Guild Wars 2

I stopped caring about the Living Story after it became nothing but minigames and festivals…
WTB story content….

yesfourme.8906:

The entire day, I barely saw any FA player.

You need better scouts.

Jet.4795:

@DB in JQBL you bring 2 guilds to face our 1. Why u do dis.

It’s a bad habit that they’ve picked up from Maguuma.

Anet has forgotten a lot of things. Like the “he” that is mentioned during Hearts of the North and the “mysterious stranger” in Zinn’s Task. If I had to make a guess, I think the personal nemesis that is mentioned back during flame & frost has also been forgotten….

Zumy.6318:

CC always wins Ninfhiel. TP almost always wins Khylo. CC very often loses Foefire. TP ALWAYS wins Foefire.

Rules changed to BO5

2x Ninfh
2x Foe
1x Khylo

I dont know why, but the minute I knew they had to play Foefire twice, I knew they would not win this. And so did Grouch and Steppenwolf.There are viedos of TP winning this to zero…

:D

Pretty sure I’ve seen CC beat TP on Khylo, multiple times.

Is this some kind of joke to impersonate the real [rawr]?

I prefer having just one hub where the whole server can hang out together, instead of everyone spread out all over the place…..

Well, DB did lose some of its SEA.

We aren’t going to learn anything from a Thaumanova fractal. Fractals are echoes/representations of the past so nothing we learn will be accurate and will just be further speculation. It’s pointless to vote on the fractals based on lore. What’s more important is the experience we get in the fractals and honestly, we have enough asura labs in this game. We know what happens in the fall of abaddon, but the experience will be a lot more epic and original.

Middzz.1490:

harmless fun

This isn’t pve.

I feel like I know how this matchup is going to end. Will history repeat itself again? :o

Sovereign.1093:

Anyone from Philippines here? I wonder if I have kabayans playing in FA or JQ or TC

Our main SEA guild [DPS] is primarily Filipino, but they got people from all over asia.

Eh, if an NA guild wants to get on the same level as the euro guilds, they should pay a visit to the euro servers.

So apparently all the reports that have come in over god knows how many months, were vague….

Magnus Steelgrave.6580:

I think they’re making an assumption that if they’re going to re-release MWF as a fractal that the azurite and sentinel’s will come back with it as loot.

What does Azurite/Sentinel’s have to do with this……

Mance.5640:

he Kurzicks are very religious and most of what they do revolves around their practice of worship of the True Gods and their saints. The different houses, whether part of the Great Houses or not, all have a different characteristic among the members of the house. All of the characteristics of the houses are based on the idea of art, music, and religion. The Kurzicks are also focused on preserving and restoring the Echovald Forest to how it was before the Jade Wind. This includes the creation of wards and stone guardians that defend the Kurzicks against the monsters, unless they are not maintained – in which case the wards will simply fail and the stone guardians will become hostile. The spells are by the House zu Heltzer. Along with the House zu Heltzer’s wards and protections, the House Lutgardis is “able to reinvigorate the forest through song” as said by the Historian of Houses.

I blame this Jedsus stuff! Now we are Kurzick somethings!

You forget that Fort Aspenwood is Kurzick territory. Therefore those who occupy it, are Kurzick. You guys are traitors for going to the luxon side

Probably scnd.

Everyone needs to realize that the people that developed gw1 pvp are NOT the same people that developed gw2 pvp. As a result, it is physically impossible for this game to ever be as good as gw1, because the necessary tools (aka competent devs) aren’t there to begin with.

Jayne.9251:

Anything that manipulates the system by giving the other team an otherwise unfair advantage is against the ToS. Having one account up and playing another and relaying that information to the “home team” would construe an unfair advantage, in that the information being relayed isn’t readily available for all players to make it an even playing field. It’s gaming the system. The game wasn’t meant to be played that way. And honestly? It just indicates, to me, a lack of skill or even a fear of fighting the enemy.

While participating in Plaver-vs-Player (PvP) gameplay, you will not participate in any form of match manipulation. Match manipulation is defined as any action taken to fix or manipulate the outcome of a match or alter or manipulate the rankings or ratings of the ladder. This also includes disrupting other people’s game experience by not actively participating in matches in good faith, a.k.a leeching.

I have bolded the part you should re-read. A failed golem rush due to a spy is hardly going to affect the outcome of the one week match. Additionally, how is Anet going to know whether a golem rush failed due to a spy or due to the golems being scouted early?

