Guild Wars 2

You need to kill the oozes and use the drops to grease the gears.

I want a trap that strips all boons and prevents them from being reapplied. And one that drains all life force off of necros. Another one that prevents any minions or clones or turrets from being created.

And one that disables all skills for 30 seconds. Then we can get down to the real hardcore PvP: emote dance off!

Just because you have a VOIP program doesn’t force you to talk. Just listen. (It helps a ton in guild activities!)

Also, I would think most people understand if you’re not comfortable talking. If they don’t and keep harassing you about it, maybe you need to find another guild then. Or lie and say you don’t have a mic.

1) try using the first waypoint on the next zone, Cursed Shores?, and go back.
2) some events to clear WPs can be solo’d with the right build and some care when pulling; Wren comes to mind
3) to find a decent number of people in the zone check with any PvE guilds on your server whether they run the temples at certain times; on SoR the temples usually get opened on weekends through guild assaults, and sometimes during the week when enough people gather up
4) guest on other servers…? JQ seems to be very active in Orr? SoR is running Orr at least on the weekends
5) ask for help in map chat or even in LA

Yea, the new krait hit incredibly hard. Luckily, the champs tend to show up at the end, so you can try to kite them around until the timer runs out. Not that that always works well, either. I took many a dirt nap, too.

I have actually never been killed at the WP spot. I wonder if you guys are being trolled, by some kitten pulling the krait to that spot on purpose…

Heh – and I thought the removal of the siege timer for everything but trebs and golems was an answer to our prayers. I understand the issue about siege capping and server limits, but it still seems like there should be better solutions. In lieu of that I “+1” the increase in despawn timers.

Oh, and to get back on the topic of penguins and their origins and snafus about it:
!http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BPKUHknKQn0/UTSFiJ2E_JI/AAAAAAAAAHw/qP3LjBnE6cU/s1600/penguin.jpg!

Play TP. It takes some effort to find good deals, but you can make easy money there.

To get your starting money, look at blue level (fine) armor, say lvl60 or 70ish. Look for armor where the for-sale price is comfortably above the will-buy price. Offer to buy some at the low price, then turn around and post your buys back at the higher for sale price. This works pretty well to supplement your early dungeon runs, and you don’t have to grind or be online for it either.

+1 for bringing Cantha back. Oh, and also Shadow Form for my thief, plz.

lol j/k

The starter island was just amazingly beautiful. I still remember stepping out of the monastery the first time and getting killed by a baby karpa.

I got stuck on an AC that was thrown to the outer edge of a wall. When I tried to disengage I got the error that I couldn’t drop a bundle while in the air. I forgot how I got out, probably WP’ing.

VOLKON.1290:

Not Auto-loot. Auto-loot is bad.

What would be nice is if the loot bags themselves showed up in inventory as stackable items to 250. Then you can open them later at your leisure and you should never come close to inventory issues. I’d have the bags be soul bound (account bound at the most) so they don’t wind up cluttering the TP.

Good idea, but not really possible right now I think. Remember how you killed that upleveled guy and opened his bag to find some weak blood? Each bag draws from its own loot table based on the level of player who dropped it. They’d have to split the bags the way they do for PvE, tiny, light, heavy, etc.

I’m still saying, drop the bags into the mail…

Also, rewarding a chest based on your sever position is a bad idea. If you think band-waggoning is bad now…

DevonCarver.5370:

The AoE limit is due to technical limitations.

This is dev speak for it’ll be fixed next month, right? Like the siege BP being soul bound and the reset times in NA and EU locked together?

The point of dailies/monthlies was to give you a reward for things you would most likely be doing anyway in game. Running dungeons, WvW, roaming zones to pick off dynamic events, all these pretty much give you an easy 3 categories for your daily. Bring a pick and an axe, zoinks, there is number 4.

If you aren’t doing any of this…, why are you playing? Just socializing in LA? Why would you need the rewards for that?

I didn’t think you could upgrade ascended items with jewels, they are “built-in”. You just have the infusion slots, for which I haven’t seen a crit dam infusion yet.

Am I missing something?

Just give me the first! Pretty please?

It’s really only a problem in large WvW fights, when I’m trying to place an AOE. Even that was ok with the big green AOE circle you move around if you don’t use the fast cast option. But with the current lag issues in WvW’s large engagements, you have to use fast cast to get any AOEs off, which means you need to have your pointer where you want to AOE to land.

So, if you play WvW in PST and thought you’d be stuck in queue for a few hours guess what – you’ll have an extra few hundred new friends in queue with you.

