Guild Wars 2

GuardianOMS.8067:

You can’t compare President vs Commander, that is completely devoid of any thinking and no where near the same. You still have a CHOICE to follow a commander. It is not the same as a president where there are legal repercussions for disregarding their law.

You’re ripping it out of context though, she gave it as an example to me “imagine if you could buy jobs in real life, wtb president..” she obviously only meant, it’s not because you can buy it you are qualified for it. Some people have it and are completely useless.

GuardianOMS.8067:

Sceinna.3561:

GuardianOMS.8067:

Sceinna.3561:

…I’m sure this is an issue in all worlds though.

Nope. Many of our commanders were leading and playing before they had the icon and players donated their money to them to get it. Who cares how you get the icon? People should know by now when to stop following someone with bad plans or that’s leading you to a needless death.

That doesn’t sound ideal to me though? Everyone I spoke to, even most of our commanders, agree with me it should be earned.. at anyone who activily plays WvW will agree with me.

I don’t think it really matters who agrees with you and you doesn’t. Suggestions aren’t based on a popularity contest so that’s not really a good argument. The fact is regardless of who earned it by your standards, they can be good or bad. People will listen to those with confidence and solid ideals. Different commanders also have different play styles that are effective, but other people might not agree with so people can choose to follow who they wish. My server has proved this with the fact that we don’t need icons to do anything, they are just an added bonus.

Commander icons are cosmetic, just like legendaries. Who cares who has one? Just because someone has something pretty doesn’t mean they earned your respect. Get to know the people leading and the fact that they bought or earned the marker above their head won’t make a difference if they’re good.

Yeah, but you are probably playing on a more popular server with big WvW guilds, not a server like mine where people join and quit WvW all the time and have no clue who to follow or what to do.

These people don’t know who are actually capable, especially with 5 commanders in one border..

I know it’s not about “me”, but I’m sure many people share the same opinion as me, I want those voices to be heard lol. Commander should be earned not bought, I respect anyone who doesn’t feel that way~ but I’m throwing my opinion out here.

Raf.1078:

So basically, you are saying only those players with a boatload of time and nothing else to do should be commanders? Seems to me that you are narrowing the field pretty radically.

Commanders will show their true colors eventually. In how they treat the people following them to their basic game knowledge. The current system gives “us” the power to choose the commanders we follow.

Nope, your statement didn’t make any sense AT all, because 100g is not THAT easy to come by, a lot of people don’t even reach that amount of money lol.

The system that I “recommended” but is just an idea, is for you to lead a guild before leading huge groups in WvW, buy commander with influence points you earn as a guild. So the big WvW guilds will provide you with commanders, that’s the way WvW was intended to play imo.

As a friend told me “Imagine you could buy jobs in real life, wtb president of the united states for $100”.. of course jokingly, but it kinda feels like that with commander, it’s not because you can afford it that you are qualified for it.

GuardianOMS.8067:

Sceinna.3561:

…I’m sure this is an issue in all worlds though.

Nope. Many of our commanders were leading and playing before they had the icon and players donated their money to them to get it. Who cares how you get the icon? People should know by now when to stop following someone with bad plans or that’s leading you to a needless death.

That doesn’t sound ideal to me though? Everyone I spoke to, even most of our commanders, agree with me it should be earned.. at anyone who activily plays WvW will agree with me.

scootshoot.6583:

Commanders make a name for themselves by reputation and past accomplishments. On any given day multiple Blue dots may show up but I will be honest with you there are only a handful on my server that I will seek out and follow and am sure other servers are no different.

Yeah I agree, commanders with a bad reputation won’t have many followers but that doesn’t make the current system any better, I find it annoying to see 5 commanders spread all over the map, with only one of them doing something useful.

And why are you able to turn on commander (a WvW tool) in Pve lol, but that’s not too troublesome, I just find it funny.

I just feel like something went horribly wrong, how could you make something like being a commander bought with ingame money, there’s way too many commanders and half of them are unable to lead a group. The title should also not be permanent but be there for as long as you and your guild are actively playing WvW.. the influence thing was just an idea, perhaps the are better ideas, except for buying commander with ingame currency, that is just stupid imo.

