Guild Wars 2

I’d like a response to this.

Maybe even we could add a guild member locator if they are repping or not. Show a gold dot in PVE/WVW if they are repping and a bronze if they are not.

Yet for me I actually am a natural when it comes to game basics and games in general, (unless its a fighting or sports game). So I Never have problem learning anything and if I don’t know it, I look it up or ask.

Yet I can put myself in that player’s shoes that the OP described and I wholeheartedly welcomed the new changes.

A few player responses would be nice…

This was what I was trying to get across to other on other threads bemoaning this new feature.

There has been reports of dev impersonation in and out of game, so e-mail in game and out of game ( your physical game account email) will have this now.

I wouldn’t worry too much if its players you do know.

If you knew her back story, you’d see why she is so hostile to bandit kind.

I would love to see Queen’s Pavilion/Gauntlet open all year round.

The reasons for this is the recent toxicity of the open world PVE with the farmers.

If this was opened all year they will go there and leave everyone else alone. The RPers will be troll free and Living story players/farmers like myself can farm that on as many alts as I want.

Pros:

• Provides an environment for farmers to fell free to farm to their hearts content.
• Keeps content that should never have been gone in the first place and something for everyone to do.
• Allows more time for achievement hunters to get those achievements they missed last time.

Cons:

• Could be more trouble than its worth as no one will want to leave causing everything else to not be populated anymore.
• Could cause a new toxic environment.
• It could trivialize the rarity of exclusive stuff.
• The economy could change drastically. (I won’t care really I want cheaper fabrics)

Aerinndis.2730:

I am sure Anet could figure a way to satisfy farming to some extent. For example they could set up something like a Queen’s Arena for farmers where they can go round and round and round for their champs. Throw in the occasional interesting reward or some interesting achievement for that interesting reward in addition to the regular stuffs and there you go…

That’s a great solution to keep queen’s pavilion open all year round. If I was a dev, I’d say screw it trying to fix everything else such as open world events do that for the framer kitten holes. They go there and we do what we want in the rest of the world. Then we also don’t have to see any of them anymore in our RP areas.

I’m happy they are happy. Plain and simple.

Tryxtr.6295:

Honest question:

If you’re trying to do an event, but for whatever reason you can’t, can’t you just go to a different overflow and try there? I’m not trying to take sides, or continue the pointless arguing that’s been going on for 6 pages. I just honestly want to know. This is the beauty of the megaserver. You can leave the map and come back in order to find one that lets you accomplish whatever you’re trying to accomplish.

Trying to visit a karma merchant in one of the temples in Orr? Keep zoning out and back in til you find one with the waypoint uncontested and the merchant up. I do it all the time.

Trying to complete a specific event but for some reason it’s not up? (ie Coil) Keep zoning out and back in til you find one where the zerg isn’t ruining it.

Trying to zerg farm an event (ie Coil) but you found an overflow where they’re completing the event? Keep zoning out and back in til you find an overflow where the zerg is failing the event.

Am I wrong in thinking that this is the easiest and most adult solution? Isn’t this an excellent use of the megaserver? Isn’t this easier than immediately turning to: “These players aren’t doing exactly what I want so I’m going to get upset until they stop” …?

For background:
– I wanted to complete the Coiled Watch event chain for achievements, so I found a map without a zerg
– I wanted to farm the event to see what it was like, so I found an overflow with a zerg on it

So simple.

Did you even read my post? Its impossible to do this now cause as soon as you find an empty map the game now forces you to find a non-empty one or you get put into one in a few minutes (not an hour like it says).

We died or however one RPs them to have turned out to be in RP on here.

For those sick of the coil farmer, I’m going to start trying to make a dead map taxi for anyone that needs the event to succeed. I can pretty much solo the events on my guardian now, so if anyone needs help you can find me in game.

My character is Hikari Kyoko Ishida or just use my screen name here as the poster handle.

I’m Tarnished Coast NA server.

This is only open to NA players.

Well no one can switch servers anymore cause of the megaserver and the fact that dying maps get deleted with you in it only to get thrown back into this toxic mess!

I may try to start doing taxis to the dead maps instead but it may not happen cause of how broken the whole system is.

