Guild Wars 2

Don’t fight ahead of the tanks at all. Basically, you have to hang back and let the npc s figure it out before rushing in.

I’ve certainly played more than 1 ranked PvP match this week.
at very least I won 2 before when the board says "Last updated: "
Yet my record displays as 0-1

Is this a bug, or am I not understanding how the leaderboards work?

I’m aware, hence “dig even further”
Is it that difficult to throw a link to the wiki page on the LB page?
And to have the wiki provide some actual helpful information…

For example, it doesn’t say the time range of the LB on the wiki page. Why am I showing 0-1? I’ve played plenty more than a single ranked game. Maybe it’s based on this month, or this week? Idk.

I’m relatively new to the PvP scene here. So please keep that in mind…
As compared to many other games the stats, ranks, and main site visibility are severely lacking. (Aside from the tournaments)

hmm… Wonder what my record is on kylo… Nope, no way of knowing, unless I write it down (6-2 btw excl. d/c)

Also, there’s nothing explaining anything here…
https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na/pvp

Immediately a few faq’s come to mind.
What are these “points?”
Why do I show a record of 0-1 when I know I went 19-12 in ranked last week?

If someone clicks through to the essentially hidden LB’s they have to dig even further to understand what they mean/indicate.

If you want to truly enter eSports you’ll need more accessible boards.

http://worldofwarplanes.com/community/players/1007198141-quiznosBear/

http://worldofwarplanes.com/community/leaderboard/faq/#

Like these guys^
They’ve really got a good, or at very least, motivating, scheme.
Also, tons of stats for us stat junkies.
Have daily, weekly, monthly, all time LB’s. Avoid volatility by adjusting games required for each board, and/or by requiring recent play.

If you let us sort by MMR, glory per battle, awards per battle, decaps, player kills, etc. It’ll really help. Because while I may be a low mmr, I can still brag about being #1 in xyz obscure stat.
At the end of the day, people like to brag about whatever they can, it’s why we compete. We also like to discount other players (to attempt to prove we’re “better”) by saying “oh, well creature kills doesn’t count!”

I mean, being nice is well… Nice.
But what’s best in life is crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women.

I’d like a mini game, to play during queue.
even a lore trivia thing would be neat or just “match the tiles” (think Sims 2 install loading screens/games)
Minor reward of some copper/silver would be nice with it.

I’ve found it odd they’re unnamed as well. Perhaps they will just be considered as a part of the DE “guild”
Otherwise I call them Muppet Babies.

cocowoushi.7150:

August still seems very optimistic to me; they still have so much to turn out in just a couple of months if so.

The main reasons I’m skeptical of August is because they have to release the new trait system first and work out all the bugs with that first. This being after each spec reveal, and after at least one more beta (my assumption. But HoT beta isn’t the same as core specs). But regardless i assume they’ll have at least 2 more beta sessions, closed or otherwise, before HoT too.

I think Beta will be relatively streamlined, and it’s already begun.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

MattyP.6954:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Melee longbow. Oh wait, ranger already has that.

mmmm…. salty.

More to the point. It’s probably going to be sword, as it goes pretty well with Ele and the theme of “Tempest” (which, to me, implies speed and precision)

Tempest – a violent windy storm

Ok, I can maybe see the speed….. but how does violent and windy imply precision? ‘Violent’ and ‘windy’ don’t exactly scream ‘accuracy’ to me.

Air magic = precision. Specifically, the lightning aspects of storms.

Jerus.4350:

Quiznos.4296:

As many have mentioned. Small nudges to move players into a more diversified gear set is more so the case.

The removal of trait line stats will give a nudge too, no vit, no tough, no heal, from traits means zerk will be even squishier.

Not really, most zerk builds didn’t get vit/tough from traits, and now we’ll be getting some of it added base.

Oh… Well I stand corrected. Even still, little changes/tweaks.

August 28th… Anniversary? Who knows.
June 28th was the official announcement on the release date all those years ago…

not Oct, Halloween is too big a deal to interrupt.
not Nov or Dec, B&S comes to NA around then.
September always seems a strange option, back to school and all that reducing playable hours for kids, parents, and those of us that get stuck behind busses or in school zones.
So I’m betting August as well. Maybe a sale/trial weekend in September, same for Dec.

As many have mentioned. Small nudges to move players into a more diversified gear set is more so the case.