Though I don’t how you’d avoid this if you want trial keys to experience the whole gamut of GW2. Of course, I don’t think a weekend is enough to get a good impression of WvW. Maybe in the lower tiers there is enough “room” on the map for up-leveled characters to run around. In the upper tiers, you rarely see loners, and commanders aren’t happy to see up-leveled guys run with them due to the rallying mechanic. (zerg v zerg fight, your team is starting to pull ahead and then a lowbie gets killed, rallying 20 guys… >.<)

Maybe ANet should have put together a trial key WvW server…

All regular bounties run 15min. The wiki also says 15min for the bounty training.

Could be the wiki just copied and pasted the time assuming the times would be the same.

When did the time allotment change? I thought it was 15min? I just ran one and the timer started at 10min. Couldn’t have been because of an easy bounty, I had Tricksy.

If the time was reduced were the ridiculous targets at least removed for training missions? You know, the (for small and not-so-small guilds) insta-fail ones like Saatz or the rat guy.

somsom.5201:

PST is hit hardest, then CST and then EST;

Yea, us guys on mountain time are totally cool with this, we hit the sweeeeeeet spot, not too late, not too early, juuust right.

WTF, man?!? LOL

On a serious note, ANet is now saying they are looking at a split as a (the?) high priority item, so I’m confident it will get fixed. That they are still keeping the time change blows, but EU has got it in the shorts since release, so I think we can suck it up for a while.

It’s not just lag when you are in the zerg vs zerg vs zerg in SMC, it’s also the lag across the whole map when the knives come out there.

That being said, last night in EB was actually fairly lag free, even during zerg v zerg clashes. Maybe they have been trying out things behind the curtains…?

It would also be great if scouts could be rewarded somehow. I realize this might open the door for easy botting, so here is one way to do this:

1) To get reward for scouting you have to initiate a “scout mission”. This can either be done through a free/cheap consumable, or in designated areas on the map.
2) A scout mission will create a fairly large circle, similar to the capping circles. You have to stay in the circle for the duration of the mission, which lasts Z minutes.
3) To prevent AFKing/botting, “activities” will span at random location at random intervals in the circle. These activities are simple interact objects that you have to go to and interact with within X seconds of them spawning. If you fail to do so the circle will disappear and the mission fails with a much smaller reward, depending on how long you did complete the scout tasks. During the activity, you can still free-move your camera and “scout” the area.
4) There is a maximum of Y players who can get credit for the scout mission.

Other problems with Scallysucks is that the barrels do not show up until you are within 600 range or so. That makes them very hard to find, as you need to scrape the walls.

If you have large guilds fail on him small guilds, trying for a bounty training, will fail for sure. That’s 300 influence out the window which hurts for small guilds.

Crashed twice within this week. Never had this issue since launch.

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Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 00000008
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One small issue with badges vs gold for blue dorito is that badges can’t be transferred between different accounts.

At launch, I’m sure all guilds pooled their gold to help their WvW leader buy their tag. New guilds probably would like to continue to be able to do so.

I don’t think you can stack the bags in inventory, because they draw from different loot tables, based on the level of player you kill. Ever noticed how you end up with T1 or T2 mats in your inventory…? Yea, thank the dude with the green arrow.

Just drop the bags into our email.

Drop the bags into our email already!

No need to worry about handling full bags. Nothing to be displayed in WvW. No QQing about that pre-cursor you saw sticking out of the wooden chest while your dead corpse slowly rotted right next to it.

And while we are at it, can you just get rid of the junk loot, aka spikes, and give us the coin directly? Purddy please?

Mikitten058:

to the BG in EBG.

Thank you for sending 40-50+ after the 5 of us who took down SM wall, and were ramming inner gate.

<3 yall

White swords on SM – you can never send too big an army to check’em out. lol

MikeFerguson.8921:

(snip) and I’ve seen the list of updates the team is prepping for April, (snip)

Oh, do tell. Yea, yea, I know, as soon as it’s ready.

But seriously, you are planning more updates for WvW in April, besides fixing keep exploits, etc?

Pvp.2758:

Culling is removed and SoR takes 2nd. Nice!

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. sigh

bhagwad.4281:

Unless it’s a thief who suddenly jumped you from stealth with no warning. If you kill them, humiliation is in order. I prefer to sit next to them while they bleed out.

I would say it’s “bad form” to try and surprise someone like that…but hey! Whatever works right? Just don’t mind the humiliation.

