Guild Wars 2

This is a very annoying issue. I hope they are working on a fix for it.

punkinkatt.4823:

This one: http://imgur.com/a/Bj3N9#6
And the hair.

Very nice features!

The link goes to the whole group of pictures, for some reason.

See attachment.

This one: http://imgur.com/a/Bj3N9#6
And the hair.

Very nice features!

Just press the W key, you will automatically stand up and stop reviving the other player.

fireflyry.7023:

Celtic Lady.3729:

If I can tell that someone in WvW is completing a vista or skill challenge or just getting a POI, I don’t chase down and harrass them. Recognizing that there are non-pvp people on these maps that just want to get their maps done (easy to tell because they often run to predictable places and are often alone) is just being a decent person.

Good luck to you on eventually finishing your map.

Agreed.

I think class has a lot to do with it. On my Thief it took forever, I guess people see one alone and assume it’s a roamer looking for a fight. I’m talking groups of players chasing me for 10 minutes across a map just to get a kill while I’m just running to a vista. On my Guardian I would run past whole zergs and get completely ignored.

Like thieves, rangers aren’t ignored either. I was trying to get as much of red borderlands as I could last night, while our server (green) had quite a bit of it conquered. I was standing at a Vista in one of the camps, the one to the east and midway between north and south. There are 2 vista’s there. I got the first one and was making my way to the second one (the one on the ledge overlooking the water) and red re-claimed the encampment. They came straight after me, even though it was obvious I was just getting a vista. They ’aggro’d’ me just as I was close, so even though I reached the vista, I couldn’t view it. As they were attacking, I turned to look at them, my back to the edge of the drop off, and hit my ‘V’ button and over the edge, into the water I went, once again depriving an enemy of any loot they might have gotten from my death. If I could have waved at them as I safely fell to the water, I would have.

I will have to retry to get that vista or wait until my server is red, but that is ok. I am 99% done with map completion now.

CMF.5461:

I think team work and coordination can be applied to both wvw and pve map completion.

Some areas may require extra effort and assistance from other friendly players, others you can just run to it yourself.

You may die a few times to pve mobs cause of too many mobs trained on yourself or a champ or event in the way of a skill point or poi, but if you get more allies or wait for the event to clear, you can get it later.

Same with wvw, but the opposing mobs are player controlled, and the events are keep captures. It requires “more” help than 1 or 2 other people though, and it “feels” more vindictive because a person is killing you and not an emotionless machine.

So if you get over the fact that a “player” killed you and view the death as simply another setback (don’t take it personally), then it is pretty much the same thing. The stigma is that pressure that someone else out there made a conscious decision to attack you. Is that bad? That IS what the environment is structured after, and npc mobs will attack you on sight as well.

Death is death, just keep at it and try again or with more allies.

Now if they come over and try to tbag you or camp your body, then they are just jerks and that aggravates me…but letting that get to you mean they were effective in what they want to do (bullies), and you just need to either man up and beat them at their own game (not always productive) or learn to shrug it off and move on because feeding into it just fuels the hate on both sides (more productive). Mature decisions people, mature reactions.

The difference between getting ’aggro’d’ in WvW and getting aggro’d in PvE is that in PvE, you can run out of a mob’s, even a Champions, spawn area. They won’t follow beyond that area. You can escape. In WvW, enemy players don’t break off their attack, no matter how far you run, and in some instances, they are faster than you…. there is no escape.

Killface.1896:

Ardenwolfe.8590:

You pretty much have to wait for your server to rotate to the right areas and for off hours. Otherwise, I agree. WvW needed for map completion is a terrible idea.

However, rumor has it this might be changed in the near future. . . .

It is terrible for PVPers to do all the PVE maps it weeks of PVE to get 100%,only fair we have the WvW so its hard for the pvers to.

Someone else mentioned earlier in this thread that when PvE’er’s try to map WvW, they have to contend with enemy players killing them. When WvW’er’ map PvE, no one kills them. It may be a larger place, but it is much easier to do.

cafard.8953:

Day 1 – I have no chance, it’s impossible, it should be removed, i give up.
Day 2 – Just one BL map left and i’m done, yay.

