Guild Wars 2

Hrrm I find it pretty hard to believe that they don’t have access to the data servers storing our character information, it’s not just randomly put somewhere. There’s a specific spot for it and in that specific spot is a series of servers that connect to another series and somewhere in that is a monitor with a keyboard and mouse attached. While I am surely simplifying things I can’t be too far off in my guess that it could be changed with a bit of work. Nothing is impossible.

So ummm what happens if heaven forbid you have server errors?

Put aside the hacking issue.

You’re talking 100,000 or more accounts instantly wiped?

What about hard coding people’s stuff back? Forget rolling it back, if people say they had a level 80 thief with such and such stuff why can’t you just put it back on their account? Let’s not forget that the security feature to change all the information on an account is non existent and that it’s been a known issue since day 1.

Let them make up a character the way they want, when they’re done go to the server terminal plug in level 80 instead of level 1. Give them 5g or something and send them on their merry way.

There has to be some compromise in this situation. Way back when EQ started having this issue they at least gave your character back and gave you a starter kit of sorts.

All the people that are victims are just being given “I’m sorry, this is something we hope to do in the future.”

I don’t even see how that helps you? You want us to recommend this game to our friends and family? How many of those people that you are not helping are going to do that for you?

“Ya sure the game was fun, until I got blamed for my account being stolen. Then when I got it back days later it was empty, and I was told sorry hope to help you in the future.”

ShadowX.4639:

http://transcendentveneration.guildportal.com/Guild.aspx?GuildID=447231&TabID=3829021&TopicID=10225985&ForumID=2158899#forumEnd

This is a snapshot of my original tweet about this issue. Can’t put it up here so put it up on our guild site. Notice that it’s at guildportal, nothing in this link takes you anywhere bad.

Someone in my guild informed the link isn’t working. It’s something to do with the link being rewritten thru Anet’s “you are leaving our site” page. If you copy the link and put it into a new tab it directs you to the forum page. Otherwise I guess it sends you to our guild page.

Which if you just go to forums and general you can find the post I am linking to.

I think you mean first form of authentication.

In the end it doesn’t really matter how they are getting the accounts. I’m sure it’s a mix of easily cracked passwords, viruses, email databases and pw brute forcing. The end game is that people are getting their stuff jacked and everyone in the community should be in an uproar over it not blaming their fellow players for thieves that indiscriminately digitally high jack anything that will see a profit.

Seriously Anet should drop everything they are doing and put in the security measures that are needed to ensure account’s aren’t getting hit non stop. How many players are they going to lose over this before they decide it has priority over everything else they are doing?

Anet can get mad at me for continually posting in here if they want… I think the 5,000+ people should be all in here posting the exact same thing until a security update is put in.

Furthermore an acknowledgement of the problem would go a long way.

“Dear players we’re sorry, we will be working around the clock to ensure your accounts go back into the rightful owners hands and try our best to return your account to it’s original state.”

My deepest apologies if something like this has already been said and I have missed it!

Anet can quote me and just repost that and I’d be fine with it.

Maybe I should work on getting our guild of nearly 300+ to come in and help make this issue rise to the top.

That seems like a bold statement Leyse, do you have a link where they stated that? I thought I remembered something quite the opposite being said. Trying to track down the post.

I think all the people saying they are king on movement didn’t really read what he originally posted…

You might walk / run fastest but that’s not what his post is about.

Keep on the forums, if you don’t like something say it. The only way things are going to be improved is if we keep on here telling what we think needs to change. When enough people come on here in the same manner on the same subject then problem will be viewed more seriously I think.

http://transcendentveneration.guildportal.com/Guild.aspx?GuildID=447231&TabID=3829021&TopicID=10225985&ForumID=2158899#forumEnd

This is a snapshot of my original tweet about this issue. Can’t put it up here so put it up on our guild site. Notice that it’s at guildportal, nothing in this link takes you anywhere bad.

All of these account issues you are having to deal with can be fixed with 1 simple solution.

Make an account recovery connected to the original email address. “If you have lost access to your account click here” Sends a link in the original email address to reset the PW.

And done…. 500000 cases are off your desk and you can worry about the accounts that have worse problems like both the account and email address being compromised.

… So umm there IS a confirmation….

However it only says something like “If you did not make this change please contact support.” It SHOULD do a “click this link” to confirm the change, but it doesn’t.

There is absolutely nothing to stop anyone from changing your account information once they have it, the account is theirs.

I know I sent a tweet to you guys like day of or day before head start for this exact issue. And now we have tons and tons of people with no accounts. Worse you have tons and tons of people buying accounts that were hacked, hackers making $ of your game and the real people that would have bought more gems etc giving absolutely nothing towards your profit margin because their account was stolen.

Pretty nice cycle of everyone getting screwed and the hacker’s coming out on top currently.

They steal legit accounts sell em for cash, people with lots of cash buy the accounts. Now you have 2 people claiming ownership of 1 account. Or you just have the hackers spamming gold or just utterly abusing the account in general.

No matter the outcome you’ve got 1 foot in the grave currently if the security doesn’t get fixed. If you can’t keep up with the current flood, how are you going to keep up as the flood intensifies? Pretty soon you won’t have anyone to pay for your game except the hackers that are willing to do anything and everything to not only steal and cheat the players but also you.

Anet I don’t know why this is an issue? Day 1 of headstart I tweeted you and said this was going to happen… There’s nothing confirming the change of the accounts. Nor anything for “forgot password” to try to recover your account thru email.

