Guild Wars 2

Its not in their local area or a planted attack on their server machines (I.E. virus… etc).

Sega just had their fair share of feces with DDOS attacks just in a period of 3 weeks ago.

Phantasy Star Online 2 was hit very hard already. I expected us and other games to be next. I called it!

Its sad to see people doing this all over the world. Is this what they get their jollies from?

they just did on their twitter just a few moments ago.

Its a ddos attack on all of Anet and Ncsoft mainly aimed at Wildstar.

Wasn’t Canach corrupted in Southsun? Say good bye to him or the queen then!

I dreamed that DR was attacked. So you’re not the only one. But it was attacked by many dragon champions of every Elder Dragon and only the bandits were left to stand up against them.

Doesn’t the thing in the trailer which is on the blueprint in her room look awfully like the destroyed massive cube we jump up in the un-categorized fractal?

Here’s cute Sylvari joke I thought of while picking up Chinese Elm bark outside:

A Sylvari male enters a bar and orders a drink.

He then makes small talk with the bartender, “I have a great name for a band I’m gathering together for a show tonight. It will be great!”

The bartender replies, “Oh yeah? what is your band’s name?”

The Sylvari reponds back, “The Knotly Crew!”

Anyone got Sylvari jokes that could be posted here?

The way angel explains it really fit my RP for Yumiko. She had her and her kin beat Zhaitan and kill it with the rest of the pact only to have nothing else pressing from the pact to do. So it made sense that there may be more commanders.

Then Scarlet happened, all the while Yumi had a third child (a baby boy) and then also defeated scarlet armies about a year later only to find out the pact was never coming to help her (the vigil lost over 100 men on her account) and she was really mad at Trehearne for not sending anyone extra to the battles in Lions Arch.

“I’m the commander and no one comes to my aid? Unless they hired more when I was gone.” Is exactly what was going through her mind at the time and reinforced that fact.

And she specifically says to most other players, in character, that she has a family to take care of now there is no way she can do what she did like in the personal story.

Now in this living story she is going here for her own personal reason not as a pact commander but going after the bandits and White Mantle as they are her true enemies.
She is RPed as a noble, but I chose commoner for her trying to get each story combination experienced. My guardian was chosen as noble so I will experience that other dialogue.

I really wish we had more freedom on character development it still seems too constrained like we are on rails. A lot of the stuff fits or own canon and most does not.

I.E. I wished I could have chosen noble for everyone but done the commoner route or the streets route saving or dealing with who we feel to deal with.

I’ll return when the map is dead and everyone else did everything, (but that means no good shops) as its too much going on for me to make proper jumps and my computer sucks.

The only game company that so far I seen that stuck to its road map is SEGA Yes SEGA of JAPAN! They have always delivered every content update For Phantasy Star Online 2 since it launched except until the ddos attacks recently.

And SEGA’s game is much smaller (well maybe, the game is prety bulky in terms of file sizes) than GW 2 ever will be, so why hasn’t ANET even gotten on the ball at all, is a big problem!

I wonder if you can charge at other Skill Points to bypass this, anyone confirm?

I’m Canthan and always will be, European themed ethnicities are way too overused in every game.

I did make the mistake of starting my ele (and also main) in Ascalon only to have the game only done in the proper order timeline/game order wise. But I made a pvp only version of her to have it correct. So my charter looked Ascalonian rather than Canthan, but I told people this was because I had to do the games in order Prophesies→Factions→Nightfall→Eotn I wish I could do a makeover in GW 1 but it was cash only.

Maybe this is related to Shadow Behemeoth? I got daily rare chest, but no chance at the big chest even with maximum effort and gold completion? I saw the Chest and pressed F on it, but got nothing.

I did him two nights ago before so its not a case of, “Oh you did it already.” Is this the same problem you guys having on the big guys like TEQ and wurm?

Where is this thing anyways?

I actually hate this map. It is harderthan most maps (besides orr) to solo and too large and boring. I would be glad even if they change this map for the better.

Dardevilmon.6702:

Dont touch the combat that is the best part about this game the thing they need to touch is the balance of skills no the combat.Combat is incredibly fluid and responsive and non other mmo or rpg or mmorpg have combat as good as this 1.

Not one other mmo? Try PSO2 sometime when its not currently being attacked by DDOS.

But compared to that… This game still has great pacing in combat. I just wish i can use a controller instead of a mouse and keys. Then I can really show how an elementalist is played.