Storm in a teacup anyone?

The results of the encouragement from kind people, who gave advice on how to do it with less aggravation, instead of being critical and rude.

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

punkinkatt.4823:

2 straight hours last night alone. As of right now, I’ve probably spent about 5.5-6 hours all total just between yesterday and today and I am NOT a fan of WvW.

I’ve completed 2 borderlands maps. The one from this week while we were blue and the one we got at reset tonight (we’re green now). Done, don’t have to go back until next Friday night.

On Friday evening, I check what colour we are. If it’s a colour I’ve not finished the borderland for, I’ll check the borderland. And get what I need to get. An then some person will kill me even though I don’t even try to retaliate (in fact, just keep running) so, I’ll go back to the nearest WP and try again. And again. And again. Let them be happy for being unsporting (killing an unarmed person would be the comparison, I sometimes remove all weapons from my character as well). (Before the armour repair cost removal, I often even went naked to avoid having to pay for armour repairs as I wouldn’t get any coin in return anyway.) It’s worse when they take their time to get you defeated as you can’t WP when you’re only downed…

And once I have the borderland of that colour, I’ll check the EB for that same colour. With the same strategy (though, I find EB is a bit easier, except the two sp’s in the middle, near the dredge and the ogres)

The only real problem I have are the colours. It’s a pain if you have to wait several weeks before you are finally that last colour so you can finish the EB and that last borderland…

Sounds like a good strategy to me. I have completed blue and green borderlands, and just completed EB. I lucked up there… I normally don’t log in this early in the day, but I wanted to check Stonemist, which to my surprise, I already had, lol. But, in addition, Green, which is our color this week, controlled almost all of EB. I died only once during a skirmish when one of our controlled areas was attacked while I was getting that PoI.

So, just one more borderland (red) and I am done. Never going to set foot in WvW again after that.

punkinkatt.4823:

Something very weird just happened to this thread for me. After my last reply, to Celtic Lady, instead of the thread coming back up, with all it’s postings, I got another reply input box. I went back to the forum and clicked on this thread again and again, all I get is this reply box.

Hoping using it will fix this issue. O.o

Yup, but that was just weird!

Something very weird just happened to this thread for me. After my last reply, to Celtic Lady, instead of the thread coming back up, with all it’s postings, I got another reply input box. I went back to the forum and clicked on this thread again and again, all I get is this reply box.

Hoping using it will fix this issue. O.o

Celtic Lady.3729:

If I can tell that someone in WvW is completing a vista or skill challenge or just getting a POI, I don’t chase down and harrass them. Recognizing that there are non-pvp people on these maps that just want to get their maps done (easy to tell because they often run to predictable places and are often alone) is just being a decent person.

Good luck to you on eventually finishing your map.

Gave you a +1!

insanemaniac.2456:

punkinkatt.4823:

I understand what you’re say about red is dead. But it doesn’t take 30 players to kill one lone enemy player. That’s what urks me. If it were just one, maybe 2 people, fine… if I die, I die.. and most likely would since I don’t do WvW and don’t have any of the purchased buffs or boosts or whatever they are you buy with points. And I most likely have the wrong kind of build for it. Plus, I’m simply not skilled for that kind of hardcore content… skilled, as in me personally.

But, as I said a few minutes ago in another reply. I’ve got 2 borderland maps done. I don’t have to go back until next Friday night for the last borderlands map and then I’ll work on the Eternal Battlegrounds, which I definitely do not look forward to.

the way you are going about this is making it harder for you, but you arent listening to us.

dont leave eb for last. get your corner now.

I’ll get it, as well as keeping an eye on Stonemist Castle, as someone else has suggested. I don’t think my method is making it harder on me. After reset last night, I got our entire borderlands for this week without issue. That sounds like easier to me.

Seera.5916:

I really really really suggest that you keep an eye out all week for Stonemist Castle in Eternal Battlegrounds. If SoS has it at the moment, you may even get lucky. They may have a waypoint in it. You won’t get lucky on reset night as the upgrade for the waypoint takes time.

