Guild Wars 2

So anet either forgot about small roaming guilds when they made the new system or they really hate us and want to encourage us to just run with a zerg.

Have you checked if you can buy that component on the trading post?

Nidome.1365:

DaniTheHero.6318:

The new guild system hinders small guilds rather then helps them. Each upgrade has a minimum price of 300G to make.

The missions aren’t the issue, they required the same amount of people before HoT. But now the upgrades are impossible unless every guild memeber showers the storage with 100G each.

Actually Missions don’t require the same number of people – We used to solo/duo guild missions a lot before HoT. Now we need a minimum of 3 people.

Also, in the old system it was primarily influence that was needed for upgrades, not merits. So you could upgrade your guild quite a bit without ever doing guild missions.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Meerkatjie.7402:

I’ve been looking around and haven’t found any definitive answers about how small guilds are being handled with the new expansion. I have a small guild (2 active members and 2 semi-active members) where the active members have bought HoT and the others are unlikely too.

I understand that we will need to adventure to unlock the guild hall and that it will likely require at least 5+ players to do so. Is this true and if so how are guilds like mine meant to manage it?

This is what the Guild Initiative is for. It’s an instance, just like Guild Halls, with all the amenities of Guild Halls, minus the ability to use decorations.

You can’t get a war room there. It’s not an alternative for small wvw guilds.

SkyShroud.2865:

Shukriyya.7629:

SkyShroud.2865:

you should be honest about if you really deserve the guild hall, a guild hall that is as big as a city. a guild hall that can be claimed by 4.

I’m speaking for myself here but I’m pretty sure that others will agree: I don’t need and don’t want a guild hall that is “as big as a city” for my guild. I wish anet had designed smaller halls as well, halls that fit better for smaller guilds and are less expensive to obtain. Big guilds could still go for their big halls and smaller guilds could go for something that may not be as big but gives them the same functionality (access to consumables like banners, the ability to help their server in wvw with the +5 supplies buff, etc.).

By anet definition, 2 person isn’t a guild. HOWEVER, anet did not stop you from ASKING others to help you obtain the guild hall. The thing is, a lot of the complains that I read isn’t even that serious or really big deal, it is more of complete refusal to ask people to help to obtain the hall.

You refuse to ask for help, anet did not even ban you from getting the guild hall. The option is there, it is you, yourself that refuse to seek for temporary help.

I’m not refusing to ask for help. I’ve been getting help from friends who are in small guilds as well and I’ve been helping them out, too. What I’m asking for is to make things easier for small guilds e.g. by introducing smaller guild halls. Small guilds don’t have the same amount of gold and resources available as big guilds and it will take us very long to get our old upgrades back – you know, the upgrades that we already earned in the old system.

Hahaha, beautiful!

/cheer

SkyShroud.2865:

you should be honest about if you really deserve the guild hall, a guild hall that is as big as a city. a guild hall that can be claimed by 4.

I’m speaking for myself here but I’m pretty sure that others will agree: I don’t need and don’t want a guild hall that is “as big as a city” for my guild. I wish anet had designed smaller halls as well, halls that fit better for smaller guilds and are less expensive to obtain. Big guilds could still go for their big halls and smaller guilds could go for something that may not be as big but gives them the same functionality (access to consumables like banners, the ability to help their server in wvw with the +5 supplies buff, etc.).

I appreciate that anet tried to reward us with these, giving us the possibility to get materials we weren’t able to get in wvw before but I still prefer the old nodes, because it gave you something to do while you ran around the map. The new maps just seem lifeless – no players, no trees, no ore, no plants that can be harvested.

It also rewards the players on dominating servers more, as they have access to more nodes and it might promote karmatraining.

Xenesis.6389:

I just looked at the war room upgrades, the +5 upgrade is locked behind guild levl 37. Even claiming camps, towers, keeps, SMC now requires their own upgrades.

Thanks for screwing over small groups Anet, thank you so much.

Oh wow, it will take me forever to get there (if I ever do). Thanks for sharing this information!

I agree as well. I’d also really like the option to show only groups for the map I’m on – as in all available groups on any version of e.g. Sparkfly Fen. That would make it a lot easier to find taxis into populated maps.

We’re talking about the map you see when you press “m” – check the link in my post above for a screenshot.

Glad to hear you’ve been able to find it. Seems they think they deserve a little time off too sometimes. XD

Does this mean that nodes have been disabled temporarily because of a bug? I didn’t spot a single ore, tree or harvesting plant in wvw last night. Would be a shame if they had been removed permanently!

Yeah, it’s kind of amazing how terrible it looks.

(There’s another thread about this topic here.)

Check your bank – there has been a bug that made salvage kits move to your bank if you salvaged with your bank open in the background. I definitely remember people reporting this with the silver-fed salvage-o-matic and I’ve personally experienced a master’s salvage kit disappearing, so maybe it happens with the copper-fed salvage-o-matic, too?

Oh wow, that looks terrible! XD

volpenvieh.3201:

Yeah, WvW guild buffs have been removed. But at least that was announced.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/rethinking-guilds/

Oh, so it’s gone for good. RIP.

