Guild Wars 2

Darmikau.9413:

Can somebody explain the proposals for non-instanced Guild Halls to me? The entire point of the system is to provide an area specifically for your guild removed from the rest of the world. Non-instanced Guild Halls already exist; going somewhere on the map and telling your guild to meet you there. Guild Halls don’t need to exist on the map, and they don’t need to allow random players to stumble upon them. They need to be built specifically to the exclusion of non-guild members.

There are some good ideas in here, but honestly, the Guild Hall system from GW1 is all the game needs, with some GW2 polish. In that respect, I can’t fathom why anyone would want to take up actual space on the map for Guild Halls, let alone have them be accessible to non-members of the guild, with the exception of guesting.

Proposal Overview

Guild Halls, as seen in Guild Wars© .

Goal of Proposal

Give Guilds a private, isolated area for Guild Members to meet, spar, host GvG, Roleplay, and organize.

Proposal Functionality

Open the guild panel and click the “Guild Hall” button to be taken to the private map somewhere in the Mists or the Battle Isles and meet with other members of your guild.

Guild Halls are purchased with a Celestial Sigil, which can be earned in PvP, as a drop from a Champion Bags or World Chest, from the Fractals end reward, or from gaining ranks in WvW. Unused sigils can be sold on the trading post, or consumed to grant Guild Influence.

To Purchase a Guild Hall, speak to the Guild Registrar to preview one of the various halls. Once a desired hall has been selected, trade in the Celestial Sigil to purchase that hall for your guild. Only Guild Leaders may do this. Once purchased, a guild hall may be further upgraded for a gold cost with an armor repairer, crafting stations, a merchant and BLTC representative, and more.

Guild Halls will be about the size of a medium instance. Think Hero’s Canton or Salma district, perhaps slightly larger. Guild Halls include:

Heath of the Ages (Krytan-themed guild hall)
Heritage Courtyard (Divinity’s Reach-themed hall)
Genius’ Laboratory (Rata Sum-themed hall)
Bloodstone’s Call (Maguuma-themed hall)
Dreamer’s Sanctum (Grove-themed hall)
Unseen Ones’ Lair (Tarnished Coast-themed hall)
Swashbuckler’s Outpost (Lion’s Arch-themed hall)
Destiny’s Stand (Airship/Breachmaker-themed hall)
Spirit’s Retreat (Snow/Lodge-themed hall)
Freezing Tundra (Icebrood-themed hall)
Fallen Kingdom (Ascalonian-themed hall)
Legion Forgeworks (Black Citadel-themed hall)

And possibly more.

Associated Risks

People are too happy that GW1 halls are back, and they spontaneously combust.

+1. GW1 Guild Hall is all that we need for a Guild Hall. Instance GH, discount merchant, place to do have a scrimmage, etc….

caveman.5840:

i wish they could bring WVW in to the PVE maps so factions could fight for land

there are some really cool pve maps .
it is just they are pve only XD

lol.. you’re missing ArcheAge ?

Sube Dai.8496:

azizul.8469:

that’s why i said remove EotM for now, and WvW will be back to normal, at least until a better solution is found.

You must be new here…before EOTM WvW was the Karma Train.’

EOTM has helped separate the farmers from the PvP’ers.

at least those “empty servers” get back their people. if they want to karma train let them be.

that’s why i said remove EotM for now, and WvW will be back to normal, at least until a better solution is found.

take the GW1 Guild Hall model, and implement it in GW2. simple.

so can ANET clarify whether the final week will still follow the Swiss system, or there will be some intervention ?

just remove EotM , and WvW will be back to normal….

NiloyBardhan.9170:

Didn’t they say that every match will be unique in the sense that no server can face the same two server both together again?

//Edit: I think Silver league should be included in the title to make it precise.

not really because the tournament is using Swiss style system, more or less like in season 2 but with different weighting/point for 1st,2nd and 3rd place for every match up. this season the tournament is using 5-3-2 point system….

i’ll begin with my server, Crystal Desert .

if CD win this match up, there are 2 possible match ups depending on other (most likely) results :
1) YB-DB-CD (if DB beat NSP in week 3)
2) YB-NSP-CD (if NSP beat DB in week 3)

if CD take 2nd in this match up, there are also 2 possible match ups depending on other (most likely) results :
1) DB- CD-DR (if NSP beat DB in week 3)
2) NSP-CD-DR (if DB beat NSP in week 3)

guild sometimes do have members from opposing servers… whether or not the one you saw was a spy or not only that person and his guildmates know. sometimes people happen to see their old friends on the opposing server and decide to say hi, so he rep the guild. it is not uncommon.

that’s not to say that spy does not exist. they do, but usually in a form of upleveled characters, because you can transfer empty account (no character) from server to server for free.

speaking for a tournament strategy point of view :

i think CD is. they will win current match up. but to get the max point out of the tournament they will need to get 2nd in the next match up, and win again in the final match up. those match ups are within their control, it is just the question whether they would want to do that.