And no, it doesn’t take 30, but those 30 want a chance at loot.

Just what kind of loot do they get that is worth that kind of aggressiveness? I haven’t noticed anything impressive in the loot I’ve gotten.

rhapsody.3615:

Hello! I just want to say that I really like that you’re following up with your thread and responding to everyone. It makes me feel like my comment won’t fall on deaf… eyes?

One thing you’ve got to understand about WvW is that if it’s red, it’s dead. WvW is about more than just capturing territories. “Roamers” as we call solo people running around, usually looking for fights, also play the role of a “scout.” Some players really love the job of scouting, and some guilds might send a player or three around a map to see what’s going on. You are being chased and killed because (1) you are a loot bag, and (2) because you might be tracking your enemies. It’s not really players being vicious or going out of their way to kill you (ok, sometimes people are jerks), but simply securing their mission. One person on siege or with a siege disabler can make it a real pain for smaller zergs to capture things. Don’t take it personally or think people are being malicious and trying to keep you from map completion.

Also, don’t get discouraged when you are killed in an area. Most small groups/roamers don’t camp a spot forever, likewise most zergs do not stay stagnant. Move on to another area and go back to the initial one in a few minutes. If they’re still there, well, they’re just being “kittens.” Don’t be afraid to just YOLO into an area just to get the PoI. If you see enemies taking a tower you need, try to hide and wait for the gate to open. Use your Signet of Stone or Rampage as One and just run in. No worries if you die, you got what you wanted xD

Sea of Sorrows should be rotating between T2 and T3 matchups. At some point, your server will be the big bully and you’ll be able to complete your maps. When you get down to the last few things you need, http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups has a live WvW map, where you can see what your server owns at any time.

Good luck!

I understand what you’re say about red is dead. But it doesn’t take 30 players to kill one lone enemy player. That’s what urks me. If it were just one, maybe 2 people, fine… if I die, I die.. and most likely would since I don’t do WvW and don’t have any of the purchased buffs or boosts or whatever they are you buy with points. And I most likely have the wrong kind of build for it. Plus, I’m simply not skilled for that kind of hardcore content… skilled, as in me personally.

But, as I said a few minutes ago in another reply. I’ve got 2 borderland maps done. I don’t have to go back until next Friday night for the last borderlands map and then I’ll work on the Eternal Battlegrounds, which I definitely do not look forward to.

Tiffany.8576:

punkinkatt.4823:

Tiffany.8576:

If you’re on SoS, there have been numerous weeks when it has dropped down into a T3 matchup where it completely dominates the other two servers and owns most of everything on the map. It is really clear you’ve literally stepped foot into WvW for maybe 10 minutes, couldn’t get your objective because there happened to be a fight nearby and have come straight to the forums to whine. GG.

Being on a T2 server is probably one of the easiest places to be for map completion right now as all of them are rotating in and out of T3/4 matchups due to there being 4 T2 servers.

I was there for over 2 hours, tyvm. My dinner was over an hour late as a result. My bad, I know, but just clarifying that I did and will continue to give this my best shot to complete. I still have no interest in WvW or PvP. I hate zerg-fests and that is all WvW is.

Wow, 2 whole hours before coming to the forums. Aren’t you tenacious? =P

Incidentally, SoS has been matched up with a T3 and a T4 server this week. This means SoS will typically vastly outnumber the other servers at most periods of the day. This is a good week or map completion. Keep an eye on wvwintel.com to see which objectives you own.

2 straight hours last night alone. As of right now, I’ve probably spent about 5.5-6 hours all total just between yesterday and today and I am NOT a fan of WvW.

I’ve completed 2 borderlands maps. The one from this week while we were blue and the one we got at reset tonight (we’re green now). Done, don’t have to go back until next Friday night.

Sane.5072:

Ok, now I see that your server is SoS. Your first sentence in this thread is that “My server is clearly not interested in WvW”….Are you kidding me? SoS is an EXTREMELY active WvW server. I get it, it’s annoying to be forced into playing a game mode you don’t like but at least don’t go about lying just because you don’t like it.