Bartosz.2013:

Well IMO human is the Best for every class, but better dont make a norm, i never saw a good looking norn + their horrible movement/animation

I only saw two or three good looking female Norns at the minster way point area in TC DR. But we are the RP capital, so people will make great efforts to make good looking Norn.

If you die and look between the female human’s legs/thighs, there is a see through bug on her crotch where you can see the terrain beneath her body through it. Sometimes its just blue ground/water (like when nothing loads yet).

Elementalist: Human/Asura
Engineer: Asura/Charr/Human
Guardian: Human/Norn
Mesmer: Human/Asura/Norn
Necromancer: Norn/Asura/Human/Charr
Ranger: All but Asura
Thief: All but Norn
Warrior: Human/Norn/Charr

My 6:
Elementalist: Human Female
Engineer: Human Female
Guardian: Human Female
Mesmer: Norn Female
Necromancer: Human Male
Thief: Asura Male

What I want to have:
Ranger: Human Female
Warrior: Charr Male

I think Anet nerfed light sources in Sharkmaw puzzle. When my guild ran it, my Mad Memories: Complete Edition (its a skin now it seems) stopped working there. We all got ported across instead.

Please let there be WM again! My RP depends on it.

Yeah! It took forever to load in and ages to get all the graphics to catch up after. This is far better please keep it ANET!

The Queen’s Gauntlet/Pavillion happens every year. Just hold on to them.

Look up the Balrados fight on youtube for Phantasy Star Online 2 for some possible ideas too.

I found both vids (to show you the different strategies)
Ranged/melee only (on Very Hard mode/lv 55 boss): http://youtu.be/RZ8CuzpNQAY
Spellcasters (on Very Hard mode/lv 55 boss): http://youtu.be/l4eH73haxY8

Many different strategies employed here:

hunters fighter and rangers, gunners and bravers (Melee and ranged classes/hybrids) can use the gun emplacements to do continuous dps to body parts to get into weak points on his body as he flys/swims around. You could beat him totally with the turrets, but it takes forever.

Forces/Techers (spell casters in the game) can directly target attack and break parts with techniques (magic )and support the rest of the 4 man party.

This boss can do one hit KOs with a water bomb, a hydro beam attack, high speed rams and charges across the map in either direction (and from behind).

A grappling beam exists that can only be used once then had to recharge for at least 2 minutes. That should bring him down if it connected on his nose and allows the melee classes to wail on his weak point in his jaw.

I’d like to see fights like this in GW 2 honestly with elder dragons. ((Sadly this vid I found it was all melee classes so it was a bit disappointing.))

ascii.9267:

The portal surrounded by thorned vines seen in the image on the main site that says “season 2 starts july 1” is in Brisban Wildlands. I’ve been to it and it’s currently blocked by other vines. It’s kinda hidden in the lower southwest corner of the map.

That is the ghostly white mantle event back there there is no portal or anything back there but that event retelling one of the missions of GW 1.

Everyone in game right now (at least in my DR shard) is saying the Zephrytes being blown up is more anti-Cantha from NCSOFT and forcing Anet’s hand and squashing any sort of chance we will ever see our beloved continent. I don’t think that is true and people are just making up conspiracy theories just cause they can.

They also are saying all the Asian faces we have at creation and makeover kits, Majory and other Canthan descent popular-figures in the game and all our Canthan artifact items (ascended stuff and our jade weapons) will all be removed this update too.

They do that you know for sure I’ll never play this again. And never but a product form either company ever again.

So honest to god we better hope its just conspiracy theories.

Just 3 days ago, SEGA of Japan got DDOS attacked by an unknown group shutting down service for many for PSO2 (or Phantasy Star Online 2). It seems to be coming from the SEA region as many suspect.

Are Anet and us players here at risk here too? Is it an isolated incident or is this team of hackers willing to take down many companies? They may decide to target other games in that region or side of the world too then target the US or EU.

Any MMO or game that has the music files not hard coded or in a very hard to open Compressed file it can be changed to what you see fit.

RO, PSO 1, THIS, all had their soundtracks on your end, yet most you had to make your file exactly the same name (size and length doesn’t matter) as the file in question (RO) or know how to mess with .ogg files (PSO 1) and then name the same as the original file being replaced. Its was hard work and not worth it.

GW 2 really has the best way and methods so far of any MMO I played to have custom sound and music added.

