Guild Wars 2

It’s like in Starcraft when a silver league player calls you bad when your also in silver league.

I guess the answer is no.

I recently bought the heavy Dredge Breastplate of the Forge from Sorrow’s embrace dungeon vendor. Shortly after purchasing it I disconnected, no big deal it happens. However, when I came back into the game, the breastplate was gone and my 330 tokens were gone also. So basically I am out 330 tokens and have nothing to show for it.

Also, just to clarify, believe me I mouse over every single thing in my bags and bank, I even checked alts even though it couldn’t possibly be on them. I ever checked collections tab…it is truly missing.

Any chance of getting my BP replaced? or my tokens at least? Or is it just tough kittens and better luck next time? Honestly…if I have to farm the tokens again…that honestly might be the straw that breaks the camels back for me in this game.

make /map chat global between all cities on the server. Restore interest/use for other cities and reduce the lag in LA. Or /city chat perhaps?

xxxzavulonxxx.8413:

hobbes.6178:

Deathdom.8250:

So just now 10-15 Mags got into our keep in eb. No walls down, no gates down including water, and according to other players on, they werent down earlier either. Explain?

Do you realize how easy it is to get into any keep? I can literally get into any keep using my space bar.

Your space bar macros are not fair, good sir!

No macros at all.

It still is awesome, CD and Ebay are trying to force out Maguuma. Not sure if they are working together, I doubt they are, but 1 tunnel is all CD and the other Ebay. Just saying.

My first fight…man I remember it like it was yesterday….because it was yesterday.

I was SO nervous, deep down I didn’t want to fight but my opponent REALLY angered me so I knew I had to throw down, it was inevitable. It started of with a little yelling back and forth, the clash of opinions I guess, and then I just threw a punch and it connected right on the nose. I don’t even remember throwing the punch, it was like my body just reacted before I could think of the consequences. But, I threw a punch and connected on the nose…the fight was on and my opponent was NOT scared.

I threw another punch but missed, barely, but got countered by a pretty hard punch to the throat. No clue if they were aiming for the throat but if not then it was still effective because it hurt quite a bit. I had trouble catching my breathe and I tried to play defense for a bit until I got my bearings straight. My opponent saw that I was in a weakened state and I knew they were going to try to take advantage of it and I was ready. I ducked the punch and threw a nasty counter right into the jaw, my opponent fell like a ton of bricks.

I jumped on top and just started pounding. there was no real coordination or aim to my punches, I think I just closed my eyes and just swung as fast as I could and for as long as I could. I finally opened my eyes and looked down and my opponent is just battered. Busted lip, bloody nose, black eye swollen shut, cut above the other eye and they were pleading for me to stop. Out of adrenaline, I threw a few more punches to prove I am not afraid of them and stood up and felt like the MAN. I felt taller, stronger and smarter then ever before. Being in a fight really tell you a lot about yourself.

I felt really bad shortly after the fight, I mean in the end she is my Mother and I love her. But don’t you EVER turn my monitor off during a Golem rush, I don’t care how angry you are.

Deathdom.8250:

Bandwagoners? Yeah, CD dropped from Tier 2 to Tier 4, went from stomping TC to getting stomped by TC all because of band-wagoners joining us.

Did not expect a CD member to actually admit it. Kudos to you sir.

Nah, its a PvP area, PvP is expected. You can do the entire puzzle stealthed anyways.

kanikani.2430:

I semi agree with the OP, I would like to see it lengthened and maybe more consistent. Some siege I places for training new people stayed open field for 10+ hours without being touched. Where are some disappeared in 15 min. Maybe make it consistently an hour, maybe two or three. I have been in defense that were longer then three hour, no reason your siege should despawn in a single defense. Or at least give us the odd rules you use for despawning so we can know.

That arrow cart was not there for 10 hours, sorry bud, people touched it.

5 people creating orange x’s? learn to stealth ops a bit better. I have taken towers with 2 other people and created no x’s. Learn as you go?

Suun.2856:

I gave up on SWTOR because of the same old daily routine.
Jumping puzzles may drive me there again.