Puck.9612:

Shukriyya.7629:

volpenvieh.3201:

Did I miss an announcement for that?

I’m in the same boat, volpenvieh, and I was thinking the same thing when I read the patch notes. Not a fan of this change, as it’s just another thing that makes my playstyle less effective. First they take away our +5 and now we need even more supplies for guild catas? I thought the new map was supposed to discourage zerging?

Did they really take away +5? I was only able to log on for a few minutes this morning, I thought I just couldn’t find it.

I couldn’t find anything specific in anet’s blog and forum posts, but I assume it’s locked behind the guild hall and war room upgrade/scribe levelling, which will certainly take roamers a while to get.

volpenvieh.3201:

Did I miss an announcement for that?

I’m in the same boat, volpenvieh, and I was thinking the same thing when I read the patch notes. Not a fan of this change, as it’s just another thing that makes my playstyle less effective. First they take away our +5 and now we need even more supplies for guild catas? I thought the new map was supposed to discourage zerging?

Haha, this is hilarious!

Menadena.7482:

Shukriyya.7629:

Nemui.6753:

requesting a report option for inappropriate guild names.

And guild tags! And also pet names while we’re at it.

Unfortunately those are not exactly defined. For example, I usually sport a LGBT tag … which would be a HUGE no-no in some countries (I read one international person complaining that the transgendered NPC was offending his country’s & religion’s mores so she had to go to avoid him seeing her). There is also the problem that a perfectly innocent word in one language may be not so in another.

Yeah, I’m sure anet would dismiss any complaints about an LGBT tag. I’m thinking of guilds that have innocuous names which can be shortened to offensive acronyms which are then used as the guild tag. It’s usually fairly obvious in those cases that someone was just trying to get something past the censors.

Nemui.6753:

requesting a report option for inappropriate guild names.

And guild tags! And also pet names while we’re at it.

Hazelaar.5720:

/Oh my gosh you mean you can actually play keg brawl?!/

I ran across the npcs talking about when I was exploring Hoelbrak and was disappointed I couldn’t do anything. Afterwards I figured it was just flavor-text and never checked back in about it!

Yes, you can play it on Sundays! Check it out, it’s my favourite of the activities.

Zephyra.4709:

This could simply be avoided by not automatically consuming the newly acquired boosters (so that we may choose which toon to make use of them on; variety).

I agree. I’m not really a fan of boosters as is, but automatically consumed boosters are a lot worse. If they have to give us boosters, they should at least let us choose when to use them.

Zephyra.4709:

The only positive thing I can think of out of this whole concept is at least ANet is finding a way to give incentive for players to stay/play in WvW via giving them boosters, however, as you’ve already stated – there are times where you will want to use them or not and this is key for the success of the motive behind this change.

As the boosters give rewards for all kinds of experience, no one will have to stay in wvw to get some use out of it. Thus, it’s not really an incentive to keep playing wvw, but only to keep playing.

The title will mean nothing because pretty much everyone will have it, yaaaaay!

I’d like anet to make the activities permanent again, too.

Keg brawl can be a lot of fun! I had some nice games a week ago shortly before the daily reset. Unfortunately most of the time you get AP hunters in your team who either run off with a keg to farm interceptions or score for the enemy team…

For Crab Toss, use the stuff you can get from the crates. Fishing poles are very useful to steal the crab and planks are nice as well. For the offhand I like the Southsun punch to heal myself when the karka hatchlings pick on me while I’m carrying the crab.

Masteravatar.1509:

My suggestion is to advise the Community that the reset will go back to Fridays within an approximate time frame as Johns post can be misread as indefinate with no timeframe.

They can’t do that because reset might never be changed back to Fridays. All they’ve said so far is that they will reevaluate the change some undetermined time in the future – they may well decide that Saturday is better if they ever get around to it.

For the record, I’m not a fan of having the mindless end-of-the-match-up karmatrain on Friday night/Saturday.

What about the WvW Fort +5 Supply item? Will it carry over?

Not sure if this is going to help you, but my friend and I did this event a day ago. We were waiting for about an hour for it to start.

Yeah, guildies in your party are now yellow dots. However, unlike the blue dots they disappear completely from your minimap once they leave the area covered by your minimap, which is a clear disadvantage. Hopefully anet will change that or – better yet – just get rid of the yellow dots again, which are harder to see.

I don’t stand around enough in LA to have noticed this, but I’ll check it out some time if I remember. Thanks for pointing this out (and for the lovely Holmes/Watson dialogue)!

Jana.6831:

My point still stands: Ultimate Dominator is a zerg runner title (nothing wrong with that), Yakslapper should be a roaming title.
It would be great when the amount of stuff which has to be killed reflected both playstyles as Ultimate Dominator is comparatively high.

I agree. If Ultimate Dominator isn’t going to be changed, the amount of dolys killed for Yakslapper should be higher, too. I’m nowhere near getting Ultimate Dominator as I don’t run around in a zerg enough for that, but I have 10k+ dolyak kills. 2.5k kills for Yakslapper seems very, very low to me.

It fits though – it’s a displaced spirit after all. I wouldn’t mind if they never fixed it.

