Guild Wars 2

I’ve been on HoD since beta, and I’ve noticed in the past week that zones that used to have lot’s of players are now mostly empty. I’m not talking WvW, I’m talking PvE zones like Orr.

Am I the only one seeing this? It has me considering a transfer if for no other reason than just to have other players to do events with.

Call me a Siege Monkey, then. I greatly enjoy manning mortars and trebs and raining fire down on the enemy. Not to mention the considerable karma/coin you can build up if you successfully defend a tower or keep for a period of time from constant attacks.

Schwa.1620:

Blackgater here. I was really impressed with how many fronts you were forcing us to defend all at once. West gate, east gate, water gate— our dirty secret is east gate had (at times) only enough people there to make it appear we were a threat, but not nearly enough to defend it from the number of people bunched outside. Had the huge zerg from Craigtop rushed in with trebuchet support (at the time of the first watergate attack) you might have been able to establish a foothold indoors. But, for some reason I couldn’t tell, that rush never came.

I noticed the same issue on our side tonight, as well. Several times we managed to push all the way to Craigtop, but after a certain point our side just lost the will to chase. We were able to rally up to the west tower (I forget its name, sunwall?) but the people defending our east garrison were a little more—dare I say it— cowardly. They only started going for Craigtop once it was the last point to capture.

I’m not a hardcore WvW’r by any means. From what it looked like on HoD’s side, we lacked proper co-ordination to properly take advantage of the gapping hole we kept blowing in NE Garr with our Trebs at Crag. I charged in once with the group and it seemed very uncoordinated.

Then our people started going to bed. By the time BG finally got Crag we’d had the outmanned buff for awhile. I’m not griping mind you, it’s the truth we simply ran out of bodies to hold Crag with.

To be honest with you, I didn’t WvW much when HoD was winning all the time. It was boring when you had nothing to fight. I had more fun in WvW tonight then I’ve had in weeks.

One side effect of all the transfers though, zones that had plenty of players a week ago now are nearly empty. That alone has me considering a transfer to a server with more people on it. Empty zones are just as frustrating as empty WvW.

I’ve been on HoD since beta. I watched two of our own guys on HoD teleport the Siege Golems around at Crag. As soon as I announced I was going to report them they jumped out of their golems and vanished. Honestly, it took most of the fight out of me. I don’t think I ever left Crag the rest of the night to attack, I simply defended. It’s no fun being on the same server as cheaters and hackers.

I sure hope Anet gets a handle on these hackers sooner rather than later. The bots too, that’s a subject for another thread though.

Scy, shortly after you left we got the outmanned buff and BG ground us down. We made them work for it, but it was only a matter of time before we lost everything we’d gained. Still, I made a lot of karma/coin out of defending Crag. So while the end result was disappointing, it wasn’t a total loss.

Jhu.3965:

JUST DON’T USE THE PIRATE COAT.

I had to LOL at this statement. I used the pirate set for a time because I liked the idea of being a pirate with a pet bird. Then I noticed everyone was looking like a pirate, so I switched to the noble skin. It looks a little like steampunk to me, which makes me wish rangers could use rifles.

I’ll second the “go for crit” suggestion. With a high enough crit on the shortbow, grab a sigil that procs on crit, and go to town on mobs.

Make sure you go for trinkets that balance out your stats a bit. I went for all Valkyrie trinkets (power, health, crit damage). I have no issues killing things.

I was in Lion’s Arch and a someone with a commander rank had their icon blocking the view of the icon I was looking for on the map. Once enough people get commander ranks I see this becoming an issue for players looking to do map completion. Please add a filter to the map to be able to turn on/off commander icons. Thank You.

Short Answer: You’re screwed.

Long Answer: Just reading these forums you’ll see people waiting hours/days/weeks to get their accounts back after being hacked. Apparently those that post get faster response than those that don’t. Also, Anet has publicly stated they cannot restore lost items/gold due to hacking at this time.

My suggestion: Submit a ticket, and then reformat your PC to make sure you don’t have any keyloggers/viruses/trojans. Change all your passwords. Go find something else to do while waiting to get your account back because it’ll be awhile. When you finally get your account back change that password too.

I’m in cursed shore with a guildmate and sure enough we can’t see each other unless we are less than 20 feet apart. We can’t see each other’s waypoints, see each other’s map pings, or join together in personal story missions.

I thought this bug had been fixed?

The game is fun, but the constant “buginess” is making me seriously consider putting the game aside for a few months until Anet can short its issues out.

Were you guys using a recording program like Fraps, or an overlay like Steam? Just curious. Those shouldn’t be illegal but I wonder if things that like are giving Anet false positives.

I’ve noticed the same thing with pets when I logged in for the first time today. 20 Second cooldown to swap pets when out of combat, which is the same as when in combat. Could we get a respond as to whether this is a bug or a new “feature”?