Shefy.5127:

For do living story you only need to use group browser looking forplayers that want to do LS too. whrn u are 5 or 10!!!! then u can go any map and complete events! Y dont need any permission and u cant let them stop farming. All can do what he wants.
You only need join a gr and go to do LS and achievments… but if u are 1 o2 you will cant do it…. easy!! you maybe waste some time for do it but not a lot!! if u are 3or4 players u cand do it!! XD i think there are maps for LS u only need LFG!!

Yeah let us try to find a dying map that will auto kick us before we even manage to complete all three quests in the chain.

“you have one hour before map dies and to change maps to get the nice 10% exp boost we will give you or we will auto place you in a map.” I got kicked within a few minutes when that popped up after dying at end event with the totem.

I said this in the other clone thread to this one that I had to solo the whole chain and nearly succeed if it didn’t kick me after a death at end.

If it was possible to taxi over every story player to a dead map, I would do it just to get them out of your kitten hole hairs, but I’ll probably get the toxic farmer community to join in as well. Not advertising for this in LFG is probably best.

As with me I’m a bit different on that approach but decentralize it more and the same as you described, I say we all went in thousands of us to kill Zhaitan bypassing mechanics and PS entirely. If Yumiko ever talks about the day we (as the Pact) stormed Arah, she says she led about 100 of her own company into Arah as one of the 100s of war masters of the Vigil— each with their own companies and they in turn lead by a commander of 10 companies (so 1000 men and women of every race).

She still knows Trehearne, but only in passing or by mention from her Pact or Order’s superiors or in orders and such a she is a dime-a-dozen War Master. Just someone you better know like the president of the USA or a company.

She actually doesn’t like him much after what he did With Scarlet and lions arch not sending any support form the Pact itself.

No nameless hero exists, it just happened differently to agree with everyone. And 99% of the time, people will go with it and say, “Yeah I was there, but in X situation with Y group with my Z order. I never saw you there in person though but I don’t doubt it.”

The commander is just one of many too as we all have the ability to train to be one with 100 gold (300 gold now post update). Explaining it that way is better than saying oh, “I’m the commander of the Pact!” IC and people get into a fit.

The same can be said for Scarlet, Yumiko is portrayed as one of many war masters that saw it fit to go in there and storm that breach maker and help with over 100 of her men and women that she recruited herself. I even RPed one such recruitment with another player. Scarlet in her IC account was killed by a slew of heroes that day.

There were probably as many people as there were refugees and those killed avenging those deaths. Yumi had to account for 100 dead of her own.

Yumi is a noble, which her Canthan ancestors earned by saving Queen Salma and fighting in the war in Kryta in GW 1 Killing countless White Mantle. They decided to settle in Kryta and not Cantha from then on. They also became Shining Blade which Yumi was one 20 years before game’s launch date on the timeline.

Yumi is 42 and has two surviving kids and is at war with a rival clan (Who are pro Neo White Mantle/Bandits) that her now dead husband belonged to.

As a noble, she was at the world summit, but just one of many guests that had the ability to fight off the Morderm and the dragon rather than run away.

Anything PS, LW or LS is either partially used or left out or made out to be a big battle or join effort as to not make it central to any one person.

I told them out right after I completed it concentrating, not speaking, trying not to not to die as they stood back and such trying to let it fail, that I was here to complete it for my story and that I pretty much soloed it on a dead map alone up until the last part of the third event in the chain. I died and failed to get back by being kicked off the dead map into the framer’s map instead.

I was royally kittened off and ready for blood (cause I got kicked from a perfectly good map and it said an hour it will be closed), but kept my cool and did what I had to do which was succeed that event.

They were crying and stuff when I single-handedly (the other people that wanted to succeed couldn’t do much vs the few up-scaled champs and elites) took out all the mobs on the guardian of mine.

They were like, “Please commander come over here let it fail.” “Let it fail please we need it to fail so we can farm.” “QQ and T.T” etc.

Others were a bit less kind but I kinda ignored them all as I was too busy and focused.
A few said, “well might as well let it succeed and help the Story peeps.”
It was too late for them after that was said as I completely killed the 1-2 champs too!

