Guild Wars 2

I can’t count the number of times I see “What does OMW mean?” in WvW. No joke. So just in case you don’t know this one, it’s short for “On my way.”

Kuro, is LH still working on getting our server’s WvWers organized? EB was a bit of a trainwreck for most of the day yesterday. We had a small handful of very experienced WvWers (but who didn’t have commander titles) working together for a good portion of the day trying their best hold and defend what we had when we were completely outnumbered. Things would be going well until we’d get newbie or zerg blitzkrieg commanders on the map every couple hours with an itch to take, take, take (several with their eye on the shiny castle, others with an eye on the weaker server) when just we simply didn’t have the numbers to go on the offensive. They refused to turn off their commander titles, took away most of our defenders (who ended up just following the commander icon), dug their heels in and refused to work with us on common goals in favor of capping things we couldn’t defend, overextended our resources, put our holdings at risk (loosing many as a result), and completely decimated an alliance we had with another weaker server (turning the 2v1 onto us instead of the stronger server). Then they left the map after a “job well done” only to have their few caps flipped within the hour.

It’d be nice to see a solid effort to get folks on our server organized and working together for the good of the server.

There will most certainly be paid expansions in the future. But the “when” and “how much will it cost” (either gem or IRL currency) questions are not known and anyone who isn’t ArenaNet that claims to know is just speculating.

(Speaking speculation, a Korean securities firm is speculating we’ll see the first paid expansion drop in late 2013 source)

Lukian Darkblade.8012:

Sorrow’s, you guys breaking into that wall? xD

You have no idea how many times we have told people not to do this…

That was some crazy fun in EB late last night. Great fights all!

WvW was never intended to be an e-sport. The push for e-sports in GW2 has been and always will be sPvP.

Also, a WvW lockout would be unfair to those avid WvW players who are night owls, who live in the “later” American time zones (like the Pacific Coast, Alaska and Hawaii, who are 3-6 hours behind the East Coast) or who do not reside in North America. Those players have as much of a right to play WvW as you do. As much as nightcapping can be frustrating when you’re against a server with a stronger night presence, a lockout is most certainly not the answer.

Lightsbane.9012:

a (hopefully) inspirational message:
Borlis Pass is getting stomped in their tier to a degree that I can’t even describe. Devona’s appears to own that tier, (bp will cap out around 110k) that means both HOD and SF did ~40k better than them. This is good news for GOM because it’s an ‘i told you so’ and good news for SF and HOD because even being in t7 you’re better than BP.

So much for their ZOMG mad skillz… :p

Fare thee well GoM and HoD. It’s been a lot of fun and hope to fight against you guys again soon!

Lightsbane.9012:

K U R O I T S U K I.4980:

Manoa.5897:

Lightsbane.9012:

Manoa.5897:

atomicjellybean.5389:

GoM- Why you have so many people? T.T

Is it just me, or does GoM have far more players this week than they did during last week’s match? :-/

(Not griping GoM! Just observing! )

yeah, you’re outnumbered. but considering i saw both SF teams and HOD teams put rams on SM walls i think being outnumber isn’t your only problem.

Oh, don’t even get me started on the dingbats on our server who have been building rams on the walls. A little part of me dies inside every time I see this. Such a waste of perfectly good plans and supply.

I believe that pve guys getting interested in wvw is a good thing, that may have been the case in there… dont bash them without explaining why it wont work, we, who have been playing since start need to do a lot of explaining of tactics and zerg.

what benefit does it give me to explain to an enemy server why rams don’t work on walls?

Methinks Kuro’s post was direct at me, not you.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Manoa.5897:

K U R O I T S U K I.4980:

Manoa.5897:

Lightsbane.9012:

Manoa.5897:

atomicjellybean.5389:

GoM- Why you have so many people? T.T

Is it just me, or does GoM have far more players this week than they did during last week’s match? :-/

(Not griping GoM! Just observing! )

yeah, you’re outnumbered. but considering i saw both SF teams and HOD teams put rams on SM walls i think being outnumber isn’t your only problem.