Besides that, you really should just let this objective slide to the backburner. Just wait every week to be a different colour, do the easy map completion on those sides one by one. Either way since you’re not doing it for a legendary you’re going to be needing a next objective, might as well start looking towards that before you’re forced to find something else to do.

I wasn’t lying. I described it the way I saw it while I was there. That’s just a blatantly rude assumption on your part.

insanemaniac.2456:

punkinkatt.4823:

I’m not a nighttime or early morning player and I’m not going to disrupt my real life schedule for a game.

and that is exactly why you should look for a wvw guild to join. the more days they say they have raids, the better. because theyll take things during their raids, things that might flip back 5 minutes later and not flip again for a day or 5. and if you join in on the raid for an hour, youll probably get things done. and you might even have fun.

I’m sure joining a WvW guild would help with map completion, but if that is my only reason for joining one, it wouldn’t be fair to the other members. Even if I am doing my part in the process, my intention’s would be to leave once I’ve gotten map completion and never re-enter WvW. The game play there is just too vicious. I don’t think I will ever have fun in there.

insanemaniac.2456:

punkinkatt.4823:

insanemaniac.2456:

its a fundamental issue, op, that you think you can complete the wvw maps solo in a timely manner.

get some friends to follow you or find someone to follow. the latter is more likely to lead to a completed map, because from the sound of it, anyone you decide to follow will have more experience than you.

Never assumed it could be done in a timely manner. I have no real friends in-game. In fact, outside of the one person, on these forums, who helped me with one of the season 2 fights, I have no one on my friendlist. I am the leader of my own guild, Jerusalem [Jeru], and I am the only one in it. This is by preference. I am basically a solo player. I get help when I need it from strangers who are doing the same thing that I am, but that’s about it.

Why do I prefer to be so alone in-game, you may ask?
Because of bad experiences with people with bad and even abusive attitudes. Unfortunately, those people have given me ample reason to keep myself as segregated from other players (good and bad) as much as possible. But you know what? I am one of the first people to run, even out of my way, to revive a downed player. Often times ending up needing to be revived, myself.

this is an mmo, not a single player game. dont let past bullying wreck your future experiences by scaring you into antisocialism.

SoS’s entire borderland map was theirs last night and right now sos is doing even better. that means they have people actively playing. and those people are connected with others, because if they werent sosbl would just get ktrained by dbs oceanics. you probably need to connect with them to get what you want if you dont want to depend on your server getting paired down and roflstomping in an easy match (which, incidentally, looking at sos’s projected rating, could very well happen).

I haven’t been scared into anti-socialism. Not at all. People who bully make me mad, not scared. I am an easy going person and I don’t like how it feels to be mad, so I stay to myself as much as possible.

When I logged out last night, SoS’s borderlands were not theirs in it’s entirety. We’re blue, until reset, and green occupied part of it and was zerging through the eastern and southern sides of it. If we got our territory back after I logged out, then I assume more SoS players logged in after that point. But while I was online, we were grossly out-manned, but not doing too badly. I’m not a nighttime or early morning player and I’m not going to disrupt my real life schedule for a game. I’m probably sleeping when our server is at it’s peak in WvW. I’ll get WvW map completion as I can.

insanemaniac.2456:

its a fundamental issue, op, that you think you can complete the wvw maps solo in a timely manner.

get some friends to follow you or find someone to follow. the latter is more likely to lead to a completed map, because from the sound of it, anyone you decide to follow will have more experience than you.

Never assumed it could be done in a timely manner. I have no real friends in-game. In fact, outside of the one person, on these forums, who helped me with one of the season 2 fights, I have no one on my friendlist. I am the leader of my own guild, Jerusalem [Jeru], and I am the only one in it. This is by preference. I am basically a solo player. I get help when I need it from strangers who are doing the same thing that I am, but that’s about it.

