Guild Wars 2

Dropper.9176:

@Joriel

http://www.ruinnation.com/

" Guild Wars 2

Having climbed to the top of the European bracket and conquered the French menace Ruin Gaming looks for new challenges. We thank all of our allies and those who have fought alongside us for their contributions and encourage them to join us in future games.

Ruin will maintain a small force in Guild Wars 2 to ensure the departure of the remaining French server Vizunah from tier one.

Ruin Gaming We have long been frustrated by many of the more fundamental problems plaguing Guild Wars 2. World versus World in Guild Wars remains very limited, offering only two maps and harsh player caps. Technical problems such as the notorious “player culling” coupled with rampant exploiting and third party hacks further cripple an otherwise promising game. Hopefully Arenanet will give these serious issues the attention they deserve. Guild Wars 2 remains a free to play game which will allow us to return if and when new relevant pvp content is made available. "

I just hope that whatever game they move to next (someone said planetside 2) has plenty of doors.

Actually Genev, you can stop them I think if you organize the efforts.

Just make sure enough people stays online during the EU night time so they cant transfer. I think the game only autologs your character if you are afk in a WvW/sPvP situation. I think you can stay logged on in LA for an extended period of time. :P

But anyways, RUIN transfering for more easy wins isnt a suprise to me if it happens.

I do hope Anet reads through this thread before releasing the ascendant gear the way they plan to.

Most people (as far as I can tell from the posts) would be fine with ascendant gear aslong as stats ARENT higher than exotic gear. This would be an easy change to do before release, its just about switching a little bit of code.

Stick to your manifesto, the thing people looked up to when deciding to buy your game Anet. Dont stray from your own ideas, you will just end up being another MMO failing at trying to be WoW, we dont need another WoW, people left WoW to not play WoW. We started to play GW2 because it was so much different.

I’ve seen numerous quotes to your manifesto aswell as quotes from individual designers that clearly lines out what a wrong decision it is to introduce the ascendant gear the way you play to. It goes against EVERYTHING the team/manifesto has previously said.

Tssk… Tssk… Tssk… bad bad move.

My opinion is, keep ascendant gear stats the same as exotic, include all current stat combos (rabid, valkyrie, carrion, zerker etc.). Have the infusions give dungeon specific bonuses only (which they probably will already). Add a nice extra MF bonus onto ascendant gear.

Something like.

exotic level stat a
exotic level stat b
exotic level stat c
x% MF
Infusion slot

This would have no impact on WvW, but would be a huge bonus while farming aswell as in specific dungeons.

Why havent Anet done this? Its the easiest solution to not have PvE impact on PvP and PvE players would get progress.

This way they could increase the quality of infusions when they like and possibly add new gear with more infusion slots for the PvE crowd to obtain. This would make gear stronger for PvE and have zero effect on PvP.

Or if the current ascendant gear only comes with pow, pres and MF I’m fine with it. Since its far from optimal gear to PvP in. I rather use exotics with stats I do want in that case.

If you just used the legendary skin you are screwed. If you actually use the legendary as it is now (with non optimal stats for your spec) you will get a buff some time in the future.

I doubt that legendaries and ascendant gear will have a multitude of stat options. It will probably be very limited. So reskinning exotics will probably still serve a better purpose, outside the dungeons you need infusions in aswell as WvW.

If we get a multitude of stat options I have no clue what effect it will have on the game, except a negative one for those that dont want legendaries at all or grind dungeons a.k.a the people that want to just WvW.

Yep if they remove the stat bonus things will be fine with me. Its the only thing i have against it currently.

Make it exotic stats with infusion slot.

The end.

People actually supporting the ascendant gear are really close minded.

1. We. got a promise before release this game wouldnt have a threadmill, its been quoted several times already here.
2. We got promised an equal playing field in WvW. All you need is gold which doesnt take long to get.
3. Gear would only have a cosmetic impact, not stats.

They go against all 3 points with ascendant gear and how it works now. So the people pro this release say the following:

1. It’s only a minor stat increase, it wont have a big impact on WvW.
2. They arent using full exotics in WvW so they dont see the big change, they claim you dont need full exotics to compete. So if you dont get the ascendant gear its no biggy.
3. Ascendant gear will be the new top tier, so once you have it you have it.

