Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure what you mean by large group support, exactly. I rarely run with a zerg, but when I do, I prefer not to run in the “stack” but stay slightly behind or in front, and in combat I don’t stand next to the commander but away from the eye of the hurricane, opting to try and take out other ranged players. Any illusions I send into the red ball will die instantly anyway, and conditions cleansed.

I suppose veilbot with some sort of lackluster PU power configuration for personal survival will be what you’re looking for. It’ll be half a loaf, but that’s Mesmer in a zerg in a nutshell.

When I was leveling up my Mes – and this was before the trait system update – I found that it was fairly difficult until I hit 60 and had access to Grandmaster traits. That’s when it suddenly got a lot easier, and kept getting better as my level went up. So there’s that: you don’t have access to all the traits yet to really create a build that suits you.

Also, I’d imagine that at level 40 when you enter a dungeon you do so on whatever build you roam around with doing hearts and getting vistas. Your usefulness in dungeons is directly related to your build. We’re not Warriors; we can’t just go from one type of content to another without a re-spec. You have a dungeon build, open world PvE build, PVP build, WvW build, fraggles, etc. Case in point: I’ve a full condi spec for WvW with Ascended dire armor and trinkets, which have cost me a lot of gold. It’s all great in WvW, and utterly useless in a dungeon. Them’s the breaks.

Also, the clones aren’t really meant to hold hate while you zzzzzap foes from a distance with your gs. You can do damage with them through shatter, or deliver conditions with on-kill traits, but they don’t nor will ever really confuse opponents.

Truebanana.5936:

Me and my gf are 31 and 25 years old, but we like online gaming to play against trolls, because it’s really fun to imagine people getting nervous over a game

Just as a side note, I am so envious of guys whose girlfriends play MMOs with them. If she also has a great sense of humour and likes to cook, you should marry her.

Sounds like we’re going to have to engage in some serious thread-bumping to keep the good kitten on the first page.

I love hiding in keeps, but I don’t like to announce in map chat that I’ve done so. Partly because I feel it’ll jinx it and I’ll be caught or d/c, and partly because I hate feeling obligated to stay there while the commander goes on a WXP adventure in some towers instead of rushing right over.

If they ask in map chat if there are any Mesmers on the map, I keep my trap shut, because I know what it means: golem transportation duty.

I don’t like to slot in Veil, and I actively avoid circumstances in which I might be expected or asked to.

If I am being chased around in Bay, I like to die in the water grates, just because it annoys them. Sometimes I stay dead there and go grab a drink or a snack, and let them guard my body pointlessly. I never tell anyone in map that I am dead there, though, nor do I ask to be res’d. Getting res’d through the grate and portaling people in is an ethically awkward area for me. I won’t go so far as to call it an exploit, but it feels cheap. I’ve done it two times, out of peer pressure, and neither of those caps felt like a win.

Kagusaki.3176:

I say the best solution is that they must allow banish or any kind of push/pull attacks on dead bodies when you’re not in combat. Plus we need golf club as a hammer weapon. FOOOOORRRREEEE!!!

That would be the birth of asuragolf right there.

Offair.2563:

RedStar.4218:

They should just add a timer. And not a huge one. Something like 30 seconds to 1 minute before it automatically waypoints you back, regardless whether or not someone is trying to rez you.

There is a timer of 15min, if you remain dead you will get kicked from game due to inactive. However its easy to reset that timer just by switching a piece of gear. Yes switching gears, when you are dead.

Or use food, or a transformation tonic, or pop out a mini. Also, seems that salvaging items from inventory works. I’ve used all these to delay the inevitable.

It’s clear to me that the OP has never used Moa himself.

Fay.2357:

I suspect part of the reason for your reliance on traveler runes is that you’re running a bad build. Since torment shatter builds are bad, that necessarily means you need more help to just survive at all, whereas a better roaming build wouldn’t need that.

I’ve been using one quite successfully since the trait was released. I find it much easier to take on more than one opponent with it than on PU Power which I ran before, or Blackwater which requires enemies to be dumb enough to target and kill your clones, which they often don’t. I don’t often come across an opponent I can’t kill 1v1 with it, aside from eles and engis. Sure, you can’t take PU with it, but if you can’t survive without PU, I’m not sure it’s the build that’s bad.