The removal of trait line stats will give a nudge too, no vit, no tough, no heal, from traits means zerk will be even squishier.

MauricioCezar.2673:

“there eill never be mounts”
Sorry, but what about gliding? Isn’t it something sompletely different from the usual gameplay? what about a riding mastery could give potential new mechanics to exclusive areas? (Not Open World).

Blade and soul does not have mounts, also has gliding. Having one is NO indication that mounts can/will/should be added.

The only thing I can think of is giving this to rangers for their pet’s, dismount on combat entry. But some animals…
norn ranger w/ pet raven?.. =squish!
So there goes that idea…
there just isn’t a good fit for mounts in the game, I don’t think there ever will be.

Belzebu.3912:

Nice twist for a mount tread.
But still, please no mounts.

I have to agree, this is by and far one of the best suggestions for mounts… BUT PLEASE, enough already, NO. MOUNTS.

Why not? Screen space, animation watching, etc. In any combat situation, it would be annoying, distracting, and further clog my screen with things I don’t care about.

OP you now have a viable way, imo, to add them to the game, even a reasonable lore entry point.
Now, how do you get rid of them in combat?

katbirdseat.8513:

I really wish I’d made a character I was comfortable with for the beta instead of trying the Revenant. It wasn’t bad, but wasn’t great either. I think I just would have enjoyed the Beta more using skills I’m familiar with rather than trying to learn a whole new character in one hour. I’d still probably try the Revenant again once HoT comes out.

You weren’t allowed to re-roll?

Katiekaboom.1980:

Okay I rechecked my times with a different time converter this time thanks to Donari.5237 and Biohunter.3029 for pointing it out. This time I used http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html and got my times correct. It won’t be during work for me.

Thank you for correcting me.

NA Eastern Time Zone the times are:

2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. EDT
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. EDT
10:30 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. EDT

Anet reads their twitters so I have apologized to them on there but wonder why such a short time period for testing. Is this another stress test or just to give us a taste to keep us wanting more? Either way I wish everyone could see what is coming out but the testing is only 2 hr intervals which from the last time (if it is like last time) you basically follow story with a lot of cut scenes and don’t really get much of a chance to play around with what your character does. I guess you could fool around and ignore what the story is pointing you to do, but I thought I would offer this as any consolation to any who will be at work during those time frames.

I am sorry I got upset (even though I converted the time wrong for my time zone). Just “u have to be on at such and such a time or else miss out” kind of gets people cranky even though that is how it is done here.

Close, but no cigar, last one is 12:30 AM (or 00:30)

When should A net Schedule the betas?
For a true test, at peak server times, and if needed limit the # of would be beta-ers by # of invites sent. If that means screwing some people, oh well.
Then there’s the Portal idea… was “neat” but otherwise a terrible decision. If you’re forcing player to work for beta access, you should return the favor and force employees to work to provide beta access.

Although, as the times are currently spread across 8 hrs… they should in theory be able to satisfy all but 2 time zones. The one that sleeps for all of those 8 hrs. And on the other side of the world that works for all of those 8 hrs.

Haha, I’m actually not in it.
I appreciate your posts! I was hoping they’d have shown you guys more.

Hard to pass judgement on it skill wise as we’re only seeing like a fifth of what it’ll have on release.

Even though I’ve been wishing I had a good ranged weapon, I’m kinda mad that guardian gets LB. I now realize that I never wanted ranged, just viable melee, or better, just straight up support.

I was stuck on the down with the trinity hype train… Even though I mained heal/prot monk and support rit in gw1. I now realize my mistake.

I played max HP gear from release until ascended descended upon us. Most people hated me at the start of a dungeon, most people loved me at the end of it…

Whenever someone’s first remark to me is " subway’s better… " I want to punch them in the head. Not because their wrong, which they totally are, but because they think it’s a totally original hilarious joke that I don’t hear 10-20 times a session.

No I don’t eat there every day, no I don’t think it’s the best place ever. I haven’t eaten at one in at least 5 years. I mostly just really like the creepy hamsters. Honestly, I mostly eat at taco bell… Like ~8 times a week minimum… Which brings me to my next point…

I constantly tell people I work with that gamers don’t just sit in the dark staring unblinking at a screen with a diet consisting primarily of soda, hot pockets, ramen, and taco bell… …I’m exactly what they think I am.

