Guild Wars 2

Do you think its time the drop rates on the black lion keys was actually increased so they drop. Lets face it who buys them when they don’t give that much out.
I can understand anet wanting to get cash for these keys but I personally am very disappointed that the adventure of gw1 chest hunting was taken away in gw2.

I have over 100 chests and there is no way I will buy a key for these as they are to expensive for what you get out of them ,and it is sad that you get a woohoo a wooden chest drop in wvw and you get a pathetic useless blc that you know you won’t open ever.

Please devs increase they drop rates on the keys, even if its matched to the chest drop rates that way we can open them.

cheers Phabby

me I would just help my guild mates out with whatever they need. I only play for the fun and friendships that I make along the way,I have never been one to want to be an elitist in game its more about the great social friendships you make along the way and helping each other as you go.

I wvw alot and find it hard in tier 1 ,so I just started a thread in the wvw section as I don’t come in here much to a possible solution , the devs might move it to here , but if they don’t please go have a look and add some input there and maybe our beloved dev in wvw might come and save they day for us all

cheers Phabby

As we all know trying to get 100% map completion is a pain in wvw so had a thought

Do you think it would be a great idea if a tonic was introduced that turned you into say a mini dragon lol, and gave you a complete invulnerability and accessibility to all areas of the map to get the points you need for the map completion.

Now as some pppl will argue that this would indeed allow some ppl to sneak invo in regards to the enemy I think a solution to this would be you could also make it that you can’t see anyone else on the map so that would be fair.

So you take the tonic a bubble apears around your toon so all you can see is the map and you can go around and get your completion.

Please give some thoughts on this

cheers Phabby

I don’t think we really do know though Merkator as all the severs lie constantly about their numbers in wvw to protect themselves from being accused of being stacked to the hilt.
Guild transfers are made mostly of servers crying out for more numbers but is that truly the story or are they crying out cause they just don’t posses the skills need to beat another server and want to just speed roll everything in site with massive numbers , instead of learning to play.
I was under the impression that anet wanted wvw to be a fair match arena for servers to compete on , which it currently isn’t. they have no control over servers numbers in wvw and they don’t seam to want to make it a fair playing field other wise teams would be closely match in all tiers at all times and we all know this is not the case.

Fuzzion.2504:

Can someone tell me what really is going on with all these talks about bg imploding,etc. ?

All crap talk as usual mate, I can say that it is a laugh at the childish antics that are on here at times. I can tell you, us guys in merc are having a blast in bg great community with some really fun guilds to play with at all hrs of the day which allows us to play for fun and do some pve stuff as well.
The new content is captivating alot of older guys bring back memories of Marlo on N64 lol and would say once that is done they will come back into wvw relaxed and strong.

One thing that would be great is can you get FoO to go hit Sor for at least 1 nite or 2 and let us do some capping and map completion stuff lol . We do love those FoO guys and girls they are one awesome guild to play against.Shame we can’t all chat when we are up against them it would be a funny convo I would imagine , we did wave the other nite, which turn out to be a mistake they then crushed us into oblivion in Garri lol

cheers

if you are level 80 , after he knocks you down go back to him and press F he will dialog with you and apologise and let you thru . hope that helps

Just sort out this qqing crap that has gone on from day 1 by giving the wvw total population for the week match per server into the results.

I do think it is a joke that everyone keeps going Your stacked, no your stacked. and the arguments every kitten week are the same.

If the results were to show no of players per server for the week it would then be clear cut without the crap that currently goes on.

I don’t think moral on any server can be maintained if you do not know the numbers you are facing if you loss to triple your server base then that’s a serous problem week in week out , If you are losing to a lower pop server base then wow you need to adjust tactics .

Nearly every game i can think of you allways know the number of your enemy why the hell should this be any different?, or are there servers with something to hide and are protected for some reason

I think it is time you devs stepped in and quashed this constant week in week out crap about whom is stacked and whom isn’t for the Love of this great game.

Why can you not ,throw in server numbers into the results, so that the threads can be civil once again and all the crap is once and for all sorted.

This would also allow any guilds that do wish to transfer the real position of a server’s numbers so they can make a decision weather they want to goto one that is doing well but lacks numbers , or jump onto a server that is doing well and is over populated, or for some guilds they may want to go help a struggling server build up a good wvw presence.

I hope you guys give this a response and some serous thought please.

cheers Phabby.