Hello fellow WvWers,

I kinda wonder if I’m the only one with a bad taste of the current commander system, you pay 100g (which isn’t really hard to come by imo) and become a commander, but in no way that shows you have the abilities to lead a group, not to mention some people don’t seem to understand the concept of being a commander AT all. Only half of the commanders in my own world are capable of what they do, I’m sure this is an issue in all worlds though.

I kinda wish Anet would pay back all those bought commander and make commander earned in the future, maybe throught influence points (specifically for WvW perhaps), this way your guild HAS to be active in WvW, you will need to be leading a fair amount of players already in WvW before unlocking the commander title.. this is just an idea, but with this idea you’d already have more WvW guilds, perhaps a little less zerging and more tactic etc.. because this game has so many toys to play with and we hardly use them.. and most of all, you’d have players that are used to leading a group and not just buy the commander title for “lulz” because it is what it is now..

Maybe it’s just me feeling this way? I hope not. I’ve always wanted to become a commander in WvW because I see myself fit for it, but there is no point really with a zillion (uncapable) commanders roaming just one boarder already.. :/

Back in business, good work Anet

Zorkmid.7510:

Just back to the game again, to try to play, but it is impossible due to Arenanets inability to provide any useful level of quality. The game is beautiful and fun, but it doesn’t really help since Arenanet are so frustratingly bad at running computer systems.

Dude you should totally go for a refund so I don’t have to watch you kitten in every topic no longer, your name shows up in every topic I read. Which reminds me why I never read anything on here anyways.

The full error code number : 42:5:7:878:101
If you are playing on a North American or European world: European world (Underworld)
What map you were in before you were logged out and could not log in again: Underworld borderlands (WvW)

Could you stop complaining though? Not trying to fanboy or anything (as I’m having the same issue as all of you) but please.. I’m trying to find an answer of the devs and an estimated uptime, not a bunch of whining about the issue.. rly annoying. Whenever something goes smooth, people do not compliment, but when something goes wrong.. all hell breaks loose -rage over-

Yes, me too. I was in WvW in the middle of something, haven’t been able to login since.. 40mins now.

Enraged.5048:

@Nightcapping:
I rly enjoyed the part of “competitiv WvWvW”. There are no rules. IT IS WAR. So, if you wanna win, you have to win 24 hours, not for 1 or 2, for 24 hours a day. If you cant, you cant win the war. So imo Dzagonur won the last matchup, because we were better, in the way WvWvW works. This week i think will be different, holiday days are over, not that high numbers during the night.
Complaining about Nightcapping is complainging about the way WvWvW works. If you dont wanna play that way, fine, i rly understand that, i did not play in one night after 2am, cause it is boring to play against doors. But you dont have any claim to win, because you didnt fit the system. It is like losing in soccer/football if you didnt play the 2nd half, because of being tired, and then complaining it was not fair.

Realy you dont win WvWvW Matchups because of players skills, but because of having more players online. And if we can stand more points during the day, then you during the night, we just had more players online over all.
You realy stand a chance to win, it was close. So please keep on fighting, like you did last week.

BTW: none of us is able to speak for a whole server.

I’m pretty sure this is not what Anet had in mind, but sure, I cannot speak for Anet here. All I know is Anet strafes for their game to be fair and balanced, and “crawling out of your hole at night” is a pretty cheap way to win. But I agree this is the nature of how WvW works for now, I just hope something could possibly be done, to somewhat -stop- it, maybe change the reset time, to not be 1am CET, but a more European time.

Hillierawrs.5834:

Not bothering reading all the raging at eachother. But what i did want to say is, this matchup is making me enjoy WvW again. I loved it when FS was still active at the beginning and then the server switches started and let’s be honest. FS WvW died. However in this match up i’ve seen so many people getting back to it and actually had some impossible escapes in some fights. It’s been well fun.

