Guild Wars 2

Utterly annoying achievementwise, why make an achievement for carrier killing when you DON’T get credit for using your skills tactically (PUSHING THEM OFF) and when you try to kill them normally, they have god mode (Wind 3) and the window you get for killing them is extremely low.

Very bad choice of achievement condition.

Actually I’ve noticed that the tooltips show incorrect values, #1 is supposed to drop only 10 percent but in reality it’s more like 20.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1hkrpe/time_limited_achievements_in_ar/

Some more discussion over here it seems.

The representation system directly counters any multi-guilding, GLS and Officers seem to be on a hunt for people doing multi-guilding. Not like everyone is on in a guild at the same time anyway.

Make the dungeon a fractal, make the achievements perma.

It really is just frustrating in the pug environment, people are even resorting to “gaming” the system to get these achievements which support are even telling people to do.

Esplen.3940:

Sarevok.2638:

Still nothing from Anet yet…

To be completely fair, if you’re that much of an achievement completionist, you’d either be done by now or still actively working on it to the best of your ability.

This coming from an achievement completionist who’s been done with all the achievements since Friday.

Yeah I’ve only had chance to properly sit down after working all weekend.
I completed the base dungeon already, these things need practice.

Still nothing from Anet yet…

The jump puzzles are perma as far as I know, the Dungeon is only here till the 9th, and it has 3 utterly stupid achievements that must be gotten in that time.

My only thing to say here

NEVER EVER do these kind of ridiculous achievements on a time limit, the CURRENT ones should be altered and made perma for the fractal merge.

Riathen.2641:

What kind of groups are you guys running in? I’ve been in multiple PUG’s and all of them have done it in under 15 minutes. Even some horrendously bad groups where I didn’t think it’d be possible for any one to get the achievement. Multiples downs and deaths on the boss yet still doing it within the time limit. This dungeon/achievement doesn’t need a nerf. If anything we need more difficult content. People like you prevent any sort of challenge within this game because whenever the slightest bit of difficulty arises you cry for it to be nerfed.

All I can say is get gud.

I don’t MIND the difficult content, I DO mind the time limit on it. There is a distinct difference.

Time limits = people go crazy trying to complete it = pugs can suddenly go volatile. Yes I have a guild to help, but that’s not going to be the case for everyone.

I think alot of us can agree that the AR achievements, in particular Faster than Light, Personal Space and Unfriendly Sky, are very heinously difficult achievements that require alot of coordination, planning or just plain old selfishness in some cases. (leaving more dangerous tasks to team mates to avoid flubbing the strict requirements you require to get one).

This is BAD, ESPECIALLY with pugs, people whom you don’t know, may not even speak the language of and yet you are reliant on them for completion. it leads to arguments, frustration and people leaving because their team couldn’t get them their achievement by pulling their weight enough.

This wouldn’t be a problem if those 3 achievements in particular were removed from the Sky pirates category and placed into another one that wasn’t time limited (like Fractal as the word seems to be that will become of this dungeon). There would be no pressure to get it immediately and people could try for it as they eventually pass the dungeon again. Right now as it stands however, there’s limited time and people are going to panic and focus solely on it to ensure they don’t miss their chance to get it forever.

Anet please review the situation and consider adjusting the window on these particular achievements, not to mention bearing this in mind for future content. It can only be a win win situation, everyone can get the achievement if they pull it off whenever they pull it off, groups don’t frustrate over failed attempts with the looming removal of the window to get it and players of all goals can get on with this content without letting their conflicting goals destroy it for those who just want to have fun.

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It’s just silly delay on skill usage and d/cs too.

spanky.4630:

soon viz will have the whole of wvw to themselves because wvw is slowly dying

and something needs to be done about it it soon .

Too true, it’s something when players are trying not to promote from t2 just to avoid the big jerk server.

MagnusLL.8473:

Witzard.6829:

More people on the fields, less troll/whine here, I don’t think it has to be a bad thing

Unfortunately there’s far less people in WvW now, by all 3 servers. Arenanet really has to do something about providing balanced matchups or everything else will be pointless.

That said, I’m starting to get annoyed by all the defeatism going around on Deso. We cannot win but we could still have fun if only people bothered to come and actually play the game.

The game of “Will you get your skills off”?

graverr.6473:

MagnusLL.8473:

Charmide.4891:

Honestly, at this point thinking that Vizunah has multiple blobs and “70+ people” in them during off peak is beyond delusional.

My personal estimate is that Vizunah right now never drops below 300 people in WvW at any time of the day.

Anatolian Turk.4057:

when the kitten are we going to drop down a tier? i havent logged on to gw2 for couple of weeks now. am i the only one who thinks tier 1 is boring?

