Guild Wars 2

First: There is a grace period before your arena disappears if you do not add more time. Does anyone know how long this grace period is? Can just one day be bought as needed when my guild wants to use it without fear of it being deleted? We mostly want it for guild matches against each other. (and some friends)

Second: What is the minimum requirements for there to be player progression? Not looking for large fights. Mostly some 2v2 matches.

Third: Can the player limit be changed on the fly without having to make a new arena?

Yeah, I have seen the fake FKB guild tags before….haven’t seen the MEND ones yet.

As for all of HoD hating BC? No way. BC is a great commander, he gets results. He just has no patience for idiots…which is fine by me, I rather enjoy his raging at noobs. If there is a choice of commanders on a map, I will always go for BC.

skyhawk.5149:

That was an epic clash over SM between our 3 Servers. One of the most epic fights i’ve even experienced in WvW. Hope we continue to have fights like this.

Would have been a lot more fun without the skill lag >.< However quite epic. Its been a lot of fun with ET showing up with some impressive numbers

We were this close to getting SM too…bar was half way and moving fast before SF got into the ring and revived the Lord.

Narsil.6579:

HoD needs to teach its players how to survive ina fight lol, always running back to the keep or running away when they can’t stand the heat against 1 person, and here we are a zerg of HoD pursuing one player around the whole map, lol and the whole dance and bowing is shameful, oh and your players from PHZE and PAXA still suck ina 1v1 , haha had some fights and those jerks run away, please L2Fight, otherwise stay away from my camps, yeah go get your zerg for 1 person, I’ll be waiting here my lovelies

What is wrong with bowing? It is a sign of respect. I bow if I win a 1v1 that I thought was a good challenge. I kneel if I kill someone and they never land a hit, I feel bad like I surprised them or they are majorly upscaled.

I never dance. My wife has a permanent vendetta against MAV bc one of them danced on her lol.

edit: I danced once. On the dead body of the guy who danced on her after I got vengeance. He was camping the JP so he deserved it.

All in the title. Anyone else want this or am I alone?

^What Bllades said.

I for one am not raging against BP for steamrolling us. I take it as practice. Learn new strategies. Hone my skills versus an outnumbering zerg. If anything, BP gives us ample practice at defending our keeps. (Since they flip several times a day lol)

Keep up the fight HoD, sitting a fight out bc its “unfair” gets us nowhere. Show up and give it what you got.

To DR: I very much look forward to our inevitable meeting on the virtual battleground once again. It should be a good fight.

Tested this today, joined a commander’s squad and I could still see all the other tags on map…

An addition, your squad’s commander icon changes color to distinguish from other commanders running around.

I think one problem with squads in WvW is that hardly anyone (it seems) joins a commander’s squad, so any of the features he/she may have through it are lost. On top of the current system of left-clicking their icon on the map, how about when you are in proximity to a commander, a small window opens up asking if you would like to “Join <<insert name here>>’s Squad”. You then have a small indicator telling you whose squad you are in, an option to leave and maybe even how many others are in your squad.

This will make it more in your face and help newcomers to WvW who probably do not know about squads.

Thanks for the responses. Sounds like I am going to have to be quick on my toes

So I am working on a second warrior. I already have a Knight’s Axe/Axe build which I love, he is a great balance between damage and survivability. Recently, I decided to see what all this talk about full zerker GS warrior is like so I rolled a new warrior. I have a full zerker Ranger and he does awesome in terms of DPS…but can stay away from direct damage easily. My Warrior cannot.

So my question is: What should I do about runes? Should I go with 6 Superior Runes of Eagle for more crits and crit damage? Or should I play it safer and go with soldiers for the Vit and Toughness and extra condition removal on shouts. Any other advice pertaining to surviving as a zerker would be appreciated as well.

I have run a LB/SB full zerker ranger for the past few months in WvW and it has been great fun. I really don’t understand the naysayers…

Sigils/Runes:
LB: Sup Blood for survivability
SB: Sup Generosity for condition mitigation.
Full set of Superior Runes of Ranger

I run a signets build and traited to receive all active effects of signets. This gives me 6 seconds where I do not take attack damage (great in duels with thieves or anything with massive burst damage). And I can get big for significant increase in damage and stability. My elite is Entangle.

As for pets I run drakehound and spider for the immobilize. I can usually down most medium/light classes with one shot from longbow #2 on a immobilized person. If they are not downed I kite them with shortbow until they are dead. For 1v1 fights, I’d say I win more often than I don’t. Trouble comes mostly from thieves. I have never lost against another ranger. Mesmers usually run away (which they are superb at)

Running in a zerg use barrage for groups and pick people off with shortbow. Can usually bag 50-100 badges an hour on active nights (once got 42 badges during a single epic battle for Durios). Barrage and Entagle are great for people on walls.

Running solo I can take a camp in 30 seconds alone. (NPCs too stupid to get out of tangly vines…just group them up, entangle, and barrage.)