I said after quite confidently,“It doesn’t matter what you want. When I’m here as it will succeed regardless, I soloed it all myself, except the last part with the transformed shamans, on an empty map. I’m probably going to solo this on every one of my toons so you will see more of me.”

I looked like a hero to the genuine players that need it for their living story requirements. I probably stroked a few e-kittens of the anti-fail crowd too, yet I didn’t care about them and their agenda.

Also everyone got their achievements that day.

I will go back if need be on Hikari, my guard and do it again just to help other not to ruin the farmers day.

I do believe if they want to play their way and my way both should be respected. So i’m not here to attack them or try to ruin their farm or “fun”. If people need the event to succeed, I’ll be there to make sure it does however.

Yeah they were hell bent on having it fail and a lot of us (maybe 5) that wanted it to succeed kept at it. As for me, I needed it on my guard and I soloed the whole event pretty much. They had no choice to help us do the next events in the chain. There were so many of us we got a few champs in the next two events as a bonus.

If you see my yellow tag on Hikari Kyoko Ishida in Frostgorge give me a holler. I’ll go over there and ruin their day with a bit of my soloing skills.

Maybe I need to come back on my guard for this and solo most of the event. As I pretty much did that to force them to complete it. I had my yellow tag up and all to boot! I needed it then as well.

Not for me: This still references her because I had the old format for story intact when I finished my PS on Hikari by doing Arah Story mode today.

I said this before and will stop saying it after this point: what needs to happen is that “The finish what you started!” achievement needs to be taken out.

This achievement after completing that story that this event involves, requires a success AND destroying the dragon statue! Both must be true!

The normal progress through the story (first time per character) only required you pressing f there and making the statue disappear.

What is going on here is a bug in the initial programming requiring the success of the event portion to be required for both normal progression (to the next section) And the achievement LONG BEFORE THE kittenING ACHIEVEMENT IS EVEN UNLOCKED TO TRY TO GET IN THE FIRST kitten PLACE!

Its not the fault of the fail train or the players that need it completed its the company’s fault for bad coding in the first kitten place!

So we should all get along and take turns: group fails it once then people succeed on another run allowing us to get progress.

I got infracted for bumping my own topic once, so no don’t do that.

If you quit, why are you here? If I quit a game I’d not be posting either. I’d give it up all together.

(was thinking of another thread for the first part)

And yeah the leveling is faster. Even for past lv 15.

notorious bob.2061:

I’m not.

Gw2 is gathering dust.

And sadly, I found it really easy to walk away from.

Apparently you didn’t walk away from it as you are still here posting. If i left a game completely I would not even bother posting period. It sounds hypocritical.

Both games have their merits but i cant see myself going back once I did everything GW 1 had to offer. I have plenty games to play besides this one though, mostly mmos themselves, so I’m at no loss if I take a few weeks off of this.

As for attachment I felt more attached to my characters here than I did in GW 1. There was no RP guilds as far I knew. In GW 1 I pretty much got looks and stares.

Here is an idea, make EOTM count as map completion in place of one borderland. This means you can do a borderland or EOTM’s map, though they’d have to add a few thing to make it equal (vista’s or skill points.)

Heartily.6835:

If we make a loud enough noise maybe Anet will notice us. Let me go get… my drill…

Notice me… anet (sempai)?

Yeah I been noticing that there is no way to lock in the mad king finishers i have left and instead goes back to my deer.

Another addition to this is to have a join function available on contacts list as well or on player name in chat for same maps but different shards so you can taxi yourself without needing a party with open slots. Then all I have to do is right click their name and join on same map.

Any other ideas and constructive criticisms ware welcome.

Destructive criticism and insults are not welcome.

They do that to Cantha, I’ll really leave the game. I hear Archage or <insert game name here> has a great Asian-themed race.

#Cantha_Forever!

I being a role player and now with megaserver find it very hard to group up or find friends to rp with. I know we can party up and taxi /use whisper to find each other but on bigger maps its hard to find each other even still.

We also have the nifty /ip command that brings up the numerical IP of every server and shard you are in on GW 2 so you and your friend(s) can easily cross check their server locations.

