Guild Wars 2

I know the new trendy thing is to say this gaming is dying but I have 3 friends that just picked up the game this week after watching Angry Joe’s review and no one I have started with has quit. Yes they are playing less but everyone is still playing.

We’re all eagerly awaiting some more solo/duo content hopefully before January/February but if we have to wait that long, heck I’ll just keep stock piling karma.

There are a half dozen players on this forum telling you they are still exploiting, that is proof. I apologize for not having 24 hour video surveillance of the particular guild whose name I will not mention.

If you do not believe me, that is fine. But if you see them doing anything shady please report them because they are still doing it.

joebane.5872:

There needs to be a different thread for all this guild/supposed hack drama. Seriously, we have a good matchup here why don’t we discuss how we are enjoying it and get some information on where the good fights have been.

There is no guild hack drama here.

You have a guild on your server that continues to use exploits against us. We do not know if they are hacking or simply glitching through the walls but their members continually keep popping up in locations that they should not be able to reach. We have reported them and will continue to report them as long as they continue to use these sleazy tactics against us.

All we can do is report them in game and on here in hopes of other players taking the initiative to report them as well. Some of the members of Sanctum of Rall are becoming upset with the lack of action against the exploiters and their emotions are spilling on to here, I will apologize for that.

There’s nothing to grasp.

There’s a huge giant world in front of you. Do what you want and you will meet new friends along the way.

I wish we had the coordination in the early AMs to give IoJ’s ND guild a good fight. Some nights we have the outmanned buff but most nights we don’t, they just flat out outplay us. Doesn’t help that we don’t have any mesmers on the overnight.

We’re getting better slowly but we’re definitely the weak link on the server. If there’s anyone on SoR on the overnights that thinks they can handle leading and are willing to coordinate using the teamspeak, I will pay for half (50gp) of your Commander badge.

Get a hold of me in game if you’re interested.

Drop rates aside,

I believe the prices are rising for two reasons.

1) There’s far less people doing stuff in the world because of the fractals.
2) The bots have been banned and they probably accounted for 95% of the items on the trading post.

With everyone primarily just in dungeons, peoples’ bank accounts are rising meanwhile the supply is decreasing.

Funny, as an Elementalist the downscaling has the opposite effect. I could walk into Kessex Hills and take every centaur in the zone and they’d never kill me.

The one complaint that I have and it drives me up the wall is the wasted time.

There is a group event in front of me, I see no one in my immediate vicinity so I shout in zone to see if anyone wants to do it, no one answers. So I wait to see if someone comes around, nope. My choices are either to attempt it solo and go down in a blaze of glory or walk away. Walking away just kittens me off....

I recently started leveling a ranger, got to level 40 and wanted to do SM CM. Went to Queensdale and shouted for a group, not one available. I started a group and shouted for people to join me, got 2 joiners. Shouted and shouted, no one else wanted to join. At that point we either attempt it with 3 people and go down in a blaze of glory or walk away. Again, walking away just kittens me off....

I am putting in the effort and the game is giving nothing back. They really need to add a way for me to be able to solo group content.

crewthief.8649:

You obviously don’t know what you’re talking about, so why comment in a thread that doesn’t concern you? Full AND locked, huh?

Trust me, I’ve been trying to transfer to Tier 1 for 6 days. Your server has not moved off full or I’d be on it.

WvW is slowly dying off as people learn it’s just a gimmick mini-game. When one side outnumbers the other, the losing side usually just logs off or leaves WvW. This just ends up compounding the problem and no one likes playing 50v5 or 5v50 regardless of the side you’re on.

There are other servers with good PvE communities besides TC. Quarry, Rall, Desert all have really solid PvE numbers and are usually available to transfer.

80 Elementalist - 372 hours, 446 deaths.

1. Day one headstart
2. 371 hours
3. 157
4. Yes
5. WvW
6. No
7. Yes, 2
8. Yes, 1
9. 4
10. 0
11. 0
12. Yes, 1
13. Yes
14. Yes
15. Downtime (too much standing around in Lion’s Arch trying to find a group, too much standing on a tower waiting for conflict in WvW, too much time wandering around looking for non-group DEs in the later zones)

You only feel you have poor presence because you’re playing against SBI and SoS.

You probably have the 4th largest Oceanic population behind those two and IoJ, besides your server is full and locked.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

I think you may have the wrong mindset approaching the game if you’re treating WvW like a daily chore.

I think most of us have moved on and the last few poking at you are doing so for laughs. It is a bit comical watching players gets so upset about being called ’Hackgate’, you gotta just pet that stuff roll off. Besides all you really need to say is ’scoreboard’ and the discussion is pretty much over.

Just do what I do when someone annoys me on the forums, find them in game, defeat them, and then plant a flame ram on their corpse. Trust me, it will make you smile.