I noticed while doing my map completion both divinity’s reach and the black citidal , once you enter one of the instances you cannot leave that area the way you go in, you have to waypoint out at a cost which is a pain to the pocket at 1s upwards .

not sure if this a bug or not cheers

Liquid.9672:

FoO doesn’t finish a night without at least making a run at BG garrison, and they usually Golem rush it. They target BG garrison for the strategic advantage and to hurt BG morale. It’s kind of their thing these days.

Now come on please, FoO starts every nite, every every every nite with bg as their 1 and only target and don’t let up an inch without capping our garrison.
Try and prove me wrong let them have a few days of hitting Sor they way they do us lol.

FoO is an amazing guild to play against and us guys and girls at Merc love them to bits for their honest and amazing game play, they push us every nite to the limit and make us better players for it. I hope they have as much fun as we do playing against them, wish they would cull their numbers some time though lol they are massive some nites its just like omg would you look at the size of the zerg.

cheers FoO for the great fun last nite and every nite

Phabby

The guy in BG Garrison last nite was a cleaver little fellow staying invisible for as long as he could as he took supply and build rams, so was impossible for anyone to get a screen shot .
Ohh we at bg have one hell of a fun nite with about 30-40 of us holding Foo’s 40-60 off in Garrison for hrs till they decided to stop playing nicely and amass every kitten enemy they could(I would say easily 80-100) and 8 golums
Well we were all very sad at losssing our beloved Garrry but were in fitts of laughter at how much fun the nite was and how great it was to push Foo into a massive strike that was just amazing to be on the receiving end of, even though you crashed my pc with the numbers rolling thru inner and a few other, TS was like omg 8 golums they used 8, and capped it before the first dead could even think about running back.

Massive props to you guys at Foo was some of the best fun we have had in a few weeks, and I hope you all had a ball aswell.

cheersss Phabby

ohh okies thank you for clearing that up Astralporing

cheers

guild wars devs have always had a great sense of humour with April fools days jokes , I loved the one when they turned everyone into stick figures lol

Ok so I don’t play with the mystic toilet very often but since I had one of the stone thingies for it decided to throw 3 rare greatswords in with it to try my luck.

Now I would of expected to get another sword hoping for a nice exotic or lol even a pre but umm no. 3 swords = a rare staff???? wt………

So is this still the normal crappy toilet or was my luck just really crap ?
woundering now if I put 4 staffs in do I get an exotic pistol lol

cheers for any feed back on this

think the servers finally had heart failure, or somone should put a big red sticker on that button they accidently hit lol.

jokes aside from what guildies have said its all fixed in under 5mins so really great work there devs big cheer for being on the ball

A small update with the reset for wvwvw ? now the game is unplayable in events.
Why do they keep stuffing the lag issues up.How about testing stufff before you guys implement .
I am on BG and the main events are a joke,if you can tag the boss ,don’t expect to hit them more then once if you do you are very lucky.

I hope the culling issue when removed will fix things but the way things are turning out most ppl won’t be playing much longer and not due to not wanting to , because you honestly cannot enjoy any game that you stand there frozen due to the lag that is created out of your control.

Time someone from Anet stood up and took accountability’s for these constant problems.You are a Global Company please start acting like one and stop cutting corners just to make a release date . You have a great game that we all love but you really need some serous head out of clouds grounding and bring back the love and dedication that you had with GW1.

The thing I still hate is that bags don’t go directly into your inventory, If you are in a zerg on zerg kill feast and drops happening then you die just to look at the bags you would have got is still a major flaw in wvw.

I pmd a dev the other week and havent heard back, so here is my sugestion that to stop all this crap about who is stacked and who was stacked and all the crap along the way.

Devs please post the actual player numbers per week for the last 2 months of players from each server in each match. Then lets have a QQ at numbers. Some hard facts would go a long way to deal with close minded indivuals.

I can say that the Shadow behemoth drops excotics i scored as a Lev 80 Norgu’s Mantel

which I found very interesting from this event since he was a Mesmer, so we can say its loot table must be very interesting and may still contain our Final Rest .

Ps – note to guys doing the wiki entres I will hang on to this drop so pm me in game so u can add the pic and details to wiki if you like. Also if anyone is keeping track of SB’s loot table.

cheers come on devs a tiny little hint wont hurt

It does make it hard that wiki dosn’t have all the events listed yet.I know and respect the guys working on this are doing there best job to update wiki as often as they find new things which I am, and everyone else should be, really thankful for, all their hard work has helped greatly with the game so far.

maybe at some point in the future the devs might spare some time to help out with wiki and we might find more helpful hints and events to help us find our shinny shinny prize

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

I really can’t give out any hints or information, especially since anything I say is going to be intensely analyzed. So I’m going to play it safe and not comment on the size of the boss, the chest, or the rarity of the boss. I will confirm that I looked in the game data and traced the item to its loot table to the chest that uses the loot table to the event that spawns the chest to make sure everything is set up. I can also confirm that it has a very low drop rate, so running the event 5 times or 10 times proves nothing.