And on a side note, I’m totally fangirling BLOS guild. ;3

Not seeing any rage in here tbh. :P I think all servers are being respectful with eachother, but for the competitive WvW-player, nightcapping ruins the fun, why would I pump money into our keeps to have it easily overtaken@ night.. it’s just something to think about.

I love the battles FS & DE give us during the daytime, but 17k lead over one night is just harsh and unbalanced/unfair. They have the numbers to defend their lead for the rest of the week. 10h after reset it’s been pretty much decided who’s going to win, imo.

Xanti.8672:

Moreover i would like to know what you mean with small tactical squads? Where is the limit for being “small”? Because we do have a few well organized guild groups which, if you really fought in WvW last week, you should have noticed. SK, HON, IL, ECL, SF just to call a few of them who run around every day in groups of 5-25.

tl;dr:
get those twinks out of WvW this week and we assure you it is gonna be way more fun and stop complaining about nightcapping during holidays(!) cause that doesnt make sense

Hmm, we are usually outnumbered, often in our own borderlands (Underworld), although that’s an issue on our side. I do have a problem with night capping though, DE is a very well organised server, it’s frustrating to see you guys leading 17k points, 10 hours after reset, just because you capped literally all the borderlands+EB at night, that doesn’t seem fair and balanced to me at all.

Portal bombs is a tactic like anything else, I don’t even bother complaining about that, you need organisation for that and I respect DE a lot for their great organisation, but night capping? Hmm, it is a hard one to “fix” though, since you do have people that only play during night, but it kinda ruins competitive WvW, imo.

This is 10 hours after reset; http://i.imgur.com/ILO0h.jpg , I went to sleep 3am CET, with only 100 points behind, woke up 9am CET, to find you guys having trippled your points overnight, WvW this week is a no go for me already. o.o

I don’t mind so much about the portal bombs, it’s what makes mesmers a good tool in WvW, it’s a strategy too, anyone can do it, I’m just concerned about these night shifts, although I have no idea how you would go about fixing these things, you cannot close WvW over night, there’s people that only have time to play at night time.. it’s just a bit ridiculous imo.

To start with, I love Guild Wars 2, I love Guild Wars in general, I have been a part since prophecies, enjoying all the expansions, I am a long time GW player. I love how Anet manages to make one of the most enjoyable balanced mmorpgs out there and strafe to make the best mmorpg out there. With that said;

WvW is getting out of hand imo, I went to sleep yesterday around 1am CET, wake up at 9am CET to find Dzagonur having trippled their points overnight – http://i.imgur.com/ILO0h.jpg

It is becoming more and more of a contest who’s willing to spend their lives/nights to win the week, because during night, EB and all of the borderlands color Dzagonur, although I must say they’re the only server I’ve played, that play so well organised, they can easily win without doing these ridiculous night shifts IMO. But being trippled in points over night just kills the fun for me personally as I am very competitive and try to work together with people to make UW a better WvW server, I cannot make people sacrifice their nights however, I’d love to see how other people feel about this.. I mean, we are 3 euro servers fighting eachother. It’ll be a hard one to think about I guess.. hard to “fix” too.

No offense to any Dzagonur in particular, I love your server, well organised.

I can’t believe some people say 3.5G is what these Lodestones are worth, surely they are difficult to farm, but do you realise a stack of 100 is actually worth more than the precursor? Hasn’t anyone noticed that this part of the market is being controlled by a person/guild? All items get “bought up” and relisted almost on a daily basis, to keep them floating around 3.5G+, all cheaper lodestones get bought out and re-listed later on. I personally refuse to buy any lodestone ABOVE 2g, because this is not where the price is supposed to be at. I’m not going to pay 3x more for my legendary than someone else has, I would rather face the horrendous grind rather than making someone else that is manipulating the market rich. There was never a problem with the lodestones, up until the Karkas event, even with the flairly low droprate, Lodestones were sitting at ~50s each at that time without a problem, I feel this is where they belong to be at as well, 50s to 1g, not 3G and above.