BTW, I dont have too much of an issue picking the bags up when they drop, press “F” like everyone else. Badge drops are a pain when it looks like they nerfed them.

Takes 20m to do all 4 jump puzzles.

Jump puzzles…learn em and love em.

Isaac.6041:

Come join Crystal Desert! We are the most fun server ever with many mesmers to port you up the jumping puzzle in EB.

Haha, do not go to crystal desert…trust me.

Whoa, US servers are much more into WvW then EU it seems.

ArenaNet. you guys really need to fix this, Loco.4561 said so!

But seriously I completely agree. For a game that was in development for like 5 years it kind of bugs me that they honestly have it in the game….and that you can’t preview items from the TP….and how badges in WvW work…and the severe lack of chat window options for a game that strives to be more social then other mmos….and the fact that we don’t have the slightest bit of UI customization….and how they emphasized how awesome guilds would be but they really arent much different then other guilds in other MMO’s with the exception of being able to be in 5…and how they release patches that fix certain bugs only to end up bugging different things that were working perfectly fine before…and how avid WvW players have no form of ranks or worthy rewards…

I love this game…but I do feel like they neglected a lot of little things that make a big difference.

Erebus Delirium.4892:

hobbes.6178:

I like your ideas. But traveling deep into enemy territory taking 12-15 minutes with no stops? I don’t think you realize how massive that would be or how long 12-15 minutes really is.

Fair enough. I tend to think big as WvW should be big. The timing is arbitrary. It just needs to “feel” like a journey to go from the heart of your territory to the heart of an opponent’s.

Right now, we’re talking ~3 minutes gets you to any objective on the map. Not so epic.

I agree. They seem to have them a bit smaller to promote constant battles but I would definitely prefer a bigger map. Would also like them to be different but I understand why they aren’t.

Erebus Delirium.4892:

Now that orbs lopsidedness has been removed, server transfers curbed, and the match-ups starting to settle in, my three biggest complaints for WvW (with included solutions) are as follows, in order:

Problem 1) WvW maps are way too small — no sense of scale, no journey, can respond to any area on the map within seconds to two minutes, the threat of death without resurrection is virtually meaningless.

Solution 1) Create massive WvW maps with keeps, castles, PvP/PvE dungeons and areas (almost completely avoidable), and some open planes with no NPCs. Make travel times deep into enemy territory take ~12-15 minutes with no stops — dying out in enemy territory without a res should be punishing.

Problem 2) Outside of taking keeps, there is nothing to do or fight for in WvW.

Solution 2) With the larger maps introduced in Solution 1, many intertwining WvW objectives can be implemented. Orbs of power can make their return as the hardest objective to capture and made even harder to defend (orbs don’t like being outside of their rightful castles — ouch). Add WvW dungeons with other objectives that can strengthen siege or provide temporary boosts to players’ power/defense, and control certain portals to specific places in the WvW map. Etc, etc… give us lots to do.

Problem 3) Complete sense of anonymity reduces rivalries.

Solution 3) Add WvW ranks and progression, introduce weekly leaderboards sortable by guild, server, or player including: most heals/kills/captures/longest held/least deaths, etc. and give people something to boast about as both an individual and as a server or guild. To make this all worthwhile, introduce the option for players to have aliases in WvW or simply show their player names when targeted. To limit abuse, disallow communication between servers when either host party is in WvW.

I like your ideas. But traveling deep into enemy territory taking 12-15 minutes with no stops? I don’t think you realize how massive that would be or how long 12-15 minutes really is.

Wow, when I read the thread title I was not expecting it to be a complaint thread. Warrior is by far the worst downed state in the game…or Elementalist. I am just going to assume this thread is a joke and move on.

Brehon.4085:

DAoC RvR:
Long term character progression from realm ranks.
Better map design-made roaming viable
No queue system
No culling/ invisible army

I’m curious, and sorta doubtful at this point that the culling issue can even be fixed. It is game breaking to me.
But game was designed for pve first and foremost, and it shows. At least game is f2play, and I’ll likely stay with it till ESO comes out next year.