And now look at the mess we’re all in… This has got to be creating more trouble than it would have taken to put some kind of security bulkhead into changing the account information. Every free web game on the net practically has you right your name in blood to change your password. But we can do it freely here and without a thought. Database of email addresses and 10000 free pw guessing utilities and your losing paying players left and right.

Just saying something like this should have never been. I’m sad, for all of us waiting to be a victim and to all that have been victimized. Good luck Tyria!

I love how people play 1 build with the engineer that works, or have never played any other profession and claim everything is fine. " Our superiors say the war is cancelled. We can all go home."

I don’t believe that we are on par in damage or survivability. I believe we need to be tougher if they’re going to keep most of our stuff close range combat style… it’s impossible to use bomb’s, wrench kit, flamethrower and the closer range abilities in rifle and pistol to any great extent when anyone in sPvP / any mob in PvE can peel our faces off with just a couple hits. Dodge only gets you so far. The reason grenades are great is because we can kite like no other and never let anything come within melee range to kill us.

1 range option for us? vs like 3 melee and 2 or 3 hybrid’s?

I’d just worry about getting the regeneration for having on kits. That way if you decide you want to play around with other kits the option is there. Use Elixir U in combination with any kit and you can get some really good burst damage. Don’t even really need a kit equipped your rifle or pistol combo’s will work fine with it. But I think the regen helped me most leveling up.

Umm Harpy’s fix sounds complicated, do what someone else suggested. I posted this in Guru when I finally figured it out.

Swim to the shore, stay underwater drop the sheath.
Go onto land and nudge close enough to pick up the sheath without going into the water, and viola you’re no longer progression blocked.

My wife and my friend and his wife play together, when I que for WvW I sit there for 2 hours or more while all 3 of them get in within a few mins of que’ing up. I’m wondering if there is a known or unknown bug with this?

I realize there are lots of people que’ing but when 3/4 of the people que’ing at the same time get in around the same time and I’m still sitting for an hour or more it makes me wonder if something’s up.

I’m onboard with the change it back the way it was. It didn’t used to be a boon to my knowledge? When it was cool it just was. Making it unstealable if that was the issue they were having with it.

If the kits and weapons behave the same how come they don’t behave the same? Wouldn’t they be the same type of coding involved? Seems like you could just copy the bit of code that makes auto attack into the weapon kits? Probably just wishful thinking.

I honestly didn’t feel forced into grenades until they changed the Juggernaut ability for the Flamethrower, now I feel that my only viable way of doing anything useful is with the grenades. The pistol and rifle don’t have the range, while they (can) hit hard they are sadly not as effective. More especially in PvE when you can accidently pierce through your target and draw more guys on you, or just aggro more mobs when you’re kiting your current target around. In Orr when 1 reg mob can kill you with ease getting add’s is not very healthy for you. I don’t know if you’ve tried to play in any dungeon’s yet but I really felt it more so there than anywhere else in the game so far.
Even with Med Kit for F1 heal, then Elixir Gun giving F2 regen, then Elixir Gun’s 5 ability for regen, plus traits for regen while using a kit. I never healed fast enough on myself or anyone else to save my neck when it mattered. Maybe I’m supposed to try to spec into full healing?

Oh by the way I tried that in the BWE’s I went into sPvP and did fulling healing gear and spec’d into bombs. They healed for about 243 if I recall correctly… Mobs in Orr hit for 1k. So you can heal roughly 1/3 of 1 mob’s 1 attack? In sPvP it was useless that pathetic amount didn’t even phase a player attacking you. I’m sure none even realized I was trying to heal myself in all honesty.

Well I guess my idea of the rework comes from having played the warrior and using skills like 100 blades. I think more professions should have skills that are going to annihilate the opposition if used in the right circumstances. I’ve seen thieves that have been able to burst around 13k dmg on me in the space of only a few seconds. Seeing these other professions be able to do so well makes me think that we’re not even hitting the average in the game.

Also my survivability opinion comes from playing in the dungeons with my friends, while we were all dieing no one was getting killed more than me. We all had similar gear and it was just crazy how long some of them were able to live / what they were able to live through. I was setup with Med Kit, Elixir Gun and Grenades so I was fighting long range and had 2 heals in the F-abilities to hit, PLUS had trait regen and it never seemed to matter. Things were able to kill me in 1 shot a lot of times.

While I have no idea what the intentions of Anet are for the Engineer, I have played it exclusively since BWE1 doing nothing but sPvP and now up to lvl 80 in PvE. That being said I’d just like to make a general comment that I think our profession is underpowered, and does not have very good survivability.

On to the meat of the post:
I have an idea for remaking the flamethrower to do more damage. Change our 1 and 2 abilities around and rework them. Change the 2 to 1 and bring the ability’s damage down and lower the CD to make it more balanced. Then raise the CD on the 1 ability and change it into 2 making it a big damage burst ability. I think you need to also change the knockback into the pull in we had before, give it the same knockdown effect but pull victims into us rather than away from us. Why are we pushing people away with a short range kit? I would rather have something where we are trying to pull them in. Then my BIG issue is that we got our Juggernaut ability screwed up…. How about you keep the stability and make it proc on a critical hit or make it proc when we are hit with a certain ?(not a great solution but it’s something) We have nothing left that gives stability to my knowledge and it’s kinda vital in sPvP. I think every? other profession has a button for stability that they can hit, so why were we ganked so hard? 50 movement penalty seemed pretty huge to me, just wondering where the decision was to change something that was already working?