I probably spend 3-4 times as many hours on the wiki, forums, YouTube, or in excel trying to explore, document, and adapt to every facet of the game. Nailing down that perfect look, and how to get it. Reading up on as much lore aconnectinand trying to connect the dots. Figuring out exactly what build I want to run… Until I finally log in, and an hour later the patch message pops up again…

I secretly hate how much the game has changed/expanded since launch. I find it overwhelming and unsettling; especially as someone who spent the last two years of pre gw2 as a perma-pre.

I get really upset when I get kicked from guilds… Even though I haven’t logged in in 3 months… I also get really upset when I see someone hasn’t logged in in 30 days.

What’s better than 5 Zerkers who have to dodge all the time? 4 zerkers and a heals guard. Please, let me let you be lazy.

All of the HoT news, lore, skills, even just revenant strangely make me want to go back and play gw1.

I will probably never play gw1 again because jumping.

Ahh… that feels better. Thank you so much for this thread.

My 2 cents On the “best guild” thing
there’s too much fluidity in changing guilds imo
If the score is agregate across multiple teams though “the best guild” could easily still exist. say 5 pts for a win. A single team getying wins all day would be behind a guild with 3-4 moderate teams, reguardless of the 5v5 aspect.

Please do more of these. I have all of the same rage feels

so glad this thread was out here… I would’ve been stuck for quite some time.
Anet needs to update the achievement description or fix it to accept blocks and/or stability

I also can’t buy gems @ the $100 option (CC) tried several times, with and without -streamingclient just in case…

but thanks to your post I tried $50 and it worked!!! (did it twice, no issues)

Sawnic.6795:

Belzebu.3912:

Sawnic.6795:

Belzebu.3912:

How so?

EDIT: Except you are trying to get Dawn as a necromancer for example, then yes, it will be harder.

Precursors are named exotics.

So what?
Ok, time for examples.
Lets say you are playing a guardian, the chances of getting a light/medium named exotic armor will decrease, but get a heavy named armor will increase.
In the same scenario, get a Dawn or a Zap for example, as a guardian, will increase , while getting a Lover or Tooth of Frosfang will decrease.

So they aren’t making precursors harder to get, they are just making it different.

There are people who exist that only have one toon, you know.

Only 1 toon… Only 2 precursors needed… The games been out two years… your problem has nothing to do with the patch. -_-

lets say you have a 1% chance to get a precursor (regardless of profession)
you are playing Guardian or Warrior
you want a The Energizer (1%/11) chance of getting it. You can also Only buy from TP mongers and other Guards(1%/11) or Warriors(1%/11).

you are playing an Engineer
you want Rage (1%/4) chance of getting it. You can still buy from TP mongers as well as War(1%/11), Ranger(1%/10), Theif(1%/6), Engi(1%/4).

These numbers look like the engineer has an immediate advantage going for Rage, BUT the engineer has 4 professions worth of players to fight off instead of only 2. So that’ll probably balance.

It may also seem that the Guard has a disadvantage because he could only sell an unwanted Energizer to 2 professions, but this benefits the buyers of the Energizer. Also, a balance is achieved.

With the way the TP is designed the economy balances to materials changes pretty quickly. Big flux for two weeks leading up to patch, big flux for two weeks starting at patch. Levels out. Done.

…Dulfy posts something about anything & TP explodes.

This one: https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/eb7e8september-2014-overview.jpg

Ahem, anet I’ve even done some of the work for you:
http://bit.ly/1rvXXnP
http://bit.ly/1p1rYbJ

Also, anyone who designs an “Exciting to Kitten” version of the “Cloud to Butts Plus” chrome extension will be awarded 1 gold.

I was reading the “changes to mega server system” post and it got me thinking… Is there any potential of a “merge guilds” feature?
For example, I’ve been part of two or three guilds that have reduced in numbers due to player inactivity, people switching to other guilds, not repping, etc. Each one has basically been a case of two small guilds where all the players from the smaller of the two move over/stop repping. I noticed there’s no way to “disband a guild” (or if there is it’s not obvious to me )

IDK if other players would be interested, but I always thought it would be nice to have two leaders decide “Hey let’s join up!” and merge; the logistics of which looked complicated… until now. The same methods that are being used to merge multi-world guilds could be employed here! just add in moving all players from one roster into the other (if there’s not enough roster room throw up a flag “The selected guild is too full” or whatever and block the merge).