Oh, don’t even get me started on the dingbats on our server who have been building rams on the walls. A little part of me dies inside every time I see this. Such a waste of perfectly good plans and supply.

I believe that pve guys getting interested in wvw is a good thing, that may have been the case in there… dont bash them without explaining why it wont work, we, who have been playing since start need to do a lot of explaining of tactics and zerg.

Last time I tried to explain (and others too), we got “lol ur wrong” from the ones who built it (and they just keep doing it). I’ve been seeing SF rams at the SM wall (and only the SM wall, not at any other keeps or towers elsewhere in WvW) a LOT in this tier, which is a pretty new phenomena.

Sounds like you might have a minor troll infestation. But don’t worry; GoM can help! Send us 50 gold and we’d be more than happy to hunt them down and stomp them for you.

Disclaimer: We may have to flip some of your towers and keeps in order to squash some of the more elusive ones. It’s our policy to hold on to these towers and keeps so that we may monitor them for future infestation detection.

Could we just negotiate down to a way cheaper price and you guys can just destroy those pesky, unnecessary rams instead? :p

K U R O I T S U K I.4980:

Manoa.5897:

Lightsbane.9012:

Manoa.5897:

atomicjellybean.5389:

GoM- Why you have so many people? T.T

Is it just me, or does GoM have far more players this week than they did during last week’s match? :-/

(Not griping GoM! Just observing! )

yeah, you’re outnumbered. but considering i saw both SF teams and HOD teams put rams on SM walls i think being outnumber isn’t your only problem.

Oh, don’t even get me started on the dingbats on our server who have been building rams on the walls. A little part of me dies inside every time I see this. Such a waste of perfectly good plans and supply.

I believe that pve guys getting interested in wvw is a good thing, that may have been the case in there… dont bash them without explaining why it wont work, we, who have been playing since start need to do a lot of explaining of tactics and zerg.

Last time I tried to explain (and others too), we got “lol ur wrong” from the ones who built it (and they just keep doing it). I’ve been seeing SF rams at the SM wall (and only the SM wall, not at any other keeps or towers elsewhere in WvW) a LOT in this tier, which is a pretty new phenomena.

Lightsbane.9012:

Manoa.5897:

atomicjellybean.5389:

GoM- Why you have so many people? T.T

Is it just me, or does GoM have far more players this week than they did during last week’s match? :-/

(Not griping GoM! Just observing! )

yeah, you’re outnumbered. but considering i saw both SF teams and HOD teams put rams on SM walls i think being outnumber isn’t your only problem.

Oh, don’t even get me started on the dingbats on our server who have been building rams on the walls. A little part of me dies inside every time I see this. Such a waste of perfectly good plans and supply.

Keiran.1896:

tanksferaskin.6487:

I use the LFG website, it is very helpfull, and you can join cross server. Why not make all the cities cross server then? Lion’s arch has so much to explore and look at without the LFM messages for fractals.

I did use the LFG website… I ended up with a team with 2 EU people (including me) and 3 US people. And then we noticed we can’t play together, because the 2 big servers are separated.

I had to recruit in Lion Arch to finally get a team.

The instructions on gw2lfg.com specifically state that NA and EU can’t group together and has separate sections for each region. Either those NA folks didn’t read the instructions and looked in the EU section or you posted accidentally posted your LFG/LFM to the NA section.

As one of the ladyfolk, I find Doern Velazquez with the Order of Whispers pretty hot.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

We tricked our PvE’rs into thinking that the devs hid new fractals and jumping puzzles in WvW

Ah, so THAT’S the trick! Considering how many PvEers we have on SF, we should totally give this a try!

Were any of you around during BWE1 when they actually had the old account-wide dye system in place? The process was SLOW, tedious and grindy. You had to wait for a Colorful Dye Seed to drop, take it to dye manufacturer for cultivation, then wait 24 hours for a soulbound unidentified dye (to bypass the 24 hour waiting period, you had to buy Magic Plant Food from the gem store).

