Guild Wars 2

I’m going to smirk if someone goes to make a legendary weapon and the forge spits out nothing but a stack of butter.

The title is what I see in /map chat of Cursed Shore nightly.

The justification is because you then get 3 events to do instead of 1 which means you get the karma rewards from the failure and then the successful escort and subsequent dual boss fights.

I think it goes against the philosophy of the game which was advertised as being something that encourages co-op play when other people show up to an event to help you. This is also why everyone has their own loot as long as they tag the mob and their own personal rewards from chests etc.

The main reason I’m bothered by this specifically is that this is also the first time I was yelled at in game for trying to complete an event. I honestly couldn’t say I was offended and I definitely didn’t get the feeling that people felt they were doing anything “wrong.”

I wasn’t even sure if I should report people for doing it. I’m not even sure if it’s an exploit. It’s such a grey area that requires a lot of coordination herding cats into doing what it is you want for a dynamic event…

Is this is what people are reduced to doing to make money/karma? Are people really this gold/karma starved?

I believe that one is on a three hour time last I checked. Could be wrong. Not sure where the timer starts but the times I’ve paid attention it was always at the top of an hour (i.e. 3 pm as an example).

The interesting thing about people is that when the learn the “hot spots” they already know where to go. So the people adamant on farming will be there farming. Removing the notification only hinders the people who don’t know any better yet.

Rollerbeetle racing in the grove!

I would like them to be account bound if anything. A lot of the dungeon tokens are materials for legendary weapons. Those gifts created for the legendary weapons are account bound when you make them. Why not make the tokens account bound instead of soulbound?

If your tailor is your elementalist but you like to play your guardian for dungeons it’s pretty non-nonsensical to farm tokens on your elementalist just so you don’t need to level your tailoring to 400 on another character.

I see pros and cons, but either way it’s a soulbound token that says your account did this farming as opposed to this character. You might get stuck with a bucket of tokens that do your character no good.

I see your point on making them tradeable but I think the economy needs to settle down a bit before throwing more things at people to buy/sell. Just look at butter prices… and remember there’s a 1 copper mark-up per butter stick………….

Lots of build up with my personal story and my personal mission as a sylvari taked to take down the dragon with Caithe from the dream. Watching Trahearne get this shiny butterfly sword that I could just oogle and sidefrown because why the necromancer gets a greatsword =(.

All these events leading up to this glorious moment in when me and Destiny’s Edge come together for this glorious moment.

When suddenly amazing lazer cannon(s) that could have been manned by anyone was the weapon that truly killed Zhaiten.

I could be replaced by anyone capable of manning asuran technology and hitting “2”. That was my story.

I guess I should have seen it coming during the level 70 story quest “Battle of Fort Trinity” when “my story” missions appeared to take on a norn story path and I’m sylvari. It mentioned me going to steal a pearl from some krayt which I never did. Hinted at leaving some lady behind and going back to get her… and referred to this place I had never been as this place we were going back to like we’d been there before. I was so confused o.o Other people made appearances in later story missions that I never met and said “Oh it’s you again valiant” like they knew me o.o My story even sent me back to Hoelbrak at level 76 to sing the songs of some dead norn I never met in my story. =/ I was confused why I wasn’t going back to the grove or something.

70+ story obviously not polished… which lead to my disappoint.

Every path has it’s “own best way” to be completed. Some are complimented better by various profession utilities than others.

If you see people constantly mobile they’re doing it right. If people are trying to face tank anything… probably doing it wrong. Which makes competent melee players all the more valuable in the sea of snowflakes =)

As for the rewards it’s not as bad as Aion (kill A rank boss get grey loot or mana stone >.>;), but I’m not falling over trying to farm the dungeons ad nausem either because rewards are too good. I’d say they are probably in a good middle ground atm.

Citadel of Flame – explore

Rhiannon path (bottom option don’t remember the name) – final reward doesn’t trigger. The chest spawns when you kill the tribune but map doesn’t “close” with the pop up that rewards you with the tokens or the exit door over the mini map. Also don’t get the achievement update as a result.

It should also be noted that during this path the respawn rates in the room where you need to coordinate hitting the 5 torches simultaneously with your party members. need to be toned down. Even with full team speak coordination, hitting all 5 torches at the same times within the 5 sec channel time without getting hit (which interrupts your channel). is nearly impossible.

MattChernicky.2945:

Those of you playing from the US, what servers are you playing on?

@Sardoni – Can I get your server name as well. Its odd that you would be going through Frankfurt and not Dallas.

I’m currently on Henge of Denravi.

Addendum to above: I also tried switching to windows xp compatibility (using 7). Also running the client using “C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” /clientport 80 as advised earlier in the thread. Problem still persists.

I am receiving the error message: “The game client lost its connection to the server. Please wait a few minutes before restarting the client and trying again. (Code=7:11:3:189:101).”

I disabled my firewall and antivirus completely as advised by the faq. I set up port forwarding as advised in the faq. I am using a router which is unavoidable in my housing situation.

Generally speaking, my disconnects with this error only happen when partied with someone else. I party with people in Canada and New Zealand. I raise this point because in GW1 the client side communication was greater than server communication.

My disconnects have been happening with more intensity tonight. Before it was manageable (as well as can be managed arguably1)… now it’s just atrocious. I can’t even run a dungeon with 4 other people. During an Ascalon Catacombs Explore I d/c’d 7 times with this error message. During Citadel o Flames explore I d/c’d 11 times tonight.

Something happened in the last 24 hours to magnify and quantify my disconnect problem. I was sitting in party with 4 other people, all of us idle, I d/c’d three times waiting for everyone to arrive at Honor of Waves entrance. I left party letting them know my internet must be acting up so find another. As I’ve been tying this post I’m standing in the same spot I was in before. I have yet to disconnect once.

The root cause seems to be partying with people and my client recieving/sending data between the party members. I’ll leave the techno babble to you guys because I haven’t cracked a lesson from my CCNA studies in YEEEEAARRSSS but something isn’t working correctly.

Attaching my diag as requested. Not sure why I’m going through Frankfurt when I live in Mississippi. Gotta love Comcast cable internet. =/ No I do not use a proxy.

EDIT: The second I posted this message I got the error message again, solo, in no party. I throw my hands up in frustration. This never happened in BWE1, BWE2, or BWE3.

EDIT 2: US server and added LSP.txt attachment