Shifu.4321:

You haven’t known grind until you’ve tried farming cards in Ragnarok Online (0.01 drop rate).

Which is 3% on the 30x rates server I just went back to. Usually if the server is well populated, you’d have the cards you want being sold by others.

Yeah cards are hell, but its barely noticeable when you can gather up 1000s of foes on some maps and kill them in one glob even that low drop rate is manageable. (Note: this method of farming also works for the so called hard grind for your last few levels to 99 or 150) I never had an issue getting most things I wanted unless it was MVP boss cards and stuff as that its a dps race at best to be MVP, but is more fun than say zerg-wars on a mega boss as it is now here. Also there is just that teamwork dynamic as well as being competitive for MVP, as they can’t be killed alone unless you are super good.

There is no way to do anything like that in GW 2, getting more than 3 or 4 foes on you will just end your life fast in this game which is a shame really.

Its not true. With megaservers, TC doesn’t exist except in wvw. If you try to RP with anyone trolls will come to you in an instant and try to stop you and your friends. The mega sever separates everyone, and its impossible to get on the same map as your fellow RPers.

I say junk it, have everything back to the way it was, and the lonely players can just join a old content/dead map exploring friendly guild and then guest and have them babysit them all day.

I want my RP again. I’d trash this mega server to be able to RP again.

Yet in games like that you do not kill one by one you gather a whole map and mass genocide. You kite them all and then BOOM kill all at once! The time it took you to level up I did it in in a huge fraction of the time.

In RO we coined the term Mob training! And rules were set to make it suspension or banable offense to kill steal it or disrupt it as it can be a griefable offence and make you and the guy kiting and training the massive blob of enemies die horribly.

Its something I wish we could do in GW 2, it would make farming for loot easier, but this game’s structure doesn’t allow for 50-60 mobs following you and you only.

@Belzebu

Ro had similiar structure but wasn’t that bad, even the gear upgrading if you became a ranked blacksmith or whitesmith, you can bypass the breakage/destroyed as being ranked means, you are better at what you doand have less chances at failure or none at all.

Normal upgrading was rather cheap though and you could just get like 50 copies of a weapon and maybe more than half of them will be +10 and half will be destroyed and you will still make a profit.

Yet the cut off for most gear was like +7 or 8 and rarer stuff was like +5 or 6 much more forgiving IMO.

But unlike you, I enjoy games like this as you never get anything for nothing, you are rewarded for hard work and everything has a opportunity cost.

I might just play Flyff or one of those in fact. I know I’ll be enjoying myself, but as I said on a previous post I need a new rig.

I never felt I was on the tredmill on any game but this. The games I played I got stuff just easily enough or was able to make do with the gear I had as games I played were more dependent on your own stats not a level requirement to equip.

Damage output was based on your own stats more than your gear. In PSO I always got by for the longest time on lower rares and the highest level basic weapons (which were yellow colored and went in the order of green->blue->purple->red->yellow).

Other games the economy was so rich and full of well priced stuff, you could just buy the gear for dirt cheep, even the best stuff was obtainable by buying it from a merchant that set up their character as an npc, and buying form their stall a powerful rare (maybe even the equivalent of a legend in that game) for a few million (which was easy to get in RO even on lowest rates)

Other games, there is a unstoppable cheater culture and if you were a legit player you can get stuff from them on the cheap.

I’ll tell you what then. I’ll get a job to buy a new computer (right now I can only go back to PSO 1 and RO and run those) and play as many MMOs I can find out there. All the free very grindy ones and I’ll come back and tell you how many I enjoyed and whatnot. I know for sure though I’ll enjoy them more than this hands down.

I like challenge and like to work hard for stuff. GW 2 is not giving anything for working hard nor has much of a challenge to replace it.

Only real reason I’m still in gw 2 is its all that I can barely run atm besides PSO 2 (need a new gaming controller for that atm) and the RP (which is barely doable as is).

RO has a lot of RP private servers still and I bet I can fit right in again.

RO has a system like that where you have to kill to gain exp and after 15 levels or so those monsters are obsolete, GW 1 has a system similar to that (+5 vs foe = no exp). almost every game has some form of that system. GW 2 has it like what? 5-20 levels above you you can’t even gain exp or do damage and they seek you out and one shot you?