Not to mention that I have talked to Anet about this sorta thing in the past and they outright told me that “it is not a violation to assist your enemies like any other spy in the heat of battle”. That’s a quote from GM Lemoncobra, an Anet employee.

If Anet were to follow this statement literally, then fairweathers not turning up to WvW when they otherwise would are also match manipulating, as it would affect the score.

And no where does Anet tell us how WvW should be played, so you’re not in a position to say what can and can’t be done. It is a war between three worlds. Espionage is part of war.

I agree. There has been a lot of threads about this lately and zero anet acknowledgement about this serious problem. Your group can do everything right in a zerg fight but all it takes is one random uplevel to die and the entire enemy zerg gets rezzed…

FA and JQ. Finally! If you played gw1, you would know the significance.

Tarkus.4109:

Sadly enough there weren’t many oceanic players playing GW2 actively to start with and due to attrirition a lot of us seem to be going to 1-3 servers;

BG; MERC (25 per night), NOC (10-15 on WvW nights)
SoR; HIRE (25 per night), OCX (10-15 on WvW nights), XPK (10-15)
TC; Unreal Aussies (not sure).

Wherever you go you will have to go to any of the higher ranked servers to avoid excessive PvD – because who the hell wants to do that for fun.

Unreal Aussies[uA] along with AVTR, EPX, PRO and now NV are all on FA.

Actinotus.6410:

Sure but last few weeks you haven’t had to face servers like SoR and TC and DB (which makes a bit of a difference to our potential +ppt) so not really a direct comparison.

You forget who FA was matched against before this new matchup system and I think we are facing TC this week, not sure though…..

Chris.3290:

a lot of IoJ went to FA, got disgusted and left for BG as well.

Say what? They’re still here… and we have highest ppt during oceanic most days…. stronger than SoS….

Rama.6439:

SquirtyMagoo.8321:

neomccoy.2657:

Had fun tonight in FABL vs RET/RAM coordinated attacks.

Here is the video of this match-up so far, unbiased view since i kept the parts that we got wiped. Enjoy Keep up the great fights FA!!! Hoping to see SoS more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0AiK23TArQ

Yeh thanks to RET and RAM (RETAM? RAMET? There’s gotta be a name for you guys…) for the open field fights. They were a lot of fun! You guys are working really well together considering how recently RAM transferred. FABL is definitely the place to be for good fights this matchup.

Also, I freaking love the TC militia. I don’t think there is another militia in gw2 you could fight vs 2 organized guilds with and still have a good fight. Amazing watching that vid and seeing lots of them stick on the commander even when they aren’t on voice comms.

This matchup has been way better than DB in terms of open field.

I totally agree, I expected more from DB and they just hid all week, EB put up a better fight then DB and I was totally amazed by that, I give EB props for that, I hope we don’t see DB for awhile cause if they don’t even want to fight, why bother.

And as far as FA and SoS, I like the open field stuff, it’s great, but when doing the open field, why do you all always drop siege, you talk about us hiding behind our towers and siege, everytime we do open field, you guys always drop something, that isn’t open field, if you want to do open field, leave the siege in the towers and keeps.

I’ve noticed that TC has been much more willing to fight in the open field compared to before. I like that. I’m sure those siege were dropped by randoms in the zerg which then get built by other randoms who don’t know what’s going on. I’ve seen it happen quite often.

My server’s Queensdale is awesome. Feels like a real community.

Anet will continue releasing RNG boxes regardless of who we vote for. They know how we feel about them and they don’t really care. Fall of Abaddon is just too awesome to resist.

Terrible suggestions here in this thread. Any real investment would never be revealed in public. People jumping on the bandwagon will ruin any chances for profit.

Besides, we all know what the best investment is: Runes of Life

Vayne.8563:

Mada.5319:

Ascii.9726:

Guild Wars achievements should not affect Guild Wars 2 highscores, period. No highscore should be dictated by a different game even if the story-lines are similar. This is Guild Wars 2 and we deserve a fair highscore system that shows peoples achievements in Guild Wars 2, not other games.

HoM players have there ‘rewards’ in the form of unique titles, weapon & armour skins and ranger pets, they should not also have priority on the highscores.

I missed Halloween so I wasn’t able to get the achievement points from it. Should I be whining like you? I mean, isn’t it unfair that the players that were around for halloween have an advantage over me? Should I make another thread and start crying about it? Don’t I deserve a chance at a fair high score too??

