Guild Wars 2

I’d like to suggest a new way to convert skill points into something useful. I know that leveling is not hard, there are plenty of ways to do it, and you can even do it very quickly if you spend 40-50~ gold leveling crafting skills. However, sometimes I wonder how nice it would be if my leveling progress from my main character, who’s already level 80, could be used on my alts.

This could be done several ways, so here’s a couple examples. Note that the items would be account bound.

1. Skill points could be used to buy an item that automatically gives a certain amount of experience points to the user.

2. Skill points could be used to buy a new type of experience booster that boosts experience gained from all actions (killing, crafting, hearts, events, etc). This would give a way to use skill points to help speed up leveling an alt while still requiring you to play the alt.

Obviously there are many ways this could be done. And I definitely don’t think that the conversion should equal to 1 skill point for 1 level by any means. Just some way to use skill points to help level other characters.

Nice video. This is something that too many people don’t experience in gaming because they’re too busy complaining that something is too difficult to beat on the first three tries on the first day, or that it shouldn’t require 100+ organized people. They don’t give themselves a chance to understand how rewarding and fun something like Tequatl can be.

I’d love to see something like this. Even better would be an option to go along with it, like marking head gear or shoulder gear to go invisible, except that it makes the pet stay out permanently/automatically.

From what I’ve read, getting the achievement without killing him is a bug and is not guaranteed.

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/butslashsignedisntenoughbecausetherehastobefifteencharacterssohereisthisslashwordswithoutspaces

Mor The Thief.9135:

Considering what was posted here by all of you please visit this thread I made on the suggestions forum:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/An-addition-to-taco-s-rewards/

Read the entire first post(and 3rd) and give any idea or suggestion you have there.

Because really the game should be available to all players(even more to casuals) but in order to keep this event challenging let us all throw ideas on how to make it more available while keeping the difficulty

I’m all for this. As long as increasing availability doesn’t involve ruining the fight, there’s nothing wrong with improvements. There’s no way everyone can be happy how it is now, considering how the majority of GW2 players play the game. I just wish people would realize that making it more available does not have to involve nerfing it or ruining it for those who enjoy it’s current form.

Conner.4702:

Veltoss.9135:

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4. If you’re the type to say “this is a game, I shouldn’t have to do homework or try hard if I don’t want to”, then this content isn’t for you. Stop complaining and move on.

Again, not all content can cater to everyone. If it’s not for you, get over it and move on.

But for the love of god, don’t ruin it for the rest of us.

But this what the “I want more difficult content” has done from the start. This game is easymode GIEF MOAR CHALLANGE. The game wasn’t for them and yet the whining and ranting kept going. Yet the people who were fine with it should now stop? There is a word for that and that is hypocrite.

There are several differences here. The main one being that people who want more challenge don’t flood the forums with threads demanding that the current easier content should be drastically changed so that casual players can’t enjoy it.

DarkWasp.7291:

What if:

1. This type of content is for me.

2. There are a bunch of people that it isn’t for hanging around.

3. There are a bunch of people understandably AFK hanging around.

4. There are no systems built to compensate for all of the above.

5. I fail because all of the above.

Join a coordinated group (several guilds and servers are “hosting” groups in their VOIPs). Usually these groups get into one low pop server or overflow together and will join groups to help get people in. That doesn’t remove bad players or guarantee that there are no AFKs but it helps, the ratio of useless players to players participating is much better that way.

Community building is what I’ve seen a lot of Wetpaw. Just because you have to get into a different server or overflow doesn’t mean that you have to be a faceless player who just joins, silently participates, and leaves.

It is perfectly possible for people to group up in a VOIP channel, like Blackgate has been doing, and work together as one community or a group of several communities/servers. If there are five low population servers that can only get about 20 people online for Tequatl at a time, they can make a thread and start organizing a gathering of active players from all of those servers and choose a VOIP to coordinate in. They choose a low population server to gather on so that everyone can get in, and work together through voip as several communities working together as one large group to defeat Tequatl.

Blackgate has been running at least two groups at a time, and it’s not just Blackgate that’s here. People from many low population servers have brought their guilds, alliances, and servers together to take down Tequatl. The only people participating in a crappy pug of faceless, uncoordinated players are those who don’t look at the alternatives.