We will never drop because the other servers can play the same “let’s not score too many points” game too and they are doing it. Time to either man up and accept that playing with the big boys implies sacrifices like queues (which are non existent on Deso at the moment anyway), big zergs, skill lag, and getting wiped off the map by a force 5X to 10X yours, or do what nearly everybody else is doing, give the finger to any hope of ever building a serious, stable server-wide WvW community, pretend that WvW actually stands for “GvG” and start the perpetual server hopping in the eternal search for the mythical land of milk and honey.

Nobody in gw2 want’s to play against visunah because ironicly they preffer to play wvw,where with visunah is an endless vortex of sucking the fun out of it at any costs since acording to them “This is how it’s intended to be played”

People finally realized and said no thx.Now they have their own tier just for themselves wich makes me particulary happy to be honest.

This is pretty much how ALOT of people feel right now.

Also in regards to that Teamspeak pic, because everyone uses teamspeak amirite?

Xispeo.1706:

Yoke.4671:

…Id feel a little bit ashamed if I was a VS citizen right now to be honest. Its a shame Anet cant create a new tier just for VS, split it up into 3 thirds and they can fight each other in blobs. And let the rest of the servers have a somewhat fair fight most weeks…

Actually SFR and Deso blobs are quite often much bigger than ours.
We generally have several raids on each map at prime time and need to synchronize from time to time to gather our raids to wipe your blobs. Or we succeed to wipe your blobs with mono guild raids, yummy.

Biggest lie/sarcasm of the thread.

Ilirya Shan.5489:

Good Lord I’ve too many golden medals and no more space around my neck. Thank you Deso and SFR anyway:)

How long did it take you to get there?

It’s not so much that 2 servers in t1 are playing like t3, it’s more like one server is playing like 5 t5 servers banded together as one megaton blob that works round the clock.

Just a heads up as a SFR player, yes we know of the bad apple in the midst, I just threw something to support. Honorable fights, not this.

Thanks for replies guys, giving the ideas some thought and seeing how I can slot them into something I can use.

Anyone got a good idea of what kind of build would a ranger use in WvW with bows?

Blob Hate preferred.

That is indeed a great post, thanks

Thanks, although I’ll still be stumped when I hit 80, generally when I hit 60 is when I start building toward 80 so I’m really just looking for guidance to that end.

Recently hit level 60 and I am just stumped for what you trait up right now.

I want a Guardian that mostly supports but can put up resistance if pressured. Mainly for FoTM/WvW, while i can easily switch for PvP to suit, PvE/WvW is a bit more expensive obviously.

What should I trait and use for equipment

Why did this kick off or even become a thing in the first place?

1. WvW server and it’s given a free ticket to just about anyone wanting carried to t1, now the place is choc-a-bloc and STILL classed as Medium population.

WRONG.

What is going on here.

all of a sudden, SFR is +275…..

>EB Right now

YOU BLEW IT, YOU HAD IT ALL AND YOU BLEW IT!

freesexalice.3578:

Our multiple last stands today on EB keep reminded me of Orr events farming. Now I’m curious whether CoF farming or defending against teamed up Deso and VS is more profittable.

Well….where can you get precursors?

(on a serious note, I will laugh till I die if one drops)

Another thing I cannot decide is who the better blob is, Deso…VZ…..Deso have been more aggressive and fun while VZ well..they like to stick about in the background. I mean, which if you is supposed to be getting the keep in the agreement? Who is more deserving? I can’t decide.

Anatolian Turk.4057:

Sarevok.2638:

>Deso and VZ show up at the same time on opposite sides of the keep again in their seperate blobs.

You guys Do get credit where due…you can coordinate well.

Yeh thanks, Viz and Deso we share the same TS. :P LOL

It’s a pity your ability to finish is bad right now…I hope for your sake that’s all you are bad at finishing <_<

Speaking of which, next blob please? Maybe my engineer can be given level 22, or his loot bags will max his inventory first.

>Deso and VZ show up at the same time on opposite sides of the keep again in their seperate blobs.

You guys Do get credit where due…you can coordinate well.

You know, with the amount of Badges I’m getting from the Deso/VZ blobs, I could have that aspect of a legendary weapon already done now.

Dyno.9467:

Sarevok.2638:

Hey VZ/Deso, are you seriously that bad you can’t take the keep when all it’s walls are down and both your blobs are running around with commanders on skype?

Good defending we’ve done it against you and Viz loads of times

I can’t recall a single instance it was THIS open, I mean, how much more open does the keep need to be, like a PS3?!

Hey VZ/Deso, are you seriously that bad you can’t take the keep when all it’s walls are down and both your blobs are running around with commanders on skype?