People who were there for halloween got their ‘rewards’ in the form of unique titles, weapons & minipets, they should not also have priority on the highscores.

You’re late to the party. Get over it.

You’ll be able to do Halloween achievements in October again.

So will everyone else. I still missed out. But I’m not complaining unlike the people in this thread………

Fildydarie.1496:

I don’t think that a lot of the WvW community understands what PvE players go through or why they look at this as an obligatory objective. This achievement is as fundamental to the PvE completionist players (a group which probably outnumbers the WvW community) as the acquisition of siege blueprints and supply is to WvW. Imagine having to run for 3 hours across an empty PvE map to get to a dungeon where 90% of the time the last boss has a permanent invulnerable buff. Only if you manage to kill that boss does the siege vendor and supply point spawn. That is what PvE completionists face.

Also, the only reason this is called a WvW map is because it is accessed from within EB and uses server alliances. It has no strategic value, follows none of the design principles of other WvW combat, and the events in the JP have no bearing on the WvW score or strategy. This is not a WvW zone, this is a server-aligned team PvP zone, which is NOT part of the PvE experience by any rational measure.

With the addition of achievement point rewards, this latest one is 20 points—4% of a chest. That is a significant amount to me as a completionist. In terms of actions->physical rewards, this is only available for a limited time and is more rewarding than escorting 10,000 dolyaks, but less rewarding than escorting 100,000 dolyaks. It falls around 34,000 dolyaks worth of reward, but the key aspect is the time-locked nature—this has to be done in a certain window or I will fall behind. This is the mindset that WvWers don’t grasp; your content is always there, but for players like me, these limited opportunities must be completed or I have failed and may as well just stop playing altogether, because I can never succeed once I have failed.

Sucks to be you. Go learn to pvp and you won’t have this problem anymore. This is not a pve achievement.

Ascii.9726:

Guild Wars achievements should not affect Guild Wars 2 highscores, period. No highscore should be dictated by a different game even if the story-lines are similar. This is Guild Wars 2 and we deserve a fair highscore system that shows peoples achievements in Guild Wars 2, not other games.

HoM players have there ‘rewards’ in the form of unique titles, weapon & armour skins and ranger pets, they should not also have priority on the highscores.

I missed Halloween so I wasn’t able to get the achievement points from it. Should I be whining like you? I mean, isn’t it unfair that the players that were around for halloween have an advantage over me? Should I make another thread and start crying about it? Don’t I deserve a chance at a fair high score too??

People who were there for halloween got their ‘rewards’ in the form of unique titles, weapons & minipets, they should not also have priority on the highscores.

You’re late to the party. Get over it.

If you can’t get the kite, you can’t get it. Simple as that. This isn’t a freebie. You gotta work for it.

So, what about those players who missed out on the Halloween achievements or the Flame & Frost achievements? Should they start whining too?

The early bird gets the worm. Get over it.

Fix your internet. This isn’t Anet’s problem.

CobaltSixty.1542:

Getting 50/50 in GW1 is NOT DIFFICULT. It is just time consuming.

Time is dedication. Anet is rewarding gw1 players for their dedication.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I would first like to thank Anet for providing us GW1 players with the nice bonus to our HoM achievements. It was stated by Anet that our GW2 characters would share in the glory of our GW1 ancestors, so this change is a welcome sight.

But I would discuss a possible bonus for those who actually maxed out our HoM. Getting 50/50 is a feat that took many many years, and getting a bonus for that in GW2 would be outstanding. I think an additional 500 achievement points for players with 50/50 could be acceptable.

I understand the argument that GW2 is a different game, and that this would punish current players who didn’t play GW1. But on the opposite side of that coin, it’s us hardcore GW1 players who paved the way for the current game we all know and love. The time invested in getting our HoM filled up is legendary. And since these two games are connected by lore, it makes perfect sense to not only get points for achievements in the current game, but also extra points for the loyalty and dedication we displayed.

An alternative to this would be, dare I say it, a free Precursor for all whom made 50/50? I did mention that our feats are legendary. So why not a gift to showcase this legendary status? It would also show Anet’s love for us!

Let’s open this discussion! The last update has shown it’s possible to make adjustments to the point standings. Any additional points or freebies would be the icing on the cake!

This is going too far. If you don’t have 50/50 you are only getting 450 points. That last 50 points that takes it up to 500 is your reward for 50/50. You are out of your mind if you think a precursor would be an appropriate reward.