The positions in this matchup will almost certainly never change. Blackgate may move back to Tier 1 eventually but Rall will be #5 and Janthir will be #6 until the end of time unless there’s another huge server shakeup.

At least you can defend.

If you were in Tier 1 they’d be trebbing your walls from the top of a vista and then would mesmer bomb you and kill you before you could see them.

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Seras.5702:

Although, if it destroys Orr your character will probably not be ressurectable. Use an alt.

That would be my option as well.

I haven’t been to Orr yet, but from all I’ve heard, it’s not an area I would enjoy, so if it’s gone before I must go there, so much the better!

Imagine the starting zones where you have 40 players beating on 1 champion and just flip it. Now theres 40 creatures on 1 player. Theres like 10 risen for every tree you see in Orr.

You may find sPvP more enjoyable.

Doomdesire.9365:

SoR just died out as everyone went to bed…but during our primetime we did catch up to BG, so right now, it’s anyone’s game.

But I swear to god…if we lose by a few hundred points that could be attributed to the exploiting…my jimmies will be rustled.

Let it go man!

If we lose it’s because they were more dedicated and played harder than us. Too much time bickering on the forums, time that could have been spent knocking on doors.

If it was me, I (as a Game Moderator) would disband the iCoa guild. If they want to reform afterwards, that is fine but they’d do so at the expense of all earned guild perks.

I would not ban anyone, I think that punishment would just be just and fair as a warning.

Wait a second, enemy blatantly cheats and you give them the courtesy of an in game message and give them the chance to explain themselves on the forum.

I transfer off for 1 week, and you rail on me on the forums unmercifully for 2 weeks.

Where’s the justice in that?

I see a lot of you jumping on Jordan but I think his complaint is legit.

He doesn’t just want to do AC, he wants to do them all but feel he is being forced into doing Sorrows because its the only source of gear with the stats he wants.

The easy solution would be to have dungeons give a universal token instead of a dungeon specific token.

Never any drama on SoR, just blame me and continue on.

This is why we can’t have nice things

I know you say that, but we demolished Tarnished Coast back when we were in Tier 3. We scored 500k+ for the week if I remember. Believe it or not, your server probably has a stronger WvW population than FA or TC do.

You’d almost certainly dominate that Tier 3 bracket.

As Charlie said, IoJ’s oceanic presence is small.

Playing during Oceanic prime is like 30 people for BG, 30 people for IoJ, and 20 people for SoR. None of us have any Oceanic players, it’s just 30 beats 20 everytime.

Eventually at some point you will see Ascended weapons added to the game and there will be a way to obtain them through WvW. They will have the same stats as legendary weapons

sceptus.9415:

Losing does suck, but quitters aren’t winners. Joining a winning team may stop the losing, but it won’t do anything for you in the long run. First, you lost the respect of your previous community. Second, you earn the enmity of players who actually earned their wins the hard way before you arrived for the easy ride.

P.S. this post was aimed at the community in regards to your post and not directly as an insult to you. In my opinion, there is a huge reward for playing each week. No, I’m not talking about karma, gold, or experience. I’m guessing that folks who jump servers won’t understand what I’m talking about anyway.

I know this post wasn’t directed at me but I want to address it as if it was.

This is a video game, not everyone has the same sense of loyalty attached to animated pixels as you do. Not everyone is concerned with making internet friends and not everyone cares if you hate them.

Transferring to the server with the superior numbers does get you tangible rewards, it gets you karma, experience, gold, and badges accompanied with a better playing experience than you’d receive if you were losing. The only drawback is that you may receive the ire of a half-naked sylvari, hardly a drawback.

Think about how much better everyone’s experience in the game would be if the people sitting on Tier 6/7/8 servers would just all up and move to Tier 1/2/3. We’d have truly full servers for the first time since launch and no one would complain about numbers since every server would be full.

I was not a fan of the AMA answers. It seemed like Chris was willing to admit to the shortsightedness of the most recent patch but wouldn’t directly admit it. It was a lot of corporate double speak when players wanted direct answers, it was really just a cop out.

That being said, I wasn’t going anywhere anyway. The whole gear treadmill, dungeons, and gated content means nothing to me because I don’t care for and don’t play that part of the game.

If someone wants to bring their ascended gear into WvW let them, the difference between exotics and ascended is very small in comparison to the difference between a player and no player.

At the end of the match, regardless of what side you played for, there is no reward for participation.

Throughout the week you either had fun or you didn’t and losing isn’t fun.

I can’t speak for Euro servers but you wont find any US server with decent coverage.

Almost all the asian/aussie players are on either Stormbluff Isle or Sea of Sorrows. The only US server with decent euro coverage is Jade Quarry.

That’s Tier 1 with 2/3 coverage, Sanctum of Rall which is presently winning in Tier 2 has less than 100 people during oceanic and european peak times. That’s just how it is.