It’s a bug with the Royal Guard outfit that happens to charr and norn characters: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Nameplate-Bug-Royal-Guard-Outfit/first#post5432286

Holland.9351:

Just get a Mystic Forge Conduit and make a few Superior Siege when you have time.

They only costs 110g at the moment and the price keeps going down.

That doesn’t fix the issue of having to click a billion times. Creating new forge recipes that enable us to make higher amounts of superior siege at once would, and I don’t think it would be hard to implement.

Malice.8439:

I have 330. Would love to grab a bank tab – not sure if I want to buy 800 gems just to be able to spend 150 of them. :P

Just use the custom exchange function to exchange gold for those 150 gems.

Zachary Stiers.1879:

With Heart of Thorns the exotic equipment purchased with gold and Badges of Honor will become salvageable. Salvaging a piece of this gear returns only the upgrades that were applied and some Badges of Honor.

That’s wonderful news! \o/

Mocambo.8462:

Please have a look at the latest patch, I’m losing blueprints before deploying them in the place, ex: use it and equip in your hand than move around a bit, just few steps.

I lost some superior treb and a superior ram, didnt happen with normal rams, normal acs, superior acs.

PS: for Iost I mean they re not in the inventory, they’re not on the ground, they re just lost.(disappeared)

I lost a superior cata this way.

No, you’re not, but it seems that the issue disappeared again for most people:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/underwater-black-screen/first
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Graphics-settings-reset-after-each-map-load/first

I’m very glad to see this issue fixed. Thank you, David and everyone else who worked on this!

We should just be able to change the colour of accessories in the armor dye window.

Batelle.1680:

Clearly what Anet should have done was make a Bootleg Dye Pack that allows players to choose from a selection of dyes that are identical to the ones we can already get, but that are packaged in plain brown bottles and have misspelled or poorly translated names. That way the gift has value to veteran players who want to level-up their Pretty Princess skill while others can feel superior in the knowledge that they have the ~real thing~, purchased with their own sweat and blood the way King Prestige demands.

Hahaha, that would have been funny!

This is an amazing present! Well done, Anet! \o/

azizul.8469:

nice gifts, but the lvl 30 exp scroll is not necessarily good though, especially if you want to create a character that park near and open JP chest….

I think the silver doubloons drop for characters that are level 21-35, so it should be fine – if that’s what you’re concerned about.

Hi inch!

I’m on RoF – always have been, always will be. I don’t usually play in the afternoon, but I assume that it’s a little more busy at this time than it would be on FoW, just because we have more numbers. Are you mostly into roaming?

Do you play prime time, too? That’s when things are usually most interesting in our match-ups – guild groups and open mics are running and there’s always roamers about as well.

Take a look at our website at www.rof-community.com if you’re interested!

Maybe a title like “Infinitely patient”.

Maybe they changed the personal story rewards? I just finished The Battle of Claw Island (level 60) on my charr ranger and I received 1 Small Bag of Spirit Shards, 5 Bags of Loot, 1 Trackless Boots, 1 Claw Island Keepsake and 1 Letter of Commendation. :/

ETA: Nevermind, I just realised that the part of the chapter that I played was never supposed to drop a key. Oops!

1. Various dates and times. It started happening after the patch prior to the June 23 patch, on June 17, at around 15:00 European server time.

2. Shukriyya.7629 – I have only experienced it happening to two of my characters (the ranger and the necro).

3. Diessa Plateau, Wayfarer Foothills, Caledon Forest, possibly more

4. various spots

5. map exploration – mostly just running through the map or doing hearts; world boss event in Wayfarer Foothills (I randomly died before the event and afterwards.)

6. no gifs available

7. —

8. The first time it happened other people reported experiencing the same thing as well (June 17 in Diessa Plateau). Things disappeared from the map (vista, npcs, enemies, heart items) and I randomly dropped dead. If I logged out at the “things disappearing” stage and logged in again, I spawned in unreachable places that were far from where I was before (e.g. once I logged out at Raintimber Mill and spawned in the wall north of North Nolan Hatchery). I sent in a bug report at that time and could provide some screenshots from the spawn locations if necessary.

At other times I didn’t notice anything disappearing and just dropped dead. Other people were unable to resurrect me. One time before I died my underwater weapon skills showed up even though I was not underwater on my screen.

EB works like the borderlands – you’ll only see people from your own server and from the two servers you’re fighting in the current match-up.

Basically, in wvw you can choose between four different maps: EB, the borderland of server 1, the borderland of server 2 and the borderland of server 3. EotM was originally introduced as a map you could join while in queue for “real” wvw but today many play there to level their characters or to farm karma/gold even if there aren’t any queues on any of their maps.

It takes a couple of weeks or months for a server to nightcap their way up. By the time you make it to more challenging match-ups your ex-gold league guilds have probably already decided to move to a different server. :/ Good luck!

The same things were happening to me in Diessa Plateau on the day after the patch and wvw players have been reporting these issues as well (see here and here), so it’s not something that is confined to just Fireheart Rise.

I have the server time in my mini map and my local time in my chat window – maybe this would work for you too?