Guild Wars 2

Shados.1306:

The no grinding thing has been abandoned a long time ago. Used to be you only grinded for cosmetics. Now you grind for top gear and for content, as well as to ungate some content.

GW2 is far grindier than the MMOs they were making fun of at/before launch.

I haven’t felt any need to grind.

Dungeons are tuned for Exotics. Fractals are tuned for Exotics, and only Ascended at high levels. Events are tuned for Rares.

The need to grind has been replaced with a need to look shiny.

So, we nightcap during the day and you guys nightcap during your day.

What can we do about it?

Absolutely nothing, just have fun and cherish the few times when the forces are equal on all 3 sides!

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Stooperdale.3560:

Someone in Lion’s Arch tonight was shouting to find a buyer for his guild, asking for a moderately big sum of gold. This guild had enough assets for guild missions. Even if we assume this isn’t a scam, it still opens up a number of potential problems.

How bad are the problems that can be created by guild sales? Should there be any intervention by the designers to prevent it becoming more commonplace?

I do not think this is possible at all.

In Guild Wars 2, it appears that the original ownership transfer of guilds is impossible.
The guild is disbanded if the original guild founder leaves the guild.

come unker, u take over my bank guild and see.

They will probably roll this out along with the Ascended armor update!

That way you won’t feel like having a glut of Laurels.

I just want a tooltip for how much AR a person has equipped.

GW1 –
solo farm everyday
7 kittens you could deck out in gear
solo everything

GW2 –
group farm everyday
???
group everything

Pendragon.8735:

For us Yak’s Benders, what is the story here with SoS and DB. I’m not asking for any drama creation either, but rather just the very basics, did like half of SoS go to DB at some point.

Generally cultivating some rivalries can be a very good thing for a game like this, as long as people can be good natured about it, or at least here on the official forums.

Basically most of DB left for BG, but because they stopped by SOS along the way, we cop the short end of their stick.

Zaxares.5419:

Perhaps change it so that you need an invite from somebody who’s on that Home Server to guest on it? Or you need to be a member of a guild which calls that server their Home?

Wouldnt this just invite guilds to randomly invite players from other servers so they can guest to them?

2.) what will it take for the wvw players to get you into wvw?

Stop asking me to cap towers and keeps. The scoreboard is irrelevant and I and my group of friends do not want to bang on the door just so you can get your kitten.

Seriously, I just hate it when a map commander asks us why we’re attacking so and so, asks us to leave WvW map because we’re not helping with the ppt, what the kitten.

I still think the mob in Fields of Ruins needs a bigger pathing map.

stobie.2134:

You KILL him for being a nuisance?

That’s a pretty big crime for a primitive race, they’re usually orderly and conforming to social norms.

I like the new dailies, they make you spread out around the world.

I do wish they introduce some harder dailies options with a chance at more laurels. Things like Kill 5 champions, get an extra Laurel. Would be awesome. Would encourage grouping.

Im from SOS and im glad we’re finally dropping out of T1, the atmosphere is toxic and a lot of guilds come here with sole purpose of winning instead of having fun. When you have to stop roaming to help cap a tower or keep, you know it’s bad for the game.

tic.7425:

I’m sorry, but how much more effort did you put in more than I? Other than deciding to join a large guild that is? My (very) small guild takes a lot longer to do things with our limited amount, so i would actually think we are putting more effort in than you.

I suppose though, that if you still feel that way, I could go drop $40 at the gem store to buy some more “effort” and then catch right up to you.

I don’t believe the question of effort in this thread has to do entirely with the player base.

/shrug

The guild I run with is a 100 man Malaysian guild, we only recruit from 1 forum and rarely within the community. The most important thing is doing weekly WvW, running dungeons and fotm everyday and cultivating a fun atmosphere.

You have a small guild, good for you. Things like this should be something to work towards, not handed on a silver platter.

COF was cliche the week after release. Get with it. It’s still gonna be a great skin because of effects and what not.

I wasn’t aware the patch had dropped.

