Guild Wars 2

So after reading the many posts on the forum regarding the new leveling/story and player experience, and seeing the reactions from both sides, pros and cons. I have to ask, why not simply include an optional tutorial mode like so many games have?

This way veteran players who make an alt can play the way they are used to, and new players can go through with the tutorial and new system to make learning easier for them.

Seems including simple option would placate both sides. Personally my main problem with leveling was that it could get a little tedious because it could take a long time. But other then that I never had many issues with it. And I always like having an option, its understandable people who are used to something for a long time dont want it all suddenly and dramatically changed, of course there will be backlash.

Much as I would love more gw1 features and diversity, much of it simply cannot work properly in gw1, secondary professions would essentially entail remaking every class, the skill bar, weapon skills, etc. It would just turn everything upside down.

Last night while doing guild missions, my guild was trying to port to a different instance, and it did not allow anyone to right click-join party members in the other instance, like we have always been able to do. Not sure if this is a bug or what, or its connected to the way megaserver mapping works now, either way some clarification would be appreciated.

Last night my guild did the guild challenge Deep Trouble and like most times it bugged out once again, and insta failed for no reason, please fix this already, we all setup properly and ensure everyone knows how to do this challenge properly, and it is incredibly frustrating just getting this because we know it always bugs out to fail

On a side note, we then got Crab toss, which then also bugged out, 1min left, the crab holder at full health, inside ring…failed for no reason…

What makes this worse is that we cannot choose which challenges to do like we can with bounties, please either fix these bugs or let us choose.

Last night my guild did missions, and guild challenges bugged 3 straight times:

We got the Deep Trouble one twice, this one bugs often where it will fail all of a sudden for no reason. The first time it showed as failed before we even started it! The second time, it failed all of a sudden with no dead quaggans, this has happened before and its extremely irritating and a time waster as we had to port everyone and setup teams, fix this crap already what the hell.

The third time we got crab toss, 1 minute left, I am holding the crab, at full health inside the ring and bam it fails all of a sudden, this is another buggy mission.

Can you guys please overhaul the kitten missions already if your not to busy putting out lame living stories, because this is extremely irritating, my guild is the only reason I login anymore.

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I love SoR’s community, no fighting, no toxicity, we work together, we fight together, we have fun together, if you like those things, come join us on SoR.

Another great week, we won by over 100k, we had great teamwork and cooperation, and started off strong this weekend moving up 3 ranks and a tier, great work everyone!

keep up the great work guys

Another great week, we won by over 100k, we had great teamwork and cooperation, and started off strong this weekend moving up 3 ranks and a tier, great work everyone!

if you want it get gw1 and earn them the way the rest of us did, seriously why dont we just share our earned ap too <.<

A friendly community that loves teamwork and fights tooth and nail, in SoR we have fun in WvW, do you?

our ppt this week has been amazing, great work everyone

have you tried lowering your settings, especially the “Character Model Limit” setting, lowering shaders, shadows etc as well, it helps a lot if you dont have a great gpu. I am not a fan of megaservers by any means, but constant disconnects might be more of an issue with your computers performance.

Also you might want to post this on the tech support forum. Good luck.

It has never worked properly, even before megaservers, aside from a few rare exceptions, luckily it is not needed to progress the chain, since its used more to farm, so a lot of players go to it, scale the mobs, and make it harder to complete. It can actually be completed with a small group.

timmyf.1490:

We ticked 695 last night. Are you sure we need OCX/SEA coverage? :-D

That is beautiful *wipes tear

I have the same issue with my necro using deadly feast and spectral walk for swiftness underwater, and then the boon is lost when going on land

noticed this as well

no the skill point does not reset daily, you are able to commune with it to recieve a skill point on multiple toons only once. The point of the item is so you can take 25 quartz crystals to a place of power quickly each day to produce a charged quartz crystal.

keep kicking butt out there

congrats on the new recruits, keep kicking butt

We had a fantastic week, finished #1 by well over 100k WOW, and another strong start to this week, last I looked we were up by 14k, folks we are fighting hard and standing strong together!

another fantastic week, great job everyone, and another great start to this week.