The problem I have is if I want to mass rp with say more than 5 people. I can’t get taxied because the party I want to join is full and party allows us to rp without interruptions from trolls, etc. Other than making a new increase in party size, (not going to happen) or using a squad, (needs a commander, which I have commander status now and can use), there is no way to keep organized or find people quickly.

I propose a new look up feature in the form of /whois and /where commands.

/whois is used in many older MMOs and should have existed in an open world game like GW 2 from the start. What it does is finds a player you don’t know the name of exactly like if you know their main, but not their alts and don’t have them on contacts.

Since all player names are unique and account names are not, (unless you add the 4 digit after like, JoeShmoe.4567), you can find that person now matter who they are playing as.

/where is for someone you know of by name 100% and is on contacts but when you can’t party with them (already 5/5) and can only locate indirectly by /ip and whispers. This is a case of being unable to be taxied to them.

I had issues where I can’t even get a response by whisper cause they are either: afk, in a fight and can’t talk, or busy and can’t be bothered right away.

What /where will do is list their /ip and map and if you are in same map, put a temporary orange dot on the mini map to follow (much like the sentry item in EOTM/WVW but for pve).

Also has the option to move you to the shard if its not full by auto-taxing you. If that is not possible add in move to their shard option by right click menu.

If its not possible because of way point cost cheating/avoidance, deduct the cost of nearest way point to that player you wish to find (if contested, next nearest and so on) then highlight them as usual as if you did a /where command on them.

This will help us role players get together faster and also help anyone else for whatever they may need this for.

Of course disable this in pvp and wvw. I don’t want you to be able to get to your allies or your enemies easier if they are a friend on other side.

Purple Miku.7032:

I’d just revert the game back to pre-ferocity tbh.

Then I’d fire all the college graduates that don’t actually know squat about the game and start hiring people interested in actually improving GW2.

Oh wait, that’s not “ruining”… nvm

It would ruin it for some… I actually want to see zerker die.

Palador.2170:

I would give the players some choices to make as they play, and let them feel the full weight of their actions.

The human storyline, for example, has you killing off bandits. I’d have it so, later, there’s more orphans in the home instance because you killed their parents (the bandits). Or as a charr taking on the Flame Legion, you accidentally kill an Ash Legion spy that was working in the Flame Legion, and their warband now blames you for charging in before they could warn him to get out. Take down the Nightmare Court as a sylvari? Your violent actions cause a few more sylvari to decide that the Court is right after all, and they fall into Nightmare.

I’d also have some serious “grey vs grey” choices. Kill a dangerous separatist, or let them go in exchange for an antidote to save a friend? Get the survivors out of Clawr Island, or let them die as you run back and try to save your mentor? Get the charr to invent duct tape to tape Trahearne’s mouth shut, or get the asura to find a way to extract helium to make him talk funny? Shoot a rabid Garm, or let him bite Eir and hope that you can somehow cure both of them?

By the time I was done, the game would lose its T rating, and therefore likely crash.

I would like this! this game needs to be more M rated.

I would:

*Allow us to be totally naked. Everything shows as when you lose your armor then you lose your bra and panties (or boxes if male).

*Eating and drinking in game is more realistic like The Sims 1-4: you will have hunger thirst and toilet meters! Better not have to go in the middle of a boss fight!

*Able to have children and marriages Now! You will have to pay alimony to your spouse if he or she divorces you. If you run out of gold, you get banned.

Peanut Butter?
Me to Yumi at a store: “What would you like? Smooth or Chunky? i can’t afford much so its all we may have for a while.”

Yumiko: “I don’t like things that could stick in my prefect teeth. I think I’ll go with smooth. Hikari, my daughter, would like smooth as well. My sister, Tomoko, would probably go with whatever as long as its edible.”

Yumiko would smell like flowers or perfumes as she is a noble when she is clean. She does kill a lot of stuff out in the world and that can smell horrid.

Her daughter, Hikari, would smell sweaty at times and of metal armor and weapons.

Tomoko would smell like grease and oil and charred stuff as she is an engineer. She is sexy, but is a grease monkey nonetheless.