Why do I prefer to be so alone in-game, you may ask?
Because of bad experiences with people with bad and even abusive attitudes. Unfortunately, those people have given me ample reason to keep myself as segregated from other players (good and bad) as much as possible. But you know what? I am one of the first people to run, even out of my way, to revive a downed player. Often times ending up needing to be revived, myself.

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

9 World completions. Two more characters working on it.. WvW maps done on both.

No sympathy.

You don’t want to jump through the hoops, save your gold and buy the legendary outright off the trading post.

It’s not that much more expensive than crafting, especially considering the time it takes to do the world completions, karma, etc.

Not after a legendary, just map completion. Re-read the title of this thread plz.

Tiffany.8576:

If you’re on SoS, there have been numerous weeks when it has dropped down into a T3 matchup where it completely dominates the other two servers and owns most of everything on the map. It is really clear you’ve literally stepped foot into WvW for maybe 10 minutes, couldn’t get your objective because there happened to be a fight nearby and have come straight to the forums to whine. GG.

Being on a T2 server is probably one of the easiest places to be for map completion right now as all of them are rotating in and out of T3/4 matchups due to there being 4 T2 servers.

I was there for over 2 hours, tyvm. My dinner was over an hour late as a result. My bad, I know, but just clarifying that I did and will continue to give this my best shot to complete. I still have no interest in WvW or PvP. I hate zerg-fests and that is all WvW is.

Vayne.8563:

Worblehat.8697:

Punkinkatt, speaking as a very similar player to yourself (100% PVE, only doing PVP content like WVW grudgingly due to the gating mechanisms in this game), I’d advise that you consider what you’re trying to gain by map completion. If it’s just the gold star and Been There Done That title, by all means, keep at it. With care, odd playing hours, and as many weeks as needed for your server to rotate through all three colors, you’ll get there.

However if your goal is a legendary, I’d advise giving up now and never going back. Legendaries also require the Gift of Battle = WVW rank 14. That’s about five months of doing the easy Master of Ruins/Land Claimer type dailies. During which time you will inevitably get ganked periodically by groups you never see coming. Totally not worth it.

It’s not really much of a loss anyway, ascended weapons are just as good and vastly easier to get (though still quite grindy; such is the nature of GW2).

I’m sorry but this is just bad info. You can buy ranks in WvW with laurels and badges of honor, without doing any WvW at all. You never have to WvW even a little for a gift of battle or level 14, because you get so many badges of honor with achievement point chests (and laurels aren’t that hard to come by either).

The real issue here is that the OP wants to get those skill points at a specific time. I tried and I was killed. I guarantee you those skill points aren’t camped 24/7. They’re not even camped all day prime time every day. If you can’t get them one time you can get them another.

The problem is it’s frustrating and people want it done on their schedule. That’s just not possible with WvW.

Actually, the skill points in my server’s current territory in the borderlands are not the problem. Neither are most of the Vista’s. It’s the PoI’s that have been conquered by an enemy server or are under attack. Albeit, I have had enemy players, who were in route to one of my servers encampments, break away from their group for the sole purpose of taking me out while I stood at a Vista… nowhere near the encampment or my fellow server-mates. I’m one person, and I get stampeded by 10, 20, 30, maybe more… people who felt it necessary to go out of their way to kill me. The goal of WvW is to conquer territories, not individuals.

Personally, I think they get a perverse pleasure out of doing $h!+ like that. On one occasion I did have the opportunity to deprive them of that pleasure. I was on a ledge and jumped to my death, obliterating any chance of them getting anything from me.

Worblehat.8697:

Punkinkatt, speaking as a very similar player to yourself (100% PVE, only doing PVP content like WVW grudgingly due to the gating mechanisms in this game), I’d advise that you consider what you’re trying to gain by map completion. If it’s just the gold star and Been There Done That title, by all means, keep at it. With care, odd playing hours, and as many weeks as needed for your server to rotate through all three colors, you’ll get there.

However if your goal is a legendary, I’d advise giving up now and never going back. Legendaries also require the Gift of Battle = WVW rank 14. That’s about five months of doing the easy Master of Ruins/Land Claimer type dailies. During which time you will inevitably get ganked periodically by groups you never see coming. Totally not worth it.