Finished Arah Path 1 yesterday and got no credit for the dungeon master track.

They do still drop, the drop rate is unfortunately very low…I will never get that sword. Also keep in mind your personal reward level has to be level 10 or higher

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Wasnt sure where to post, for some reason cannot post in suggestions forum :/

As a guild leader, theres are many things I would like to see implemented and changed in regards to guild functions that would make it easier to manage a guild. Here are some suggestions.

1)-Admin Lower Ranks Privilege needs to be split into:
*Invite
*Kick
*Promote/Demote
This would make it a lot easier to designate ranks and promote people to fill those ranks. It would be a really great help.

2)- Guild Banks have 3 tabs but treasure trove privilege allows access to both trove and deep cave, this should be split into two privileges, one for each tab.

3)- Some of the guild missions, especially challenges need to be reworked. And please rework the karka guild rush, it is rage inducing to so many people.

4)-…cough…Guild Halls….cough….

5)- Improve guild buffs whereby they are actually useful….some underwhelming ones are 5% exp 5%gold. Also the costs for them are not worth it either way.

6)- An upgrade would be nice to bring down the cost of speeding up building, as we are essentially using 2 build slots, with asuran contracting working as wierdly as it does. Speeding up building cannot be avoided but the costs can pile up a lot quickly draining a ton of influence.
* For Example that 5% Exp buff costs 500 influence…to speed it up from start to finish would cost 5000 influence for a total of 5500 influence for a near useless buff. 24hr build time/Lasts 24hrs.

While there are more suggestions, these are more pressing daily management suggestions, that anet can hopefully take into account. Thank you.

Am I the only one who thinks that for such beautiful swords, the footstep effects are rather disappointing especially compared to some of the other legendaries. Its basically just tiny little blotches on the ground, no effects.

this seems to have been fixed, please delete this thread

Escape the blobs and garbage in higher tiers, and come enjoy wvw again

reliable and fun group to run with

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having another strong start to the week, come join the fun

in need of oceanic/sea coverage, come make a difference and avoid the blobs of higher tier servers

great group to fight alongside

In high need of oceanic/sea coverage, if your looking to make a big impact in a great community, SoR is the place for you.

anet failed to deliver a lot of what they promised, why should anyone be surprised.

Its a tough situation, blobbing has been an unchecked problem in wvw for a very long time, and unfortunately its more of a numbers game, rather then skills. Fair fights, or even normal sized fights are hard to find sometimes in wvw. And this drives away many talented players who just cant stand it anymore, everywhere they go they run into a 60man blob, your not the only one.

bumping for all the right reasons

cant blame you, the player exodus has been going on throughout the game, in most every guild and server. Seasons and megaserver, anet wrecking their product with both chambers.

- Blobbing out of control ruining fights, making wvw a numbers game, and causing massive lag for many players.
- Constant Transfers causing server instability ruining guilds and driving away players.
- Overuse of siege.
- Same old Maps, 3 borderlands and they are all identical…really?
- PPT/Coverage issues cause much distress for servers often causing a need to stack a server, and leading to constant friction and arguements between the ppt vs open field fight crowds, eventually the guilds for hire leave, the server dies, everyones angry and upset, people leave the game.
- Overabuse of stealth, cannot go anywhere w/o running into some troll thief or mesmer.
- Everyone running the same builds, hammer train, condi meta, stealth spam, etc etc.
- Same matchups over and over, same colors make it difficult for people to get their world completion and I am so tired of hearing people compain about it.
- Eotm is not WvW, its a kitten karma/champ farm.
- Seasons are not a content update for WvW, its a wrecking ball for wvw.

Anet change your formula, you already drove tons of players away with the megaserver garbage, stagnant wvw will not keep players in the game, especially for those that only do wvw. I am a pvx player and I have little interest or reason to login aside from checking in on my guild.