We’ve currently seen 1 ring as an example with magic find, what happens when that ring becomes a ring with crit damage? Thats alot of extra crit damage.

Right now everyone can get full top gear without doing dungeons, dungeons are there as an option. After patch it will be mandatory if you want top gear to PvP (doesnt make one bit of sense to me).

Ascendant gear will be the top tier after patch, until the next patch. And then we start to get more and more stat inflation alá WoW. Also with the hint of legendaries becoming buffed means everyone will need to get them. Too bad for us that didnt want the skins and skipped them early on now are shafted due to gold sellers and gold buyers (thanks for fixing that Anet…).

I guess they only ripped me off around 120 Euro total for the game and stuff I bought in the gems store under false hopes and expectations that an MMO company would do something original and not listen to the WoW crowd (most who have already left the game).

Thats alteast how I currently feel if these items become usable in WvW.

Also, you’ve done a great job giving the elitists another thing to pick on people about, not only dungeon stats, also optimal tier items with higher combat stats.

When will MMO companies learn?

If the gear is craftable it will be ok, but according to the blogspot it seems that only the back piece will be craftable through the mystic forge along with infusions.

Only way this is acceptable is if they add ascendant gear obtainable through WvW or keep it as dungeon only gear. If they force us to do dungeons to be able to be on equal footing in WvW I might leave the game alltogether.

Or if they rethink the stupid idea of making it better than exotics. Add infusion slots on exotic level gear and call it acendant, that way the stats only effect pve encounters but not WvW.

Huge let down for me reading the blogspot. Sad day indeed. And it made NOTHING clearer compared to the mmorpg article, just fussy info from Anet still leaving us in the dark what ascendant gear will really be.

Dungeons only? Yes? No? Answer us kitten

If this has any impact on WvW and we get no way to obtain it outside of dungeons, then they might lose a whole lot of people.

Hopefully this is just gear you can use in instances/pve, which still isnt good, because then you will get the elitist kind of people in random pugs and its WoW all over again.

The idea behind GW2 as far as I can remember reading was that there would be no threadmills that were mandatory.

4 toons, one node run per toon if you know the locations and you have 20g in an hour or an hour and a half.

Still a waste of good money to buy a “gaming” laptop. They give overpriced a new meaning.

Same with alienware and all other brand gaming computers, you pay for the brand and not the parts. You can build the exact same one cheaper from scratch, 30-50% cheaper mostly.

My suggestion is, head over to the closest custom computer shop that builds PCs on demand, tell them what you want it to achieve and they will build it for you. A friend of mine got a monster tower PC built for 17000 SEK, thats roughly 2k euro, if he was going to buy something similar to that with a brand name it would cost 30k.

Brands = ripoff

Toons as far as I know came around with the animated characters that lives in Toontown, the town in Roger Rabbit.

Toon = Animated character, comes from the word cartoon.

I dont see why people have an issue with the word toon, since its nothing new and its a perfectly fitting word that can be used instead of char/character/avatar and so on.

I run a similae build

10 (burn proc)
30 (range, damage, cd reduction)
0
0
30 (discharge, gadget cd reduction, end regen), Planning on going speedy kits since I use med kit.

Weapon: Rifle
Utility: Goggles, Ram, Rifle Turret
Elite: Supply

Its a question of player to player priority.

You cant base everything around the mind of one player. I also doubt that the Lost event will take up too much time. It will probably be something along the lines of MK popping up in LA, then you can do Lost when you want, since it will change the world and probably bring a new zone into the game (without Risen I sure hope).

On the subject of recruiting more players from NA or even EU I dont think it will work.

While being a good idea for any server I honestly dont think there is room for any larger transfers.

Me and my friend transfered yesterday from FSP. We both tried to transfer on tuesday night around 22.00 CET, I got my transfer off but it bugged, so I had to redo it yesterday afternoon at around 15.00 CET. My friend had tried from 22.00 on tuesday and didnt get a chance until 12.00 something CET yesterday. It was full non-stop.

There might be a small gap between 00.00-06.00 and 15.00-17.00 CET when its just high, but during most other times of the day Deso is indeed full. I’d hate to even think about weekend population and transfer possibilities.

So trying to get a whole guild in might not be very easy. We also dont know how many spots it takes to fill it up from high status.

Easy solution to counter corpse spies.

Either a black screen or the world map with a rezz button. No way to spy.