Without guesting, content such as this that requires communities to work together and commanders to lead a large group of people would not be possible for most servers. That’s no reason that it should be stuck into an instance or any of the other alternatives people think will fix everything.

What I’m trying to say is this: Just because you disagree with how the content was implemented does not mean that it requires changing. It can work like this and there are many who enjoy this type of content, exactly as it’s implemented. There can be other challenging content implemented like suggested, but it is possible to do the content like it is, as Blackgate and a few other servers have continued to prove.

I think you’re looking at guesting from the wrong angle. From your point of view it sounds bad, yes. But alternatively you can get with a coordinated group and get everyone into the same low population server or overflow together. There’s no reason you have to do it on your own server unless you just want to play with people from your server, in which case your server can get a group together and group up on an overflow or low pop server to make sure that everyone is together.

Guesting is not hard to do, take advantage of it and don’t look at it as a bad thing.

What’s the problem with guesting though? I understand wanting to do stuff with your server, but it’s not a huge loss to coordinate with a big group from your server along with groups from other servers. Guesting is a great way for low population servers to group together to take down content like Tequatl, and it’s not hard to do.

I agree with the AFKer problem though, that’s a huge problem my group had late last night. I think we had two turrets AFK -.-’

Krugash.4920:

Dude, just cause you leeched a kill on some high populated server after you’ve possibly camped the map for hours doesn’t imply you accomplished anything in particular.

I’ve not killed Tequatl yet, I’ve spent my only fights against him with a mixture of Blackgate commanders/players and people who have joined our teamspeak from lower population servers. Last night we gathered at Anvil Rock, I’d say about half our group or more were not from Blackgate. I’ve not “leeched” a kill nor let a high population server carry me.

Putting it in an instance isn’t the fix. With the ability to guest to servers and join overflows, it’s not too difficult for a group to gather on an overflow or low population server before the battle begins. If you join a random one, sure, you’re probably not going to beat it. But if you plan ahead and your group gathers on one server that has plenty of room, it’s pretty much the same thing as an instance.

Your point on some people not being able to participate because they can only log in during a time when their server is not active brings us back to the point that not all content is for everyone, and no content can cater to everyone perfectly. However, I find it hard to believe that people active during their time of play are incapable of scheduling a fight on a set server in a set VOIP. There are tons of people with varying times of play, you just have to find them.

Scaling the battle destroys the challenge. If it scales and can be done with a small group, it is no longer an interesting large scale battle of trying to coordinate a large number of people, it just becomes another small battle.

This all brings me back to my point: Not all content is for everyone, no content can be perfect for everyone, but that is no reason to ruin it for the rest of us.

The skins are not the only thing you can get from the fortunes. There are also the Celestial recipes, and even if people don’t think the Celestial gear is good, some people still like to collect.

oldephartte.4369:

Ah, fortunately a lot of us remember HackGate, err BG, from T2. No class then. No class now.

Weird seeing this from SoR.

On an entirely unrelated note, FEAR seems really good with those arrow carts.

Great tool <3

Heaven forbid the WvW players get anything.

I really don’t understand this mentality that people are showing lately. “If I can’t get it myself for any reason, it shouldn’t exist.”

Yeah, this is my only problem with these new movement skills. They are not very lag friendly at all. My internet connection hasn’t been great today, possibly due to a storm with strong winds that just went through, and the lag is extremely noticeable in Sanctum Sprint when using skills. Using normal skills with a bit of lag is not near as bad, but doing Sanctum Sprint or collecting crystals with lag is near impossible.

If they’re left ingame in the cliffs that would make the personal instance node nearly useless. Traveling to two locations, the second one for only 1 more node when there are several at the cliffs?

Yes, what is the problem here? There is plenty of alcohol ingame that is clearly named after real world drinks. Why does Omnomberry Juice have to be called Omnomberry Alcoholic Beverage? Or Omnomberry Wine? I don’t get what’s wrong with Omnomberry Juice as a name. They aren’t hiding the fact that it’s a drinking game, where you drink your opponent into intoxication. So again, what is the problem?

Reloading.3260:

Sorry you’re too late.

