Guild Wars 2

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Cormac.3871:

If you are farming world bosses you should be swimming in ectos. Most rares should be salvaged. Greatswords, swords, hammers and staves should be either sold or thrown into the mystic forge in sets of four of the same type. Salvaging ectos for t6 dust is not cost effective in terms of gold, but if your MF is hovering at 100 or less consider doing it for the luck. If you are going to salvage ectos do it early because that way you have the magic find working for you for longer.

Consider some of the event chains in cursed shore. For some of these you get a phenomenal number of bags dropping.

For lower level dungeons use your tokens to salvage exotics for inscriptions or insignia that can’t be crafted (magi, soldiers etc.). For higher level dungeon tokens (CoF up) buy rares with your tokens and salvage them for ectos.

This is an interesting theory as I have been farming world bosses over the last couple of weeks & the loot dropped mostly consists of white & blue mats with the occasional green & yellow item. Cursed shore loot is far from great (spent a lot of time there recently). Maybe I am unlucky.

A R W E N.6895:

One major problem is that most of the valuables are locked behind a thick RNG wall.

The other big problem is that there is no viable way to farm anything in this game.

Hence people are starting to resort to other methods such as buy gems to convert to gold. And usually is it not a good sign when such thing start to occur in a game.

Every single mmorpg has some sort of farming that playing can do in order to obtain their desired objects (equipment or loot).

Yeah (RNG). Starting to wonder how many players straight out purchased their legendary weapon of choice vs crafted – because I have put in just over 4 thousand hours of game play without seeing a precursor. Must be a nightmare trying to craft a legendary with RNG. Oh wait! forgot about the mystic toilet……

Now we are on mega server’s I have had the chance to do temple runs in Orr & champ fights. Generally speaking the loot is a lot of trash,; white & blue mats (was the loot nerfed?).

Today I crafted the corrupt avenger sword. One component required was the shaman’s etched avenger. Two ways to obtain it. Spend hours running around Frostgorge Sound hoping it will drop or buy it from the tp. Bought it from the tp as what is the point of having a crafting recipe if there is next to no chance of getting one of the components.

While I do not expect anything in game to handed to us on a plate – the frustration levels tend to rise.

17 months of play from gw2 (approximately). To my thinking 17 months of play from any game is a good investment.
My addiction stage has come to an end; at least for the time being.

Only real negative for me is the imbalance of the matches in world vs world the majority of the time.

3940 hours – no precursor. Not tried my luck in MF.

Currently playing an mmo with mounts.

1. You ride past enemy npc; they chase you & can pull you off the mount. So do hostile Creatures/monsters.
2. Enemy npc chasing one player do not attack other players nearby – if they do not manage to catch you the enemy npc return to their area.
3. You cannot engage in combat while on the mount
4. You cannot take the mount into dungeons or traverse deep bodies of water.
5. You can take the mounts into cities; they do not hinder player movement as you can walk straight through them. If a player dismounts, the mount vanishes until you are ready to ride again which requires the player to whistle.
6. Mounts speed, stamina & carry capacity upgrade on a daily basis; this costs money and you can only choose one of the three traits on any given day.
7. You do get an advantage traveling via mount but this takes time while the speed & stamina levels rise.
8. This game also has way points. traveling between them costs $0.

I’d be all for mounts if they were ever introduced into this game. In saying this, my expectation of this ever happening is 0%. Managed 17 months of game play without one.

Brings enjoyment until you start getting continually stomped by servers with superior numbers or you are on the side face rolling everyone else and those sides decide not to play.

Be careful what you wish for.

thaooo.5320:

I quite enjoy looking at NA gold, and seeing that it is the only league out of 6 of them, where one server didn’t win EVERY SINGLE WEEK. NA gold (T1) is the only league playing WvW properly.

Seriously, NA silver/bronze and all 3 EU leagues have one server face rolling the rest. That. Is. Boring.

NA gold for president.

This has always been a problem when you start moving down the tiers. The difference in population and coverage between servers can vary wildly; even if the servers are only one rank apart.

This tournament has made the problem worse because of match ups being determined by the end of round score? Think that is how it works.

Transferred from EU to NA due to the total lack of coverage during my prime time in world vs world.