Get your act together, guild wars 1 is over nine years old, and anet is made of former blizzard employees, there is no excuse for your constant amateuish mistakes.

Good guilds are leaving for more reasons then ppt, boredom with gw, the fact that blobbing is out of control, and overuse of siege. All of that can make it difficult for any guild that fields even a decent size say 10-20 people to constantly get facerolled and unable to do anything. WvW is a numbers game, and never has been much about skill, especially in t1.

PPT is a tricky issue with wvw, as opposed to open field fighting. Fights are more fun hands down. But ppt and your end week score determines your standing and tier placement. If your server loses, and drops constantly because it focuses only on open field fighting and neglects ppt, your server will start losing guild and players. This has happened time and time again. Recently this happened to my server SoR, which was heavily focused on fights, and had many issues with coverage and ppt. If you simply neglect/remove ppt you might as well remove keeps, towers, camps as they would have no purpose if their is no score. Also how would matchups work. PPT and scoring is in place for a reason. The downside is that it places a tremendous strain on servers to keep up coverage for all timezones and all 4 maps, this often leads to server stacking. And server stacking can create a terrible imbalance in matches, where one server can blob every map during a timezone. When SoR was in t1 we had weak OCX coverage and any points we gained in NA was lost during OCX. So you have the obvious technical nature of PPT and scoring, but then the unfortunate practical downside that affects a large amount of players in a negative way that cant stack their servers to compete with coverage to match ppt.

Personally I feel a healthy balance is the best approach, one simply cant work without the other.

xivor.8754:

I’d like to formally announce the recent additions of the Primal Fury [PF] guild and the No Quarter [NQ] guild to Sanctum of Rall! Having you both on our team has been awesome, and amazing fights have been had! You bring forth a certain level of character to our servwer, and we are very glad to have you among us!

Welcome aboard new Rallians, its been a pleasure fighting alongside you guys. Absolute blast wiping zerg after zerg.

UrMom.4205:

jeez the lack of reading comprehension in this thread is giving me a headache..

lol tell me about it, I would just like anet to see the suggestion, if they change anything great, if not I understand. But I just wanted to put out my opinion and suggestion.

Thanks I appreciate the civil feedback, Im not saying its a game breaking issue or anything, its certainly annoying. And the whole point is not about how to deal with thieves. Unfortunately thats what a lot of people are getting confused by. The main theme is finishing through stealth, not about thieves, was only using them as an example. Basically I am saying, I would like to see finishers treated as an actual channled skill by in game mechanics.

new maps might stretch out the wvw player base too much and demand more coverage, which is already to stressful for many servers

Personally I think they should tweak the existing maps, maybe with some new themes

Red-Fire/Volcano
Blue- Snow/Mountain
Green- Jungle

at least this way not every bl is the same

I think if anet simply made finishers an actual channeled skill, it would clear things up.

ReesesPBC.4603:

This is coming from the perspective of the stomper vs the stompee and visa versa. It’s already implemented into the game that channeled skills can hit someone so why not a finisher as well? It’s not like the ones who are downed are completely out of options on their own like knockdowns teleports etc. And if you look at it the other way around those trying stomping in stealth can hardly be stopped by a stompee outside of the engi explosion or getting downed themselves in like the guardian/necro aoe. Fears and such need a target to deny the stomp by the stompee which they won’t have vs. a stealthed stomper.

Now the argument for the other abilities is that of course they are utilities, most of them at least, and they are a sacrifice to use. Of course blinds and stability can be used as well via weapon skills and such. Stealth can prevent the people who used all those things, long CD or not, to prevent a stomp after it was already channeled. If someone uses Mist form/elixer S/Stances, all of it would have been wasted just from a stealth onto a down person and not just only from SR just stealth in general.

And yes stealth can be considered counter play to those means to stomp someone but the only time it shouldn’t is if someone already started a finisher channel on the downed person as it doesn’t seem fair that you can stomp from stealth but not stomp someone in it given the above mentioned situation.

THANK YOU, someone who gets it