$300 Cash?

Me: “I’m each giving you $300 cash as your Tyrain gold doesn’t work well here.” Though the metal content will probably make you a millionaire

Yumiko: “I’d like my money in manageable amounts 1 $100, 2 $50s, and 5 $20s. I actually carry more silver and copper than gold usually. And why paper money? Doesn’t that usually burn?”

Hikari: “Mommy is not as practical as me, I would just take 3 $100s.”

Tomoko: “Money is not as useful as how you use it. All $20s.”

Pizza?

Yumiko: “PIZZA YAY! I rather have onion or tomatoes on it.”

Hikari: “Is that Pizza? I would like Shrimp or raw fish on it!”

Tomoko: “Pizza is nice but as long as it had lots of meat!”

Dogs? Yes/No and what breed?
Me: “I don’t like dogs. Was bit by one for no reason once. I do love cats!”

Yumiko: “I like cats sorry.”

Hikari: “I always wanted a puppy! White with black spots! Is that called a Dalmatian?”

Tomoko: I’m not a ranger but if I was, it would have to be a Pit Bull to tear up my enemies!"

Math or Social history?

Me: “I personally like both. I can’t say for the three ladies.”

Yumiko: “Math because I am a business woman.”

Hikari: “I’m already wicked smart enough, but I really like learning about others. Humanities for me.”

Tomoko: “Who needs people? I can make anything I desire with my brain, so math for me!”

Images:

Top: Yumiko
Middle: Hikari
Bottom: Tomoko

That’s no moon…That’s my WIFE!!!

-canned laughter-

Berk.8561:

hannah mee.7925:

Several brands have left such a deep mark in the field that the brand is informally interchangeable with the product. Sort of goes to show how language can evolve, though, just by simple association.

The reason why companies fight that is that when their name becomes generic, they lose their trademark status and anyone can use the word. In other words, if the word “legos” became a generic word for any building block, then anyone could go to court and argue that they can call their products “legos” and sell them that way. So for a company, this is a very bad thing and that’s why they fight it.

Yet you can’t go out and hunt down every person on the planet and go cease and desist for just talking. Unless corporations rule the world and we end up like that one SYFY show I watched for 3 seasons about the future and space time continuum/time travel in 40 odd years.

“Tin-foil hat!”

As for npc rank or power as an individual, we should be at least Legendary status by now…

Legendary “Boss” Yumiko Emi Ishida sure has a nice ring to it or Legendary Commander (of the Pact) Yumiko Emi Ishida.

I’m just role playing for now and my characters are preparing for the next call for action and actually wondering themselves when the Pact is going to go west and destroy those bandits blocking access to maguuma.

My elementist, Yumiko, is really looking forward to burning more bandits to ashes. She can’t wait for every moment that she goes out and kills bandits in Queensdale to get her fix.

You know you get so excited you could pee yourself? Yeah she is at that point.

Bring back Necromancer’s monument armor but in game drop only please.

Its nice and all, but is it even related to GW Lore or anything? Maybe you could try your hand at actually doing a GW/2-themed manga?

Zaxares.5419:

Yeah, exactly. I’m not sure what the OP’s intentions were in making his post, but if it was due to the usual complaints about unbalanced teams, afk’ers, or “Autobalance Wars”, I think he would find that locking players into teams and the removal of autobalance wouldn’t change a thing. People can, and did, still ragequit all the time back during the days of Random Arenas; dishonor isn’t going to stop them, and you’ll still be stuck with a 4v5. (Even worse, because now that the teams are locked, there’s no chance of a 5th person now joining in and evening the odds.)

Yeah as the winning side kept their team locked as well. Which is what happened when the team arenas before it also got removed.

The mode of random arenas usually starts like this:
*you enter lobby
*hit “enter battle” on the party formation window
*wait for the queue to set you up with your 4 player party and the opposing party
*let it all hang loose and fight till you drop.
*if you win you kept your team
*losing team was ejected and had to make a new one and start over from match 1 of 7 or w/e it was.

Problem with the team being kept was if one dced or left, you are now stuck with 3 until you lose.