Lotta truth to the nostalgia comment, but other than having an open field map with siege and 3 sides fighting…WvW is severally lacking compared to DAoC’s RvR system.
Another example: Orbs were suppose to be a relic type mechanic, correct? Now we don’t even have the orbs.

Better map design in DAoC? You mean Emain Macha? because no one ever went to the other borderlands. The maps are the same in GW2 for the sake of balance…but I would like it if they had like 5 maps or something that rotated…I agree that the maps do get repetitive but eh what can you do.

People will never realize the true need for a Q system. Oh well, maybe someday.

Culling sucks, completely agree.

They got rid of orbs because of hackers. Also the orbs in GW2 were dumb and made Eternal Battlegrounds worthless. So glad they removed them it was the best thing they ever did in this game thus far.

Eh, your wrong. GW2 WvW is far superior to DAoC RvR. You just mentally reminisce about DAoC because it was so new and fresh for its time. I highly doubt you would prefer it over WvW to be honest, its just nostalgic to you so you think you desire it more.

Its like Burning Crusade in WoW. I quit WoW, hate WoW now, hate what WoW has become….but I will never regret Burning Crusade. By far the most fun I ever had in my entire gaming life. I tell myself I would do anything to go back to those days…and I feel like I do…but I would not want to go back with the MMO knowledge that I have now. I would have to have my mind erased to be able to go back and truly enjoy it like I did when it was in its prime.

fellyn.5083:

Yes, and..? My point still stands. It can’t be fixed in a week so him saying he’ll “try to give DH one more week” is pointless. Just leave now if that’s how you feel because the kind of change he is after doesn’t happen in a week. You maguuma fellows even admitted to that fact.

The past is the past and we can’t change that so it’s pointless to even bring that up. It’s just you guys feeding your egos saying “we told you so!”.

What a different tune you sing now as opposed to the last two times our servers met. Enjoy the ride Darkhaven, maybe we will see you guys again. Maybe.

fellyn.5083:

hobbes.6178:

fellyn.5083:

And..? He was giving an ultimatum. Fix it in 1 week or I’m out. When the fix isn’t realistically possible in just 1 week. You said it yourself, it took Maguuma a lot of time to get where it’s at.

Our wvw community is disappearing by the week so it’s going to be harder and harder to reach that level of organization. People giving up leaving is exactly the cause of that problem.

Last time we played you guys we constantly told you about your lack of organization, yet you would beat us anyways because of your night coverage. Instead of taking it into consideration you just assumed Maguuma sucked because the scoreboard showed you guys winning. You hopped up a tier and got destroyed and now people are realizing that Darkhaven has very little WvW organization overall. A select few guilds are very good I am sure, but the overall organization is extremely lacking.

When Maguuma played SoS 2.0 we learned a lot from them and utilized it. You guys just called us cheaters the entire time and refused to play the way we played. Now I constantly see DH portal bombing and stacking…or trying to for that matter.

Just because you win, does not make you the better team. Your right 1 week is nowhere near enough time to fix DH…but you have no one to blame but yourselves.

We never had as much night coverage as you guys always claimed we did. And that’s why when we went up in tiers we got destroyed. Because the higher tier servers actually do have the night coverage you guys claimed DH has.

It had very little to do with Maguumas organization or Darkhaven’s lack of organization.

Alrighty then. Best of luck to you guys.

fellyn.5083:

And..? He was giving an ultimatum. Fix it in 1 week or I’m out. When the fix isn’t realistically possible in just 1 week. You said it yourself, it took Maguuma a lot of time to get where it’s at.

Our wvw community is disappearing by the week so it’s going to be harder and harder to reach that level of organization. People giving up leaving is exactly the cause of that problem.

Last time we played you guys we constantly told you about your lack of organization, yet you would beat us anyways because of your night coverage. Instead of taking it into consideration you just assumed Maguuma sucked because the scoreboard showed you guys winning. You hopped up a tier and got destroyed and now people are realizing that Darkhaven has very little WvW organization overall. A select few guilds are very good I am sure, but the overall organization is extremely lacking.