It’s a JP in a OPvP zone, its not considered PvE content. So calling it griefing isnt a viable argument. Just like calling it griefing when you get killed on PvP servers in other games.

You chose to go there/roll there. You know what comes with the territory, you arent forced to be there.

The JP also offers PvP rewards, so I dont see whats so hard to understand.

Galen Knapp, guardian trainer in LA.

Mostly because his name sounds very funny if you’re swedish. :P

a.k.a Crazy Button

Got an 80 engi myself that I enjoy but I’m currently leveling a ranger.

Engis have a ton of options. Both grenade and bomb kits are popular aswell as rifle+toolbelt burst specs. They all deal massive damage.

I run a rifle+toolbelt (lightning discharge trait) spec myself. Nice range, very high damage. Its quite the glasscannon, but I only have a hard time vs mesmers and thieves really. Anything else gets destroyed very fast unless its really tanky, and if its tanky you can kite it all day long with immob, roots, knockbacks, cripples and all that.

I’ve played ranger in sPvP since beta aswell but didnt start to level it until recently. Many people say the longbow is bad, but I do well with it. I run with longbow and axe+warhorn. Now I’m leveling him to get another WvW toon and will be sticking to my LB/Axe+WH.

Snort.3698:

SneakyErvin.3056:

Snort.3698:

The solution for FSP may be a server move to a server with space in your Primetime and cover outside. Blacktide is the only EU server that fits the bill, a few US server may too.

The process of creating a server is laborious.

Please, just please, think a bit before posting a “solution for FSP”.

How does it solve any issues with FSP WvW attendance, coverage and PuG morale? Please tell me how this will somehow save FSP from the situation we are in?

It would be a solution for the players that cant stand losing until we regain control or get back on our feat. Outside of that all it would do would be to cripple FSP even more. If we move it wont be FSP, it will be “add random server name”.

let me explain, You havent loyalty to the piece of hardware your on or to the Software it runs. Any server loyalty you have is to those you play with In WvW.

As it is you have an issue, no night coverage. You either accept it or deal with it.

How do you deal with it, you recruit in cover or move to a place that provides that cover. If you move in the EU to a server that has cover for when your weak there is only one server that you not face a huge queue for battlegrounds(that has slots available at a time convenient to you). Blacktide.

Moving to a different shard on possibly the same physical server is not a real change if you bring those you play with across to. For all intents and putpose it would still be FSP.

That is why I was suggesting it as a solution to your problems.

Nope doesnt solve any server problem. All it solves would be personal problems. Just like every server jumper that cant take a loss. Just joining the strongest server at every new match up and such.

Maybe you dont feel any loyalty to the server, that doesnt go for everyone. It just happens to be how this system is designed with the free unlimited server transfers, no factions and all, people lose all sense of loyalty.

Any solution that is a blow to the hackers is a good solution in my book, even if this solution removes some of the thrill.

Good move.

Well alot of FS people have gotten bored of facing nightcapping servers for so many weeks now. We dont get any break from it and sadly we dont get any night fighters to our server.

When I started playing GW2 I expected DaoC style PvP. Only reason its so loopholed in GW2 is because its SvSvS, not FvFvF. Atleast when factions face off against eachother there are restrictions such as races. In GW2 its just to follow the tide if you happen to lose, no drawbacks whatsoever.

And the latest slap in the face was 7 day CD on transfers… really, 7 days… So people can still switch servers on demand between match ups. Sigh

Why not just make it 1 month CD on transfers? Thats the only viable solution.

There are currently too many bugs aswell as bad preformance in WvW that tick me off in addition to the sever imbalance. So the last few days I havent felt like queing. Might aswell spend the time on better things in-game/out of game until its fixed. Invisible zergs, major fps issues at places and such isnt my kind of fun.

Snort.3698:

The solution for FSP may be a server move to a server with space in your Primetime and cover outside. Blacktide is the only EU server that fits the bill, a few US server may too.

The process of creating a server is laborious.

Please, just please, think a bit before posting a “solution for FSP”.

How does it solve any issues with FSP WvW attendance, coverage and PuG morale? Please tell me how this will somehow save FSP from the situation we are in?

It would be a solution for the players that cant stand losing until we regain control or get back on our feat. Outside of that all it would do would be to cripple FSP even more. If we move it wont be FSP, it will be “add random server name”.

