Guild Wars 2

my husband and i came up with a list of NA names and taglines

Jade Isle – home of Jade Maw?
Black Terrace – “Funerals are such fun…but it’s such a pity to mourn just one.” MTG
Bent Anvil – “And you pound and you pound and you pound!” Jaws
Coast of Kaineng – ?
Dragon of Rall – the Old Roar lives!
Aspenwood Pass – the trees are lovely this time of year
Sea of Madness – the dolyak and quaggan parade sets sail!
Maguuma’s Rest – tired of riding siege, time for a nap
Stormbluff Desert – ?
Dark Crossing – it’s like dark chocolate… bitter
Denravi’s Bay – DBay. it’ll catch on
Shiverpeak Furnace – molten alliance?

i swear i’m gonna copy paste that now every time someone says "oh just wait for the queue to settle...."

ITS...NOT...JUST...THE...KITTEN....QUEUES

Aphs.9528:

These mergers and queues will encourage people to move to tier 3 and 4 now which is a positive for balance . So if you don’t like the queues then move to tier 3 or 4 .This was Anet’s intention to try and balance the tiers and get people to spread out .

this is what you think will happen

RodOfDeath.5247:

Yeah…it’s a little nuts. First night. I logged in and went “nope” and went to netflix and a glass of wine. No chance I’m waiting in a 80 man que to play a video game lol

Just log off read a book, watch a movie, or drink some wine.

this is what WILL happen…

but it IS reset, after a huge change, drawing in new people, and old players who stopped WvWing, plus extra load because extra people… AND it’s beta… so could really be changed and adjusted at any time… we shall see.

i havn’t seen a queue on ET in ages... not even on EB on reset night. the lower tiers are adding some extra people... but the huge influx is all the people who have returned for the "shiny new thing"

if you’re Blackgate, then yeah, ET is paired with you. the official links have been announced

might not work so well for EU servers, as they already have initials appended to them, but for NA servers at least... perhaps tacking on the accepted server initials to the very end of the nameplate for "guest" servers... for example... looking at me see Blackgate Silver Scout[DoD]ET or something of that nature.

i’ve heard a very strong argument for green from a certain popular youtuber... apparently her favorite color is green.

lol

apparently not. this makes me very sad. i wish there was.

dang

welp... time to create the [ET] guild.

well in that case, i’m also interested in knowing the answer to this question. and do you have any indication that the people on your own side are your server or the "other" server?

have the links even been announced yet?

server matchup threads were stopped due to too much drama.

server merging isn’t exactly what’s going on, and i’m sure that topics created about specific issues regarding the server linking will be allowed, as long as they to not turn toxic

and as for proofs of heroics, the ones you got while running last night likely went straight into your wallet. they won’t add to your existing stack in your inventory anymore. the ones in your inventory need to be double-clicked (or right-click/consume all) to put them in your wallet. they are no longer soulbound to the character that acquired them.

yeah. wait till tomorrow. things are going to get a major shake up tomorrow at reset

too long, didn’t read. but i did read something that may invalidate all the QQing... i read that they are intending to rotate BLs every quarter. they have already said they were intending to do a rotation of some sort. so no, they didn’t cave as much as you are QQing they are.

i for one am happy with the changes made to DBL so far, and will happily play on either map.

omgYAY! is how i feel about reward tracks. too many good choices to chose from... i thought about going with the triumphant armor at first, but then i changed my mind when i realized i could do HoT map reward tracks and get aurillium, ley crystals, and other such things without spending a bunch of time in maps i don’t really like all that much.

going through a reward track feels maybe a tiny bit slow, but not so much so that it bothers me. i do a lot of wvw, so i’ll get thru the tracks. looking forward to when they settle things down and introduce reward potions ala PvP reward potions. one thing i find funny is just like in pvp tracks, you get tomes at a regular basis in wvw tracks. i have 12 characters, all at 80th level.. the three newest additions were leveled to 80 via tomes alone, and i still have enough in my bank to level yet another, and still no end in sight... and i have more spirit shards than i know what to do with. will you, at some point, be adding other uses for these tomes? using them to level my wvwxp would be nice... XD... and i agree with Leaa... where’s my transmutation charges?? i’ve run out, i need MOAR! Fashion Wars 2. i need to look sharp, yo!