World vs Kite is NOT a pve achievement. If you are not prepared to come to a pvp map and do this with pvp in mind (this means not running with your pve build and zerker gear) you are not worthy of this achievement. These people you encounter are not griefing. They are participating in pvp.

Devon is 100% correct.

wads.5730:

Mada.5319:

wads.5730:

etrigan.4213:

idk where mag got to thinking they were good in the open field. this is baffling. you guys are certainly less farm-able than say TC or DB, but EBAY is better than you guys to be honest. :P

why dont you gvg and be done with it

You mean that thing some guilds do to figure out who has the most war banners and/or guardians?

if you think thats what wins gvg’s then you must be bad

Ignorance is bliss I guess

Carry on.

Why? Obsidian Sanctum is in its own map so it won’t keep people from coming into EB.

Zero Tolerance.1539:

Laivine.9308:

This thread is a big joke. Delete all the pve leaderboards and save us from the drama of the “leet pve’ers” over nothing!

To be anywhere near the top on those boards you have to do PvP.

No you don’t

Azraeel.1238:

Mada.5319:

The achievements leaderboard is not and will not ever be competitive. Why? Because it is a time based achievement which heavily favors those who started playing the game earlier. You think someone who starts gw2 today has a chance? No.

Anyone who didn’t start playing gw2 on day one is late to the party. Similarly, anyone who didn’t play gw1 is also late to the party.

There is nothing competitive about the Achievements. Don’t delude yourself into thinking otherwise.

At least those people can effectively say, they have been playing GUILD WARS 2, and not some other game.

That “other game” is the reason gw2 even exists.

And at least I can say that I played a game that is superior to gw2 in almost every way and my dedication is being recognized

The achievements leaderboard is not and will not ever be competitive. Why? Because it is a time based achievement which heavily favors those who started playing the game earlier. You think someone who starts gw2 today has a chance? No.

Anyone who didn’t start playing gw2 on day one is late to the party. Similarly, anyone who didn’t play gw1 is also late to the party.

There is nothing competitive about the Achievements. Don’t delude yourself into thinking otherwise.

wads.5730:

etrigan.4213:

idk where mag got to thinking they were good in the open field. this is baffling. you guys are certainly less farm-able than say TC or DB, but EBAY is better than you guys to be honest. :P

why dont you gvg and be done with it

You mean that thing some guilds do to figure out who has the most war banners and/or guardians?

I’m so proud of those guys from GoM. Well done.

Serkz.3140:

Well the fact that it shares the same skin as the ele spell makes it less valuable. In terms of the actual hammer, it is quite rare

Anything that can be crafted is not rare.
It’s rare that you will see one, considering its cost. But the hammer itself is not rare.

katniss.6735:

Is this guy seriously trying to get open-field combat vs pubbies during oceanic time?

no…….

gw2lfg.com has eliminated the need to do that event.

Whatever.8924:

The irony!

How is that spawn camping? :o
I don’t see any siege.
I see a fight between FA and Mag.
There are 3 exits.
You and your allies are outside of the spawn area.

It’s based on total number of accounts on the server, last I heard. CD probably has a lot of inactive accounts on it.

I think more people would come back when they finally decide to make GvG.

Or an expansion….

So the new armor is just shoulders, helm and gloves?

Jayne.9251:

Gellor.6497:

Jayne.9251:

Gellor.6497:

Jayne.9251:

Nikked.7365:

eithinan.9841:

WAGON COAST WAGON COAST!!!!! wah wah wah !!!

Well, this certainly creates a visual.

Buh?

Get out of here <3, go back to the EU! We miss you

EU is insane. I’m not kidding. But in a good way

I miss ya’ll too, have been reading and playing catchup tonight.

Heard EU has more smaller scale fights? Zerg is not the meta

There are zergs, but not to the extreme as I saw on NA (well except for Jade Sea, lol man there are an awful lot of french who play GW2). More open-field fights at multiple points on the map by separate guild pushes, less focus on meta/ppt, and not as much siege (which, as you know, gives me the twitchies, cos I have this odd siege addiction issue — I really went to EU to deal with it cold turkey, lol).

To keep reasonably on topic of thread: TC reached out to PVE crowd for months .. I know I (and others) would go into all the major hubs and recruit each morning, offering WvW clinics for beginners pretty much since November. FA reaching out to the PVE crowd is just smart.

Edited to add map example of typical night, showing multiple fights all over:

God, I love this screenshot. Wish this sorta thing happened more on NA servers.