Guild Wars 2

Wanderer.3248:

Go to WvW and ninja some Yaks and CP. You can probably do all 5 DE in the time you’d do one in the PVE zones.

This.

W3 is an easy place to get the dailies done. Gathering nodes in convenient places, quick camp over turns, you can solo yaks and control points. Fast kills, even kill variety can be done inside W3.

tufy.7859:

zoobaby.7804:

As for the 2v1 comments, it can happen sure. But a pre-arraigned deal, lol WTF you smoking. JQ and SBI has too much bad blood from the beginning to call a truce. Even if large guilds tried to, it’d get shattered by smaller guilds.

Respect between the two is growing though. Don’t confuse respect with a planned 2v1.

There are attempts. Read this:

http://www.stormbluffisle.com/index.php/forum/wvw/907-a-thought-on-what-we-can-do-for-fair-play

Now, I’m not saying it’s actually happening, but proof suggests otherwise – proof suggests that the servers actually did team up 2v1 on the grounds of (as far as I know so far unproven) accusations of hacking. I don’t intend to point fingers or anything, I’m simply showing evidence, make of it what you will.

Wow…that even came from a guildie who is always like if it’s red it’s dead. Going to take him outback to the woodshed for that one.

I know what he was getting at, as he despises cheats/hacks more than JQ. (Edit: I don’t think he or anyone in our guild, or even any native SBI player would go for any alliance. While respect between JQ and SBI is growing, there is too much bad blood to permit it. Think of it as Ray Lewis to Big Ben a few seasons ago. Sent him well wishes for a speedy recovery, so that he could try to kill Ben himself. Much respect, but still going to kill you.)

Lorana.2468:

almost as fun as people who hate WvW but forced to kill 50 players every month im sure.

Well it is called Guild Wars 2, and was marketed to the pvp player base. It just happens to have some very nice PVE content.

I am kind of looking forward to this. I haven’t ran that many dungeons, so it’s time to check out the content.

Been a fun week so far. Thoughts:
Last week SBI made a comeback and cruised to the end. This week SBI made a comeback, will JQ or BG mount their own response? I expect one if not both to step up the pressure. In fact both were pushing in the BLs this morning before I had to go to work.

As for the 2v1 comments, it can happen sure. But a pre-arraigned deal, lol WTF you smoking. JQ and SBI has too much bad blood from the beginning to call a truce. Even if large guilds tried to, it’d get shattered by smaller guilds.

Respect between the two is growing though. Don’t confuse respect with a planned 2v1.

Keep up the fight!

True Jed, was not said in kitteniness. All the servers can and will put up good fights regardless of scores.

mangarrage.1062:

SBI is like Seattle Slew-2 weeks in a row they are closing like a door

What I think happened last week and I see it again this week:

Fri-Sun – all three servers push hard, by then of the weekend in North America game is essentially tied.
Mon – SBI and other server take off for some reason, likely to catch up on sleep or gold farm. One server continues to play hard gets a good lead.
Tuesday – Turn around day. SBI is recharged from day off, starts rolling again. Though in last place.
Wednesday – Climbs to second place, pushing for more may take first place by midnight pst.
Thursday – Either has or takes first place and grows lead
Friday – ABC…Always Be Closing

To Withdrawl, enter amount, hit Withdrawl. Treat it like a real bank. Deposit and copper here and a copper there, before you know it, you got some gold in there.

EasymodeX.4062:

Lol, a lot of the good guilds left JQ. Not surprised at all at this turn. JQ is running on inertia really. I actually said something to that effect in LA the other day — the JQ of now is much weaker than 2 weeks ago, and tons of scrubs/transfers laughed at me claiming that JQ was #1 huehuehe.

Anyways, enjoy the transfers SBI!

Next match should be funny though, can’t wait!

Sad but likely true. If the bandwagoners pattern hold true, I can see the bandwagon express coming to SBI today/tomorrow. Not looking forward to long queues.