So, what about an ele who RtL rushes you, KDs you and then proceeds to barbeque your behind before you even get up? Or bunkers who’ll shrug off any blow you land while they laugh in your face? Mez Clone Wars?

Bad form is bad form.

No, the golems are hidden in a locked cave. The password is “pumpernickel”, or something.

Same happened to me at the Mark II Golem, when I left for LA.

JaredKincade.9761:

(snip)

The point. You missed it.

Vash.9183:

(snip) Just means their Oceanic/Sea is better than yours.

Change that to “Just means their Oceanic/Sea ticked at a higher PPT than yours.”, or we’ll break out the flamethrowers again.

Not to be the Party Rock pooper here, but can you still hear the catapult at the ninja spot firing when you listen to music? Do you still hear the Mez portal being dropped? If not… I hope we’ll play against you soon. :P

This doesn’t seem to be about zerging, but population imbalances?

IMO, zerging is: everyone runs in one big clump. Reducing population in WvW of a stacked server doesn’t address that behavior, nor does a stacked server automatically mean “zerg inc”.

Addressing population imbalances is terribly hard if you want it done in a non-coercive way. Sure, ANet could just go in and randomly assign guilds and people to server until numbers in a current tier are balanced. Pretty much everyone would hate that though.

“Revealed will now be applied when you come out of stealth, regardless of how you stealthed”

Shouldn’t this be “regardless of how you drop out of stealth”? E.g. doesn’t matter if you attack (and would have got revealed anyhow) or let stealth run out? Not sure “how you stealthed” matters. Am I missing something?

Everybody who is flying off the tracks here, start breathing into your paper bags.

1) GW, the first game, also had some achievements that took years to accomplish, and even that was a stretch at times. IMO, to alleviate that ANet introduced bonus weekends, where points accumulated were double. Nothing preventing them from adding the same to GW2. See banners.
2) These super-long term achievements might not have been planned through all the way, and rather than setting the bar too low (100 SM defenses = ultimate) they erred on the high side, which can be tweaked down later. Better to award a title to a whole bunch of people at the same time than having to take them away. The only guy who’s gonna be kitten is the one who ground out that one title, and now 10 people have it and you can’t tell that he got there first.

Just email us the loot, please. It can get annoying if you try to “interact” with siege or a downed player to rez/stomp and you get loot bags dropping on you.

“Why the frick isn’t this working, I need to get on the arrow cart NOW, NOW, NOW” Oh, had to pick up those 2 straps of hard leather first…" For realz??

Bonus points if the AC is above garrison watergate, you hit your interact key and immediately hit “2” as a d/d thief. Watch yourself jump off the cliff into the enemy mob…

“I am a resident on this server therefor I should get the chest” or “I am a resident of this server, if I choose to go to a zone guesters should be punted to the overflow to make room for me!”

This again. Aren’t overflows identical to the real shards? Including that they will spawn dragons? Nodes show up in overflow, and you can harvest them in both, the overflow and then again when you transition to the real shard. I’d imagine, it’ll work the same for the dragon chests, you can get one in an overflow, and one in your server shard. So it would be good to get into an overflow first, because you get basically an extra chest.
[edit] Ok, so the problem is there are no timers for overflows. Waiting for any of the low level bosses isn’t too bad, but a few hours for Jormag’s Claw, yea that could be tiring.

Also, the OPs complaint is about the event ending so fast, because you can have a bunch of guests now who are only interest in the chest. That’s assuming if we’d have just the regular server population there wouldn’t be this many players at the event.

I’m not convinced that’s actually true. Lots of people are now farming those bosses, it’ll be crowded even without guests.

And since everyone is fighting on their 80s (to have the chance for precursor), everyone is also traited and geared to the max. Even after downscaling, that makes an 80 much more powerful than a non-scaled guy in that zone. That’s why the boss now melts, because he is still made for non-scaled people. He gets a bit stronger with that many folks fighting him, but I’d guess the code still assumes they’re all non-scaled people.

This will be tricky to resolve for ANet. You can’t make the boss much stronger, or non-scaled people will get destroyed there. If you scale down more people without max gear will have a hard time in the zone.

Kynmarcher.2184:

As I’ve pointed out in other threads, if you’re wanting to guarantee yourself a spot show up earlier. My impression of the system is ‘first come, first served’ so if you show up 1-5 minutes before the event starts, you run the risk of not getting from overflow to the actual zone before the dragon lands.

What? Dragons don’t show up in overflows?? LOL

Proumbro.1376:

Krakah.3582:

I’ll presume your from SoR, KN has less coverage. The only way SoR is going to drop tiers is by not showing up, and I would be very surprised to see that happen.