Or as I have suggested before, the out numbered buff applies to a sides keep on EB plus a garrison on the BL map. This may mean any side holding the keep or garrison from an enemy server is kicked from it once the side/sides become out numbered and its automatically flipped back and is not contestable until the out numbered side/sides are no longer out numbered.
Might provide a little incentive to the sides constantly out numbered to get back into the game without having to worry about the blob coming along & wiping them off the map whenever they try & recapture their keep/garrison, just as my side are doing at the moment.

Noticed this for the first time today. PPT was 250 then changed to 40 then went back to 250 in the space of maybe 30 seconds.
The bug showing zero points has been around for a long time; from my observations this happens when traveling from map to map.

The feature pack is implemented? 16th April where I am and seen no sign of it.

As for world vs world.

Promoting defense is a great idea.
Finding some way to balance the matches a little better.
Applying the out numbered buff to EB keep & the garrison on a sides BL. So they cannot be constantly flipped if any side lacks coverage, so sides have a foot hold in the game.
Separate commander tags for guild commanders & commanders leading the mixed groups/zergs.
Add more upgrades for doors so sides have an opportunity to counter insane golem rushes.
Get rid of pvd – only siege can do damage.

Always thought the out numbered buff should apply to the EB keep & a garrison on your home BL map. Neither can be flipped if you’re out numbered giving sides an opportunity to maintain a foot hold on the map; this might also provide an incentive for people to play when rounds are really lopsided.

This happened before the first tournament/season last year. Lots of lower tier servers suffered because guilds decided they wanted to play in gold or the top of silver. Nothing has changed.
Transferred from EU to NA hoping by some miracle things might be different – no chance.
As for HOD not being a better server; the score & player numbers say they were. Not their fault they out numbered us, although I understand the frustration.

Merges need to happen (imo). Yeah Vabbi managed to win and good on them. Now look at the sides they face. No chance for vabbi.
Last week 13 vs 14 vs 15. 13 wins by 200,000 points because of their superior player numbers. This week the scenario is much worse.

Hurt world vs world. The game is already suffering. Just look at the current matches. Server pride means little, at least on the lower tier servers where guilds move around all the time.
The massive population imbalances in world vs world are destructive.
You never know. If a mega server is introduced; a new world vs world system could be created too.

Two examples for me from last round. A four hour SM battle (defending) – eventually lost out to superior numbers.
Same day we battled constant raids on the EB keep (after losing SM). Golems, cata’s, trebs. Front gate, back gate, water gate, walls knocked down. Unfortunately the overwhelming numbers became too much of a challenge and we were attacked from three different directions, ran out of supply & the siege was slowly but surely wiped.

One bonus. While they used golems it was not a golem rush where the enemy have 10-15 of them followed by 60 players.

Sind Bowdragon.8374:

I see the hacking posts all the time so decided to dig into stuff a little bit. Most of what everyone is calling hacking is actually broken parts of GW2 and Later today. I’ll add a thread with a video that shows you what people are doing and how to do it. None of them are actual hacks that I could find. I’ll try posting it around 1700 est time.
I’d also like to say those that use these bugs/cheats give there servers a bad name and reputation.

Does it include a player walking through a gate on a keep held by the enemy?

The NA server I am currently on the whole feels a lot more relaxed.
Zergs & blobs still rule the day just as they do on EU servers.
The coverage is a little better on NA (This is dependent on which tier you’re in).
World vs world population disparity between servers is pretty much the same across the board (EU & NA).

You must be the only person with account bound wxp.

Blackhat.4016:

That’s the biggest problem WvW currently has imo. Coverage decides whether you stomp the other 2 servers or your server is being stomped. Nothing else really matters and tbh, both sides aren’t fun for me anymore. You either get your kitten kicked or you have no opponents.

After a few matches you know the servers with barely any players, a strong prime time or ~24/7 coverage. The ones with 24/7 coverage are obviously at the top of the leaderboards so you should go ahead and switch to one of the top 3.

Just keep in mind being on a huge server also has a lot of disadvantages like long queues, skills lag and so on.

The match for my server is surprisingly close this week but we already know we won’t win (even though we’re currently 1st). Sadly I’m on a “prime time only” EU server and matched against a ~24/7 server…

The best advice I can give you:
Find a guild/group of friends and play with them. I doesn’t really matter if you win or not then because you’ll have fun anyway.

This is exactly the problem. In the last 8 months there was only one round where all three sides had a chance of winning (that I can remember). Every other round one server pretty much dominated the other two and by massive margins at times.

Millers have gone backward in a hurry, considering they were ranked 12th at one stage.
Did any guilds decide to make a return to ros?