Is Art of War 5 the only requirement for Guild Missions? Isn’t there 1 per tree?

Small guilds can access the content, they just need to work towards it. I don’t see what’s so hard. It’s like complaining that dungeons have level gates. Oh, we’re a casual guild of 5, we don’t have enough time to play, we’re all only level 40+, why are dungeons so high level, it’s unfair ….. wah, wah, wah.

Why does everyone expect all content to be accessible immediately? Why can’t ArenaNet patch in content that requires some amount of effort to access?

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

I found Elixer B to be quite helpful

woutterr.5974:

My personal story quest on my thief

I can’t find Elixir B on my Thief either. Can anyone kind enough to help me point it out?

Creslin.1758:

What do you all think of this? Do you also lament the loss of communication between servers in WvW?

It’s pretty sad. I remember that AGG (now moved to Blackgate) taunted the WM commander so much they had to move servers.

Calae.1738:

…an item that would boost a class to maximum level

You already can. It’s called crafting, costs around 2400 ~ 3200 gems.

All they need to do is implement something like Wayfarer’s Reverie for an account bound Precursor. The whole thing would be some form of achievement, once per account, once per year, that would allow you to obtain a Precursor when you fulfilled certain tasks.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Wayfarer%27s_Reverie

Jiiub.7135:

you guys clearly havent fought Vizuna EU.. oh its at 90% cap 1 more tick, kitten warrior threw a banner inside, ok lets start over again guys, just kill them all again since they respawned and came back…

Wasn’t aware you guys were the only ones doing it.

CC should be more relevant. That way, players actually hold onto the skill instead of spamming it off cooldown. Look at stuns, fears, knockdowns … they are all forms of control, but you cannot chain stun or chain fear a player. Hence, you end up using them either off cooldown to provide an opening, or not at all …

Wait, you mean there are people who put the month before the day? Savages!

So this weekend is CNY, how many SEA players gonna be playing WvW.

Good idea. Then price of Arah P4 run will be higher and competent players can earn more money, just like back in the days when runners were plentiful.

This is gonna be hilarious for outmanned servers, especially if they start in T1. 4-6 weeks of WvW shutout.

If ET – HOD – SBI start in T1 imagine the chaos as they plummet down the rankings again.

The easiest way to do this is to drop your turrets next to the bots and afk.

Increase crafting tier to 450, add Ascended gear tier.

but no one is actively building this feature and you should not expect in the Jan/Feb/March releases at this point.

They need to fix the loot tables for Champion mobs first. I’ve killed over 10 champions in the past week with no loot.

No Malaysians in JQ? impossible!

Karpuz.5409:

A lot of people are so small minded…If anyone wants to duel, since they might want to do something else for their entertainment, it’s their choice, and you could respect it.

You don’t need to be a brainless mongrel to just bash everything in your path you know? If that’s all there is to WvW for you, then the real issue with your team losing points is not the guy dueling, it’s the guy that only knows how to bash stuff, thus leaving out the more subtle actions.

Respect is two way. If someone wants Badges of Honor, and they see an enemy, you should respect their need to get badges and let them interrupt your 1v1 so they can do so. That’s their choice and YOU should respect it.

I kill everything that moves. If you want to 1v1 with your friend, find an empty spot where nobody passes by.

you dont need to stomp a player to get a bag, just deal copious amounts of damage to them, let stomp duty do the stomping.

So if we stack 1 server with EU players and the 3rd with Oceanic players, what happens then? WvW nothing happens, points stay the same, nobody moves up or down?

Stephane said “PRIMARY” way, not only way.

Oorjuwa.1682:

Foostivoo can only be acquired by combining any 3 minis drop from mystery box using mystic forge.

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

Hi everyone,

The statistics reported on the wiki pages for the Wintersday Mystery Box drop rates are incorrect, due to the method being used for calculating them. Some of our item packages use more than one loot table to determine what you get from opening them. Whenever you open a Wintersday Mystery Box, it randomly drops items selected from 2 tables, each having specific items and their own drop rates.