Aikanaro.2609:

Looks like VS weekly wednesday raid is now live: a huge blob (not less than 50-60) is tearing apart all the maps, focusing green points. I’m okay with that, but beeing outmanned at this time of day is sad thing.
But 2vs1 is more saddest. Like that
http://i.imgur.com/okge9AQ.jpg
poor VS guys can’t capture the tower alone, so brave and kind IRON helps them. Many times. I’m okay when one server is attacking one side of the keep, and another doing the same at their side, but this is funny.
http://i.imgur.com/nQM4QX9.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/NyUZ8kJ.jpg
Guess who stays on the wall, and who are not?
No hate, cheers.

I had to laugh at this, it’s almost flattering.

I find the kind of people the OP is describing honestly hilarious, they are just asking to be preyed on.

MagnusLL.8473:

And the very instant SFR falters, Vizunah is back up…

You mean the instant SFR goes to bed…

Zaowi.7098:

its funny cause even after free transfers to srf, its still classed as a medium pop server =D

Where do boon move too ?

Are you kidding me?

The PvE events are so bad here even the shadow behemoth causes overflows within a minute of preevents.

RobF.5864:

I have been reading these forums but don’t normally post. However, last night really made me dispirited about WvW. The skill lag made playing impossible…..zerg comes your way and there’s nothing you can do. Tactics don’t mean a thing if you can’t use any abilities. I was in the middle of a group in the heart of the zerg and could use autoattack…that’s it.

In the current game zergs are fact and are going to happen but if you cant use any abilities when they come your way what’s the point?

Well, best thing to do would be to check a lower pop server, at the current state of affairs, it’s starting to look tempting to get away from the people here contributing to the zergs only because they came here hoping to get carried along with it.

Thing is its selfinflicted.

Sfr grouped a load of wvwvw glds together to create a winning server….which inevitably means people will move there.

Aparantly its ok to move to create a winning server, just not to join one?

Nobody moved there until the free transfer period, t1 servers should have been off the radar but for some reason it slipped up.

Katiechops.6807:

Kraken.7514:

The lag, caused by Blobbing, is gonna end up killing the game.

I tried to play 3 hours today when I normally play many more and it was really really pathetic. No skills fiering, couldent change weapons, just not fun.

Anet got the biggest responsability in this for giving the players the chance to group up to a point where the game is not playable… but man those players and guilds that knowing that this problem exists and that persist in grouping up in huge numbers… I just dont understand them, I really cant.

I give the game a few weeks more before it completely begins to go down the drain, in the meantime, ill keep trying to play (wow interesting to TRY to play a game and not actually play it).

I hear you mate, BOON spent 4 hours on VS BL last night, bar one attack to kill our gate cannons no one even attacked our Keep or Tower the whole 4 hours, we got a lot of high numbers fights with Deso which was fun.

But VS guys I have to give you massive Kudos here how you manage to get your entire map to hug one dude the entire night is beyond me well done serious organisation whipping of pugs etc, but way to break the game its like every time VS engage in a fight the entire map lags last night was just silly.

So yeah T1, big, queues, can’t get guild raid into map, skill lag, a blob that only does pvdoor unless forced to defend.

Was nice to see Tier 1, it was pretty much exactly as expected, met lots of nice people and guilds here as well as all the troll/ppl who worry about rank too much etc.

BOON are heading off to a quieter server once we identify it so we can get back to raiding and playing as a guild again rather than being a chatting place for ppl queuing for WvW. Take care ppl and don’t stress too much its only a game! o/

Normally I’d like to finish on a song, here have a movie instead, bye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEPBXARVNZc

Yeah, thanks free transfers, I hope you enjoy your new server, it can’t be any worse in pveland after everyone ran in because for some reasons t1 servers were classed as medium pop.

I really hate what it has done to SFR.

nevermind, it just seems to be slower right now

I just finished a free tourney with a single win which should in theory give me at least a copper chest for being in the last 4….no dice…what’s going on?

Yes, I did wait about 20 mins.

Part of the big problem with pugging is that getting a group takes far too long than it should be. I hope the next patch helps this problem somewhat but it won’t be a full solution.

Alot of sensitivity following SFR’s victory last time….

I’ve got all the hints ticked that I can see, however my hint completion achievement is still sitting at 82/83..any way to fix?

Personally I’d like the ability to see the spirits of your previous characters and have decendants of the characters they interacted with reflect on it.

For example, Logan seeing your GW1 Ascalonian who helped his descendants hook up.

Debsylvania.7396:

People may be listing these items on the TP for 400-500g, but I have a hard time believing they’re actually selling at that price.

I participated in the final event last Sunday and didn’t get a precursor and don’t know anybody that did. I don’t doubt that there were very rare occasions where someone may have gotten two, but those had to be extremely rare occurrences.

The instance I was in had the chat window flooded with precursors to the point it was scrolling, some even getting two, it didn’t help that those people then started talking about how to exploit the chest and get it again.

The Economy is royally gooned right now, be the results come now or later. The power traders got theirs on a golden ticket.

Nobody knows, the fact that people got precursors on trial accounts should be an indicator all is not right though.