Also wondering if I can/will have access to monad stats in legendary…

still bugged on the rezzing ellie bit. relogged. Going to try the workarounds, let’s see how this goes….

JZAB.2563:

This is pretty annoying. My guardian cant complete the map because of this

same… Sad guardian super glad I found this thread otherwise I would’ve been trying to get to it for days

Room for 13 more. 4 more ore, 7 wood, and all kinds of foods. You’ll run out of room soon enough

maybe the other “nodes to come” will fill the gaps between. If you figure there’s at least 6 more going in.

Lol I know this. I mostly just want some new leather dyes. I have a bit of a dye obsession.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/User:Quiznos
Leather is lacking. the 6 exclusive leather-urgic dyes should be 3x Gray, 1 Green, 1 Yellow for hue balance purposes

Any chance we will see any exclusive leather dyes? They’ve been left out if the “exclusive” dyes every time so far. :-(

Does this allow party members to mine if they enter the instance with you to mine as well?

Used to be in [VIS] since release but due to various RL things just don’t have the right “activity level” apparently. I “binge game” where I’ll be on everyday for up to 6hrs for 3 months and then disappear for a month or two at a time. This typically leads to me being kicked from various guilds.

Currently no particular goals in game. Mostly I just like being a part of whatever others are up to.

I’m a huge fan of voip because even when not being used for co-ordination efforts it’s nice talking to a bunch of people while grinding away towards that [legendary, ascended, etc.]

Also, open to playing other games with guildies!

My characters (in order of play time/preference):
Human Guardian, Asura Ranger, Sylvari Engineer, Charr Elementalist, Norn Mesmer

*for a lotta bit of money

Bump-de-Bump it’s the endless halloween tonic’s still broken dance!
Don’t forget about us
‘Cause gold is what we lust
we want no more tonic in our slot
some buyer want to transform alot
but oh no, not me
I said no, no, not me
I’m not feelin spidery
Anet please please please
someone take this tonic offa me (for a lil’ bit of money)

Judging from this thread there are only 30ish people that will be selling. Market shouldn’t drop too much.

Phoenix.7845:

Isslair.4908:

I just don’t know what’s the point of running AC without Kholer/Troll. Useless tokens? Alt levelling?

Alt leveling

monthlies

I like the “tagging” idea quite a bit. Especially if players made good practice of using it. That way I’d know if I should wait for that guy running towards me… or WP cause he’s just going to run past

Also a zone map (like pressing u in GW1) would be a great addition.

The first thing I missed from GW1
Please add.

So you have
1. ascended gear (empty infusion slot)
2. ascended gear (filled infusion slot)
3. ascended (infused) gear (empty infusion slot)
4. ascended (infused) gear (filled infusion slot)
Do you see why this is confusing? 3 of the four options could be called “Infused” can we come up with a better naming convention? Could it be implemented in game?
i.e.
1. Ascended
2. post-infused ascended (or simply “infused”)
3. pre-infused ascended (or “fully ascended”)
4. pre&post-infused ascended (or “fully ascended infused”)
And that’s quite sloppy too. By giving “pre-infused” gear a different name it would help reduce confusion.
Do you think this would require the addition of another “tier” of items? And what color would it be? 0_o

Update the minstrel first. Then MOAR!!!

lol, a skill’s one thing. But gear is soo much worse imo.
BUT thanks for your input!
any other overlaps/confusions?

So you have
1. ascended gear (empty infusion slot)
2. ascended gear (filled infusion slot)
3. ascended (infused) gear (empty infusion slot)
4. ascended (infused) gear (filled infusion slot)

Do you see why this is confusing? 3 of the four options could be called “Infused” can we come up with a better naming convention? Could it be implemented in game?

i.e.

1. Ascended
2. post-infused ascended (or simply “infused”)
3. pre-infused ascended (or “fully ascended”)
4. pre&post-infused ascended (or “fully ascended infused”)

And that’s quite sloppy too. By giving “pre-infused” gear a different name it would help reduce confusion.

Do you think this would require the addition of another “tier” of items? And what color would it be? 0_o

won’t this be fixed when they implement the optional req’s for dailies/monthlies?
where you’re given 6ish options and you only need to complete 4ish of them to get your daily/monthly.