Anet decided people were having too much fun.

If you didn’t grind out your gold months ago then forget about it.

I didn’t know anyone was having fun grinding the same exact events over, and over, and over again.

It’s funny how people hate the fact that you can grind gold however you want now with no major difference in income. People aren’t happy when there is only one way to grind gold, people aren’t happy when you can do whatever you find fun.

dagrdagaz.4913:

If no one is doing this event it should be removed completely, or be removed from automatic rotation (put an NPC somewhere that will start it instead).

I never understood this mentality of completely removing everything that isn’t perfect rather than improving it.. what do we gain exactly by removing it entirely?

Stop over-simplifying everything. You cannot take a trait from one class, compare it to another class, and use that to argue balance. The two classes are very different and balanced in different ways. I’m not saying they’re both equal or balanced well, but using an argument like this is a joke.

Yeah, this type of crap gets old. It’s just another encouragement for people to run with the zerg. On Blackgate we have an entire guild who is like this due to their ‘1337ness’.

Ascii.9726:

Play a Thief… i mean they like, stealth and stuff, and move really fast and and theres lots of threads on the forums to nurf them so they have to be op.

Have you played a thief? They are extremely powerful in WvW and can escape from nearly everything due to their insane stealth abilities as well as their speed (Signet of Shadows and Infiltrator’s Arrow).

Reinstalling the game and doing a very thorough virus sweep has done nothing for my problem. T.T

Surely it’s not a connection problem, as I connect fine to the login server and don’t see why it would go blank and disappear like it does if it were a connection problem.

My temperatures are fine, always have been, though I double checked. I have a great case and amazing cooling so everything is still great.

I did try running it in clean boot as well with absolutely no change.

However I did just recently (same day) find an adware called FastSaveApp. It can do things like bring up unwanted services, so perhaps there is some kind of interference here that’s causing it to do this? I am currently running SuperAntiSpyware and then Malware Bytes to make sure I get rid of it and anything else that I might have gotten at the same time or from a related trojan.

Hopefully this is the problem, but if anyone else has experienced this please let me know what fixed it for you.

Sorry for the nondescript title. Here’s more detail:

I was on earlier today just fine, no problems. Exited like usual.

Now, even after reboot and running repair, it will not load. What happens is I start the launcher as usual, it logs in and counts down to auto-play (I also hit play before auto-play just to see if it worked), and the game window opens (windowed mode). However it is only white, and only stays up for 1-2 seconds. After this it disappears and only the GW2 icon is left in my taskbar. Clicking it obviously doesn’t do anything.

Anyone have any ideas, had this happen before, etc? I’m afraid I’m going to miss WvW reset again. x.x’

By the way, I feel I should mention that while thieves are powerful, I don’t see why people are suggesting them as a class for running with the zerg. Thieves are more useful on their own or in small thief groups. While they can go into the enemy zerg, make a kill, and get out, they aren’t really any more useful in a large group than other classes like the Necro or Ranger.

For running with the zerg in particular:

Guardian: Extremely powerful healer with amazing survivability. If you build your character right and play right, many people consider it the most OP class in WvW at the moment. Not enough people play support/healer, as I suppose it can lead to less loot bags dropping, but if you want to be a huge asset to your zerg, be a good healing guardian.

Elementalist: These have some insanely powerful combo finishers that can be used to give area buffs and are currently used in some annoying tactics where everyone has perma-swiftness, tons of might, etc. They also have very good AOEs, and d/d elementalists are considered very overpowered. However, there has been clear talk from Anet that nerfs are coming.

Mesmer: Mesmers are not very powerful on their own anymore compared to what they used to be, and compared to something like a thief. However they have great survivability if played well and have some of the best support skills of any class. A good mesmer who’s a team player can really make a difference to the zerg, either by providing great combo fields, portaling people, making people go invisible, etc. If built right they are also decent at providing boons and removing conditions for the entire zerg.

The other classes can be nice in the zerg or solo, but the three above are definitely the most useful to the zerg in WvW at the moment.