It’s not really much of a loss anyway, ascended weapons are just as good and vastly easier to get (though still quite grindy; such is the nature of GW2).

I’m not after a legendary, just the achievement. Despise WvW, don’t even visit PvP.

Tachenon.5270:

There’s only one thing to understand: when WvW people go into PVE to complete maps, the PVE people don’t kill their characters.

^That!

lordkrall.7241:

punkinkatt.4823:

And in PvE, one only has to worry about naturally aggro’ing mobs that let you go if you run out of their spawn area. Not so when the enemies are other players.

What about the skill points and such that are guarded by rather strong mobs that can be hard to solo? Orr have a couple of those. In many cases people need help in order to get that done. And you either have to kill them or have someone distract them while you get the SP.

And what about Vistas, some which requires quite a bit of jumping and walking around.

I don’t have a problem with Vista’s in PvE area’s, not matter how complex they may be. I’m not being targeted by 30 or more relentless players while I am trying to get them. Same with the skill points. Even the more difficult ones were easy enough to get since there was always at least one other person there trying to get them.

Jarvis.9540:

Makes no sense. I have a group of peeps I play with every night, and none of them are getting this. Yet, I just played an hour of Street Fighter IV with no problems whatsoever. Possibly a conflict between GW2 server and my ISP?

Possibly a conflict between GW2’s servers and a lot of ISP’s, seeing as how so many people are having the same issue.

I hope they fix it soon. I actually fell to my death tonight. But I got up and took 2 steps before me and my pet actually died. That’s bad!

JustTrogdor.7892:

punkinkatt.4823:

I did manage about 65% of our borderlands tonight… with much death and annoyance. I had to leave when my annoyance became stress.

Well that is the way to do it. Just keep going back and do a bit at a time. When you get burned out and annoyed take a break and check back another time. You can do it I’m sure. Just don’t try to do it all at once.

Thanks for the encouragement!

Everyone!

Haishao.6851:

What server are you on?
Maybe your server have a website you can go to and try to organize a wvw exploration group for everyone who don’t want to go alone.
Or you can ask in pve and wvw map chat too. “anyone want to do some wvw map completion together?”

If you’re a group, you’ll have more confidence if you cross path with enemies than if you were alone.

Sea of Sorrow’s.
There are more of our servers players in our borderlands. But, in comparison to the enemy players from other servers (individually), we were but a few. I did manage about 65% of our borderlands tonight… with much death and annoyance. I had to leave when my annoyance became stress.

punkinkatt.4823:

Yes, for the past 2 days actually.

It got worse after this evenings patch.

Yes, for the past 2 days actually.

Sane.5072:

punkinkatt.4823:

Ardenwolfe.8590:

You pretty much have to wait for your server to rotate to the right areas and for off hours. Otherwise, I agree. WvW needed for map completion is a terrible idea.

However, rumor has it this might be changed in the near future. . . .

I appreciate the input. But I was in Eternal Battlegrounds and my server is currently Blue and I was in Blue territory, trying to get the skill point. There simply wasn’t enough people from my server there to defeat the invaders and they are incredibly vicious. They chase you down even when you don’t fight back and/or are just trying to get away. I know they want loot and whatever points killing enemy players gets them, but seriously… to be THAT vicious. That’s why I do not like any kind of PvP what-so-ever.

It was bad enough that there were natural enemies there too (hylek, krait), and I was pretty much alone.

And yes, I agree… making WvW a part of map completion was a TERRIBLE idea.

I never understand this sentiment. So what about the WvW people that don’t like PvE? Should they be forced to go into PvE in order to do map completion?

There is NO server that doesn’t have dedicated servers and don’t cahnge colours from time to time. If you just pay attention you’ll be able to get it done and this is with MUCH less time commitment then it requires to do all of the PvE maps.

Please reread what I said about there not being enough people from my server to defeat the enemies invading our territory. I never left our territory.

And in PvE, one only has to worry about naturally aggro’ing mobs that let you go if you run out of their spawn area. Not so when the enemies are other players.