When Maguuma played SoS 2.0 we learned a lot from them and utilized it. You guys just called us cheaters the entire time and refused to play the way we played. Now I constantly see DH portal bombing and stacking…or trying to for that matter.

Just because you win, does not make you the better team. Your right 1 week is nowhere near enough time to fix DH…but you have no one to blame but yourselves.

fellyn.5083:

hobbes.6178:

fellyn.5083:

RedOwl.7496:

I really, really like a lot of the people on DH. And I love a few of the commanders. But I am sadly thinking of moving to Maguuma permently. Going to try to give DH one more week. But all these DH guilds are going to have to learn to work together better in WvW . While hopeful, doubt it will happen.

And you expect that to all change in just 1 week with our rapidly dwindling wvw player base? If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem. And people switching servers just because they can is the problem.

Wow, that guy just called you the problem…we would NEVER call you that on Maguuma…come check us out =)

So we’re supposed to be happy with people switching servers now just because they can?

Well, from what I read in his post it seems Darkhaven has very limited server wide organization. Maguuma has great server wide organization and that’s mostly because we worked hard to get there from the start. I remember when the Maguuma mumble first came out…there was like 20 people on it max, now I see 100+ at times, its pretty awesome. People are not afraid to hop into another channel and say another BL needs help, and on top of that people are not afraid to offer to help. Sometimes we ask if 10 people are willing to go help and 20 will offer to go. We actually have trouble with TO many people offering to help.

Maguuma never wins, we just don’t have the constant coverage, but we have a lot of fun and are very organized. We have very good and dedicated commanders and we have tons of people who are not afraid to spend a little cash to get some siege set up inside fortified keeps and we have people that constantly go around to refresh the siege. In my bank I currently have 22 flame rams, 19 ballistas, 18 arrow carts, 18 catapults, 9 trebuchets, and 7 siege golems….ALL SUPERIOR and I use them all the time. I also have numerous regular blueprints and have spent countless gold on siege equipment and keep defenses. I can also name at least 20 people off the top of my head who are exactly like me.

Maguuma has won twice ever, we dont WvW to win, we WvW for fun and passion. We worked really hard to get our community to where it’s at and its constantly getting better. Hates us all you want but it is awesome on Maguuma. It really is.

fellyn.5083:

RedOwl.7496:

I really, really like a lot of the people on DH. And I love a few of the commanders. But I am sadly thinking of moving to Maguuma permently. Going to try to give DH one more week. But all these DH guilds are going to have to learn to work together better in WvW . While hopeful, doubt it will happen.

And you expect that to all change in just 1 week with our rapidly dwindling wvw player base? If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem. And people switching servers just because they can is the problem.

Wow, that guy just called you the problem…we would NEVER call you that on Maguuma! Come check us out =)

wads.5730:

Raffie.7865:

Everyone wants to make it sound like DH is some sort of threat. Trust me, very little threat. If we (DH) are moving as a group in the same direction its a miracle.
The only servers who need fear us are the ones that are crappier then us.

no one is saying that

No one ever has either.

Nihilas.5374:

Was Wondering On My Own in a Fully Fortified East Keep That Maguuma been holding for awhile now.. Guess what i found in the inner of East Keep?? No Mesmers, Breached Walls Or Broken Gates..

Well This is what i found Have a look..

Don’t need mesmers these days, any class can get into any keep very easily.

Overflow is full now, sorry guys! Stop asking for invites please.

/join me, head to Southsun.

PLEASE leave group after and invite your own friends, just use me to get here and then your on your own.

Awful final event that I could not even complete. I DCed right at the very end and cam e back to a ancient karka corpse and no chest but I got the box on the side of my screen saying that the ancient karka is dead…

ArenaNet you are slowly making me consider taking my old WoW guild up on their offer and go back and play with them…I thought no monthly fee would of been amazing but I am to the point where I would rather pay the fee for a more stable game. This event was a massive flop for me as well as numerous other people. I thoroughly enjoy people linking their awesome new precursors (some people 2…thats right…some people got TWO precursors from the chest) while I just sit here down 16 silver from repairs because I tried so hard to get this event complete (6 times in fact). I am very disappointed in this event and it has made me feel very worried about this game and the time I invest into it in the future…if any at all.