That said, you are the forum god, and based on what I’m sure was extensive testing you’ve declared the builds bad, so there’s little left to discuss.

Piteous.4165:

Why not just combine all the maps into one large map?

Lag.

Fay.2357:

Lastly, traveler runes are crap. They won’t allow you to actually catch someone that wants to run (i.e. Nike warrior/thief), so they’re just for moving around the map faster. Take a focus in your inventory and swap that in to drop temporal curtain every 20 seconds for swiftness out of combat. Now you ckittene actually useful runes like perplexity or undead.

You don’t wear Travelers so you can catch people, a condi mesmer can pretty much forgo any hope of doing so. You wear them so you’re not a sitting duck for every zerg that flies in from around a corner. Getting caught with the focus as your offhand instead of your torch puts you in combat and you can’t change back. I rely on that torch being there in unexpected situations. If Travelers are for getting around the map faster, so is the focus with otherwise limited and buggy functionality. For a roamer, mobility is everything.

Yes, there are options with better stats, more condition damage, etc. But I don’t agree that the Travelers are crap. I run a torment shatter build, and I keep two sets of gear on me, one with Tormenting runes and one with Travelers. The Tormenting runes are fun because the damage increase is noticeable, but against some jobs with which keeping a distance is crucial (some eles and engis, even thieves), the Travelers perform much better. Just as I notice the damage increase from the more offensive runes, I also notice moving like a sloth and eating more AoE damage.

You’re not wrong, of course, just unreasonably unyielding.

Skye Terrier.3805:

Not that you’re wrong, but why don’t you like PvE? The colors, locations, detail, content, everything has so much MORE to it.

I mean WvW is basically glorified “Capture the Flag” and kind of a one trick pony, isn’kitten Whomever has the biggest population wins. To be fair, I’ve only been in it for a few days, after playing “regular” PVE for almost 2 years.

I’m not the one you directed this question at, but I’ll answer for my part.

I played PVE almost exclusively for a year before I “found” WvW. I had the preconception that WvW was Team Fortress/Call Of Duty set in GW2 surroundings, and I haven’t enjoyed those types of game modes in the past. It wasn’t until a guild mate took me to do some JPs in WvW and I had to get the vistas and POIs for world completion that I got to see there was a strategic side to it, and that’s what I fell in love with.

The reason I’ve pretty much stopped doing PVE is because compared to WvW it is so horribly stale. When I log into WvW, I never know what’s going to happen, who will be there, what I’ll end up doing, and so on. Conversely, every AC run is the same: the same stacking, the exact same bosses with the exact same moves. We all know what’s going to happen next to the last detail, we don’t care one iota about the story, and we are there simply for the loot.

The world bosses are no more enticing, now more than ever as they spawn at a specific time. It’s like fighting a pixelated cron script, there’s nothing dynamic about it at all. The Living Story is nothing more than “what do we farm now to get a chance at a big box which may or may not contain the weapon skin of the week”, slapped together with Gem Store promotions.

The PVE world is gorgeous, there are many awesome locations. I’ve seen most if not all of them while doing world completion and completing all the jumping puzzle achievements. But there is very little to do there. More is not better if it’s just more of the same.

Oh not this old chestnut again.

I know, I was joking. I felt bad for you guys looking at that server history. It seems awfully boring.

I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you’d say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.

Hang in there, guys. Big changes, coming soon.

Although, closely examining this forensic data, I have to point out that you just fought different servers a month and a half ago, so what are you complaining about?

How skilled would a Ranger have to be?

What WvW developers?

I got excited thinking a developer had stumbled onto this forum again, but alas, no, someone just felt compelled to necro. Perhaps the forum software could be adjusted to remove that red icon from the thread once it’s been more than six months since the last developer post. Hell, make it a year.

maeggle.6021:

White Raven.4368:

you can find whatever fight you are looking for on Deso,large or small scale.

Oh boy…

You can even tell that he wrote it with a straight face, which just makes it all the funnier.

White Raven.4368:

I’d rather stop playing than go anywhere else.