Haishao.6851:

I usually starts with my borderland, then only do the places my server owns.
If you have 2 monitors or a tablet or something, keep this open http://wvwintel.com/ to your server so you always know what you can go capture.

Also wvw mapping should be started as soon as possible to avoid being stuck with only that left.

I didn’t know until fairly recently that WvW was required and I never intended to do any kind of PvP stuff.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

You pretty much have to wait for your server to rotate to the right areas and for off hours. Otherwise, I agree. WvW needed for map completion is a terrible idea.

However, rumor has it this might be changed in the near future. . . .

I appreciate the input. But I was in Eternal Battlegrounds and my server is currently Blue and I was in Blue territory, trying to get the skill point. There simply wasn’t enough people from my server there to defeat the invaders and they are incredibly vicious. They chase you down even when you don’t fight back and/or are just trying to get away. I know they want loot and whatever points killing enemy players gets them, but seriously… to be THAT vicious. That’s why I do not like any kind of PvP what-so-ever.

It was bad enough that there were natural enemies there too (hylek, krait), and I was pretty much alone.

And yes, I agree… making WvW a part of map completion was a TERRIBLE idea.

A ranger (full exotic armor) doesn’t stand a chance in WvW when my server obviously does not do WvW. Enemy heavy armors and thieves have too much on a lone ranger (NO PUN INTENEDED). They were in OUR territory and there wasn’t enough of us to defeat them. Like, maybe 5 of us.

I absolutely give up on map completion.

I hope you all are right that WvW will be removed from the WC requirements with HoT.

Branden Gee.2150:

Thank you for these thoughts. If these ideas have already been brought up before I did not seem them and so I am replying in this thread instead of the possible past threads.

(1) If we want the camera to point down at a sleeping character we would need the camera to know about the emote happening. On top of this right now, from my understanding, most players who do screenshots use /sleep in order to get their character out of the frame. If we were to change this functionality we would want to give players another alternative to hide their character.

(2) I personally like this idea.

(3) How close is closer?

(5) Camera orientation changing seems like it would be very jaring when in combat. I would be curious to hear your ideas for a control scheme for this.

(5b) Would this be like a ‘lock on target’ look-at?

We need a first person view. Either a key bind or the ability to zoom in past our character.

Also, camera bouncing in tight area’s. Please, this gets dizzying and hinders our ability to see what we are doing. A first person view may fix this.

Sigpaos.2615:

If every open world PvE map shows 100 % (Southsun Cove, Dry Top, and Silverwastes not included), then yes, WvW maps are all you have left.

They all show complete!

Really not looking forward to WvW stuff, but I suppose a few minutes a day won’t hurt.

zenleto.6179:

That’s a lot of vistas left! Saving the best for last?

Port into the WvW maps and have a quick look. If you’ve hardly spent any time on those maps then its a good chance yes.

It is a lot of Vista’s left. I’m surprised there are so many in WvW, tbh.
I’ve only been to WvW a couple of times and did grab a Vista and PoI or two while I was there. I know at least one Vista, in a base, when I looked up, I could see the final 1/3 – 1/2 of the path. But I could not, for the life of me, find where the path started. :-/

I’m at 94%. All Waypoints and Reknown Hearts complete.
My map shows I have completed all PvE explorable areas.

Is everything I have left inside the WvW area?

I’d like to see some mix-n-match fashion.

Pants (male and female): Jean’s, slacks, shorts, overalls, etc.
Skirts (females): Maxie’s, mini’s, knee length, slit up the side, etc.
Shoes (male and female): Sneakers, cowboy boots, dress boots and shoes, etc.
Shirt’s (male and female): Dress, casual, flannel, T’s, mid-drifts, etc.
Hat’s (male and female): Baseball style caps, cowboy, top, bonnet, etc.
Dresses (female): Casual, dress, formal, long, short, etc.
Men’s Suit separates (formal and casual): jackets, pants, etc.
Gloves (male and female): various styles.

You all get the picture.