Thank you kindly Jeffrey for this info, but can you understand how frustrating you have made eveyone lol.We really do appreciate that you have checked that the item does drop, what would be great is saying something else ,even if you do a random statement say every few weeks like ok guys and girls Queensdale is out have fun keep looking , and make this into a treasure hunt of epic scale. Then while we are out finding the Final Rest you could work on another item drop from a different boss and keep everyone that loves this sort of collecting really interested by adding that into the game only after we have found the first one.

I know I for one really miss the chest farming for R7 weapons from gw1 and I am sure I am not alone.

cheers and again ty for your time hope we can get a clue

It is getting just a little frustrating that a dev hasn’t given a realistic clue , In my opion they should implement more of these big treasure hunts for in game weapons.Everyone in gw1 loved chasing that boss’s weapon or farming the chests for that one off weapon .Now we have a game that gives us no real feeling farming for collectors. I know there are fractionals and Legendary’s items but to chest farmers we don’t want that sort of stuff we like the adventure of trying to find unique items.But this one item is becoming a nitemare due to the games bug’s and the shear lack of a decent drop rate who knows we may have farmed the bosss over and over again but because most bosses, Veterans and alike just don’t drop anything or drop total crap so know one has or will farm these guys to even narrow this staff down.

Conncept.7638:

Khisanth.2948:

However if you are hellbent on the gargoyle + catacomb + final resting place idea. How about http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Battle_in_the_Vault ?

- takes place in an underground burial chamber which is basically what a catacomb is
- not far from one of the GW1 habitats for gargoyles
- seems to be the final resting place of 5 GW1 NPCs, 4 of which you have to fight
- last one to be fought is a crazy staff user
- spawns a chest at the end, not a dragon size chest but it could certainly be described as large

Biggest problem is that it doesn’t seem remotely close to being a rare event.

I managed to solo that event, up to the last boss, who I couldn’t take down. Nor could the three man team of 80s I cobbled together.

In other news, found out the Bria event chain is open in Yak’s bend (my server, it must have reset since the patch), if anybody wishes to test my theory.

I did the 4 boss one the other day , little chest and got the usual crap alot more spent on armour then you get out of it but it is very challenging and was fun to beat the end guy.

This is what gw2 is missing, the hunt for rare items just like the chest farming we did in gw1, But a hint or 2 would be a big help thats for sure.

When the item droped I had it open for quiet a while cause I was asking guild members about it and read it out to them to see what it did and if they had gotten these on a regular basis, which they said they hadden’t because they never really stop to look .

For a clear idea the item was a gold sprocket with the written information all ready submitted .

I understand that the devs don’t get much time on things and thank them totally for their time and yours on this matter.If I do see this drop again I will take a screen shot to add next time. You can feel free to close this and I won’t raise the issue anymore unless I get another one lol.

Again Thankyou kindly for your time and efforts Gaile

Cheers Phabby

Ohhh come on Devs PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give us another hint specialy since wiki is still under construction so there are no clues there.

Ohh on a side note too the guys working on wiki great job thank you heaps for all your efforts.

cheers Phabby

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Hi Gaile just wondering if you have had any word from the devs in regard to the problem yet? thanks heaps for your time and effort with this

cheers phabby

Hi Gaile is there any news on this yet thanks again

driving me nuts atm lol looking everywhere talking to every npc that i come across , please devs a little more info would go a long way,

You took away our chest farming in gw2 that we loved in gw1, now we have something to chase and you are being to quiet about it and given the bugs that are in game how do we know that it isnt bugged out

cheerss

kefro.9312:

This is why wvwvw will die all population on wvwvw is at 1 server. Ithink it passed the point of no return.
If this dont get any better, when ESO beta comes gw2 will die for sure cause their wvwvw will be balanced by numbers so no more band transfer on the wagon to make better coverage

I have to agree with you on this JQ from 17,000 – 29,000 in 7 hrs, with no resistance from sos or sor has to be rasing some eyebrows at anet. WVW is suppose to be a balanced game and everyone cannot say without being honest about the transfers, that it is in no way balanced anymore in T1. JQ was always competitive now it is becoming a joke , either anet gets in and fixes the balance issues or restrictions need to be applyed to severs or wvwvw will die a quick death.