I much prefer the new system. It’s easier to understand, FAR less grindy than the old system and we can actually trade between characters (so we can send duplicate dyes between our alts and our friends or buy dyes on the market). And not having to buy Magic Plant Food to speed up the process means it’s much cheaper over the long run. I’d hazard a guess that ArenaNet lost out on a lot of potential gem store revenue with this change.

atomicjellybean.5389:

GoM- Why you have so many people? T.T

Is it just me, or does GoM have far more players this week than they did during last week’s match? :-/

(Not griping GoM! Just observing! )

Given how much English I see in map chatter, I highly doubt 50% of the server consists of Spanish speakers. But I do know we are the unofficial Latin American server and have a large Spanish-speaking population on Sorrow’s Furnace. And I do see many who are quite involved in our WvW community.

Quite frankly, I don’t think it’s a communication problem. It’s a working together problem. Just too much “us” and “them” on our server. I’ve seen way too many English speakers bash our Latino players in map chat for speaking Spanish. And I’ve seen too few Spanish speakers translating orders into English for those who are unable to read Spanish. I can’t speak on how things are on the Spanish side of things (it’s been too many years since my last Spanish class), so I honestly can’t say if there is any bashing in Spanish going on or whether the English orders are being translated to Spanish.

We’re all on the same team…treating everyone with respect (no matter what language is being spoken in map chat) will help both sides of the language spectrum be far more willing to work together to get things done. That said, I’d love to see more bilingual folks in WvW to help help bridge the translation gap and so everyone is on the same page.

1. I had no idea that sorrowsfurnace.com was still being used. Last time I was on that site a couple months ago, it was looking pretty dead (and now that I’ve revisited the site, it looks like those forums are still rather sparse).

2. Do you know if there is any way we can get our WvW community qualified as a “guild” so we can get WvW channels added? Or does the applicant HAVE to be a guild? If the mumble server is only open to guilds, there will be SF players who will want to get involved, but will have a hard time meeting that forum eligibility requirement (i.e. smaller guilds). As much as I want to get involved, my guild is pretty small and I’d have rather tough time mustering up 8 guildies to register, much less post. :-/

I don’t have any suggestions for VoiP, but I’ve been finding myself in WvW more and more lately and would be more than happy to help as much as I can.

Rajani Isa.6294:

EDIT: Gaile – a community and dev digest separation worked great for City of Heroes (although marketing couldn’t make up their mind which they were :P)

I’m a former COH player and was just about to post this suggestion. It worked wonderfully and I’d love to see something similar here on the GW2 forums.

Greetings Leavenworth from downtown Seattle!

Bensozia.8071:

Appears that you may have to do a portion of the puzzle to get credit.
Note last item about trigger point.
The newest update on wiki about jumping puzzles:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Monthly

“You “discover” a jumping puzzle by reaching a trigger point on the path to the end-chest for the achievement. You do not need to discover 30 unique jumping puzzles.

• You can get credit for the same puzzle on multiple characters and for the same server on different shards, i.e. in multiple overflows as well as your home world.
  * You can discover a jumping puzzle even if you discovered and/or completed it before.
  * The trigger point can be near the end chest, at the entrance of the puzzle area, or anywhere in between."

I can confirm that the trigger points for Morgan’s Leap, Dark Reverie and Spelunker’s Delve in Caledon Forest are all at the beginning of the puzzles. And other folks are indicating that the trigger points in Lion’s Arch are also at the beginning of the puzzles. Caledon Forest + Lion’s Arch = easy, peasy achievement for those that don’t want to do the overflow trick/exploit.

I can also confirm that the trigger points for the Obsidian Sanctum JP in Eternal Borderlands and the Sapphire Sanctum on the Blue Borderlands map are also at the beginning of the puzzles (with Sapphire, you don’t even have to make the leap of faith through the waterfall, it triggers on the cliff before the jump).