Struck an odd situation yesterday when our side were taking back the garrison on bl. Red had captured the garrison. There were two green players lurking around outside & before you know it they were up on the wall. No walls were down and there were no other enemy players inside once we got in.

It seems to have settled down; One of the major problems were those ddos attacks.

Reverence.6915:

Banzie.5248:

If you are playing late Oceanic you want to look for a strong EU coverage. For that i’d suggest IoJ, Mag, SoS, FA (Wild card, They may implode time will show us). DragonWagon has the weaker EU.

EU starts at 8-10am oceanic, so nope. Better to find a server with good PST or SEA coverage

Even earlier. As early as 6am. I have been able to play mornings so it has not been a bother in that regard. This will change at some stage.

NSP was a lot busier last night (Thursday) & tonight. Enjoyed my week with NSP so far. Going to be a choice between NSP, GH or perhaps SoS; although I don’t like my chances of getting on the SoS server.

People don’t guard the gates & its usually the cannons being tagged. They will try & attack this player if in the vicinity.
I start questioning the mentality of the player if all they can do is tag a keep for three days in a row – just don’t get it.

akanibbles.6237:

Doesn’t sounds like you’re playing oceanic prime time, so I’d look for a server that is active when you are.

Gave up playing prime time due to the lack of players on my EU server. NSP is slightly better, not by much though (prime time right now).

The top 4-5 NA servers were full. As I cannot transfer anywhere else until Sunday night – a decision will be made then.

You’re right. Maybe the novelty has died off? Also starting to find sides employing a few of the negative tactics encountered in regular world vs world.

Ruins of Surmia server.
Lag always happened during EU prime time.
Large scale encounters were impossible due to the skill lag. Zerg vs zerg or blob vs blob never work well when lag is present.

How do you combat a player that spends all their playing day continually tagging your keep? This player has had up to ten people chasing trying to kill. Seems to be immune to all weapons & siege. Stealth traps do not work, neither do net turrets.
While I have encountered keep tagging when opposition sides want to capture the surrounding towers this is the first time I have encountered a player doing this.
Is this a common occurrence on some servers?

Yeah, I’d surmia will be third unless a few of the guilds lost – return.

Justin.7163:

Ya I don’t buy “skins” from the gemstore either, mostly because there’s no accomplishment in it. It’s basically like typing in a “cheat” (or in this case, your CC info) and obtaining something for accomplishing squat. The problem is exacerbated since the endgame is pretty much entirely cosmetic based. I do recognize that Anet have introduced Ascended armor/weapons (which is great) but over a year and a half its the only whole set they’ve released that have nothing to do with the gem store. I’m totaly fine with buying convenience items, but “skins” are off-limits for me.

How is buying a skin cheating? the one I bought had no stats. To use the skin it needed to be trans-mutated on to the gear you were wearing. There was no added advantage in having the skin whatsoever outside of a specific cosmetic look.

Thinks any crafted ascended items should stay account bound. Mats obtained should be sell-able on the tp.

Trying NSP for a week; it’s worse than my EU server. Nearly 1am NZ time (insomniac) with hardly a soul to be seen. EU would have picked up about an 1.5 hours ago.
Choosing might be tough. Going to be between Gunners hold, SoS, Mag,/FA & DB.

TheflamingWolf.5861:

good that in the lower tiers we dont have to deal that much with trolls and spies because its more fun to troll the high tiers for them

I dunno; someone was dropping siege all over the place on one of the bl maps the other day. Big trail of the stuff from one tower to the next. (lower tier server).

Bertrand.3057:

We had a recruitment post. We made it into a “we are full” post BEFORE free transfers opened. We also made a “do not come here” post last week. We have a website, listed contacts, a community website that is on the official list, and people posting all over these forums with “Gandara” in their signature. Oh, and we have queues. Fat, fat queues, every single night.

So excuse all those Gandarans who are utterly baffled and quite annoyed too everytime another guild announces they have moved here without any other kind of notice.

Here’s a question: While most can probably understand your frustration; the server is provided by Anet? it’s not private, which means anyone can transfer if desired. The same applies to all servers. So how is it players on any given server can decide they do not want more players or guilds? (I am not on Gandara or wanting to transfer).

ballymun.3986:

Don’t forget the EU servers, although they wouldn’t have a huge Oceanic community, there are always a lot of players on the EU servers who play during the Oceanic timezone as it’s early in the morning/day for EU. Just something to consider + never queues during that TZ on any EU server.