EDIT :

oh you’re talking about this week . then i revert my statement on CD. my general point is at a certain week it is better for some server to not win the match up, go 2nd instead , and go full blast at the week after. for CD they need to get 2nd in the next match up, and win the final match.

when gw2 was launched we had so many servers because we had so many players. now that the number of players has dwindled, together with the introduction of megaserver, there is no more issue for pve.

merging servers would do ANET justice financially (less server to maintain), and would present better scene for players in WvW ( more people to player with for the people from the less populated servers).

reducing the map cap on the other hand would reduce the wvw population gap between competing servers, while at the same time reducing the stress on the server used to handle the WvW. the queue resulting from the reduced map cap would slowly force the players to move to the less stacked server. ANET will need to facilitate the transfer for this to materialize.

battle group already introduced inthe form of EotM, but seems not favoured by the true WvW players. most players in EotM are PvE players.

people complaining about being killed in a hostile pvp area ? sigh

i don’t remember DB ever be in T1….. highest was T2.. if you were referring to this http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/history/89 thats just some RNG match up. to qualify to be a T1 server it need to be in rank 1-3…. DB highest was rank 4. T1 match up yes, T1 server no.

tl ; dr not sure if this was mentioned

ok, on the battle group a.k.a faction war, how about each week a player can decide to be in any on the 3 faction (red,green,blue). to make it interesting make it so that the player cannot be on a same faction for a consecutive week, meaning they have to be on different faction every week. to prevent faction hopping in the middle of the week, make it so that once they enter faction war for the week, they cannot change until the next reset.

the downside on this option i can see is in terms of voice communication. inthe current system , a server have their own voice comm and it is usually opened to the people on the servers only. if people changing faction every week voice comm access management can be a headache.

i don’t really understand OP’s question. basically you make gold by selling things. so other methods other than selling them in order to gain gold is not known.

YB/DB/CD will face each other again in the final week (week 4).

if they truly want the match ups to be unique they could just follow this rule i.e. for the combination of 9 servers A B C D E F G H I, the match ups will be :

week 1 : ABC, DEF, GHI
week 2 : ADG,BEH, CFI
week 3 : AFH, CEG, BDI
week 4 : A E I, BFG, CDH

if you are from Asia and playing on NA servers, and your GW2 is lagging, it is not ANET’s fault. there is a problem with Asia America Gateway undersea cable that cause most ISP to reroute the connection to USA, hence causing the delay in skill execution.

if servers are to merge, make the total number of server to be 9 as well. easy for ANET to organized tournament later.

on the other hand if they go for reducing map the cap, that would be good for their servers as well, less stress on the server—> less lag.

easy…. remove EotM for now….

EotM was introduced because of the queue problem. Nowadays queue only exist during weekend reset day. The rest of the week, you can always find borderland with no queue at.

If people from the stacked server says, hey, where should we go if we can’t get onto WvW because of queue ? non-stacked server that way —-——>

only 2 solutions :

either MERGE SERVERS or REDUCE MAP CAP.

only those not tried by ANET yet.

has the Guild Mission activation issue been rectified ? we are facing problems every week where trolls are activating guild mission even though according to access control those troll do not have authority to do so…..

if you’re from Asia, you’ll experience performance issue due to Asia-America Gateway undersea cable having service disruption….

OR

make an option to ‘flag’ a friendly player (not enemy) as troll available. have the trolls auto-kicked from WvW (with 30 minutes cool down to enter WvW) if they are flagged by 30 other players in a space of 5 minutes.

all that’s needed is human intervention i.e. the dev responding to the reports made by the people on the server. there are not many trolls, but when they are active i do believe the dev would receive so much reports. dev can just log in and check on the reported troll and apply necessary ban hammer. probably not a permanent ban, but may be 2 months ban from WvW….