Hope ArenaNet realizes this event was a massive flop for so many people and hopefully learn something for future events. It sucks hearing about the final chest dropping precursors which is the last thing I need for my legendary….yet I cannot get to the chest at all. Guess its back to farming gold…or going back to WoW…still haven’t decided.

After 6 attempts to finish this event, between DCing from lag or getting crammed into random overflows, I just now DCed right at the end of the event. I officially give up on this event and chalk this weekend up to a total loss.

I looked forward to this Lost Shores content ever since I heard about it, and now that it is here I realize how utterly horrible it was. Between the massive lag fests and the bugged events/NPC’s (Canach says hi) this event was just torture to participate in. I will most likely not take any future “one time events” seriously and probably not participate at all.

So after many frustrating hours and numerous silver spent on repairs from dieing to stuff I flat out can’t see…I must say I was quite disappointed in this event. Please do better next time ArenaNet and I hope you walk away from this and learned something…and by something I mean A LOT.

Cufflink.3985:

I tried to congratulate a Mag mesmer for playing well and killing me in a 1 v2 I had versus him an a thief, but all he did was respond about how I sucked and thieves are all pussies.

I am now disillusioned with the GW2 community, I thought we were better than this.

Yeah I hear you man. I hate it when 1 single person portrays an entire community, it’s so unfortunate.

Yeah, they did the same to us when we played them. Free transfers yo.

Rhyis.7058:

I gotta know how many golems were there lol. Looked like 10.

Around 10 I believe, could be wrong because my PC sucks.

Hey KISS…you can always check out Maguuma =)

Is this possible? I doubt it but it would be nice.

Raf.1078:

Hope you figure it out then, Hobbes. But I bet you switched to another set of lower level tools by accident.

Course, there is no way you’d admit that here….now.

No, I will admit it. I keep both mithril and ori tools on me and swap them accordingly. There have been times where I would forget to swap in correct tools and accidently mine stuff for ruined goods. But I really need you to trust me on this one Raf…it is happening when using the right tools on the right nodes as well.. Not all the time, but enough to be annoying and it seems to be happening only recently to me.

Before I start please note that I love this game. It is the best MMO I ever played but there are a few things that bug me about it. I know GW2 strives to be different then the average MMO, which I love, but sometimes it feels like little things get neglected.

I am sure most, if not all, of these were already mention but I wanted to make my own thread anyways.

Chat customization – They preach about how they want to make a more social game, yet give us one of the worst customizable chat windows I have ever seen in an MMO. I am not looking for much, but changing text color and private chat channels is a start.

UI Customization – ArenaNet does not want add ons because they often become “required” (Omen Threat Meter, DBM, Recount etc in WoW). In WoW I was actually an add on junkie and I kind of enjoyed spending a lot of time making my UI look awesome but at the same time I am ok with not having to do that ever again. However the default UI for GW2 is garbage. The health bar makes me cringe, having to look away from your character for cooldowns can be annoying. I know they want people on a level playing field…but whats works for people simply works for them. Its like in WoW when someone in your guild posted their UI and you thought it was the ugliest thing you ever seen yet they were one of your best DPSers. If people customize their UI a tiny bit I don’t think it will give them some astronomical advantage, it will just be what works for them. I understand that this will most likely never happen and that I most likely just have to live with the default UI.

Trading Post – Where to begin. It boggles my mind that previewing from the AH never was and still isn’t in the game. Prices are never accurate (something for 10 silver, you click on it, its now 15 silver). I know the reason for this is just the massive amount of people scanning/buying on the TP so it could possibly be unavoidable. The UI could be more functional and less flashy…but that’s just preference I guess. The filter system is absolutely atrocious. I love searching for stuff for my warrior and sifting through medium and light armors as well. I love spending more time finding an item with the stats I want then it would to just farm for the item itself.