as far as i’m concerned... mounts are cool. sure, i’d love to have a mount. BUT... with the waypoint system and our own personal run speed, we don’t need a functional mount... a purely cosmetic one is more than sufficient.

it’s a high fantasy setting with some mechanical element, so i see no issue with insta-summoning said mount... heck.. any immersion that exists goes right out the window the second you jump off a cliff and your glider magically POOF appears on your back... or the second you see someone named Charrzilla (with lime green "DBZ" hair) or Fruit Loop Warrior or the 6 dozenth Xxxsephirothxxx you’ve seen just this week..

there is precedent in other fantasy settings for magical creatures summoned by spell or connection to a physical item (for example, a figurine of wonderous power from D&D. think Guenhwyvar from the Drizzt stories) so it is not beyond the realm of possibility to summon a horse or a unicorn or a giant riding wolf or a charr-cycle or a mini-dragon stand-on glider or whatever out of thin air.

TL;DR - i’m fine with mounts, as long as they are cosmetic only. and if they introduce a unicorn mount i am SO buying that...

depends how much it’s being done. a few minutes of killing a trickle of people too dumb to exit the sides instead of rushing out the main gate is making a statement. spawn camping for hours/days, replete with siege and the whole kitten 9 yards is just being a kitten who needs to DIAF.

tier 8. but also spent some time in tier 4/5. and been on the giving and the receiving end of spawn camping

Astralporing.1957:

they most certainly seem to have no problems with requiring costly gear.

right? like a 200 gold sigil for chronomancers? eesh.

i got my tag when it was 100 gold. i had 2 tags, so in effect i lost 100 gold. if anet decides at some point to reduce the price of tags. great. if they don’t… oh well.

HOWEVER

anet specifically put in the ability to make a tagless leaderless squad of 10… so that people could still raid without anyone needing to buy a tag. the extras are just that.. extras. conveniences. you don’t need them to run a raid… and those conveniences are part and parcel of paying whatever is the current fee, be it 300, or 100, or heck if anet changes it to 10 gold and 20,000 badges, or whatever other off-the-wall price you can think of for a full-featured tag. if you want the extras, you pay the fee. it’s that simple.

and asking for those features for free spits in the face of those who paid for them and comes off as a whiny little kitten.

i should link this thread over in the wvw section. it’ll be blood on the water, and i’ll just sit back and watch the sharks eat this topic up. lol

TexZero.7910:

katz.8376:

thank you for the screenshot.

to be fair, though… that’s a discussion about pvp, not raids. but it does answer the question of pvp retaining better than Silverwastes.

meh. back to lagging my way through WvW. this convo is boring again.

You’re joking right ?

Average player time is the very definition of retaining players, the video was released at the time silverwaste was in it’s prime. If those numbers don’t give you the idea that PvP > PvE as far as retaining players, then nothing will because you never wanted it too.

dafrik did you miss about me saying “it answers the question.”. and you say I’M the one that’s joking? i’d make a snide comment right now, but i’d rather not catch an infraction for something so silly.

but really. was i unclear?

*thank you* for the screenshot.

to be fair, though... that’s a discussion about pvp, not raids. but it does answer the question of pvp retaining better than Silverwastes.

meh. back to lagging my way through WvW. this convo is boring again.

no. that’s a BAD WvW player. no one likes people like that...

now get out of our fun thread!

only a WvW can be happy and sad at the same time about a steamroll match. yay look at that score! dang... nothing to do

Fay.2357:

WoW has raids and GW2 didn’t have raids, and WoW lost people so clearly this is because people were driven away by raids.

he said they left a game with raids… to play a game without raids…

its not that the raids drove them away… and of course other factors are involved.. new shiny vs ancient. gameplay mechanic differences… all sorts of things…point being, tho. obviously they didn’t come here to play raids. and obviously they weren’t retained (or retained ENOUGH) by ones they had.

meh. >shrug<

TexZero.7910:

To the people who claim their internet is so bad they can’t watch a youtube video…Get real, you have enough time to be here posting and to play the game you have enough internet to watch a video. So either watch it, or stop complaining for sources. Thanks.