Emtiarbi.3281:

If i set the highest buy of a copper ore to 999999, then the default price will be 999999?

can you, because i thought when you buy it will be defaulted to the lowest seller.. ?

i don’t remember anet saying season 3 will follow swiss style tournament

if you plan to resell the minis do not put them in wardrobe.

i’ve been burning wvw gate rammers for fun now.. haha.. of course there’s retal damage, but you only have to back off once in a while…

it is time to reduce the wvw map population….

yup.. skill lag/delay is very noticable , sometimes 2 sec delay, as well as rubberbanding/delay when going tower/keep portal….

learn2retal

/15charstooOP

learn2retal

/15characterstooOP

yup, trait broken. fix it pls ANET !

just join squad on any tag and you’re saved….

not allowed ? ouch

pink tag is for people RPing with the crafting NPC at citadel….. you know, erotic roleplay

Johje Holan.4607:

So the exact opposite happened of what needs to happen? SOS needs to shed OCX not NA Prime.

As much as Anet is to blame the player sure don’t help the situation much.

as far as i know SEA/OCX players rarely move servers especially if the guilds are PvX/PvDoor.

what ranking ? there is no ranking for season 3. rewards are given the following week after every match up.

i wish there is a pink tag..really.

“Dead players can no longer linger on the ground indefinitely and will be forced to respawn at a portal keep after 5 minutes "

yay

ANET should just toss SoS into T1 match up once in a while. that’s the only way variety of match ups among top 5 (rank) servers can be achieved.

Tiffany.8576:

Sanctum.7938:

Tiffany.8576:

CD has been trying hard all day dropping 5 guild catas for paper towers, lolz… then not even retaining them for the tick.

I think there is exaggeration or misinformation here. I’ve never seen any CD group drop 5 catas on a paper tower. It’s possible some random guild group is doing that but it’s not the core group of WvW players in CD.

Was no exaggeration on my part. Today, I literally saw 5x guild catas at QL and Durios which were taken and re-capped by us without a tick even passing. I honestly just struggled to understand the mentality of whoever was commanding because it literally was a pure waste of resources for no points gain. If CD are pushing for T2, some would do well to understand some basic mechanics a bit better first. :P

If it wasn’t any of the core people, fair enough. Was just rather amusing to see.

perhaps it is their way of having fun. i just happen to know someone who has hundreds of guild catas and omegas blueprint.

yeah.. they should turn off WvW when it is sleep time at my timezone i.e. day time in Murica….

i have found a way that convert 3444 karma to 40s. is this allowed ? if it is, is it a good rate ?

highlight of HAX recent Guild Mission : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AJU9qmo8jw

ANET do not want to deploy the interplayer trading because they do not want it to be abused as a gold selling method.

regarding the possible scamming, i believe that they did think about the Cash-on-Delivery method like in LOTRO, where the transaction is done using in-game mail and the receiver have to pay the requested amount before the item can be pick from the mail, but the main reason for not deploying it is as i mentioned above.

Basch.1347:

FA moved from T3 with only a 45-point differential between DB and ourselves, if I remember correctly. I expect it’s pretty much a flip of the coin if Mag drops or not. Pretty good chance that whoever has the highest glicko in T3 by the end of the week (looks to be CD) will go T2.

Cheers to CD for having the gumption to play for T2. It’s a good thing to challenge yourself to do better.

Being the new face in town also means that CD will probably get more than a few transfers from T1 post-S3 if CD can hold their own decently. If they have a good reputation after 4 weeks of T2, whether or not they win by any close margin or not, then they can expect to get at least a few guilds from T1 weary of the T1 blobs/politics. It should be a fun, challenging, and certainly educational experience for them.

Tip of my hat to you, good sirs and madams.

yeah, it would be good if CD could get few guilds from T1 if we ever get to T2. that would revitalize the old rivalry of CD-SoS and CD-FA.

Jessica Boettiger.2563:

The league structure from the past 2 tournaments will remain for EU and NA.
• EU has 3 leagues, 9 teams each.
• NA has 3 leagues; gold contains 6 teams, silver and bronze each have 9.

The Fall Tournament announcement references places 1-12 to account for the introduction of WvW tournaments in China, which will have a slightly different league structure.

but but from the announcement :

" Our next tournament will be an extremely intense, exciting four-week-long tournament battle. The shorter format will ensure that worlds will not be repeatedly matched against one another , which will more closely resemble a true Swiss-style tournament. Each matchup will be unique, and every win—or upset—will make a huge difference! "

the bold part. how is this possible for gold league ? i know this is possible for a 9-team league, but how is this possible for a 6-team league ?

guild span across servers. means members can be from different servers. the only thing is that members from different servers cannot fight alongside each other in WvW.