It would take some time to implement, and the various styles could be released over time, but it would add so much more variety, as well as be a good revenue booster for ANet. TBH, there isn’t much in the gem store, as it is, that interest’s me much. A customizable variety would certainly peek my interest, though.

Great games have the ‘potential’ to create great communities. But there will always be those who would use them as a means of bullying and belittlement. Elitist’s, we call them.

I’ve been playing GW2 since early 2012 and only just recently joined the forums. My delay in doing so was entirely due to the foul attitudes and treatment various people receive on other game forums I have been on. I see much, MUCH less of it here, but it is not totally absent.

Men in revealing armor? Norn men, even?

Ever seen a Galka in a subligar?
Not very pretty! >.<

Zera Allimatti.2541:

I’m going to ask the question that needs to be asked: why fishing? Next you’ll be calling for a fifth gathering thing where you carve up the wild life to get meat and hides…

I get that these features were popular in other games, but GW2 isn’t those other games. Can we please stop trying to make GW2 just another clone of those other games? GW2 has a good thing going on right now with it’s easy gathering/crafting system. There is no reason to further complicate it. We don’t need a fourth or fifth gathering method.

Fishing has it’s benefits. Even if it’s not used as a means of harvesting, it can be an achievement category and provide a soothing past time after a difficult fight. The OP is correct… GW2 has some of the most beautiful scenery and underwater effects of any game. Why not make the waters of Tyria a place for something more than just fighting?

Mamatereza.1709:

FFXIV got the best fishing imho

I HIGHLY agree!

I think fishing is one of my most favorite activities in FFXIV. As with real world fishing, it’s peaceful and quiet. And you never really know what you’re going to catch.

punkinkatt.4823:

This room in the Belcher’s Bluff Tavern in the Salma district in Divinty’s Reach.

View from in front of the fireplace.

This room in the Belcher’s Bluff Tavern in the Salma district in Divinty’s Reach.

Josir, in my game. lol

Deamhan.9538:

As horrible as the OP was, there are some points.

Pretty sure when they designed the dungeons, they intended players to play through them. Not run past everything and only fight the last boss.

Also, despite being a MMO, why does the “personal story” (for which the entire thing can be solo’ed) end with a group dungeon?

As for draw distance, it’s no Skyrim but I fail to see where the OP is coming from. Get a better video card?

While he didn’t articulate his words very well, I do, also, see the points made by the OP. There is stuff in this game that could use some fixing, adjusting, or additions, depending on the content. I’d like to see Solo, Normal, and Hard Mode options added to all dungeons and instances, myself.

To the OP, the game’s not dying in the least. People come and go for their own reasons, but it is still quite busy.

Sorel.4870:

You know you’re not forced to play the LS in the right order right? If you don’t feel like killing this boss, play “Echoes of the past”. I think that’s the episode that follows the one you’re currently in. Lots of lore stuff, if you’re into that (I was not, and I bought GW1 after this awesome chapter!), a the beginning of the carapace armor, which is one of the best looking armor in the game imo, while being really accessible.

Yup, I found this out on my own after I completed my personal story.

Have a laugh on me… I did:

I finished the final battle in my personal storyline, got all the credits at the end and everything. When I checked my log, the system had automatically skipped me to the very last Season 2 episode and activated it. I’m like, “What? I don’t get to do the other episodes even though I have them?”.
So, I am about half way through the last episode when my brain farted… possibly due to age and senility… and it dawned on me that I can activate any episode manually. I do want to do them in order, though. But for the time being, I’m going to let Season 2 rest while I do some other stuff that I have yet to do… like dungeons and map completion. And making a little gold farming, mining, logging, and harvesting. I don’t craft, so my gold accumulation is a bit slow… but adequate for my needs.

Ozan.6850:

Can’t wait for you to meet the boss on the last episode of season 2 MUAHAHAHA

Ozan.6850:

Take a step back and a deep breath, absorb all the useful info that has been dumped here , repair your armor aaaand do the boss again

I intend to, but not for a while. I’m putting season 2 on hold for while, while I complete other aspects of the game.