Running in a desoblob is pretty close to having stopped playing.

Come to Gandara, it’s a roamer’s paradise: you get to fight a lot of 1v8s and, should you ever encounter a solo player willing to engage in a 1v1, it’s only because they can see ten green dots otw to help them. Oh and of course the corpse-jumping afterwards, which appears to be an SFR forte.

There are no fights in gold. Blobs, yes, and the endless sea of guys spamming AC fire from towers. But not fights. Deniara’s post was comedy gold, though.

Fay.2357:

msalakka.4653:

The downside of using dungeon armor is the inability to salvage them to get the runes back, if you went with expensive runes and wanted to swap stats.

You mean to say the downside of using WvW armor. Dungeon armor is salvageable, WvW armor is not.

Ahh yes, I meant armor purchased with karma, from temples.

The downside of using karma armor is the inability to salvage them to get the runes back, if you went with expensive runes and wanted to swap stats.

I’m running a torment shatter and love it. It’s one option to consider. It’s funny at times because some opponents assume it’s standard PU Condi and that I don’t have the bursting capability to take them down. One warrior in particular went so far as to /sleep on the ground because he thought if he didn’t kill my clones I couldn’t hurt him. Not killing them was fine by me since I got off two shatters in quick succession plus two more stacks from a heal. Suddenly he was in a big hurry.

Any suggestion which uses “megaserver” in the description or involves dissolution of servers is an instant no-go for me. Stripping server identity and culture from WvW would ruin it just as effectively as it has PvE. Thanks to the megaserver idiocy, my map chatter is filled with German, and I always need a taxi to join my guildies on the same map for a guild mission because, obviously, the megaserver system can’t comprehend why guild mates who play on the same server should be directed to the same map instance during an active guild mission.

If you want to fight for a faceless team, there’s always PVP.

I don’t think I’ve ever come across a game company – much less an MMO-publishing one – that’s as hostile towards its own customers as this one. Instead of developing and monetizing on the game with a long-term vision they seem to prefer ignoring us and doling out bans and infractions for voicing opinions. Everything about the way they conduct marketing and development now says that they want to squeeze as much money out of the game as fast as possible, and are not concerned at all about the long-term. GW1 ran for six years… I don’t foresee this game getting there. The mechanics and beautiful graphics are excellent, but the direction of their development is about as anti-consumer as they can get.

There’s that modern Western sense of entitlement that has been so well instilled in the youth of today: it’s not enough that you get to enjoy a relaxing and entertaining activity, you should be rewarded for doing it.

Another one bites the dust. Wake up, Carver.

I think I know that copy & paste response by heart by now. ANet, do something.

morrolan.9608:

goldenwing.8473:

Yes, 50% of a given population would enjoy the technical aspect of a given situation, without specific concern for social content. There are multiple MMO’s that offer this style play, including the two latest “contenders”: TESO and Wildstar.

At the moment, GW2 offers the only (flawed as it is), community-oriented approach to PvP , which borrowed from the best community-oriented PvP that has existed to-date in the MMO industry (DAoC’s RvR.) Many are hoping CU (which is being developed by the same creator, Mark Jacobs), will replicate that same community-oriented feeling, enough that the game is actually player-funded.

I don’t see how TESO is any different from GW2 in this regard, plus it has the benefit of being far better designed than WvW.

Thank you, I really need that.

My concern is that alliances will pick and choose their members. Your reply to my earlier comment operated on the assumption that there is such an alliance that will accept me. If there isn’t, I am SOL. In my case, there probably would be, but I find the idea distasteful because it’d be up to other players to decide whether or not, and in what capacity, you will be allowed to play. Sooner rather than later these alliances would only approve of new members who run “acceptable” builds, and the Rangers’ forum will once again look like a suicide hotline.

I mostly solo roam and scout, and rarely follow commanders, but there is one commander who I always follow when I see him tag up in the borderlands, and I even fire up TS for him. Why? Well, it isn’t his voice, to be sure – someone once said he sounds like an airline pilot, because of his speaking tone and rhythm. There’s nothing wrong with his voice, of course, we all sound different.