RO has quests for certain level ranges, but they are well hidden in the lore/environment and you have to really explore and talk to everyone (there are no quest markers or any of that easy hold your hand kitten). Doing them was like huge amounts of exp and level ups and some were required to open a dungeon or explorable area. I never seen another game that had that much player involvement and investment in the story or gameplay.

Nowadays you have dungeon warpers (on some servers) and stuff that give you free access or a small in game fee.

I think what the real problem is no one wants to work for anything at all in any game these days.

Also its not whether its a very grindy game, its how well its handled in respect to time invested vs rewards given per kill and in game value based on those kills.

Gw 2 does a poor balance of this.

There was an old formula for one player rpgs on EXP and Gold gain.

It was based on how much damage you were taking per exp point gained or damage taken per gold piece.

If it was too high or it was too difficult it wasn’t worth your time.

I’m sure GW 2 has such a thing too but, now we only press one and zerg so no way to really know.

I’d still love it over this as I know I’ll be rewarded equally for my effort. Here there is no knowing what even drops what or if you will get anything at all cause of DR or some bug or something.

If GW 2 had even set drops on foes… I would actually enjoy it more as I can go out there and kill stuff for the fun the mystery of “will it drop? will it drop? Oh six please drop!”

FYI, I played a 4/4/4 server as my first RO server, it was pretty kitten close to 1/1/1. Highest I played was like over 100x everything or so and it was kitten easy and I hated it. No challenge or no effort. Also those 100x or more servers they had to artificially make the level caps higher (which included insanely high stats) and as an added bonus (hated this) made them open world pvp/ player killer mode for a use of that show of power.

In GW 2 I actually want to see what I kill drop what its supposed to drop on kill, if its a 25% chance to drop t 5 scale and 5% chance to drop a t 6 scale it better drop what it is rated to drop. If it doesn’t drop those at that time, drop something random like have it set to a “drop anything rate” that most games have for bad rolls so you are always rewarded.

PSO and the like have DAR and it can be anything in the game allowed to be on that massive table.

Maybe GW 2 is just one big DAR with no real set drops for anything?

You never played the good ones then…you are all too fast and quick to judge them all by playing only one.

I know what a real grind is and gw 2 is far worse than those. I played grindy games and I loved every one of them and here’s why:

Yet in the games mentioned, a level grind does not always include a very steep gear or loot grind with it. I always prefer a sensible gear grind over a really easy max level.

Gw 2 barely has a sensible gear grind for ascended or legendary as nothing really drops for the effort invested.

Most grindy games as you say I played; I can get all the materials I need for stuff even just one piece of armor farming only for an hour. Which is very good value for time spent. I did this in RO many times, one hour and I could make my potions or w/e, granted I was on a free sever with increased drop rates etc, but other game with crafting etc. The level grind as not so great and I didn’t care so much about reaching the max level right away (gear was based on stat requirements or your class only never a level limit to equip), getting loot and making stuff that I need easily was more worthwhile.

Here you will barely get one of the 15 materials to make one piece of rare armor (and you need 90 for a full set) to level up a craft in one hour. I had to give up and buy the stuff on TP when I was leveling my crafts back when. T6 for exotics is just as bad as its the same but 1/3 of the amount (5 instead of 15 for each piece). Now I’m working on ascended and I have no real way to get lower tier cloth or leather except to reroll alts.

That’s not fair to anyone here to spend 5 hours for 90 of one material or 12000 silk or w/e, when in a much grindier game as you all say, I can get it done in an hour.

I’d take the excessive grind for stuff in other game with good loot tables and an insanse level curve over this any day. Good thing I have nearly everything 500 (some are 460+), I’ll probably never level a craft again.

Eotm is the only thing remotely wvw that I can run on my subpar below specs laptop. Lately though even that has been lagging up now really badly.

I do everything I can on my end. I keep a very well maintained laptop.Its probably my CPU which is 1.65 ghz dual core. The GPU is an hd 6320. The machine has 8 GB ram which is DDR3.

You never tried loading for Halloween (or any holiday) in LA or LA period when it still existed. It probably more on 5-10 minutes now for some highly populated areas and no more than 2-5 for others.

I seriously doubt that when I’m about to crash with zergs of 50 or more and not see anything in front of my face in cities after loading in 5-20 minutes later.

Its more like playing with a manageable group of say 5-15, not lagtastic-spastic 50+ zerg fest that breaks our computers and makes us blinder than a dredge in a dark room!

