Guild Wars 2

Nooooooo. No. Also, no.

Working towards a WP while keeping your kitten safe is a big part of securing your territory. It’s supposed to take your a long time to get back to other parts of the map as an invader. You’re coming into enemy territory, it’s not meant to be easy for you. Besides, if your zerg is just repeatedly bashing their faces against Garrison again and again after taking Bay, you may need to look at your tactics, instead of getting an easy button wp. It’s likely that it wouldn’t even help >_>

Have helped guildies out before, by helping them move prints from character to character… didn’t even consider once that it was any form of exploit. You still cannot mail it to someone else after moving it from character to character, so I don’t see what the big deal is.

Prints should be account bound. I see no compelling reason to keep them soulbound.

Well, that sucks. Was just talking with guildies how useful it would be to give commanders/squad leaders something like raid warning. It’s hard to ignore the large orange text on your screen. C’mon, Feb.

rmBossa.4621:

Breaking News!

I have physical evidence of an SBI and JQ plot conspiracy to team up against SOS! The proof is in the SS!

Shameful!

Dirty Serf
Thief/Journalist
SoS

That’s IT, we’ve been found out. I am shocked—shocked!!—that it took you this long to uncover our plans. We would have gotten away with it, too, had it not been for your dang kids!

Looks like we’re back to the same matchups on reset. Will be rested after the break this week and ready to go Yay, red map means SBI gets to deal with the grub!

Now if anet can stop with the kittening patches right after reset (really? REALLY?) I’ll be a happy camper.

There are a few ‘joke’ PRX guilds around, as I’ve seen them. They aren’t ‘real’ PRX

I’d say SoS should still have decent numbers due to the large amount of bandwagoners. Even when PRX/TA left HoD, it took a few weeks for the server to fall apart.

As always, the weekend is a crappy time to worry about the score. We’ll see what Monday brings. GL everyone. Let’s have another great week.

Okay, missed this thread. Will close mine. This just started happening to me after the patch. The kitten WOO WOO noise. I will try running the game with no audio. There really isn’t a fix to this after all this time tho? Good god.

Have turned down my sound (It was already mostly down, however), and have deleted local.dat — twice. Have tried everything suggested, and the audio bug ringing alarm persists.

Any word, anet? This only started with the new patch for me :/

Ever since the 12/3 patch, I have had 2 instances where all of a sudden I will hear an ‘alarm’ sort of ‘woom woom woom woom’ sound. This is in place of all other sound. Happened both times in WvW. Only way I can see to fix it is to close the game, as it does not happen at all when the game is closed.

This is very annoying, and I can’t think of what could be causing it. Can provide any details you need.

So yeah, I think JQ has been fighting SBI since dinosaurs roamed the earth. The only thing that really changes is our 3rd server, but even then, you could end up just fighting the same people again (I see you, PRX).

Unless JQ eventually falls to t2, we’ll … still be fighting sbi. if we then pull out of t2… we’ll still be fighting sbi It’s a bit of a bummer when you’re fighting the same people, but swapping servers around wouldn’t fix it. Moving the #1 server down to fight a lower server for a week would result in a butt whooping rarely seen much these days. It wouldn’t be lack of player talent, it would be sheer numbers. If you think you’ve spotted a 50-man SoS zerg, it’s only because the other 901 haven’t rendered yet.

Epic 3-way battles, yay. The one on Friday night in JQBL garrison was NUTS. Tho we eventually had to concede to SoS, after what like, 2 hours? It was amazing. I’m proud of the way we held out, and kept pushing out both servers. At one point, the floor was just LOL RED CIRCLES from all the flipping arrow carts SoS had on the roof Like, we had 2 walls down on one side, 1 on the other, none of our gates were repaired… and we still held on as long as we possibly could have.

Likewise with the fight in Hills tonight. You kind of look around at everyone when it’s over like how the heck did we do that?!

Drago.1634:

How can you say that when the servers are “Full – High” populated status on JQ, just cause you quit doesn’t mean it is a dying server. Please do not discourage ppl with false accusations. Btw if you quit. Why are you still reading Gw2 forums and posting on them.? Sorry just curious.

haha, same reason people used to post on guru like 3 years after they’d quit gw1 to tell us about how the game was dying.

Sorry JQ and Gw2 didn’t work out for you, but we’ll be just fine without you guys. It’s nice to know we can still come in second with very stiff competition last week if we’re so dead

So much fun today on all maps! SoS and SBI are great servers to play with, since it’s never a case of 2 servers rolling one. We all fight constantly.

Keep it up!

Yet another awesome afternoon, JQ! All I have to say is: NEEDS MORE RAMS.