What makes me follow him is his manner when he leads. He never refers to people as “scrubs” (as one cmdr I know is prone to do). If things go kittens up, he doesn’t spend the next five minutes raging over what went wrong (“you need to stack on me when I say so, guys, come on!”) but instead he mentions something we, his followers, did right, and if he feels he led us into an objective beyond our numbers/capability then he may even say “that was my fault, sorry guys” but he doesn’t dwell on it.

Another thing he does that’s extremely important is that he always tells us where we are going and what we’re going to do. This way I am not just following a dorito on the map trying to figure out where we’re going. He is also not one of those commanders who feel the need to provide rapid-fire instructions in the style of “veilveilveilveilveilveilveilveildodgedodgedodgedodgedodgedodge”. He tells us when to charge, retreat, basic stuff, but he trusts us to know how to dodge without his express instruction. I know this works for some people but on a borderland channel it drowns out scout reports and other critical information.

Finally, never, ever, ever tag off in a rage. If you’re kittened off beyond belief, still tell people that was all the time you had, ask (rhetorically as case may be) if anyone could take over, thank people for participating, and then tag off. If you tag off in a rage after a failed objective, it will be remembered ten times longer than a hundred successful runs.

Kanebrake.6192:

This would only encourage stagnation. Same fights week after week after week after week after… No thank you.

Right, because now it’s totally fresh and engaging each week.

Oh, it’s Elona Reach this week. Here comes the 50-man blob.

Oh, this week it’s Riverside. Lo, behold, the 50-man blob.

I neither belong or want to belong to a “hardcore WvW guild”, and I hate EotM with the heat of a nova. I guess, should this be implemented, as a scout I’d have to wait for someone to approve my “Mercenary” status or simply not play at all.

Megaserver already fired a bullet into the temple of whatever interest I had left for fighting cron scripts in PvE; this would do the same for WvW.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Giant_Chocolate_Cake

Ah yes, the legendary PU Mesmer. To encounter one is but a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a build that does not exist. PU Mesmer, a 6/6/6/6/6 condispamming loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the unskilled, the overpowered, the permastealthed, in a world of hapless hambows who operate within acceptable builds…

I’m not surprised or disappointed when someone, who didn’t spec for roaming to begin with, decides to try and avoid the encounter. I’m a condition shatter mesmer and probably not particularly fun to fight, even if they do kill me. I rarely engage other mesmers for the same reason.

What I don’t understand, however, is this weak- kitten running away after you’ve already decided to engage. This seems to be particularly common among warriors, who come in big and bad, but once the battle’s tide doesn’t turn in their favour, they haul kitten . That’s weak and cowardly. No better than thieves in my book in that regard. If you start something, finish it, or die trying.

Submit a ticket through the support site, filling out all the details, including the serial number of your copy of the game. Ask them to remove the authenticator from your account. You can re-enable it yourself later.

The key here is that you need to provide them with sufficient information to prove that you are the owner of the account. I’ve done this twice now without any issues.

I had a Gem Store purchase vanish from my bank. 10 euro down the drain. I contacted support, filed a ticket, and received no response. Posted in the ticket refresh thread, got referred to a response I never got, and I still don’t have the item back. So I posted a thread in General Discussion, which was moved to Account Issues and then quietly locked.

They seem to like my money just fine, though. Maybe you’ll have more luck with the “support team.” Good luck.

I am on Gandara and my experience echoes yours. It’s rare to see an infantry commander there now, and if there is one, there’s not much we can do. EB has a queue almost 24/7. Prior to the season and even during it, if we had a T3 keep (sometimes even a tower) under assault, we’d get troops in from EB to assist. Now they don’t move a finger, and our borderland is a piñata. I am seriously considering a transfer to a silver or bronze server, possibly RoF. To me a well defended home bl = server pride, and as a scout and sieger, if we can’t defend it due to lack of people, there’s no need for me to even log on.

Around the time of the Wardrobe system implementation, I found that a Gem Store-purchased item was missing from my inventory. I submitted a support ticket for the issue on April 17th, received an automated apology for a delayed response on 19th, and then one more on the 20th. Then they were never heard from again. Due to the huge patches this spring and then the China release, I simply assumed that support was swamped and that it was in everyone’s interest that I let them work and get to my issue in their good time.