Great battles last nite on JQ bl, you guys do have alot of ppl to kill me with in that zerg of death lol. Was an epic lol when we took hills back from you and you rolled over the top of us while we were still in the lords room.

gj all this week, looks like we are going to have 4hrs of down time next week hopefully they fix the culling and balance issues with whatever they are doing

Come on devs give us all a hint please please please lol

yes I am going nuts looking all over the world for this

cool data how about also showing numbers of players in each map per sever, now that would be even more interesting to compair

cheers

cool Gaile ty for that

About that path. Quick lore lesson

1. Order of Whispers comes from Elona
2. Order of whispers have a network of tunnels to get into elona
3. Order of whispers has a secret base in Ebonhawke
4. A whisper agent whom is also a charr travels through that tunnel.
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cool ty

I still think the devs could give a little more of a hint PLEASE

The little girl standing near the boarded up cave next to gwens grave, when you talk to her she gives a statement about a charr ghost , is there suppose to be more too this as I am yet to see an event happen in relation to this or gain access to the cave behind the boards,

cheers

wildcode.5403:

I can’t help thinking about the gargoyle and keep checking GW1 information on them. They were found south of the wall around Ascalon, and north of what is now Black Citadel. Mergoyles were found around Lions Arch and what is now Divinity’s Reach/Queensdale. If the gargoyle on the staff is going to have any correlation to its origin these would be the areas I would start with.

Add to this that gargoyles used to live in catacombs and that catacombs are the final physical resting place of bodies whose souls went to the underworld, and that the Shadow Behemoth is from the underworld, it all makes is quite plausible that the Shadow Behemoth is the keeper of Final Rest.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Secrets_in_the_Swamp

Somewhere there is a boss laughing at us.

I think the staff looks more like the fleshreaver’s , just a thought.

Also next to gwen’s tome is the little girl and the boarded up cave behind her, she mentions something about a charr ghost , but I dont know if this is bugged or not as I cannot find a way into the cave.

Zapan.7460:

Jelle.4623:

I’m thinking of these kind of events:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Force_the_ancient_creature_back_into_its_prison

There are more of these events and they are rare.

I’d been roaming the map killing mobs trying to get a Gear Crank. No luck so far (rare indeed). I want to see this Ancient Creature! Wiki: Fleshreaver/Rragar Maneater, breeding a race of hideous creatures… creature on a stick?… 0o

I’ve got several Dwarven Keys on 2 characters, but the Imp Lord and the Destroyer Troll… /shrug. no luck there, with the loot.

edit: I just watch a video of the Ancient Creature… person could not loot corpe and no chest… 0o ….what was even more disturbing was the elementalist in the video that only used water skills!

found going to the way point and doing the quest with the little asuran will drop it from the dredge. Not a good quest and got nothing drop wise worth mentioning, ohh and eley water skills are very powerful

even if they would give a little hint and say that ok its not in ORR then that would still give us a huge area too explore , or a big hint and say its in the shiverpeaks.

that way they would get alot of ppl into that region looking, then say once it has been found and bragging rites are done drop another unique item into the fold and say well since you found that heres one you have all missed go find.

There was nothing better in gw1 then hunting elusive drops, hence the amount of ppl that use to farm chests, we wern’t going for the title we were hunting the items, something that is truely missing in gw2

I have seen in the account issues that Gaile put up that I recieved email from support which was great and there email was this-

Thank you for contacting the Guild Wars Support Team. I’m sorry to hear that happened, and we wanted to thank you for bringing that bug to our attention in the forums. While I would like to replace your Gold, the Guild Wars Support Team is unable to replace Gold for the situation that you have described. If you haven’t already, you could submit the bug in-game using the in-game bug report feature. To submit a bug report in the game, simply click on the “Game Menu” button in the upper left hand corner of the game interface, then choose the Support option on the Game Menu. The Support option will allow you to review known issues or report a bug.

So I did do exactly what they said and put in an in game bug report on the matter , I don’t necassarly need the gold item back, my main concern for all ppl in wvw is what I received didn’t transfer over to inventory and given what the drop was " Repair To Siege Weapon" Is this in the loot tables and isn’t working as intended as this really could be a massive game advantage too all ppl in wvw . Instaed of having to buy new siege all the time when 1 is almost destroyed we could repair them.