Two reasons why no one yells about culled mesmer stealth.

1) Culling bug might not apply to mesmer invis.
2) Mesmer stealth doesnt have any real impact on damage, so people just dont notice it.

The fights for EU players on US servers would also suck, since during our (EU) primetime there would be very little activity. Much like how it is now on EU servers during morning up til noon. Only difference is it would be the whole day.

Been there, done that in other games on US servers. Back then I used to be a nightcrawler so I played during US primetime. I wouldnt want to do it again. US players fit better in on EU server when it comes to switching timezones, since they are 8 hours behind. Thats just how the world turns.

There is only one thing I’d like to see, some form of free WP when it comes to ressing, placed at a central spot for those that dont mind running back from the “GY”.

Future expectations and hopes for GW2? Ok.

-Fixed culling in WvW and everywhere else.
-Optimize and fix WvW maps (keeps, snow, lightning etc) so fps loss and lag is minimal. Not fun running around at 80-100 fps (60 with vsync) and then drop to 15-20 in a keep combat, especially not when it works well in open field.
-Add more stuff to the game.

Honestly, I dont follow. Release them how? If there is a name you’ve had your eyes on and its not up for grabs chances are its in use by a GW player playing GW2.

What do you expect? A full list of names that were reserved? No thats not ever going to happen. Chances are the non-used GW names are up for grabs, but the one/ones you want arent.

You will never get a written list with all the names. By released they probably ment released i.e not locked anymore to any account, not released as in “press release”.

The system works just like if you delete a toon and use the name on another, you will have x time to use it, after that its up for grabs. If the name is in use it will never get released.

There are also no active/inactive accounts in this game since its not sub based. Even if they a player takes a 2 year leave of absence the name will still be his aslong as he has a character with the name.

Small workaround my friend told me.

After the cutscene, use the NPCs minimap dot to guide yourself back to the treb, then interact with the treb (press F) and it should go back to normal.

Hope it works.

Yeah having the same issues, aswell as horrible fps in some fights (inside keeps). The rendering issue is mostly noticeable for me around upgraded keeps.

Noticed that a few days back at the keep west of garrison, we took it when it was fully upgraded, had huge issues with enemy characters rendering. The after we took it the rendering seemed ok when they were attacking. Same horrible rendering issues while defending garrison, saw 2 out of 50 enemies standing in the “room” north of the north inner gate.

Please fix this issue and the fps issues. This game is centered around PvP. I dont think PvE players would be ok with dongeons being broken like this.

I havent done WvW in a few weeks, started up again last weekend only to see this horrible bug aswell as fps issues that I didnt have when I was in WvW before.

It’s not something I would do over and over, but it was indeed fun. Even though plenty of rage spilled out from me over skype etc.

I still enjoyed it very much and I wouldnt want to see any change.

I also did it on an Asura Engineer, took roughly 2.5h, had plenty of Norn/Charr competition. No speed boosts.

It’s very doable, not saying its easy, but very doable. So get back on that horsey and keep jumping.

Race: Asura
Profession: Engineer
Speedbuff: No
Time: 2.5h on day 1.
Rage: Yes

Same here, just finished a game, but no achievment count.

I mostly only humiliate corpse spies. Or if I bump into and kill 1 or 2 playing like cowards i.e skulking around afraid to attack me 1v2. Other than that I mostly just /salute people I kill.

I keep seeing the same kitten comments from the Deso crowd.

1. Get 24/7 coverage.
2. Deso didnt have as good coverage as FS earlier.
3. Ruin wanted competition.
4. Weekend scores being even.
5. Morning capping is as bad as night capping.

So ok, to answer these claims/suggestions.

1. Why didnt you take your own advice back on the US servers in the first place?
2. You’re a EU server, try and attract EU guilds or get your people interested. Recruiting americans is a cheesy and easy solution.
3. Uhm lol. Competition would be staying in the US and trying to even out the servers.
4. Weekends doesnt matter, its not when scores get uneven, its during the week when the free capping is going on and europeans cant cover that time. Thats when you pull ahead easily.
5. No not nearly. Its just a very bad excuse. There is a very big difference between 2-3 hours and 7-9 hours.

The solution and change that Anet should take is the following. This wont impact any players time or peak hour, it wont give much benefits to neither nightcapping or morning capping.