The Megasever made game play terrible for lower end computers, myself included, and nothing renders properly or everything is on the verge of crashing halfway through a world boss.

Its why I don’t even do Shatterer, teq, or three headed wurm at all and never will do them.

Marff.4853:

Why I hate this whole megaserver idea?

I’m simple, pretty casual player which likes pve a lot. My PC is almost 5 years already, and before megaserver I was able to do world bosses events with ~3fps (with lowest all graphic settings) and it was fun for me anyway.
And now comes the Mighty Megaserver:
1) I dont’t have now even 1 fps on world bosses and can’t do anything because of amount of people which is now at least 3x more than before. That takes all fun of gaming from me.
2) I’m in multiserver guild which is specialized for killing Great Jungle Wurm and Tequatl, and we can’t even gather all on one map to kill those bosses.

This is exactly is what is my problem now! I hate this kitten and it has to be dealt with.
For me it happens as soon as 30 people enter the area I’m in. I nearly crash my laptop and the game when the big zergs join in now. Its going to be woooo wooo wooo sound bug all over again (Remember those days?)!

sparc.3649:

Almoryk Kane.6085:

A recent review of Elder Scrolls Online by internet reviewer Angry Joe calls the mega server idea they had the worst idea. Making grouping up with friends and guilds frustrating. I wonder what he would think of the Guild Wars 2 mega server. I just wrote to him hoping for some help. If your a fan of the show or actually apart of the Angry Joe army I suggest you write to him as well.

Joe was a huge fan of the game at launch. I can imagine though his show requires a lot of demand and he probably hasn’t been in guild wars for some time. I doubt he can help too much but the thing is that if it fails in Elder Scrolls Online then why the heck is it in my Guild Wars 2. Anet don’t take ideas from other MMO’s. It is what sets you apart that made me love this game to begin with. The breaking of the holy trinity is just one of the many different aspects that set Guild Wars apart.

Now I know your guys are not going to change your mind. Your lack of response is evident as is the news you guys updated not too long ago. The mega server is here to stay. Though for the love I have for this game please do a major, and I mean MAJOR fix to the system. Guilds and original server people should have top priority when it comes to filling a map for events. I don’t see my guild anymore nor the people I normally hang out with. My community that I loved is all but fading away. I can see many people leaving over this change if its not fix. I’ve been certainly considering it but I know and I believe you can make this system work.

I have a few things reading this post made me want to say. First off being, I am personally not willing to say (or think) that this is undoubtedly here to stay. I’d like to at least think there MAY be some way ANet will roll this back and eliminate the #megaSTUPIDserver all together. I guess I’ve always been a “the glass is half full” kind of person though.

Secondly, I know the feeling of “a single person cannot bring forth change”, but I’ve also come to learn it’s not true. It may take extra work, but a single person could kill an entire army. I don’t mean to say I’m going to kill anyone, or that anyone here should, over a matter like something we’re discontent with in a VIDEO GAME, but, I just merely mean that a single person CAN bring forth change. It may be just as difficult as it FEELS impossible though!

That being said, for a matter like this, I have fully prepared a nice LONG letter to IGN and any other game reviewing/oriented company I can find. I am reserving it as I also understand it’s the weekend right now, and most ANET employees are probably off of work, having fun with their family (as am I). BUT, if we do not hear something from an ANET official by the close of the business day MONDAY APRIL the 28th, 2014, I WILL be submitting this nice LONG letter to IGN and every other game reviewing company I can find on TUESDAY APRIL the 29th, 2014.

So at this point, I can only hope ANET decides to actually start working with us, or at the VERY least communicating with us on this issue. Before I, or someone else, convinces a ‘news outlet’ to cover the topic. Because once you get bad press, you get bad press. That will be on record forever…

Good job! I hope it gets out and I hope the bad publicity never ends now!

We need more people like you.

optimized? Its horrid anything in game with over 20 people I get 0-4 fps and the game barely can function.

A good optimized game runs on the graphics card and not on your cpu.

Reminded me of Village of Wren when we were trying to save it in preparation for Lyssa (after the temple falls of course) total wipe and super scaling.

Killing a Megadestroyer, that I did all the work on every pre event (there are atleats 9 in Mt. Maelstrom), with only 13 second left with a sub par group of only 10-20 people.

I felt really good about that seeing no one ever does any thing anymore and just comes to the last event to get their loots.

This was a week or two before the 15th patch btw.