This evening, we fought a long, long battle in Bay on SBI BL. We tried, we really did. We pushed you out and out and … well, you finally won an hour or so later. That was pretty awesome tho. Well played on both sides. I don’t want to see the inside of bay for a while .__.

Sooooooo much fun as a JQ player tonight. We seriously had rallied so many people and were just on a crazy flipping rampage. [fire] [esol] [aos] — you all kick so much butt. It’s interesting playing when everyone has paper walls again!

It needs saying again: JQ has not been in cahoots with SBI against BG. I guess it could feel that way, but… really, no.

I agree that these matches have been great, I just wonder how much longer we can sustain the player enthusiasm when not much is changing. SoS coming in may help, but it also comes at a time when anet is pushing in the first huge content patch.

Great fun on JQBL today. Cheers to [ESOL] for kicking butt in general all weekend. It’s not easy herding cats, but somehow you manage!

Xyanide.8650:

btw, anyone know this guild in sbi? claim stonemist everyday without any buff. plz, if u read this stop claim it unless you can benefit everyone.

IIRC, this guild was on JQ not too long ago, doing the same thing. We never figured out who it is; hopefully you guys will. I really don’t understand why anyone would want to claim something like SM without buffs…

Skillman.3756:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/mike-ferguson-on-the-current-state-of-the-world-vs-world/

At the very end he defines the seven day matches as a step to getting people used to the 14 day matches. Thoughts?

Absolutely NO to 14 day matchups until guesting is in, and free transfers are gone. It feels like nobody plays after the first few days of a match now anyway… making a match like that last 2 weeks would be a nightmare.

I really think it’s healthy for any BL to have all 3 teams on at it at the same time. It makes things a lot more fun. Let’s face it, while turning a whole map to your color is funny as heck, once it’s done it’s very… * tumbleweed blows past* BORED NOW. For most of this week on jqbl, it’s just been us and SBI. Which, okay, is fine if BG doesn’t have the numbers, but makes for a very boring back and forth.

It’s sort of depressing to be in the middle of a boring match again. Maybe SoS can move up eventually, and provide some more challenge on the map. As for JQ and SBI, well, we’ll be locked in this 1-2 match for a bit, I believe.

Anet went the right way with restricting the server moves to 7-days, but to really continue avoiding matches like this, there needs to be a ’can’t play for X days’ restriction imposed as well. When everyone has moved over to the winning server, it’s often not a question of who has the best players; it’s who has the most players. That’s when the matches get boring and lopsided like this one looks to be, and a lot of JQ’s past matchups have been. zzz… wake me up at reset.

tarnin.1690:

Welp, no reason to W3 at all now. There is no point except the score board which is boring. Why take/defend a garrison? While I agree that orb hacking was out of hand, removing the ONLY reason to W3 from the game is going to make it more of a ghost town then it already is. Unless something in the upcoming patch is added to W3 for personal gains, W3 is dead.

You know, for a few days this past matchup, there was no orb on JQ BL. It was bugged out. Shockingly, everyone still played and captured keeps/towers/camps. Amazing!

Best thing I’ve read around here in a while. Thank you.

It’s a good start. Would love a 7-day restriction on entering WvW after changing servers.

It’s a total joke this week. Total joke. Which is a shame as I was so looking forward to another 3-way fight. That’s not gonna happen, because people aren’t going to play with so much glitchy BS on the map. There isn’t even an orb on JQ BL. Where it went … couldn’t tell ya!

And yes, without the ‘turtle’ army, BG flees like small children. I fended off 2 watergate attacks with 1 arrow cart. That must be the reason you do it, as you’d get the stuffing knocked out of you otherwise. If you’re going to deny this, you need to actually prove it.

Meshuggah.3704:

Baddies from JQ can only take SMC by using Mesmer portals.

So, since all BG is doing is playing Portal Ball 2012, are you admitting that you’re an entire server of baddies?

All match-ups should be this way. It should be close, and fought out through the week. It’s been a lot of fun during the weekend, though it’s sort of exhausting!

To IoJ: We’re not double-teaming you, I swear! I think most of JQ would rather have relations with an enemy legendary defender than help SBI in any way How are you guys liking t1 btw?

I seriously feel like this match could go to any one of us. It’s going to be whomever gets their crap together and keeps it together.

Yeah, I knew it was a clone, I just didn’t know how it got back there Silly mesmers

I’ve heard two things:

1) That you need to cycle it every so often (go up and ‘use’) or it despawns.
2) That the quaggans take it out themselves, if you don’t control the weather.

IDK which is correct. Maybe a combination of both?

Yeah, nevermind. Figured it out.

I am really looking forward to tomorrow when all of JQ gets back in the game. It’s pretty empty, and I don’t want to throw siege money around the day before reset, especially with such a huge lead. Karma farm, getting back everything SBI takes… that’s pretty much it. zzzzzzz.