-Scores should ONLY happen during weekends (friday 23.59 to sunday 23.59. Rest of the week should be centered around buffing up keeps, getting orbs and taking/holding for server buffs. The scores for the two weekends would then be added up to see who moves up/down.

This way every server will have a chance to advance if they have a weekend fighting crowd, the time of the week when everyone can stay up and play, no matter time differences. Servers wouldnt be able to pull ahead during weekdays if this was implemented, there would still be a reason to WvW.

Hope you enjoy the newly migrated instant gratification must-win kitteners that left FS for Deso just to win. Not that they were liked on FS anyways so we dont want them back.

Too bad there are no name tags in WvW.

@Kracin.6078 since quote doesnt work.

How can you seriously claim any of that being viable. You claim there is more pride on EU servers, sure that might be true But transfering here and facerolling as a major guild (how many guilds and side guilds do you have int he chapter with a “ruin” tag?) strips any pride that Deso once had.

When you reach tier 1 you say you will be where you wanted to on US servers. Wrong, you will be at the position you wanted, but out of a competative/skillful viewpoint no. You bash doors, its WvD for you, easy way to the top.

The US servers were too hard for your guild, so you move to where you have a great advantage. For instance, resets and match ups happen during YOUR peak hour, so you get a head start over the EU crowd.

You will never get epic fights here, because people get bored by having to back cap EVERYTHING each new day. More than likely you will see Deso get boycotted if the same kitten keeps going on without any lucky population change to other servers. By population change I mean a more multiregional population throughout all EU servers.

I honestly cant understand how you can sit and claim you want fair fights. You ditched the US server exactly due to the reason you now inflict upon the EU. You had the aussies nightcapping you, you transfer to eU and try to justify what you just migrated from.

Hypocrisy.

@Kindragon.4308: Sorry, but doors dont cry. Guess you need to go thirsty.

Also quite a feat getting tripple points over #2 with nightcappers during the release days of a holiday event. Thats quite impressive.

@Sylosi: Uneven population between two High servers during the day is no ones fault but the players. Both are euro servers, one just happens to be lazy during the day.

Both have the same starting point. Most of us on FSP (except 1 guild) are close to the same timezone, just like all US players are roughly on the same timezone. It all just comes down to motivation. There are enough active people on both servers during the day to get even numbers in WvW if the interest was there on deso.

Recruiting outsiders to cover a timezone that is rarely an issue except vs a server or two is not the same deal. Sure its a smart move, but it doesnt make you better during the day. FSP have been in T1 since release, we havent been battling Deso for weeks… I wonder why thats the case.

We’ve had to put up with ALOT of nightcapping the past few weeks and now again vs you.

I just wish you the best against the frenchies, otherwise I guess ruins next home is V-square? :O

@MajorKong: Yes because landmass is the same as population these days.

700+ mil europeans, 100mil of those are russians, that leaves 45mil non-euro russians.

There are enough european gamers to level the playing field and then some.

On a sidenote. England has close to 2x the combined population of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Belgium. The other 5 “big” nations on FSP. Actually not sure if there are many Fins on FSP, think most are actually on SFR.

But you see, its just numbers. We dont know any of the true numbers per server, or how many are actually active. All we know is there are more than 1 guild of Ruin under several different ruin tags. What we also know if desos preformance pre-ruin, which speaks for itself.

The in-game economy seems ok in my eyes, the only expensive things currently seem to be exotics for legendaries and gems.

I’m not sure how either would be impacted by bots/gold sellers.

The gold → gems part in the TP is completely based on player to player trading, those that sell gems and buy gems for gold. This has nothing to do with bots. Because getting the gems would require real money investments to make gold on it. Not profitable for goldsellers. And due to the quite high price on gems, it indeed seems like players are both happy buying and selling gems for gold.

If no one would buy the prices would drop. So that leads me to think that very few people buy from goldsellers.

The legendaries just follow the tide. More and more people get more and more money so of course prices go up on legendaries. 10g used to be alot, but now people make more gold so now its up far over 100g for a legendary exotic.

On the otherhand I do agree the bots and 3rd party goldsellers need to be dealt with. But there market is probably not big, since gold in this game doesnt have much of an impact, you dont need much gold to get anywhere. 30g and you have a full exotic set, rings, neck and all that included.