The daily achievement is actually considered a “grind” to some people? Are you new to MMOs? Where is there any grind involved at all? They aren’t even hard to do. I can do almost all of them without leaving WvW in a short time. Dodging is easy, you should be doing this anyway even in PvE. Crafting is not hard, buy some copper ore and make ingots. Even the aquatic kills which people complain about is easy, go to a low level zone and destroy some aquatic mobs. You can even use the bug that counts grey one-shot-kill critters as aquatic kills.

Habib Loew.6239:

Hi all,

Queues are per map, per team – so there is a queue for TC players on the Eternal Battlegrounds and a different queue for TC players on each Borderlands, and a different queue for each of the other teams on each of the maps.

During the time it takes for players to change maps it is possible for there to be a queue even if there are less players in a map than the maximum capacity because the players taking up those empty slots are still “in flight” between maps. It’s also possible for a slot to take a while to fill if e.g. people see the queue pop, wait until the progress bar for the automatic transfer is almost empty, and then choose to renter the queue. At that point the system will move on and look for other players to fill that slot but all of that takes a bit of time. We’ve watched the queue numbers a lot and generally it’s only a few slots that are in this reserved state at any time.

Just to be sure I ran a quick database query for the last few days and all the queue numbers look quite reasonable.

So I don’t know where in the map those players are when you’re looking for them, but they’re definitely in there somewhere!

As countless people from numerous servers have been telling you, there’s obviously something you’re missing. Even without considering the queue with very few players, there are still a lot of problems with the queue. Would you like to address all of the other problems? Perhaps do more than just a quick database query when people have been complaining about this for six months?

Yeah, everyone knows that something is wrong with it at this point. There’s a queue when the map isn’t full, some people get in before others, some people have much shorter queues at random, being in certain maps apparently speeds up queue, queue only lets new people in every certain amount of time instead of instantly, and so much more.

We know Anet doesn’t give a kitten about PvP in general, but at least make it playable for us until we have somewhere else to go and you can finally forget about us and focus on PvE.

As mentioned, this was due to a big ban wave. It would be near impossible to manipulate all Tier 6 items as well as ectoplasms, do you realize how many thousands of gold that would cost?

Map update below. I don’t ever want to hear JQ or SoS complaining about double teaming ever again. :p

Beastgate held both off for quite a while though.

Seems the fix really only helped certain people with older computers or bad connections and, if anything, made it worse for some people. I personally have noticed no improvement to enemy zergs, my groups still get into a lot of trouble because entire groups are invisible or it looks like a lot smaller group until we’re right in the middle of them. On top of this, I now have friendlies disappearing and reappearing constantly, sometimes without names above their heads to make me wonder “is that a friendly or enemy?” until I mouse over them. It’s a fix, for some people, but it is by far a pathetic fix.

The lack of a kitten that Anet gives to PvP, both sPvP and WvW, is really sad. It doesn’t take this long to fix culling if they really cared. I imagine they have one guy working on this..

Smokee.1754:

Veltoss.9135:

Smokee.1754:

I dont know where you heard that BG is sitting out? Anyway, I hear JQ is recruiting guilds.

Your alliance, Blackgate War Council, has taken it upon themselves to decide this for the server, despite how many disagree with it. And as too many people in Blackgate blindly follow the decision of a chosen few within the Blackgate War “Council”, it is severely affecting WvW. Apparently there is a meeting today about it, though the decision seems to have already been made.

BWC is actively telling people to not participate in WvW outside of holding Overlook for the jumping puzzle. Looking at the score is proof enough for this. I’m surprised you aren’t aware, as I was under the impression you held rank within HB, and that HB was a very important factor within the BWC. It’s funny that they’ve decided this without even the entire “council’s” vote.

Your attempt to cause drama and attention to your self is nothing but hilarious. Some guilds have said they wont push the campaign, while others have said they will keep pushing. Your comments about the BWC, and the descision making progress, just makes me realise you dont have a clue what your talking about.

I was under the impression that the council had a council where each leader had a say, in which case I would have assumed you’d heard from your own leader on this. Sorry for making that assumption. And I have only been relaying what BWC members have been saying in EB. If the BWC does not like the truth spread, then perhaps you should look at why that truth is so dangerous to you?

Smokee.1754:

I dont know where you heard that BG is sitting out? Anyway, I hear JQ is recruiting guilds.