To recap on sources of XP:
1. Kill mobs (slow and painful)
2. Dynamic Events (fast XP if you can chain events, listen for NPCs talking, that generally indicates a new event)
3. Gathering (You can do all three gathering, mining, chopping wood, veggie picker)
4. Hearts
5. Skill point challenges
6. Dailies (Kills, Kill variety, gathering, etc….)
7. Exploring/map completion
8. WvWvW (You’ll be squishy but can still be fun and gain XP. Run with the zerg)
9. Crafting (I’d pick armor/leather/tailor so you can craft new gear every 5 levels. Some grinding for mats is needed though. For second crafting, jewelry)
10. Personal Story

From others that have had this situation, report yourself…

Interesting. I should amend the SBI no queues were in the morning to late afternoon Pacific time on the JQ and IoJ borderlands. I didn’t check EB or SBI borderlands.

As an altoholic and crafter, I generally regear my alts every 5 to 10 levels via crafting. Occasionally will buy something because too lazy to log over and craft an item. That and mats sometimes cost more than a purchased item.

But yes leveling without buying new gear is pretty easy. I got 2 characters to 80 before even using the TP.

Chris.7653:

SamTheGuardian.2938:

Players log
2012-10-21

07:30

The three guilds I’m currently in are empty. I take a survey, four people respond when I ask in map chat who’s out there I run around through several empty dynamic events. The game is built with dynamic events being a critical component of story delivery, but they aren’t designed to be solo-able.

I could try my luck, crack my armor, spend my in-game savings. This is so frustrating. I do a few heart quest, one has me gathering items and taking them back to an NPC, I get bored quickly. I try for the next chapter of my personal story but fail it. It wants me to be two levels higher than I currently am. My armor isn’t good enough, have to grind….

08:30

I’m in Lions Arch selling loot and doing a little crafting. My loot is mostly whites and blues. trash items. I take what bronze I can get. I’m bored, going to check out the human starter area maybe there are other players there in zone for my level.

I arrive in Divinity’s Reach. Mostly a ghost town. I step outside. I cross the bridge and run past the sprinklers on the hill. Other players! Rangers with bears! A lot of rangers with bears I run with them, but they don’t respond to my local chat. . I don’t like this group, I move on.

In the swamps I see a very large creature spawn. He’s huge. We have three others players here trying to take him down, but simply not enough to make it work. We all die many times before giving up the fight.

09:30

Signing out…

This really is the weakest attempt at “The game is dying” I have ever seen in my life.

It’s Sunday morning, some of us actually like to sleep in on the weekends because we were up late either out, or playing GW2 the night before.

Did you ever think not everyone wants to wake up at 7:30 am on a Sunday morning?

Let’s see, Sunday Morning at 7:30 (guessing in USA, so let’s call it Eastern Time Zone). Pretty much everyone west of you is sleeping still. East of you, football (soccer for us Americans) kicking off all over Europe at that time.

Now if you are talking 7:30 Pacific Time zone, then you have these factors to consider. Football/Soccer in Europe is in full swing. Church is going on the Eastern and Central time zones of the US. The NFL kicks off at 10am, so many people on the east coast are already tailgating.

After the initial rush to 80 weekends, most Sundays are low pop events, even on high pop servers.

Slayer Lord.5023:

JQ strong communities and small active guilds. Got a boost in population after beating the old TA dominated HoD.

SBI was T1 server, but got a boost post TA collapse. They got TA’s night crew guildso they are tougher to cap at night now.

IoJ just came out of no where and putting up a fight. They are truly a T1 worthy server if they can keep up this introduction into the big rank. Kind of lucky JQ and SBI tend to go at each other more.

Saying JQ got a “boost” is putting it mildly. (see threads on last weeks match ups and server transfers)

SBI and IoJ have also appeared to gain from the collapse of TA, but not like JQ. Both IoJ and SBI have always been strong in W3. Think you’re right that SBI gained more Oceanic coverage and possibly IoJ as well.

Either that or IoJ is just capitalizing on the hate between JQ and SBI.

By the way, how were queues on JQ and IoJ? On SBI, had insta-pops on borderlands most times Saturday and Sunday. A few out-manned buffs as well.

/SBI native

Sebyos.4089:

Pretty exciting, but there’s a lot of weird stuff too…

I juts logged off after defending the Hills in JQ BL 3 times in a row against simultaneous attacks from SBI on south gate and JQ on north gate… Quite a weird timing once, but what’s the chance of that happening 3 times in 4 hours ?

Also quite weird how SBI made it in once and only entered trough the south gate to kill our north gate siege equipment then got out without even trying against the inner hills keep that had 0 defensive siege…

To me that says a lot about the kind of players in the opposition.