The most expensive things to me personally are the items from the gem store, like fine transmutation stones, roughly 8g (800 gems) for 25 of them. Right now gems are almost at a 1:1 ratio with silver.

Legitemy.9041:

Yesterday I was very frustrated and PM’ed some RUIN players to give me the name of their heroic leader to talk with him. I actually didn’t be offensive or anything. I just asked him if he enjoy’s playing 200 vs 10 vs 10 and told him I live under the motto ‘no pain, no game’.
Archangel refused to give me a reasonable answer after a small conversation and kept saying I was welcome to play in Desolution.

I guess he didn’t get my point, but knowing how stupid the average person is and considering half of them are even more stupid:
Archangel just doesn’t like a challenge.
He likes playing 200 vs 10 vs 10.

Lets not be frustrated about it anymore and lets wait till we either drop in tier’s or till we have a proper guild (from any continent) joining FS that plays during nighttime in Europe. In meanwhile play during day and try to have fun.
I rather lose a few tiers and still get to play with all the nice people in FS (Cause I really like this server a lot) than to get a ignorant bunch of people on my server so we can win.

Just my opinion

But what will Desolations asnwer be when we get americans on FS? Oh no, I guess they ran out of options.

Yep come join the viking breed on FS!

We dont bite… much.

Far Shiverpeaks. Rarely see anything but english, except for the few germans and dutch people in map chat. Never had an issue communicating in english on the server with anyone.

Lots of scandinavians and dutch people, but we gladly speak english. Honestly I prefer english over swedish. I hate swedefying english MMO terms. :P

Sylosi.6503:

SneakyErvin.3056
@Sylosi.6503: Yes and they have half the population of the US.

Roughly 145mil Russians and 313mil Americans. Most of those ruassians live in the european part of russia, 2/3 to be exact.

Half of russia (east of Krasnojarks) is more or less uninhabited, which means several of the timezones. And since most russians live in the european part, those have roughly the same timezone (a few hours different than CET). The other 45mil is half of germanies population, so very scattered. Heck the state of NY has close to 20mil.

And most Americans play on the NA servers, so a greater population is irrelvant.

You already gave Siberia as an example of unihabited and without internet connections, yet it has millions of people living there, with internet connections, so I don’t have much faith in your geographical knowledge.

You can try and make excuses all you like, but certain servers morning cap, when we played Blacktide we would wake up to a huge chunks of the map having been taken back, if we got on early we would find ourselves with the outmanned buff and why? Becasue Blacktide has a huge Russian guild called Xaoc and that even if for the sake of argument I only include 3 Russain time zones that is still a bunch of people getting up 3-6 hours earlier than an a server like Desolation which is heavily UK/western Europe. And in similar vein, when I played early this saturday and FS took back their garrison, we were playing with the outmanned buff.

And just to be clear I don’t like imbalanced numbers in WvW because it makes for crappy PvP which ever side you are on, however making out that imbalanced numbers only occur late at night is dishonest.

You talk as if we are a very heavy russian server. FS is very heavy on scandinavians and dutch people. And yes half of siberia is uninhabited, east of the city I mentioned earlier there are no big cities. It’s nomad land, reindeer breeders and such, saami land.

And stop getting stuck on saturday battles. Its during weekdays you rack up the points because you have the night time cappers. There is a huge difference during the weekdays between “morning capping” and “night capping”. Morning capping is much harder to pull off, because as said before, people have work they need to attend. Night capping happens during US peak hours until midnight. The russians, as I have said before, dont have any free roaming possibilities, since their early morning times crash with the US hours.

We have like 1 huge rus guild, while deso has how many different ruin combinations from the US?

@Sylosi.6503: Yes and they have half the population of the US.

Roughly 145mil Russians and 313mil Americans. Most of those ruassians live in the european part of russia, 2/3 to be exact.

Half of russia (east of Krasnojarks) is more or less uninhabited, which means several of the timezones. And since most russians live in the european part, those have roughly the same timezone (a few hours different than CET). The other 45mil is half of germanies population, so very scattered. Heck the state of NY has close to 20mil.

Wow this thread has grown, oh well it was merged aswell.

Also wow so many silly analogies in here that are so airheaded.

Comparing martial arts training to getting new gear? Seriously, I mean hell, just wow. Wouldnt that be more in line with practicing the traits, weaponskills, utility and elite skills on a profession? I think it would dear sir.