Mungrul.9358:

People telling others that jumping puzzles are easy and how to use exploits to get the achievement are missing the point.
Some people aren’t interested in that content, no matter how “Easy” it may be to get.
Offering viable alternatives would be a much more elegant solution, hence my previous suggestion.

There’s a relatively quick, easy non-exploit way to get the JP achievement with little (if any) waypoint costs…go to Caledon Forest. There are 3 JPs in the southern part of the zone that are incredibly easy to visit and are in sub-level 10 area (and a 4th if you can get past the Morgan’s Spiral JP). Those 3 plus the 3 in Lion’s Arch across 5 character slots should get you the achievement in less than an hour.

Honestly, who cares if folks are interested in the jumping puzzle content or not? You don’t even have to do the puzzles! Completing them isn’t the requirement. All you have to just “discover” that they exist (i.e. visit the start points). It’s more exploration than jumping puzzles. This is perhaps the quickest and easiest (and cheapest if you play your cards right) monthly achievement requirement that the devs have given us yet. Folks need to stop getting hung up on the “jumping puzzle” wording in the achievement and think of this as an exploration achievement. If folks don’t like exploration…well, I don’t know what to tell ya. GW2 is all about exploration.

I’d take this over salvaging gear, opening trick or treat bags, consuming candy corn (barf!!), opening presents, etc, etc, ANY day. This achievement is SUCH a gift.

Fenrir Bartea.5917:

So sick of people using the determined exploit in vale and water supply camps. Ran into a group of 3 SF from a guild I believe was called called LERN doing it in HoD bl. I understand the allure but seriously? That’s not how WvW was intended. Such a disappointment, and I know its done across the board (I’ve seen HoD and GoM do the same) and will continue to be exploited until its fixed.

CC Eva.6742:

Hello everyone.

Just a quick message to let you know that there is an email address available for all of you, exploits@arena.net, where you can send your screenshots that involve episodes of hacking and/or exploiting. Please, use this address to denounce this kind of attitudes.

Although we do understand that watching an exploit or a hack that goes unpunished is pretty frustrating in a match-up, posts created with the sole intention of throwing accusations to each other tend to derail the threads and stir them up with negativity. Please, bear this in mind before posting and help keep the discussion and sportsmanship up.

Thanks!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/12-21-NSP-Anvil-Rock-DR/page/5#post1092022

TiredTracks.6245:

Sorrow’s Furnace: The server you love to transfer from.

Seriously, it seems like we lost half our WvW group thursday and they simply haven’t come back. Those of us that remain can’t keep going like this.. Gigantic morale blow.
Last week, I thought we finally found our balance and would have a fun, up-to-the-buzzer fight, win or lose.
I’ll be cheering for you from tier 8 HoD.

We lost most of our hardcore WvW players a LONG time ago. Those who are left are those who split their time between WvW and PvE. And considering how hoppin’ PvE has been lately, I suspect it’s more a case of folks taking a WvWcation rather than loosing a large portion of our population to other servers.

Last week was a lot of fun. This week is rather meh. It’s never fun when one server completely dominates, whether you’re on the giving or receiving end of things.

maddoctor.2738:

Narkosys.5173:

Slightly yes by 3% or so due to the game of the year awards and christmas. They did 15 days ago increase the server capacity that makes it seem like it as well.

But the truth is they have lost 65% of the population since the launch.
The locusts left in Sept.
WvW is stale in unless in T1 never a Q
Spvp and Tpvp are on total life support.
Then came Ascend gear – That lost 30% of the pop right there.
Now there is the loot downgrades the constant changing of the goal posts.
And frankly some of the worst management of a game from a design studio I have seen with the exception of TOR it is on par with Bioware right now.

Revenue is being squeezed out of every non dungeon player. For some reason Anet went against what they thought and put the best gear and loot in one place and made it available at one place and gated the content. They then went out and killed open world loot to force people to buy gems to keep up with the dungeon runners.