We’ve seen people mention the low drop rates of Foostivoo from Wintersday Mystery Box and would like to remind people that the primary way to obtain this miniature is from the Mystic Forge, by combining other minis (wiki link).

Thank you.

Unbreakable should not be crafted / forged, doing so takes away the prestige of owning one.

The single-use ones should be craftable/forged, as this will create a money/time sink.

OK, so I’m sure everyone has tried the new Fractals at least once. And it’s plain obvious that from tiers 1-9, nothing really changes. You don’t get extra Agony problems by going from tier 4 to tier 5.

Imagine if you were matched in sPVP based on your glory level. That means, players with Rank 1 Glory were matched together, players with Rank 5 Glory could not play with players with Rank 9 Glory unless the guy with Rank 9 Glory decided to queue as Rank 5 … THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING ON WITH FRACTALS!!!

I suggest to change the Fractal tiers into brackets. Each Fractal you do, earns you some extra points towards a new bracket. You could make it so that doing Bracket 0 fractals can only grant you points for the respective Brackets, so that a player cannot grind out Bracket 5 by doing only Bracket 0 fractals.

This would help group players together instead of fragmenting the player base. It is already implemented for sPVP, you actually have a working implementation of it in-game.

when thief stealth stomp press alt-f4

u get last laugh

Instead of karma reward , give badge reward. Because Badge are use to buy Exotic WvW gear while karma just buy Rare WvW gear.

We need mounts for this game. Seriously.

There are times when I want to get from point A to point B, but I don’t want to navigate my character because I’m busy typing in chat or playing around with my gear, looks and stuff. But I really want to enjoy the scenery with a couple of friends. My suggestion, would be to create some Dolyak Caravan where a few players can sit inside. It would have a maximum speed of walk, which is much slower than run speed, because Dolyaks are very slow creatures. Occasionally it would stop to munch grass as well! That would be cool, and the caravan could add a passing vendor that sells drinks and fireworks.

Things like this could be Guild perks that are bought with , say, 50k Influence. Our guild has over 150k influence and no way to spend it, because we have over 200 regular members but very few WvWers. Some sort of Guild party mechanic would also be cool.

The Dolyak Caravan could simply follow the road, a series of waypoints, and not be usable in Orr (who wants furry undead Dolyaks?).

dekyos.1548:

This week SoS won’t have a 1 time only event to skip in full force and jump 30,000 points instantly with. The larger portion of their lead last round was acquired during the 5 hour period when everyone was fighting that stupid giant crab for 20 slot chests.

Oh look, excuses.

Posts like this just reek of jealousy.

It’s OK if I switch companies for a better paying job, all your friends will congratulate you on landing that well deserved position at a Fortune 500 company. But it’s not OK if I do the same in GW2 WvW.

Orbs should have a scaling effect on the PVE component of WvW , the bonuses. Make the Orbs give bonuses to Influence, Karma and Gold gain in PVE, but no effect in WvW, then the PVE guilds would fight over them while the WvW guilds would be doing their stuff.

Just make the maps bigger so that it takes 5 minutes to run from keep to tower. It sucks right now, everyone can suicide run and respawn.

We should have at least 2-3weeks of unadulterated T2 matchup between our 3 servers (Rall, Sea and Isle). I don’t forsee any sudden point shifts in T1 and T2, which means we are probably stuck with each other for the time being.

I’m from a carebear guild of 200+ players, only 20+ of us actually play WvW. Your method would allow us to sell guild spots to commanders who need it.

I actually like it.

I feel that the maps are too small, it’s hard for a small guild to make an impact when the response time from spawn is less than 2 minutes. It should take at least 5 minutes to run from spawn to any important structure like Keeps and Towers. This would make dying much more impactful. Right now it’s just a simple suicide and then come back in 2 minutes.

In the attached picture, it’s the 2nd set of tears. The red circled light is wrong, if you move it down 1 block the torch will light.

Instead of
XOX
OXO
XXX

Should be

OOX
XXO
XXX

Cheers.