Turns out I was wrong.

Two days ago, I posted my ticket number in the ticket update thread. My ticket was referred to in a follow-up post, referring to an “April 25th” reply I never received, and linked two previous blog entries introducing the Wardrobe system. To date, I am yet to receive any kind of personal response from support. It appears that the issue has been dismissed, and that that is the end of it.

Over the course of the game’s existence I’ve spent over €325 on the Gem Store. I’ve done this because before GW2 I played another MMO for 5-6 years, during which time I paid a subscription, occasionally two simultaneous subscriptions (for more inventory space). I felt the money was well worth the experience and the service. When I switched over to GW2, I saw no reason not to continue my habit of providing financial support for a game which offers great entertainment value.

I have not been disappointed, because if you want quality, you have to pay for quality. I’ve griped about yet accepted bugs, because development takes time, and the game is still high quality, entertaining, and a worthwhile purchase for its price.

However, I feel as though the support provided and the system structured to offer it are, from a customer’s perspective, abysmal. There is no way to monitor submitted tickets, or at least I have not found them on the support site. If, for whatever reason, you do not receive an emailed response to your support inquiry, it’s the same as if it had never existed. The fact that you have to post on a forum thread to inquire about the status of your ticket is a good indicator of a poorly developed system.

Over the course of my previous MMO experience, I only had to contact support twice: once per phone, and once per online chat. Both times the issue was taken care of on the spot. No waiting and wondering and asking in a forum thread. Most importantly, they made me feel like they appreciated my patronage and wanted my continued business.

I feel extremely let down by not so much the lack of a solution to my support inquiry as the fact that through the entire process there was no indication, whatsoever, that it even mattered.

I don’t think that I am more important than someone who “just” buys the game and doesn’t spend a dime on the Gem Store – they still paid for the game, just as I did. I don’t think I should receive special attention or VIP service. My contribution has been voluntary and I’ve received a fair bit of entertainment and made friends. I am just disappointed that at the end of the day, I am nothing but a credit card number, not even worthy of a human response.

By the way, as a parting note: many tickets revolving around missing/lost/vanished Gem Store purchases could be preempted by allowing purchases to be reacquired. The system is already in place with AP chest rewards.

How is your home borderland defense? I’ve seen references to it but not to any specific guild. How easy/possible is it to get help from EB so you don’t lose an attacked T3 keep etc?

When coming upon a random 1v1 I usually check their jobs. If the jobs are the same, I usually leave them be unless it’s, say, about contesting a camp or something, if there’s a clear objective involved. I only do this because it’s what I’d want done to me. If I am in a 1v1 with someone and another person jumps in, I sometimes disengage entirely; 2v1 isn’t fun or interesting. Not that all jobs are balanced at 1v1, many are not, and many builds are not, but you can learn something even from those encounters, whereas from a 2v1 you’re not likely to learn anything.

I don’t get worked up over it if someone interrupts my duel. It’s annoying, yes, but the unpredictability of WvW is a big part of why I play it in the first place. Adapt, accept, move on. If you want to follow a script, there’s always PvE.

Is the server transfer penalty different now? If you transfer, for how long are you unable to enter WvW on your new server?

They only fix stuff that’s actually broken, like the name of Guard Leech.

No, they always despawn when a patch is applied.

10 golems… There’s a whole world of bashing inanimate objects in PvE, too.

I’d like to submit my ticket for review, #549412. It’s from April 17th. I don’t mind that more urgent tickets get handled first, but it’d be nice to know the ticket is still in the system. Thank you.

I submitted a ticket in April about a Gem Store purchased item which has disappeared from my bank. I’ve not heard back about it. I see there’s new armor available but am frankly not eager to make more purchases while an issue with a previous one is pending.

The account status thread states many times not to post requests for updates on tickets about item restoration, but that those will be looked at eventually. Is there an estimate on how long one should wait before submitting a new ticket? I want to give the support staff time to work on more urgent tickets such as account restorations etc, but it’s been two months and there’ve been no subsequent emails from ANet about it, so I am getting the creeping feeling that my ticket’s just gone and I am waiting pointlessly now.

How about fixing the old ones first?