GW2 communism? Haha! That made my day. Sad excuses from the people that need the gear edge to beat people.

Also as been said before, PvE gear progression is an illusion, you get better gear, but also the mobs of the next content get much harder. Did you believe when you were a child that your uncle could really remove his thumb? Illusions.

The ONLY thing I can see get added to new tiers of gear is possibly magic find, since it doesnt effect your combat ability. It could be added as a 4th bonus stat. But besides that, no, just no.

The restrictions and censoring around words and names boggle me too.

Sure its a worldwide game, but how bizarre can it get.

Is the nickname for say Richard i.e kitten censored? kittencat maybe? And as someone mentioned Peakitten… Common real names on people/thingsthat have no vulgar meaning.

Still the game have things in it that can cause giggles, like Hard Wood, Seasoned Wood, Ancient Wood and Soft Wood.

Why restrict thing that are vulgar in just one language and not others. I bet many swedish or heck scandinavian vulgar slang words arent censored.

And regarding Hell, I understand why its not censored, its a descriptive term, a curseword (according to some), a place of myth (positive to some, negative to others), aswell as the swedish word for hail, an old greeting word.

A solution to the issue.

Why doesnt one of the major night time guilds just move to another server.

You yourself claim its not fun during the night since everything is owned by you. Wouldnt the right solution just be to migrate to another server until the players have solved the issue Anet wont be able to solve?

Or is it just empty talk about it being no fun during the night when you own everything?

And I’m not saying move to FSP, just pick a server that might need the people during the night and it will even out in time.

Sylosi.6503:

SneakyErvin.3056:

Between 00.00 and 05.00 CET the US can roam freely. Around 05.00 CET the russian get out of bet, thats between 7 or 8 for them. This is during a weekday, if the working russians want to get any playtime in and “morning cap” befoer work they need to get out of bed at 03.00 CET 5-6 their time. During which time the US players are still awake and happy. So in reality, the only onces having free caps are infact the US if you just know how timezones work and how people work.

So Russians get out of bed at 3.00 CET, despite the fact the country covers 9 time zones…

Yes and 6-7 of those time zones are uninhabited or without internet connection.

Does the little word Siberia ring a bell?

Shtra Quo.1932:

SneakyErvin.3056:

Sorry, but comparing US nightcapping to Russian morning capping just isnt the same thing, not even close.

There is an avarage of 8h difference between europe and the US, while russians are only 2 hours ahead of central europe. That gives the US roughly 6 hours extra. This might not be so serious on weekends when people can sit up and play. But during weekdays its a hell of alot different. When euros have their morning time its usually time for work, when US nightcapping starts its after work.

When euros sleep, americans play.
When americans sleep, euros work.
When americans work, euros play vs other euros in equal numbers or close to it.

Big difference.

You missed the point in “Russian morning capping”. They get online in the morning and stay on all day. That means they have almost no resistance during central european daytime (8am till around 5/6pm). So you have to add another point to your list:

when euros work, russians play.

You should really learn time frames. The russians morning capping is a viable excuse on weekends for about 2-3 hours. And honestly, the number of russians are probably not even close to the number of US players on deso, plus deso have russians too.

The thing is, during the week it becomes a moot point, or do russians suddenly not work? You see, they are AHEAD of us in time, leaving them very few hours for free capping, those extra hours are when the US are online too. I assume most gamers play until around eleven or midnight on weekdays.

Between 00.00 and 05.00 CET the US can roam freely. Around 05.00 CET the russian get out of bet, thats between 7 or 8 for them. This is during a weekday, if the working russians want to get any playtime in and “morning cap” befoer work they need to get out of bed at 03.00 CET 5-6 their time. During which time the US players are still awake and happy. So in reality, the only onces having free caps are infact the US if you just know how timezones work and how people work.

The russians will never be freecapping in a real way, because on weekend they have the US players playing until maybe 08.00-10.00 CET (not uncommon, I used to play Daoc/WoW/WaR with family in the US and those were the times they went to bed usually on weekends, then up again around 15.00 CET). Before the US logs off the rest of europe awakes and indeed Deso is a EU server so you have nothing to bicker about on that point. Deso had as much population as FSP at start, that was before the US migration to the server.

So why cant Deso EU players fend for themselves?