Your alliance, Blackgate War Council, has taken it upon themselves to decide this for the server, despite how many disagree with it. And as too many people in Blackgate blindly follow the decision of a chosen few within the Blackgate War “Council”, it is severely affecting WvW. Apparently there is a meeting today about it, though the decision seems to have already been made.

BWC is actively telling people to not participate in WvW outside of holding Overlook for the jumping puzzle. Looking at the score is proof enough for this. I’m surprised you aren’t aware, as I was under the impression you held rank within HB, and that HB was a very important factor within the BWC. It’s funny that they’ve decided this without even the entire “council’s” vote.

Thobek.1730:

Veltoss.9135:

Apparently SoS and BG’s “BWC” alliance both have this ridiculous idea that staying in Tier 1 will have us in near-bottom tiers for over a month. I feel sorry for everyone not part of these alliances who are trying to enjoy the game, and especially JQ who did not want to take part in this ridiculous plan having no resistance in WvW, I can’t imagine that is very fun for them either.

hold on, now SoS not turning up this week is a planned conspiracy to drop BG down to the bottom of the ladder due to the way the glicko system works?

you have to be joking.

That’s not what I said at all. What they’re doing is not fighting so that they will be in Tier 2 next week, because the common belief is that if we are in Tier 1 next week we will lose by too much and be in Tiers 6-8 for a month or more. So yes, both are >trying< to abuse the system, but it’s for their own sake and not to drop the other server.

Apparently SoS and BG’s “BWC” alliance both have this ridiculous idea that staying in Tier 1 will have us in near-bottom tiers for over a month. I feel sorry for everyone not part of these alliances who are trying to enjoy the game, and especially JQ who did not want to take part in this ridiculous plan having no resistance in WvW, I can’t imagine that is very fun for them either.

Let’s not forget to mention the total BS “7 fractals” monthly, particularly horrible for those who usually only PvP and can’t stand PvE.

I’ve had no ingame mail and not heard anything about the event started yet on Blackgate o.0

I see the sPvP/tPvP players feel just as awful as the WvW players do.. looks like GW2 has become only about the PvE. :[

I know that it’s not >the< fix, but it was supposed to be >a< fix, and it has not improved the problem at all. It has not improved the fact that zergs appear out of no where and you may not see the majority of the enemy until halfway through a fight.

So far it’s been pretty clear that culling hasn’t even become close to being fixed. We have been having groups appear right in front of us, not being able to see half of a zerg, friendlies disappearing and reappearing, all the usual stuff. There does not appear to be any real difference in the culling.

If there were supposed to be preloaded crappy models used to help culling, it isn’t even noticeable. It’s been six months, WvW has barely gotten any attention and has been a footnote in every update so far. You can’t possibly tell me it’s taken six months to get a fix that isn’t even noticeable? The remaining WvW community isn’t going to last long with this type of crap still in WvW after half a year.

CharlieWaffles.1509:

Veltoss.9135:

Because Jade Quarry has NEVER done this before.

so its admited that BG and SOS are communicating via TS, mumble, or vent to coordinate attacks…. It wont matter at the end of the week….

Maybe not, but it gave us a great chance to safely build up our defense and get a point lead, which helps. Don’t even pretend like Jade Quarry and every other server that has been in Tier 1 on NA and EU haven’t done this before.

It’s war, it’s not supposed to be fair.

Because Jade Quarry has NEVER done this before.

I really hope TC/SoR focus more on each other and fight for second this time around rather than putting so much focus on BG. You guys won’t win that way. :<

I’m not sure what has been said recently as the discussion is moving quickly, but may I make a suggestion to SoR and TC? There’s not much chance of either of you gaining first place from BG, but there’s a much better chance that one of you could steal away second place with a good lead over third, if you simply focused on the other guy and not BG in particular. I see a lot of focus on hitting BG, more than each other, and I just don’t get the strategic reasoning behind this. :<

ykyk.2740:

Alliances are so very fragile when no one individual can control what the server’s forces choose to do on any map. All it takes is one group hitting the wrong target to send the wrong message.

Alliances without dictatorship are only fragile when created with bad structure and organization.