i just took a speedtest. just now. twice actually. i got bored waiting for the first one to finish.. it hung up because it was going so slow. YES i play with this connection (i’m infamous among my circle of friends for my sudden bouts of lag and random disconnects). NO i cannot watch a video unless it’s 10-20 seconds long. it’s artificially choked by my source (NO i am not bootlegging or stealing it in any way shape or form). i DREAD patch days. it took me a week to download the expac. i imagine the same could happen to others.

now quit being a kitten and, asking nicely here, PLEASE answer the question as asked, because NO, not everyone can slog through a 30 minute video, but still (barely) have enough signal to play.

srsly. it’s a really simple thing to share a youtube video with the minutes and seconds you want it to start at... just a little checkbox... or you can always just say "it’s 6 minutes and 25 seconds in." or whatever te kitten it really is. he said he had sucky internet and asked for where in the video the proof is, so he doesn’t have to suffer through watching the whole thing in a buffering queue because of poor internet... pony up, man... i’m interested too.

i was about to +1 you... till i got to the end where you wished someone would die of cancer... uncool bro. srsly. that is NEVER cool

i tend to avoid people who are obviously in the middle of a duel. sometimes if i’m not busy in the middle of something else i’ll even stand around and watch the show. but i’m not gonna respect "this is our area, we’re dueling here". if you want an arena, go to OS. there’s a great one there.

if there weren’t an issue with ping,.. this could be a lot of fun...

if yer getting chased clean across the map, yer doin it right.

or they’re bored.

or both.

it’s really fun if you can quickly kill people 1v1 and you have a dumb zerg following you. before the BL change, i once got chased from the north east gate of bay (the one that points toward garrison) all the way to the nw camp. i looked behind me, and the only one able to keep up with me had been a warrior who ran too far from his buddies concentrating on killing the "coward ranger". i turned, killed him, and then ran again. felt goooood. but boy they were mad at me. XD

oh yeah. runnin in the BLs right now... solidarity *fistbump*

i’ve always disliked EB. dunno why, just do. so even now, in the convoluted PITA that the current DBLs are, i still run them anyway... and more often than not... i’m 99%-100% alone during the day.

mmm. i think this attitude shift in wvw has been going on for a long time, and part of why i stopped commanding. there’s only so many times you can call on map chat for people to come defend a keep from a small amount of attackers when you KNOW there are others on the map because you SEE the camps flipping before you just feel like just ragequitting the whole dang thing. i still love WvW, tho. so i still run... i just mostly solo roam now. :-/

man. poor guy can’t even crack a joke and people jump down his throat. it’s rough being a dev... in any game... i’ve seen the same behavior aimed at other game devs too. it’s no wonder they get so where they don’t want to ever talk to us

i’m wondering if the dev kittenponded read carefully, or just skimmed. no offense intended to said dev either way. but the stance on afk exp gain and botting etc seems to have been made rather clear, so i’m thinking that was the dev may have actually been saying is intended is "a ranger’s pet being able to kill mobs without the ranger also taking part is intended." and not "afk exp/loot gain using pets is within policy"

but anyway... something i won’t be doing... i’ll be too busy WvWing...

i’m fine with the hair and eye colors available, but it would really be nice if one could apply owned dyes to hair ACCESSORIES either on new character creation, or use of a hair/makeover kit.

that is an awesome spot. i’ll have to remember that when alpine BLs come back. XD

close matchups are best matchups! <3

dang. woulda been awesome if it was. lol

huh. that’s a weird bug. never seen that one happen before

hah. that’s gold. i wish he’d kept it too!

what did his sig used to say?

i was laggin hard last night. i’ve BEEN hitting IoJ’s BL more when i was on... but i can pay attention to AR’s BL instead if you want... i’m always lookin for more than just boring camps and towers to kill... and better than the upticks i ran across last night when i WAS able to get on. srsly, who runs an uptick that’s so low they don’t even get rally yet unless they’re with a blob ran into a pair last night, one was 80th, one wasn’t... i didn’t even notice the arrow at first... i just went after a red name... and then they didn’t even get a down, they just went straight to dead... i felt bad for em

Infusion.7149:

….Priority 3:
Accountbound Runes, since you need 6 of them with the following in particular:
Superior Rune of Leadership = 100 crystalline ores each (crystalline ore are very difficult in get in such large numbers, really this needs a cost decrease even in PvE) —-> or nerf boon duration
Superior Rune of Thorns = 250 airship parts each
Superior Rune of Surging = 250 Leyline crystals each
Superior Rune of Durability = 150 Lump of Aurilium each —--> or just nerf it…

or how about the sigils… i had to put up with kitten Tangled Depths to get a kitten Sigil of Draining. i want another, but i can’t stomach more of that kitten. i’ll just do without

Puck.9612:

Personally I would like to see ascended armor and weapons added, especially the newer gear that is locked behind a PvE grind wall like Viper’s.