To even imply JQ and SBI have any sort of truce or understanding is an absolute joke. Any active player from either side will tell you they hate each other.

SBI for the reasons stated above. I’ll also toss a bit of love to Janthir. Good fights with them every night.

Ianervan.3415:

You were hit for 5,743 damage by Unknown using Steal.
You were hit for 13,782 damage by X using Backstab.

- RiP -

How can this be fun for anyone? You kill people in a second with quickness.. you’re not even enjoying dueling or a battle. It’s just 1-2-RiP. Where is gameplay in that? And how can it be fun for dead person? You die instantly before you use a single skill.

You must not run with many thieves… They like big numbers to fill their big egos. They are not ever looking for a fair fight, they are looking to insta gib you, talk smack or brag, then move on to the next victim. It’s been the same in every MMO. Thieves are just dirty, mean, nasty people…

/Sorry to any past, present, or future guildies that run a thief class.

Back on topic, I am not 100% sure it is totally a rendering issue as I have seen (well not seen) thieves do this in WvW where there are only about 10 people near. Thought the rendering max was for like 40 people or something like that.

Top tier:
IoJ, HoD, SBI or IoJ, SBI, ET.

Not sure how far HoD will drop this week.

Try putting the items in different order. I don’t recall where I heard this and have not verified myself.

@arenta “When HoD and SBI were both in tier 1, it wasnt right. as SBI didnt attack HoD as much as they should have.”

SBI had a 40,000 point lead at the end of the weekend. HoD was being pushed off borderland maps. SBI pressed them hard. It wasn’t until they got workday night caps rolling that HoD over took SBI. HoD gained more during night capping periods than SBI could recapture in primetime.

Not complaining about night capping as it good to have full coverage. However, during prime time, HoD was (it’s dead now so gets past tense) not any better than SBI, JQ, or ET. In fact most prime times ticks SBI, JQ, and ET had more points than HoD.

“HoD…idk what ot say other than it eems liek you fail when SBI isnt in your match. might want to consider merging with ET. or having ET merge with you.”

SBI never teamed with HoD. SBI got severely demoralized when they lost a 40,000 point lead in two night capping sessions.

For PVE:
Guardian
Thief

For PvP:
Mesmer
Thief

Elementalist is also fun in both, but only level 10. Will be buying more character slots, enough for all professions. As each one is unique and has something appealing about it.

Keziah.2653:

My husband and I are on Sanctum of Rall and we have both noted that the community in general is pretty friendly and helpful. There were a few days a couple of weeks ago where the /m in Kessex Hills turned into something eerily similar to “Barrens chat” but overall it’s been good.

Sometimes people are too nice. Sometimes I’d rather see someone kill the mob that put me into a downed state then for them to try to res me — only for us both to end up dead.

But yes, people seem to be naturally treating each other as allies instead of enemies. (Which makes since since we’re all supposed to be united against the Elder Dragons.) The cooperative spirit is refreshing.

@ zoobaby: Okay, I’ll bite. What character names?

Totally agree on the ressing…kill the mob then res the person. I also think people help because resource nodes are per person, so no one is fighting over it.

Characters I’ve had to rename:
Brothel Babe, Bordello Bouncer (Given the nature of outfits/armor models and game rating…)
The third character name I kind of knew it would get axed, was a bit more explicit but I had used for multiple Beta weekends without issue and was a guild joke.

Back to the awesomeness of the community. Just this morning, doing an Orichi run on my before work, had some nice player come fight off mobs and res me. The we ran together for 15 to 20 minutes farming nodes before I had to leave. The level of cooperation is nice.

@CptSlater.2457

If it’s not hotfixed before then, ANet has some serious issues.

@Pifil.5193

You are correct, finding root cause is often way more difficult and time consuming than fixing it.

Given the severity of the issue they better get a fix out soon. Already seeing fewer guildies logging in due to this. Or more correctly, they log into mumble, ask if it is fixed, chat for a bit but don’t log into the game.

SirMoogie.9263:

In the security post they mentioned they were mining account access attempts to better understand what passwords the account hackers are trying. This message may indicate you have one such password.

Password1234 is pretty unique and I highly doubt that hackers are trying to use it.