SBI, win or lose, I’m looking forward to more fights against y’all. May IoJ give us at least SOMETHING to work with. The two-sided fight was ok, but it’s not WvW unless all 3 teams are out there kicking kittens. God that sounds wrong.

Making sure an enemy wp is contested constantly is sometimes an essential part of taking down a keep/tower, I’d say. For that reason, I don’t think this is needed.

Am I the only one who doesn’t think closing the xfers will stop this crap? People have more money than sense — just look at the legendary weapons popping up everywhere. Trust me, after seeing so many people jump to JQ I want them to go away as well, but to think ‘this will fix everything’ is off the mark. It may fix one thing; WvW will remain a bit busted after. People will always flock to the number one server. If they have to pay gems to do this, what makes you think they won’t?

As for the rest: Not fussed on removing downed; when I’m ‘downed’ it’s usually only a few seconds before someone has stuck a flag in my face.

Siege at spawns… Don’t care either way. Spawn camping is pretty lame, and I don’t generally partake in it. If the map is to the point where we can spawn camp, there’s nothing to do and it’s time to find something else to do. That said, something similar to the siege masters around Kourna in gw1 (if you got close enough to them, you’d eat a ‘catapult’ like attack) would work.

Supply inside… Eh. How would that even work? Magically refilling supply? Dolyaks that couldn’t be killed coming from… where? I want to say that this should be tied to outmanned, if it were to exist. If you’re not outmanned on a map, you should be able to get supply from anywhere with a little effort.

Major fun on all 3 borderlands tonight! rawnoodles and his team of crack ninjas are a lot of fun to run with.

Please, SBI, don’t go away again. I want to fight; that’s the whole point of WvW.

Just don’t think we’re going to give up, either.

Yeah, I haven’t seen any ‘noob’ or ‘bandwagon’ behavior (whatever that even is?) on the borderlands maps. So, uh… yeah o_O But I play mainly defense on JQB, where we still have organization and great response time.

Kefro… you do realize that calling other people ‘bandwagoners’ and ‘noobs’ while jumping around from server to server yourself makes you look a wee bit hypocritical? Or is it OK only if you do it?

We don’t own everything. SBI is actually putting up something of a fight — thank goodness. Last week, it was dead after like, Tuesday. Tho, honestly, it didn’t get going tonight until after 10pm EDT. Earlier today, it was a snoozefest.

We occasionally see a HoD, but they have no presence on JQ borderlands for the most part.

Huge props to the JQ borderlands commanders, for kicking booty. I appreciate the coordination and organization

Praying to the anet gods that they don’t force us into 2 week games anytime soon. It’s far too long. There is not a dang thing to do right now, if you happen to be in this match. It was like 4 days of fun, and then… fzzzzzzzz nothing. Reset now pl0x.

Oh, did HoD finally wake up? >_> When I logged out, we were just running around having fun, and mostly fighting SBI.

Not gonna lie, it’s funny when bad spies don’t even try to hide and start kittenol-ing in team chat. Spy fail. It does make the ‘war’ aspect seem a bit more real to me. Spies are a definite problem in any real war. Like someone said upthread, it’s all about trying to use it to our advantage! Hopefully while not being a terribad ‘lol just took ur kitten lololol ps: butts’ troll like we’ve seen this week.

Hopefully anet turns off the stupid free transfers soon, ugh. That won’t solve the TS problem, but it will make at least some of these motherkittens think twice about server hopping just to be a spy (tho not those with more money than sense).

Here’s what it looked like when I logged out about ~5 mins ago.

Pretty fun morning, tho I’m sure it’ll all be gobbled back up in a few hours

Crazy stuff on JQB tonight! I had to leave, but we were getting crushed like bugs on our own map I like taking stuff back, so this isn’t a huge deal, but kitten Next week should be interesting… 2 more days.

Yeah, I wish we’d had more time to go after HoD, but it was mostly chasing SBI around the map. We’ll see what the week brings.

Nice fight on JQB a few hours ago, when we took our garrison back from HoD. I didn’t think we’d manage it, but we did. The follow up against When Golems Attack to defend it comes a nice close second.

Special shout out to the giant zerg of HoD that killed me outside the citadel when I was at an arrow cart. I lold for a good ten minutes.

First week in wuvwuv, and I’m glad I got my feet wet when JQ was smashing the crap out of everyone. Played a bit tonight on JQB, and kitten that was intense and so fun __ Definitely beats running around in a continuous circle between bluevale, heroes, and redlake for something to do. Supplies matter, positions matter, listening to what’s going on matters. It’s great.

Sylvari called Bark Anthony. I lold.