I’ll take a ranger over an elementalist and a mesmer for combating siege anyday. Not because the ranger is stronger but because the ranger farms better and nothing kills a ballista like another ballista.

None of them have decent 24 hour coverage. Stormbluff Isle (US) and Blacktide (Eu) are the closest to 24/7 coverage but even they have holes.

20) Thou shall plant flame rams on thieves that abuse stealth

There are three choices here.....

1) Player buys a second account for $60 and funnels gold to his second account in order to buy upgrades at an inappropriate time and build siege to waste an enemy’s supply

2) New player trying to help buys an upgrade not knowing he’s actually hurting his server.

3) Troll builds a whole bunch of rams to incite server riot in hopes of getting said server mates to jump on the forums and make posts calling out the other servers for cheating.

Two of these is highly likely, one of them is not. Let’s put away the tinfoil hats.

Agreed, SoR community is the best.

Azure Prower.8701:

Knock SoS back to tier 2 will give us a wake up call. I think we got lazy cruising to the top.

SBI showing us why they’re a tier 1 server.

If you guys go back to Tier 2, who are you expecting to jump to Tier 1?

Sanctum of Rall is winning in Tier 2 right now, Blackgate is last.

wads.5730:

how low is ET and HoD goign to fall before actually trying? i mean they can’t be tier 8 servers.

Kaineng is 3x bigger than HoD and ET combined.

The only dead areas I see in the game as the Orr zones and that’s because they are a kittenhole. Really, you can go to Sparkfly Fen at 4 am and there’s going to be 5-10 players at every event.

Population seems just fine to me.

Mif.3471:

IoJ working hard to hold a fresh SM.
Absolutely disgusted by the actions of our rivals….

http://i.imgur.com/dQ6rQ.png
http://i.imgur.com/BZ8Ez.png
http://i.imgur.com/6rIbq.png

Cmon man, you really think with server transfers being 7 days someone would move off to your server just to build a few rams in SM?

You got trolls, everyone has trolls, don’t point fingers…..

Iohanna.4863:

The question is: if this is an oversight, why haven’t they fixed it already? Wouldn’t this have been fixed in the last patch if it were unintended?

It’s not intended, but it’s not a priority either.

Many players have the misconception that WvW is meant to be ‘End-game’, it is not. It is meant to be a side game much like keg brawl where you hop in, beat on a few keeps for an hour, and log off.

It’s nearly impossible to balance PvP and PvE before introducing WvW into the equation. WvW will always be third on the menu, ultimately it’s why you see constant PvE and PvP additions but only very minor fixes to WvW.

We are the minority and our issues (such as rendering) may not be addressed until months from now.

Staff has a lot of group utility, Dagger/Dagger is great for solo play, Sceptre/Focus has it’s uses but they are few and far between.

The difference between a full set of greens with magic find and a full set of oranges with crit chance is only roughly 5-6% damage output.

That difference is easily made up by good player vs bad player skill level.

Gear really means nothing in this game when the difference between a masterwork and a legendary is only 50 stats and your base stats are 2000.

I don’t prefer to play alone. I prefer to play fast.

I am starting a new character, my main has 100% map completion so I have already seen all there is to see in this zone. You are possibly new, you possibly want to read dialogue, you possibly want to watch vista cut scenes, and you possibly may want to do group events requiring us to recruit more people. I do not want to do those things so I decline your invite.

I am not anti-social, I am anti-slow.

ktith.6197:

I know a tier that puts those down for tombstones….for fun and stuff.

I do this too.

Every thief/mesmer that abuses stealth gets a flame ram placed on their corpse.

Let’s have some perspective here, have you ever heard an exec say...

’Yeah, we screwed up our last plan up big time. We alienated our costumer base, rendered most of our other models useless, and stood against everything we used to stand for.’

LordNat.4963:

Asglarek.8976:

Really, people still run AC, CM, COE, COF, TA, Arah funny Ive been leveling up all week trying to get groups and maybe seen 2 or 3 each each day whether in LA or in the appropriate zone and everytime its eaither we have 1 short and group falls apart after sitting for what seems an eternity for last spot to fill.

it is fully the other way on my server (Maguuma). Zones always have people in them, always groups going for Dungeons, etc. Orr is the one dead place and that is from it being awful.
I have never waited more then 10 mins looking for some one, hell 90% of the time I can will a group in just one message to guild chat. Maybe join a better guild or a bigger server?

I’ve noticed this as well. Been working on my map completion for a week now and every zone I go to no matter what time it is there are always people in it. It’s just the Orr zones that are barren and it’s because Orr is a kittenhole.

Get a lot of this on Sanctum of Rall especially from our powerhouse guilds. Many players have this ’more holy than thou’ attitude that if you disagree with them then you are wrong and should stop what you’re doing.

Just ignore them