What you see now is up upswing for holidays about 10% pop increase (returning players not the 3% new accounts) for a few days then people exodus again as they see Anet hasnt fixed the issues they left about.
It was the same with Halloween.
The game is in trouble yes. No not critically yet but I do predict that with the epic new content in FEB that there will be a F2P announcement to bring in new accounts and increase the revenue stream as they have bled the non dungeon runners dry.

Open worlds are empty and barren and DE’s are solo or arent done. Really sad.
WvW – borderlands are always outmanned/breakout event constantly ready. Bad
– EB still manageable and fun at times but the only place to fight. Sad
Spvp -4 hours a day can you get a hot join match
Tpvp – dead – no one does them any more.
Dungeons – seems ok somewhat. Use the lfg site and map chat. Still non fractal is next to impossible to do.

Yes they come back from this but it will take a significant effort and they must listen to the community instead of trying to silence them. Most people here want the best game possible but when the devs constantly attack you as a player you wonder why bother.

Numbers / graphs to support this?

Here ya go!

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

FilthyRatkitten.8953:

Heros Slayer.7081:

i hope someone from a.net reads this thread. maybe then they will change some things with the match making system to allow for more servers to fight this evenly. It would definitely help the game if we had more threads where instead of complaining “you outnumber us” or “you guys aren’t that good” there is more like what we have here which is a bunch of giving props to other servers and being friendly even among enemies.

I think much of it has to do with the people on the servers, this match is so competitive you would expect more trash talking. Makes me dislike DR even more for all their trash talk even when they were winning by hundreds of thousands of points.

Nope, no trash talk here. Most of the loudmouths from our server jumped ship for easier rides long ago. Those of us who are left just love the fight. It seems SF and HoD are both in a similar situation.

I guess that’s one upside to all the free transfers.

I can’t speak for my server (one person does not a server make), but I personally prefer keeping things friendly here on the forums and saving the PvP for the battlefield. It’s been a good, fun ‘n friendly match this week and I’m looking forward to continuing the fun next week.

Merry Christmas to my fellow SF players as well as to our opponents on GoM and HoD. Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!

Kudos to all those SF folks in Eternal Battlegrounds (i.e. who just got kicked due to the new build) who helped retake our little corner of the map. And thanks to GoM for bringing the awesome battles.

Loving this match-up. Good fit and lots of positive folks on all sides of the battle. Keep up the good work and fun everyone!

That particular armor set appeared in this blog too…http://www.arena.net/blog/designing-humans

I do know Countess Anise wears the chest and gloves of the set; however, I have yet to see it available to player characters.

To the GoM memser who was camping the beast room in the JP today (if he reads these forums)…please share your build! As a mesmer enthusiast, I was quite impressed.

Signed,
The adorable plushie griffon

After weeks of being locked out of the EB jumping puzzle, had a little fun today running the puzzle using my Endless Plush Griffon Tonic. OMG…I think I just found my new favorite thing!

To the HoD folks manning the flame traps in the EB jumping puzzle…thanks for letting the adorable plushie griffon to pass through unharmed!

To the HoD Asura who was obviously struggling to get through the end of the EB jumping puzzle (especially the beast/chandelier room)…hope me playing your spirit animal (literally, being a plushie griffon at the time) helped you out! It gave me great joy to see you /cheer once you reached the chest.

To the GoM thief who ganked the plushie griffon in the EB jumping puzzle today…gratz on the easy Badge of Honor. I got a good laugh out of it. :p

Also, crazy fun time in Stonemist Castle tonight! Loved it! After a couple rough weeks, it’s totally awesome to have some great, competitive WvW again!

Calos.1350:

BTW Happy end of the world all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzqiPvGrkTo

And a happy beginning of the 14th b’ak’tun to you!

Esoteric.5490:

Forgive my ignorance as I’m not from this tier, but SF was obliterating HoD and ET very recently and going for a record for score and now they are barely ahead of that same HoD in points while getting killed by DR? Can someone enlighten me with what happened or if DR suddenly got ridiculous transfers? The score is nothing short of surprising and I’m just wondering if something happened to SF.