Has anyone else ever encountered this? On the map, for about 30-45 seconds…I could see the enemy locations in my immediate location. They show up as orange dots….

So I have been playing the game since launch, and am proud to have played all races and all professions. One thing that has bothered me for awhile is the underwhelming racial skills. For example, Norn shapeshifting skills or plant turrets with Sylvari etc… I feel like your race should factor more into your build in some way. Unfortunately, there are very few “useful” racial skills when compared to the core profession skills. Sure the Charr have a decent shout not unlike “For Great Justice” and the human “Prayer to Dwayna” can prove to be a useful healing spell…but the vast majority of racial skills are overlooked due to being underpowered.

In a nutshell, I wish the racial skills were beefed up in some way or provided more useful integration into a more diverse build pool.

Much like WvW, it would be awesome if your loot dropped next to your character in PvE. It is purely from a lazy standpoint having to run back to grab loot.

On that same note, it would be nice to be able to grab loot bags when you are defeated, if in range of course.

To those who are doing JPs just for badges to get legendary:
Assuming you get about 5 badges in each of the BL JPs, you could get all 500 Badges in 33 days if you did it once per day. Unless you are very rich, it will take you a lot longer to get a legendary (speaking from experience, I still don’t have one and I have been working on it for many months.)

To those who cannot seem to get badges outside of JP:
My advice is to get a character with decent AOE (Staff ele, longbow ranger, etc) and log on after reset on Friday. I am able to get ~150 badges in 90mins on a good reset day just by spamming barrage on zergs. Jump on an arrow cart and get even more I would imagine. Reset nights are usually the most bloody/active (at least on our server). Also, any NPC with the “Guild Claiming” in their name (ie: the people you have to kill to take Camps/Towers/etc) often drop 1-2 badges when you kill them.

For people complaining about having to buy more siege:
Yeah that does suck…although doesn’t being repeatedly ported to the end by a mesmer hurt your “its so unfair!” argument? Just a bit? If everyone actually jumped it on all of their toons then yeah, I am with you all the way…you actually did the work. I am just saying….(and this is coming from a guy who ports my guildies to the end of many JPs….mainly bc they suck at jumping lol)

Why is there no title/achievement track for getting a lvl80 toon in each profession?

It can be called something like, “Jack of all Trades” or “Renaissance Man/Woman”

So after being wiped a few times on the final boss in TA – Forward, Up by the spider spawns, had to find a better way to take out boss.

With a team of 3 rangers and 1 Guardian and 1 Warrior, the fight went like this: Rangers (each with 1500 range perk) stood in entrance shooting tree. Warrior/Guardian stood just in front of them killing spider spawns, make sure pets avoid combat. Took a while, but this way you only attract spiders in the front of the Cavern instead of all of them at once. In lulls of spider aggros, Warrior rifled tree and provided buffs while Guardian provided fire combo field and healing. (Tree will do heavy AOE at party once and awhile, can dodge)

Don’t know if this will help anyone else, but it was our first time doing this path. I find the rest of this path to be the easiest in TA.

Just found a trick which may work for people. I got the Cragstead area unlocked by actually entering a cave just north of the Cragstead gate. It has a few spiders in it.

Anyone know what/where the newest addition for Shiverpeak Explorer was? Most of the resources I have found on the internet for completing this still have only 174 areas.

I think only the high level ones. That being said, I have not received a fine transmutation stone for area completion for many months. I don’t know if they changed something bc I used to get them.

Get jeweler to lvl50 (easy, some of that can be achieved making the copper ingots), then all you need is 80 copper ingots, and 40 Amber pebbles. Make 40 filigree and combine that with your 40 amber pebbles. Done.

If you are already >50 Jeweler, this monthly achievement takes less than a minute to complete.

Funky.4861:

I’m really concerned that i can’t portal ppl who are stuck in terrain (due to phase retreat, for example) anymore- that will suck BIG TIME! If i can cast the entry portal so that a stuck character can interact with it, will they still be allowed to? Or will the fact that they are unintentionally stuck in terrain make them have to pay to WP in order to get out?

Wondering this too. I’ve used my portal to get someone unstuck a few times. I do understand the need to kill an exploit though.

I seems simple enough to just rotate the map every week regardless of what place your world gets. I don’t see why Anet can’t just do that and solve the problem. Its not like there is any strategic advantage to being either red/green/blue.

How about introducing an NPC, called idk Bob the Collector or something, who will trade you the precursor of your choice if you trade him 1 weapon from each dungeon of same type.

For example, if you want Dawn, you would need to trade him 8 greatswords, one from each dungeon. You can make it so Bob can only be accessed after completing something difficult, or add a 100g surcharge for the transaction. Whatever need to make it a CHALLENGE. Not dumb luck as in the current system.

Also, make it (and Legendaries) account bound.