Sqauds in WvW are useless…would be nice if they actually weren’t.

Would be nice is siege wasn’t allowed in jumping puzzles…but I don’t get bothered it enough to really rage about it, but the times it is there is like 3 arrow carts in the arena room. I understand in a WvW puzzle and that PvP is part of it…but siege seems a bit excessive and to accessible to trolling (I have heard people in EB constantly complain one night that 1 guy was using an arrow cart at the top of EB arena for 6+ hours).

There are a few others I can’t think of, but would love to hear your guys input and possibly shed some light on other things.

Raf.1078:

You need to buy the next set of tools, Hobbes. Or the tool set for the level you are in…..i.e., the Ori set.

You’re one of those people that when someone says they are having PC problems you always suggest “Did you restart your PC?”

Hah, all joking aside, I appreciate your response and the fact that you are trying to help…but cmon man, I am obviously using the right tools =P

Why am I suddenly getting ruined ore chunks sometimes when using orichalcum mining picks on orichalcum ore? same with orrian saplings and hell sometimes mithril nodes are giving me ruined ore chunks…whats happening here?

Elcyion.7452:

Emry Bay is putting up a good fight 3 hours a day the rest of the time its a bit of a lull defending stuff…

but most of Maguuma WvWers thank the Emry Bay for beeing so easily spawn camped and giving us all a good supply of Badges in Eternal Battleground

Well that didn’t take long.

Teerwik.1650:

might actually have to whip out the fraps and keep it ready at all times, my roommate saw a maguuma engy and thief speedhacking yesterday in maguuma BL, then a ranger today in Eternal

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LordWyktin.5209:

“stoop to this level”? By offering to help an underpopulated server to fight against a server that vastly outnumbers them? I don’t see the problem, to be honest. You saw this sort of thing quite a bit in DAoC, from time to time, so it’s not “stooping” from where I sit, but friendly cooperation to achieve mutual goals.

I can particularly remember a few instances of Midgard guilds helping Albion when it (Albion) was being absolutely overwhelmed by Hibernia for weeks on end. In the end, it energized Albion to get back into the fight and brought good fights not just against Hibernia, but eventually, to Midgard as well once the temporary alliance was ended.

Eh, to each his own.

LordWyktin.5209:

Since ET is getting absolutely destroyed this week, with what appears to be a Ebay v Mag match anyway, any guilds on ET that want to ally with a few of us on Maguuma against Ebay, feel free to contact me in-game. Be glad to stand together and help purge Ebay from your borderlands and against them together.

Maguuma: Standin’ up for the little guy.

(If nothing else, Materia [MATE] is always accepting transfers TO Maguuma, and you’re welcome to come on over and join us in the fight!)

Um…please don’t. I love Maguuma and would prefer if we didn’t stoop to this level…ever.

Jasott.7914:

How is it honorable? Maguuma camps out in Obsidium Sanctum EVERY week >_>

The good ole <insert server here> always camps the jump puzzles argument. Every server does it, its annoying but unavoidable. Besides you can easily get through the EB jump puzzle while stealthed the whole way…although if the enemy team has an arrow cart constantly firing on certain spots that players have to walk through then you might be screwed.

Come to Xegony server and join my guild. We have Plane of Fear and Plane of Hate on farm and we can quickly gear you up with Rubicite armor and Short Swords of the Ykesha.

Memories anyone?

Xanupox.3852:

This ranking system is worse than the BCS…

I loled because its true.

Hey Dragonbrand…I know that camping the jump puzzle in your borderlands is part of the game…but the objective is to prevent people from getting the chest so they don’t get badges/blue prints. When you try to set up a “trap” inside the actual vault room, it makes it rather possible for me to fear you all, loot the chest, endure pain, swiftness and lunge away and evade you guys completely…which I surely did.

If your going to camp the jump puzzles at least have the common sense to do it right.

Also that video was quite funny Jonlo

Best jump puzzle ever.