And Zahld, I realize now it was Team Arenas that was removed in favor of Random Arenas, but the same problems persisted.

Its like Gw1’s Random arenas. Where you are forced into a team of 4 have to deal with it and can’t change sides and no auto balance (you are stuck with what you got but it was always even teams before you began)! If you don’t like it, you can’t leave as you will just get dishonor and by dishonor, banned from joining any matches for hours.

Random Arenas was eventually removed cause the red side always resigned (called red resigns days) cause they would get terrible teams and hated having to be forced to play with the bad players or get dishonor by logging out or leaving early.

Now after saying all this, I’m pretty sure this would be a bad idea.

To the OP or any mobs that this may concern…

I am a passive dredge worker. And I can tell you being me is not a walk in the park. Sure they don’t bother me most of the time cause I do not get aggressive and attack them, But as time goes on, its gets boring and something inside of me grows… I think its my experience as a worker or something and these adventurers can somehow read how much of this experience I got in me and they kill me like all the other comrades. Then I respawn, and all my hard earned experience is gone as well as my bonus experience for working so hard and for so long for my superiors! Do you know how many hours I work in the mines with almost no breaks?! DO YOU? NO DIDN’T THINK SO!

Calms down, Ok I’m calm now…. but it is not good to be a passive mob, I mean, not ever.

Sincerely,
A Yellow mob Dredge Worker lv 80 of Frostgorge Sound.

To the OP

I the Champion Bandit Lieutenant feel all your pain, I mean… I was recently demoted to veteran status (and also changed my sex to female in kessex hills) because I can’t hold my own against a single filthy Charr named Meat Chop. If it was not them, it was the large bands of adventurers and that kitten queen’s loyalists! shudders at the thought of them coming Sometimes its not the large bands or a Charr, but a woman, a single Canthan Elementalist woman by the name of Yumiko who shouts at me and calls me “White Mantle Trash!”, I go, “Who’s white Mantle?” and then I’m burned to ashes before I can say my pre-determined lines. That is by far the worst death any bad guy can ever experience.

At least in hindsight no one comes to kill me anymore now that I am not a Champion— What? No… that voice! It can’t be…NO NOT HER!! “DIE WHITE MANTLE SCUM!” NOOOOOOO IT BURNS!

Yeah my life sucks.

Sincerely,
The Bandithaunt Caverns’ Champion Veteran Bandit Lieutenant.

The first two especially for Canthan women. Those would work very well.

Kyte.1952:

My alt turned main, Camilla Songhaven (you could say she’s my favourite child).

Warmaster of the Vigil, Commander of the Pact, loves Dungeon-ing and long walks on the beach. She’s also an avid collector of minis and outfits.

Bottom pic is her most recent look.

1. pick for Sexiest Women of Kryta magazine!

Honestly! How’d you do that?

I’ll have all my humans here soon. As I usually only play humans. Some of mine are in the other “post your human thread x/10” ones.

She is cute! Is she a Canthan? That hair is fitting too! I give her a 10/10

I got Yumi’s portrait face from the Maurdry items when you click on them to find where to purify them.

It was broken and never really worked from day one! At least when I tried to do it. Good riddance! Anet needs to make a mini game work properly before its released.

Maybe this is why we do not have bar brawls and Mina’s Target Shooting.

New
Potty
Experience

I’ll call it this Since you all cry foul and crap on everything. Its getting rather tiring.

New images:

I can use my back at any level folks! That’s right! Any level!
I can even Salvage as normal!

More to come!

I seem to have no problem with it!

Look what I can do at lv 1 (and 2)!

I can dodge!
I can trade at lv 1!
I can look very stylish!
I can even go to vistas and get credit! (and they are on my mini map at lv 2)

I am even a commander at lv 2!!

I’ll have more later.

You can still use your stats and a vista you just can’t see it on your mini map. Just go to it as normal.

What is wrong here is that its the tutorial page or hint system that is unlocking (so you can learn more about how they work) at that level not the actual jump puzzle. Its not like there is a huge invisible barrier or wall in sharkmaw caverns telling you to go back…

I really need to make a new character or use one of my few lv 20s and see how this all works.