is nerfed it will -force- people to pile on more modifiers and become a bit of a trap spec-wise.

Apologies if this has been discussed before and I would dearly like to hear your thoughts on the matter.

Well its never happened to me – have passed the info along though so thank you.

ChaosKirin, I’m not sure you are helping with vague anecdotes about your career and amusing grammar corrections on the usage of “mob” and “mobs”. People here are understandably frustrated with how this particular issue has been dealt with.

More to the point, if this one issue that was “caught out” is a bit on the dodgy side how many other issues have been stealthed? It’s a valid concern and I do not think that grammatical quibbles and condescension are helpful to the overall discussion.

Doofensmirtz: It’s kinda hard to NOT be in combat in Cursed Shore

New bug of joy – guildies getting ruined ore from orichalcum nodes when using orichalcum mining picks or black lion ones.

I can only guess that they completely broke it when they “fixed” it.

This just in (sorta): https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Let-s-Start-the-Karma-DR-Dialogue/page/10#post357474

Specific text regarding this issue:

“There was an update a little while back that limited oricalcum farming via server and overflow swapping. This update was too harsh on normal players and we will try to increase the supply of these resources again soon. "

I don’t think people mind that there are bugs, but people do mind about stealth-changes with no explanation where players are ignored or infracted for trying to find out what’s going on.

The fact that it does not affect ALL players is also of concern and the lack of any real response is disheartening.

Personally if Anet had come right out and said “we’re making this specific change because things aren’t where they should be” at the time then people would be much more accepting.

At the moment I’m sort of picturing Jack Nicholson yelling “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!” for some reason… lol.

My tupenny on Downed State:

Love it in PvE as it adds a nice safety net and good friendly vibe to encounters, really enjoyable.

Hate it in PvP as I find it illogical. I have seen/read/watched etc all the materials explaining why this exists and how to use it to your advantage etc etc etc so this is not a knee-jerk reaction. But ok… I understand that I can spec to finish people quicker or prevent people from finishing me quicker and there can be a whole big tactical playstyle around Downed State, I get that. My problem is that while the afore-mentioned may be true it does not change the fact that it’s nonsense in PvP in the first place.

I could go on and on in lots more detail about the pros, cons and whys and wherefores, instead I shall summarise with my suggestion on how to make it far less annoying and ridiculous in PvP:

Remove all downed abilities and make downing a player the point-scorer, but keep the downed state basics.

This keeps the “safety net” against pure burst and lack of focus heals blah blah in place but stops all that embarrassing flaffing around and keeps a small window where your team can get you back up fast (also preserving the team-tactical nature of DS).

For the love of all gods and goddesses in history though – please please PLEASE remove this silly F-buttonraindancelolol nonsense and rock throwing malarky. Every time it happens I just stare at my screen going “erm, k……. cup of tea then!”

Thanks for listening.

Ori nodes seem to be respawning for some and not others. Some people are claiming this is absolutely intended as yet another way to prevent bots profiting, others are saying its a bug.

Please clarify which it is!

Had this problem for most of Monday – been away from then (will be back Sunday) and was hoping for some better news! Any concrete fix on this yet? Other threads in the forum have the same error code and problems and nothing to do with Swisscom unless Swisscom also provide in Israel.

Most of Switzerland had/has this error for the past 3 days as well – so looks like the problem is expanding.

Here’s mine, two of us in the house and neither can play – based near Bern, also Swisscom.

Such a shame as I’m away for a week from tomorrow and had scheduled mass game-time today to keep me going! I r sad panda.

Well I can’t get a response from Anet OR Swisscom so meh.

Click “My Transactions” tab on the left-side of the Trade window and click the “Remove” button from the order – done.

Well I’ve asked Swisscom as well, no response yet though.

Situation not aided by thousands of new players trying to log in – they reopened sales and a LOT of people are downloading/patching.

Orogrim.5672:

Fyi it works for me. I logged in and tp to another area, everything works fine atm. Hope it will work for you too.

Er.. nope. Can’t log in to any characters or create a new one.

Er.. nope. Can’t log in to any characters or create a new one.

And yeah if that fault was anything to do with it why did we only get booted out today?

I’m a guild leader, won’t that break stuff? (transferring I mean).

Well I’m in Switzerland but I’m English – sorry! /hides.

Where’s the guy who said OpenDNS fixed it? And can he give us detailed instructions/report on how he got that to work?

Is it a coincidence that this is happening when they reopened sales?

I have spammed FB and Twitter with links back to this thread – no joy yet.

Using open DNS numbers (these ones: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220) didn’t work for me even after doing ipconfig /flushdns, the game client wouldn’t connect -at all-.