Along with this I believe they should make it so Proof of Heroics can only be earned in WvW (not EotM) to encourage new players to try out the game mode.

What else would you like to see added?

psizone.8437:

HoT sigils and runes. I don’t want to farm Auric Basin for hours to get another set of Durability runes…

Commonly used WvW food and oils. I probably spend about half of the money I earn in WvW on the food I use and regularly see people just not using any.

+1 on it being WvW only, we should start separating WvW and EotM so there’s less incentive to just karmatrain that map for rewards.

if i could give more than one +1… i totally would. we need actual rewards in wvw, and this is a real good example of things that would actually be useful

the recommended action is to report for botting.

i remember when people were accusing the rangers of hax for using trapper runes... heh

my vote goes with daredevil or druid. both, depending on how set up, have lots of ways to disengage/break stun/condi cleanse/regen... and potentially even stealth.

you really expected a response within the day? LOL

anyways.. tactivators... meh. i don’t have a strong opinion one way or the other regarding tactivators

i actually like the newer upgrade method... there was far too much drama from the costs involved in upgrading structures and people misqueueing things... either the wrong upgrade at the wrong time, or queueing a superfluous upgrade (like... merchants) when an enemy was attacking, draining all the supply for defense. that being said, i also like the change that made it so that it didn’t auto upgrade no matter what.. that you needed to get a certain number of dolys to the structure. this allows solo/duo and havoc groups to cut off upgrades to structures. the one thing i miss about the new upgrading system is being able to queue doly guards on a freshly flipped camp to make it just a bit more difficult for a solo to reflip. tactics yo! LOL

please please please please PLEASE make the keep waypoints operate the way they used to... and the way SMC currently does. you don’t get a WP till it’s upgraded to that point, but once you have it... IT’S YOURS.

Absurdo.8309:

Insulting the other side through ad hominem attacks does not really help your case.

to be fair, one can be elite without being elitist, and one can be elitist without actually being elite. being elitist is uncool… regardless if you actually are elite or not. it’s rude, exclusionary, and does not build the community… it is, dare i say it, toxic… and it is no ad hominem to say so, because it’s the truth.

Menadena.7482:

Ah internet, I love you. I come here asking about toxic map chat so people start blaming me because I do not read chat in battle.

My #1 thing to watch is a party or squad chat if I am in one and I make no excuses for that. The only reason I even had combat chat on at all this time was because I was standing somewhere different than normal and it was the fastest way to find my range while it started. My absolute last thing to watch is map chat during a fight. If you want a good map you need to arrive early so not talking at 30 minutes before the event is a pretty silly excuse. If people are asking questions then about the mechanics than do not be a johny-come-lately and yell after it starts that everyone is doing it wrong if you did not answer their questions.

ok. yes, you’re right. people should be answering questions and not raging when things are done wrong afterward. there is pretty much always a level of toxicity anywhere… people who QQ that their teammates suck in sPVP… people crying in WvW about poorly spent supply, misqueued upgrades (which thankfully is not an issue anymore), or lack of response to a scouts call… kitten talk and political/religious bs in open world zones everywhere from newb zones to 80th level zones to LA.

however, as a fellow ranger, i’m going to call you out on one thing… if you are doing a more complex world event like shatterer or teq, especially one you don’t know yet, DO NOT turn off map chat. yes, questions should have been answered ahead of time, and yes people may lose their kitten minds and get toxic if things start to go badly, but it’s never a good idea to shut off all method of communication during a large dynamic event that may have instructions called out at certain times. as others have said, the floating white numbers mid screen show if you’re hitting or not… you don’t need the combat log for that. heck, i never use my combat log unless i want to go back and see how much damage a particular hit did.

i like unicorns... i have a whole collection of stuffed ones.. what can i say? >.> LOL