In all seriousness it is likely a blanket statement by ANet. My password is pretty unique and I have that notice.

Cortechs.3265:

I have found the in-game community to be great. Most people will thank you for a res if they are able, people will help if you get in over your head, and will even assist if you need help getting to skill points or vistas.

I was hoping the lack of loot squabbling and resource competition would make for a better community, and I really think it has. I have no complaints about the server I am on or the players on it. It is so nice being in a cooperative game as opposed to all of those “me, me, me” games out there.

Pretty much this. Overall community has been awesome.

My only complaint is that people don’t like my character names…

lady lisz.7849:

I’m not saying this is a good thing but at least now you guys get to experience what it’s like to be outmanned since this is most likely the first time for all WvW players on your server; and understand what other servers meant when they said so… you guys are still on top and will definitely stay there

They won’t stay on top. They are getting drilled. They will slide down the ranks fast now. JQQ is now the zerg place to be.

As an altoholic, I just have alts with different professions. It’s easy enough.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Inscription

Has a table that gives the base trait, but not the actually amount.
Carrion – Cond. Damage, Power, Vitality
Knight’s – Toughness, Power, Precision
etc….

Also, as you are crafting, if you mouse over the insignia, inscription, etc.. it tells you what it adds.

Because crafted high level gear does not have runes. Or maybe you don’t like the rune set from the exotic armor you can buy with karma.

Auroma.9126:

After this patch my character has been stuck 3 times and is unable to move. All 3 times I was ressing my friends and got stuck in that position. Twice there was no enemy nearby (I had no movement restriction debuff), I waited like 2 mins but still could not use movement keys (no I was not typing in chat box), had to teleport to Overlook to get moving again. 3rd time i was in combat, got stuck and as a result died. I hope this gets fixed soon, never happened before.
Plus youtube is now filled with invisible battle videos of GW2 WvWvW, I hope Anet fixes it soon as no one wants to die to an invisible zerg.

This has worked twice for people in my guild, though to be honest I was just joking around when I suggested it…

When you get stuck like that, type:

/dance

Then you can move again.

Also note, both people who had this happen, also got the invisibility bug as well. Not sure if stuck and invisible are tied together.

2-4g depending on which character. My current alt will likely have 10g+ as I understand the economy better and not trying to power level crafting. (Farming for mats versus buying mats.)

Best of luck to the kids of TA. Was fun fighting against you. May your new servers of choice leave you with no queues.

7 commanders one map, there is the problem and it will only get worse. 100g to get an icon.

Squad chat is not secure, a spy can just as easily join a squad and no one knows that he joined. At minimum the squad commander should get raid frames to see who is in the squad.

Maybe a book for 10G to allow a raid of 10. A book for 20G for groups of 20. Can’t buy the 20, without buying the 10.

At 10G most people can do this pretty easily and most will. At 20G, fewer people will do this, but pretty easy to get to in time.

This will also prevent having 20+ commanders on a map in the future. Getting bad enough with 3 or 4 as it is.

blink.4239:

Which server is the culprit?

Been hearing reports of every server doing it to every server.

Kyiv.9621:

Its not like you are missing much, the rewards for monthly are meh at best. Just start working on this months and don’t wait until the last minute to finikitten.

Pretty lackluster. I purposely finished on a low-be alt to see if the XP would be nice…yeah, bad move. Like 200 xp and 17 copper wooo…

Binafus.8153:

alanis.6094:

I could certainly see the ‘top guilds’ that are playing at 4am EST leaving because WvDoor isn’t very fun.

I doubt the primetime guilds would be leaving, since they are getting good fights, despite often being on the losing end of them.

You wearing rose color glasses?

It’s accurate. HoD gets fewer points per tick during prime time (~200) than they do non prime time (500+). You’re prim time crew is losing battles to the tune of 300 points per tick.

How to DE farm with a mesmer? Log Out → Character select → Select Guardian/Ranger/Thief/Warrior → Play.

Unless you are specifically Karma farming, mesmer farming is basically useless in high traffic DE farming areas. Most times mobs are dead before they render on my screen.

On my mesmer using well timed chaos storm then blurred frenzy, I get 0 to 2 drops per wave, if I am lucky I get 4. On my guardian, I get 3 to 7 drops per wave.