1) SF wasn’t going for a record score. That was a trolling post that came from one bad seed who is no longer even with our server anymore (and was filled with most SFers who disagreed with the sentiment because we knew that week’s score was due to population advantage and luck of the draw, not skill).

2) We’ve been absolutely crushed by Borlis Pass the last couple weeks, so morale is down. When morale is down, many jump ship and go back to PvE.

3) Wintersday Event went live. SF is primarily a PvE server and many of our WvWers are also PvEers. So our WvW population massively declines when there’s a special/holiday event and our scores always take a hit as a result.

Such a GORGEOUS piece of artwork! Congratulations to the recipients!

Cactus.2710:

Kyskythyn.6471:

On reset day, you guys brought an army to EB that stood toe to toe with DR and SF. Where is that army now?

That’s the point I tried to make above as well. Last Friday at reset DR grabbed Stonemist first (we officially had control) but couldn’t hold it against the SF and HoD onslaught. The entire zone was intensely contested, and even though DR had a long queue for EB (meaning we had capped out the number of players we could throw in there) we lost control of Stonemist. Somewhere along the line, though, SF and HoD just kind of gave up and the tier became a cakewalk … at least for this week. So I have the same question … where the hell did all those enemies that were giving us fits go?

I can’t speak for HoD, but many of SF WvWers are also PvEers and we got distracted by the holiday event.

It’s been confirmed that there are no one-time events with the Wintersday event.

Aryto.5873:

• I want to stress what Healix said about the exploding gifts: Use the path 2nd from the furthest on the right and go straight up. None of those gifts explode until they all explode and a straight line is faster than a ridiculous zigzag. You can actually observe the exploding pattern from the starting platform.

This also applies to the path 2nd from the furthest on the left. It appears both 2nd from the left and 2nd from the right are both stable paths that are straight shots to the top.

I’d also like to throw in my support to using your mouse to steer instead of your keyboard. It’s far more quick than using your keys (especially since you’re juggling less keystrokes) and is MUCH easier to line up your jumps. Also, if you find your camera doesn’t rotate quickly enough for some of the turns, up your camera rotation setting in your options. But don’t increase the setting so much that you don’t have any control over your camera. You’ll have to find the setting that works best for you (I have mine set to around 50%).

drclawizdead.8214:

Manoa.5897:

Wojo.7906:

Things stopping me are near 90 degree turns (yes using right mouse button to turn)….

What is your camera rotation speed set at? Perhaps you need to go into your options and increase your camera rotation so it’s more responsive (I have mine set to 50% and have no issues with the puzzle).

Actual;ly on jumps like that I just turn like 45 degrees then adjust in midair. Keeps me in front so those dang Ckitten’t block me

That may work for someone who is an advanced jumper and/or someone with fast twitch reflexes (I adjust mid-air to correct jumps as needed myself), but this could be a bit tricky for someone struggling with the puzzle. A higher camera rotation setting could help those folks so that their camera is always facing forward and they can line their jumps up more easily. The less keystrokes to juggle, the better for those who struggling.

Wojo.7906:

Things stopping me are near 90 degree turns (yes using right mouse button to turn)….

What is your camera rotation speed set at? Perhaps you need to go into your options and increase your camera rotation so it’s more responsive (I have mine set to 50% and have no issues with the puzzle).

Downtown Seattle here. Collector’s Edition, but no card. Not quite sure how the Collector’s Edition could actually lead to a physically mailed card considering all Collector’s Editions had to be purchased via third party retailers (so ANet would not have addresses from the credit cards used for these purchases) and there’s no way to enter a physical address into your account information. Perhaps the criteria for receiving the holiday card is something else? Like gem purchases and/or buying the game direct from ArenaNet? It’d have to be something where ArenaNet would have an address on-file (like from a credit card).

Whatever the case, congrats!

Thanks for the instructions on how to download! I visited the site yesterday after ANet made the announcement and had no idea that these were downloadable!

I also purchased a collector’s edition (along with two standard editions as gifts) and did not receive a holiday card. So methinks you’re just an incredibly lucky individual!