Now the drop was a Gold Item so it shouldn’t be that hard to check the loot tables in wvw too see what is happening, I hope that makes it clearer for the dev concerned looking into this.

cheers Phabby

Ok so here is something of interest to you all that our leader found, If you goto the setting pannel and select show all in the team colours it reduces the lag and cullling slightly.
There is still a huge problem though and still can’t believe that not one dev has had the curteousy of giving some feed back on this issue yet.

Porky.5021:

Elthurien.8356:

Culling has been worse since Fridays patch. Last week it was amazing.
2600k @3.4
GtX590
12Gb RAM

Anyone else seeing a pattern here (NVidia)?

Culling has nothing to do with your computer.

Culling is done on the server, not on your computer. It does not matter if you have a good gaming system, a super computer, a commodore 64 or a monkey with a crayon.

The server knows there’s are 20 people around you. It does not send you information on all 20. It decides which 10 it thinks you need to see and sends you information on those 10 only.

The server decides you need to see players 1-10. It sends your computer information on players 1-10. Your computer renders player 1-10 on your screen.

The server does not send you information on players 11-20. They have been culled. Your computer will not render them, not because it is slow, or the video card is garbage or because your network connections is slow…it will not render them because it does not know about them.

Periodically, the server recalculates which players it thinks you need to see. Since you have moved 15 feet to the north it decides you no longer need to see players 2,4, or 6. It decides you now need to see players 18, 19 and 20.

You no longer receive information on 2, 4, or 6. They have been culled at the server. You computer stops rendering them because it no longer knows about them. It not because your computer is slow your video card is Nvidia…the server has stopped telling your computer about players 2, 4 and 6 so your computer cannot draw them anymore.

The server sends you information on players 18, 19 and 20. Your computer starts rendering them because it now knows about them.

great post that helps explain it alot easier, now lets hope that we get some sort of response today since its now Monday in the usa.

but beening exotic , wouldnt have to drop in a high end level? and if so would that not rule out all the low end areas

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Still haven’t heard a thing from anyone yet, cept for the first reply as discussed with Gaile , cheers

still haven’t heard any more yet from anyone yet Gaile

well it was strange for me last nite on sor bl no Queue at all then 5 mins later mates were taking 40mins to get in, Anyways apart from not see Sor and half the guys I was with due to culling, best fight I have had when Sor was trying to take back their nrth west tower. sooo many bodies that were not seen but you could tell it was a masive fight..

I hope this culling gets fix would of been more fun to see Sor instead of beeing told they were there.

cheers great play from all 3 sides

Op has supported my thread so I am going to repay the favour,

WORSE in the degree of 80%, if it gets any worse then there will be no point playing wvw

it really is becoming an unplayable joke , I would be interested to know like me If you live in Australia, if the problem is worse due to the server locations and if the ppl sitting on the servers so to speak are getting as much trouble as us players from downunder?

Its sad that a global company such as anet haven’t addressed this yet or even commented on this due to yet another holiday event in the USA, ITs SuperBowl, so screw our gaming customers world wide lets all take the weekend off. Seams no one is home just like wintersday we may get someone in 3 weeks from now going OH Theres a problem .

For the love of this game roll back this idiotic culling patch till you can get it sorted .
If they want to cull then first increase the graphic design to DX10 so the GC’s have some chance of understanding what you are doing. Using dx9 on dx11 cards then saying lets take it back to dx8 settings won’t work ever because most of the cards for the last 3 years are all geared for advancement in gaming graphics not the other way round.

I get np playing bf3 on high to max settings, I know my machine needs an upgrade, but in gw2 I run everything low – off, and its disappointing that gw2 isn’t run on dx11 or 10, which would probable help alot more ppl out. Nivida cannot get a driver for there mid- high end cards to run in reverse , they are designed to run everything on max settings for dx10-11, and I think that is the biggest problem with this game.

Goto bf3 in the middle of a battle with tanks, rockets, ppl shooting, grenades planes and everything else going on, there is not a chance in hell that ppl vanish, Let your commander run out in front of you in wvw and poof he is gone from view, with nothing but a bunch of you running along behind him.Now how can they not be thinking gees we stuffed this up badly lets repatch it back to what it was and go back to the drawing board and see were things have gone wrong.

That would be logical , but not even acknowledging , the community that they are doing something isn’t a good sign, given the pass track record of fixing things 3-4 weeks after the horse has bolted.

Given there is a thread 4 months old by one of the devs on the Queuing problem and it still hasn’t been fixed or any updated info on it, do you honestly think we should be just sitting back thinking that ohh there doing something about it when they can’t even update their own threads.

Its just not cricket