While I love my mesmer in PvP, it just blows too much in PvE. I will just karma farm in WvWvW on my mesmer. Building a magic find set for my guardian tonight.

3-4 days, leaning toward 4.

Keeps it fresh. Get to face and learn new tactics from different servers.

It also would hand some of the top servers tougher fights on rotations where match ups have weekend days. Would possibly cut down on forum “night capping” whines.

Sounds about right. Leveling a Mesmer can be painful until the 30s. I almost quit mine a few times. The early levels kind of suck unless you stay on top of your gear, even then I always felt squishy.

For leveling Sword/Sword, Sword/Pistol, Sword/Focus (iWarden is a beast) are fun in your face playstyle. Staff gets you out of trouble, some AoE, and kiting like a champ.

As others have said, you can solo kill veteran mobs 3 to 4 levels above you without too much trouble.

Prophet.6954:

The reason it was changed, was because they intended (taken from a comment from a dev) to be 70+. People were crafting lvl 68 gear, and getting exotics off mystic. I think to prevent this it maybe lvl 70+ up now for ecto as well.

Nope got an ecto yesterday on a level 67 or 68 yellow item.

Kodiak.3281:

Oh and the reason why I like Deceptive Evasion is it’s the only way to generate ranged attacking clones with a Greatsword. I’ve setup many escape maneuvers and confused the enemy using it. For example using Evade Back, Evade Right, Decoy then come out of stealth and just auto attack you’ve setup 4 targets that are stationary and auto attacking with Spatial Surge at range. It’s also amazing in those 1v1 scenarios where you’re using Sword/Focus in melee and if you roll around a few times and hit your clone move it’s easy to fool the enemy when they have 4 guys chasing them in melee.

Not everyone’s going to agree on that point but again for my play style it simply works.

Pretty much this. Though I run with Sword/Focus & Staff and have been using Mirror instead of Decoy. Can’t decide which one I like better.

As for gear/stats, been going more of a power and condition approach. Using Superior runes of the Krait on my gear.

I’ve been bagging people that don’t release so they can spy. (mixed thoughts on needing a auto release timer)

Other than that a fun weekend of PVP. My favorite moment, my guild was running a 5 man pot stirring group, we’d head up north end of red map and kill doylaks and capture supply nodes of HoD and ET. Eventually both would send zergs and kill each other. Was freaking hilarious watching 40+ ET guys come out chasing us, as we ran right into 40+ HoD guys coming to zerg the supply camp. We died, but we laughed, mission accomplished.

Being on SBI, I’ve been seeing the improvement day to day. Better guild to guild communication and better map coordination is helping us hold more against HoD and JQ. We on SBI still have a lot to learn and need to keep improving though.

Laughable that JQ thinks we are allied with HoD. HoD pressed us all night on the red map.

An example of why JQ struggles. 12+ JQ versus 5 SBI. The 5 SBI press into the 12+ JQ and guess what the JQ players do? They run and run and run and run….The comment in mumble that was the most telling by a thief that chased 5 away on his own. “I felt like Han in Star Wars chasing a squad of stormtroopers on the Death Star.”

What I have found, is that the down ranking works too well in some cases. For example, in level appropriate places, I can handle say 5 mobs at once and grind non-stop. If I need to drop 5-10 levels to grind crafting mats, I find that pulling 2-3 mobs can get hairy and I need recover pauses (though recovery is fast outside of combat) when grinding.

Sword/Focus & Staff though still playing around with other weapons and pairings, but this seems most versatile for my play style.

gurugeorge.9857:

Last night, I geared up and re-traited (lvl 35) and tried the methods outlined in the video – and I have to say, it’s much, much better than my previous haphazard method.

What’s interesting is that I was actually doing ok bumbling along, but it’s clear now that I was missing a HUGE aspect of the gameplay out by not really understanding how combos work and how to exploit them. Thus proving Anet’s idea that “you can play it how you want and you will function fine”, but “there’s more depth and precision if you want it”.

I’m going to transfer this knowledge to my other characters now too and think deeply about their combo synergies; now that I’ve twigged how important combos and their exploitation are to my Mesmer, I can see that they must be an essential part of the gameplay of every prof.

Yeah combos are definitely huge. And in groups your finishers will work off of other peoples fields.

Definitely preferring the focus over pistol. More utility and and the duelist sounds star driving me nuts…