That card is SO adorable…I can’t even put into words how jealous I am right now! (But don’t get me wrong! I’m totally happy for you and am happy to see ArenaNet does this for players).

nahj.2870:

Manoa.5897:

Valenna Tiefling.5806:

The message here is that you should be prepared to be sent right back down here like SF did. You remind us of them a few weeks ago, feel free to check that match-up’s score and how they’ve done since. It’s OK, we’ll wait a few weeks, we’ve waited months already, and it’s delicious every time.

Please remember that it was a small (but vocal) minority who were like that. The vast majority of us SFers knew the real story with the score during that particular match-up and didn’t fool ourselves into thinking that that crazy high score had anything to do with mad WvW skillz.

As far as I remember it was only one guy who was bragging. And he doesn’t even play on SF anymore.

And the bragging thread in question was definitely a trolling thread. Which was filled with SF folks who were replying how they were not on board with the sentiment of the thread. Good riddance to bad rubbish. I for one knew the deal and used the opportunity that week to get 100% map completions on all my low level alts. Especially when I saw the projections for what server we’d be facing next.

Valenna Tiefling.5806:

The message here is that you should be prepared to be sent right back down here like SF did. You remind us of them a few weeks ago, feel free to check that match-up’s score and how they’ve done since. It’s OK, we’ll wait a few weeks, we’ve waited months already, and it’s delicious every time.

Please remember that it was a small (but vocal) minority who were like that. The vast majority of us SFers knew the real story with the score during that particular match-up and didn’t fool ourselves into thinking that that crazy high score had anything to do with mad WvW skillz.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

That’s disappointing.

Valhallen.1693:

Why do I have to take a bunch of waypoints then sit and wait in the hopes of even seeing an event? Was it too much to ask for a timer?

Best to check the Guild Wars Temple Dragon Timer before waypointing…

http://guildwarstemple.com/dragontimer/

Plok.6145:

You can duel in this game? When did that happen?

I’ve heard of some tiers organizing “fight clubs” where various folks from the different servers meet at a predesignated spot and do one-on-one duels. Trickier to organize now that you can’t find out an enemy’s name in-game anymore. But still doable with a little planning ahead of time since whisper communication is still possible if you know the person’s name.

Sharkinu.8096:

I’m here right now, I’m playing the game, I have clean account, not hacked, not banned. I have time to play and can get gems too. I want the hat. What makes me “not able to attend”?

There is a difference in having the option to atttend to an event, but not being able to attend and being able to attend, but locked out of that event completely.

But you aren’t locked out completely. You have the same opportunity as every other person to get the wizard’s hat…buy a copy of the game during the promo period.

If you buy a product at a store and they offer that very same product 4 months later at a cheaper price and with a promotional item to entice folks to buy it, you are not entitled to the cheaper price and promo item. And this is just like with any other promotion or sale. Buying a the game 4 months ago does not entitle you to receiving any promotional/sale items that ArenaNet offers for their sales now.

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Just want to plan my day, many users like me will be busy that day and knowing that we will miss something big (like a precursor) will help us plan better.

Also everyone play this game as they want, saying that we dont deserve a reward because we dont participate in the events is unfair.

Im sure many of us give up the karka event because was a lag fest and or have other things to do and im sure that a lot of us would love to participate if we knew about that chest.

Having missed out in the Karka event myself, it actually is quite fair that people did not get a reward for an event in which they did not participate. If you don’t participate, of course you’re not going to be rewarded.

The unfairness of the Karka event was not that those who did not participate were not rewarded. The unfairness of that particular event was that it was SO incredibly limited (only offered for several hours) that a large portion of the playerbase simply could NOT participate through no fault of their own (work, school, family commitments, time zone differences, etc.). Many players (myself included) were not given the opportunity to participate and missed out on some pretty significant rewards. Which was quite disappointing.

I for one am glad ArenaNet has learned from that mistake and are giving players a solid two weeks to get the final reward for the Wintersday event.