Legendaries should be the reward from hours of hard work and being able to play every aspect of the game, not something you can buy with gold you bought from illegal gold sellers.

For a future expansion, what area do you hope is opened?

For me it is crystal desert. I love desert regions in video games for some reason and currently there are none in gw2. Since it seems like the branded corruption seems to stem from the crystal desert, I can easily see an expansion.

Building your own PC is really quite easy, most everything that gets put in has its own spot and you can’t really screw it up. And you really do save quite a bit building it yourself, plus give yourself option for upgrades. A few google searches on how to do it and you will be fine. Also, make sure to read your motherboard manual. Plus, installing Windows 7 is a breeze so no need to worry about that bit.

If you are worried about the cost of Windows 7, I know that many colleges in the US give you have access to free software which often includes Windows 7,8 etc. I don’t know if you are a college student or not, but I am sure you may know one?

Easily, and you’d be able to get more than just low settings… $400 would get you by just fine. I don’t know what these guys are on about.

On newegg:
$80 – Quad-core 3GHz CPU
$110 – GeForce GTX 650 GPU
$25 – 4 GB memory

Provided you don’t have to pay for an OS; all you need after is a motherboard, HDD, power supply, optical drive and case (in order of importance). Just fit those to your budget. Just now on newegg I put together components for ~$425 that would play GW2 a lot higher than low settings.

I have built many computers on tight budgets for several people. It can be done.

It would be awesome if the Golden Focus (which is a lantern) from CM tokens would have an area lighting effect similar to that of a torch.

That is all.

I am part of a very small guild (5 people really)…we are very active and are able to get about 8k-10k guild points a week. I was wondering if any of the new guild events/missions would be completable by smaller guilds or is it only geared towards larger guilds.

I understand no one can answer this yet (maybe a dev?)… But maybe other people have the same question as we do.

This has probably already been asked, but does anyone know WHY it costs 20 extra mystic coins for a Mystic Sword?

Following a leader, ordering certain team members around without having to mouse over the dots to see who is who. It would be such a small change to the game and optional I don’t see a big issue.

Thanks, I didn’t think about it being a risen. (duh)

So it sounds like it will be near impossible (very annoying) to get anywhere on that track…

It seems simple enough, but to have dedicated colors assigned to party member 1-4 on the map (ex: red, blue, purple, yellow) or something like that. Or at least an option to turn such a feature on and off.

So my Giant Slayer track is stuck at one kill….though I have killed many veteran giants in Orr…Is it b/c they are Veterans? If so, where are there “regular” giants?

Too bad… I went with order of whispers on my thief….Thanks

I really like the pants, but I don’t know what they are called. Also searched around websites like: http://www.gw2armor.com/ and http://www.gw2armorgallery.com with no help. PLUS, I asked, but got no response from, the owner — she was a thief so has to be medium. Any help here would be awesome! Thanks

Title is pretty self explanatory…but we really need more armor skins (either karma purchase or BL Store). I haven’t had a reason to buy anything but space upgrades in BL Store because most of it is town clothes. But if it were armor skins, a lot more people would be willing to dish out the money for it I think.

For example, the Pirate Outfit looks pretty good….until you find out its town clothes.

I gave up on my elementalist for a month when he was around that level. (I find many professions have a range of levels where they kind of suck). Eventually I read around here and decided to try him again and he is great!

My main tip: Switch your attunements in battles!!! It takes a bit of practice…but even switching between two (say fire and earth) and spamming those skills will aid you a lot. When you limit yourself to one, you are constantly waiting on skills to recharge. When I switch I am never waiting on a skill to use.

2nd tip: Ice bow is great at killing crowds at all levels, it has helped a lot. Equip it, hit your #4 and then drop it and continue with your other weapon skills. (#5 is good against single enemies like bosses)

If you have trouble with others getting there before you: change zones, I find people tend to avoid the Charr areas (Fireheart Rise for example) My wife and I have been farming presents all day in Fireheart Rise with no one else to be seen…so no worries about others beating us to it.

There have been numerous complaints about 100% map completion and having to complete WvW maps to achieve it. Although this may seem fair and reasonable on paper, while WvW remains completely out of balance, this task becomes impossible. Especially for those who refuse to change servers just to complete the map.

I am on the Henge of Denravi server, which lately has not been able to keep more than a handful of territories in WvW due to the mass exodus of WvW players. I am a PvE player, but am frustrated to be stuck in the 90% range of map completion because of WvW.

My suggestion to fix this issue, without having to switch servers, is to add an option when traveling to WvW to make your character neutral. He/she can not see, or attack any other characters and could freely explore the map unhindered. What may even be an easier option is to make a neutral “overflow” type map which you can opt into. Here you can see other characters from other servers but everyone would be neutral as in PvE. Not only would it provide a means of friendly server interaction but as a means of completing the map.

Or simply remove the WvW requirement for 100% map completion.