I look forward to the new matchup. It’s boring as fuq right now on JQ .__. It seemed like we wanted DB and CD to take stuff, so we had something to do…

Don’t get me wrong, there’s something perversly lol about seeing the whole map green, but it’s dreadfully boring.

Orr is not exactly something I look forward to. To be honest, I leveled from 72-78 with cooking (before the nerf to mats) and then did some poking around frostgorge to get to 80. Orr wasn’t appealing at all, and I only went there to do PS stuff.

1. You can’t do your daily quests there, so it’s not like a level 70+ can just stay there and get their leveling done for the day/hour. Yeah, I know, go explore the game, go help out friends, blah blah fishcakes :P

2. The only real way I get around is with my 25% speed boost from air attunement. I literally just run everywhere… when not yanked back every other minute by the risen death grip.

3. The groups are so big for all of the DEs on my server (JQ) that you can’t really get a hit in/get xp unless you’re shoving yourself right into a giant ball of enemies. The XP usually goes to anyone in the front waving around a greatsword.

It’s really a cool area, I would like to see more of it, but taking a moment to just look around and take in the scenery will mean 100 zombies going DEATH GOOD! on your face. Overall, the repair bills are so ginormous, and the WP costs — even if you run yourkitten to wherever your portal is after unlocking it — are so crazy high, that I just avoid it.

I did find it a bit better with a friend along, but if it’s meant to be a group area, that should really be made clear somehow.

What I love, in any thread, is when people give the reason “No, because WoW has it!” I guess, if you look at it that way, we shouldn’t also have guild banks, a working auction house, or persistent worlds? That’s a bad answer, and you should feel bad.

I’d kill a quaggan for a ground mount. Travel costs are insane, and since it’s either ‘shut up and run everywhere’ or ‘farm for gold, you stupid noob!’ whenever the subject is brought up, this would be a great solution.

I really just wanna clomp around on a dolyak mount We’ve already seen NPCs get around via airships and helicopters; I can’t see how the lore nerds can ignore that and then go BUT IT DUN FIT!

Somewhere it was mentioned that the Mad King has a voice now (!!!) so I would expect that we’ll see him — and his jokes.

At least, I hope so! I have also seen references to Mad King and Wintersday in my personal story.

Is there actually a good reason why vistas in wvwvw are required for world completion? It reminds me of JQ/FA back in gw1, where people would just run mindlessly around trying to get their fuzz for cartographer, but not contribute anything to the fight.

Logic says these same people will pop into wvw, and attempt to get the things they need, and leave. This takes up spots for actual pvp-ers, and honestly provides nothing to the pve player other than possibly some repair bills. If someone is in the wvw map, they should be there to play. They shouldn’t have to go there to complete vistas. This makes no sense.

Skipped tons of events while leveling? Oh, no, I don’t even think so. Not everyone farms gold, and you can’t honestly tell me that someone with 80-100 gold right now isn’t farming gold. Come on, now. When the majority of people commenting are all in agreement, the very few who can’t see past their nose (typical) are the ones in the wrong here. It’s so typical: Well this isn’t affecting ME, so I can’t understand how it could be a big deal for other people!!! Be less bad!!! Repeatedly doing DE chains doesn’t make you a better player; it makes you a gold farming zerg bot.

WP cost is too high compared to the gold given out for DE. Plain and simple. Espcially combined with a repair cost now and then. Because one person has 1 jillion gold doesn’t make this any less true.

The precautions against gold selling seem a bit over the top here. Don’t give people a lot of gold, and they won’t be able to sell it!!! Except they are. Except gold farms exist in game.

I simply do not understand the argument of ‘DF will hinder exploration’ when standing around a zone screaming LFG! LFG! means… you guessed it, folks… that you can’t be using the time spent in the queue to gasp explore! Please, explain it to me, because I’ve got nothin.

Your choices right now are thus:

1) hope for a guild group, should you be in a guild
2) stand around in front of the dungeon spamming LFG for an eternity until you hit 5

Now, provided you can’t do 1, or nobody from your guild feels up to a dungeon, you move to step 2. During your time spent doing so… you cannot do anything else.

You cannot do DEs, you cannot complete hearts, you cannot unlock waypoints/skillpoints/PoI/vistas/puzzles. You need to stand in front of that dungeon.

Now imagine! You open up a panel, select the dungeon you want to do, and you enter a queue. Oh, happy day! Now you are free to complete some DEs, some hearts, that vista that you put off for another day. Or maybe you just want to frolic in the grass, harvesting carrots. You can do this, because you’re not standing in front of a dungeon going LFG LFG! like some demented robot that only knows one phrase.

So, really, I want to know: how is this restricting exploration. Don’t tell me BECAUSE IT R00NED WOW AMG!! — if that’s your only answer BZZZZ try again.