It’s not really comparing SoR to KN, it’s more by virtue of the system that this would occur. If KN dominates T2 after BG moves up, then they will likely gain more points than SoR will be able to sustain in T1 against BG and JQ.

This. We’re not fighting KN. It’ll play out like when we jumped over BG when we got into T1 and they dropped to T2. WE didn’t play each other in that circumstance. We moved up in large part to siphoning points off of the imploding SBI. If KN and SoS play out the same way, they could easily replace us up here, at least temporarily.

Welcome (back) to T1, BG, and welcome back from all of the SoR WvW community.

Let the games begin… in a few hours!!

Just email us the bags already. Seriously! I take the small break in immersion (oh, I just killed this guy, how nice of him to email me a reward!) over losing out on loot bags.

Magiofdeath.2745:

(…)People aren’t even upgrading them due to I assume the length of time to even get a tier 1 upgrade + the cost vs ‘stealth’ capping due to no orange swords.

Why would you upgrade a tower you do not plan on holding? If you plan to hold a tower, why would you not leave a scout, much less several defenders with an AC or two in them?

One scout stops any stealth cap. Two guys and two arrow carts will bounce anything less than 20 attackers out of there so fast, if they even bother to attack in the first place.

Watch the last part of this movie.

LOL! Yea, has happened a lot to me, too. I think perversely I’m going to miss those moments, where you go…
“There is one…, hmm, two guys in front of us on the road, everyone just take swipe while running past, they’ll be…, holy kitten, kitten, kitten, there’s more, there’s more, at least 20, argh (wild hammering on keyboard and frantic mouse clicking)… well, crud, where did these guys come from? @$%# culling…”

kingkillar.6714:

Supply camps are also quick and easy to take down for solo’s

Do check if the supervisor has its buff on, though, or you will get wrecked.

Also:
Find out if your server has a way of voice communication, i.e. a program like ventrilo, teamspeak, etc that allows people to talk with each other.

When you enter a WvW battle ground, just ask. Usually someone is helpful enough to tell you which program to use and what info you need to log in. Most people on vocom are nice enough, as only “your” people are on here. Plus, everyone loves it when first-timers make the effort to get into vocom. No one expects you to talk a lot, so don’t worry about being a “silent lurker”. Be prepared to get challenged when you first log in, in that people want to make sure you actually play on their server and are not a spy. This usually takes the form of "hey, <your voice chat program user name>, please put up a “Y” into in-game team chat". Just go into GW2 chat and type “/team Y”.

That being said – if you play on any of our opposing servers, ignore what I just said. Always take supply from keeps and towers first, attack the grub in EB, and build as many flame rams on walls as you can fit. Bonus points if you siege lock the place, or play dub-step at max volume into the voice chat.

Two points:
1) complaints about this guild mission being the AoW tree
Would you have felt better if they had added a whole new tree for GMs, called it Guild Mission Tree, and made the first level, which unlocks bounties, cost 500k influence? Your problem is with the cost, not that it’s in the AoW tree. And related to this…
2) smaller guilds can’t access guild missions because of the cost
If your guild is so small that you can’t earn this much influence your guild is (likely) too small to do any of these missions. Sorry. It’s like complaining about how all dungeons have been designed for 5 players and your 2 person guild can’t do any of it.

Pendragon.8735:

Nice to finally get more stuff, but it kind of stinks for the people who have been at WvW from release who have saved up badges with nothing really good to buy. If they then go and set future rewards up against the faster badge acquisition rate, those people kind of get jipped.

ANet should allow us to buy upgrades – like double supply, extra guards, reinf. walls, etc – with badges, 1 badge = 1s.

Barab.9016:

Zenyatoo.4059:

Barab.9016:

What was up with the “Sanctum of Rall Invader” sending me a “join” request in WvW yesterday ? Attempting to join my party ?

They were most likely attempting to kitten talk you.
(…)

Ya next time I will add them to document the kitten talking.
(…)

… and this is how rumors and forum fights start, because now the only thing anyone remembers is that “SoR invites to party to trash talk you”. Thanks a lot.

I have accepted invites from opposing servers and I have invited once or twice myself, and convos have always been very good, even if I was ticking the whole server off royally.

If you do come across “a bad apple” please do take a screen shot and talk to the guild leader, or if the guild is not represented, to any of the guild leaders on SoR. I’m sure all three T1 servers, actually all WvW servers would chew that person out. None of us like it when one bad apple spoils the whole kitten bunch.