Which EU servers though? I’m on ros and the sea/ocx coverage is practically no existent now, it appears the vast majority of ocx players play on NA servers.

Curo.2483:

Linghy.2031:

What have you started Nibbles? Such rage.

Anyway, I’m not sure about joining a server with TOO much Oceanic presence in the lower tiers, you can easily be matched up against one or even two servers with far less ocx presence, and end up matching the map all night waiting for things to flip.

I’d also take into account forum warriors as they can give a good indication of the server climate. Every server has drama, sure, but at least one of the servers rabbiting on here is getting infamous for excessive drama. Gross.

Can anyone who plays with or against (respectfully) Northern Shiverpeaks give me some feedback on NSP in regards to Oceanic PvE and WvW?

I’m on NSP. We recently got a decent amount of transfers for ocx/sea time zone. We also have a lot of NA/EU commanders that run on their own off-hours (overnight/early morning), so they help to cover this as well. As for a lot of servers, this time zone has usually been pretty weak for us, but lately with regular early morning raids and new transfers, it looks promising. I’d say that we’ve had enough ocx/sea transfers to start building something nice.

Where are they all? Second night on NSP and at most there are 5 people.

Boy oh boy you need to recruit a lot more ocx/sea. Hardly anyone in WvW at ocx prime time/late night.

Good luck with finding ocx players/guilds, or sea for that matter. Your server has picked up quite impressive numbers (up against you this week (ros) or was, as now trying the free transfer for a week. I’ll keep an eye on this thread as I’m looking for a EU server with decent sea/ocx player coverage.

Another oceanic player here (for a week at least).

Trying NSP for a week (from surmia EU). Hopefully this server has a decent sea/ocx player base (my reason for transferring)

nirvana.8245:

Im an Australian/Oceanic. I moved to EU’s SFR right after leagues finished last year from NA. As far as I can tell, there are no Oceanic guilds on EU servers. The East Coast prime time (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne) is a real dead zone. On SFR it seems like on an average day there might be one float team with 30-40 covering 4 maps. There are no where near as many fights in Oceanic prime in EU as there are in NA. Often it ends up being a capping war to keep the highest PPT (which stems from other problems with the way EU play the game). And the bulk of these players are EU players, not Oceanic based players. The latency on EU servers is significantly worse than NA servers, which as you can imagine can be pretty bad when the game mode itself is already had its fair share of lag issues.

Honestly, I would not recommend moving to EU at all. I went to EU for the WvW experience. To see what they do differently from NA. For the learning experience. I will probably move back to NA. Things are much better there.

This goes the same if you are only partly interested in WvW and you have a focus on PvE. Just have to look at CoF. If you want to do the dungeon on EU during Oceanic prime your probably going to have to do the pre event yourself and host a party because all EU servers are usually contested during OCX prime.

If your going anyways, Id suggest to go SFR though.

I am based on an EU server. Prime time for me is dead now (even PvE). Was not quite so bad in the past. Decision to be made whether to stay EU or move to NA. In fact it could well be the difference between continuing to play GW2 & stopping altogether.
If I had known about the latency difference & ocx player base when buying the game 16 months ago my choice of worlds would different.
Another game purchased recently had the choice between EU & NA; however this game automatically recommended NA servers based on my location.

Never heard anyone say anything bad about FRS. Can say I always enjoyed running with stikko & frs when they were based on Surmia.

Please recruit ocx guilds/ players. Ros needs a vast improvement in coverage if the server wants to stay competitive.

Any EU? or are the majority of ocx based on NA servers?

Trying to find out if any of the current ‘free transfer’ EU servers contain a reasonable Oceanic presence. I enjoy world vs world – sadly for me, Oceanic prime time on my home server is dead.

Choices:
Vabbi –
WSR
Abaddons Mouth
Fissure of Woe
Millers Sound
Fort Ratnik
Blacktide
Gandara
Underworld

Guess I can delete this now.

E Tan.7385:

I would like to be sure of something.

with the wvw account bounded, lets say i’am lvl 200 but

• I have 200 to use PER character, so if i have 5 character, for all 5 i’am going to be able to use 200 points ?
• Or i have 200 point in total to use across my 5 characters ? so i can only do like 40 points per characters ?

My main wvw char is level 685; wxp across all other chars equates to 123. These totals will be combined raising my level to 808 across all chars. This is my understanding of how the system will work.