Of course people complain, they do all the time, my only complaint is that Anet gave away FREE precursors to a whole bunch of whiny kids, which resulted in the market blowing up and all materials go up 4x in price. (totally ruined all of my chances of getting Legendary anytime soon, I’ve had my precursor for over a month, the only thing I’m missing is my materials =.=, +3G/ Charged Lodestone x100.. overkill)

Legendary is supposed to be Legendary, the precursors were fine, also the droprate was fine, but now you got both expensive precursors AND materials, I do blame the tons of precursors that flooded the market at once.. :/

I only agree with this in the under water areas (Quaggans), it is a pain in the kitten to cap.. and you lose it almost instantly. :P

All the other npcs are fine imo.

I just figured combat logging was not intended in Guild Wars 2, so I personally consider this a bug that needs some sort of fixing. So in my opinion it goes in both suggestions & bugs. I mean honestly, how many times did you res a downed/killed player in LA, this means they died in an instace/PvP/WvW and logged out.. I see it everyday. I also see people combat logging when I’m fighting them, personally it bugs me a lot.

Hello,

It seems to be like a growing issue or something, but I find more and more people combat logging in WvW, twice today in 1on1 battles where I down the person (one time a thief/scout I had been chasing for like forever).. what do they win? Nothing.. they avoid a small repair fee, but to me it is really frustrating. If you die it means you screwed up and you deserve to die. I never avoid dying by alt f4. I just feel some kind of penalty system would be in place for this..

Thanks

MasterYoda.8563:

Bots are still in game just moved to new areas out of plain sight into caves farming bats etc, I’ve reported 10 in the past week.

About time they’d crawled back into their caves.

Out of curiousity I’ve been trying to figure out more ways to make gold in Guild Wars, youtube seemed the perfect place to do so, I stumbled upon this one “guide”, again, out of curiousity, I clicked on the tinyurl link which didn’t do anything at all, until I went to my running processes.. I stopped the process asap so I didn’t really check the entire name, something similar to “awesome.exe” and probably a keylogger.. first thing I did was changing my password, I’m still somewhat afraid that it left traces on my computer though. I want to warn people because this was a video with over 60.000 views, it may be one of the big “leaks” where people are getting hacked from.

I will not be posting any links to the video, but I will forward it to Anet.. do not open random links, even when it’s a video with 60.000 views and mostly likes, I’m 99% sure the link, linked me to a keylogger.

Mrowqa.3861:

Never belive in stories about 60 steady FPS on rigs like that.

it’s just lie with no screen shots or that person looked on FPS when nothing was going on and staring to wall.

Theres no way that rig would run this game on HIGH graph with this rig. Untill You somehow turned resolution to under 1024×700

To be more clear todays low end Laptop i3s/i5s will handle this game better then your Old quad due to technological process.

Hmm pretty weird, because my rig looks like this, and I run the game with 30-100fps with only reflections a notch lower, rest is running on high, shadows on high (not on ultra):

Q9500 (4x 2.8Ghz)
Nvidia GTX240
8GB Ram

30Fps in crowded places such as LA, on high settings.. in PvE I always got above 60fps.. WvW is troublesome on high, but above 30fps on lowest settings, can’t complain because I barely paid anything for this rig, you don’t need a 1000$ computer to run GW2, just optimize your computer properly, don’t have unnecessary junk installed or running at the same time, I would back this up with screenshots but I’m currently not able to login.

This hasn’t happened to anyone else?

I need to know if it’s safe to do Arah again, I want the cinematics and the rewards, not a waste of 1h+ of my time..

Apparantly I wasn’t the only one from my party atleast, atleast one guy did not complete the story even though we beat Zaithan.

I just “completed” the game but throughtout the entire Arah dungeon I didn’t get a single cinematic, at the end I didn’t get a chest either.. luckily my storyline didn’t progress, I’m still at “Death or Victory”, but what a waste of time?

Anyone else done Arah storymode and their game didn’t move on? I was the only one in my party it has happened to..

At the other hand, I’m happy my game didn’t finish without me getting a reward for it.. or missing out on all the cinematics, but then again, what a waste of time here..

Has this happened to anyone else?

There’s thousands of people having issues with something, which is only normal at the start of a mmorpg, now I’m not sure what yours is, but once they’ll get to your ticket I’m sure they deal with it in a correct manner.

If you look at the Dev. Tracker, you’ll notice that GW2 staff is actively dealing with issues, I’ve had problems in the past with GW1, my brother’s account had been hacked and compromised within 3 days, they really can’t do this any faster, they need the right amount of information and there is obviously a waiting queue for each ticket. It’s probably a dozen of people working on thousands of tickets + working on ingame content.

I understand your frustration, if I were in your place, I’d be very frustrated not being able to play the game, but they are definitely working on it and they are only human.. and something you wouldn’t want to hear, your ticket/issue got the same priority as the other 1000’s of tickets in the waiting queue, patience.

Avectius.3271:

Sceinna… wow.

Your specs are quite similar to mine and to be honest, I’m surprised you can run the game that smooth. Your reply gave me some hope, though, lol.

But yeah, it’s pretty much like you said. The game itself is at fault here. Some people can run it while others can’t. We just need to wait for ANet to optimize/fix things.

However, we could use an official announcement that something’s being done, but so far we haven’t got any.

I have to be honest though, I tweaked the hell out of my computer and every little bit that could up me with even 1 fps, I did.

I have this nice (but sort of expensive) program called TuneUp Utilities, it works wonders. You have a free trial for 15 days, it improved my fps so much.

I also defragment my harddrive with Guild Wars 2 on it with a special program, which gives Guild Wars 2 the highest loading priority (it basically moves it to the “front” of your harddrive making it load faster), although I haven’t seen much of performance improvements with this.

What did give me a big boost… I used wireless and moved to cable, ever since I started using cable I gained about +5fps in Lion’s Arch, more in PvE zones. Your connection with the Guild Wars servers is really important.

Anyone with a high-end computer shouldn’t really do any of the steps I did, I only did it because of my outdated computer, it helped me. :P

Also make sure every kind of option that allows you to pick ‘high performance’, you should tick..

I’m going to upgrade soon though, my fps is fine in PvE and even the big cities/outposts, but I dropped to 10 fps in WvW today, not really enjoyable, I had a big delay casting my skills and stuff.

Those are the weapons/armor acquired with Dungeon tokens, on the Wiki you can read which Dungeon you need to do for the armor you want.

I like the trading house, old fashion trading (as on Guild Wars 1) was really hard to follow, people were abusing different channels to ‘sell’ their items, the trading house is easy, fast and you no longer have to browse (and register) on a lot of forums hosting the prices of certain items.

Irrelevant, but a lot of people that are being hacked today, registered to places where you could buy and sell items to other players or check out prices for any item you’d find.. they got rid of a big threat by doing this, imagine how many more people would get hacked registering on insecure forums with the same account details.

This is why I like the Trading House, it’s a lot faster and more efficient, also I’m lazy. :P

My specs are;
Dualcore E8400 (2×3ghz, not overclocked)
Nvidia GeForce 240 gts
8gb of RAM

I run the game between 60-100fps, 35+ in Lion’s Arch, haven’t tried WvW, afraid my pc would blow up..

I’m going to upgrade soon enough, but I think my low-end computer does amazingly fine… I run all settings on high, except shadows, animation and reflections are OFF, they are the fps killers, I find that everything else doesn’t affect fps as much..

More on topic though, I don’t think most of the performance hits are hardware related at all, considering my low-end computer does pretty good with this game and a lot of ‘beast’ machines are struggling with it, it still needs optimization. I also think the support team is doing an outstanding job and I’m sure they have a good reason not to respond to any fps-related topics, because performance is different for everyone, they are gathering data prior to a fix. I’m sure all will be sorted out soon.

It could be that the person sent the item but it never arrived.
- Sorry for hijacking this topic a little bit, but today I sent an item to a guildy and the item never arrived, although I typed out her name (correctly, 100% sure of that).. it was a rare gold chest piece, nothing of great value, only 3-4 silver at the Trading House.

I’m not sure if I’m going to mail items again in the future though. :P